Passy ( French pronunciation: [pasi] ) is an area of Paris , France , located in the 16th arrondissement , on the Right Bank . It is adjacent to Auteuil to the southwest, and Chaillot to the northeast.
19-494: Pacey is an English surname and given name variant of Passy , a French locational origin surname, itself derived from the Gallo-Roman Praenomen Paccius . The surname Pacey migrated to England during the 12th Century and eventually evolved also into a given name. Pacey, itself a variant, is associated also with "Passie" (but not " Passi "), "Peacey", and "Piosey". Notable people and characters with
38-542: A diverse grouping of avant-garde artistes (painters, sculptors and poets), including several who previously held meetings in 1910 at the rue Visconti studio of Henri Le Fauconnier . Their first diner presided over by neo-symbolist Paul Fort was held at the house of Balzac , rue Raynouard, in the presence of Guillaume Apollinaire , Raymond Duchamp-Villon , Marie Laurencin , Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger , André Mare , Jean Metzinger , Francis Picabia , Henry Valensi, and Jacques Villon . Albert Gleizes chose Passy as
57-527: A typeface known as "le Franklin". He also printed a 1782 treatise by Pierre-André Gargaz titled A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace , which laid out a vision for maintaining a permanent peace in Europe . It proposed a central governing council composed of representatives of all the nations of Europe to arbitrate international disputes. He also worked on his scientific projects at a laboratory he shared with others, which had been installed by Louis XV in
76-648: Is the burial place for many well-known persons including American silent film star Pearl White , the painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot , and composer Claude Debussy . Honoré de Balzac lived in Passy for over six years, and his house is now a museum ( Maison de Balzac ). The apartment in which Marlon Brando trysts with Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci 's 1972 film Last Tango in Paris
95-622: The American Revolutionary War , when he represented American interests and sought French support for American independence. Franklin established a small printing press in his lodgings to print pamphlets and other material as part of his mandate to maintain French support for the revolution. He called it the Passy Press. Among his printing projects, he produced comics he called Bagatelles and passports. He developed
114-601: The Château de la Muette . When Franklin returned to America, the new American Ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson , wrote: "When he left Passy, it seemed as if the village had lost its patriarch." To this day, a street in Passy bears the name Rue Benjamin Franklin. After the French Revolution , Passy became a commune of Seine . The population was 2,400 in 1836, 4,545 in 1841, but larger in summer. In 1861
133-566: The avant-garde school of art Académie de La Palette . Le Fauconnier commissioned Jean Metzinger and André Dunoyer de Segonzac as full-time instructors for the morning sessions; Eugeniusz Żak (Eugène Zak) and Jean Francis Auburtin took over in the afternoon. In 1912, Le Fauconnier participated in the first exhibition of Cubism in Spain, at Galeries Dalmau , Barcelona, with Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes , Marcel Duchamp , Juan Gris , Marie Laurencin , and August Agero. Le Fauconnier
152-474: The 14th century, King Charles V of France authorized Passy's inhabitants to enclose walls around their fields, and a century later in 1416, Passy became a Lordship . In 1658, hot mineral springs were discovered near what is now Rue des Eaux where spa facilities were developed. This attracted Parisian society and English visitors, some of whom made the area, which combined attractive countryside with both modest houses and fine residences, their winter retreat, as it
171-635: The 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger , Albert Gleizes , Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings. He was in contacts with many European avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky , writing a theoretical text for the catalogue of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich, of which he became a member. His paintings were exhibited in Moscow reproduced as examples of
190-629: The artistic and literary gathered around Paul Fort at the Closerie des Lilas in Montparnasse . At the 1909 Salon d’Automne Le Fauconnier exhibited alongside Constantin Brâncuși , Jean Metzinger and Fernand Léger . Louis Vauxcelles , in his review of the 1910 Salon des Indépendants , made a passing and inaccurate reference to Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes , Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger , as "ignorant geometers, reducing
209-533: The human body, the site, to pallid cubes." Metzinger had written in 1910 of 'mobile perspective' as an interpretation of what would soon become known as "Cubism" with respect to Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and Le Fauconnier. At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky , Le Fauconnier published a theoretical text in the catalog of the Neue Künstlervereinigung (Munich, 1910). He opened his Rue Visconti studio in Paris to artists eager like him to apply
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#1732779630579228-675: The latest art in Der Blaue Reiter Almanach ( The Blue Rider Almanac ). In 1901 Henri Le Fauconnier moved from northern France to Paris, where he studied law, then attended painting classes in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens , then in the Academie Julian . He changed his name from Fauconnier to Le Fauconnier and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1904 and 1905, implementing bold colors in line with Henri Matisse . He moved to Brittany in 1907 and painted
247-529: The lessons of Cézanne. With Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, he contributed to the Cubist scandal of the 1911 Salon des Indépendants . Le Fauconnier exhibited his vast Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) at the Salon d'Automne of 1912 (Paris). February 1912 Henri Le Fauconnier was appointed to succeed Jacques-Émile Blanche as chef d'atelier of
266-583: The name include: Passy It is home to many of the city's wealthiest residents, hence its informal grouping in the Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy area. Many embassies are based in Passy. The earliest mentions of Passy appears in the mention of a lease in villenage in 1250 by members of the Congregation of France .{ }} The Château de Passy (no longer existing) had been built in 1381, later renamed to Château de Boulainvilliers in 1747. During
285-617: The population was 11,431. Passy's population was 17,594 when it was absorbed into Paris along with several other communities in 1860. The painting Albert Gleizes painting Les ponts de Paris (Passy), The Bridges of Paris (Passy) , housed in the collection of the Museum Moderner Kunst ( mumok ), Vienna, refers to the spirit of solidarity among the newly formed "Artists of Passy", during a time when factions had begun to develop within Cubism . Les Artistes de Passy consisted of
304-449: The rocky landscapes of Ploumanac'h in a proto-Cubist style characterized by chastened tones of brown and greens with thick outlines delimiting the simplified forms. He explored a personal style and put it into practice; painting nudes or portraits (such as that of the poet Pierre Jean Jouve in 1909 ( Musée National d'Art Moderne ). Under the influence of Paul Cézanne he developed his own form of Cubism . Back in Paris, he mingles with
323-880: The subject of this painting. Passy is home to the Musée Marmottan Monet , housed in the Château de la Muette , and the Jardin du Ranelagh park. It is served by the Ranelagh metro station . There is now a rue Benjamin Franklin and a square de Yorktown near the Trocadéro . A lively street in the area is Rue de Passy, which goes from La Muette to the Place de Costa Rica just behind the Trocadéro. It has boutiques and chain stores along its length. The Cimetière de Passy , located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing,
342-520: Was located between Paris and the Chateau de Versailles . It was dependent on the parish of Auteuil until 1761. Anne Gabriel Henri Bernard de Boulainvilliers was the last lord of Passy, after he sold it to escape the guillotine. The Hôtel de Valentinois (at that time the property of Monsieur de Chaumont) in Passy was the home of Benjamin Franklin during the nine years that he lived in France during
361-542: Was located in Passy. 48°51′25.60″N 2°17′02.89″E / 48.8571111°N 2.2841361°E / 48.8571111; 2.2841361 Henri Le Fauconnier Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier ( French: [fɔkɔnje] ; July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin . Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At
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