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Firmin V
Firmin is a French surname and masculine given name, from the Late Latin Firminus, a derivative of ''firmus'' meaning "firm" or "steadfast". The instruction of St Paul to "be steadfast in the faith" gave the name great popularity among early Christians. People with the surname *Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo (born 1968), French politician *Anténor Firmin (1850–1911), Haitian anthropologist, journalist and politician * Col Firmin (1940–2013), Australian politician * Giles Firmin (1614–1697), English minister and physician * Hannah Firmin (born 1956), English illustrator, daughter of Peter Firmin * Mickaël Firmin (born 1990), French professional footballer * Peter Firmin (1926–2018), English artist and animator * Thomas Firmin (1632–1697), English businessman and philanthropist * Philip Firmin, title character of the 1861–62 novel ''The Adventures of Philip'' by W. M. Thackeray People with the given name * Firmin Abauzit (1679–1767), French scholar * Firmin António, Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Bouisset
Firmin Bouisset (2 September 1859 – 19 March 1925) was a French painter, poster artist and printmaker. Early life and education He was born on 2 September 1859 in the town of Moissac in the Tarn-et-Garonne département in southwestern France. Firmin Bouisset entered the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in 1877, in the live model class. He then passed the Beaux-Arts de Paris competition in March 1880 in Alexandre Cabanel's class, and exhibited two portraits painted the same year at the Salon des artistes français. In 1883, at the request of the director of the Sarreguemines earthenware factory, he executed drawings to decorate a service and were noticed. As an artist, Bouisset specialized in painting children subjects and did a number of illustrated books such as ''La Petite Ménagère'' (The Little Housekeeper) in 1890. Career At a time when posters were a popular form of advertising, Bouisset created posters with enduring images for a number of different French food companies s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Swinnen
Firmin Swinnen (1885–1972) was a Belgian theater organist and concert artist who was noted for his organ improvisations during silent films in New York City. Career Born in Montaigu, Belgium, Swinnen became an organist at the Antwerp cathedral, until World War I caused him to flee to the UK. He played many recitals in Great Britain for war charities, and then he moved to the US, where he played the Austin organ in the Rialto Theater in New York City, and then to the Rivoli theater. At the Rivoli, Swinnen specialized in lengthy improvisations during silent films using theater organs - massive pipe organs with a variety of sound effects and percussion sounds. He was organist/choirmaster at Christ Church Christiana Hundred in Greenville, Delaware from 1925 to 1956, a church which was supported by the duPont family. He played the organ pedal keyboard solo part in the concerto version Mr. Frank Stewart Adams wrote for the opening Allegro of Widor's Fifth Symphony. Commentators no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Martin Schmidt
Firmin Martin Schmidt (October 12, 1918 - August 4, 2005) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in Catharine, Kansas, United States, Schmidt was ordained a priest for the Capuchin order on June 2, 1946. On April 3, 1959, he was appointed prefect of Mendi, Papua New Guinea, and then vicar apostolic of Mendi and titular bishop of ''Conana Conana or Konana () was an inland town of ancient Pisidia inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. The town may also have been called Justinianopolis or Ioustinianoupolis (Ἰουστινιανούπολις). The town was a bish ...'' on June 6, 1965; he was ordained bishop on December 15, 1965. On November 15, 1966, he was appointed first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mendi retiring on February 3, 1995. Notes 1918 births 2005 deaths People from Ellis County, Kansas Capuchins American Roman Catholic priests 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Papua New Guinea Catholics from Kansas Roman Catholic bishops of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Sanou
Firmin Sanou (born 21 April 1973) is a Burkinabé former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was part of the Burkinabé 1998 African Nations Cup team, who finished fourth after losing to Congo DR on penalties in the bronze final. He was later part of the 2002 African Nations Cup The 2002 African Cup of Nations was the 23rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa ( CAF). It was hosted by Mali. Just like in 2000, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Ca ... team, who finished bottom of group B in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals. Career statistics International goals :''Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sanou goal.'' References Living people 1973 births Men's association football defenders Burkinabe men's footballers RC Bobo Dioulasso players Étoile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Monestime
Saint-Firmin (S. F.) Monestime (December 16, 1909 – October 27, 1977) was a Haitian-Canadian politician and medical doctor, who was the first Black Canadian elected mayor of a Canadian municipality."Mattawa's Dr. Firmin Monestime Remembered" '' North Bay Nugget'', October 26, 2007. Background Born in in 1909,"Visite de l’Ambassadeur à Mat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Marbeau
Jean Firmin Marbeau (1798 – October 10, 1875) was a French philanthropist who pioneered the ''crèche'' movement, a forerunner of modern day care. Marbeau was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, and was by profession a lawyer in Paris. He is best known for founding the first ''crèche'', which opened in Paris on November 14, 1844. The ''crèche'' provided child care to enable working-class mothers to work jobs outside of the home, and spawned a Crèche Movement that led to a number of similar establishments being opened in France; the concept was also influential on the development of day care in North America. Marbeau wrote a number of books promoting the concept, and died in Saint-Cloud in 1875. Writings * ''Politique des intérêts'' (1834) * ''Études sur l'économie sociale'' (1844) * ''Des crèches'' (1845) * ''Du paupérisme en France'' (1847) * ''De l'indigence et des secours'' (1850) References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marbeau, Firmin 1798 births 1875 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Lambot
Firmin Lambot (; 14 March 1886 – 19 January 1964) was a Belgian bicycle racer who twice won the Tour de France. Born in the small town of Florennes,The Bicycle, UK, 26 March 1952, p6 Lambot worked as a saddler. He worked 12 hours a day, starting at 6am. He bought his first bicycle at 17 and began riding 50 km a day to and from work. His first race was in a local village; he won five francs as first prize. He then bought a racing bike. He began racing professionally in 1908. In that year he won the championships of Flanders and Belgium. He rode the Tour de France from 1911 to 1913 but the First World War ended the race for the next five years. When the Tour returned in 1919, it was a miserable affair of war-torn roads, fractured logistics and former contenders no longer alive to compete. Only 11 riders finished. Lambot was approached at the Buffalo track in Paris, where he had ridden a 24-hour race, to ride the Tour in the Globe Cycles team. He was second for much of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Lebel
Firmin Lebel (early 16th century – 27–31 December 1573) was a French composer and choir director of the Renaissance, active in Rome. While relatively little of his music survives, he was notable as one of the likely teachers of Palestrina. He was born in Noyon, but nothing is known of his early life. He was a chaplain at Santa Maria Maggiore, and was ''maestro di cappella'' of its Liberian chapel by 1540; while at this post, from late 1540 and possibly continuing for several years, he is thought to have been a teacher of the young Palestrina. In 1545 he became ''maestro di cappella'' at the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, a position he kept until 1561, at which time Annibale Zoilo was appointed in his place. On 4 September 1561, he joined the papal chapel; evidently he was highly regarded as a choir director and composer, for the entrance examination was waived in his case, by Pope Pius IV himself. After only four years, however, the chapel choir was dramatically reduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Gillot
Firmin Gillot (11 October 1819 Combres, France – 11 June 1872 Paris) was a French printmaker (engraver) and inventor. History At the start of the 19th century, a technique gained popularity that involved transferring a drawing onto a lithographic stone from a special paper coated with a mix of starch and gelatin. This method, called autographic transfer, allowed artists to easily reproduce their drawings. Firmin Gillot took this a step further. On March 21, 1850, he patented an idea: instead of transferring the image to a stone, he transferred it to a zinc plate. Then, using acid to etch the image, he created raised surfaces on the plate where the drawn lines were. This technique transformed the flat image into a printing plate that could be used for relief printing, similar to traditional typesetting methods. This process, a zincography innovation, became known as gillotage. It was also known as paniconography and eventually evolved into what we now recognize as typographic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Flamand
Firmin Flamand was a Belgian archer and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ..., where he won a gold medal with the Belgian team, and also an individual bronze medal."1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Archery" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 15, 2008)"The 1920 Olympics: Antwerp, Belgium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
