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The term "minette" came from French miners. It is a diminutive form of "la mine", and might be translated as "little mine, little colliery" or "little vein", referring to its relatively poor iron content of between 28% and 34%. [2] In other uses, "minette" is also an archaic rock term used to locally describe a particular type of lamprophyre. [2]
Minette et Lise was a sister couple of two stage artists, active in Saint Domingue in Pre-revolutionary Haiti. They consisted of Elisabeth Alexandrine Louise Ferrand, stage name "Minette" (11 July 1767 in Port-au-Prince – 2 January 1807 in New Orleans) and Lise (born 1771). They have become known as Minette et Lise (Minette and Lise).
Fleeing England with her mother as an infant in the midst of the English Civil War, Henrietta moved to the court of her first cousin King Louis XIV of France, where she was known as Minette. [1] She married her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and became a fille de France , [ 2 ] but their relationship was marked by frequent tensions over ...
Minette et Lise (1767–1807; 1771–?), Haitian actress sisters "Minette" (Henrietta of England) (1644–1670), daughter of King Charles I and Duchess of Orléans"Minette" (Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius) (1722–1800), French salon hostess
Minette (a type of lamprophyre), from Jáchymov in the Czech Republic. Lamprophyres (from Ancient Greek λαμπρός (lamprós) 'bright' and φύρω (phúrō) 'to mix') are uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rocks primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks, and small intrusions.
Patron-Minette was the name given to a street gang in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables and the musical of the same name. The gang consisted of five criminals: Montparnasse, Claquesous, Babet, and Gueulemer, Brujon. They were well acquainted with the Thénardiers, who recruited them to assist in robbing Jean Valjean.
Minette Libom Li Likeng (formerly Minette Mendomo), born on March 4, 1959, is a Cameroonian politician. She has held the position of Minister of Posts and Telecommunications since the ministerial reshuffle on October 2, 2015, in the government of Philémon Yang [ 1 ] and later in the government of Joseph Dion Ngute .
Minette met her husband Alec Walters while she was at Durham and they married in 1978. They have two sons, Roland and Philip. Walters joined IPC Magazines as a sub-editor in 1972 and became an editor of Woman's Weekly Library the following year. She supplemented her salary by writing romantic novelettes, short stories, and serials in her spare ...