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    L'art pompier (literally 'fireman art') or style pompier is a derisive late-19th century French term for large 'official' academic art paintings of the...
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  • Le pompier des Folies Bergères (The fireman of the Folies Bergères), also known as Un pompier qui prend feu (A fireman catches fire) and Les Hallucinations...
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    Hook ladder (redirect from Pompier ladder)
    A hook ladder, also known as a pompier ladder (from the French pompier meaning firefighter) is a type of ladder that can be attached to a window sill...
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    known as sapeurs-pompiers or informally as pompiers. The former originally refers to the military-based Paris Fire Brigade. Pompier (pumper) comes from...
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    The Firemen's Ball (French: Le bal des pompiers) is a 1948 French comedy drama film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Claude Dauphin, Paulette...
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    are the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince and the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco. The Public Services are under the joint command of the Supreme...
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    Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter. Cabanel was the son of a modest...
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  • The Marseille Naval Fire Battalion (French: Bataillon de marins-pompiers de Marseille, or BMPM), is the fire and rescue service for the city of Marseille...
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    in the second half of the 19th century, this art received the name art pompier (fireman's art, a pejorative denomination derived from the fact that many...
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  • also Academic art, Napoleon III of France, Second Empire. The expression pompier is pejorative and means pompous ; it refers to Academic painters in the...
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