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Isabelle Le Maresquier
Isabelle Le Maresquier was a French equestrian and a prominent socialite of Parisian high society from the late 1950s and during the 1960s. Horseriding A noted equestrian during the 1960s and 1970s,''Town & Country'', Vol. 119, No. 4512, pp. 47 and 50 she became the first woman to win in a mixed horserace on 8 November 1975. Family Born in Paris, she was a daughter of a prominent architect Noël Le Maresquier and Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada, granddaughter of a prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and a niece of French Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister Michel Debré. Her family was referred to as French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu.Pierre Bourdieu, ''The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power'' (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998 She was the mother-in-law of the Chancellor of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Maresquier, Isabelle French equestrians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Le Maresquier
Noël Le Maresquier (6 August 1903 – 20 October 1982) was a French architect and one of the most prominent postwar architects of France. Career Born in Paris, he was the son of the prominent architect Charles Lemaresquier, and succeeded his father as head of the Beaux-Arts de Paris ''grande école''. He continued his father's Atelier Lemaresquier. He was the brother-in-law of French Prime Minister Michel Debré. Le Maresquier and his family are referred to as French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu.Pierre Bourdieu, ''The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power'' (p. 293), Stanford University Press, 1998 In 1944 he was tasked with the reconstruction of several cities bombed by the Americans like Saint-Nazaire; he was a supporter of the clean slate approach, unlike Louis Arretche in Saint-Malo.Archives d'architectes, État des Fonds XIXe-XXe siècles, Institut français d'Architecture, by S. Gaubert and R. Cohu, Paris, 1996, fonds 44/19 and 75/14, p. 83, 149. Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lemaresquier
Charles Henri-Camille Lemaresquier (October 16, 1870, Sète - January 6, 1972, Paris) was a French architect and teacher. Lemaresquier was born in Sète, in southern France, into a family of artists, and apprenticed to a Parisian architect at the age of 16. He was accepted into the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1888, and by 1890 was in the ''atelier'' of Victor Laloux, who had taken over from his mentor Louis-Jules André after André's death. In the summer and fall of 1927, Lemaresquier represented France on the jury of nine European architects judging the high-profile Palace of Nations competition, assessing the 375 entries alongside fellow judges such as Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Victor Horta, and Josef Hoffman. Among his students were Max Ingrand and David Moreira da Silva. The architect held seat #6 of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts from 1938 until his death in 1972. In 1900 Lemaresquier married Germaine Ribaucou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of France
The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the France, French Republic and the leader of the Government of France, Council of Ministers. The prime minister is the holder of the second-highest office in France, after the president of France. The president, who appoints but cannot dismiss the prime minister, can ask for their resignation. The Government of France, including the prime minister, can be dismissed by the National Assembly (France), National Assembly. Upon appointment, the prime minister proposes a list of ministers to the president. Decrees and decisions signed by the prime minister, like almost all executive decisions, are subject to the oversight of the administrative court system. Some decrees are taken after advice from the Conseil d'État (France), Council of State (french: link=no, Conseil d'État), over which the prime minister is entitled to pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Debré
Michel Jean-Pierre Debré (; 15 January 1912 – 2 August 1996) was the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France. He served under President Charles de Gaulle from 1959 to 1962. In terms of political personality, Debré was intense and immovable and had a tendency to rhetorical extremism. Early life Debré was born in Paris, the son of Jeanne-Marguerite (Debat-Ponsan) and Robert Debré, a well-known professor of medicine, who is today considered by many to be the founder of modern pediatrics. His maternal grandfather was academic painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan. Debré's father was Jewish, and his grandfather was a rabbi. Debré himself was Roman Catholic. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and then at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, obtained a diploma from the École Libre des Sciences Politiques, and a PhD in Law from the University of Paris. He then became a Professor of Law at the University of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture, and the arts). During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France. Bourdieu's work was primarily concerned with the dynamics of power in society, especially the diverse and subtle ways in which power is transferred and social order is maintained within and across generations. In conscious opposition to the idealist tradition of much of Western philosophy, his work often emphasized the corporeal nature of social life and stressed the role of practice and embodiment in social dynamics. Building upon and criticizing the theories o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Schallenberg
Alexander Georg Nicolas Schallenberg (; born 20 June 1969) is an Austrian diplomat, jurist and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer since 2021, previously holding the office from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), he held the position in the second government of Sebastian Kurz, before briefly serving as Chancellor of Austria as Kurz's successor from 11 October to 6 December 2021. A member of the Schallenberg family and a graduate of the College of Europe, Schallenberg was a career diplomat who became a mentor to Kurz when the latter became foreign minister. Kurz appointed him director of strategic foreign policy planning and head of the European department. Schallenberg joined the cabinet as foreign minister in 2019. After Kurz announced his pending resignation on 9 October 2021, Schallenberg was proposed by the ÖVP to replace him as Chancellor of Austria. He was sworn in on 11 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels
The ''Almanach de Gotha'' (german: Gothaischer Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty and higher nobility, also including the major governmental, military and diplomatic corps, as well as statistical data by country. First published in 1763 by C.W. Ettinger in Gotha in Thuringia, Germany at the ducal court of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, it came to be regarded as an authority in the classification of monarchies and their courts, reigning and former dynasties, princely and ducal families, and the genealogical, biographical and titulary details of Europe's highest level of aristocracy. It was published from 1785 annually by Justus Perthes Publishing House in Gotha, until 1944. The Soviets destroyed the ''Almanach de Gotha's'' archives in 1945. In 1992, the family of Justus Perthes re-established its right to use the name ''Almanach de Gotha''. In 1998, a London-based publisher, John Kennedy, acquired the rights for use of the title of ''Almanach de Goth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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