Fabre d'Églantine

Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine, commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine ( July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. Events 1493 - Great fire in Moscow 1540 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from... 28 July Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... 1750 - April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining. Events 1400-1899 1450 - Battle of Formigny; Toward the end of the Hundred Years War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in northern... 15 April Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first... 1794), 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 dramatist and The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years... revolutionary.

He was born at For other uses of the name Carcassonne, see Carcassonne (disambiguation). The walled city of Carcassonne Location within France Carcassonne (Carcassona in Occitan) is a fortified French city, in the Aude département, of which it is the préfecture, in the former province of Languedoc. Population (1990): 44... Carcassonne. His surname was "Fabre", the "d'Églantine " being added in commemoration of his receiving the golden eglantine of Clémence Isaure from the academy of the floral games (jeux Floraux) at The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... Toulouse. After travelling in the provinces as an Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role in an artistic production. The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer... actor, he came to 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, where he produced an unsuccessful 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 entitled Les Gens de lettres, ou le provincial à Paris (1787). A tragedy, Augusta, produced at the The Comédie-Française or Théâtre français is the only state theater in France. It is also one of the few to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the Ier arrondissement of Paris. The best-known playwright associated... Théâtre Français, also proved a failure. One only of his plays, Philinte, ou la suite du Misanthrope (1790), still preserves its reputation. It is supposed to be a continuation of Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière ( January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. The son of a Parisian artisan, Poquelin lost his mother when... Molière's Misanthrope, but the hero of the piece is a different character from the nominal prototype--a pure and simple eGO is a company that builds electric motor scooters which are becoming popular for urban transportation and vacation use. EGO was a German company that existed between 1921 and 1926 that made small automobiles. External links http://www.egovehicles.com/ ... egotist. On its publication, the play was introduced by a preface, in which the author mercilessly satirises the Optimiste of his rival Jean François Collin d'Harleville, whose Châteaux en Espagne had gained the applause which Fabre's Présomptueux (1789) had failed to win. The character of Philinte had much political significance. Alceste received the highest praise, and evidently represents the Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now a state), and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. It is largely coterminous with nationality, although it is possible to have a nationality without being a citizen (i.e... citizen Meanings of Patriot: Patriotism The Patriot, movie The MIM-104 Patriot missile system a code word used by Nazis to signify Nazi The United States Patriot Act In the American Revolutionary War, those who supported the American cause, were called Patriots. a chess engine. See Patriot (chess). A member of... patriot, while Philinte is a dangerous Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. (The Greek origins of the word aristocracy imply the meaning of rule by the best.). This inevitably means those with the power to hold wealth, and to define who shall... aristocrat in disguise.

Fabre served as president and secretary of the club of the The Cordeliers, also known as the Club of the Cordeliers and formally as the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen comprised a populist society during the French Revolution. It was formed by the members of the district of the Cordeliers, when the National... Cordeliers, and belonged also to the Jacobin Club, the most famous of the political clubs of the French Revolution, had its origin in the Club Breton, which formed at Versailles shortly after the opening of the Estates General in 1789. It was at first composed exclusively of deputies from Brittany, but was soon joined by others... Jacobin Club. Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 - April 5, 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. Born at Arcis-sur-Aube, in France, his family was respectable, though not wealthy. They managed to give him a good education, and he was launched in the career... Georges Danton chose Fabre as his private secretary, and he sat in the This article is about a legislative body and constitutional convention during the French Revolution. The term national convention also refers, in the United States, to the presidential nominating conventions. During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from September... National Convention of 1792 - 1795. He voted for the death of King Louis XVI Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. Suspended and arrested during the insurrection of the 10th of August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of... Louis XVI, supporting the The largest and the smallest element of a set are called extreme values, or extreme records. For a differentiable function , if is an extreme value for the set of all values , and if is in the interior of the domain of , then is a stationary point. Extreme values in abstract... maximum and the law of the suspected, and he was a bitter enemy of the The Girondists (in French Girondins, and sometimes Brissotins), comprised a political faction in France within the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention during the French Revolution. The Girondists were more a group of individuals holding certain opinions and principles in common than an organised political party, and the name was... Girondins.

After the death of Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 - July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born scientist and physician, who made much of his career in England, but is best known as a French Revolutionary. A member of the radical Jacobin faction during the French Revolution, he helped to launch... Marat (13 July 1793) Fabre published a Portrait de l'Ami du Peuple. On the abolition of the The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in the Western world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on February 24, 1582 (Note: The papal bull Inter gravissimas... Gregorian Calendar in France he sat on the committee entrusted with the formation of the republican The French Revolutionary Calendar or French Republican Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and in use by the French government for 13 years from 1793. It was abolished by Napoléon partly to appease the Catholic Church, which opposed the calendar because it abolished the Sabbath and... French Revolutionary Calendar, and contributed a large part of the new nomenclature, with its poetic Prairial and Floreal, its prosaic Primidi and Duodi. The report which he made on the subject, on (Redirected from 24 October) October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. Events 1-1899 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of... 24 October 1793, has some scientific value.

On January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 353 days remaining (354 in leap years). Events 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden. 1592 - Titus Andronicus first staged at the Rose Theatre. 1709 - Little Ice Age: Two-month freezing period begins... 12 January Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first... 1794 Fabre was arrested by order of the The Committee of Public Safety (French: le Haut Comit de la sant publique), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793 - 1794) of the French Revolution. Under war conditions and with national survival seemingly... Committee of Public Safety on a charge of malversation and Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive (fraud is the use of objects obtained through forgery). Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful mis-attributions. In... forgery in connection with the affairs of the The French East India Company (French Compagnie des Indes Orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies. Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The Company... French East India Company. (Documents still existing prove that the charge was altogether groundless.) During his trial Fabre showed the greatest calmness and sang his own well-known song:

pleut, il pleut, bergère,

rentre tes blancs moutons.

Fabre died under the Public guillotining in Lons-le-Saunier, 1878 The guillotine is a machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame (approx 4m high) from which is suspended a heavy triangular blade (approx 40kg). The blade is hauled to the top of the... guillotine on April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining. Events 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries... 5 April Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first... 1794. On his way to the scaffold he distributed his manuscript poems to the people.

A posthumous play, Les Précepteurs, steeped with the doctrines of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment Biography of Rousseau The tomb of Rousseau in the crypt of the Panth on, Paris Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Émile, was performed on September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). There are 105 days remaining. Events 1176 - Battle of Myriokephalon 1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France 1462 - Battle of Swiecin, called also Battle of Zarnowiec, during Thirteen Years War 1577 - Peace... 17 September Events February 11 - 1st session of the United States Senate is open to the public. March 14 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. March 27 - The United States Government established a permanent United States Navy and authorized the building of six vessels (in 1797 the first... 1794, and met with an enthusiastic reception. Among Fabre's other plays are the gay and successful Convalescent de qualité (1791), and L'Intrigue épistolaire (1791). In the latter play Fabre is supposed to have drawn a portrait of the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (August 21, 1725 - March 4, 1805), French painter, was born at Tournus, in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were... Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

The author's Œuvres mêlées et posthumes were published at Paris in 1802 in 2 volumes.

See Albert Maurin, Galerie hist. de la Révolution française, tome n; Jules Gabriel Janin (February 16, 1804 - June 19, 1874), was a French writer and critic. Born at St Etienne (Loire), his father was a lawyer, and he was well educated, first at St Etienne, and then at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He betook himself to journalism... Jules Janin, Histoire de la littérature dramatique; André Chénier, Tableau de la littérature française; FA Aulard in the Nouvelle Revue (July 1885).

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