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Balmain Pierre Alexandre Claudius Beauharnais Alexandre viscount de Benois Alexandre Nikolayevich Alexandre César Léopold Bizet Calonne Charles Alexandre de Dumas Alexandre Eugène Alexandre Péréthon Ledru Rollin Alexandre Auguste Millerand Alexandre Rhodes Alexandre de
Alexandre Benois
born May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia died Feb. 9, 1960, Paris, Fr. Russian theatre art director, painter, and influential ballet set designer. With Sergey Diaghilev he cofounded the avant-garde art magazine Mir Iskusstva ("World of Art") in 1899. He began his scenic-design career in 1901 and designed many of the innovative Ballets Russes decors from 1909 to 1929. He designed sets for numerous other ballet companies in the 1940s and 1950s
Alexandre Cesar Leopold Bizet
{i} Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French composer known for for his famous opera "Carmen
Alexandre Dumas
a French writer of novels and plays. He wrote The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers (1802-70). known as Dumas père born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France died Dec. 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe French playwright and novelist. Dumas's first success was as a writer of melodramatic plays, including Napoléon Bonaparte (1831) and Antony (1831). His immensely popular novels, set in colourful historical backgrounds, include The Three Musketeers (1844), a romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu, and its sequel Twenty Years After (1845); The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45); and The Black Tulip (1850). His illegitimate son Alexandre Dumas (1824-95), called Dumas fils, is best known for his play La Dame aux camélias (1848), the basis of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata and later of several films titled Camille
Alexandre Dumas
{i} (1802-1870) French novelist, author of "The Three Musketeers"; Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895), author and playwright, son of Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Millerand
born Feb. 10, 1859, Paris, France died April 7, 1943, Versailles French politician. He was an editor of socialist journals (1883-98) and served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1885 to 1920. He implemented reforms while serving in various governments as minister of commerce (1899-1901), public works (1909-10), and war (1912-15). He became premier in 1920, and, as leader of a moderate coalition, was elected president of France (1920-24). After advocating a revision of the constitution to strengthen the power of the presidency, he was forced to resign by the Cartel des Gauches. He served in the Senate from 1927 to 1940
Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois
born May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia died Feb. 9, 1960, Paris, Fr. Russian theatre art director, painter, and influential ballet set designer. With Sergey Diaghilev he cofounded the avant-garde art magazine Mir Iskusstva ("World of Art") in 1899. He began his scenic-design career in 1901 and designed many of the innovative Ballets Russes decors from 1909 to 1929. He designed sets for numerous other ballet companies in the 1940s and 1950s
Alexandre de Rhodes
born March 15, 1591, Avignon, France died March 5, 1660, Efahn, Iran French missionary, the first Frenchman to visit Vietnam. He established a Jesuit mission in the region in 1619 and later estimated that he had converted some 6,700 Vietnamese to Roman Catholicism. Expelled in 1630, he spent 10 years teaching philosophy in Macau before returning, only to be exiled again in 1646. The Vatican sponsored a Vietnamese missionary program in 1658 based on de Rhodes's ideas, but he himself was sent to Iran (Persia), where he died. He wrote a Vietnamese-Latin-Portuguese dictionary and perfected the romanized script Quoc-ngu (developed by earlier missionaries), which facilitated communicating Christian doctrines to the Vietnamese and increased the literacy rate among the population
Alexandre viscount de Beauharnais
born May 28, 1760, Martinique died June 23, 1794, Paris, France French politician and general, first husband of Joséphine. A liberal noble, he became a prominent figure during the French Revolution. He presided over the Constituent Assembly in 1791, served with gallantry in the army, and was named general in chief of the Army of the Rhine in 1793. He was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, largely because he was a noble. He was the father of Eugène and Hortense de Beauharnais and the grandfather of Napoleon III
Alexandre-Auguste Ledru-Rollin
born Feb. 2, 1807, Paris, France died Dec. 31, 1874, Fontenay-aux-Roses French radical politician. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839, but his insistence on the need for a republican government isolated him from other leftists. Following the February Revolution, through his influence as minister of the interior in the provisional government (1848), elections for a new legislature were held for the first time under universal manhood suffrage. In 1849 he demanded the impeachment of Louis-Napoléon (later Napoleon III) and led an unsuccessful insurrection. He fled to England but returned to France after the amnesty of 1870
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
born Jan. 20, 1734, Douai, France died Oct. 29, 1802, Paris French politician. He served as intendant of Metz (1768) and Lille (1774), and his financial genius led to his appointment as controller general of finance (1783). He soon discovered that major reforms were necessary to save France from bankruptcy. His efforts precipitated the governmental crisis that led to the French Revolution. After the Revolution began, he devoted himself to the cause of counterrevolution from his exile in England
Pierre -Alexandre-Claudius Balmain
born May 18, 1914, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Fr. died June 29, 1982, Paris French fashion designer. He gave up architectural studies to become a designer in 1934. He worked briefly with Christian Dior, who became his rival after World War II. Balmain's designs, particularly for evening wear, were characterized by superb quality and a combination of femininity and imposing elegance; his clients included film stars and royalty. He later opened branches in New York City and Caracas and expanded into perfume and accessories
alexandre

    الواصلة

    A·le·xan·dre

    التركية النطق

    älîksändır

    النطق

    /aləkˈsändər/ /ælɪkˈsɑːndɜr/
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