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Gustave Foëx (Gustave Louis Émile Foëx, born in Marseille in 1844 - died in 1906) was a French ampelographer and a colleague of Pierre Viala . Gustave Foex who was Director of the National School of Agriculture of Montpellier (French: École nationale d’agriculture de Montpellier, now known as Supagro) from 1881 to 1897 was a professor of ...
The Bookworm ( German: Der Bücherwurm) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg. The picture was made c. 1850 and is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general. [1] The painting is representative of the introspective and conservative mood in Europe ...
Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo (n. 26 februarie 1802, Besançon, Franța – d. 22 mai 1885, Paris, Franța) a fost un poet, dramaturg și romancier francez . Scriitor romantic, era pair al Franței din 1845, senator al Parisului și membru al Academiei Franceze din 1841. Printre operele sale cele mai cunoscute se numără Notre-Dame de Paris (1831 ...
Camperdown ' s damaged bow after her 22 June 1893 collision with battleship Victoria. Sketch by Melton Prior of Camperdown firing her 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns at Cretan insurgents attacking Izzeddin Fortress on Crete on 26–27 March 1897 as seen from HMS Revenge. Camperdown was commissioned at Portsmouth on 18 July 1889, and initially went into ...
Louis de Wecker (29 September 1832 – 24 January 1906) was a French ophthalmologist born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He studied medicine in Würzburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, earning doctorates from Würzburg (1855) and Paris (1861). From 1862 he maintained a popular ophthalmology clinic in Paris. In 1867 he performed an enucleation of ...
Hiệp ước Thiên Tân 1885 ( tiếng Pháp: Traité de Tianjin (1885)) là một thỏa ước được ký kết giữa chính phủ thuộc địa Pháp và nhà Thanh năm 1885 sau Chiến tranh Pháp-Thanh nhằm tranh giành ảnh hưởng ở Việt Nam. Hòa ước này chấm dứt chiến tranh Pháp-Thanh, buộc quân Thanh ...
The Culebra Cut in 1885. Construction of the canal began on January 1, 1881, with digging at Culebra beginning on January 22. A large labor force was assembled, numbering about 40,000 in 1888 (nine-tenths of whom were afro-Caribbean workers from the West Indies). Although the project attracted good, well-paid French engineers, retaining them ...
