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Fernande Cormier 1919
Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress *Fernande Arendt (1891–19??), Belgian tennis player * Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist *Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier *Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer *Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist *Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer * Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper *Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member *Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), Belgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Decruck
Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 18966 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or viola, dedicated to Marcel Mule. Life Fernande Breilh was born in the village of Gaillac in France to a local merchant. She began learning piano aged eight and studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse. She was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1918 studying organ and composition. There she won prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, and piano accompaniment. Her studies in improvisation on organ led her to travel to America where she gave her first organ recitals in New York. Her husband, Maurice Decruck, a clarinetist, saxophonist and double-bassist, played both bass and saxophone with the New York Philharmonic. Maurice Decruck later became a music publisher, opening the company Les Editions de Paris. They married in 1924 and had three children, Jeannine Decruck (born 1925) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Tchetche
Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress * Fernande Arendt (1891–19??), Belgian tennis player * Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist *Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier * Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer *Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist *Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer * Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper * Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member * Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Tassy
Fernande Tassy (18 December 1903 – 19 April 1952) was a French fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al .... References External links * 1903 births 1952 deaths French female foil fencers Olympic fencers for France Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Saint-Martin
Fernande Saint-Martin (March 28, 1927 – December 11, 2019) was a Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer. A graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University, her career began at ''La Presse'' in 1954 before being made editor-in-chief of ''Châtelaine'' magazine in 1960. Saint-Martin left the magazine in 1972 and was made director of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She was a professor and researcher at Université Laval and later Université du Québec à Montréal from 1979 to 1996. Saint-Martin wrote several books and essays, contributed to various art publications and was awarded the Molson Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Canada Council for her work in semiology in 1989. She was also president of the International Association for Visual Semiotics from 1990 to 1994. Early life and education Saint-Martin was born on March 28, 1927, in Montreal, Quebec, to the health medical officer Théo Saint-Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Sadler
Fernande Sadler (7 July 1869 – 2 December 1949) was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945. Life Sadler was born on 7 July 1869 in Toul. file:The Young Girls On The Edge Of Loing - Oil On Canvas.jpg, left, Young Girls On The Edge Of Loing – Oil On Canvas She trained at the Académie Julian, Julian Academy and studied with Marcel Baschet and Henri Lucien Doucet. She exhibited at the Nancy and Paris Salons. She began at the Paris Salon in 1894 and exhibited miniature paintings at the Nancy Salon. She made her home in Grez-sur-Loing and painted pictures of the area. The town was popular with artists including the visitors like the Glasgow Boys. In 1910 she began to collect paintings for the town, prompted by a suggestion and donations by . The local museum now houses the collection which still receives donations by visiting artists. She had shown an interest in art documenting the role of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Olivier
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier. Early years Olivier was born in Paris on 6 June 1881 of an out-of-wedlock relationship between her mother and a married man. She was raised by an aunt and uncle, who attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Instead, Olivier ran away and married a man who abused her. In 1900, when she was 19 years old, she left her husband without a formal divorce and moved to Paris. She changed her name so that her husband could not find her. Olivier quickly found work modeling for artists and was known in Montmartre as "La Belle Fernande". She was a fixture in the circle of friends of writer Guillaume Apollinaire, where she also became friends with Paul Léautaud, Kees van Dongen and Edmond-Marie Poullain. V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande De Mertens
Fernande Hortense Cécile de Mertens (9 May 1850 - 24 January 1924) was a Belgian-French painter. Life Fernande de Mertens was the fifth of six children of the baron Edouard Mertens and his wife Sophie Lambertine Woelfling, and Fernande was thus a baroness herself. Hélène Échinard writes that in Marseille, Fernande attended the École des Beaux-Arts where she was taught by Théodore Jourdan and Dominique Antoine Magaud. Aged 35, on 27 April 1886, she married the French painter Pierre Jean, and thus acquired French citizenship. In 1888, she became a member of the Société des Artistes Français. The couple had a dedicated studio at the Boulevard de la Corderie in Marseille, where she taught the use of pastel – a popular technique at the time for young girls of respected background. Fernande and her husband never had children. Although her father Edouard and his three brothers had a total of fourteen children among them, there were no grandchildren for the Mertens nobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Keufgens
Fernande Keufgens Davis (born 14 December 1923), also known as Freddie Davis, was a Belgian resistance fighter with the during the Second World War. Early life Fernande Keufgens was born in Montzen, Belgium on 14 December 1923, as one of eight children in a close-knit family. She was sixteen years old when the Germans invaded Belgium. Before World War II began, Keufgens's father—who witnessed the horror of World War I—foresaw the Nazi invasion and the subsequent draft into munitions factories. Her father then arranged for her to move further from the German border to Verviers. Two years after the German invasion, however, Keufgens was summoned back to her home; she was ordered to report to a German munitions factory. Keufgens refused, however, to serve the Nazi army; she boarded the train to the factory, and jumped off before it arrived at the work camp to join the Belgian Resistance. World War II After jumping off the train, Keufgens walked to her uncle's home. He was wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Claude
Fernande Grudet (6 July 1923 – 15 December 2015), also known as Madame Claude, was a French brothel keeper. In the 1960s, she was the head of a French network of call girls who worked especially for dignitaries and civil servants. Biography Born on 6 July 1923 in Angers, France, there are conflicting accounts of Grudet's origins, ranging from an aristocratic father in politics and an education by nuns to a father who ran a small cafe and early work selling food from a pushcart. Another unverified tale about her past includes work as an agent of the French Resistance during the German Occupation of France during World War II and imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp. After the war, she worked as a prostitute but claimed she "was never pretty enough" and was better suited to management. By 1961, she had set up what became the most exclusive prostitution network in Paris for the next decade. At this time she ran a brothel in the expensive 16th arrondissement of Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Giroux
Fernande Giroux (died May 20, 1994) was a Canadians, Canadian actress and jazz singer. She was most noted for winning the Canadian Film Award for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards for her performance in the film ''Red (1970 film), Red''. Her other major acting roles were as Monique Wingate in the television series ''Moment of Truth (Canadian TV series), Moment of Truth'', and Madame Gagnon in the television miniseries ''The Newcomers (miniseries), The Newcomers''. As a singer, she was known primarily for cabaret performances in the Montreal area, and appearances on Quebec television variety shows."TV previews". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 5, 1965. References External links * 1994 deaths 20th-century Canadian actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Canadian jazz singers Actresses from Montreal Singers from Montreal Best Supporting Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande R
Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress * Fernande Arendt (1891–19??), Belgian tennis player * Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist *Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier * Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer *Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist *Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer * Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper * Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member * Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
