‘Boulle’, a form of marquetry, was historically an Italian process that came to prominence when it was ‘perfected’ by the French artist Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732). Boulle’s mastery of the craft ultimately caused the technique to be named for him. Boulle was a member of the ébénistes (the ‘royal cabinetmakers’), who were responsible for veneered and marquetried case furniture, cabinets and commodes (one of the popular new types of furniture introduced during the eighteenth century. Andre Charles would go on to produce the first pair of commodes in the Boulle style for the bedchamber of Louis XIV at the Grand Trianon. The example bellow demonstrates Boulle’s effective use of gilt-bronze mounts. The mounts not only protect vulnerable parts
Paul Cuffee was born on January 17, 1759 during the French and Indian war, on Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. He was the youngest son of CuffeeSlocum, and Ruth Moses. Cuffee was of Aquinnah wampanoag and African Ashanti descent and he helped colonize Sierre Leone. Cuffee built a lucative shipping empire and established the first racially intergrated school in Westport, Massachusetts. At the time of Cuffees father’s death young Paul knew little more than the alphebet, but dremaed of gaining an education and being involved in the shipping industry. The closest main port to Cuttyhunk was New Bedford, Massachusetts. The center of the American whaling industry. Cuffee used his limted free time to learn more about ships and sailing from sailors
On January 30, 27 year old Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire on a Quebec city Islamic Cultural Center, killing six attendants of the service. He was initially described a “lone wolf”, angering many more semantically minded people, claiming the act was one of terrorism. Bissonnette is described as a far-right nationalist, who called for more strict muslim restrictions and vetting. This one of the many act of violence relating to muslims in Canada, the last being a 2014 shooting of a Canadian soldier by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. In 2015, a mosque in Ontario was set on fire following the infamous Paris Terrorist attack. There have been, in fact, four mass shootings in Canada since 2014.
Abbe Roch-Ambroise Sicard was born in 1742 near Toulouse ,Haute-Garonne , France. Abbe Sicard father and mother sent him to france to get an high education. Refusing to marry the woman chosen for him by his father Abbe left the family farm in 1750. When Abbe moved away from the farm all he wanted to do is to teach the people who need him in life. Abbe Roch Ambroise Sicard education was to be an influential figure in french and american deaf education and wanted to be a teacher to help the people who needed help and to help other people succeed in life. Abbe sicard wants to help as many people as he can he wants to be a success and make something of himself in life. Abbe wants to make his father and mother proud and show them that he makes good choices. Abbe wrote several works on the interesting subjects of the deaf culture. Abbe found the deaf and dumb school in paris in 1742-1822. Sicard went to be a teacher for the deaf to teach them how to sign.
Crème brulee is an custard from France that translates into burnt cream, but what is unusual about this custard is it has a thin layer of burnt sugar not cream. Now some people have never even tried it, and for those people who are in love with most of the time have it at a restaurant and want to be able to make it at home. But they feel like since it is from France and has a fancy name it must be a very complicated recipe, but just have to know how to do two important steps. The two critical steps when composing crème brulee are separating egg yolks, and bruleeing the sugar.
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We have a strange pet, His name is Boliver and he was named after a movie actor we saw once. Boliver is real smart And you really have to look close to see him on a leaf or branch. He likes to go there and always likes to eat there. We got him last July from a man, The man was Clyde Brown and He used to teach Biology. Boliver looks like a small green stick. They say he looks like he is praying. That is why he is called a praying mantis. We can't take him out for walks but We just like to watch him. We built a special home for him and He likes it
Paule Maurice lived from 1910 until 1967 as a French female composer. She studied and spent her professional life at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and wrote many works, but her most famous work is the Tableaux de Provence, translated "Picture of Provence”. Henri Busser was Maurice’s professor and she then won first prize in composition. She was a great teacher of sight-reading and theory at the Paris Conservatoire and Norma School of Music. Since Maurice was a teacher of theory and a composer, she wanted to keep a good reputation of the saxophone besides a growling jazz instrument. After discussing the seriousness off the saxophone with Marcel Mule she was motivated to write more serious musical expression for
Pierre Gassendi was born on January 22, 1592, in Champtercier, Provence, France. He was the son of two commoners. Unlike his parents, Gassendi was a child prodigy and was sent to college at the early age of sixteen. He was a faithful and devoted Christian. Over his lifetime, Pierre Gassendi was a writer, philosopher, professor, priest, Mathematician, astronomer and a scientist. While he had a variety of occupations and accomplishments, he is best known for his attempts to connect Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for observing and publishing the first official transit of Mercury (Pierre Gassendi1). He is also widely known for disagreeing with the famous ideas of the philosopher, Descartes.
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, France during the 18th of May 1914 and died in Paris, France during the 29th of June 1982. Throughout his lifetime he became a renowned French fashion designer and was founder of the French high fashion house Balmain. The fashion house was founded in 1946, a year after the Second World War finished. Fashion designing ran through Pierre’s veins as his father owned a wholesale drapery business and his mother worked in a boutique managed by her two sisters called Galeries Parisiennes. Unfortunately Balmain’s father died when he was just seven years old. As a result Balmain remembered much of his fondest childhood memories playing in the boutique that his mother worked
In March 1811, Napoleon and his new wife, Marie Louise, welcomed the birth of a boy, the longed for male heir needed to carry the Bonaparte line forward. A grand feast was ordered to celebrate the christening of the young “King of Rome.” Only a year earlier, a young pastry chef named Marie-Antoine Carême had dazzled the court with a still-talked about wedding cake. For the christening he would out-do himself again. Using spun sugar, confectioner’s paste, cream, and meringues all dyed in varying shades of blue, rose, and gold, Carême created a magnificent replica of a Venetian gondola.
A few months ago, Vincent Falcone came across a video game that changed his life for the better. This game was free to download and its name is FORTNITE. Vincent had fallen in love with this video game more than he loves his own parents. The game sometimes annoys him because of people that don’t know how to play properly and this causes Vince to lose his chance at achieving a #1 VICTORY ROYALE. Here are the rules that help relieve his annoyance of other players.
Emile’s moral education grounded in nature leads to the cultivation of imagination, which in turn leads to the transformation of his amour-propre. With amour-propre one begins to compare themselves to others and then the desire for attachment is born to provide for the sexual desires. Emile’s imagination allows him to learn from events he sees, which in turn allows him to see himself in the position of others. By seeing himself as others, Emilie realizes that everyone suffers, not just him, but he also realizes that he is superior and can help those suffering more than him. Emile’s desire for attachment leads him to Sophie, who allows Emile to transform from what Rousseau refers to as a good man into a moral man. The goal of Emile’s education was to make him fit for society, but not corrupted by society. Because Emile has been made fit for
Henri Becquerel was a Physicist, while doing some research, he found radioactivity. Henri was born in Paris in 1853, he was born into a family of scientists. Alexander Becquerel, Aurelie Quenard, and Antoine Céasar were his family. His father and grandfather were scientists as well. His father was an expert on solar radiation and his grandfather had invented an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores. He learned about physics and chemistry through his university and joined the government department in 1874.
The style was highly decorative and tended to use light pastel colours. The designs were typically asymmetrical and featured a lot of gold. The word is known as a combination of the French for ‘stone’ and ‘shell’. Rococo art consisted of elaborate and over the top designs that took a more humorous and light-hearted approach to the arts in comparison to other movements at the time. Rococo was designed to cover an entire room; meaning that all the ornaments and furniture blended together to create a luxurious environment. Rococo is believed to be a product Influenced by interior design when it was actually inspired by Baroque architecture in Europe at the time. Many architects were asked by Bishops and Princes to design and build churches of great heights in the Rococo style. It was by the end of Louis XV’s reign that Bolder and richer styles were giving way to the lighter and softer Rococo designs. The style really started to gain interest in France in the 1730’s when the trend was picked up by painters and sculptures, which is seen in the work of French painters such as Antoine Watteau and François Boucher. It was by this point an art form loved by many and even became known as the ‘’French Taste’’ in Britain. The trend came to Britain more so through interiors and silverwork. Thomas Chippendale was famous for creating wooden furniture that merged this newly found love for Rococo with his already existing eye for design. Many said that
The trip to Europe and back by the Finlay brothers was one of the first Americans who brought the Grecian-Roman revival to the public. After the War of 1812, a sense of renewal of a better time became a distinct interest to designers as well as the public. With the help of the Finlay brothers, “there was a civility and sophistication in the late neoclassical ideals” (Greene, 122) that mirrored the continued success of the newborn America. Thus from it grew the early empire style furniture in America, which featured elegant and delicate furniture with waterleaf carving being one of the favorite treatments like the Grecian couch.