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Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian writer, filmmaker and documentarist.. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area.
Swiss Guards ( French: Gardes Suisses; German: Schweizergarde; Italian: Guardie Svizzere) are Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century. The earliest Swiss Guard unit to be established on a permanent basis was the Hundred Swiss ( Cent-Suisses ), which served at the French court from 1490 to ...
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium ( French: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the Magritte Museum, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum, the Modern Museum, the Antoine Wiertz Museum ...
The Cent-Suisses served as model for a military unit of the Duchy of Savoy (later Kingdom of Sardinia ), which was created in 1579 and disbanded in 1798. [8] Other similar units existed in Tuscany, Austria (1745), and Brandenburg (1696–1713). [8] The Pontifical Swiss Guard, founded in 1506, belongs to this tradition.
Gaston Migeon. Gustave Achille Gaston Migeon (25 May 1861, in Vincennes [1] – 29 October 1930, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris [2]) was a French historian of the arts of the world. He was a curator in the Department of Middle Age art objects, Renaissance and modern times at the Louvre .
3 Suisses. 3 Suisses is a French mail order and e-commerce company, with headquarters in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. It is the biggest of the 16 e-commerce brands of Groupe 3SI [ fr; de]. Everett Hutt is the current CEO as of 2022. Since 1981, Otto GmbH owned a 51% share in the company and has been its only shareholder since January 2014.
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Claude Debussy c. 1910. This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, [1] which is generally in chronological order of composition date.