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"Docteur" (Dr) is used for medical practitioners whereas "Professeur" is used for professors and teachers.The holders of a doctorate other than medical are generally not referred to as Docteurs, though they have the legal right to use the title; Professors in academia used the style Monsieur le Professeur rather than the honorific plain Professeur.
Frere was a formidable administrator of the British Empire but had scant experience of southern Africa and the confederation scheme soon fell apart, leaving a trail of wars across the region as predicted, including long-running conflicts with the Xhosa, Pedi and Basotho nations.
Louis-Emmanuel Jadin. Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (21 September 1768 – 11 April 1853) was a French composer, pianist and harpsichordist.. Jadin was born in Versailles.He learned piano from his brother Hyacinthe Jadin and later worked at the Théâtre de Monsieur.
Poulard was born Anne Boutiaut on April 15, 1851, in Mouësse in Nevers to Claude and Marie Boutiaut, who were market gardeners. [1]: 4 [2] [3]She was working as a maid for Édouard Corroyer, chief architect of the Historic Monuments, when in 1872 [4] he was assigned the restoration of the Mont-St-Michel Abbey and moved his household there.
It was only after this that the name of Tancarville is used and the castle appeared for the time in texts. Prior to this, the family members would have been styled: de la Ville Tancrède or Tancardi Villa. Rabel I de la Ville Tancrède (c. 915-) Tancreds' son Rabel I, left his name to Rabel's Isle and Rabel's foss, mentioned in early records. [3]
Charles-Édouard Frère was the subject of his father's painting Le Petit Gourmand, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1843, now at the Château de Compiègne. Frère was born in Paris . He was the son of the genre painter Pierre Édouard Frère (1819-1886), and is sometimes called Frère fils , and was the nephew of the Orientalist painter ...
In the 1830s [14] in the Charpennes quarter, Mère Brigousse or Brugousse, [14] also known as La Mère des Amoureux [14] (mother of lovers), was famous for a dish called Tétons de Vénus (breasts of Venus), a dish of giant dumplings popular among groups of young men dining stag [1] [2] [15] for bachelor parties.
Charenton was a lunatic asylum founded in 1645 by the Frères de la Charité (Brothers of Charity) in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, now Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France. Charenton was first under monastic rule, then Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul took over the asylum after their founding.