André Dupont (1742-1817) - A Palace and Roses


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André Dupont (1742-1817), is the first rose collector we know of. From 1785 onwards, he developed a passion for this beautiful genus, striving to have a garden where he could produce his Roses and observe them, in Paris, mainly in the surroundings of the Luxembourg Palace. He was not a horticulturist, so he immersed himself in the books lent to him by the National Museum of Natural History, met botanists, erudite men of the Enlightenment, gardeners and nurserymen. He thus became a good connoisseur of the Roses of his time, planning to write a monograph. At the beginning of the 19th century, the fashion for roses began, and André Dupont made a major contribution to this development; he was its forerunner. Madame Bonaparte, Empress Joséphine, brought him great fame, as she turned him into her main supplier of roses to embellish the greenhouses and flowerbeds of her estate in Malmaison. Renowned as the depositary of a complete École de Roses and of the oddities that nature provides them with, he gathered the very first herbarium exclusively devoted to Roses that we may still consult. In 1814, Dupont was at the end of his life and gave his collection to the Luxembourg Gardens. It was the beginning of the largest rose garden in the world that one could admire during most of the 19th century. He could thus observe the flowering of his beloved Roses for two or three more seasons, before passing away not far from them. While his botanist friends, or famous horticulturists, were collecting fame and honours, he ended his life in a boarding house in his neighbourhood, under the threat of a ban and ruined. His Roses, cheerful and good girls, sang his praises for a long time in front of the palace where their gardener had the honour to serve. Very little, too little, has been written about him. The main book of the present work, in French, brings together, for the first time, all the known elements of his life, from the period of the princely court he was a part of, to the 2nd Restoration, through the French Revolution and the 1st Empire. The present booklet proposes, in English, the essential parts of the original text. In the course of this story, André Dupont reveals his temper - sometimes a bit of an eccentric - so imbued with tenderness for his Roses!













Rooms with a View


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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 5-July 4, 2011.




Wadhams Genealogy


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Coast Pilot 4


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This is edition 46 for 2016. The descriptions are from the official United States Coast Pilot updated to Sept 2015. Additional information is included with a free app on your phone or tablet, Apple or Android.Cape Henry to Key West.Cape Henry to Cape Lookout Cape Lookout to Cape Fear Cape Fear to Charleston Harbor Charleston Harbor to Savannah R. Savannah River to St. Johns RiverSt. Johns River St. Johns River to Miami Miami to Key West :Intracoastal WaterwayThere is a QR code for a free installation of an app to your phone or tablet.Every Island, Every Tour, Every Anchorage, Every Walk, Every Dive, Every Animal, Every Regulation, Every Camp site, Every Boat, Every Room, Every Fish, Every Restaurant, Every Snorkel, Every Danger, Every Bird, Every Activity, Every Thing, Every Price, EVERY THING. * Videos * Photos * Maps * Sketches * Notes * Hyperlinks * Things To Do * Opinions * Blogs & Reviews The file contains links to thousands of useful pieces of information. Everything from the weather, the winds, Utube, the formalities and regulations, to blogs and photos, things to do, events, anchorages, the people, costs, the pilot charts, pirates, marinas, google earth, camping, cell phone coverage, walking, flights, ferries, nightlife, boatyards, history, repairs, currency, addresses, communications, repairers, snorkeling, fishing workshop, diving, flora, the animals, online charts, updates, the parks, local food, the restaurants, hotels and accommodation, Wikipedia, Noonsite, sailing guides online, diesel engine troubleshooting & repair, your float plan, every Gov Dept., the Nav Rules, Sailing Directions, etc. Using your phone or tablet you can email out of the book to the editors. Instantly see the actual site on google earth. And more..... Your phone or tablet screen will display the current weather radar. Also your screen can display surrounding shipping using links to AIS technology.Coast Pilot 1 covers the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and part of Massachusetts, from West Quoddy Head in Maine to Provincetown in Massachusetts. Major ports are at Portsmouth, NH and Boston, MA. Coast Pilot 2 covers the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Sandy Hook, embracing part of the Massachusetts coast and all of the coasts of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Coast Pilot 3 covers the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Cape Henry, including the New Jersey Coast, Delaware Bay, Philadelphia, the Delaware - Maryland - Virginia coast, and the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Pilot 4 covers the Atlantic coast of the United States from Cape Henry to Key West. Coast Pilot 5 covers the Gulf of Mexico from Key West, FL to the Rio Grande. This area is generally low and mostly sandy, presenting no marked natural features to the mariner approaching from seaward. so covers Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Coast Pilot 6 covers the Great Lakes system, including Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, their connecting waters, and the St. Lawrence River. Coast Pilot 7 covers the rugged United States coast of California, Oregon and Washington, between Mexico on the south and Canadas British Columbia on the north. Coast Pilot 7 also includes Hawaii and other United States territories in the South Pacific. Coast Pilot 8 covers the panhandle section of Alaska between the south boundary and Cape Spencer. In this volume, general ocean coastline is only 250 nautical miles, but tidal shoreline totals 11,085 miles.Coast Pilot 9 deals with the Pacific and Arctic coasts of Alaska from Cape Spencer to the Beaufort Sea. General ocean coastline totals 5,520 nautical miles, and tidal shoreline totals 18,377 miles.







Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education


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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.




When Scotland Was Jewish


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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.