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Lascault was born in Strasbourg on 25 October 1934. Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis, [1] « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come. [2] He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet .
The chestnut-headed bee-eater ( Merops leschenaulti) is a bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae, which is distributed in an area ranging from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka across Southeast Asia to Indonesia. It is 18–20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) in overall length and weighs 26–33 g (0.92–1.16 oz), with the sexes being similar in appearance.
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ( French for 'Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts'), [1] better known as Encyclopédie ( French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedi] ), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions ...
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [ note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google ...
The book is titled L'Encyclopédie du savoir relatif et absolu and is revealed article after article in the Ant Trilogy (Les Fourmis, Le Jour des fourmis and La Révolution des fourmis) as well as in the Nous les dieux trilogy. It is a collection of little-known facts, as seen from a physical, philosophical, metaphysical and many other fields.
Encyclopedia. An encyclopedia ( American English) or encyclopaedia ( British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [2] [3] Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name [4] or by ...
The Encyclopédistes (French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedist]) (also known in British English as Encyclopaedists, or in U.S. English as Encyclopedists) were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writers' society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and only Diderot from 1765 to ...
Encyclopédie française. The Encyclopédie française was a French encyclopedia designed by Anatole de Monzie and Lucien Febvre. It appeared between 1935 and 1966.