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Bernard Grasset (publisher)
Grasset may refer to: People * André Grasset (1758-1792), Canadian-born French priest, martyr * Bernard Grasset (publisher) (1881–1955), French founder of publishing house Éditions Grasset * Bernard Grasset (politician) (born 1933), French politician, former High Commissioner of New Caledonia * Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet (1828–1900), French archaeologist and writer * Dalixia Fernández Grasset (born 1977), Cuban beach volleyball player * Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), Swiss decorative artist and creator of the Grasset typeface * Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769–1839), French violinist * Joseph Grasset (1849–1918), French neurologist and parapsychological investigator * Macarena Perez Grasset (born 1996), Chilean BMX cyclist * Nicole Grasset (1927–2009), Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist * Raymond Grasset (1892-1968), French politician Toponyms * Grasset Lake, Quebec, Canada Other * Collège André-Grasset, pre-university c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grasset
André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (3 April 1758 – 2 September 1792) was a Canada, Canadian-born Catholic Church in France, French Catholic priest who was Holy September Martyrs, martyred in Paris during the French Revolution. In 1926, he became the first Canadian-born person to be Beatification, beatified. Life He was born in Montreal to an immigrant from Montpellier, France, André Grasset de Saint-Sauveur senior (1720-1794),Maurice de Silva, ANDRÉ GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR Martyr québécois de la Révolution française (French) Retrieved 22 September 2020 who had come to Canada (then known as New France) to be the secretary to the Governor General of New France. After his first wife died, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Grasset (publisher)
Grasset may refer to: People * André Grasset (1758-1792), Canadian-born French priest, martyr * Bernard Grasset (publisher) (1881–1955), French founder of publishing house Éditions Grasset * Bernard Grasset (politician) (born 1933), French politician, former High Commissioner of New Caledonia * Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet (1828–1900), French archaeologist and writer * Dalixia Fernández Grasset (born 1977), Cuban beach volleyball player * Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), Swiss decorative artist and creator of the Grasset typeface * Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769–1839), French violinist * Joseph Grasset (1849–1918), French neurologist and parapsychological investigator * Macarena Perez Grasset (born 1996), Chilean BMX cyclist * Nicole Grasset (1927–2009), Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist * Raymond Grasset (1892-1968), French politician Toponyms * Grasset Lake, Quebec, Canada Other * Collège André-Grasset, pre-university c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éditions Grasset
Éditions Grasset () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others. Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette in 1954. In 1967, Éditions Grasset merged with . Today it operates as a subsidiary of Hachette, which has been owned by Lagardère Group since 1981. History Under its Founder Bernard Grasset was born in 1881 in Montpellier. He received a degree in economics before moving to Paris, where he ran in literary circles and started his own publishing business. The company published a number of successful books in its early years, including Alphonse de Châteaubriant's ''Monsieur des Lourdines'' and André Savignon's ''Les Filles de la pluie'', both of which won the Prix Goncourt. In 1913, Grasset published the first volume of '' À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann''. Proust paid for the publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Grasset (politician)
Grasset may refer to: People * André Grasset (1758-1792), Canadian-born French priest, martyr * Bernard Grasset (publisher) (1881–1955), French founder of publishing house Éditions Grasset * Bernard Grasset (politician) (born 1933), French politician, former High Commissioner of New Caledonia * Claude Sosthène Grasset d'Orcet (1828–1900), French archaeologist and writer * Dalixia Fernández Grasset (born 1977), Cuban beach volleyball player * Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), Swiss decorative artist and creator of the Grasset typeface * Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769–1839), French violinist * Joseph Grasset (1849–1918), French neurologist and parapsychological investigator * Macarena Perez Grasset (born 1996), Chilean BMX cyclist * Nicole Grasset (1927–2009), Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist * Raymond Grasset (1892-1968), French politician Toponyms * Grasset Lake, Quebec, Canada Other * Collège André-Grasset, pre-university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Colonial And Departmental Heads Of New Caledonia
The high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia is the representative of the French Republic in New Caledonia, with the rank of prefect. The high commissioner is generally referred to locally in the media as "Haussaire". Its competences since the Nouméa agreement of 1998 and the organic law on New Caledonia of 1999 have been reduced. The part of the organic law which regulates the position of High Commissioner is ''Title VI''. He is “appointed by decree of the president of France deliberated in the Council of Ministers. He publishes the laws of the country with the countersignature of the president of the government of New Caledonia. He ensures their publication, as well as any administrative regulations, in the official journal. He chairs the Mining Council. It is responsible for the organization of services falling within the regal powers of the State: in particular security and justice. It is also he who manages the crisis cells linked to climatic events, such as cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Sosthène Grasset D'Orcet
Claude Sosthene Grasset d'Orcet (6 June 1828 at Aurillac – 2 December 1900 at Cusset) was a French archaeologist, writer, exponent of the esoteric and founder of the study of French mythology. Life Claude Sosthene Grasset was the son of Pierre-Joseph Grasset, the Mayor of Mauriac, and Antoinette-Athénaïs de Chalembel, daughter of the Mayor of Cusset. He studied at the College of Aurillac and then the College of Juilly, where the Abbé Constant, the future Eliphas Levi, introduced him to the study of esoteric subjects. Grasset d'Orcet then went to Paris where he studied at the Faculty of Law. He then studied sculpting at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Elias Robert, who prompted him to travel to Greece, then throughout the Middle East. While in Cyprus he married Clémence-Félicie Lafon, daughter of a former medical officer based in Nicosia. Between 1848 and 1851 he frequented the Café de la Régence in Paris, where he met Alfred de Musset (who intoxicated him w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Grasset
Eugène Samuel Grasset (; 25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design. Biography Grasset was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on 25 May 1845. He was raised in an artistic environment as the son of a cabinetmaker and sculptor who taught him at an early age how to use the chisel and the gouge. He studied drawing under Francois-Louis David Bocion (1828–1890) and in 1861 went to Zürich to study architecture. After completing his education, he visited Egypt, an experience that would later be reflected in a number of his poster designs. He became an admirer of Japanese art, which influenced some of his designs as well. Between 1869 and 1870, Grasset worked as a theater painter and sculptor in Lausanne. Here he met Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Viollet le Duc, whose reflection on the Middle Ages and the method advocating the link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Grasset
Jean-Jacques Grasset (c.1769 – 25 August 1839) was a French classical violinist. He was born in Paris about 1769, and was a pupil of Isidore Bertheaume. After several years' obligatory service in the army, he soon became well-known on his return. On the death of Pierre Gaviniès in 1800 he was appointed professor of the violin at the Conservatoire de Paris. Soon afterwards he succeeded Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni as ''chef d'orchestre'' at the Italian Opera Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous ope ..., holding the post until 1829, when he retired from public life. He died in Paris in 1839. He published three Concertos for the Violin, five books of Violin-Duos, and a Sonata for Piano and Violin. References Attribution * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grasset, Jean-Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Grasset
Joseph Grasset (18 March 1849 – 7 July 1918), was a French neurologist and parapsychological investigator, born in Montpellier.Biography of Joseph Grassett ("Who named it?"). He received his medical degree (1873) in Montpellier, where in 1881 he became a professor of . In 1886, he attained the chair of , and in 1909 was appointed chair of general . Grasset was involved in every aspect of internal medicine, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macarena Perez Grasset
Macarena Pérez Grasset (born 12 August 1996) is a Chilean Freestyle BMX cyclist, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. Career In 2017 she took second place in the VANS US OPEN on Huntington Beach and that same year she obtained two third places in the FISE WORLD CUP in Montpellier, France and then in Chengdu, China respectively. In 2019 she took the 2nd place in the Pan American Games and became the first ever Chilean woman to win a world medal in the discipline, taking silver at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ... behind Hannah Roberts (BMX cyclist), Hannah Roberts of the US. This performance also secured her place at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Grasset
Nicole Grasset (18 April 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a Swiss-French medical virologist and microbiologist-epidemiologist. Grasset was the senior smallpox advisor for the South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1971 through the end of the WHO smallpox eradication campaign. Early life Grasset was the daughter of a famous Swiss microbiologist. She was born in Garches. She is the cousin of doctor Derville Michel. She grew up in South Africa. After studying medicine, she worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. At age 20, she wrote a 'Plan of Life,' her life's mission statement that outlined many of the goals that she would come to achieve. Career Eradication of smallpox Grasset served as SEARO's principal smallpox adviser and held this post through the achievement and certification of eradication in India and Nepal. She joined the program after working as a Red Cross adviser, a role in which she provided vaccination and medical care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
