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111Paris — /par is/; for 2 also Fr. /pann rddee /, n. 1. Matthew. See Matthew of Paris. 2. Ancient, Lutetia Parisiorum, Parisii /peuh riz ee uy /. a city in and the capital of France and capital of Ville de Paris Department, in the N part, on the Seine.… …
112Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… …
113Ackermann, Konrad Ernst — (baptized Feb. 4, 1712, Schwerin, Mecklenburg died Nov. 13, 1771, Hamburg) German actor manager. After training with a theatre company that specialized in German adaptations of French plays, he led a troupe on tour throughout Europe in the 1750s …
114Bernhardt, Sarah — orig. Henriette Rosine Bernard born Oct. 22/23, 1844, Paris, France died March 26, 1923, Paris French actress. The illegitimate child of a courtesan, she was encouraged to pursue a theatrical career by one of her mother s lovers, the duke de… …
115Comédie-Française — National theatre of France. The world s longest established national theatre, it was founded in 1680 by the merger of two theatrical companies in Paris, one of them the troupe that had worked under Molière. The French Revolution divided the… …
116Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere — Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (Properly, JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN, the name by which he became known to fame having been assumed when he went on the stage, to avoid embarrassing… …
117Misto Treska — (19 April 1914 23 June 1993) is a personality of Albanian letters, an intellectual and patriot with a broad culture, who made authors of masterpieces like Hugo, Maupassant, Stendhal and Diderot speak Albanian. He has also served in the Albanian… …
118Liste des musiques de scène —  Ne doivent pas être confondues avec les œuvres littéraires à l origine de livrets d opéras ou de ballets La liste qui suit est celle (incomplète) des pièces de théâtre pour lesquelles ont été écrites une ou plusieurs musiques de scène. Un… …
119TITUS, FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS° — TITUS, FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS,° emperor of Rome, 79–81 C.E., destroyer of the Second temple in 70. Titus was the son of vespasian and accompanied him to Judea when he was appointed by nero to suppress the uprising there (66). Arriving in Judea with… …
120Jean Rotrou — (19 August or 20 August 1609 ndash; June 1650) was a French poet and tragedian.Rotrou was born at Dreux in Normandy. He studied at Dreux and at Paris, and, though three years younger than Pierre Corneille, began writing before him. In 1632 he… …
