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English: French Girl 1920s Oil on canvas 30 x 22 in 76.2 x 55.9 cm Between 1921 and 1925, Neel studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art and Design, where she likely made this work. One of Neel’s earliest extant paintings, French Girl reflects Neel’s own budding skills as an artist as much as it ...
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
Eva Ionesco (born 18 July 1965) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is the daughter of photographer Irina Ionesco and came to international prominence as a child model after being featured in her mother's works.
Born and raised in the Paris suburbs, Marant launched her label in 1994, but she really started in 1989 with a small accessories line of belts and jewelry.
Madame Vaudé-Green (1822-1902), nineteenth century French photographer of religious art; Véronique de Viguerie (born 1978), photojournalist, particularly known for her photography of the most recent Afghan war
Capucine was born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre on 6 January 1928 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France. [1] [2] She often confused the date of her birth by claiming that she was born in 1931 or 1933, and most sources indicate those years.
The Shaved Woman of Chartres (French: La Tondue de Chartres) is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Chartres on 16 August 1944. This picture was first published in Life magazine and became iconic of the épuration sauvage (wild purge) enacted after the liberation of France and the severe punishment imposed on the French women ...
Say "bonjour" to French names for girls beyond classics like "Marie," "Charlotte" and "Louise.". American parents fell in love with French girl names in the 1960s, according to Laura Wattenberg ...