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Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux was born Lucie Frederica Marguerite Jourdain on 9 May 1850 in Louviers, into a prominent family of drapers. [1] Her father was Frédéric-Joseph Jourdain. [ 2 ] She was the half-sister of the painter Roger Joseph Jourdain .
During World War I, the Opéra de Paris director Jacques Rouché asked Colette, whom he met at one of Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux's salons, to provide the text for a fairy ballet. Colette originally wrote the story under the title Divertissements pour ma fille. After Colette chose Ravel to set the text to music, a copy was sent to him in 1916 ...
La Reine Margot (English: Queen Margot) is a historical novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père.Although it is based on real characters and events, certain aspects of La Reine Margot may be inconsistent with the historical record; historians have attributed that to artistic licence and the fact that Dumas might have been influenced by propaganda against certain historical figures ...
The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...
Middle English: The litel prynce [1] Le petit prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Walter Sauer: Edition Tintenfaß: 2008 Old High German: Dher luzzilfuristo [1] Le petit prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Regine Froschauer: Edition Tintenfaß: 2009 Middle High German: Daz prinzelîn [1] Le petit prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Helmut Birkhan ...
In 1892, he married Marguerite Jourdain Baugnies and adopted her three children from her prior marriage. [2] Saint-Marceaux was also a medallist, and a collector of Ancient Greek coins. In 1907 he was commissioned to execute the plaquette for the Société française des Amis de la Médaille. [3]
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(Marguerite herself was a protector of François Rabelais, who dedicated the third volume of his book, Gargantua and Pantagruel, to her.) It will take 10 days to complete the bridge, and, each day, in a shady grove in a meadow, the writers will share 10 tales, telling a total of 100 stories.