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Claude Michel
(Encyclopedia)Claude Michel: see Clodion.Fauchet, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Fauchet, Claude klōd fōshāˈ [key], 1744–93, French clergyman and revolutionary, constitutional bishop of Calvados. A leader in the attack (1789) on the Bastille, Fauchet was a member of the Comm...Gelée, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Gelée, Claude: see Claude Lorrain. ...Gellée, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Gellée, Claude: see Claude Lorrain. ...Garamond, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Garamond, Claude klōd gärämôNˈ [key], 1480–1561, Parisian designer and maker of printing types. According to tradition he learned his art from Geofroy Tory. Types designed by Garamond were used...Michel, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Michel, Claude: see Clodion.Monet, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Monet, Claude klōd mônāˈ [key], 1840–1926, French landscape painter, b. Paris. Monet was a founder of impressionism. He adhered to its principles throughout his long career and is considered the...Lorrain, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Lorrain, Claude: see Claude Lorrain. ...McKay, Claude
(Encyclopedia)McKay, Claude məkāˈ [key], 1889–1948, American poet and novelist, b. Jamaica as Festus Claudius McKay, studied at Tuskegee and the Univ. of Kansas. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay...Chabrol, Claude
(Encyclopedia)Chabrol, Claude klōd shäbrōlˈ [key], 1930–2010, French filmmaker, b. Paris, attended Univ. of Paris. One of the creators of the French “new wave” cinema of the 1950s and 60s, he and such oth...Browse by Subject
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