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	Adolphe Theodore Brongniart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.
		Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
		Brongniart founded the Annales des Sciences Naturelles in 1824 with Jean Victoire Audouin and Jean-Baptiste Dumas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolphe_Theodore_Brongniart (163 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexandre Brongniart (Geology And Oceanography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alexandre Brongniart[AleksAN´dru brONyAr´] Pronunciation Key, 1770–1847, French geologist, mineralogist, and chemist.
		Brongniart established basic principles of ceramic chemistry in his TraitE des arts cEramiques et des poteries (1844).
		With George Cuvier he wrote Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris (1811), in which a system of stratigraphy was developed that relied on the use of fossils for the precise dating of strata.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrongnrtA.html (246 words)

	Alexandre Brongniart: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexandre Brongniart (1770 – 1847) was a French chemist and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier.
		He was the son of architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and father of the botanist Adolphe Théodore Brongniart.
		Born in Paris, he was director of the porcelain works at Sèvres.
	wikipedia.openfun.org /wiki/Alexandre_Brongniart (105 words)

	ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART
		Brongniart was also the coadj utor of Cuvier in the admirable Essai sur la geographic mineralogique des environs de Paris (Paris, 1811); originally published in Ann.
		On one of the hills, known as the Spielberg (945 ft.), stands a castle which has long been used as a prison, famous for its connection with Silvio Pellico, who was confined within its walls from 1822 to 1830.
		He became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1884, and in 1886, after the death of G. Waitz, undertook the supervision of the Leges section of the Monumenta Germaniae kistorica.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRONGNIART_ALEXANDRE.htm (889 words)

	Sevres
		Under Brongniart, however, the factory implemented an aggressive program of technical development, chemical research and artistic exploration that were unparalleled in its previous history and influenced not only its own production but those of other European firms.
		Brongniart was appointed to direct the manufactory in 1800, shortly after it had been declared the property of the government.
		One of the most striking watercolors of this era is an 1806 design by Brongniart himself, an extravagant, classically-inspired fruit bowl in deep blue and gold, with chimera feet, pineapple finial and classical frieze.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/sevres.htm (2417 words)

	Alexandre Brongniart - Free-Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alexandre Brongniart, né le 10 février 1770 à Paris et mort le 7 octobre 1847 à Paris, est un scientifique français connu principalement pour ces travaux de minéralogie.
		Fils d'Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, l'architecte qui a réalisé le palais de la Bourse, neveu d'Antoine Brongniart, chimiste au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris.
		Son fils est le botaniste Adolphe Théodore Brongniart et eut pour gendre le naturaliste Jean Victoire Audouin et le chimiste Jean-Baptiste Dumas.
	fr.free-definition.com /Alexandre_Brongniart.html (243 words)

	Alexandre Théodore Brongniart - Wikipédia
		Alexandre Théodore Brongniart est un architecte français, né le 15 février 1739 à Paris, mort le 6 juin 1813 dans la même ville (voir Famille Brongniart)
		Brongniart devient membre de l'Académie d'Architecture en 1781 et architecte contrôleur des bâtiments de l'École militaire et des Invalides en 1782.
		Son dessin proposé pour un palais de la Bourse séduit Napoléon Ier qui lui tient ces propos : « Monsieur Brongniart, voilà de belles lignes.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexandre_Th%C3%A9odore_Brongniart (263 words)

	BRONGNIART, Alexandre (1770-1847)
		Alexandre Brongniart était le fils du célèbre architecte, élève de Blondel et collaborateur de Gabriel, auquel on doit la Bourse de Paris et Saint Louis d'Antin.
		Un fils d'Alexandre Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore Brongniart (1801-1876) fut un botaniste célèbre, professeur au Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris et membre de l'Académie des Sciences (1834) et de l'Académie de Caen.
		Le passage de Brongniart à Sèvres fait revivre le souvenir, bien naturel à rappeler ici de ce véritable cénacle, de cette École de Géologie moderne qu'il y avait créée avec ses amis et ses élèves, et avec ceux de son beau-père, Coquebert de Monbret.
	euromin.w3sites.net /Nouveau_site/mineralogiste/biographies/Brongniartf.htm (991 words)

	Brongniart, Alexandre -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Brongniart was appointed professor of natu ral history at the École Centrale des Quatre-Nations, Paris, in 1797, and in 1800 he was made director of the Sèvres Porcelain…;
		French author Alexandre Dumas was a founder of the “problem play,” a realistic drama advocating reforms for contemporary social problems.
		Brief biography of Alexandre Dumas Pere, one of the most prolific and popular French writers of the 19th century, who wrote famous novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016603?tocId=9016603 (719 words)

	Capitoline Museums: Exhibitions: "Sèvres: The Useful and the Delightful" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		An important figure in the factory from 1800 onwards, Brongniart played a vital role in the company's renaissance in the years immediately after the Revolution, putting the manufacturing process back on its feet again, rebuilding the finances and restoring the factory to its former glory.
		Thanks to Brongniart's administration, manufacturing continued to wield enormous influence in Europe for the whole of the 19th century.
		The history of Sèvres is linked to the court of Louis XV and to the name of Madame de Pompadour (whence the famous rose Pompadour which is the hallmark of a number of pieces), and its many extraordinary episodes have always been inextricably linked to the history of France.
	www.museicapitolini.org /en/eventi/mostre_Sevres.htm (431 words)

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		It was set up by Alexandre Brongniart, then director of the Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sevres.
		At the foot of a hill that rises 11.5 km to the Terrace de Meudon.
		Alexandre Brongniart wanted to display all types of ceramics from every country and from every historical period in his museum.
	www.jack-travel.com /IledeFrance/html/Paris_Daytrips_Sevres.htm (486 words)

	Alexandre Brongniart. Portrait, biographie, vie et oeuvre du minéralogiste
		Fils de l'architecte de la Bourse, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, Alexandre, né le 5 février 1770, devint élève de l'École des mines de Paris.
		Il revient à Brongniart d'avoir constaté qu'à mesure que l'âge des couches minérales se rapproche du nôtre, les animaux qui y sont ensevelis se rapprochent de plus en plus des types les plus élevés de l'ordre actuel, principe capital de la paléontologie.
		Mais Alexandre Brongniart avait trop présumé de ses forces, et à partir de 1843, Delafosse a terminé seul le travail.
	www.france-pittoresque.com /perso/45.htm (502 words)

	Imago Mundi - Alexandre Brongniart / Adolphe Brongniart.
		Imago Mundi - Alexandre Brongniart / Adolphe Brongniart.
		Brongniart avait aussi cultivé avec succès la zoologie : on lui doit la division des reptiles en quatre ordres (sauriens, batraciens, chéloniens, ophidiens).
		Brongniart (Adolphe-Théodore), naturaliste né à Paris en 1801, m.
	www.cosmovisions.com /Brongniart.htm (139 words)

	Alexandre Brongniart
		Brongniart, Alexandre, 1770–1847, French geologist, mineralogist, and chemist.
		Brongniart established basic principles of ceramic chemistry in his
		Adolphe Théodore Brongniart - Brongniart, Adolphe Théodore, 1801–76, French botanist; son of Alexandre Brongniart.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0809057.html (138 words)

	Alexandre Brongniart Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	www.folkartmuseum.com /encyclopedia/Alexandre_Brongniart (264 words)

	BRONGNIART, Alexandre., Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		BRONGNIART, Alexandre., Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts...
		This work was "commissioned as a text-book for [Brongniart's] and Haüy's courses at the Faculté des Sciences and the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.
		He adopted a simple scheme of classification based mainly on physical properties, but he also made extensive use of Haüy's crystallographic work...
	www.polybiblio.com /phillips/850.html (149 words)

	FreisslerSoft Books Alexandre
		Alexandre Dumas' the Three Musketeers: An Adaptation for the Stage
		Alexandre Dumas' The Count Of Monte Cristo: An Adaptation for the Stage
		Petrouchka: Adapted from Igor Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois
	www.freisslersoft.com /al/Book_Alexandre.html (805 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Brongniart, Alexandre (1770-1847)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Brongniart, Alexandre (1770-1847)@ HighBeam Research
		Brongniart was responsible for gathering together a body of knowledge that was essential to establishing geology as a science in the first two decades of the 19th century.
		Born in Paris on 5 February 1770, Alexandre Brongniart was the son of the eminent Parisian architect...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:99915860&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (171 words)

	Alexandre BRONGNIART : astrology and planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Birth Chart
		Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Alexandre BRONGNIART with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
		Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
		Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Alexandre BRONGNIART and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
	www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/6478N3LurY6h.htm (496 words)

	Charles Plante Fine Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He exhibited at the Salon from the age of thirteen, showing his talents for neo-classicism over the next twenty years.
		He was amongst the many talented artists employed to design models and decorations for the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1806- 1839 under the directorship of Alexandre Brongniart (1739-1813).
		Derek E Ostergard, (ed) The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, New York, 1997
	www.watercolours-drawings.com /23.htm (194 words)

	Alexandre
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		1860 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/a/alexandre.html (194 words)

	BATRACHIA - Online Information article about BATRACHIA
		Brongniart, under the name of Batrachia, have not met with universal See also:
		Germany, the former name has been discarded; in favour of the latter by the See also:
		change results in discarding the name expressly proposed by Brongniart to denote' the association which has ever since been universally adopted either as an See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAR_BEC/BATRACHIA.html (6935 words)

	clayart - thread 'brongniart's formula' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Brongniart's formula enables one to estimate the amount of dry material in a
		Brongniart's formula, then add cobalt carb at 1% of the dry matter.
		Brongniart's formula enables one to estimate the amount of dry
	www.potters.org /subject11877.htm (4340 words)

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	Alexandre Brongniart History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		French mineralogist whose research helped to demonstrate how fossils could be used to trace geologic changes over time in a particular area, thus introducing the practice of geologic dating.
		Brongniart was the first to distinguish minerals from rocks, and he shares the credit for naming the period of the Mesozoic era known as Jurassic.
		Later in his career he turned to ceramic technology and worked to improve the art of enameling in France.
	www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/alexandre-brongniart-scit-0512.html (103 words)

	Lefalophodon: Georges Cuvier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Established the reality of extinction using mammalian fossils (1800); argued for periodic revolutionary episodes in earth history that replaced whole suites of organisms.
		Conducted geological landmark study of the Paris basin with Alexandre Brongniart, establishing basic principles of biostratigraphy.
		Despite his outsider status as a Protestant from the German border region, Cuvier's political stature only grew with the French Revolution and Napoleon's rise and fall as he attacked older workers as idle theorizers and pushed a nominally atheoretical, "fact based" view.
	www.nceas.ucsb.edu /~alroy/lefa/Cuvier.html (216 words)

	Paris Pages; Monuments; Bourse des Valeurs
		Napoleon ordered the creation of the Bourse, which is situated between the Palais Royal and the Grands Boulevards in the commercial center of Paris.
		He enlisted the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (1739-1813) who was known for his designs of private homes, a theater and of the Hôtel de Condé.
		The Bourse was the final work of Brongniart begun in 1807 and completed in 1825.
	www.paris.org /Monuments/Bourse (544 words)

	New Vigée Le Brun Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This image can be found on art page 172.
		The architect Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart sheltered the artist during the French Revolution.
		VLB painted his grandchildren, the children of Alexandre Brongniart and Cecile Coquebert de Montbret.
	www.batguano.com /vlbgallery32803.html (665 words)

	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847
		This book is the first in-depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Svres during its virtual rebirth under the 47-year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart.
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	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300073380 (426 words)

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