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Malet
Malet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Malet (historian) (1864–1915), French historian and author of scholarly manuals * Albert Malet (painter) (1912–1986), French painter * Alexander Malet (1800–1886), English diplomat and writer * André Malet (abbot) (1862–1936), abbot of the Trappist abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert at Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie * André Malet (philosopher) (died 1989), Catholic priest who became a Unitarian Protestant * Antoni Malet, Catalan historian of mathematics and professor of history of science * Arthur Malet (1927–2013), British actor * Claude François de Malet (1754–1812), general of the First French Empire, organiser of coup d'état against Napoleon * Elizabeth Malet (1651–1681), English heiress, Countess of Rochester * Frederick de Carteret Malet (1837–1912), New Zealand leader in business, church, and educational matters * Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973), English artist * Jean-Roland Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Malet
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 — 27 October 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, ''The Wages of Sin'' (1891) and ''The History of Sir Richard Calmady'' (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body." Early years She was born at the rectory in Eversley, Hampshire, the younger daughter of Reverend Charles Kingsley (author of ''The Water Babies'') and his wife Frances Eliza Grenfell, the third of the couple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude François De Malet
Claude François de Malet (June 28, 1754 – October 31, 1812) was born in Dole to an aristocratic family. He was executed by firing squad, six days after staging a failed republican coup d'état as Napoleon I returned from the disastrous Russian campaign in 1812. Before and during the French Revolution Malet enlisted as a Musketeer at age seventeen as was common for a young nobleman of the Ancien Régime, but King Louis XVI disbanded the musketeer regiments in 1776 for budgetary reasons. In 1790 Malet's family disinherited him for supporting the French revolution, when he became commander of his home town's National Guard and celebrated the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Malet volunteered for the Revolutionary army when war broke out and was assigned to the 50th infantry regiment of the Army of the Rhine as a captain.Encyclopædia Britannic"Claude Francois de Malet"Retrieved on 2009-06-04 He was discharged in 1795, but reenlisted again in March 1797, first as Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malet (companion Of William The Conqueror)
William Malet (french: Guillaume Malet de Graville, died 1071) held senior positions within the Norman forces that occupied England from 1066. He was appointed the second High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1068. Of the so-called companions of William of Normandy, Malet is one of about a dozen for whom there is evidence of their presence at the Battle of Hastings of 14 October 1066. For example, the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers recorded that Malet was present at the battle. According to apocryphal accounts, Malet was related to both William of Normandy and King Harold of England. Some accounts claim that Malet took charge of Harold's body following the Norman victory at Hastings. However, there is no evidence confirming such claims. Malet held substantial property in Normandy – chiefly in the Pays de Caux, with a castle at (now a suburb of Le Havre). After 1066, he held many properties in England as well, most of them in Yorkshire and East Anglia. Biography E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Malet
Robert Malet (c. 1050 – by 1130) was a Norman- English baron and a close advisor of Henry I. Early life Malet was the son of William Malet, and inherited his father's great honour of Eye in 1071. This made him one of the dozen or so greatest landholders in England. According to the Domesday book he held 221 manors in Suffolk, 32 in Yorkshire, eight in Lincolnshire, three in Essex, two in Nottinghamshire, and one in Hampshire.Domesday book, 1086 He also inherited the family property in Normandy. Public life From 1070 to 1080, Malet was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and helped suppress the rebellion of Ralph Wader. Afterwards, he appeared frequently at King William I's court. All changed with the accession of William II. By 1094 Malet's English lands had been taken away from him. The reasons are unknown, and no more is known of Malet's activities during William II's reign. Most likely he was in Normandy, and it may be that his falling out with William II was due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Malet (historian)
Albert Malet (3 May 1864, Clermont-Ferrand – 25 September 1915, Battle of Thélus, Pas de Calais) was a French historian and author of scholarly textbooks, killed during the First World War. Career Malet failed the entrance exam at Saint-Cyr, However, in 1889 he passed thAggregation of History and Geography Teacher Malet began teaching in Paris as "professeur agrégé d'histoire" (Associate Professor of History) at the lycée Voltaire in 1897. Malet was one of the founding members and served as Secretary and on the Board of the Société d’Histoire de la Révolution in 1904. In 1914, Malet became a teacher at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. In French high schools "exceptional importance asgiven to the teaching of history" courses which were required. The courses were "taught by specialized teachers, who numbered 620 in 1914". Malet was one of this number. However, he not only taught history he wrote about history. Writer Malet contributed to the ''Histoire Générale du I’V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Malet
Thierry Malet, is a French composer of film music. He is also the designer of the very first MIDI controller, MIDI guitars and a new 3D spatialization system for feature film music. Life and career Thierry Malet started to study the piano at the age of 7 at the Conservatoire de Paris, Conservatoire of Paris with the pianist and concertist Marie-Claire Laroche, where he took courses in harmony and composition. But it was to be a further ten years before he discovered his true passion at Claude Bolling's school, writing film scores. In order to gain a fuller understanding of musical acoustics, he went to study acoustics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1986, he developed the very first MIDI digital guitar in Belgium with the RTBF International, RTBF laboratories. before moving to the University of Sheffield in England where he graduated with a Ph.D. in bioacoustics and architectural acoustic computer simulation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Malet
Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet (1800–1886) was an English diplomat and writer. Life The eldest son of Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, born at Hartham Park, Wiltshire in June 1800, he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815. He was educated at Winchester College and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1822), and entered the diplomatic service in 1824 as unpaid attaché at St. Petersburg. There he was an eye-witness to the Decembrist revolt of 1825. Malet later became secretary of legation at Lisbon under Lord Howden during the Miguelite war of 1832–1834. He served in a similar post at The Hague, and was then secretary of the embassy at Vienna, and British minister at Württemberg. In 1849 Malet became minister plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confederation at Frankfurt, and there formed a close friendship with Prince Bismarck. He was in post from the Revolution in Baden, to the battle of Sadowa, and the expulsion of Austria from the Confederation. On the fall of the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malet (Magna Carta Baron)
William Malet (born before 1175–1215), feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, was one of the guarantors of ''Magna Carta''. In 1190, he accompanied King Richard the Lionheart on third crusade.Nigel Saul, Magna Carta Trust: William Malet, available at http://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/william-malet/ While still on crusade in 1191, he took part in the Siege of Acre. Upon returning to England, he served as Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1209. The precise nature of his relationship to an earlier William Malet is unknown. William Malet was one of the rebel barons who were heavily indebted to King John. It is believed that by 1214 he owed the king as much as £1333. In 1214 he entered into an agreement to serve with the king along with 10 knights and 20 other soldiers in exchange for the cancellation of his debts. However, the agreement broke down for an unknown reason and by 1215 he joined the rebellion. William Malet seems to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Malet
Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester (née Malet; 1651 – 20 August 1681) was an English heiress and the wife of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the "libertine". She was the daughter of John Malet, of Enmore Manor, and Unton Hawley, daughter of Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley. Rochester John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester became infatuated with Elizabeth Malet and asked for her hand in marriage. She refused to marry the earl, and on 26 May 1665 he attempted to abduct her. In his diaries, Samuel Pepys describes Elizabeth Malet as the "great beauty and fortune of the North" and notes the scandal of her kidnapping by Rochester: Thence to my Lady Sandwich’s, where, to my shame, I had not been a great while before. Here, upon my telling her a story of my Lord Rochester’s running away on Friday night last with Mrs. Mallett, the great beauty and fortune of the North, who had supped at White Hall with Mrs. Stewart, and was going home to her lodgings with her grandfather, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick De Carteret Malet
Frederick de Carteret Malet (1837 – 21 March 1912) was a leader in business, church, and educational matters in Christchurch, New Zealand. Early life Malet was born in 1837 at Saint Helier, Jersey. He came to Auckland, New Zealand, in 1861. He married Beatrice Wilson in 1869, daughter of Archdeacon James Wilson. William Campbell Walker married another of Archdeacon Wilson's daughters in 1871, and Malet and Walker thus became brothers-in-law. Professional life Malet farmed in Otago and Canterbury for four years before he was appointed by the Superintendent of Canterbury Province, William Rolleston, as clerk at the Warden's Court in Hokitika. He was later a clerk to the resident magistrate in Christchurch. He became a registrar at the Supreme Court in Christchurch in 1876. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1881; he practised for the next six years. Malet was involved in educational matters. From 1872 to 1874, he was registrar of the University of New Zealand. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Malet
Joan Malet (''circa'' 1510 – July 2, 1549) was a Catalan witch-hunter of Morisco origin, who operated in Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia in the middle XVIth century. Biography Joan Malet was born in Flix, in the Low Ebro region of the Principality of Catalonia, to a Morisco family. His father, who is said to have been condemned for having killed a nobleman, was a very violent man who once beat Joan up to the extent of making him lame for life. Joan had also learned some skills as a carpenter and lived in extreme poverty. In Alcañiz, Aragon, Malet maintained a sexual relationship with a woman who claimed to be a sorceress and who allegedly taught him her skills, thus Malet coming to be known as ''mestre Malet'' (master Malet). He began his ''freelance'' career as a witch-hunter in the village of Arnes, in the Low Ebro region of Catalonia, where he tried to denounce two women he claimed to be witches, eventhough he ended up renouncing to continue such accusations when local vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriel Malet
Lady Auriel Rosemary Malet Vaughan (20 January 1923 – 14 October 2014) was a Welsh-born author of literary fiction and biographies, who wrote under the name of Oriel Malet.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003) Among her works is a fictionalized biography of the Scottish child poet and writer Marjory Fleming and a volume charting her 30-year friendship with Daphne Du Maurier. Family Her parents were Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne, and Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt. Her godmother was the French actress and singer Yvonne Arnaud, whom Malet wrote about in her book ''Marraine: A Portrait of My Godmother'' (1961). Life and work After spending her childhood in Wales, Malet wrote her first novel at the age of 17, ''Trust in the Springtime'', which was published in 1943. This was followed by ''My Bird Sings'' (1946), for which she was awarded the John Llewellyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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