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Lucie Taïeb
Lucie is the French and Czech form of the female name Lucia. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lucie Ahl (born 1974), British tennis player * Lucie Arnaz (born 1951), American actress * Lucie Aubrac (1912–2007), member of the French Resistance * Lucie Balthazar (born 1958), Canadian handball player * Lucie Berger (1836–1906), French educator * Lucie Bílá (born 1966), Czech pop singer * Lucie Blue Tremblay (born 1958), Canadian singer-songwriter * Lucie Böhm (born 1974), Austrian orienteer * Lucie Boissonnas (1839–1877), French writer * Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet * Lucie Campbell, American composer * Lucie Cave, British journalist * Lucie Charlebois, Canadian politician * Lucie Daouphars (1922-1963), French model known as Lucky * Lucie de la Falaise, Welsh-French former model and socialite * Lucie Décosse, French judoka * Lucie Dejardin, Belgian politician * Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, French writer * Lucie Edwards, Canadian diplomat * Lucie Grang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (50927 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC476 AD) until the fall of the western empire. Ancient Rome began as an Italic peoples, Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually controlled the Italian Peninsula, assimilating the Greece, Greek culture of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) and the Etruscans, Etruscan culture, and then became the dominant power in the Mediterranean region and parts of Europe. At its hei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Samuel (29 June 1912 – 14 March 2007), born Bernard and known as Lucie Aubrac (), was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. A history teacher by occupation, she earned a history ''agrégation'' in 1938, a highly uncommon achievement for a woman at that time. In 1939 she married Raymond Samuel, who took the name Aubrac in the Resistance. She was active on a number of operations, including prison breakouts. Like her husband, she was a communist militant, which she remained after the war. She sat in the Provisional Consultative Assembly in Paris from 1944 to 1945. Her life was depicted in the 1997 film '' Lucie Aubrac'' by Claude Berri. The Paris Métro station Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac is named after her. Career In 1940, Lucie was amongst the first to join the French Resistance. In Clermont-Ferrand, Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie formed the Resistance group ''La Dernière Colonne'', later known as Libération-sud, with her husband and Jean Cavaillès. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Décosse
Lucie Décosse (born 6 August 1981 in Chaumont) is a female French retired judoka. Career Décosse competed in the half-middleweight (57–63 kg) category until 2008. Thereafter, she switched to the middleweight (63–70 kg) category. She was ranked number one in the world in both categories. Décosse won a total of 13 medals (8 of them gold) at the Olympic Games, the World Judo Championships and the European Judo Championships. She won the most important medal of her career – the middleweight (63–70 kg) gold medal – at the 2012 Olympic Games. Décosse retired from judo after losing her bronze medal match against South Korea's Kim Seong-Yeon at the 2013 World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro. References External links * * Videos of Lucie Décosse in action(Judovision) Factfile by L'Équipe ''L'Équipe'' (, French for "the team") is a French nationwide daily newspaper devoted to sport, owned by Éditions Philippe Amaury. The paper is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie De La Falaise
Lucie de la Falaise (born 19 February 1973) is a Welsh-born French design consultant, former model, and socialite. Early life Lucie le Bailly de la Falaise was born in Wales in 1973, and grew up on a sheep farm. She is the younger of two children. When she was 15, she and her family moved to Fontainebleau, France. Her mother, Louisa Ogilvy, is from Scotland, and her father, the late Count Alexis le Bailly de la Falaise, was a furniture designer who was half French and half English. His mother, Maxime de la Falaise, was a model in the 1950s, while his sister, Loulou de la Falaise, was a muse to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. The de la Falaise family are members of an aristocratic French clan whose actual surname is ''Le Bailly de La Falaise''. Career De la Falaise began to model as a teenager, after having been discovered by '' Vogue'' magazine's creative director André Leon Talley, who was interviewing her aunt Loulou at the time. De la Falaise and her brother Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Daouphars
Lucie Daouphars (1922-1963) was a French fashion model known as Lucky, who worked extensively for Christian Dior Christian Ernest Dior (; 21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer and founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, Dior, Christian Dior SE. His fashion house is known all around the world, having gained promi ... and Jacques Fath. Lucky was Dior's favourite model. References 1922 births 1963 deaths French female models Dior people 20th-century French women {{France-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Charlebois
Lucie Charlebois (born July 14, 1959 in Coteau-Station, now called Les Coteaux, in the riding of Soulanges, Quebec) is a Quebec politician. She was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Soulanges and Minister for Rehabilitation, Youth Protection and Public Health. A business executive, she comes from the business community and is well known in the Soulanges region. She was the owner of her company for eleven years. She was a member of the Soulanges business people association and its president for two years. Early in 2003, she decided to run for public office and was elected MNA for Soulanges in the provincial elections of April 14 of that year. She was re-elected in the 2007, 2008, and 2012 elections. Lucie Charlebois has also been Assistant Government Whip and she served on several parliamentary committees of the National Assembly. She served as the Chief Government Whip from 2011 to 2014. Following her re-election in 2014, Charlebois was appointed Minister for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Cave
Lucie Cave (born 1972) is an English journalist who is the Editor-in-Chief of ''Heat'' magazine and the Heat brand (spanning heat radio, heatworld.com and heat TV). She graduated with a 2:1 in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 1995, where she was the editor of the University newspaper ''Darts.'' Her career started with Trouble TV. Publications On 25 May 2014, Hodder published Joey Essex's number one selling ghost-written autobiography called ''Joey Essex: Being Reem'', written by and dedicated to Lucie Cave. On 2 May 2006 she also ghost-wrote the HarperCollins published Jade Goody's autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share thei ... titled ''Jade: My Autobiography'', dedicated to Cave. She also wrote Abi Titmuss' book – released in spring 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Campbell
Lucie Eddie Campbell (born Lucie Eddie Campbell-Williams; April 30, 1885 – January 3, 1963) was an American composer and director of gospel music. She was also an educator and advocate for social justice. She consistently innovated in the conventions of gospel songs and hymns; her 1919 "Something within" is considered the first published first gospel song by an African-American. Life and career Early life and education Lucie Eddie Campbell, the youngest of eleven children, was born to Burrell and Isabella (Wilkerson) Campbell in Duck Hill, Mississippi, US on April 30, 1885. Her father worked for the Mississippi Central Railroad (later purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad), and she was born in the caboose of a train. Isabella worked as a cook and both parents were former slaves. Less than two years after Lucie's birth, Burrell was killed in a train accident; Isabella moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee. Isabella Campbell could not afford piano lessons for all he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido born "Lucy Brock" (May 22, 1956 – March 6, 2018) was an American poet, widely acclaimed as one of the most distinctive and influential voices of her generation. Noteworthy for her work as a teacher, Brock-Broido served as a visiting professor of creative writing at Princeton University, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in Residence and director of creative writing at Harvard University, and as professor of creative writing and director of poetry at Columbia University. Throughout her career, she mentored multiple generations of new American poets, including Tracy K. Smith, Timothy Donnelly, Kevin Young, Mary Jo Bang, Stephanie Burt, and Max Ritvo. Brock-Broido's final collection ''Stay, Illusion,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2013 to widespread critical acclaim, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award. Notices of her death in ''The New York Times'', '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Boissonnas
Lucie Boissonnas (née, Bessirard de La Touche; pen name, Mme. B. Boissonnas; 20 April 1839 - 3 May 1877) was a 19th-century French writer. She was the recipient of the Montyon Prize in 1874 for ''Une famille pendant la guerre'' (1873). Boissonnas died in 1877. Biography Lucie Sophie Catherine Bessirard de La Touche was born in Paris, 20 April 1839. She was the daughter of Charles-Alexandre Bessirard de La Touche, director of the Société des Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte-Marie. In 1858,Selon l'état-civil reconstitué de la ville de Paris. she married the Parisian banker Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1822-1897), with whom she had four sons and two daughters. Among her children were the diplomat and businessman, Jean-Baptiste Boissonnas (1870-1953), father of Éric Boissonnas, and the pastor Georges Boissonnas (1865-1942). She is the great-grandmother of Sylvina Boissonnas. Her husband was the brother of pastor Louis-Octave Boissonnas, as well as from the same family as the phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Blue Tremblay
Lucie Blue Tremblay (born 1958 in Montreal) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Tremblay started performing when she was still a child, accompanying her mother's five-piece band as a drummer. Later, she taught herself how to play the guitar, followed by the piano. In 1984, she attended the Festival de la Chanson de Granby and received three awards: the "Singer-songwriter Award", the "Press Award", and the "Public Award". This propelled her onto the Quebec music scene and exposed her to a variety of radio and television media. She continued to appear on Canadian television and CBC radio for the years that followed. Her first appearance in the United States was at the 1985 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's Day stage singing a duet with another Canadian singer-songwriter, Ferron. Her debut album, released in 1986 by Olivia Records, was voted Top Ten Album of the Year by the ''Boston Globe''. The "Frank-Tremblay Safe College Scholarship", named for Tremblay and openly gay Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
