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Violette
Violette is a female given name and a surname which may refer to: Given name * Violette Cordery (1900–1983), British racing driver * Violette Huck (born 1988), French tennis player * Violette Lecoq (1912–2003), French nurse, illustrator and resistance member during World War II * Violette Leduc (1907–1972), French author * Violette Morris (1893–1944), French multi-sport athlete, and spy and collaborator for the Germans during World War II * Violetta Napierska (1890–1968), sometimes spelled Violette, actress in German silent films * Violette Szabo (1921–1945), British Second World War agent in German-occupied France * Violette Trépanier (born 1945), politician in Quebec, Canada * Violette Verdy (1933–2016), French ballerina and director of dance companies * Violette Wautier (born 1993), Thai singer-songwriter and actress Surname * Banks Violette (born 1973), American artist * Cyndy Violette (born 1959), American poker player * Dave Violette (born 1963), American cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Szabo
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed. Early life Violette Bushell was born on 26 June 1921 in Paris, France, of parents Charles George Bushell and Reine Blanche Leroy, as the second child of five and the only daughter. Szabo's father, son of a publican from Hampstead Norreys, was serving as a British Army driver in France during the First World War when he met her mother, a dressmaker originally from Pont-Remy, Somme. After the war the couple lived in London, where Charles worked as a taxi-driver, car salesman and shopkeeper. During the early 1930s, as a result of the Great Depression, Bushell and her younge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer. Early life and education She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle, the son of a rich Protestant family in Valenciennes, who subsequently refused to legitimize her. In Valenciennes, Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and excessive protectiveness. She developed tender friendships with her grandmother Fideline and her maternal aunt Laure. Her grandmother died when Leduc was a young child. Her formal education began in 1913, but was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with her classmate "Isabelle P", which Leduc later adapted into the first part of her novel ''Ravages'', and then the 1966 ''Thérèse et Isabelle''. During her time at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Verdy
Violette Verdy (born Nelly Armande Guillerm; 1 December 1933 – 8 February 2016) was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government. Early life in Europe Born in Pont-l'Abbé, a seacoast town in the Finistère department of Brittany, in northwestern France, she was christened Nelly Armande Guillerm by her parents. Her father, Renan Guillerm, died when she was a few months old; her mother, Jeanne Chateaureynaud, a schoolteacher, enrolled her daughter in dance les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Wautier
Violette Wautier ( th, วิโอเลต วอเทียร์; born October 10, 1993) is a Thai-Belgian singer-songwriter and actress. She made her singing debut with the audition on season 2 of The Voice Thailand in 2013. Then started off her career in both singing and acting. Her notable milestones are winning the Suphannahong Award for Best Supporting Actress in Thailand (2016) and her first English album ''Glitter and Smoke'' (2020). Career Wautier first appeared on season 2 of the singing competition ''The Voice Thailand'' in 2013, and went on to record songs for several films and television series. She appeared in productions with studio GTH/ GDH, winning the Suphannahong Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''Heart Attack'' (2015), and co-starring in '' A Gift'' (2016). After several years under Universal Music Thailand, she left to become an independent artist and launched her own record label in 2018. In 2018, Wautier released her first En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Morris
Violette Morris (18 April 1893 – 26 April 1944) was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for violating "moral standards". She was invited to the 1936 Summer Olympics by Adolf Hitler and was an honored guest. During World War II, she collaborated with Nazis and the Vichy France regime. She became known as the "Hyena of the Gestapo" and was killed by the French Resistance. Early life Violette Morris was born to Baron Pierre Jacques Morris, a retired French Army cavalry captain, and Élisabeth Marie Antoinette Sakakini, of Palestinian Arab origin. Morris spent her adolescence in a convent, L'Assomption de Huy. She married Cyprien Édouard Joseph Gouraud on 22 August 1914 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They divorced in May 1923.Ruffin, RaymondViolette Morris raymond-ruffin.over-blog.com Morris learned how to drive during World War I and during the war she dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banks Violette
Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York. Biography Violette was born in Ithaca, New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2000. Work Violette's work has shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Museum Boijmans van Beuningeng in Rotterdam, the Migros Museum in Zurich. He participated in the "Greater New York" exhibition at PS1 Center for Contemporary Art in New York City and "USA Today" at the Royal Academy in London. His work is featured in several prominent collections including the Musee d'Arte Moderne et Contemporain Geneva, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City. He is represented by Team Gallery in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Nozière
''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had a total of 1,074,507 admissions in France. Plot Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings. Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette (film)
''Violette'' is a 2013 French-Belgian biographical drama film written and directed by Martin Provost, about the French novelist Violette Leduc. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot During the last years of World War II, Violette Leduc lives with Maurice Sachs, who doesn't love her but who does encourage her to write. She seeks out Simone de Beauvoir and eventually presents her with a draft of her first book. De Beauvoir rewards Violette's trust by reading and commenting on the book and by introducing her to contemporary intellectual icons Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Albert Camus. In 1964, the success of Violette Leduc's autobiographical bestseller ''La Bâtarde'' enables her to earn a living from her writing. Cast *Emmanuelle Devos as Violette Leduc *Sandrine Kiberlain as Simone de Beauvoir *Jacques Bonnaffé as Jean Genet *Olivier Gourmet as Jacques Guérin *Catherine Hiegel as Berthe Leduc *Stanley Weber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Violette
Tom Violette (born October 26, 1960) is an American curler from Issaquah, Washington and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He is a , a two-time United States men's curling champion (1990, 1992), and a 2015 World Seniors gold medalist. Teams Personal life Tom Violette started curling in 1974, when he was 14 years old. His son Luc Violette is a curler too. He played for United States in four and at the 2019 Winter Universiade The 2019 Winter Universiade (russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 W .... References External links * Living people 1960 births American male curlers American curling champions People from Issaquah, Washington People from Stevens Point, Wisconsin Sportspeople from King County, Washington Sportspeople from Wisconsin {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndy Violette
Cyndy Violette (born August 19, 1959 in Queens, New York) is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004. Background Violette often played poker with family members as a child. Her family relocated to Las Vegas when she was 12 years old; Violette took to playing casino poker once she reached the legal age of 21. She spent a short time as a casino employee, working as a blackjack and poker dealer. Career In 1984, Violette cashed in a poker tournament in Lake Tahoe and used the proceeds to launch a professional poker career. She later took the top prize of $74,000 at a seven-card stud tournament at the Golden Nugget; at the time this was the biggest tournament prize ever won by a woman. Shortly thereafter, she married her second husband, and took a two-year hiatus from poker. In 1990, Violette returned to the poker scene by winning $62,000 in a tournament at Caesars Palace. She maintained her residence in Washington state but spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Violette
David Violette (born December 5, 1963) is an American curler from Plover, Wisconsin. At the national level, he is a 1998 United States men's champion curler. He was a member of Team United States at the 1998 World Men's Curling Championship where they finished sixth. Personal life Violette's parents curled and he began playing in a league at eleven years old. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point The University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UW–Stevens Point or UWSP) is a public university in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and grants associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees, as well as ... in 1986. Teams References External links * Living people American male curlers American curling champions 1963 births People from Portage, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point alumni {{US-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Lecoq
Violette Lecoq (1912 – 2003) was a French nurse, illustrator, and a resistance member during World War II. She is known for her drawings from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, which were also used as evidence at the first Ravensbrück Trials in 1946. World War II At the outbreak of World War II Lecoq worked as a nurse with the Red Cross. She was also affiliated with the French resistance movement. She was arrested in 1942 and held one year in isolation, and then brought to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1943, as a Nacht und Nebel prisoner. She worked as a nurse at block ten, the block for tuberculous and mentally ill. From this hut she witnessed the murder of women who were not longer capable of working. Lecoq managed to organize pencil and paper, and made several illustrations from the life in the camp, with the intention of publishing the drawings some day. She was evacuated with the Swedish Red Cross in April 1945. In 1946, she was a witness at the Ravensbrüc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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