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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 ...
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.
Couture is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dani Couture (born 1978), Canadian writer; Gerry Couture (1925–1994), Canadian hockey player; Guillaume Couture (1617/18–1701), lay missionary, diplomat and militia captain in New France; Léonie Couture (born 1951), Canadian feminist and charity founder
Ann Eden Woodward (born Angeline Lucille Crowell; December 12, 1915 – October 10, 1975) was an American socialite, showgirl, model, and radio actress.In 1940, while working as a radio actress, she was voted "The Most Beautiful Girl in Radio".
[1] Kempner started collecting couture clothing when she was a young woman living in San Francisco. Kempner attended Connecticut College, where she met Thomas Lenox Kempner, a banker and son of publisher Alan H. Kempner as well as grandson of Carl M. Loeb. They married in the early 1950s and had three children.
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.
James Guillaume (1844–1916), anarchist; Jean Guillaume (1918–2001), Belgian writer; Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (1822–1905), French sculptor; Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), French art dealer; Pierre Guillaume (born 1941), book-shop founder; Robert Guillaume (1927–2017 as Robert P. Williams), American stage and television actor
Louise de Fontaine was born in Paris, in the parish of Saint-Roch, on 28 October 1706. [1] Her baptism act was as follows: Louise-Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Louis-Guillaume, ecuyer, Seigneur de Fontaine, councillor of the King, commissioner of the Navy and galleys de France and Marie-Anne-Armande Dancourt his wife born on the twenty-eight of October in the Sourdière street on this ...