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Victorine
Victorine may refer to: People * Victorine Q. Adams (1912–2006), American politician * Victorine Brocher (1839–1921), Communard and anarchist * Tory Dent (1958–2005), American poet, art critic and commentator on AIDS * Victorine Foot (1920–2000), British painter * Victorine Goddard (1844–1935), New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper * Victorine du Pont Homsey (1900–1998), American architect * Victorine Meurent (1844–1927), French model and painter * Victorine Gboko Wodié, Ivorian lawyer, magistrate and politician * Sasha Victorine (born 1978), American soccer player * Victorines, a group of philosophers and mystics based at the School of Saint Victor * Victorines, monks attached to the Abbey of St Victor, Marseille and its daughter houses Other uses * Victorine, one of the Victorines * Victorine (ship), missing Australian schooner * , also known as USS ''Victorine'' (SP-951), a fishing trawler used in World War I as a patrol craft * Victorine Studios a French film stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Brocher
Victorine Brocher (1839–1921) was a Communard and anarchist. She participated in the Paris Commune and later wrote a memoir detailing her experience. Brocher was a delegate to the 1881 London Anarchist Congress and a contributor to anarchist periodicals throughout her life. Brocher cofounded and taught at Louise Michel's international school. Life and career Marie Victorine Malenfant was born on in Paris on 4 September 1839. She was raised by her mother in Orleans after her father, a republican, fled to Belgium in 1851. In the 1860s, she married Jean Rouchy and participated in the founding of a cooperative bakery. They also participated in the First International and had two children, who died young. She was a cantinière during the Paris Commune The Paris Commune (, ) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris on 18 March 1871 and controlled parts of the city until 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tory Dent
Victorine "Tory" Dent (January 1, 1958 – December 30, 2005) was an American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis. Life Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981 and then got a master's degree in creative writing from New York University. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. She died on December 30, 2005, in her apartment in the East Village, Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML. Career Dent's poetry was often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She was the author of ''Black Milk'' (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); ''HIV, Mon Amour'' (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and ''What Silence Equals'' (Persea Books, 1993). Her honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Foot
Victorine Anne Foot (1 May 1920 – 2000) was a British artist who worked in oils, watercolours and pastels. Foot is best known for her work during World War II on military camouflage and for her post-war career as an artist and teacher in Scotland. Early life Foot was born in Knowles Bank near Pembury in Kent and studied at the Central School of Art in London between 1938 and 1941. World War Two After the war began, the Central School of Art was evacuated to Northampton in 1941 and Foot gave up her studies to take a job as a Junior Technical Assistant in the Naval Section of the Directorate of Camouflage based in Leamington Spa. Her duties included painting camouflage designs onto models of ships. The models were all based on real ships; if the real ship was sunk or lost the model was retired from further use. Whilst at the Camouflage Directorate, Foot drew and painted her colleagues at work, both at Leamington Spa and at the docks where they painted their camouflage sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Goddard
Victorine Goddard (née Rogers; October 1844 – 12 October 1935) was a New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper. She was born in Waiwhakaiho, Taranaki Taranaki is a regions of New Zealand, region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano Mount Taranaki, Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Egmont. The main centre is the ..., New Zealand, on 5 October 1844. References 1844 births 1935 deaths People from Taranaki 19th-century New Zealand businesspeople 19th-century New Zealand businesswomen {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Du Pont Homsey
Victorine du Pont Homsey (November 27, 1900 – January 6, 1998) was an American architect and member of the du Pont family. A principal in Victorine & Samuel Homsey, she was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) in 1967, the first woman architect from Delaware and only the eighth woman nationwide to achieve that honor. Life She was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Antoine Biderman (or Bidermann) du Pont, Jr., and Mary Ethel (Clark) du Pont. The Du Ponts were an old and well-to-do family; her great-grandfather was the industrialist Alfred V. du Pont. She attended Wellesley College, where she earned her undergraduate degree in 1923. She went on to receive her certificate in architecture in 1925 from the Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women (which was not yet a degree-granting institution); ten years later, after the school became affiliated with Smith College, she was awarded the M. Arch degree. After completing her st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Meurent
Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a model for painters. Although she is best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876, her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon's juried exhibition, when Manet's work was not. Biography Victorine-Louise Meurent was born in Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844, to a family of artisans. Her mother was a milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. In 1860, at the age of sixteen, Meurent began modeling in the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have studied art at his atelier for women. Meurent first modeled for Manet in 1862, for his painting '' The Street Singer''. She was particularly noticeable for her petite stature that earned her the nickname ''La Crevette (The Shrimp)'', and for her red hair, which is depicted as very bright in Manet's watercolor c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Gboko Wodié
Victorine Gboko-Dailly Wodié (born 1954) is a lawyer, magistrate and politician from the Ivory Coast. Early life and education Victorine Wodié was born in Abidjan. She was educated at the Lycee Classique de Bouake. She gained a bachelor of law degree in 1977, and in 1978 a master's degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles. In 1978 she obtained her certificat d'aptitude à la profession d'avocat (CAPA) qualification, and in 1979 a diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS) in judicial process. Career In 1980 Wodié started at the Court of Appeal in Abidjan, interning with Bâtonnier Eugène Dervain from 1980 to 1982. From 1983 to 1985 she was a partner with Mondon-Kone-Wodié. From 1986 she headed her own law firm. From 1989 to 1993 she was a member of the Council of the Order of Lawyers, and in July 1992 was a founding member of the Association Ivoirienne de Défense des Droits de la Femme (AIDF). From 1996 until 2002 she practiced at the Abidjan Court of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Victorine
Sasha Caleb Victorine (born February 3, 1978) is an American former soccer player. He spent his entire professional career in Major League Soccer in the United States, making over 100 appearances for both Los Angeles Galaxy and Kansas City Wizards, before finishing his career with Chivas USA. He also made four appearances and scored one goal for the United States national team, and represented his country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Career Youth and College Victorine was born in Santa Ana, California. He played high school soccer at Rio Americano High School, and college soccer at UCLA, leading them to the NCAA title in 1997, and being named a first-team All-American in 1999. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the first round of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft. Professional Victorine spent five years with LA, winning the U.S. Open Cup in 2001 and the MLS Cup in 2002; his best season was 2001, when he scored seven goals and five assists. He was traded to Kansas City Wizards f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Of Saint Victor
The school of St Victor was the medieval monastic school at the Augustinian abbey of St Victor in Paris. The name also refers to the Victorines, the group of philosophers and mystics based at this school as part of the University of Paris. It was founded in the twelfth century by Peter Abelard's tutor and subsequent opponent, the realist school master William of Champeaux, and a prominent early member of their community was Hugh of St Victor. Other prominent members were Achard of St. Victor, Andrew of St Victor, Richard of St Victor, Walter of St Victor and Godfrey of St Victor, as well as Thomas Gallus. Under the rigorous supervision of Hugh, St Victor offered a coherent and structured approach to learning through the cultivation of personal virtue rather than the requisition of knowledge for its own sake. This is exemplified in the schema for the liberal arts laid out in Hugh's ''Didascalicon'', in which he exhorts the reader to ''Omnia Disce'', or to know all. By 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of St Victor, Marseille
The Abbey of Saint-Victor, Marseille is a former abbey that was founded during the late Roman period in Marseille in the south of France, named after the local soldier saint and martyr, Victor of Marseilles. History The crypts of the abbey contains artefacts indicating the presence of a quarry that was active during the Greek period and later became a necropolis from 2 BC onward until Christian times. In 415, Christian monk and theologian John Cassian, having come from the monasteries of Egypt, founded two monasteries at Marseille — the Abbey of Saint Victor for men in the south of the Vieux-Port, as well as the Abbey of Saint Sauveur the other for women in the south of Place de Lenche. The Abbey of Saint Victor was later affected during the fifth century by the Semipelagian heresy, which began with some of Cassian's writings. Both monasteries suffered from invasions by the Vikings and Saracens, and were destroyed in 838 by a Saracen fleet, when the then-abbess Saint Eus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorines
The school of St Victor was the medieval monastic school at the Augustinian abbey of St Victor in Paris. The name also refers to the Victorines, the group of philosophers and mystics based at this school as part of the University of Paris. It was founded in the twelfth century by Peter Abelard's tutor and subsequent opponent, the realist school master William of Champeaux, and a prominent early member of their community was Hugh of St Victor. Other prominent members were Achard of St. Victor, Andrew of St Victor, Richard of St Victor, Walter of St Victor and Godfrey of St Victor, as well as Thomas Gallus. Under the rigorous supervision of Hugh, St Victor offered a coherent and structured approach to learning through the cultivation of personal virtue rather than the requisition of knowledge for its own sake. This is exemplified in the schema for the liberal arts Liberal arts education () is a traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
