called "de Saint-Georges" after one of his plantations in Guadeloupe, was a commoner until 1757, when he acquired the title of Gentilhomme ordinaire de la...

of dragoons and aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montcalm. He took an active part in the capture of Fort Oswego in 1756 and the 1757 Battle of Fort William...

aftermath of the Battle of Marignano and the peace treaty of 1516, known as Traité de Fribourg or Paix Perpétuelle (Perpetual Peace). It depicts the moment...

According to the memoirs of the Duke de Luynes it was Queen Marie who originally promoted porcelain in Versailles by having regular commissions such as...

Francis. ISBN 9780203007617. TRAITÉ conclu à Versailles entre la France et la Cochinchine, représentée par Mgr Pigneau de Béhaine, évêque d'Adran, le 28...

Christie and Marc Minkowski have recorded the 1757 Anacréon separately. The complete 1757 Les surprises de l'Amour did not appear on disc until Sébastien...

1747) devoted his energies to the art of fortification, to which Vauban's Traité de l'attaque attracted him, and founded the cannon foundry at Ruelle, near...

commerce (in French). Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale. —— (1789). Traité élémentaire, ou principes de physique. Fondés sur les connoissances les plus certaines...

May 1757 and 10 October 1758 Versailles (1748), Paris, Opéra, Palais-Royal (1757, 1758) 49 Naïs pastorale héroïque prologue and 3 acts Louis de Cahusac...

Roman empress, and visited Versailles two times to negotiate, once between August 1752 and October 1753, then in the summer of 1757, when she died. Both times...