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ETESIAN See also:WIND (See also:Lat. elesius, See also:annual; Gr. See also:Eros, See also:year) , a Mediterranean wind blowing from the See also:north and See also:west in summer for about six See also:weeks annually.
$See also:TEA, See also:ANTOINE (18o8-1888), See also:French sculptor, painter and architect, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:March 1808. He first exhibited in the See also:salon of 1833, his See also:work including a See also:reproduction in See also:marble of his " See also:Death of See also:Hyacinthus," and the See also:plaster See also:cast of his " See also:Cain and his See also:race cursed by See also:God. See also:Thiers, who was at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:minister of public See also:works, now commissioned him to execute the two See also:groups of " See also:Peace " and " See also:War," placed at each See also:side of the Arc de Triomphe. This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the salon of 1839. The French See also:capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Etex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a See also:great number of portraits. His paintings include the subjects of See also:Eurydice and the martyrdom of See also:Saint See also:Sebastian, and among the best known of his architectural productions are the See also:tomb of See also:Napoleon I. in the Invalides and a See also:monument of the revolution of 1848. Etex wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts. The last year of his See also:life was spent at See also:Nice, and he died at Chaville (See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise) on the 14th of See also:July 1888.
See P. E. Mangeant, Antoine Etex, peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 18o8-i888 (Paris, 1894).
End of Article: ETESIAN WIND (Lat. elesius, annual; Gr. Eros, year)
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