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MMM, MMMSP, Parti Travailliste. Alma mater. University of Edinburgh. Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942 [1] – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole.
Marie Brémont (1886–2001) is the fifth-oldest Frenchwoman ever and was the world's oldest person from November 2000 to June 2001. [1] Pictured in 1910, aged 23–24. French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age.
Alain Gordon Gentil, Francophone writer and journalist [28] Yacoob Ghanty (1940- ), Anglophone writer [29][30] Robert-Edward Hart (1891–1954), Franco-Mauritian poet and novelist [31] Shakuntala Hawoldar (1937–2018), Anglophone writer [32] Sudhir Hazareesingh (1961- ), Anglophone and Francophone writer [33]
He then moved to Le Raincy, where his parents became herbalists. In 1957, Pophillat was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Roger Chapelain-Midy. He participated in an exhibition of young painters alongside Bernard Buffet , Maurice Boitel , Xavier Valls , Michel Henry, and Pierre-Henry.
15 June 1936. British Mauritius. Died. 15 November 2012. (2012-11-15) (aged 76) Quatre Bornes [1] Abdool Kader Bhayat, commonly known as Kader Bhayat (1936-2012), was a Mauritian lawyer, politician and former minister. He died on 15 November 2012 at the age of 76.
Lebel ran as a Bloc Québécois candidate in the district of Chambly in the 1993 election and won. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 elections.. On August 20, 2002, he crossed the floor and sat as an Independent, because of his sharp criticism of the Approche commune, an agreement with the Innu people signed by the Government of Quebec, then led by Bernard Landry and the Bloc's brother ...
Adrien d'Épinay was born in Isle de France on 6 February 1794, the son of Antoine Jean d'Épinay and Marie Marthe Blanc. He became a lawyer and politician, infamous for his many fights against the abolition of slavery and amelioration policies. At the beginning of the 19th century he helped found the Société royale des Arts et des Sciences ...
1907 Aleardo Villa calendar.. The JOB collection is a production of graphic works consisting of calendars, posters and postcards advertising the JOB rolling paper factory. . Artistic in character, it was illustrated by renowned painters and poster artists, mainly during the Art Nouveau