Sir Alfred East was a British painter and etcher. He was born in 1849 at Kettering and died in 1913. He studied art at Glasgow School of Art and at Paris under Tony Fleury and Bouguereau. He became a landscape painter of pronounced individuality, though with a strong sympathy with Jean Corot. Sir Alfred East was elected ARA in 1899 and RA in 1913. In 1906 he was chosen as president of the Royal Society of British Artists and in 1910 was knighted. Research Alfred East
Andre Hercule de Fleury was a French cardinal and prime minister. He was born in 1653 and died in 1743. In 1698 Louis XIV gave him the bishopric of Frejus, and shortly before his death appointed him instructor to Louis XV. After the death of the regent in 1723 he proposed the Duc de Borbon as first minister, but in 1726 he overturned the government which he himself had set up, and from then on directed affairs himself, in the same year being made a cardinal. Research Andre de Fleury
Claude Fleury was a French writer. He was born in 1640 and died in 1723. He was educated in the Jesuit College at Clermont, and after beginning to practise as a lawyer resolved to take orders. In 1672 he became the tutor of the young princes of Conti, and afterwards associated with Fenelon in the education of the young dukes of Burgundy, Anjou, and Berri. In 1716 he became confessor to Louis XV. He had procured admission into the Academy in 1696 by several important works, among which the best known are his Histoire du Droit Francais, Moeurs des Israelites, Moeurs des Chretiens, Institution au Droit ecclesiastique, Histoire Ecclesiastique. Research Claude Fleury
Henri Francois D'Aguesseau was a distinguished French jurist and statesman. He was born in 1668 at Limoges in 1668 and died in 1751. He was in 1690 advocate-general at Paris, and at the age of thirty-two procureur-general of the parliament. He risked disgrace with Louis XIV by successfully opposing the famous papal bull Unigenitus. He was made chancellor in 1717, was deprived of his office in 1718 on account of his opposition to Law's system of finance, but had to be recalled in 1720. In 1722 he had to retire a second time; but was recalled in 1727 by CardinalFleury, and in 1737 again got the chancellorship, which he held until 1750. Research Henri Aguesseau
The Sacre-Coeur is a magnificentchurch in the Montmartre region of Paris, France. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 two Parisien Catholic businessmen, Alexandre Legentil and Rohault de Fleury, vowed to build a church dedicated to the SacredHeart of Christ should Paris be spared the impending onslaught. The two men lived and Paris was saved, despite a lengthy siege, so they commenced work to build the Sacre-Coeur basilica in 1875. The design was drawn up by Paul Abadie and the project taken on by Archbishop Guibert of Paris, and the church finished in 1914 but not consecrated until 1919 due to the German invasion during the Great War. The bell tower of the Sacre-Coeur is 83 meters tall and contains one of the world's heaviest bells, weighing 18.5 tonnes. Research Sacre-Coeur
In heraldry, the term fleury describes something being finished at the ends with fleurs-de-lis. The term is particularly applied to a cross so decorated. Research Fleury
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