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Rivière (other)
Rivière, La Rivière, or Les Rivières (French for "river") may refer to: Places Belgium * Rivière, Profondeville, a village Canada * La Rivière, Manitoba, a community * Les Rivières (Quebec City), a borough France * La Rivière, Gironde * Rivière, Indre-et-Loire * La Rivière, Isère * Rivière, Pas-de-Calais * La Rivière, Réunion, home of the SS Rivière Sport football club Other uses * Rivière, a style of necklace or bracelet * "Riviere", a 2006 song by Deftones from '' Saturday Night Wrist'' People with the surname * Anna Riviere (1810-1884) opera singer known by her married name of Anna Bishop * Beatrice Rivière, French applied mathematician * Briton Rivière (1840–1920), British artist * Camden Riviere (born 1987), American court tennis World Champion * Charles Marie Rivière (1845–?), French botanist abbreviated C.Rivière * Daniel Riviere (1780-1846) artist and father of a family of noted artists and singers * Émile Rivière (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière, Profondeville
Rivière (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Profondeville, located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. Remains dating back to the Magdalenian have been discovered in the village, and the area appears to have been permanently settled from the Mesolithic era. During the Middle Ages, the village was subservient to Anhée. A chapel was first built in the village in 1630; the presently visible village church was built 1844 to 1845. A castle has existed in the village, but it was burnt down in August 1914. During World War II, the entire village was severely damaged by fire in September 1944. Many civilians were also killed during the war during fighting in the village. References External links * Former municipalities of Namur (province) Profondeville {{Namur-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Marie Rivière
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Rivière
Jérôme Rivière (born 8 July 1964) is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) until 2007, he was a member of the National Rally (RN), previously known as the National Front (FN), from 2017 until 2022, when he announced his support for Éric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election and was appointed vice chairman of Zemmour's newly-founded Reconquête party. Biography Education Born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine near Paris. Rivière received a master's degree from the ISG business school and an MBA from the European University of America at the University of San Francisco. Career He served as the deputy chief of staff for the Minister of Defense from 1993 to 1995 and was elected to the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur where he served from 1998 to 2004. Rivière represented the first constituency of Alpes-Maritimes in the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Rivière
Jean-François Rivière (born 28 February 1977) is a retired French footballer who played as a striker. His previous clubs include Chamois Niortais Chamois Niortais Football Club (; often referred to as ''Les Chamois'', Chamois Niortais, or simply Niort) are a French association football club based in the commune of Niort, in the Deux-Sèvres department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwest ..., Stade Lavallois, Amiens SC, Besançon RC, AC Ajaccio, Clermont Foot, and Gazélec Ajaccio. Career In January 2013, Rivière joined Gazélec Ajaccio. References 1977 births Living people Footballers from Mayenne Men's association football forwards French men's footballers Stade Lavallois players Amiens SC players Racing Besançon players Chamois Niortais FC players Angers SCO players AC Ajaccio players Clermont Foot players Gazélec Ajaccio players Ligue 2 players 20th-century French sportsmen {{france-footy-forward-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Rivière
Jacques Rivière (15 July 1886 – 14 February 1925) was a French " man of letters" — a writer, critic and editor who was "a major force in the intellectual life of France in the period immediately following World War I". He edited the magazine '' La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1919 until his death. He was influential in winning a general public acceptance of Marcel Proust as an important writer. His friend and brother-in-law was Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier), with whom he exchanged an abundant correspondence. Biography Rivière was born in Bordeaux, the son of an eminent physician. He became friends with Henri-Alban Fournier (later known as Alain-Fournier) at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Both students prepared for the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure, and both failed. Rivière returned to Bordeaux in 1905, and from that date until his death maintained a frequent correspondence with Alban-Fournier. Rivière o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Goldwin Rivière
Hugh Goldwin Rivière (1869–1956) was a noted British portraitist. He was one of seven children of Briton Rivière and was of Huguenot descent. Examples of his work are held in a very wide variety of public collections, including the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Guildhall Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Gloucestershire County Council, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and foreign archaeolog ..., Exeter. His portrait painting of Sir Squire Bancroft and several drawings and prints are in the National Portrait Gallery collection. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rivière (bobsleigh)
Henri Joseph Rivière (16 January 1922 – 20 June 1989) was a French bobsledder who competed in the 1950s. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ..., he finished fifth in the two-man and 11th in the four-man events. References 1952 bobsleigh two-man results * Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics French male bobsledders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rivière (painter)
Henri Rivière (March 11, 1864 – August 24, 1951) was a French artist and designer best known for his creation of a form of shadow play at the '' Chat Noir'' cabaret, and for his post-Impressionist illustrations of Breton landscapes and the Eiffel Tower. Biography Early life and education Rivière was born in Paris. His father, Prosper Rivière, was an embroidery merchant from the Pyrénées. His mother, Henriette Thérese Leroux Rivière, was a Parisienne "from a petit bourgeois family". Rivière had one brother, Jules, born 1866. In 1870, fleeing from the advancing Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war, his father moved the family back to Ax-les-Thermes, his childhood home in the Pyrenees. Rivière's time spent in the rural environment helped develop his love of nature, later a strong theme in his art. After the war finished in 1871, Rivière returned to Paris with his parents, while his brother remained in Ax to finish his studies. Rivière was enrolled in a boardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rivière (naval Officer)
Henri Laurent Rivière (1827–1883) was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and Dai Nam (as Vietnam was known then) that culminated one year later in the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886). Early career Born in Paris on 12 July 1827, Rivière entered the École Navale in October 1842. He passed out as a midshipman (second class) in August 1845, and saw his first naval service in the Pacific Ocean on ''Brillante''. In February 1847 he was posted to the South Seas, South Seas naval division, to ''Virginie''. He was promoted to midshipman (first class) in September 1847 and to ''Ensign (rank), enseigne de vaisseau'' in September 1849. During the next five years he served in the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (France), Mediterranean squadron aboard French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Henri Rivière
Georges-Henri Rivière (1897–1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. Biography Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the École du Louvre from which he graduated in 1928. During the following years, he cared for the D. David-Weill collection, which included Chinese porcelains, Greek and Roman antiquities, and European decorative arts and paintings. In 1928, Rivière curated his first show of ancient American art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and joined Paul Rivet as his vice-director to begin the renovation of the dusty Musée du Trocadéro, which was reintroduced to the public as a fully modernized Musée de l'Homme in 1938. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of ''Documents'', to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Pichon-Rivière
Enrique Pichon-Rivière (June 25, 1907 – July 16, 1977) was a Swiss-born Argentine psychiatrist, considered one of the introducers of group psychoanalysis in Argentina and generator of the group theory known as ''Grupo operativo'' (Operative Groups). In the 1940s he became one of the founding members of the ''Asociación Argentina de Psicoanálisis'' (Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, or APA) and in the 1950s participated in the creation of the first private school of Social Psychology and the ''Instituto Argentino de Estudios Sociales'' (Argentine Institute of Social Studies, or IADES). The originality of his theory is based on the dialectical view of the functioning of the groups and the relationship between dialectic, homeostasis and cybernetic. Biography Pichon-Rivière was born on June 25, 1907, in Geneva, Switzerland, his parents were French. His father had two daughters and three sons from a first marriage, when his wife died, he remarried his sister-in-law, fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Rivière
Emmanuel José Rivière (born 3 March 1990) is a French former professional footballer. Rivière primarily played in the lead striker role, but can also operate on wings. He was a French youth international having played at all levels before switching to represent the Martinique national team. Club career Early career Rivière began his football career playing on the French overseas department of Martinique playing for local side Espoir Sainte-Luce in the commune of Sainte-Luce. He attracted interest from French clubs on the mainland after his performances at the annual Coupe Nationale des 14 ans, which was held at the Clairefontaine academy. Notable clubs that scouted him included Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon and Saint-Étienne. The player signed for Saint-Étienne citing the club's history stating, "The ASSE is legendary in Martinique. They're a very big club. My family was happy to see me sign here. My father, who follows a lot of football, talks about them often." Sain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
