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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Tancarville family - Wikipedia

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    Giroldus "miles Christi" de la Ville Tancrède (c. 1015-aft. 1066) "Seigneur de Roumare, le Seneschal de Normandie et Châtelain de Neufmarché" Son of Geraldus II and Hélisende. Gerold is shown to have had two wives, Alberada or Aubreye and Emiciæ or Amicia, the parentage for both is not known.

  6. Antoine Gombaud - Wikipedia

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    Antoine Gombaud, alias Chevalier de Méré, (1607 – 29 December 1684) was a French writer, born in Poitou. [1] Although he was not a nobleman, he adopted the title chevalier (knight) for the character in his dialogues who represented his own views (chevalier de Méré because he was educated at Méré). Later his friends began calling him by ...

  7. 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]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Paul Ragueneau - Wikipedia

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    La vie de la mere Catherine de Saint Augustin by Ragueneau, 1671. He was born in Paris and died in the same city. He is sometimes confused with his elder brother François, also a Jesuit. Father François Ragueneau accompanied Father Charles Lalemant who was returning to Canada in 1628.