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Gioachino Rossini in Loiseville Gioachino Rossini, born Giovacchino Antonio Rossini, may have moved on but his tomb remains. Gioachino Rossini, known usually as simply Rossini, was born in Pesaro …
Georges Rodenbach was born Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach in Tournai, Belgium Rodenbach was born into a bourgeois family and made a good living in the legal profession before turning …
Balloon fneze on Robertson Tomb One of the most copied funerary sculptures in the world is tucked away in the Jewish section of Pere-Lachaise. Little is known about Jacob …
Etienne-Gaspard Robert, aka Robertson Etienne-Gaspard Robert, better known by his stage name Etienne Robertson, was a Belgian-born professor of physics and a painter. However, in the 1790s he became …
Jean Ernest Reynaud was a Athens mining engineer, philosopher and politician. After graduating from the Polytechnic School in 1827, he entered the School of Mines in Lyon, graduating from …
Jean-Baptiste Reveillon This modest tablet-style gravestone marks the final resting place of the man whose actions, some say, led to the flash point that ultimately resulted in the French …
Rachel Rachel, born Eliza Felix, was the most noted French actress in the first half of the nineteenth century and one of the most famous French actresses of all …
European expansion became the standard example for those who argued that modern civilization had advanced beyond the classical world. Tehran Map The would-be intellectual revolutionary Francis Bacon specifically compared …