Shirley MacLaine is an outspoken American actress and dancer known for her deft portrayals of charmingly eccentric characters and for her interest in mysticism and reincarnation. Beaty’s mother was a drama teacher, and her younger brother, Warren Beatty (he later changed the spelling of the

Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, town, the second largest settlement on the island of Mauritius, in the western Indian Ocean. It lies on the western slope of the island, just south of Port Louis, the capital. The town was originally two separate communities, Beau Bassin and Rose Hill, but these have now

Curtis Bernhardt: 1950s and ’60s: Beau Brummell (1954) offered Stewart Granger in the title role, with Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Morley, and Peter Ustinov on hand to lend colour to this lavish MGM costume drama. Interrupted Melody (1955) was a solid biopic about Australian Marjorie Lawrence, with Eleanor Parker in an

Sly and the Family Stone: …and Swim”) in 1964 and the Beau Brummels (“Laugh Laugh”) in 1965. He was among the area’s top soul music deejays when, adopting his radio name, Sly Stone, he founded the Family Stone in 1967. The group comprised his brother Freddie (guitar) and younger sister Rose (piano), trumpeter Robinson, saxophonist…

Alphonse Beau de Rochas was a French engineer who originated the principle of the four-stroke internal-combustion engine. His achievement lay partly in his emphasizing the previously unappreciated importance of compressing the fuel–air mixture before ignition. Beau de Rochas patented his idea in

Beau Geste, novel about the French Foreign Legion by Percival C. Wren, published in 1924. The title character, whose given name is Michael, and his brothers, Digby and John, have joined the French Foreign Legion after being falsely accused of a crime. They meet many trials together in North Africa,

Beau Geste, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was based on the 1924 novel of the same name by Percival C. Wren. Its acclaimed cast featured four future winners of Academy Awards for best actor or actress: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, and Broderick Crawford. The tale

damselfish: …about 30 cm long; the beau gregory (Eupomacentrus leucostictus), a blue-and-yellow Atlantic species; and the sergeant major (Abudefduf saxatilis), a black-banded, bluish and yellow fish of the tropical Atlantic.

Ari Aster: Beau Is Afraid and production company: …Aster released his third feature, Beau Is Afraid, a sprawling, nearly three-hour dark comedy starring Joaquin Phoenix as an anxious middle-aged man trying to return home after his mother’s death. Some critics admired the film’s ambition and elaborate, dreamlike sequences, but overall it received a tepid response. Aster, who variously…

Claude Chabrol: …Beau Serge (1958; “Handsome Serge”; Bitter Reunion), written and produced by Chabrol, was an important film of the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), a term applied in the late 1950s to a widely diversified experimental movement in French films. That same year he wrote, directed, and produced Les Cousins (1959; The…

Juliette Binoche: …Un beau soleil intérieur (2017; Let the Sunshine In). Binoche’s subsequent films included Doubles vies (2018; Non-Fiction), a dramedy set in the publishing world; Celle que vous croyez (2019; Who You Think I Am), in which a middle-aged professor pretends to be a younger woman on social media; and La…

Beaucaire, town, Gard département, Occitanie région, southeastern France. It lies along the Rhône River, opposite Tarascon, to which it is linked by several bridges. Called Ugernum by the Romans, Beaucaire derived its modern name from the medieval Belli Quadrum, which described the pine-clad rock

Beaucaire: …six centuries (13th–19th) the July Beaucaire fair was known throughout Europe, attracting as many as 300,000 visitors a year. Most goods were brought to Beaucaire by boat, however, and thus the market subsequently declined with the coming of the railways. Now a purely local event, the fair involves mainly leather…

Beauce, region, northwestern France. It stretches southwest of Paris toward the Forêt d’Orléans. One of the great traditional granaries of France, Beauce is a flat, fertile, treeless limestone plain that was once planted mainly with wheat and sugar beets. Maize (corn) was introduced in the 1950s

Danielle Steel: Novels: …novels include The Apartment (2016), Beauchamp Hall (2018), Lost and Found (2019), Invisible (2022), and Resurrection (2024).

Edward Seymour, 1st duke of Somerset was the Protector of England during part of the minority of King Edward VI (reigned 1547–53). While admiring Somerset’s personal qualities and motives, scholars have generally blamed his lack of political acumen for the failure of his policies. After the

George Meredith: Mature works. of George Meredith: …of about four years came Beauchamp’s Career. Its hero is a self-deluded idealist who is converted to radicalism and whose ordeal is both political and personal. It is one of Meredith’s better novels and confirmed what was clear by now, that one of his greatest strengths was the creation of…

Alphonse de Beauchamp was a French historian whose many works were of popular interest; though they were based upon authentic documents, they were largely compilations and not wholly trustworthy. Beauchamp became an officer in a Sardinian regiment (1784), but after the outbreak of war between

Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford was an English lord whose secret marriage to an heir to the throne angered Queen Elizabeth I and probably influenced her choice of James VI of Scotland as her successor. Seymour was the eldest son of the Protector (Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset) by his second

music synthesizer: The harmonic-tone generator developed by James Beauchamp at the University of Illinois, in contrast, used additive synthesis—building tones from signals for pure tones, i.e., without overtones (sine-wave signals)—and offered certain advantages in the nuances of tone colours produced.

Lee Petty: He and fellow driver Johnny Beauchamp finished so closely together that it took three days of news footage examination to declare Petty the winner. He would go on to win 11 more races that season and the third of his three championships.

Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety of observation that reveal the influence of

Pierre Beauchamp was a French ballet dancer and teacher whose contributions to the development of ballet include the definition of the five basic positions of the feet. In 1661 Beauchamp was appointed director of the Académie Royale de Danse, which in 1672 under the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully

Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick was a soldier and diplomatist, a knightly hero who served the English kings Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. (Read Sir Walter Scott’s 1824 Britannica essay on chivalry.) Richard Beauchamp succeeded his father, Thomas II de Beauchamp, the 12th earl of Warwick,

Thomas II de Beauchamp, 12th earl of Warwick was the 12th earl of Warwick and one of the leaders in the resistance to England’s King Richard II. He succeeded his father, Thomas I de Beauchamp, as earl in 1369. He served on the lords’ committee of reform in the Good Parliament in 1376 and again in

Pierre Beauchamp was a French ballet dancer and teacher whose contributions to the development of ballet include the definition of the five basic positions of the feet. In 1661 Beauchamp was appointed director of the Académie Royale de Danse, which in 1672 under the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully

Nérée Beauchemin was a French Canadian poet and physician who was a prominent poet of Le Terroir (French: “The Soil”) school of Quebec regionalist poetry. A traditionalist noted for his perfection of poetic form, Beauchemin drew on the religion and culture of Quebec and on a love of the Canadian

calligraphy: Writing manuals and copybooks (16th to 18th century): …French Huguenot immigrant writing master, Jean de Beauchesne, and John Baildon (or Basildon), about whom nothing further is known. Divers Sortes of Hands has characteristics of both writing manuals and copybooks: it includes instructions on how to make ink, cut a quill for writing, hold the pen (illustrated), and sit…

Henry I was the youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror’s sons, who, as king of England (1100–35), strengthened the crown’s executive powers and, like his father, also ruled Normandy (from 1106). Henry was crowned at Westminster on August 5, 1100, three days after his brother, King William

Henry I was the youngest and ablest of William I the Conqueror’s sons, who, as king of England (1100–35), strengthened the crown’s executive powers and, like his father, also ruled Normandy (from 1106). Henry was crowned at Westminster on August 5, 1100, three days after his brother, King William

Ringo Starr: Solo career: music, acting, and photography: …the 1930s and ’40s, and Beaucoups of Blues, a collection of country music, were both released in 1970. He also had several hit singles during the 1970s, notably “It Don’t Come Easy” (1971), “Back Off Boogaloo” (1972), and “Photograph” and “You’re Sixteen” (both 1973). Starr continued to release albums and…

Beaudesert, town, southeastern Queensland, eastern Australia. It is situated on the Logan River about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Brisbane. A livestock station was established there in 1842 and named by an early resident, possibly for Beaudesert, a residence of a noble family in Staffordshire,

air warfare: Air superiority: …aircraft such as the British Beaufighter and Mosquito and the German Ju-88 and Bf-110. Some of these long-range, twin-engined night fighters also served as “intruders,” slipping into enemy bomber formations, following them home, and shooting them down over their own airfields.

Beaufort, county, extreme southern South Carolina, U.S. It consists of a coastal region bordered to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean. The New and Coosawhatchie rivers define portions of its western boundaries, and the Combahee River constitutes its eastern boundary. The county comprises lowland

Beaufort, colonial seaport town, seat of Carteret county, southeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies opposite Morehead City on Beaufort Harbor (there bridged) and is linked to the Atlantic Ocean by Beaufort Inlet, which there, between Bogue and Shackleford banks, receives the Newport River. Laid out

Beaufort, city, seat of Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Port Royal, one of the Sea Islands, and on the Intracoastal Waterway. Its harbour was first visited by Spaniards in 1521. Early settlement attempts in the area were made by French Huguenots (1562), the English

Beaufort Family, English family comprising the descendants of Edward III’s son John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by his liaison with Catherine Swynford; the name derived from a lordship that Gaunt had held in France, the modern Montmorency-Beaufort near Bar-sur-Aube. The four offspring of the union

sea ice: Pack ice drift and thickness: …Ocean is dominated by the Beaufort Gyre (a roughly circular current flowing clockwise within the surface waters of the Beaufort Sea in the western or North American Arctic) and the Transpolar Drift (the major current flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern or Eurasian Arctic). The clockwise rotation of…

Beaufort scale, scale devised in 1805 by Commander (later Admiral and Knight Commander of the Bath) Francis Beaufort of the British navy for observing and classifying wind force at sea. Originally based on the effect of the wind on a full-rigged man-of-war, in 1838 it became mandatory for log

Beaufort Sea, outlying sea of the Arctic Ocean situated north of Canada and Alaska. It extends northeastward from Point Barrow, Alaska, toward Lands End on Prince Patrick Island, and westward from Banks Island to the Chukchi Sea. Its surface area is about 184,000 sq mi (476,000 sq km). The average

Beaufort Series, sedimentary rock layers that were deposited during the transition from the Permian Period to the Triassic Period. The boundary between the Lower and Upper Beaufort Series is recognized as the boundary between the Permian and Triassic systems, which occurred about 251 million years

Beaufort scale, scale devised in 1805 by Commander (later Admiral and Knight Commander of the Bath) Francis Beaufort of the British navy for observing and classifying wind force at sea. Originally based on the effect of the wind on a full-rigged man-of-war, in 1838 it became mandatory for log

Edmund Beaufort, 2nd duke of Somerset was an English nobleman and Lancastrian leader whose quarrel with Richard, duke of York, helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of Lancaster and York. He was a member of the Beaufort family, which in the 1430s obtained

François de Vendôme, duke de Beaufort was a French prince, one of the leaders of the Fronde (1648–53) and later admiral in the Mediterranean. Beaufort won a high reputation in King Louis XIII’s army during 1635–40 but linked himself with the opposition to Louis’s minister, Cardinal de Richelieu,

Gabrielle d’Estrées, duchess de Beaufort was the mistress of King Henry IV of France and, with him, founder of the Vendôme branch of the House of Bourbon. The daughter of the Marquis de Coeuvres, Gabrielle met Roger de Saint-Lary, later Duke de Bellegarde, at the court of Henry III and became his

Henry Beaufort was a cardinal and bishop of Winchester and a dominant figure in English politics throughout the first 43 years of the 15th century. From about 1435 until 1443 he controlled the government of the weak King Henry VI. Beaufort’s father was John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, son of King

Margaret Beaufort was the mother of King Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509) of England and founder of St. John’s and Christ’s colleges, Cambridge. Margaret was the daughter and heir of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward

Gregory XI was the last French pope and the last of the Avignonese popes, when Avignon was the papal seat (1309–77). He reigned from 1370 to 1378. Beaufort was made cardinal in 1348 by his uncle, Pope Clement VI. Although not a priest, he was unanimously elected pope at Avignon on December 30,

wave: Wind waves and swell: …named after the British admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. He drafted it in 1808 using as his yardstick the surface of sail that a fully rigged warship of those days could carry in the various wind forces. When considering the descriptions of the sea surface, it must be remembered that the…

Slumdog Millionaire: Scriptwriter Simon Beaufoy loosely based his screenplay on the acclaimed 2005 novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup. Six unknown children were chosen to play the main characters as children and teenagers, and some controversy arose over how the experience of being in the hugely successful…

André Beaufre was a French military strategist, an exponent of an independent French nuclear force. In 1921 Beaufre entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr, where he met the future French president Charles de Gaulle, who was an instructor. In 1925 he saw action in Morocco against the Rif, who

Ido: …the French logician and Esperantist Louis de Beaufront and presented at the Délégation pour l’Adoption d’une Langue Auxiliaire Internationale (Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language) of 1907.

Beaugency, town, Loiret département, Centre région, north-central France. It lies on the right bank of the Loire River. The lords of Beaugency were powerful from the 11th to the 13th century. The first council of Beaugency (1104) excommunicated Philip I, who had repudiated his queen and abducted

Beaugency: The second council (1152) annulled the marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who later married Henry Plantagenet (Henry II) and gave almost all of southwestern France to the English crown. Beaugency was an important bridge crossing of the Loire, and the town’s restored 13th-century 26-span…

Beaugency: The first council of Beaugency (1104) excommunicated Philip I, who had repudiated his queen and abducted and married the count of Anjou’s wife. The second council (1152) annulled the marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who later married Henry Plantagenet (Henry II) and gave almost…

Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais was the first husband of Joséphine (later empress of the French) and grandfather of Napoleon III; he was a prominent figure during the Revolution. He married Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie in Martinique in 1779. Known as a liberal noble, he rose after the French

Eugène de Beauharnais was a soldier, prince of the French First Empire, and viceroy of Italy for Napoleon I, who was his stepfather (from 1796) and adoptive father (from 1806). His father, the general Alexandre, Viscount de Beauharnais, was guillotined on June 23, 1794. The marriage of the

Hortense was the queen of Holland, stepdaughter of Napoleon I, and mother of Napoleon III. The daughter of the future empress Joséphine and of her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Hortense became one of the attractions of the court after Napoleon became first consul of the French in 1799.

Joséphine was the consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French. Joséphine, the eldest daughter of Joseph Tascher de La Pagerie, an impoverished aristocrat who had a commission in the navy, lived the first 15 years of her life on the island of Martinique. In 1779 she married a rich young

canals and inland waterways: Major inland waterways of North America: …channel runs to the lower Beauharnois Lock, which rises 12.5 metres (41 feet) to the level of Lake St. Francis via a 21-km (13-mile) canal. The seaway then crosses the international boundary to the Bertrand H. Snell Lock, with its lift of 13.7 metres (45 feet) to the Wiley-Dondero Canal;…

Anne Of France was the eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy, who exercised, with her husband, Pierre de Bourbon, seigneur de Beaujeu, a virtual regency in France from 1483 to 1491, during the early years of the reign of King Charles VIII. Anne’s energy, strength of will,

Beaujolais: Édouard I de Beaujeu, marshal of France, fought at the Battle of Crécy (1346) and perished in the Battle of Ardres in 1351. His son died without issue in 1374 and was succeeded by his cousin Édouard II, who gave his estates of Beaujolais and…

Pierre II, 7e duke de Bourbon was the 7th duke of Bourbon (from 1488) and seigneur de Beaujeu (from 1474). Louis XI of France espoused his eldest daughter, Anne of France (q.v.), to Pierre de Beaujeu in 1474 and, on his deathbed, entrusted to Pierre the charge of his 13-year-old son, Charles VIII.

Beaujolais, region of east-central France, just east of the Massif Central and west of the Sâone River. Most of the region is located within Rhône département. The local relief is broken and culminates in Mount Saint-Rigaud, 3,310 feet (1,009 m); well-wooded, the region supports a local forestry

Beaujolais, ancient province of France, of which Beaujeu and Villefranche were successively the capital and which corresponded in area to much of the modern département of Rhône, with a small portion of Loire. Crossed by the mountains of Beaujolais (Monts du Beaujolais) and bounded on the east by

Beaujolais, one of the most widely drunk red wines in the world, produced in the Beaujolais region of southern Burgundy, France. The wine, made from the Gamay grape, is medium red in colour, with a relatively light body and a fruity, refreshing taste. Wines from the southern part of the region are

Beaujolais: …very young wine is called Beaujolais nouveau. By the early 1990s more than half the production was drunk as nouveau. Beaujolais, and particularly Beaujolais nouveau, is often served chilled.

Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx was a composer and choreographer who influenced the development of theatrical dance and opera. In 1555 the Duke de Brissac brought Beaujoyeulx to the French court of Queen Catherine de Médicis as a violinist. He became valet de chambre to the royal family and unofficially

Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx was a composer and choreographer who influenced the development of theatrical dance and opera. In 1555 the Duke de Brissac brought Beaujoyeulx to the French court of Queen Catherine de Médicis as a violinist. He became valet de chambre to the royal family and unofficially

Priscilla Presley is an American actress and businesswoman best known for her marriage to musician Elvis Presley. Although they eventually divorced, she remained in the public eye and established an acting career. After his death, she became the executor of Graceland, his estate in Memphis,

Battle of Lodi: …troops, the rear guard of Jean-Pierre Beaulieu’s Austrian army. After knocking the kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) out of the war in April, Napoleon turned northeastward against Beaulieu. Beaulieu refused to stand and fight, afraid to lose his army in a major battle. The retreating Austrians’ rear guard continued to hold…

François, duc d’Anjou: …he secured in the general Treaty of Beaulieu (May 6, 1576) a group of territories that made him duc d’Anjou. He also courted Elizabeth I of England and even succeeded in negotiating with her a marriage contract (1579), which, however, was never concluded, even after two wooing visits to London…

artillery: Breech loading: …a muzzle-loading system designed by Treuille de Beaulieu, in which the gun had three deep spiral grooves and the projectile had soft metal studs. The gun was loaded from the muzzle by engaging the studs in the grooves before ramming the shell.

Canadian literature: Contemporary trends: …Redeemer); the author and publisher Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, with his continuing saga of the Beauchemin family; Roch Carrier, who mocked biculturalism in La Guerre, Yes Sir! (1968; Eng. trans. La Guerre, Yes Sir!); and Jacques Poulin, whose early novels, set in the old city of Quebec, are comic visions of life…

Combat of the Thirty: A truce arranged by Jean de Beaumanoir, governor of Brittany and a supporter of Blois, was being ignored by Sir Robert Bramborough, the captain of Ploërmel and a supporter of Montfort. Beaumanoir issued a challenge that thirty knights and squires on each side should decide the matter in battle,…

Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir was a French administrator and jurist whose major work, Coutumes de Beauvaisis (drafted c. 1280–83), was an early codification of old French law. Beaumanoir also wrote two metrical romances, La Manekine and Jehan et Blonde, preserved in a single 14th-century

Philippe de Remi, sire de Beaumanoir was a French administrator and jurist whose major work, Coutumes de Beauvaisis (drafted c. 1280–83), was an early codification of old French law. Beaumanoir also wrote two metrical romances, La Manekine and Jehan et Blonde, preserved in a single 14th-century

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French author of two outstanding comedies of intrigue that still retain their freshness, Le Barbier de Séville (1775; The Barber of Seville, 1776) and Le Mariage de Figaro (1784; The Marriage of Figaro, 1785). Although Beaumarchais did not invent the type

Madame Bellecour was a French actress noted for her performances in works of Molière and Regnard. The daughter of an aged artillery captain of noble ancestry, Rose-Perrine left home at the age of 13 and took up with an itinerant comedian called Beauménard. She decided to adopt both his name and his

Beaumont, city, seat (1838) of Jefferson county, southeastern Texas, U.S., at the head of navigation on the Neches River (an arm of the Sabine-Neches Waterway), 85 miles (137 km) east-northeast of Houston. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the “Golden Triangle” petrochemical and industrial

tunnels and underground excavations: Machine-mined tunnels: …air-powered rotary cutting arm, the Beaumont borer, had been invented. A 1947 coal-mining version followed, and in 1949 a coal saw was used to cut a circumferential slot in chalk for 33-foot-diameter tunnels at Fort Randall Dam in South Dakota. In 1962 a comparable breakthrough for the more difficult excavation…

Dublin: Health: Beaumont Hospital, opened in 1987, is the principal undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research centre associated with the Royal College, whose campus it shares. It is the national centre for neurosurgery. St. Vincent’s is the teaching hospital of University College Dublin and a leading biomedical…

Charles, chevalier d’Éon de Beaumont was a French secret agent from whose name the term “eonism,” denoting the tendency to adopt the costume and manners of the opposite sex, is derived. His first mission was to the Russian empress Elizabeth in 1755, on which he seems to have disguised himself as a

Élie de Beaumont was a geologist who prepared the great geological map of France in collaboration with the French geologist Ours Pierre Dufrénoy. Beaumont was appointed professor of geology at the École des Mines, Paris, in 1835. He was engineer in chief of mines in France from 1833 to 1847, when

Francis Beaumont was an English Jacobean poet and playwright who collaborated with John Fletcher on comedies and tragedies between about 1606 and 1613. The son of Francis Beaumont, justice of common pleas of Grace-Dieu priory, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, Beaumont entered Broadgates Hall

Alexis de Tocqueville: Early life: …to become his alter ego—Gustave de Beaumont. Their life histories are virtual mirror images. Of similar backgrounds and positions, they were companions in their travels in America, England, and Algeria, coordinated their writings, and ultimately entered the legislature together.

Élie de Beaumont was a geologist who prepared the great geological map of France in collaboration with the French geologist Ours Pierre Dufrénoy. Beaumont was appointed professor of geology at the École des Mines, Paris, in 1835. He was engineer in chief of mines in France from 1833 to 1847, when

children’s literature: Overview: Mme Le Prince de Beaumont, an adventurous 18th-century lady who wrote over 70 volumes for the young, thought that children’s stories should be pervaded by “the spirit of geometry.” It is possible that the blame for France’s showing might in part be laid on a…

United Kingdom: Matilda and Stephen: …Beaumont family, headed by the Earl of Leicester, and their allies, who formed a powerful court faction. They planned the downfall of the bishops, and, when a council meeting was held at Oxford in June 1139, they seized on the opportunity provided by a brawl in which some of Roger’s…

Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet was an English poet whose work helped to establish the heroic couplet as a dominant verse form. His most important works are The Metamorphosis of Tobacco (1602), a mock-heroic poem; Bosworth Field (1629), a long historical poem on the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485);

William Beaumont was a U.S. army surgeon, the first person to observe and study human digestion as it occurs in the stomach. On June 6, 1822, while serving at Fort Mackinac (now in Michigan), Beaumont was summoned to Michilimackinac to treat Alexis St. Martin, a 19-year-old French-Canadian trapper,

Beaune, town, Côte-d’Or département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, east-central France, on the Bouzaise River, southwest of Dijon. Settled since prehistoric times, it prospered under the Romans as a center for cattle and viticulture and is still the wine capital of Burgundy. In the 3rd and 4th

Western sculpture: International Gothic: …was a native of Valenciennes, André Beauneveu. His reputation was so widespread that he rather surprisingly earned a mention in the chronicles of Jean Froissart. He produced a large number of monuments, especially for King Charles V, of which several effigies survive. This sculpture, while technically good, is somewhat pedestrian…

P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Beauregard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1838), and served in the Mexican-American War (1846–48) under the command of Winfield Scott. After the secession of Louisiana from the Union (January

P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Beauregard graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1838), and served in the Mexican-American War (1846–48) under the command of Winfield Scott. After the secession of Louisiana from the Union (January

Jessica Mauboy: Beautiful (2013) offered more dance, pop, and R&B music, and it reached the top three on the ARIA Charts. In 2014 Mauboy performed at the Eurovision Song Contest, becoming the first solo artist of non-European descent to be a guest performer for Australia. Four years…

The Beautiful and Damned, novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922. Fitzgerald’s second novel, it concerns a handsome young married couple who choose to wait for an expected inheritance rather than involve themselves in productive, meaningful lives. Anthony Patch pursues and wins the

Steve Carell: Battle of the Sexes and Vice: Carell’s credits from 2018 included Beautiful Boy, in which he was cast as a father who tries to save his son from a consuming drug addiction, and Welcome to Marwen, a drama based on a true story of an artist who finds a therapeutic outlet in building a miniature town…

Richard Wilbur: With The Beautiful Changes, and Other Poems (1947) and Ceremony, and Other Poems (1950), he established himself as an important young writer. These early poems are technically exquisite and formal in their adherence to the convention of rhyme and other devices.

Asghar Farhadi: …next made Shahr-e zībā (2004; Beautiful City), which explores the concept of justice through the story of an 18-year-old prisoner awaiting execution for the murder of his girlfriend while his sister works to save his life by trying to persuade the murdered girl’s father to give his consent for clemency.…