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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Louis Xi of France, Berthe Morisot, Agénor Bardoux, Henri Brisson, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Édouard André, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, Louis Bourdaloue, Emmanuel Imorou, Mounir Soufiani, Pierre-Émile Martin, Martin Gouge, Émile Deschamps, Serge Vinçon, Jean de La Chapelle, Patrice Gay, Barthélémy Aneau, Delphine Pelletier, Sophie Barjac, Valérie Boyer, Jean-Luc Aotret. Excerpt:Agénor Bardoux (Bourges , Cher , 15 January 1829 Paris , 23 November 1897) was a French statesman and republican , son of Jacques Bardoux (Moulins , 3 February 1795 - Clermont-Ferrand , 8 January 1871) and wife Thérèse Pignet (Limoges , 6 April 1807 - St. Saturnin, 25 March 1883). A native of Bourges , he was established as an advocate in Clermont-Ferrand , and did not hesitate to proclaim his Republican sympathies. In 1871 he was elected deputy of the French National Assembly , and re-elected in 1876 and in 1877. In the chamber he was president of the group of the centre-left , standing strongly for the republic but against anti-clericalism . In the republican chamber elected after May 16, 1877, he became minister of public instruction (December 1877), and proposed various republican laws, notably on compulsory primary education. He resigned in 1879. He was not re-elected in 1881, but in December 1882 was named senator for life . Married in Montpellier on 15 July 1873 Clémence Villa (Millau , 26 December 1847 - Paris , 2 December 1939), daughter of Achille Villa (Millau , 17 April 1818 - Millau , 7 April 1901) and wife Sophie Bimar (Montpellier , 13 October 1824 - Montpellier , 6 February 1885), by whom he had at least one son, the French senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux. One of his descendants, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926) was president of France from 1974 until 1981. R... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Caillebotte, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Victor Vignon, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Bonnard, Frédéric Samuel Cordey, Frédéric Bazille, Blanche Hoschedé, Albert Dagnaux, Armand Guillaumin, Charles-François Daubigny, Albert Lebourg, Albert Bartholomé, Adolphe-Félix Cals, Victor Charreton, Louis Ageron. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Édouard Manet (né à Paris le 23 janvier 1832 - mort à Paris le 30 avril 1883) est un peintre français majeur de la fin du siècle. Peintre de compositions à personnages, figures, nus, portraits, paysages, paysages urbains animés, natures mortes, aquarelliste, pastelliste, graveur, lithographe, dessinateur, affichiste, illustrateur. Pré-impressionniste. Refusant d'entrer à la faculté de droit comme le souhaitait son père, Édouard Manet tente le concours du Borda où il échoue. Il embarque néanmoins sur un bateau-école et part pour le Brésil d'où il ramène de nombreux dessins. De retour en France, il entre à l'atelier de Thomas Couture où il commence sa formation de peintre, et dès 1860, il présente ses premières toiles parmi lesquelles : Portrait de M. et Mme Auguste Manet Ses tableaux suivants, Lola de Valence, L'Homme mort, Combat de taureau, le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ou Olympia, font scandale . Manet est rejeté des expositions officielles, il joue alors un rôle de premier plan dans la « bohème élégante ». Il y fréquente des artistes qui l'admirent comme Fantin-Latour ou Edgar Degas et des hommes de lettres comme le poète Baudelaire ou le romancier Émile Zola dont il peint un portrait resté célèbre. C'est aussi à cette époque qu'il peint Joueur de fifre (18...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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