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unusual facts about Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville


Au clair de la lune

In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of Au clair de la Lune on April 9, 1860 was digitally converted to sound by U.S. researchers.


Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay

Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (1809–1886), political figure in Canada East and member of the Senate of Canada

Bel Amour

In subsequent years, Edouard De Tricasse has occasionally performed under the name Bel Amour, Jean-Claude Sindress is a music writer, having written several songs with David Guetta, including Gettin' Over You and Sexy Bitch.

Boudu Saved from Drowning

Bourgeois Parisian, Latin Quarter bookseller, Edouard Lestingois, (Charles Granval), rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the river Seine, from the Pont des Arts.

Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel

His father Édouard Olier, secretary to the King and councillor of the Parlement, had obtained a marquisate for his lands at Nointel near Clermont in the Beauvaisis.

Château de Méréville

Next, an entirely new type of structure was built on a small island in the centre of the main lake - a rostral column, in honour of the marquis' two young sons Edouard (1762–1786) and Ange Auguste (1766–1786), news of whose disappearance had arrived in France earlier that year.

Édouard

Édouard is both a French given name and a surname, equivalent to Edward in English.

Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild

In 1939, Édouard's son Guy joined the French Army and daughter Jacqueline escaped with her husband Gregor Piatigorsky to the United States.

Édouard Batiste

Édouard Batiste was a French composer and organist born in Paris on 28 March 1820, and studied at the Imperial Conservatoire as a teenager, winning prizes in solfège, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and organ.

Édouard Chambon

Édouard Chambon (Valence), is a French software engineer who formerly was world record holder for fastest single time on a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube with a time of 9.18 seconds and fastest average time of 11.48 seconds.

Édouard Collin

Edouard Collin (born 28 February 1987), is a French actor.

Édouard Corbière

Jean Antoine René Édouard Corbière (1 April 1793, Brest – 27 September 1875, Morlaix) was a French sailor, shipowner, journalist and writer, considered to be the father of the French maritime novel.

At the time of Édouard's birth his father was an infantry captain in the French Navy - his mother, Jeanne-Renée Dubois, had been born at Morlaix in 1768.

Edouard Masengo

Edouard (Katiti) Masengo (born 1933 in Kafubu, Haut-Katanga District, Democratic Republic of the Congo - 27 March, 2003) was a Congolese guitarist.

Édouard Masson

Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson (1826–1875), member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

Édouard Montpetit

In 1967, a monument to Montpetit was unveiled on the Université de Montréal campus and the name of nearby Maplewood Avenue in Côte-des-Neiges was changed to boulevard Édouard-Montpetit.

Edouard Oum Ndeki

Joseph Edouard Oum Ndeki (8 May 1976 – 7 March 2009 in Rhodes) was a Cameroonian footballer who last played for Rodos.

Édouard Sain

Édouard Alexandre Sain was born Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, on 13 May 1830, son of Paul-François-Toussaint Sain, a tax-collector, and Palmire-Ernestine Bouchet.

Édouard Schuré

Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.

Édouard Stern

The story of Édouard Stern is cited as the inspiration for Olivier Assayas' 2008 film Boarding Gate.

Edouard Vermeulen

In 2012, TRH The Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg, Princess Alexandra, and Princess Tessy were all dressed by Edouard Vermeulen for the wedding of the, Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

Édouard Vuillard

Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.

Édouard-Alfred Martel

He traveled throughout Europe, Belgium, Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, where he investigated the course of the Trebišnjica, considered the one of the longest underground rivers in the world.

Édouard-André Barnard

By 1867, now a major, he offered his services to Bishop Ignace Bourget and put together a force to assist Pope Pius IX in defending against attacks on the Papal State by Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Édouard-Christophe Pynaert

He studied at a local gardening school, and from 1861 was a professor at the Ecole d'horticulture in Gentbrugge.

Édouard-Jean Empain

The rendezvous set by the kidnappers was to take place two days later at Megève, a winter resort in Haute-Savoie.

The Baron's chauffered car, a Peugeot 604, was intercepted at a junction some 50 metres after it had left his home.

Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.

French Institute Alliance Française

Artists such as singer Jane Birkin, and actor Édouard Baer have performed in FIAF's Florence Gould Hall, and authors such as Paul Auster, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Edmund White, have come to FIAF to discuss their respective works.

Génissiat Dam

The French speleologist and expert on limestones, Édouard-Alfred Martel, declared that the Génissiat scheme was pure folly.

Georges Pichard

Less scrutinized for its erotic emphasis are the collaborations Pichard did with science-fiction author Jean-Pierre Andrevon, La Reserve and Édouard from 1974 and Ceux–là from 1977, published in Charlie Mensuel.

H. Allen Brooks

His LeCorbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds, published in 1997, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography and won a first prize from the Association of American Publishers for books in architecture and urban planning.

Hand transplantation

On January 14, 2004, the team of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (Edouard-Herriot Hospital, France) declared a five-year-old double hand transplant a success.

Henri Prost

Prost was the co-founder in 1911 of the Société française des urbanistes (SFU) with architects Donat Alfred Agache, Mr. Auburtin, A. Bérard, Eugène Hénard (Architect of the City of Paris), Léon Jaussely, A. Parenty, engineer Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier and the landscape architect Edouard Redont.

Juchereau Duchesnay

Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay (1809–1886), political figure in Canada East and a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada

Kiyoshi Hasegawa

According to one source his work showsthe influence of Chagall, Dufy, Laboureur, Pascin, Picasso and Edouard Goerg Alas.

Lac-Édouard, Quebec

The Triton Fish and Game Club, today the Seigneurie du Triton is the most prestigious club hunting and fishing in Quebec and received illustrious members in particular Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the England) and American presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as family members of Rockefeller and Molson.

Louis-Bonaventure Caron

In 1866, he married Angélique-Élisabeth-Hermine Pacaud, the daughter of Édouard-Louis Pacaud.

Louis-Édouard Garrido

Established in Normandy, Louis-Édouard Garrido painted superb landscapes in the area of Saint-Vaast, as well as portraits and still-lfes.

Pierre Édouard Frère

Pierre Édouard Frère (Paris 10 January 1819 – 23 May 1886 Écouen), French painter, studied under Paul Delaroche, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843.

Pierre Hétu

He studied in Paris with Marcel Ciampi (piano) and Edouard Lindenberg (conducting), and in 1961, following studies with Sergiu Celibidache, he won the Concours International des Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre in Besançon.

Pierre Jean Édouard Desor

Pierre Jean Édouard Desor (13 February 1811, Friedrichsdorf, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 23 February 1882) was a German-Swiss geologist and naturalist.

Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois

Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, as Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac, he was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac (1857–1936) and his Mexico-born wife whom he wed in Paris in 1881, Susana Mariana Estefanía Francisca de Paula del Corazón de la Torre y Mier (1858–1913).

Saint-Cléophas-de-Brandon, Quebec

It seems that the name of Saint Cléophas was suggested by Édouard-Charles Fabre (1827-1896), archbishop of Montreal, to honour Cléophas Beausoleil (1845-1904), who was House of Commons member for Berthier from 1887 to 1899.

Stackpole Rocks

The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Connecticut, historian of early American whaling and sealing in the South Shetlands.

Station Road, Swinton

Britain's comprehensive victory over the French at Swinton was marred by the first double sending-off in World Cup annals, France's skipper Jean Barthe and Britain's second-rower Vince Karalius being despatched by Edouard Martung, a police inspector from Bordeaux.

William Dawson Lawrence

The most famous portrait is by Edouard-Marie Adam and belongs to the Musée national de la Marine, Paris, France.


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