Botswana. 1884 British occupy =Bechuanaland Protectorate. 1966 Independent.

Böttger, Johann. 1682-1719. European discoverer of porcelain making process, 1709, Dresden.

Botticelli, Sandro. 1445-1510. Poetic Florentine Renaissance painter: Sistine fresco 1482.Birth of Venus 1485.

Bouchard, Henri. 1875-1960. Sculptor. Apollo, St-Pierre de Chaillot.

Bouchardon, Edme. 1698-1762. French Neoclassical sculptor. Equestrian Louis XV, Four Seasons Fountain, Cupid.

Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.

Boudicca. Boadicea.

Boudin, Eugene. 1824-98. French naturalist open-air painter. Beach at Deauville 1869.

Bougainville, Louis. 1729-1811. First French circumnavigation 1766-9. Voyage autour du monde 1771.

Boulanger, Georges. 1837-91. French popular war minister. Conspired coup 1889. Banished.

Boulez, Pierre. 1925-. French 12-tone avant-garde composer. Sonatine 1946.

Boulle, Pierre. 1912-94. French novelist. Bridge on the River Kwai 1952.

Boullée, Étienne. 1728-99. French grandiose Neoclassical architect.

Boumédienne, Houari. 1925-78. Islamic Algerian President from 1965 coup.

Bourassa, Henri. 1868-1952. Montreal journalist, politician. Founded Le Devoir, 1910.

Bourbon. 1327~1848 French dynasty. 1700~ Spain. 1734-1860 Naples.

Bourdelle, Antoine. 1861-1929. French sculptor. Simplified Greek style of heroic energy. Heracles 1910.

Bourgeois, Léon. 1851-1925. French statesman. League of Nations.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bourges, Pragmatic Sanction. 1438. French Charles VIII supports Gallicanism vs pope.

Bourguiba, Habib. 1903-2000. Tunisian Nationalist president 1956-87. Moderate socialist.

Bourne, Randolph. 1886-1918. US pacifist essayist. Untimely Papers 1919.

Bouvines, Battle. 1214. French defeat English, HRE coalition. Recapture Angou...France a major power.

Boveri, Theodor. 1864-1915. German cytologist. Chromosomes, 1904.

Bowditch, Nathaniel. 1773-1838. US self-educated astronomer, mathematician. New American Practical Navigator 1802.

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