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Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François

(Encyclopedia)Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François äbāˈ prāvōˈ [key], 1697–1763, French novelist, journalist, and cleric. After a dissolute youth he entered (1720) the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Maur. He la...

Barbazan, Arnaud Guillaume, seigneur de

(Encyclopedia)Barbazan, Arnaud Guillaume, seigneur de ärnōˈ gēyōmˈ sānyörˈ də bärbäzäNˈ [key], c.1360–1431, French general in the Hundred Years War. He was called le chevalier sans reproche [the kni...

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso

(Encyclopedia)Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso fēlēpˈpō tōm-mäˈzō märēnĕtˈtē [key], 1876–1944, Italian poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known as the founder of futurism (1909), on which he wrote and ...

Vercors

(Encyclopedia)Vercors vĕrkôrˈ [key], 1902–91, French writer and illustrator, whose original name was Jean Bruller. Vercors served in the French resistance movement and helped to found Les Éditions de Minuit, ...

Cormenin, Louis Marie de La Haye, vicomte de

(Encyclopedia)Cormenin, Louis Marie de La Haye, vicomte de lwē märēˈ də lä ā vēkôNtˈ də kôrmənăNˈ [key], 1788–1868, French politician, jurist, and pamphleteer. He held minor offices under Napoleon,...

Courier, Paul Louis

(Encyclopedia)Courier, Paul Louis (Paul Louis Courier de Méré) pōl lwē ko͞oryāˈ də mārāˈ [key], 1772–1825, French political writer and classical scholar. His translation (1810) of the Greek text of Dap...

C.I.A.M.

(Encyclopedia)C.I.A.M. (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne). Founded in 1928 by Hélène de Mandrot, Sigfried Giedion, and Le Corbusier, C.I.A.M. sought to divert architecture from academic preoccupatio...

D'Indy, Vincent

(Encyclopedia)D'Indy, Vincent văNsäNˈ dăNdēˈ [key], 1851–1931, French composer. D'Indy was a pupil of César Franck. In 1894, Charles Bordes, Guilmant, and d'Indy founded the Schola Cantorum, Paris, of whic...

Espinel, Vicente Martínez

(Encyclopedia)Espinel, Vicente Martínez vēthānˈtā märtēˈnāth āspēnĕlˈ [key], 1550–1624, Spanish writer, musician, and adventurer. Espinel was notorious for his dissolute life, which his holy vows, ta...

Grazzini, Antonio Francesco

(Encyclopedia)Grazzini, Antonio Francesco äntôˈnyō fränchāˈskō grät-tsēˈnē [key], 1503–84, Italian author, one of the founders of the Accademia della Crusca (1550). He was an apothecary by trade. As a...