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Vieuxtemps, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Vieuxtemps, Henri äNrēˈ vyötäNˈ [key], 1820–81, Belgian violinist and composer. He toured Europe and the United States and taught in St. Petersburg (1846–51), where he was also court violini...Cartan, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Cartan, Henri: see under Cartan, Élie Joseph. ...Troyat, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Troyat, Henri ŏ–rēˈ trôtäˈ [key], 1911–2007, French novelist and biographer, b. Moscow as Lev Aslanovich Tarassov. He and his family fled the Russian Revolution and settled (1911) in Paris. ...Bergson, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Bergson, Henri äNrēˈ bĕrgsôNˈ [key], 1859–1941, French philosopher. He became a professor at the Collège de France in 1900, devoted some time to politics, and, after World War I, took an inte...Breuil, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Breuil, Henri äbāˈ [key], 1877–1961, French archaeologist, paleontologist, and cleric. He taught at the Institut de paléontologie humaine, Paris, after 1910. During much of his lifetime, Breuil ...Rousseau, Henri
(Encyclopedia)Rousseau, Henri äNrēˈ ro͞osōˈ [key], 1844–1910, French primitive painter, b. Laval. He was entirely self-taught, and his work remained consistently naive and imaginative. Rousseau was called L...Destouches, Philippe Néricault
(Encyclopedia)Destouches, Philippe Néricault fēlēpˈ nārēkōˈ dāto͞oshˈ [key], 1680–1754, French dramatist. He was known for his moralistic comedies. Le Glorieux (1732, tr. 1791), his masterpiece, treats...Commynes, Philippe de
(Encyclopedia)Commynes, Philippe de: see Comines, Philippe de. ...Comines, Philippe de
(Encyclopedia)Comines, Philippe de fēlēpˈ də kōmēnˈ [key], c.1447–c.1511, French historian, courtier, and diplomat. In 1472 he left the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to enter that of Louis XI of ...Commines, Philippe de
(Encyclopedia)Commines, Philippe de: see Comines, Philippe de. ...Browse by Subject
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