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Users. 30 million (as of 2024) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [ 1][ 2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [ 3][ 4] The site operates in the resale of gaming offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for ...
French art. French ivory Virgin and Child, end of the 13th century, 25 cm high, curving to fit the shape of the ivory tusk. French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France. Modern France was the main centre for the European art ...
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( French for 'Order of Arts and Letters ') is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts ...
Les arts florissants (H. 487) is a short chamber opera (also described by the composer as idylle en musique) in five scenes by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. History [ edit ] It was written in 1685 for the group of musicians employed by Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise , at her residence in Paris.
French literature ( French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written in the French language by citizens of other ...
Marie-Suzanne Giroust (1734–1772), painter. Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), painter. Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735–1802), French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes. Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter. Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1735–1784), painter.
Société des anciens textes français (SATF) is a text publication society founded in Paris in 1875 with the purpose of publishing all kinds of medieval documents written either in langue d'oïl or langue d'oc ( Bulletin de la SATF, 1 (1875), p. 1). Its founding members are Henri Bordier, Joseph de Laborde, A. Lamarle, Paul Meyer, Léopold ...
Art for art's sake. Art for art's sake —the usual English rendering of l'art pour l'art ( pronounced [laʁ puʁ laʁ] ), a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that didactic, moral, or ...