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  2. Borlée family - Wikipedia

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    The patriarch of the Borlée family is Jacques Borlée (born 1957), bronze medalist at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Budapest in the 200 m, while his first wife, Edith Demaertelaere (born 1964), was a good sprinter with a personal best of 23.89.

  3. Walter de la Mare - Wikipedia

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    De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811–1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838–1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and ...

  4. My Mother's Castle - Wikipedia

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    My Mother's Castle (French: Le Château de ma mère, pronounced [lə ʃato də ma mɛʁ]) is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol, the second in the four-volume series Souvenirs d'enfance and the sequel to My Father's Glory.

  5. Anne Boutiaut Poulard - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Brother Roger - Wikipedia

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    Roger Schutz (12 May 1915 – 16 August 2005), popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother.In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his murder in 2005. [1]

  7. French honorifics - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Charles Edouard Frère - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. A Brother's Love - Wikipedia

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    A Brother's Love (French: La femme de mon frère, lit. 'My Brother's Wife') is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Monia Chokri. [2] It had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. [3] It was released theatrically in Canada on 7 June 2019 by Les Films Séville. [4]