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8 unusual facts about Dominique


Dominique-France Loeb-Picard

At Monaco's royal palace, she met and began her courtship with HM King Fuad II, whom she married on 16 April 1976 in Monaco.

Dominique-Marie Gauchet

Dominique-Marie Gauchet (14 August 1853 – 4 February 1931) was a French admiral during World War I.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

He was named canon of the cathedral of Nîmes in 1822, became known as a preacher, and contributed to L'Avenir.

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour (Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Drôme, France, 4 August 1792 – Paris, 3 January 1857) was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris.

Sibour

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, (1792–1857) Catholic Archbishop of Paris, assassinated by a priest

The Singing Nun

She acquired world fame in 1963 with the release of the French-language song "Dominique", which topped the U.S. Billboard and other charts.

Ulysses Kay

Program notes by Dominique-René de Lerma for the African Heritage Symphonic Series Volume II (Cedille Records CDR 90000 061)

Welcome to Briarcliff

Grace (Lizzie Brocheré), a seemingly sane patient, warns Kit not to turn off a loud French recording of "Dominique", as the orderlies require it be played.


A Certain Smile

The novel is about Dominique, a bored twenty-year-old law student at the Sorbonne in mid-1950s Paris.

Anne Desclos

After completing her studies at the Sorbonne, she worked as a journalist until 1946 when she joined Gallimard Publishers as the editorial secretary for one of its imprints where she began using the pen name of Dominique Aury.

Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing

She also is a great-niece of the Cuban-born French designer and architect José Emilio Terry y Dorticos and the sister of Paul Dominique Marie Joseph Sauvage de Brantès, the present Marquis de Brantès.

Auguste Vinson

Jean-Dominique-Philippe-Auguste Vinson (4 August 1819, Sainte-Suzanne, Réunion – 27 August 1903, Saint-Denis, Réunion) was a French physician and naturalist.

Brain stem stroke syndrome

Jean-Dominique was instrumental in forming the Association du Locked-In Syndrome (ALIS) in France.

Cronut

At a live auction in October 2013 benefited City Harvest (a New York City food rescue organization) Dominique Ansel, with auctioneer Nicholas Lowry and Questlove, auctioned a dozen freshly baked Cronuts for $14,000 in less than twenty minutes.

Daimaru

In 1998, Daimaru entered into a partnership with the French grand couturier Dominique Sirop to produce Dominique Sirop for Daimaru, a high fashion prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) label.

Dominique Ansel

In November, 2013, Dominique Ansel Bakery collaborated on The Cronut™ Mission with celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Joan Rivers and the cast of several Broadway shows to raise money for God’s Love We Deliver, a soup kitchen located near the bakery in SoHo.

Dominique de Roux

Dominique de Roux was born in a Languedoc noble family which was close to the monarchist circles (his grandfather, Marie de Roux, was the lawyer of Charles Maurras and the Action Française).

Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara

Dominique Ouattara (born 16 December 1953) is the current First Lady of Ivory Coast.

Dominique Jacques de Eerens

Dominique Jacques de Eerens (17 March 1781 – 30 May 1840) was a Dutch major general, politician and administrator, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and knight of the Military William Order.

Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant achieved fame in the mid-1970s while filming Les bronzés with the acting troupe Le Splendid - (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel).

Dominique Maltais

Dominique had a disappointing 2010 Winter Olympics falling in both of her qualifying runs and therefore did not qualify for the finals.

Dominique Probst

The son of a noted playwright, Gisèle Casadesus, and an actor and director with the Comédie-Française, Lucien Probst, Dominique Probst won the First Prize for Percussion with the National Music Conservatory, Paris, in 1978.

Dominique Sandy

Dominique Thomas Sandy (born 18 March 1992, Reading, England) is an international lacrosse player for France.

Dominique Tricaud

Dominique Tricaud (b, 1955 in Paris, France) is a lawyer whose fame in the United States derives from his being the defense attorney in Paris, France, of Ira Einhorn, the famous environmentalist, convicted in absentia of murder.

Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio

Église Saint-Dominique de Bonifacio is a church in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, southeastern Corsica.

Erdmonas Simonaitis

French General Dominique Joseph Odry established seven-member Directorate (local government) in February 1920.

François Massieu

François Jacques Dominique Massieu (1832-1896) was a French thermodynamics engineer noted for his two 1869 characteristic functions, each of which known as a Massieu function (the first of which sometimes called free entropy), as cited by American engineer Willard Gibbs in his 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.

Gaumont Animation

Alphanim recently made partnership with Gaumont to produce two feature films by Dominique Monféry.

Gregory Kealey

Gregory Kealey has supervised more than 20 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie, MUN and UNB, including Craig Heron, John Manley, Sean Cadigan, Mark Leier, Christina Burr, Michael Smith, Miriam Wright, Andrew Parnaby, Dominique Clement, Michelle McBride, Janis Thiessen, Michael Butt, Fred Winsor, Richard Rennie, Kurt Korneski, Kirk Niergarth, Benjamin Isitt, Christopher Powell and David Foord.

Homegrown Video

Other performers who have been in amateur content submissions prior to becoming established porn industry performers include Silvia Saint, Vicky Vette, Aria Giovanni, Stephanie Swift, RayVeness, Meggan Malone, Lacie Hart, Dominique, Gage, and Gianna Michaels.

I Got It from My Mama

The song contains samples of "Don Quichotte" by Magazine 60 and "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James; Magazine 60 group members Jean-Luc Drion and Dominique Régiacorte are credited as co-writers on "I Got It from My Mama".

International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Some recent keynote or plenary speakers have included: Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Steve Dixon, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Peter Greenaway, Sneja Gunew, Steven Holl, Dominique Janicaud, Stelarc, Slavoj Žižek

Jean Charles Baquoy

The eldest son of Maurice Baquoy, he engraved book-plates after the designs of Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, and others, among which are a set of vignettes for the French translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Basan, which are executed in a finished style, and a set of plates, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, for the Fables of La Fontaine.

Juliette Dodu

Around 1875, she began a relationship with the baron Félix Hippolyte Larrey, medical chief of the army and son of the celebrated Larrey, and inherited his fortune (including his small château at Bièvres, Essonne).

Louis Chedid

Chedid is also the composer of Pierre-Dominique Burgaud's "Le Soldat Rose" (The Pink Soldier, 2006), a fairytale musical whose songs have been interpreted by singers including -M-, Vanessa Paradis, Jeanne Cherhal, Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon and Bénabar.

Marie-Dominique Philippe

Marie-Dominique Philippe (September 8, 1912 in Nord (department) – August 26, 2006 in Loire) was a Dominican philosopher and theologian.

Metal Guru

American Indie Rock band Louis XIV (band) were also heavily influenced by this song for the composition of A Letter to Dominique, which is from their second album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept.

Michel Didisheim

On September 25, 1971 he was a co-founder of Inter Environnement – Bond Beter Leefmilieu, together with Dominique de Wasseige, Mark Dubrulle, Pierre Dulieu, Jan Tanghe and Baudouin du Bus de Warnaffe.

Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id

He was born in Cairo, the grandson of King Farouk of Egypt and Queen Narriman, and the elder son of Fuad II (last King of Egypt) by his former wife, Fadila (née Dominique-France Loeb-Picard).

Ormsby House

In 1972, a brand new Ormsby House was built by Dominique's son, former Nevada governor Paul Laxalt, at the corner of 5th and Carson Streets.

Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt

Princess Fawzia-Latifa of Egypt was born in Monte Carlo, Monaco, on 12 February 1982, and she is the daughter of Fuad II (last King of Egypt) by his wife, Fadila (born Dominique-France Picard).

Roquette Freres

Founded and headquartered in Lestrem, France in 1933 by the brothers Dominique and Germain Roquette, Roquette has grow to become the leader in starch production in Europe and the number four ranked producer of starch worldwide.

Sharon Maughan

Maughan completed three films in 2012: The Babymakers directed by Jay Chandrakauser; Flying Home directed by Dominique Derrudiere and Time Lapse.

Simone Orlando

She has also created roles with James Kudelka, Crystal Pite, Dominique Dumais, Mikko Nissenen, and Jean Grand-Maitre and has been featured in the works of William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Nicolo Fonte, Jiri Kylian, Martha Graham, and Twyla Tharp, among others.

Stolen Babies

Stolen Babies formed from a 12+ member high school performance troupe named the Fratellis; the band takes its name from one of the skits performed by the group during this period (written by Dominique Persi and her older brother, animator Raymond S. Persi).

Tormod Granheim

On July 11, 2007, Tormod Granheim set out from New York City on the reed boat Abora3, captained by German scientist Dominique Görlitz.


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