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Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, "Grandville", was born on September 15, 1803, in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, in northeastern France. His parents called him Adolphe, a name that originated from an older brother who had died three months before Grandville was born, and a name that followed him through the rest of his life.
D. Charles Dalmas; César Daly; Jean-Charles Danjoy; Honoré Daumet; Horace Edouard Davinet; Gabriel Davioud; François Debret; Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle; Édouard Deperthes
Marie-Françoise Giffard de Saint-Ignace (June 11, 1634 – March 15, 1657) was a Hospitaller of the Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec. She was the first Catholic nun born in present day Canada . Marie-Françoise Giffard was born on June 11, 1634 in Quebec City , only days after the arrival in New France of her parents, Robert Giffard de Moncel and Marie ...
Monsieur and Madame Frantz Wittouck had the Villa des Bouleaux, or Villa Wittouck, built at Quatre-Bras, near Tervueren by architect Octave Flanneau. Issue: 1) Jean Wittouck, President of the Sugar refinery of Tienen, born in Brussels on 24 April 1901, died in Crans-sur-Sierre (Switzerland) on 13 June 1984, husband of Marguerite Benoist d'Azy ...
Franz was an editor of catechisms and books of hymns during the period of the Enlightenment. He is the composer of the hymn Holy God, We Praise Thy Name Großer Gott, wir loben dich (GL 1975 257, GL 2013 380, EG 331.
Their son Jean-Georges Wendel was born on 18 October 1605 in Koblenz, married Marguerite de Hammerstein and became colonel of a regiment of Cravattes (Croatians) under the Emperor Ferdinand III. His son Christian Wendel was born on 23 April 1636 in Koblenz, and became a lieutenant in the army of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine .
In his bibliographical notes on the sources of his own "Histoire de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec", in "Œuvres complètes", Montréal, ed. C. O. Beauchemin & Fils, t. 4, p. 11, historian Henri-Raymond Casgrain writes of the Histoire de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec, by Mother Juchereau of Saint-Ignace: "This Histoire was written based on information ...
Between 1903 and 1907 the architect Frantz Jourdain created the interior and facades of the new building of La Samaritaine. He commissioned the decorative artist Eugène Grasset to create the huge inscription of the name of the store, against a floral background. He used an abundance of enameled tiles and a brightly colored interior and ...