Hector Berlioz was a French composer. He was born in 1803 and died in 1869. He gave up medicine to study music at the Paris Conservatoire, where he gained the first prize in 1830 with his cantata Sardanapale. For about two years he studied in Italy, and when on his return he began to produce his larger works, he found himself compelled to take up the pen both in defence of his principles and for his own better maintenance.
As critic of the Journal des Debats and feuilletonist he displayed scarcely less originality than in his music, his chief literary works being the Traite d'Instrumentation, 1844; Voyage Musical, 1845; Les Soirees d'Orchestre, 1853; and A traversChant, 1862. His musical works belong to the Romantic school, and are specially noteworthy for the resource they display in orchestral colouring. The more important are Harolden Italie; Episode de la Vie d'un Artiste, and Le Retour a la Vie; Romeo and Juliette, 1834; Damnation de Faust, 1846; the operas Benvenuto Cellini, Beatrice and Benedict, and Les Troy-ens; L'Enfance du Christ, and the Requiem. He married an English actress, Miss Smithson, but latterly lived apart from her. After his death appeared Memoires written by himself. Research Hector Berlioz
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (commonly called Boileau) was a French poet. He was born in 1636 at Paris and died in 1711 of dropsy. He studied in the College d'Harcourt and in the College de Beauvais, and entered the legal profession, but soon left it to devote himself entirely to belles-lettres. In 1660 appeared his first satire, Adieux d'un Poete a la Ville de Paris, followed rapidly by eight others, and ultimately by three more, to complete the series. They attacked with much critical acumen, and in vigorous but finely-finished verse, the poets and writers of the older school.
In 1664 he wrote his proseDialogue des Heros de Roman, which sounded the knell of the artificial romances of the period. His Epistles, written in a more serious vein, appeared at various times from 1669 onwards; but his masterpieces were the L'Art Poetique and Le Lutrin, published in 1674 - the former an imitation of the Ars Poetica of Horace with reference to French verse, the latter a mock heroic poem. In many respects his writings determined the trend of all subsequent French poetry, and he left, through his influence upon Dryden, Pope,and their contemporaries, a permanent mark upon English literature. For some time he held the post of historiographer in connection with Racine, and was elected academician in 1684, though only after the interference of the king in his favour. Research Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux
Philippe Joseph Benjamin Buchez was a French physician and writer. He was born in 1796 and died in 1865. He wrote Introduction a la Science de l'Histoire (1833) and Essai d'un Traite Complet de Philosophie (1839). Between 1833 and 1838 he published, in concert with Roux-Lavergne, a Histoire Parlementaire de la Revolution Francaise (40 volumes) After the French Revolution of 1848 he was elected to the constituent National Assembly, and was for a brief period its wholly incompetent president. Retiring from public life he confined himself to literature, his chief subsequent work being the Histoire de la Formation de la Nationality Francaise, published in 1859. Research Philippe Buchez
William Hogarth was an English artist. He was born in 1697 at London and died in 1764. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, who employed him in engraving ciphers and crests on spoons and pieces of plate. In 1720 he commenced business for himself, painting portraits, and making designs and book-plates for the booksellers, etc. Among these was a series of illustrations to Hudibras.
Besides portraits, he also painted miscellaneous subjects in oil. In 1729 he married the daughter of Sir James Thornhill, the painter, against her father's wishes, who is said, however, to have been mollified when William Hogarth produced his celebrated series of pictures called the Harlot's Progress, a work which brought his great powers fairly before the public. The engravings of these, which became exceedingly popular, were published in 1734. This was followed by the Rake's Progress and Marriage a la Mode, two similar series of paintings and engravings; Industry and Idleness, Beer Street and Gin Lane, The Election, The Enraged Musician, The Country-Inn Yard, The March to Finchley, Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn, Four Stages of Cruelty, and a host of other engravings, which all evinced his extraordinary powers of satire, wit, and imagination.
Several portraits, notably those of himself, Garrick, Lovat, and Wilkes, are master-pieces in their way. He was also ambitious of shining as an historical painter, but in this line he was not so successful. In 1753 his work on the Analysis of Beauty appeared, a treatise which brought him little fame, and which was severely ridiculed by his enemies and professional rivals. In originality of imagination and invention, and for vigour of realism and dramatic power, William Hogarth stands in the highest rank, and his genius was always enlisted on the side of virtue and morality. Though best known as an engraver, he possessed high qualities as a painter. Research William Hogarth
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The a la Cybele was an 18th century hair style for women in which the hair was arranged in a tower, about 30 cm tall after representations of the goddess Cybele. Research A La Cybele
The a la Dauphine was a French women's hair style of around 1788 having a chignon with the form of a croix de chevalier with a curl a la Sultane falling onto the neck, two side curls and two shoulder curls. The entire hair style was further adorned with a ribbon and rose of diamonds crossed by a row of pearls. Research A La Dauphine
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