UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban PlanningThe Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (in French: Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme), often called LOCI, is the 14th faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium. It became an independent faculty in 2009, with the merger of three institutes founded between 1867 and 1882, and is active in Brussels (Saint-Gilles), Tournai and Louvain-la-Neuve. LOCI is a component of UCLouvain's Science and Technology Sector (SST).
Alliance pour les chiffres de la presse et des médiasOJD (Office de justification de la diffusion, "Circulation Audit Office"), formerly Diffusion Contrôle, is a French nonprofit organisation (in French: Association loi de 1901) that certifies the circulation of newspapers and periodicals in France, to provide advertisers with audience measurement figures. Bien avant la deuxième guerre mondiale, en 1922, les industriels annonceurs avaient pensé qu'un système métrique était indispensable pour mesurer la véracité des chiffres de tirage annoncés par la Presse, et ont encouragé l'initiative que prenait avec courage Martial Buisson.
École de cavalerie, SaumurThe École de cavalerie is a French military training establishment at Saumur in Western France. Originally set up to train the cavalry of the French Army, it now trains the troops of France's Arme blindée et cavalerie (Armoured Cavalry Arm) in reconnaissance and armoured warfare. In 1763, Louis XV (via the Duc de Choiseul) reorganised the French cavalry. A new school for officers from all the cavalry regiments was set up at Saumur, managed and supervised by the "Corps Royal des Carabiniers" - since its inception the school has been hosted in the carabinier regiment's quarter of the town, latterly in a magnificent 18th century building.
1802 in archaeologyThe year 1802 in archaeology involved some significant events. Vivant Denon - Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte; includes first publication of the Dendera zodiac. Johann Jahn - Biblische Archäologie. The Rosetta Stone arrives at the British Museum and first goes on public display. Georg Friedrich Grotefend makes the first decipherment of cuneiform. Juan Galindo, explorer and writer of early accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (d. 1839).
François-Maurice Allotte de La FuÿeFrançois-Maurice Allotte de La Fuÿe (6 November 1844, La Rochelle – 13 February 1939, Versailles) was a French military officer, archaeologist and numismatist. From 1863 to 1865 he was a student at the École Polytechnique in Paris and afterwards was associated with the École impériale d’application de l’artillerie et du génie (Imperial school of artillery application and engineering) in Metz. In 1886/87 he was in charge of construction of the military barracks at Tébessa, Algeria.
Yvon ThébertYvon Thébert (20 February 1943 – 2 February 2002, aged 58) was a 20th-century French archaeologist and historian of marxist inspiration. Agrégé d'histoire, assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of Tunis (1969-1971), a member of the École française de Rome (1971), Yvon Thébert taught at the école normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud from 1973. His major excavation sites were Bulla Regia (from 1965 to 1985) and the fr on the Palatine Hill in Rome (from 1986 to 1997).
Jean-Michel LeniaudJean-Michel Leniaud (18 August 1951, Toulon) is a French historian of art. A specialist of architecture and art of the 19th and 20th centuries, he was director of the École Nationale des Chartes from 2011 to 2016. He is president of the Société des Amis de Notre-Dame de Paris.
Marius ChaîneAbbé Marius Chaîne (10 August 1873 – 19 January 1960) was a French scholar of Ethiopic and Coptic philology. Marius Chaîne was born in 1873 in Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône. He studied at the School of Higher Studies at the Sorbonne, and the School of the Louvre in Paris. In 1897 he was ordained and joined the Society of Jesus, but abandoned it after World War I. Chaîne was a professor of Oriental languages at Saint Joseph University, Beirut; the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; and the Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Arnaud DesjardinsArnaud Desjardins (aʁno deʒaʁdɛ̃; June 18, 1925 in Paris – August 10, 2011 in Grenoble) was a French author. He was a producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, and was one of the first high-profile practitioners of Eastern religion in France. He worked on television documentaries about spiritual traditions not well known to many Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism from Afghanistan. Arnaud Desjardins was the son of Jacques Guérin-Desjardins.
ArthenaArthena or Association pour la Diffusion de l'Histoire de l'Art is a French company which regularly publishes art history books and most particularly catalogues. President : Pierre Rosenberg of the Académie française, président-directeur honoraire du Musée du Louvre. Direction : Christian Volle, Nicolas Lesur. Scientific committee : Colin B. Bailey (Director, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco), Marco Chiarini (Former Director of the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence), Keith Christiansen (Curator of the European painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Thomas W.
