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Charles Simon (actor)
Charles Simon or Charles-Simon may refer to: Simon as surname * Charles Simon (sports manager) (1882–1915), French lawyer and sports manager * Charles Martin Simon (1941–2007), better known as Charlie Nothing, American musician, musical instrument maker and writer * Charles Simon (actor) (1909–2002), British actor Simon as second name * Charles-Simon Pradier (1786–1847), Swiss engraver * Charles-Simon Catel (1773–1830), French composer and educator * Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846–1923), French orientalist * Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart (; 13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Biography Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, ... (1710–1792), French playwright See also * Charles Simons (other) {{Disambiguation, hn=Simon, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simon (sports Manager)
Charles Maurice Simon (25 September 1882 – 15 June 1915) was a French lawyer and a sports manager who served as the secretary general of the Gymnastic and Sports Federation of French Patronages, FGSPF and Fédération internationale catholique d'éducation physique et sportive, FICEP, from 1905 and 1911, respectively, until his death 1915. In order to defend the development of football, he founded and presided over the short-lived French Interfederal Committee (CFI), which would later become the French Football Federation (FFF) in 1919. The name of Charles Simon has been attached to the Coupe de France since its creation in 1917. In addition to sports, he was also a lover of the French language, poetry, and music. Early life and education Charles Simon was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris on 25 September 1882, into a bourgeois family originally from Normandy, as the son of Aimable Corentin Simon, a doctor in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, and Elise Mouchet, a housewif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Nothing
Charles Martin Simon (July 8, 1941 – October 23, 2007), better known as Charlie Nothing, was an American musician, musical instrument maker and writer. He created the dingulator, guitar sculptures made out of American cars, and performed at several music festivals in the United States and Europe. He made two albums and published 12 books. Biography Charles Martin Simon was schooled at the Montclair Academy for Boys (later the Montclair Kimberley Academy) in Montclair, New Jersey. After graduating in 1959, Simon went to Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he majored in agriculture and English literature. But after two years at university he grew unhappy with the courses and dropped out. After the death of his artist wife in 1965, Simon was "reduced to nothing", which produced a "psyche fragmentation" he called Charlie Nothing the Artist. As Charlie Nothing, he pursued music and the visual arts. He created guitar sculptures made out of American cars he called dingulat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simon (actor)
Charles Simon or Charles-Simon may refer to: Simon as surname * Charles Simon (sports manager) (1882–1915), French lawyer and sports manager * Charles Martin Simon (1941–2007), better known as Charlie Nothing, American musician, musical instrument maker and writer * Charles Simon (actor) (1909–2002), British actor Simon as second name * Charles-Simon Pradier (1786–1847), Swiss engraver * Charles-Simon Catel (1773–1830), French composer and educator * Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846–1923), French orientalist * Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart (; 13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Biography Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, ... (1710–1792), French playwright See also * Charles Simons (other) {{Disambiguation, hn=Simon, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Simon Pradier
Charles-Simon Pradier (25 May 1783 – 21 July 1847) was a Swiss engraver who also worked in France and Brazil. He was recognized as one of the leading engravers of his day. He collaborated with Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres on several works. Life Pradier was born on 25 May 1783 in Geneva, in the Republic of Geneva, into a family descended from Huguenot refugees from the Languedoc. His brother was the sculptor Jean-Jacques Pradier (1790–1852), better known as James Pradier. Pradier was a pupil of Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers, who was in turn a pupil of Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756–1844). He was to become one of the most distinguished engravers of his day. Pradier became a member of the Drawing Committee of the ''Société des Arts'' in 1812, but was not active in it since he usually lived in Geneva. Pradier was a member of the ''Missão Artística Francesa'' organized by Joachim Lebreton which brought a number of artists to Brazil, arriving on 25 March 1816. These includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Simon Catel
Charles-Simon Catel (; 10 June 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne. Biography Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing in Paris. He studied composition with François-Joseph Gossec and by the age of 16 became his chief assistant at the orchestra of the National Guard in 1790. A member of the Institute, he jointly composed pieces of military music for official state ceremonies, including ''L'Hymne à la Victoire'' (Victory Hymn), with words by Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun. He was appointed inaugural professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, but was relieved of his duties in 1814. Amongst his students were the Prix de Rome winning composers Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul and Victor Dourlen, the Belgian composer Martin-Joseph Mengal, and the famous, if eccentric, harpist Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. Catel died in Paris. His works include a ''Treatise on Harmony'' (1802), which was used by the young Berlioz, several concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (19 February 1846 – 15 February 1923) was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist. Biography Clermont-Ganneau was born in Paris, the son of Simon Ganneau, a sculptor and mystic who died in 1851 when Clermont-Ganneau was five, after which Théophile Gautier took him under his wing. After an education at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, he entered the diplomatic service as ''dragoman'' to the consulate at Jerusalem, and afterwards at Constantinople. He laid the foundation of his reputation by his involvement with the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone), which bears the oldest Semitic inscription known. In 1871, Clermont-Ganneau identified the biblical city of Gezer (Joshua 16:11) with that of Abu Shusha, formerly known as ''Tell el Jezer''. In the same year he discovered the Temple Warning inscription in Jerusalem. In 1874 he was employed by the British government to take charge of an archaeological expedition to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simon Favart
Charles Simon Favart (; 13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Biography Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time. His first success in literature was ''La France delivrée par la Pucelle d'Orléans'', a poem about Joan of Arc which obtained a prize of the Académie des Jeux Floraux. After the production of his first ''vaudeville'', ''Les Deux Jumelles'' (1734), circumstances enabled him to relinquish business and devote himself entirely to the drama. He provided many pieces anonymously for the lesser theatres, and first put his name to ''La Chercheuse d'esprit'', which was produced in 1741. Among his most successful works were ''Annette et Lubin; Le Coq du milage'' (1743); ''Les Vendanges de Tempé'' (1745), later reworked as ''La Vallée de Montmorency'' (1752); ''Ninette à la cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
