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J! Archive - Show #4299, aired 2003-04-17  Apr 17, 2003 ... This admiral, nicknamed "Bull", walked the deck of the Missouri, his ... This French author's original surname was Balssa before his father...
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Japer Lillard (Lollard) - Genealogy.com  His fathers name is unknown. ... northern France before a Treaty of Troyes was signed May 21, 1420. ... He also changed his name to LILLARD. ... geographic origin and the surname spelling, but all feel ... death of Jasper Lillard, Moise succeeded his father in the ... 1667) Lilli Balssa/Balsa/ Balsas (b. abt 1650); she was the
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Honor de Balzac - Wikipedia  Honor de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comdie ... Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, ... As the author and literary critic Sir Victor Pritchett explained, "She was certainly drily .... He followed his father in the surname Balzac but added the...
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Alexandre Dumas - Wikipedia  Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas, pre, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. ... At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the...
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Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799  August 18, 1850), novelist ...  Honor de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright, best known for his magnum opus La Comdie ... It was made into a film (adapted and directed by the author) in 2002. ... The original surname was Balssa. The change of name was made by Honor'sHonore's father, who migrated to Paris in 1767 to begin a long...
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Honore de Balzac | French author | Britannica.com  Two works of 1829 brought Balzac to the brink of success. Les Chouans, the first novel he felt enough confidence about to have published under his own name, is a historical novel about the Breton peasants called Chouans .... much more, and by 1840 he had hit upon a Dantesque title for the whole: La Comdie humaine.
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Eugene Debs  His parents, the French-born. Jean Daniel and Marguerite Marie Debs, named their rst son after two Romantic. Era literary gures, Eugene Sue and Victor...
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Le Corbusier adapted his moniker from his mother's maiden name ...  Le Corbusier adapted his moniker from his mother's maiden name, Lecorbsier, which ... He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. ... Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret 1887 - 1965) ..... I did, however, substantially increase by vocabulary whilst eating take-away from Tesco (a cut above the...
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A Tale of Two Cities Book I, Chapters 5-6 Summary and Analysis ...  Outside Monsieur Defarge's wine-shop in Paris, a cask of wine is dropped and ... as three men apparently named Jacques, which is also Monsieur Defarge's own name. ... given the very un-businesslike role in which he once again finds himself. ... Some of the most famous sentimental novels prior to the explosion of literary...
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Ch. 1 - My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name ...  My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue ... That shows to me just how great and well written this book is. dmaon  8...
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The world's greatest mime, who saved Jewish children in WWII  Sep 22, 2015 ... Marcel and his brother, Alain, both joined the French Resistance, and assumed false identities, taking on the surname Marceau, in tribute to the Francois Severin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general for anti-monarchist forces during France's Revolutionary Wars. One of his .... in Years. Trump Changed That.
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Francois Villon | French poet | Britannica.com  Franois Villon, pseudonym of Franois de Montcorbier or Franois des Loges ... It takes the form of a list of bequests, ironically conceived, made to friends and ... at the birth of Charles's daughter, Marie d'Orlans, on December 19, 1457. .... and, above all, the hideous fear of death so often found in literature and art at that...
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Martin Amis - Wikipedia  Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are Money ... His father, noted English novelist Sir Kingsley Amis, was the son of a ... The acclaim that followed his father's first novel Lucky Jim sent the family to ... And there's a scientific name for it, which is entropyeverything tends...
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Louis Braille, the boy who invented books for the blind - Margaret ...  The life of the 19th-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.
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Francois Rabelais | French author | Britannica.com  Written By: ... They exploit popular legends, farces, and romances, as well as classical and ... He was the son of Antoine Rabelais, a rich Touraine landowner and a ... satire and scatological humour in his comic novels eventually left him open to ... nothing of this quality had been seen before in French in any similar genre.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Governor, Emperor, General - Biography ...  Mar 16, 2015 ... Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader who worked with ... believe he was born Jean-Jacques Duclos, the name of his first owner, ... sold to a free black man named Dessalines and his surname was changed again.
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Blaise Pascal - Theologian, Philosopher, Physicist, Scientist ...  Nov 19, 2015 ... Full Name: Blaise Pascal ... Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, ... Etienne moved the family to Paris in 1631. ... and quickly managed to work out that the sum of a triangle's angles are ... Mystic Hexagram, to some of the premier mathematical thinkers of the time.
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Franois Rabelais Essay - Rabelais, Franois - eNotes.com  Essays and criticism on Franois Rabelais - Rabelais, Franois. ... (Also wrote under pseudonyms of Alcofribas Nasier and L'abstracteur de quinte essence) French ... Throughout this massive work shine the language and wit of a profound thinker ... pre de Pantagruel, (The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of...
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Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales  The original title, in French, was Histoires ou contes du temps pass, avec des ... not publish the book in question under his own name but rather under the name of his son Pierre. ... Stories or Tales from Times Past; or, Tales of Mother Goose (1697) ... The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, La belle au bois dormant, Type 410.
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George Sand - Wikipedia  Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French ... Sand wrote: "My name is not Marie-Aurore de Saxe, Marquise of Dudevant, as ... Sand took Chopin's support of Solange as outright treachery and ... for her first independent novel, Indiana (1832), the pen name that made her...
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Henri Charriere | French criminal | Britannica.com  Feb 17, 2016 ... Alternative Title: Papillon ... Charrire's nickname derived from the design of a butterfly (French: ... Charrire always denied his guilt for the murder and attacked the ... At the age of 62 in 1968 he wrote Papillon, which was published the ... Two debunking books in this vein were Georges Mnager's Les...