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L'étoile du nord (The North Star) is an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe. The work had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 16 February 1854. Giacomo Meyerbeer, portrayed in 1847
L'Étoile du Nord is a French phrase meaning "The Star of the North". It is the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota , [ 1 ] and the only U.S. state motto in French. It was chosen by the state's first governor, Henry Hastings Sibley , and adopted in 1861, three years after Minnesota's admission to the union. [ 2 ]
L'Étoile du Nord: L'Étoile du Nord is French for "Star of the North". It was chosen by Henry Sibley, the state's first governor, shortly after the Minnesota territory became a state in 1858. Sibley selected it as a reflection of Minnesota's location so far north in the US. [19] 1861 Muffin: Blueberry muffin
Giacomo Meyerbeer, engraving from a photograph by Pierre Petit (1865). Giacomo Meyerbeer [n 1] (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". [1]
Étoile du Nord (French for Star of the North, i.e. the North Star) may refer to: L'Étoile du Nord, the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota; L'étoile du nord, an 1854 opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer "L'Étoile du Nord", a short story by the francophone Belgian writer Georges Simenon
The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota is the state seal of the U.S. state of Minnesota.It was adopted on May 11, 2024, alongside the state flag, for Statehood Day.It features a common loon, Minnesota's state bird, wild rice, the state grain, and the North Star, representing the state's motto (L'Étoile du Nord), and is themed around Minnesota's nature.
Étoile du Nord (disambiguation) (French: North Star) Nordstern (disambiguation) (German: Northstar) Nordstar (disambiguation) Northstar (disambiguation) North Star (disambiguation) Northern Star (disambiguation)
Nemrod takes the Étoile du Nord train to Brussels, on which he is robbed and killed. Édouard then takes a room at the boarding house in Charleroi of Madame Baron, Sylvie's mother, with bloodstained clothes and a lot of money that he hides. Despite the suspicions of her younger daughter Antoinette and the other lodgers, the frosty Madame Baron ...