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From 1984 to 1991, he was the Clerk of the National Assembly by the time of his retirement. He then worked from 1991 to 1996 as a consultant to the government. Rivaltz Quenette was the founder of several masonic lodges, including the Loge Louis Léchelle. From 1978 to 1980 he was the Grand Master of the Loge La Triple Espérance, and in 1985 he ...
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.
Maurice Failevic (14 August 1933 – 27 December 2016) was a French film director. A communist , he directed 50+ films about class struggles , depicting the lives of members of the French working class , from peasants during the French Revolution to the unemployed, factory workers and banlieue dwellers in the 20th century.
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.
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (/ ləˈblɑːn /; French: [ləblɑ̃]; 11 December 1864 [2] – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle 's creation Sherlock Holmes. [3]
Maurice Fombeure. Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres ( Vienne) 23 September 1906; died at La Verrière ( Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint ...
According to Robert of Torigni, the choir was completed in 1177 and the high altar consecrated on 19 May 1182 by Cardinal Henri de Château-Marçay, the Papal legate in Paris, and Maurice de Sully. [ 25 ] [ failed verification ] The second phase, from 1182 to 1190, concerned the construction of the four sections of the nave behind the choir and ...
History. Nicolas Flamel, a wealthy member of the Parisian bourgeoisie, commissioned the house after the death of his wife Pernelle in 1397, to accommodate the homeless. [2] It was completed in 1407, as is inscribed on a frieze above the ground floor, and it is the best known and sole surviving of Flamel's houses, yet he actually never lived there.