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Marie Noël, born Marie-Mélanie Rouget (Auxerre, 16 February 1883 – 23 December 1967) was a French poet, a devout Catholic laywoman and officer of the Légion d'honneur. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was affectionately called "the Warbler of Auxerre".
Durand's inspiration for the poem was a marabou woman named Marie Noel Belizaire—nicknamed Choucoune—who ran a restaurant in Cap-Haïtien. She met Durand, and the two had a romantic liaison. In the poem, Choucoune deserts the poet for a Frenchman's favors. Reportedly the real Choucoune and Durand parted because of the poet's serial ...
Renée Octavie Ghislaine Marie-Noële Kelly, Lady Kelly (née Jourda de Vaux; 25 December 1901 – 22 February 1995) was a Belgian-born English hostess and traveler. She was posted abroad to Sweden, Egypt, Argentina, Switzerland, Turkey and the Soviet Union as the wife of David Kelly , the Head of Chancery, later Ambassador there.
Marie-Noël Robert Robert le Jeune cadet the younger [1] Occupation(s) Mechanical engineer, Balloonist: Known for: Builder of first hydrogen balloon Builder of first manned hydrogen balloon Co-pilot of first manned hydrogen balloon flight in 1783 Co-pilot of first balloon flight over 100km 1784 [2]
Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French military officer and Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces during the First World War. Elected deputy in 1919 and president of the Army Commission in the legislature, he then took the head of a confessional political movement, the ...
View of the auditorium Share certificate of S.A. de l'Eden-Theatre from the 15. December 1881. On 12 November 1892 the theatre became the Grand Théâtre, opening with Daudet's play Sapho (with incidental music by Mendelssohn, Delibes and Massenet), followed by a production of Le Malade imaginaire with Charpentier's music arranged by Saint-Saëns. [9]
Marie-Charlotte Houasse, possibly born around 1687 as she was described as being only about 32 years old [3] at the death of her husband, the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger. The couple had married on 20 October 1704 in Rome where they lived. [4] The widowed Marie-Charlotte returned to Paris with her three children in 1723. [5]
Bruno Foucart and Geneviève Capy, and G. Flrent Laballe, G. Guillon Lethière: peintre d'histoire ; 1760 - 1832, Association des amis de Guillaume Guillon Lethière, 1991 Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, "Revolutionary Sons, White Fathers and Creole Difference: Guillaume Guillon Lethière's Oath of the Ancestors of 1822", Yale French Studies 101 (2002 ...