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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.
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.
Guillaume (surname), William Guillaume is the French equivalent of William , which is of old Germanic origin from wille + helm (resolute protector). [ 1 ] It is an Oïl form corresponding to Occitan Guilhem and the Catalan form Guillem .
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
Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, son of Peter the Great Franz Lehár: Der Zarewitsch; Saint Alexius of Rome. Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio (1631; the first opera written on an historical subject) Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, husband of Lucrezia Borgia Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia; Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
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 ...
Valentine Avoh; Maggy Baum; Dirk Bikkembergs; Veronique Branquinho; Christophe Coppens; Tim Coppens; Jules-François Crahay; Angele Delanghe; Ann Demeulemeester