Jean-Thomas Thibault (20 November 1757 - 27 June 1826) was a French painter and architect.
Jean-Thomas Thibault (20 November 1757 - 27 June 1826) was a French painter and architect.
Born in Montier-en-Der, he studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in Étienne-Louis Boullée's studio from 1780 to 1786. He also studied under Pierre-Adrien Paris. He self-funded a trip to Rome between 1786 and 1790, where he befriended Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine.
During the First French Empire he was commissioned to restore the Hague Palace and Amsterdam's town hall. He died in Paris.
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Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis was a French physiologist, freemason and materialist philosopher.
Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, also known as Jean Nicolas or by his nickname, the Righteous Patriot, was a French lawyer and a major figure in the French Revolution. A close associate of Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, he was one of the most militant members of the Committee of Public Safety, and is often considered a key architect of the Reign of Terror.
Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian was a French poet, novelist and fabulist.
Jean-Pierre Rives is a French former rugby union player and visual artist. "A cult figure in France", according to the BBC, he came to epitomise the team's spirit and "ultra-committed, guts-and-glory style of play". He won 59 caps for France – 34 of them as captain – and was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame. After retiring from the sport, Rives concentrated entirely on his art. He is both a painter and a sculptor, and exhibiting regularly at prominent public venues all over the globe. Rives was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit by the government of France.
Hôpital de la Charité was a hospital in Paris founded by the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God in the 17th century. In 1935, it was closed and demolished to make way for the new faculty of medicine. Located at 45, rue des Saints-Pères, the premises currently house the Centre Universitaire des Saints-Pères, one of the sites of the University of Paris-Descartes.
Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and editor.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
François-Édouard Picot was a French painter during the July Monarchy, painting mythological, religious and historical subjects.
Le déserteur is a drame mélé de musique by the French composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny with a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine. It was first performed on 6 March 1769 by the Comédie-Italienne at their public theatre, the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist, and explorer.
Jean-François Pierre Peyron was a French Neoclassical painter, printmaker, and art collector.
Jean-Pierre Thiollet is a French writer and journalist.
Events from the year 1836 in France.
Pierre-Louis Moline was a prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist. His play La Réunion du six août was one of the longest-running patriotic pieces during the time of the French Revolution with 52 performances at the Paris Opéra. He also wrote the epitaph for the tomb of Jean-Paul Marat. However, he is best remembered today for having adapted Calzabigi's libretto for Gluck's Orphée et Euridice.
Pierre-Henri-Hélène-Marie Lebrun-Tondu was a journalist and a French minister, during the French Revolution.
Jean Freustié, also known as Jean Pierre Teurlay was a French writer and literary critic. He won the 1969 Prix du roman de la société des gens de lettres, and 1970 Prix Renaudot, for Isabelle ou l'arrière-saison.
Préville was a French comic actor.
Hédi Kaddour is a French poet and novelist.
Marie-Jeanne Larrivée, born Marie-Jeanne Lemière was a French soprano.
