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Brewer's: Jacques Bonhomme
A sort of fairy good-luck, who is to redress all wrongs, and make all the poor wealthy. The French peasants are so called sometimes, and then the phrase is like our term of sneering pity…Brian Jacques Biography
authorBorn: 6/15/1939Birthplace: Liverpool, EnglandDied: 2/5/2011 (Liverpool, England) The son of an Irish truck driver and his wife, Brian Jacques left…Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau was the most famous undersea explorer in the world, known by his dozens of books and films from the 1950s until his death in 1997. The co-inventor of the aqualung (an underwater…Jacques-Louis David
Painter Jacques-Louis David is famous for his huge, dramatic canvasses of Napoleon and other historical figures, including Oath of the Horatii (1784), Death of Marat (1793) and The Sabine Women (1799…Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mostly self-educated in Switzerland, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ended up in Paris, France in the 1740s and became acquainted with Voltaire and Denis Diderot. Rousseau published Discourse on the Origin…Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Jacques
(Encyclopedia) Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, JacquesBoucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Jacqueszhäk [key]Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Jacques, [key]Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Jacques b&…Amboise, Jacques d'
(Encyclopedia) Amboise, Jacques d': see d'Amboise, Jacques.Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de
(Encyclopedia) Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de: see Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri.Santer, Jacques
(Encyclopedia) Santer, Jacques (Jean Jacques Santer)Santer, JacqueszhäN zhäk säNtĕrˈ [key], 1937–, Luxembourg political leader and European statesman. A lawyer and economist, he entered politics as a…Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie
(Encyclopedia) Halévy, Jacques François Fromental ÉlieHalévy, Jacques François Fromental Éliezhäk fräNswäˈ frômäNtälˈ [key]Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie älāvēˈ [key], 1799–1862, French…Trending
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