Minet (surname)
Minet is a surname, and may refer to: *Bernard Minet (born 1953), French singer and actor *Elissa Minet Fuchs (1919–2023), American ballerina *Pierre Minet (1909–1975), French poet *William Minet William Minet (1851–1933) was a British landowner and philanthropist, of Huguenot descent. Early life He was the son of James Lewis Minet (1807–1885) and Elizabeth Iggulden, and a descendant of Isaac Minet (1660–1745), a Huguenot, who left F ...

Bernard Minet
Bernard Minet (born 28 December 1953 in Hénin-Beaumont as ''Bernard Wantier'') is a French singer and actor. He started his career in Pas-de-Calais in 1969 and arrived in Paris in 1970, where he was part of several bands during his studies: "Pop", the "Baloches" and the "Golf Drouot." In 1974, he won first prize in percussion at the Conservatoire de Paris, Conservatoire national de Paris. In 1983, he started a collaboration with Dorothée and joined the band Les Musclés as a drummer. He also pursued a career as a solo artist. He also played in 482 episodes of the ''Salut les Musclés'' and ''La Croisière Foll'Amour'' sitcoms. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he recorded French songs for the Bioman, Turboranger, Winspector, Saint Seiya (Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque) and Sailor Moon (TV series), Sailor Moon Japanese anime series. The melodies and lyrics have little relationship with the original songs of these series. References External links *Officiel website of Bernard ...
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Elissa Minet Fuchs
Elissa Minet Fuchs (born Elise Minette Levy; March 10, 1919 – February 17, 2023) was an American ballerina and choreographer. Her career started in 1935 on the vaudeville stage and nightclub circuit, leading to gigs as a chorus girl on Broadway. With the fear of rising antisemitism around the world, she changed her name to appear French and conceal her Jewish identity. In 1937, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and danced with the company for one season. From 1938 to 1950, she danced with the resident ballet company at the Metropolitan Opera, retiring as a soloist. Fuchs founded and directed the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre in Louisiana and worked as the artistic director, ballet mistress, and choreographer at Greensboro Ballet in North Carolina. Early life Fuchs was born Elise Minette Levy to a Jewish American family on March 10, 1919, in New Orleans. Her father, Arthur Levy, was a businessman who sold light fixtures and her mother, Rose Levy, was an artist. Fuchs' o ...
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Pierre Minet
Pierre Minet (Reims 1909– Paris 1975) was a 20th-century French poet and writer, whose early career is closely associated to the ' movement and to his devotion to Roger Gilbert-Lecomte. Critics, who have contrasted the small size of his production with its substantive and stylistic quality, recognise in ''La Défaite'', published in 1947 and subtitled "Confessions", an autobiographical masterpiece, its author's definitive claim to literary fame, that attracted the praise of Antonin Artaud ("une sensibilité unique au monde" a thoroughly unique sensibility" and of André Breton ("Celui qui sait parler de la liberté comme il en parle est moins vaincu que quiconque" Someone who knows how to speak of freedom as he does is less defeated than anyone" – while the great Italian critic and writer Roberto Bazlen Roberto Bazlen, also known as Bobi Bazlen (10 June 1902 – 27 July 1965) was an Italian writer and publicist. Biography Bazlen was born in Trieste on 10 June 1902. His fa ...
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