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Monument to Guillaume Couture in Levis. Guillaume Couture (January 14, 1618 – April 4, 1701) was a citizen of New France.During his life he was a lay missionary with the Jesuits, a survivor of torture, a member of an Iroquois council, a translator, a diplomat, a militia captain, and a lay leader among the colonists of the Pointe-Lévy (now named Lévis city) in the Seigneury of Lauzon, a ...
Styllou Christofi was born in Cyprus, then a British protectorate, to a Cypriot family. She grew up in a small, isolated village and received no formal education. According to British historian and crime author Philip Jones, the insularity of Cypriot villages such as the one Christofi was from meant that personal disagreements and arguments among residents were seen as local matters, and could ...
Elizabeth Ann Duncan (born Hazel Lucille Sinclaira Nigh [1] (April 16, 1904 [2] in Kansas City, Missouri [3] – August 8, 1962) was an American murderer. She was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her daughter-in-law in 1958.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Capitaine Marleau is a French television series created by Elsa Marpeau. It was first broadcast on France 3 on 20 December 2014 and since 2021 on France 2. [1]Directed by Josée Dayan, the series stars Corinne Masiero as the title character, an eccentric captain of the National Gendarmerie whose mixed personality of dark humour and unconventional approaches often separates her from her colleagues.
Guillaume Couture (23 October 1851 – 15 January 1915) was a Canadian choir conductor, composer, music critic, and music educator. [1] Although he never pursued a performance career, he is particularly remembered for his work as a voice teacher, having taught many notable Canadian singers. He is the grandfather of composer Jean Papineau-Couture.
Born in Montreal, Papineau-Couture is the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. As a child he studied piano with his mother. As a child he studied piano with his mother. He first studied privately in Montreal with Gabriel Cusson before entering the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1937.
Anne de Montmorency was born in 1493 at Chantilly, the son of Guillaume de Montmorency and Anne de Saint-Pol. [1] [2] [3] His parents named him for his godmother, Anne, queen of France. [4] Guillaume held a senior position in the household of the future king François I (at that time, comte d'Angoulême). [5]