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Nicolas Boileau-
Despréaux (French: [nikɔla
bwalo depʁeo]; 1
November 1636 – 13
March 1711),
often known simply as
Boileau (UK: /ˈbwʌloʊ/, US: /bwɑːˈloʊ...
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Despréaux (pronounced [depʁeo]) is a
French surname.
People with that name include: Claude-Jean-François
Despréaux (1740s–1794),
French violinist and revolutionary...
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Guillaume Despréaux (20
September 1802 – 14 June 1865) was a
French composer who won the Prix de Rome in 1828. Born as "Guillaume Ross" in Clermont-Ferrand...
- Jean-Étienne
Despréaux (31
August 1748 – 26
March 1820) was a
French ballet dancer, c****ographer, composer,
singer and playwright. The son of an oboist...
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Louise Rosalie Allan-
Despreaux (1810 –
March 1856) was a
French actress. She was "discovered " by François
Joseph Talma at
Brussels in 1820, when she...
- Jean-Marie
Despréaux or
Louis Despréaux Saint-Sauveur, born on 20
December 1794 in Fougères and
deceased on 27
November 1843 in
Mexico City, was a French...
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literally "according to the plummet".
French ballet master Jean-Étienne
Despréaux used the term in 1806 to
refer to the
dynamic balancing that is fundamental...
- the day of his death. His
favorite title page was the one for "Boileau
Despréaux." He had to cut the type
expressly for the
title to fit on one line. It...
- Plunkett,
Irish archbishop and
saint (d. 1681) 1636 –
Nicolas Boileau-
Despréaux,
French poet and
critic (d. 1711) 1643 – John Strype,
English priest,...
- Claude-Jean-François
Despréaux was a
French musician and revolutionary, born in the 1740s and died in
Paris on 11
August 1794. The son of Jean-François
Despréaux, oboist...
