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Quatre Bras, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Quatre Bras, battle of, 1815. After resuming...Ney headed towards the vital crossroads at Quatre Bras. Although initially outnumbered...French corps spent the day marching between Quatre Bras and Ligny, and participated in neither...
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Quatre Bras
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Quatre Bras , village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, just south of Waterloo. There, on June 16, 1815, in a battle of...
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Mauritius
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Mah é bourg, Pamplemousses, Quatre Bornes, Vacoas-Phoenix EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted...attend Royal College (Curepipe and Port Louis), St. Esprit in Quatre Bornes, and St. Joseph's in Curepipe, all of which have...
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Pierre de Ronsard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...iade was formed. Odes and Amours With the publication of Les Quatre premiers livres des odes (1550), the story of Ronsard's...supported by devastating satire. In 1572 Ronsard published Les Quatre premiers livres de la Franciade. The remaining books were never...
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Louis Le Vau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was planned by Le Brun. One of Le Vau's most enduring contributions was his design (1660s) for the Collège des Quatre Nations (today the Institut de France) in Paris. Executed after his death by D'Orbay, it is unique to France in embodying...
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Jaëll, Marie Trautmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...admirer of Jaëll, Liszt became her mentor. He premiered her waltz for piano four hands, "Valses pour piano à quatre mains" Op. 8, which was published by F.E.C. Leuckart, Leipzig. Liszt even wrote variations based on the piece, although...
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Dame Alicia Markova
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ethereal grace. She excelled in all the classic roles, and her interpretations of Giselle (her signature role), Pas de Quatre, Petrouchka, Swan Lake, and Romeo and Juliet were exceptionally celebrated. She wrote Giselle and I (1960). After her...
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Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...compassion and power. His other important novels include Les Travailleurs de la mer (1866, tr. Toilers of the Sea, 1866), and Quatre-vingt-treize (1874, tr. Ninety-three, 1874). He began his political career as a supporter of the duke of Reichstadt...
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Morton, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...important were The School of Reform ; or , How to Rule a Husband (1805), an amusing comedy, The Slave (1816), and Henri Quatre ; or , Paris in the Olden Time (1820), in both of which Macready appeared. One of Morton's most spectacular melodramas...
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Waterloo, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...destroy Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army and Blücher's Prussians before they could unite. After the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June, Wellington's inexperienced army of 67,000 men (of whom less than a third were British) fell back to...
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