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Martine
Martine is a feminine given name and a surname. Given name * Martine Aubry (born 1950), French politician * Martine Audet (born 1961), Canadian poet * Martine Aurillac (born 1939), French politician * Martine Baay-Timmerman (born 1958), Dutch politician * Martine Bartlett (1925–2006), American actress * Martine Batchelor (born 1953), author and former Buddhist nun * Martine Beaugrand, Canadian politician * Martine Bellen, American poet, editor and librettist * Martine Bercher (1944–2005), American football player * Martine Bertereau (c. 1600–after 1642), pioneering French woman mining engineer and mineralogist, also known as Baroness de Beausoleil * Martine Berthet (born 1961), French politician * Martine Beswick (born 1941), English actress and model * Martine Beugnet, French film theorist * Martine Billard (born 1952), French politician * Martine Brunschwig Graf (born 1950), Swiss politician * Martine Buron (born 1944), French architect and politician * Martine Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Aubry
Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001; she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father, Jacques Delors, served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission. Aubry joined the PS in 1974, and was appointed Minister of Labour by Prime Minister Édith Cresson in 1991, but lost her position in 1993 after the Right won the legislative elections. However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was appointed Prime Minister in 1997. She is mostly known for having pushed the popular 35-hour workweek law, known as the "Loi Aubry", reducing the nominal length of the normal full-time working week from 39 to 35 hours, and the law that created Couverture maladie universel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Franck
Martine Franck (2 April 1938 – 16 August 2012) was a British-Belgian documentary and portrait photographer. She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years. Franck was the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. Early life Franck was born in Antwerp to the Belgian banker Louis Franck and his British wife, Evelyn. After her birth the family moved almost immediately to London. A year later, her father joined the British army, and the rest of the family were evacuated to the United States, spending the remainder of the Second World War on Long Island and in Arizona. Franck's father was an amateur art collector who often took his daughter to galleries and museums. Franck was in boarding school from the age of six onwards, and her mother sent her a postcard every day, frequently of paintings. Ms. Franck, attended Heathfield School, an all-girls boarding school close to Ascot in England, and studied the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Bertereau
Martine de Bertereau, also known as Baroness de Beausoleil, (c. 1600 – after 1642) was the first recorded female mineralogist as well as mining engineer along with her husband, Jean de Chastelet. She traveled extensively throughout Europe in search of mineral deposits and fresh ground water under the employment of various nobles and royals. During the reign of the French King, Luis XIII, Martine and her husband surveyed the sites of potential mines in France. During one of their mining expeditions Martine and her family were accused of witchcraft and fled to Hungary. Later, Martine, her husband and oldest daughter were arrested and eventually died in prison sometime after 1642. During her life, she produced multiple pieces of literature derived largely from the Roman engineer Vitruvius's book on architecture, De architectura. Her writings describe the use of divining-rods, similar to dowsing, as well as other renowned scientific ideas. Martine de Bertereau was not forthcoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Batchelor
Martine Batchelor (born 1953), a former Jogye Buddhist nun, is the author of several books on Buddhism currently residing in France. She and her husband, Stephen Batchelor, work mostly in the United Kingdom and occasionally in the United States. In addition to writing books, she leads meditation groups with her husband that incorporate aspects of Zen, vipassanā, and Tibetan Buddhism. Batchelor also blogs frequently for the U.S.-based '' Tricycle: The Buddhist Review''. She studied Jogye Zen Buddhism for ten years at Songgwangsa with her former teacher Master Kusan Sunim, being ordained as a nun in 1975. Batchelor served as Kusan's interpreter on speaking tours of the United States and Europe from 1981 to 1985, the year she left monastic life, married Stephen Batchelor, and returned to Europe. There she became a member of Sharpham North Community and served as a guiding teacher at Gaia House, both of which are based in Devon, England. She has also led a Buddhist studies program a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Djibo
Martine Aya Djibo (died 30 October 2022) was an Ivorian educator and politician who served in the National Assembly from 1975 until 1980 and from 1990 until 2010. Although initially a member of the PDCI-RDA party, she defected in 2004 and founded the Party for the Unity of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, citing frustrations with the party amid the First Ivorian Civil War. Career Djibo began her teaching career in the central city of Bouaké. After initially teaching Spanish at Martin Luther King College and CEG Koko, she later became the director of the Modern College for Young Girls. A member and activist of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA), Djibo was appointed to the National Assembly by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1975, becoming the first woman to represent Bouaké. Djibo served in parliament until 1980. After leaving parliament, Djibo resumed her teaching career; in 1985, she became the principal of the Municipal Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Kempf
Martine Kempf is a French computer scientist who is known for inventing the Katalavox in 1985, a computer-based voice activation system. Martine Kempf was born to Jean-Pierre Kempf and Brigitte Maguerite Klockenbring Kempf in 1951 in Dossenheim-Kochersberg, France. Kempf's academic journey led her to Friedrich Wilhelm University, also known as the University of Bonn, where she pursued her studies in astronomy during the period of 1981 to 1983. Throughout her time at the university, she developed a profound interest in electronic design, hardware, and software. During her years as a student, Kempf was deeply moved by the challenges faced by German teenagers who were born without arms due to their mothers' use of thalidomide during their pregnancies, Kempf reasoned that a voice activation system would allow those affected with physical difficulties to drive cars. This voice activation device also helps with microsurgery, as surgeons can use voice commands to focus magnifying devices a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis is a British news anchor. She was most recently a presenter with Al Jazeera English, and before that BBC World News. Early life Martine Dennis was born on 28 January 1961 in London to Caribbean/Mauritian parents. She read English and American Studies from 1979 to 1982 at Keele University in England and Dar es salaam. Career Martine began her broadcasting career as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN in London in 1983. She specialised in parliamentary reporting, but also made radio documentaries, notably: ''Zimbabwe - Five Years after Independence''. She also covered the 1985 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), held in Nassau in the Bahamas, interviewing, among others: Rajiv Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Edward Seaga. Later in 1985, she joined BBC World Service radio at the United Nations, in New York, covering the Iran–Iraq war and interviewing a number of world leaders. In 1987 she became a presenter-producer for ''Focus on Africa'', the BBC Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Carol
Martine Carol (born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer; 16 May 1920 – 6 February 1967) was a French film actress. Career Born Maryse Mourer (or Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer) in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, (France), she studied acting under René Simon (1898–1966), making her stage début in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was the leading sex symbol and a top box-office draw of French cinema, and she was considered a French version of America's Marilyn Monroe. One of her more famous roles was as the title character in '' Lola Montès'' (1955), directed by Max Ophüls, in a role that required dark hair. However, by the late 1950s, roles for Carol had become fewer, partly because of the introduction of Brigitte Bardot. Personal life Despite her fame and fortune, Martine Carol's personal life was filled with turmoil that included a suicide attempt, drug abus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Leavitt
Martine Leavitt is a Canadian American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor. Biography Leavitt was born in 1953 in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College. She has seven children, twenty grandchildren, and lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada. Martine Leavitt writes novels for young adults, most recently ''Calvin'', which won the Governor General's Literary Award of Canada. ''My Book of Life by Angel'' was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year. ''Keturah and Lord Death'' was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her next book, ''Buffalo Flats'', will be out in spring 2023. She teaches creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, a short-residency MFA program. Selected works Novels * ''The Dragon's Tapestry'' (1992) * ''Prism Moon'' (1993) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Croxall
Martine Sarah Croxall (born 23 February 1969) is a British television journalist. She is one of the main news presenters on BBC News. Education Martine Sarah Croxall was born on 23 February 1969 and grew up in Stoke Golding, a village in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England, where her father ran Croxall Hosiery. She attended the independent Bablake School in Coventry and studied Geography at the University of Leeds, gaining her BA in 1990. Career Croxall began with the BBC on work experience at BBC Radio Leicester in 1991. She followed this working at ''East Midlands Today'', the BBC regional news programme for the region. She has also worked at '' Newsroom South East'' (1997) and '' UK Today''. She is a regular news presenter on BBC News between 18:30 and midnight, alternate Thursdays, FridaySunday. She occasionally hosts ''Afternoon Live'' on BBC News and has presented on both BBC World News and '' World News Today''. Croxall was the BBC's main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Faure
Martine Faure (born 30 September 1948) was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented the Gironde department, as a member of the Socialist Party. She was the deputy for Gironde's 9th constituency from 2007 to 2012 and, after the 2010 redistricting, the 12th constituency from 2012 to 2017. She was a member of the Commission of culture and education. Biography Martine Faure grew up in Aillas in a farming family. Initially a local councillor in Aillas, at the age of 35 she became a municipal councillor in Langon. As Deputy Mayor (1983), she worked in the cultural field for nearly nine years. She is a retired teacher. In 1998, she was elected to the cantonal council of Auros. She set up the network of communes of the Pays d'Auros and became its first chair. Martine Faure was Vice President of the General Council of Gironde, with responsibility for culture and environment until 2008. On 17 June 2007, she defeated the incumbent Assembly member Philippe D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Berthet
Martine Berthet (born 27 March 1961) is a French politician of the Republicans (LR). She was the mayor of Albertville, Savoie between 2014 and 2017 and became a senator for Savoie in 2017. Career Berthet was a deputy mayor of Ugine, Savoie from 2001 to 2014. She participated in the creation of the Région d'Albertville community of communes. On 4 April 2014 she was elected mayor of Albertville by the newly elected municipal council. She was the first female mayor of the city. In the 2015 departmental elections, Berthet stood along with Hervé Gaymard in the canton of Albertville-1. They were elected with more than 61 percent of the votes. On 24 September 2017 Berthet was elected a senator for Savoie for The Republicans party after Michel Bouvard's resignation. She was the first female senator for the Savoie department. During the 2017 The Republicans leadership election, she endorsed candidate Laurent Wauquiez, who won the election. Ahead of the 2022 presidential election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
