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Greffulhe (horse)
Greffulhe may refer to: People *Countess Élisabeth Greffulhe, born Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay (1860-1952), French aristocrat. *Henri Greffulhe (1815-1879), French politician. *Count Henry Greffulhe (1848-1932), French aristocrat and politician. *Count Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (1774-1820), Dutch-born French banker and politician. *Louis-Charles Greffulhe (1814-1888), French aristocrat and politician. Other * Greffuhle Stradivarius, a violin. *Prix Greffulhe, a horse race in France. *Rue Greffulhe The Rue Greffulhe is a street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was named after Count Louis-Charles Greffulhe, who was the owner of the land prior to its construction in 1839. Composer Georges Hugon lived a ...
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Henri Greffulhe
Henri Greffulhe (29 July 1815 – 8 April 1879) was a French politician. He was made a Senator for life A senator for life is a member of the senate or equivalent upper chamber of a legislature who has life tenure. , six Italian senators out of 206, two out of the 41 Burundian senators, one Congolese senator out of 109, and all members of the Brit .... References 1815 births 1879 deaths French life senators {{France-politician-stub ...
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Henry Greffulhe
Count Henry Jules Charles Emmanuel Greffulhe (25 December 1848 – 31 March 1932) was a French heir, socialite and politician. He was the son of Louis-Charles Greffuhle and his wife, Félicité-Pauline-Marie de la Rochefoucauld d'Estissac. He was a personal friend of author Marcel Proust. He has been pointed out as one of the main inspirations for the character of the ''duc de Guermantes'' in Proust’s novel, ''À la recherche du temps perdu ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...''.Laure Hillerin, La comtesse Greffulhe, l'Ombre des Guermantes'', Paris, Flammarion, 2014 ( Part V, La chambre noire des Guermantes, p. 345-455. References External links * 1848 births 1932 deaths {{France-noble-stub ...
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Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe
Count Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (May 21, 1774 – February 23, 1820) was a French banker and politician. He was the founder of a bank called Greffulhe Montz et Cie. He served as a member of the Chamber of Peers from 1814 to 1820. References 1774 births 1820 deaths French bankers French politicians Businesspeople from Amsterdam {{France-politician-stub ...
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Louis-Charles Greffulhe
Louis-Charles Greffulhe (9 February 1814 – 27 September 1888) was a French count and politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe and his wife, Marie-Françoise-Célestine-Gabrielle de Vintimille du Luc. Célestine de Vintimille de Luc was a granddaughter of Charles de Vintimille, and the great-great-great-great granddaughter of adventuress Hortense Mancini He served as a member of the Chamber of Peers from 1839 to 1848. He was a supporter of King Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary War .... References 1814 births 1888 deaths Politicians from Rouen Members of the Chamber of Peers (France) {{France-noble-stub ...
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Greffuhle Stradivarius
The ''Greffuhle Stradivarius'' is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, around the year 1709. It derives its name from a French nobleman who once owned it. The Greffuhle is one of the eleven Stradivarius instruments that are decorated. Like the decorated Stradivarius violins in the Spanish Royal Collection, the instrument has a label with a date of 1709. The decoration is elaborate inlay motif of flowers, vines, and animals, the designs conceived by Stradivari himself. The purfling is a wide band of inlaid ivory diamonds and circles on an ebony background. The violin's top plate is made of two-piece spruce with even medium-to-fine grain broadening toward the sides. The back is one-piece maple with narrow, nearly horizontal flame figure; the ribs are of similar maple. The neck is made of modern maple, terminating in the original pegbox and scroll. It was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1997 by Herbert R. Axelrod as part of the Axelrod quartet Axelrod or ...
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Prix Greffulhe
The Prix Greffulhe is a Group 2 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old horses. It is run over a distance of 2,000 metres (about 1¼ miles) at Saint-Cloud in May. History The event is named in memory of Henri Greffulhe (1815–1879), a long-serving member of the Société d'Encouragement. It was established in 1882, and was originally run at Longchamp over 2,100 metres. The Prix Greffulhe was one of several trials for the Prix du Jockey Club collectively known as the Poules des Produits. The others (listed by their modern titles) were the Prix Daru, the Prix Lupin, the Prix Hocquart and the Prix Noailles. The Prix Greffulhe was restricted to the produce of mares born and bred in France. It was funded by entries submitted before a horse's birth, in the year of conception. The race was abandoned throughout World War I, with no running from 1915 to 1919. It was contested at Le Tremblay over 2,150 m ...
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