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6 unusual facts about Couturier


La Chanson de Craonne

The writer Paul Vaillant-Couturier, who was also a World War I veteran, preserved the song, and later had them published.

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Singular by its composition, this convoy of 230 women, Resistance members, communists, Gaullist wives of resistance members, was illustrated in La Marseillaise by crossing the entrance of the camp of Birkenau; only 49 of these 230 women would return from the camps after the war.

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's father, Lucien Vogel, an editor, created the magazine Vu in 1928; her mother, Cosette de Brunhoff, sister of the creator of Babar the Elephant, was a fashion photographer.

It was at the time of this voyage in 1933, two months after the accession of Adolf Hitler to power, when she reported on the stereotypes of the concentration camps of Oranienburg and Dachau, published as of her return to France.

Naquetia cumingii

amanuensis Couturier, 1907
Murex cumingii A.

Union of Communist Students

Despite this association, or the Clarté universitaire group of Georges Cogniot, related to Paul Vaillant-Couturier and Henri Barbusse's Clarté movement, there was no stable Communist youth organisation before 1938.


André Leon Talley

He also appears in the movie-documentary about the Italian couturier Valentino Garavani, Valentino: The Last Emperor and in the documentary The September Issue.

Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The outfits Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash wore on stage were designed by the Swedish couturier Lars Wallin.

Charles Frederick Worth

The House of Worth was in many ways a new departure, marking a shift from the old fashioned dressmaker to something much closer to the modern couturier or fashion designer.

Claude Royet-Journoud

He was also co-founder & co-editor (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970).

Éric Bellocq

Eric Bellocq accompanies Dominique Visse with the jazz pianist François Couturier in recitals of music ranging from Machaut to Berio; and with the juggler Vincent de Lavenère has created the staged show Le chant des balles - an encounter of early music, improvisation and juggling.

Esther Maria Lewis Chapin

In 1888, at the age of 17 or 18, while her father was serving as Minister to Portugal, she was presented to Queen Victoria wearing a gown designed by Charles Frederick Worth, the world's first couturier.

Getaria, Gipuzkoa

Its most famous sons are Juan Sebastián Elcano, capitain of the Nao Victoria, Admiral Miguel de Oquendo, who commanded the Guipúzcoa Squadron of the Spanish Armada, the explorer Domingo de Bonechea, and the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre.

Hendrick Couturier

At this exhibition an oil portrait was shown of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt (father of the 17th century mayor of New York Stephanus Van Cortlandt) that at that time was attributed to Couturier.

Japanese handicrafts

Famous designers, such as Hanae Mori, borrowed extensively from kimono patterns for their couturier collections.

Louis-Charles Couturier

During the remainder of Couturier's life the community lived in three separate houses in the town of Solesmes, using the parochial church as their abbey church.

Louis-Charles Couturier (12 May 1817, Chemillé-sur-Dôme, Diocese of Tours - 29 October 1890, Solesmes) was a French Benedictine, abbot of the monastery of Saint-Pierre at Solesmes and President of the French Congregation of Benedictines.

Margaret Vyner

Making her way overland to Paris, she was hired by French couturier, Jean Patou, first as a general "dog's body," later working her way up to be a leading mannequin.

Pierre Reverdy

One of Reverdy’s most enduring and profound relationships was with the couturier, Coco Chanel.

Sean Couturier

In 2009–10 Couturier stepped forward to lead the QMJHL in points; he had the lowest point totals required to win the Jean Béliveau Trophy as leading scorer in QMJHL history.

Société Parisienne

At the MarseilleNiceLa Turbie event in January 1897 M. Courtois (sic) (possibly M. Couturier) was classified 23rd after completing the 240 kilometres in 12 hours 50 minutes.


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