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Bénédicte Pesle, the Glossary

Bénédicte Pesle (15 May 1927 – 17 January 2018) was a French arts patron.^[1]

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20th-century French philanthropists
French patrons of the arts
People from Le Havre

Alexander Iolas

Alexander Iolas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Ιόλας) (March 26, 1908 – June 8, 1987) was an Egyptian-born Greek-American art gallerist and significant collector of classical and modern art works, who advanced the careers of René Magritte, Andy Warhol and many other artists.

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Carolyn Brown (choreographer)

Carolyn Brown (born September 26, 1927) is an American dancer, choreographer, and writer.

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Einstein on the Beach

Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass with libretto in collaboration with Robert Wilson, who also designed and directed early productions.

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Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city.

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France Musique

France Musique is a French national public radio channel owned and operated by Radio France.

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Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer.

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Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives

L'Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), translated as The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives, is a French institution created in 1988 at the initiative of researchers and professionals in French publishing to gather archives and studies related to the main French publishing houses.

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Jackie Matisse

Jackie Matisse (1931 – 17 May 2021), also known as Jaqueline Matisse Monnier, was a French artist.

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker.

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John de Menil

John de Ménil (January 4, 1904 – June 1, 1973) was a Franco-American businessman, philanthropist, and art patron.

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Légifrance

Légifrance is the official website of the French government for the publication of legislation, regulations, and legal information.

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Le Figaro

() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.

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Merce Cunningham

Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years.

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Military dictatorship of Chile

An authoritarian military dictatorship ruled Chile for seventeen years, between 11 September 1973 and 11 March 1990.

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Ministry of Culture (France)

The Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques.

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Montparnasse Cemetery

Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. Bénédicte Pesle and Montparnasse Cemetery are Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery.

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Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books.

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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist.

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Pilot fish

The pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) is a carnivorous fish of the trevally, or jackfish family, Carangidae.

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Pontpoint

Pontpoint is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

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René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.

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Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. Bénédicte Pesle and Trisha Brown are Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bénédicte_Pesle

Bénédicte Pesle, the Glossary

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See also

20th-century French philanthropists

French patrons of the arts

People from Le Havre

References