Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Saint Yves, patron saint of lawyers s.d. Gouache on two cardboard glued together, 300 x 312 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This cartoon was designed in the mid-1640s for the eight-piece ‘Proverbs’ hanging. On September 22, 1644, Jordaens…
(1758–1794) Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre Works: • Carnet de Robespierre trouvé sur lui au moment de son arrestation (French) • Discours par Maximilien Robespierre, 17 Avril 1792-27 Juillet 1794 (French) • Discours par Maximilien Robespierre, 21 octobre 1789-1er…
(1759–1794) Georges Jacques Danton, dit aussi d’Anton Works: • Discours Civiques de Danton (French) Danton in Film: Danton 1983 Director: Andrzej Wajda Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak Born October 26 1759 Arcis-sur-Aube (France) Died April 5 1794 Paris (France) Cause of death Execution…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Quand le crime ne donne pas (When Crime Doesn’t Pay) 1848 Lithograph with watercolour on paper, 32 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…
(1561–1626) Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban also known as Lord Verulam Works: • Bacon’s Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients (English) • Filosofiset mietelmät (Finnish) • Novum Organum (English) • Of Gardens (English) • The Advancement of Learning…
(1771–1832) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot Works: • Guy Mannering (English) • Ivanhoe (English) • Kenilworth (English) • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (English) • Marmion (English) • Old Mortality (English) • Quentin Durward (English) • Rob Roy…
(106–43 BC) Consul of Rome (63 BC) Governor of Cilicia (51–50 BC) Works: • Brutus (Latin) ◊ Brutus (English) • Cato Maior de Senectute (Latin) ◊ Cato Maior de Senectute (English) ◊ De Amicitia, Scipio’s Dream (English) ◊ Scipion unennäkö…
(1905–1978) Leopold John Genn Filmography as Actor: Caesar and Cleopatra 1945 Director: Gabriel Pascal Starring: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains Quo Vadis 1951 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr Born August 9 1905 London (England) Died January 26 1978 London (England) Cause of death…
(1909–1989) Marcel Truc Filmography as Director and Writer: Le Miroir à deux faces 1958 Director: André Cayatte Starring: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil Filmography as Writer: The Mirror Has Two Faces 1996 Director: Barbra Streisand Starring: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges Born February 3 1909 Carcassonne…