Petite

Japanese: プティ
Petite
French dancer and choreographer. Born in Villemomble near Paris. Graduated at the top of her class at the Paris Opera Ballet School and joined the Paris Opera Ballet. During World War II, she performed with Challah. In 1944, when Paris was liberated, she left the Opera, and in 1945 she founded the Champs-Élysées Ballets, and in 1948 she founded the Paris Ballet. During this period, she choreographed such representative works as La juvenile et mort (1946, Bach), Carmen (1949, Bizet), and Les Wolves (1953, Dutilleux). In 1954, she married Jeanmaire, and from this time she entered the world of show business, choreographing and directing musicals, films, and revues. In 1971, at the invitation of the city of Marseille, she founded the Marseille Laurent Petit Ballet Company, which has been active around the world and has performed in Japan many times, but retired as director in 1998. Other notable works include "Notre Dame de Paris" (1965, music by Maurice Jarre), "Turangalila" (1968, music by Messiaen), "Proust: In Search of Lost Time" (1974, music by Saint-Saëns, R. Wagner, and others), and "Coppelia" (1975, music by Delibes). → Plisetskaya

Petite

French physicist. Professor at the École Polytechnique. He collaborated with Dulong to study the thermal expansion of solids and measured the thermal expansion coefficient of mercury. In 1819, he discovered Dulong–Petit's law.

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Japanese:
フランスの舞踊家,振付家。パリ近郊のビルモンブル生れ。パリ・オペラ座バレエ学校を首席で卒業,オペラ座バレエ団に入団。第2次世界大戦下はシャラと組んで公演を行った。パリ解放の1944年オペラ座を退団,翌1945年シャンゼリゼ・バレエ団,1948年パリ・バレエ団を結成。この時期,《若者と死》(1946年,バッハ曲),《カルメン》(1949年,ビゼー曲),《狼》(1953年,デュティユー曲)などの代表作を振り付けている。1954年ジャンメールと結婚,このころからショー・ビジネスの世界へと進出,ミュージカルや映画,レビューなどの振付や演出も手がける。1971年マルセイユ市の招きでマルセイユ・ローラン・プティ・バレエ団を設立,世界各地で活躍し,日本でもたびたび公演を行ったが,1998年に監督の座を退任。上記以外の代表作として《ノートル・ダム・ド・パリ》(1965年,モーリス・ジャール曲),《トゥランガリラ》(1968年,メシアン曲),《プルースト―失われた時を求めて》(1974年,サン・サーンス,R.ワーグナー他曲),《コッペリア》(1975年,ドリーブ曲)などがある。→プリセツカヤ

プティ

フランスの物理学者。エコール・ポリテクニク教授。デュロンと協力し固体の熱膨張を研究,水銀の熱膨張率を測定。1819年デュロン=プティの法則を発見。

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