Le Lycee Charlemagne

 

Marinus Francis Alfred Canning (b. 1829)  was a dynamic European young  man who established himself in Australia, holding several important posts including Member of Parliament for Western Australia.  Biographical information at the Battye Library in Perth states that he attended the "Ecole Charlemagne" in Paris.  Searching the Internet  for such a school brings up nothing.  The name Lycee Charlemagne is probably what was intended.

 

Here are Internet  readings from Google on the Lycee, mostly from  the 19th century.  Unmistakably, this was an environment at once intellectually, artistically, as well as geopolitically, stimulating. Seeing how  the lives of its other students turned out, it is entirely in keeping that MFA Canning should have accomplished so much

 

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The Lycee Charlemagne has a history hoary with age, intertwined with the church of the Jesuits of Paris.  From Harold P. Clunn, The Face of Paris, Spring Books, Spring House, London,  pg 68...

 

"On the south side of the rue St. Antoine is the church of St. Paul-St. Louis, first dedicated to St. Louis and constructed as a Jesuit church in 1627-41 by Francois Derraud.  Is has a fine portal by Martel Ange, and its dome is one of the oldest in Paris.  It is designed on the model of the Pantheon at Rome.  This church was taken from the Jesuits in 1767 on their expulsion from France, after which it became the general repository of all maps, plans, and other documents relating to the French Navy and, at the same time, the library of the City of Paris.  It was restored to the cult in 1802, and became the parish church of St. Paul-St. Louis in memory of the old church demolished in the Rue St. Paul.  The church suffered further damage in 1831 and 1871.

 

"In the Rue Charlemagne behind the church is the ancient house of the Jesuits now occupied by the Lycee Charlemagne." 


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The Buildings



 

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The 13th Century Rue du Figuier

 

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... A very ancient and historic street in Paris, situated not far from the Lycee
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RUE DU FIGUIER. A very ancient and historic street in Paris,
situated not far from the Lycee Charlemagne, and making a triangle with
the rue Charlemagne and the rue Fauconnier. Even before the year 1300 it
bore this name, from a fine fig-tree which stood at its juncture with the
rue Fauconnier, and which was standing as late as 1605. The most important
edifice of the street is the Hotel de Sens, built in the sixteenth century
by the Archbishop Tristan de Salazar. It was for a time the residence of
Marguerite, first wife of Henry IV.

 

 

 

"Ancient Library" of Lycee Charlemagne

 

2001-2004
... of detachments and fissures by video-holography and thermography in mural paintings -
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  1. Simon, S.; Gülker, G.; Joost, H.; Frick, J.: Non-destructive localization of detachments and fissures by video-holography and thermography in mural paintings - Two case studies: The ancient library of Lycee Charlemagne in Paris, and the 'Salon Carre' of the Nancy Town hall, Proc. LACONA IV, ICOMOS France, Paris, (2001), p. 207-210

 

Coat of Arms of Lycee Charlemagne

 

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NAT.B.004.25 / BELZUNG / Anatomie et physiologiue animale / Felix Alcan, Paris / 1904 / Demi chagrin marron et plats en percaline marron

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Enlargement of the Coat of Arms of the Lycee Charlemagne from book cover

 

This motif, the laurel wreath, victory symbol of Napoleons I and III, adorned the entry-way of George Canning of Cleveland's home on Elgin Avenue.  Note the crown at the top of the laurel wreath.

 

 

 

Paul Vidal de la Blache

 

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INTRODUCTION:
France entered the modern era of geography shortly behind Germany. While the German tradition quickly filled with new scholars, the French owe much of their tradition to one man, Paul Vidal de la Blache. Although he lacked some of the spatial training of his German counterparts, Vidal would be given credit for helping to establish an entire generation of geographers in France. This presentation will be a biographical sketch of Paul Vidal de la Blache, including historical information, highlights of his contributions to the discipline and geographic thought, and an annotated bibliography of a couple of his works.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION:
Born January 22, 1845, to Abel Antoine Joseph and Janine Marie Jaquette, Vidal was recognized early on for his academic success. His father, who himself taught literature and languages in the lycee (equivalent to America's high schools) , saw to it that his son received a fine education.

At age thirteen, young Paul was shuttled off to the Institution Favard at the Lycee Charlemagne, in Paris; a well known boarding school for promising students. There he received a strong background in classical and literary subjects. Afterwards he attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, a prestigious national training college for teachers, where he was recognized for his high marks in history and geography.

 

Desire Charnay

Desire Charnay
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The French explorer, photographer, and adventurer, Desire Charnay, exposed ancient civilizations in Mexico to later archaeologists. Charnay was born on May 2, 1828 in Fleure-sur-l Arbesle, France. He died in Paris, France on October 24, 1915.

Charnay received his education at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris. After receiving his education and traveling to both England and Germany, Charnay moved to the Americas. In 1850, he became a teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

 

Abel Villemain

 

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VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (1790-1867), French politician and man of letters, was born in Paris on the pth of June 1790. He was educated at the lycee Louis-le-Grand, and became assistant master at the lycee Charlemagne, and subsequently at the ficole Normale.

 In 1812 he gained a prize from the Academy with an eioge on Montaigne. Under the restoration he was appointed, first, assistant professor of modern history, and then professor of French eloquence at the Sorbonne. Here he delivered a series of literary lectures which had an extraordinary effect on his younger contemporaries. Villemain had the great advantage of coming just before the Romantic movement, of having a wide and catholic love of literature without being an extremist. All, or almost all, the clever young men of the brilliant generation of 1830 passed under his influence; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his frank appreciation of the beauties of English, German, Italian and Spanish poetry, he had not the least inclination to decry the classics either the classics proper of Greece and Rome or the so-called classics of France. In 1819 he published a book on Cromwell, and two years later he was elected to the Academy. Villemain was appointed by the restoration government " chef de 1'imprimerie et de la librairie," a post involving a kind of irregular censorship of the press, and afterwards to the office of master of requests. Before the revolution of July he had been deprived of his office for his liberal tendencies, and had been elected deputy for fivreux. Under Louis Philippe he received a peerage in 1832. He was a member of the council of public instruction, and was twice minister of that department, and he also became secretary of the Academy. During the whole of the July monarchy he was thus one of the chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined. He died in Paris on the 8th of May 1867.

 

Joseph Lakanal

 

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LAKANAL, Joseph, French educator, born in Serres, France, 14 July, 1762; died in Paris, 14 Feb, 1845. He studied theology, and became a professor of rhetoric at Bourges, and of philosophy at Moulins. He was a member of the National convention in 1792-'5, and was noticeable there for his solicitude in protecting the interests of literature, arts, and the sciences.

Professor Lakanal entered the Council of five hundred in 1795. He was professor at the Lycee Charlemagne under the consulate and empire, but was compelled to leave the country at the restoration in 1814, and came to the United States. He was welcomed by Thomas Jefferson, and congress gave him a grant of 500 acres of cotton-land in Alabama. He then became a planter, and was afterward chosen president of the University of Louisiana. He returned to France after the revolution of 1830, and was reelected to the Academy of sciences in 1834.



Leon Halevy

 

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A strong revisionist case is at last being made for Parisian grand opera, which triumphed in circumstances where Berlioz and Wagner signally failed. Particularly associated with the Jewish composers Meyerbeer and Halevy, it has for all too long been adversely coloured by antisemitic Wagnerian opprobrium and regarded as elaborate entertainment for the nouveaux riches of the July Monarchy era of Louis Philippe (1830-48). Extravagant staging and scenic effects using the latest state-of-the-art technology, together with the mandatory ballet, only enhanced this gross image of conspicuous consumption in the pioneering era of laissez-faire economics.

By contrast, the vital part that this hitherto suspect genre actually played in the intellectual culture of a particularly vibrant capital city experiencing rapid industrial, financial and political development - the world of Balzac's La Comedie humaine - is the subject of Diana R. Hallman's illuminating and rounded study of Halevy's opera La Juive (1835). Its portrayal of acute conflicts between the Roman Catholic Church and traditional Jewish religion during the 1414 Council of Constance was highly relevant to contemporary French society where, despite the grantings of civil rights to Jews, the Catholic establishment remained unequivocally hostile; moreover, socialist and anticapitalist criticism focused on Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers, typified by the fabulously plutocratic Baron Rothschild. Usefully widening the historical discussion, Professor Hallman deals with the earlier contribution of Voltaire and the philosophes of the eighteenth century Enlightenment to this area of controversy; their famous critique of the religious intolerance and political despotism of the ancien regime did not, however, preclude strong condemnation of Jewish superstition and resistance to reform. Throughout Europe liberalminded Jews like Moses Mendelssohn were endeavouring to shake off their doomed inheritance by acculturalisation or religious conversion; and indeed, according to the late Oxford philosopher of ideas Isaiah Berlin, it was the very 'outsider' character of the Jew which increased his qualities of empathy with other cultures.

 

Hallman's full account of the enlightened famille Halevy complements Berlin's more intellectually brilliant essays on Disraeli, Marx and Moses Hess (included in Against the current, 1979). Like the young Meyerbeer in Berlin, Fromental Halevy came from a highly educated and cultivated, though much less moneyed, background. His Bavarianborn father Elie Halevy, a distinguished Talmud scholar and leading figure in the Jewish community of Paris, worked indefatigably for cooperation with Christian society and the institutions of modern France by adapting - but not fully renouncing - the ancient Jewish religion and traditions.

Elie's other son Leon received an elite education at the Lycee Charlemagne, becoming a progressive author and advocate of Saint-Simon's social vision of a new industrial order; he also argued for a purification and drawing together of the two faiths along primitive lines - 'Just as the Pharisees had distorted the Mosaic law before Jesus, so had the "Pharisees of Catholicism" disfigured Christianity after Jesus'. Similarly, the young Fromentin, a student of Cherubini at the Paris Conservatoire, was actively involved with synagogal musical reform in alignment with French practices. After becoming Chef du chant at the Opera, La Juive catapulted him to fame, and thereafter his rise to the top of the French establishment was inexorable - by way of a composition professorship at the Conservatoire and the permanent secretaryship of the Academie des Beaux Arts.

 

Jules Gourdault

 

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Gourdault ( Jules )

 

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Edmund About

 

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EDMOND ABOUT
(1828-1885)
 
Early in the reign of Louis Napoleon, a serial story called 'Tolla,' a
vivid study of social life in Rome, delighted the readers of the Revue
des Deux Mondes. When published in book form in 1855 it drew a storm of
opprobrium upon its young author, who was accused of offering as his own
creation a translation of the Italian work 'Vittoria Savorelli.' This
charge, undoubtedly unjust, he indignantly refuted. It served at least

to make his name well known.

 

Edmond Francois Valentin About had a freakish, evasive, many-sided
personality, a nature drawn in too many directions to achieve in any one
of these the success his talents warranted. He was born in Dreuze, and
like most French boys of literary ambition, soon found his way to Paris,
where he studied at the Lycee Charlemagne. Here he won the honor prize;
and in 1851 was sent to Athens to study archaeology at the Ecole
Francaise. He loved change and out-of-the-way experiences, and two
studies resulted from this trip: 'La Grece Contemporaine,' a book of
charming philosophic description; and the delightful story 'Le Roi des
Montagnes' (The King of the Mountains). This tale of the long-limbed
German student, enveloped in the smoke from his porcelain pipe as he
recounts a series of impossible adventures,--those of himself and two
Englishwomen, captured for ransom by Hadgi Stavros, brigand king in the
Grecian mountains,--is especially characteristic of About in the
humorous atmosphere of every situation.

 

E. de Menorval

[Apparently de Menorval wrote about the city of Paris from an historical perspective; at one point, he added an historical note to the book about the Jesuits of the Lycee Charlemagne]

 

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MENORVAL E. de

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Paris

E. De Menorval
Promenades A Travers Paris (Livre ancien)
Société Française D'editions D'art - L.Henry May. - 01/01/1792 [correction - 1892]
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Promenades A Travers Paris
Auteur : E. De Menorval
Editeur : Société Française D'editions D'art - L.Henry May.

Parution : 1892
Expédition : Petit Format

 

 

 

The Mythical Towers of Hanoi

 

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This is the sacred tower of
  Bramah. Night and day, the priests follow one another upon the
  altar, and transfer the discs from the first diamond needle to
  the third, without deviating from the fixed rules which we have
  just indicated, and which were posed by Brahma. When all be fin-
  ished, the tower and Brahmins alike will collapse, and it will be
  the end of the worlds!
  [Here comes a digression ... due to M. Raoul Olive eleve du LC~~ "student of the Lycee Charlemagne~~"]
  The foreign industry has recently seized the game of our friend,
  and of his legend. But we can affirm that all this was conceived
  ten years ago, at 56 Monge St., in Paris, at the house inhabited
  then by Mr Viette, Minister of Agriculture, and built on the site
  where Pascal died on August 19, 1662."

 

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Lucas regarded Fermat as 'one of the greatest geniuses of mankind' and was on the commission for the publication of Fermat's works. From these, it seems unlikely that anyone other than Lucas came up with the puzzle. There is one persistent legend concerning the origin of the Tower of Hanoi.

In "Récréations Mathématiques" (trò vui toán học, Let's Play with Maths), however, Lucas wrote that the legend and the puzzle itself had both been thought up "recently" in Paris, and at the same time that (his nephew) Raoul Olive was the nephew of the inventor

The legend? One version of the story is that under the dome of the great temple at Benares (in India), there are three needles fixed in a brass plate. The Creator placed a sixty-four disk tower on one of these needles at the Creation. Priests transfer disks according to the sacred rules, and when all sixty-four disks have been transferred to another needle, the Tower and Brahmins will fall and the world come to an end.

Thus the puzzle is sometimes known as the Tower of Brahma or the End of the World puzzle. Now a sixty-four disc tower requires M64= 264- 1 > 1019 moves before it is reassembled on another peg. One move each second (and no mistakes) would see the task completed in more than 500 billion years, whatever that means.

 

 

 

Gerard de Nerval

 

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If ever there was a type specimen of the doomed, romantic poet, it was Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855). He created several literary masterpieces, and also provided one of the most remarkable examples of eccentricity on record.

De Nerval was the man who walked a lobster on a pale blue ribbon. When asked why, he replied that it did not bark, and it knew the secrets of the deep.

Born Gerard Labrunie, in Paris in 1808, his father was an army surgeon who was accompanied on campaign by his wife, leaving their young son in the care of an uncle in the country. The youngster was drawn to other worlds from childhood, losing himself in books of mysticism and legend. He was sent to the prestigious Lycee Charlemagne, where he formed a lasting friendship with Theophile Gautier.

His first works were published while he was still at school, and more evidence of his talent appeared with his translation of Goethe's Faust when he was only 19. It prompted Goethe to remark, "In reading you, I have never understood myself so well".

Labrunie took the surname de Nerval when he started publishing, the "de" being an aristocratic addition. With Gautier and other writers and artists, he became part of a group that set out, as many young artists do, to shock the bourgeoisie. The called themselves "les bousingos", which translates as "the rowdies".