An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. Source: Internet
Because of his skinny legs, Pantalone is portrayed wearing trousers rather than knee- breeches (which Jaques refers to as "his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide/For his shrunk shank"). Source: Internet
Jaques Habas, Les secrets du moulin rouge, 2010 * 1937: the Cotton Club, all the rage in New York, is put on at the Moulin Rouge; Ray Ventura and his Collegians also appear. Source: Internet
Jaques Sterne was a powerful clergyman but a mean-tempered man and a rabid politician. Source: Internet
In the well-known "all the world's a stage" speech in Shakespeare 's As You Like It (II, vii), Jaques describes the second-last stage of life as "the lean and slippered pantaloon." Source: Internet
In 1995, then president Jaques Chirac said France has a role in and responsibility for the deportations, which were carried out by French police officers during the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. Source: Internet