Antoine Houdar de la Motte ( January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Events 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 474 - Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emperor 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail. 1520 - King Christian II... January 18, Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. March 15 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. June 28 - William III of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht. Births... 1672 - December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. There are 5 days remaining. Events 1481 - Battle of Westbroek - Holland defeats troops of Utrecht 1606 - King Lear performed in the Court of England 1620 - Elizabeth Bathorys crimes are uncovered 1620 - Pilgrim... December 26, Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. Births May 8 - Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, abolitionist (died 1809) June 21 - Martha Washington October 10 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (died 1810) November 9 -Benjamin Banneker, surveyor of the... 1731), was a The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... French The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this... author.

He was born and died in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs. The city of Paris proper is also a dé... Paris. In Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. Etna. February 8 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter July 29 - The Battle of Landen October 11 – Charleloi falls to the French forces China concentrates all its foreign trade to Canton – European ships are forbidden... 1693 his Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. It also means a performance that relies heavily on humor. The term originally comes from theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. The humor, once an incidental device used to... comedy, Les Originaux, was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappist can refer to: a religious order - see Trappists some of the products, made by the order - see Trappist beer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want... Trappists. Four years later he began writing This article is about opera as an art form. See Opera (browser) for information on the web browser. The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. The drama is presented using the typical... operas and A performance of The Nutcracker ballet Ballet is the name given to a specific dance form and technique. Dance works choreographed using this technique are called ballets and may include: dance, mime, acting and music ( orchestral and sung). Ballets can be performed alone or as part of an opera. Ballet... ballets, e.g. L'Europe galante (1697), and tragedies, one of which, Inés de Castro (1723), was an immense success at the Theâtre Français. He was a champion of the moderns in the revived controversy of the ancients and moderns. Anne Lefèvre ( March? 1654 - August 17, 1720), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar and translator from the classics. She was born at Saumur and grew up there. On the death of her father, Tanneguy Lefebvre, in 1672, she removed to Paris, carrying... Madame Dacier had published (1699) a translation of the The Iliad is, with The Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. The Iliad and the Odyssey were considered by Greeks of the classical age and after as the most important works in Ancient Greek literature, and were the basis... Iliad, and La Motte, who knew no The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. Ancient Greek in its various forms was the language both of classical Greek civilisation and of the origins of Christianity, and... Greek, made a translation (1714) in verse founded on her work.

He said of his own work: "I have taken the liberty to change what I thought disagreeable in it." He defended the moderns in the Discours sur Homère prefixed to his translation, and in his Réfiexions sur la critique (1716). Apart from the merits of the controversy, it was conducted on La Motte's side with a wit and politeness which compared very favourably with his opponents methods. He was elected to the The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution... Académie française in 1710, but soon afterwards wwent blind. La Motte carried on a correspondence with the duchesse du Maine, and was the friend of For other uses of Fontenelle, see Fontenelle (disambiguation). Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (February 11, 1657 - January 9, 1757) was a French author. Fontenelle was born in Rouen, Normandy. He died in Paris, having very nearly attained the age of 100... Fontenelle. He had the same freedom from prejudice and the same inquiring mind as the latter, and it is on the excellent prose in which his views are expressed that his reputation rests.

His Œuvres du theâtre (2 vols.) appeared in 1730, and his Œuvres (10 vols.) in 1754. See AH Rigault, Histoire de la querelle des anciens et des modernes (1859).

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