"Triumph Bonneville The Triumph Bonneville is a standard motorcycle featuring a parallel-twin four-stroke engine and manufactured in three generations over three separate production runs. The first two generations, by the defunct Triumph Engineering in Meriden, West Midlands, England, were 1959–1983 and 1985–1988. The third series, by Triumph Motorcycles in Hinckley, Leicestershire, began in 2001 and continues to the present as a completely new design that strongly resembles the original series. The name Bonneville derives from the famous Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA where Triumph and others attempted to break the motorcycle speed records. The original Triumph Bonneville was a 650"
"Luneville Faience Luneville Faience is one of the most famous French pottery manufacturers. It has been located in Lunéville, Lorraine, France since 1730. Jacques Chambrette Senior initially started the first fine pottery works in Lorraine in 1711. His son began in 1722 by trading faience in Lunéville. He built his own factory there in 1730, just before he obtained the royal permission. He formulated a new type of earthenware called ""terre de Lorraine"" in 1748 based on the study of English potteries. As soon as 1749, he was granted the label of ""official Royal manufactory"" by Stanislaus I, former king"
"Bonneville House The Bonneville House is a historic house at 318 North 7th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with a metal hip roof and a brick foundation. Built in 1880, its styling is predominantly Second Empire, with elaborate window hoods, heavy paired brackets in the eaves, and a full-width porch with turned balusters and posts with finely-detailed capitals. In addition to its locally distinctive architecture, the house is historically significant as the home of explorer Benjamin Bonneville. The house has been restored and is available for event rentals. The house was listed on the"
"Bonneville, Oregon Bonneville is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on Interstate 84 and the Columbia River. Bonneville is best known as the site of Bonneville Dam. North Bonneville, Washington is across the river. For decades before the dam was built, Bonneville was popular as a picnic spot for people living along the Columbia River between Portland and The Dalles, and the railroad company maintained an ""eating house"" for travelers there. Bonneville railroad station was named for explorer Benjamin Bonneville. The name ""Bonneville"" did not appear on maps until the late 1880s. Bonneville post office was established"
"Bonnieville, Kentucky Bonnieville is a home rule-class city in Hart County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 255 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1849, the town was originally known as Bacon Creek, for the stream that runs through the city. It is rumored that the name was changed to Bonnieville because of the popularity of the song ""My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"". On December 26, 1862, the Confederate John Hunt Morgan sent a detachment from Upton to the bridge over Bacon Creek in Bonnieville. A brief firefight with a detachment of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry"
"Château de Bénouville The Château de Bénouville is a building in Bénouville, Normandy, near Caen (northern France). It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin, marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouville, heiress of the property. The interior was under construction from 1778 to 1780 under the direction of Jean-François-Étienne Gilet, the architect of Caen. In 1792, it was purchased from the widowed marquise by a ""fermier général"" (tax collector) who was guillotined in 1794. His daughter inherited the property which"
"Le Conservatoire Le Conservatoire, or A Marriage by Advertisement (""Konservatoriet eller et Avisfrieri"") is a two-act vaudeville ballet created by the Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville in 1849 for the Royal Danish Ballet. The ballet's setting is a dance studio at the Conservatoire de Paris. Bournonville studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1820s with the renowned dancer Auguste Vestris. The ballet launched the career of prima ballerina Juliette Price. A divertissement within the larger work called ""The Dancing School"" (Pas d'école) permitted Bournonville to display the basics of his style and raise them to the level of"
"Mogneville Mogneville is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Though inhabited from the stone age, the existence of the village first dates from the Romans. One of the merchants who followed Caesar and his camp to Catenoy, placed himself on the site of the modern village. The name of the village derives from the Latin ""Monnachivilla"", ""settlement of the monks"", which is Moineville in French. Monks inhabited this territory in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The Abbey of Chaalis, the Abbey of Lannoy and the priory of Wariville possessed benefices here. The Church of Saint-Denis is the"
"Bonneville Salt Flats The Bonneville Salt Flats is a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. The area is a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville and is the largest of many salt flats located west of the Great Salt Lake. The property is public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is known for land speed records at the ""Bonneville Speedway"". Access to the flats is open to the public. Geologist Grove Karl Gilbert named the area after Benjamin Bonneville, a U.S. Army officer who explored the Intermountain West in the 1830s. In 1907"
"Fort Senneville Fort Senneville is one of the outlying forts of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built by the Canadiens of New France near the Sainte-Anne rapids in 1671. The property was part of a fief ceded to Dugué de Boisbriant in 1672 by the Sulpicians. A large stone windmill, which doubled as a watch tower, was built on a hill by late 1686 and featuring machicolation and other castle-like features. The fort was burned down by Iroquois in 1691, with only the mill itself left standing. Governor-General Frontenac ordered the construction of a second, more imposing fort in 1692. It was"
"Alexandre de Berneval Alexandre de Berneval (b ?1367; d 5 January 1440) was an architect and one of the foremost masons in Normandy in the early 15th century. He is known to have visited England, in 1413, buying alabaster from ""Newcastle-on-the-Tyne"" for Estaud d’Estouteville, Abbot of La Trinité at Fécamp (1390–1423). In 1420, he was paid 200 ""livres tournois"" for a masonry tabernacle at Fécamp for the relic of the ""Pas de l’ange"" or ""Pas au Pèlerin"", an impression in sandstone of the footstep of an angel at the dedication of the 10th-century church. Although damaged, the tabernacle is the"
"that epitomised the ""accent de Belleville"", which has been compared to the Cockney accent of London, England, although the Parisian dialect is nowadays rarely heard. Belleville is prominently featured in the 2007 biographical film of her life, ""La Vie En Rose"". Other famous ""Bellevillois"" include film director Maurice Tourneur, legendary French can-can dancer Jane Avril and popular singer and actor Eddy Mitchell. The filmmaker Maïwenn grew up in Belleville and lives there now. Belleville has featured in several films including director Jacques Becker's 1951 ""Casque d'or"", starring Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani. Albert Lamorisse set and filmed the 1956 Oscar-winning"
"servi a l'établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies"" (10 vols, new ed., Rouen, 1725). The English version of ""L'inquisition Françoise"" is of greater interest as it was published with William Taylor, the publisher Daniel Defoe chose for his ""Robinson Crusoe"" in 1719. Both titles eventually shared aspects of realism and romanticization, an interest in the hardly credible ""romantic"" story of a survivor. René Auguste Constantin de Renneville René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (October 9, 1650 – March 13, 1723), was a French writer. He was born at Caen. Because of his Protestant principles, Renneville left France"
"historical texts. ""La famille"" Beneville - Benevelli originated in the Rhône-Alpes region of France Bonneville, Haute-Savoie. Also known as Bônavela in Arpitan and Beneville in Provence. In the Piedmont region the name is also recorded as Benevello or Benevel. The Beneville-Benevelli family is already acknowledged as Gallorum/Gauls - of French origins - in the Modena area since the 15th century. They owned different titles and styles: Patricians of Modena; Count palatine; Knights of the Order of the Golden Spur and of the Order of the Golden Militia; Counts in Provence. An English variant of the surname is known as Benewell"
"von Cobenzl and Joseph Bonaparte. Another treaty, signed in Germany, was the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871), which made Lunéville into a border town attracting the best and the brightest of Alsace and Moselle who relocated to keep their French nationality. A new period of economic prosperity, known as the Belle Époque, restored some of the glory of Stanislas's ducal court of the 18th century. Lunéville faience, a kind of unglazed faience produced from 1723 at Lunéville by Jacques Chambrette, became the Manufacture ""Royale du Roi de Pologne"" (“Royal Factory of the King of Poland”) after Stanislaus sponsored it in 1749."
"Jacques de Belleville Jacques de Montmorency, sieur de Belleville (died c. 1640) was a 17th-century French violinist, lutenist, ballet master and composer. He was one of Louis XIII of France's dance masters with Nicolas Dugap, Jacques Cordier called ""Bocan"" and Pierre Beauchamp. 27 mai 1637 he married Antoinette Guibourg, the widow of painter and theater costume designer Daniel Rabel. He is best known for the great ballets of which he wrote the music and organized the choreography to the court of Louis XIII between 1615 and 1632, including: We also have orchestral suites and arrangements for lute tablature published in"
"a private viewing at Buckingham Palace. It was the most acclaimed of Bonheur's works, and is described by the Metropolitan Museum as one of its best-known works of art. It was sold to cotton trader William Parkinson Wright in 1857 for FF 30,000, and then sold to Alexander Turney Stewart in 1866. After the deaths of Stewart in 1876 and of his widow Cornelia in 1886, the painting was bought at auction by Cornelius Vanderbilt II for $53,000 in March 1887, and immediately donated to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The first engraving of the work was made by"
"sections with which he was mainly involved. Alexandre de Berneval Alexandre de Berneval (b ?1367; d 5 January 1440) was an architect and one of the foremost masons in Normandy in the early 15th century. He is known to have visited England, in 1413, buying alabaster from ""Newcastle-on-the-Tyne"" for Estaud d’Estouteville, Abbot of La Trinité at Fécamp (1390–1423). In 1420, he was paid 200 ""livres tournois"" for a masonry tabernacle at Fécamp for the relic of the ""Pas de l’ange"" or ""Pas au Pèlerin"", an impression in sandstone of the footstep of an angel at the dedication of the 10th-century"
"Binot Paulmier de Gonneville Binot Paulmier, sieur de Gonneville, French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France to have been the true discoverer of the Terra Australis (which does not refer to Australia). This claim is no longer accepted by historians. In 1503 de Gonneville, challenging the Portuguese policy of mare clausum, sailed from Honfleur in Normandy with his crew and the help of two Portuguese pilots, heading for the East Indies. When he reached the Cape of Good Hope his ship ""L'Espoir"" (""The Hope"") was diverted to an ""unknown"" land by"
"Bonneville-sur-Touques Bonneville-sur-Touques is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France, located four kilometres from the urban agglomeration Deauville-Trouville. The commune is principally famous for its 11th century castle, which protected the nearby supply port of Touques. The population is 401. The name ""Bonneville"" is attested as far back as 1014, when it appeared in the form ""Bonnavilla"". Old French ""bonne"", or ""good"", already had its current meaning at that time, and ""ville"", or ""town"", which in placenames often has its original meaning of ""rural area"" (from the Latin ""villa rustica""), might here have the"
"National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Bonneville House The Bonneville House is a historic house at 318 North 7th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick structure, with a metal hip roof and a brick foundation. Built in 1880, its styling is predominantly Second Empire, with elaborate window hoods, heavy paired brackets in the eaves, and a full-width porch with turned balusters and posts with finely-detailed capitals. In addition to its locally distinctive architecture, the house is historically significant as the home of explorer Benjamin Bonneville. The house has been restored and is available for event"
"The earthenware first became famous for its detailed figurines and in the 20th century for its art deco designs, and it still exists today as ""Terres d'Est"". In 1858, the glass factory of Croismare was built. It became famous when the Müller brothers settled there in 1897 and began creating Art Deco glass designs. Louis Ferry-Bonnechaux discovered a technique using beads and sequins on embroidery in 1865. His craft was widely copied and became known as Lunéville Point, and its heritage can still be seen in modern haute couture. A subsidiary of the Dietrich company, Lorraine-Dietrich moved to Luneville after"
"the renowned ballet master and choreographer. From 1830 to 1877, he was the choreographer at the Royal Danish Ballet, for which he created more than 50 ballets admired for their exuberance, lightness, and beauty. He created a style which, although influenced by the Paris ballet, is entirely his own. Bournonville's best-known works are ""La Sylphide"" (1836), ""Napoli"" (1842), ""Le Conservatoire"" (1849), ""The Kermesse in Bruges"" (1851) and ""A Folk Tale"" (1854). He drew on a number of different composers including Holger Simon Paulli and Niels Gade. The ballets are widely performed today, not only in Denmark but worldwide, especially in"
"Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power. Congress has since designated Bonneville to be the marketing agent for power from all of the federally owned hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest. Bonneville is one of four regional Federal power marketing agencies within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The power generated on BPA's grid is sold to"
"Bonfield, Illinois Bonfield is a village in Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. Bonfield's population was 364 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Kankakee-Bradley, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Although founded by quarryman Thomas Verkler, the village was named after Thomas Bonfield, an attorney for the Kankakee & Seneca Railroad Company, which established a depot in the village. A name was needed for this depot, someone suggested ""Bonfield"", and that's what stuck. The railroad has long since disappeared into history but it had been on Johnson Street. Old railroad spikes and ties might still be found around the limestone"
"René Boyvin and Pierre Milan. From 1584 to 1594, during the Wars of Religion the château of Fontainebleau was abandoned. Upon his accession to the throne, Henri IV undertook a renovation of the Fontainebleau buildings using a group of artists: the Flemish born Ambroise Dubois (from Antwerp) and the Parisians Toussaint Dubreuil and Martin Fréminet. They are sometimes referred to as the ""second school of Fontainebleau"". Their late mannerist works, many of which have been lost, continue in the use of elongated and undulating forms and crowded compositions. Many of their subjects include mythological scenes and scenes from works of"
"of Poland. At the time, Lorraine being indeed an independent state, France levied heavy taxes on goods imported from there, reason why Jacques Chambrette established as early as 1758 an additional factory in Saint-Clément, Meurthe-et-Moselle, only seven miles away, but located on French territory to escape those duties. However, at the death of the founder, the two factories were split between the family and Richard Mique bought in 1763 the Saint-Clément part. In 1786 Sébastien Keller bought Luneville from the Chambrette family following the bankruptcy of the pottery manufacturer in 1785. For the next 137 years, the Keller family controlled"
"in New Rochelle, where he remained for four years before returning to Paris. There, he earned a living by opening a bookshop in the Latin Quarter. During the latter years of his life, he fell into misery and madness, naturally taking a more pessimistic view on the possibilities for the happiness of mankind. His funeral expenses were paid for by Charles Nodier, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Vigny. His son, Benjamin Bonneville, undertook a career in the U.S. Army in which he retired as a brigadier general; his life was immortalized by Washington Irving's ""Adventures of Captain Bonneville"". Bonneville played"
"Barncastle ""Barncastle"", also known as Kline Cottage, is a historic house, now an inn and restaurant, at 125 South Street in Blue Hill, Maine, United States. It is one of the earliest and largest summer cottages in Blue Hill, and remains one of its most visible and idiosyncratic. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and originally called ""Ideal Lodge"" after the opera company founded by its builder, Effie Hinckley Ober, the house was finished in 1886 to a design by George Asa Clough, Blue Hill native and noted Boston architect. Entirely engulfing a smaller Cape Cod-style house owned"
"on the outside of the building. André Beauneveu André Beauneveu (born c. 1335 in Valenciennes, died c.1400 in Bourges) was an Early Netherlandish sculptor and painter, born in the County of Hainaut (Valenciennes is today in France), who is best known for his work in the service of the French King Charles V, and of the Valois Duke, Jean de Berry. His work in all media shows a generally naturalistic and 'sculptural' style, characteristic of the 'Pucellian revival' of the latter 14th century. As with all northern European artists of this period, reliable biographical information about Beauneveu is extremely sparse,"
"professional family with antiquarian interests. No evidence has been found of any call for public subscription. Robert Snodgrass senior, son of William Snodgrass, mason of Beith, practised as an architect-builder in Beith. The land was donated by Brigadier-General James George Smith-Neil of Barnweil House in 1855. William Patrick of Roughwood and Woodside near Beith is also said to have erected the monument. Dobie states that after repeated attempts to ""arouse public sympathy in its favour"" he built the tower at his own expense. The name, also used as Barnwell, Barnweill and Burnweill, first recorded as ""Berenbouell"" circa 1177-1204 and ""Brenwyfle"""
"Franconville in Oise for the Duc de Massa (1880-1885). His son Walter-André Destailleur was also an architect, who built the Château de Trévarez. Hippolyte Destailleur died in Paris. Notes Sources Hippolyte Destailleur Hippolyte Destailleur (27 September 1822 – 17 November 1893) was a French architect, interior designer, and collector. He is noted for his designs and restoration work for great châteaux in France and in England, as well as his collection of books, prints, and drawings, covering French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, much of which is now in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris"
"the compendium ""Airs de différents auteurs mis en tablature sur des accords nouveaux"", Paris, 1631. Jacques de Belleville Jacques de Montmorency, sieur de Belleville (died c. 1640) was a 17th-century French violinist, lutenist, ballet master and composer. He was one of Louis XIII of France's dance masters with Nicolas Dugap, Jacques Cordier called ""Bocan"" and Pierre Beauchamp. 27 mai 1637 he married Antoinette Guibourg, the widow of painter and theater costume designer Daniel Rabel. He is best known for the great ballets of which he wrote the music and organized the choreography to the court of Louis XIII between 1615"