Famous People with Name Ambroise

Ambroise Thomas            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ambroise Thomas: was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and his Shakespearean Hamlet (1868) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896.With Mignon (premiered at the Opéra Comique in 1866), Thomas achieved his first great acclaim outside, as well as within, France. Goethe's tale had provided inspiration for a highly sentimentalized libretto; Marie Galli-Marié (1840–1905), it was said [1], "had modelled her conception of the part upon the well-known picture by Ary Scheffer" (illustration). Mignon was a success all over Europe, to audiences that had embraced Charles Gounod's indirectly Goethe-inspired sentimental Faust (1859); and in Paris Mignon received more than a thousand performances by 1894, thereby becoming one of the most successful operas in French history [2]. It turns up occasionally today, more often in the form of extracts for concert or in recordings than in complete stagings. One of its arias, "Connais-tu le pays", was for generations among the most famous operatic excerpts by any composer.

Ambroise Paré            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ambroise Paré: was a French surgeon. He was the great official royal surgeon for the kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III and is considered as one of the fathers of surgery. He was a leader in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially the

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry: was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, mus

Ambroise Vollard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ambroise Vollard: is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with providing exposure and emotional support to numerous notable and unknown artists, including Paul Cézanne, Aristide Maillol, Renoir, Louis Valtat, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. He is also well-known as an avid art collector and publisher.

Ambroise Yxemerry            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ambroise Yxemerry: is a French Polynesian editor and journalist of French birth.