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unusual facts about François-Xavier-Joseph Droz



Anna Balsamo

In 2003, Anna Balsamo was appointed Vice-President to the Florentine association Poets Chamber founded in 1930 by Domenico François on suggestion of Giovanni Papini.

Benoist Apparu

Benoist Apparu (born 24 November 1969) was Secretary of State for Housing under the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, in the François Fillon III government, and a member of the National Assembly of France.

Cassandra Steen discography

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César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck

The son of Ulric Antoine de Hoensbroeck (whose family originated in the village of Hoensbroeck, now in Dutch Limburg), he studied at Heidelberg and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Aachen Cathedral before becoming prince bishop of Liege in 1784, succeeding François-Charles de Velbrück, whose progressive reforms he tried to undo.

Dawn Staley

Staley reached the 100 win plateau in the A-10 Semifinals vs Xavier that season, becoming the fastest coach in women's basketball to achieve that.

Duvalier

Jean-Claude Duvalier (born 1951), nicknamed "Baby Doc", son of François Duvalier and President of Haiti (1971-1986)

Eric Himy

And in France the performance was compared to those of Argerich and François.

Fabre Geffrard

His ministers of Education, Jean Simon Elie-Dubois and François Elie-Dubois, modernized and established many lycea in Jacmel, Jérémie, Saint-Marc, and Gonaïves.

Francés de Corteta

Francés de Corteta, also known as Corteta de Prades (in French François de Cortète and Cortète de Prades; Agen, 1586 – Hautefage, September 3, 1667) was a nobleman from the Agen province and an Occitan-language poet and baroque play writer.

François de Bonal

François de Bonal (b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen; d. in Munich, 1800) was Bishop of Clermont.

François Dessertenne

François Dessertenne is a French physician who first described the special type of ventricular tachycardia in 1966 known as Torsades de pointes.

François Olivennes

François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.

François-Albert Angers

François-Albert Angers (May 21, 1909 – July 14, 2003) was an eminent Québécois economist and defender of the cause of Quebec and the French language.

François-Benoît Hoffman

His severe criticism of Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs led the author to make some changes in a later edition.

François-Charles de Velbrück

He was buried in Liège and his mausoleum escaped being destroyed during the Liège Revolution in which his remains, unlike those of his predecessors, were not thrown into a ditch.

François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet

# Michel Gabriel Alphonse Ferdinand (1810-1865) - father of Marie-Clotilde-Elisabeth Louise de Riquet, comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau

François-Louis Tremblay

He was a guest guitarist in Radio-Canada's TV show "Tellement sport" to play with the band Karkwa.

François-Xavier de Feller

In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of theology at Tyrnau in Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to Belgium and continued to discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773.

François-Xavier Dumortier

On 27 April 2010, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., would be succeeded by Dumortier as the next rector of the university.

Georg Brandes

The key idea of "aristocratic radicalism" went on to influence most of the later works of Brandes and resulted in voluminous biographies Wolfgang Goethe (1914–15), Francois de Voltaire (1916–17), Gaius Julius Cæsar 1918 and Michelangelo (1921).

Henri Desrivières

The son of François Desrivières, he acquired the seigneury of Montarville with François-Pierre Bruneau in 1819.

Hercule, Duke of Montbazon

François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1630 – 24 August 1712) married Cathérine Lyonne and had no issue; married again to Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, and had issue; founder of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan;

Ivan Gagarin

Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin (born in Moscow, 1 August 1814; died in Paris, 19 July 1882) was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion to Catholicism.

Kellermann

François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), 3rd Duc de Valmy, son of François Étienne

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

Les 400 Coups

The 400 Blows, (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups), a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut

Lettre à M. Dacier

While visiting his brother Jacques-Joseph on September 14, 1822, Jean-François Champollion made a crucial breakthrough in understanding the phonetic nature of hieroglyphics, and proclaimed "Je tiens l'affaire!" ("I've got it!") and then fainted dead away.

Louis-François Cassas

Louis-François Cassas, born to a poor family on June 3, 1756, was a distinguished French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archeologist and antiquary born at Azay-le-Ferron, in the Indre Department of France.

Malhiot

François-Xavier Malhiot (1781–1854), merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada

Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme

At François's death in 1495, she became guardian of their minor son Charles de Bourbon, and managed the lands he inherited from his father as well as her own.

Mauriac

Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), French writer and journalist, son of François

Musea

It was founded in 1985 by Bernard Gueffier and Francis Grosse, along with a small team of friends - Daniel Adt, Alain Juliac, Alain Robert, Thierry Sportouche, Jean-Claude Granjeon, Pascal Ferry, Thierry Moreau and François Arnold.

No-knead bread

In 2007, authors Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe François published Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which uses a no-knead method of stored and refrigerated dough that is ready for use at any time during a 5 to 14 day period.

Order of the Christian Charity

François Frédéric Steenackers, "Histoire des ordres de chevalerie et des distinctions honorifiques en France", Librairie Internationale, Paris, 1868, p.

Palazzo Grassi

It was also where Pinault's son Francois-Henri met actress Salma Hayek and it served as the location for their wedding vow renewal.

Peruvian literature

Also, it is relevant the work of new Peruvian poets as Jose Pancorvo, Jorge Eslava, Rossella di Paolo, Domingo de Ramos, Rocio Silva Santisteban, Odi González, Ana Varela, Rodrigo Quijano, Jorge Frisancho, Mariela Dreyfus, Gonzalo Portals, Rafael Espinosa, Lorenzo Helguero, José Carlos Yrigoyen, Montserrat Álvarez, Ana María García, Alberto Valdivia Baselli, Grecia Cáceres, Xavier Echarri, among others.

Pilar, Goa

The headquarter of the Missionary Society of St. Francis Xavier is located at Pilar, hence the common name of Pilar Society given to the missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier.

Poitiers Cathedral

François-Henri Clicquot, at that time the leading organ-builder in France, was appointed to undertake the work, but died in Pentecost 1790 before completing the work.

Rameau's Nephew

The narrator has made his way to his usual haunt on a rainy day, the Café de la Régence, France's chess mecca, where he enjoys watching such masters as Philidor or Legall.

Robert Estienne

Three of Robert's sons, Henri, Robert, and François, became celebrated as printers.

Roger Dobson

Interviewees include Javier Marías (King Xavier), Jon Wynne-Tyson (ex-King Juan II) and his wife Jennifer, Fay Weldon, Brian Stableford, Bob Williamson (King Robert the Bald), William L. Gates (King Leo), Oliver Cox, Cedric Boston (King Cedric), A. S. Byatt and Arthur Freeman.

Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

The village and buildings were burned in an attack by Rogers' Rangers, an irregular British provincial force, during the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Indian War) on October 4, 1759.

Sisowath Monipong

He began his studies in Cambodia, before being sent to France, in Grasse then in Nice, from 1927, under the control of the Governor of Indochina, François Marius Baudoin.

Sophie Gail

At the age of 19, she married editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) and had one son, Jean-François Gail.

St. Xavier's High School, Andheri

Xavier's High School,Andheri is situated in Poonam Nagar, Andheri (East),Mumbai.It is recognized by Government of Maharashtra and affiliated to Maharashtra State Education Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education i.e., S.S.C. and H.S.C.(Science).

Thomas De Koninck

According to a well known rumor, he would have inspired Antoine de Saint-Exupery for the creation of The Little Prince when Saint-Exupery was living in the house of Charles De Koninck in Québec city, in 1942 (see La transcendance de l'homme : études en hommage à Thomas De Koninck, Jean-François Mattéi et Jean-Marc Narbonne (ed.)).

Vincent Kompany

His brother, François Kompany currently plays for Sint-Niklaas, having previously had spells at Germinal Beerschot and Macclesfield Town.

West Tamworth, New South Wales

It is also a popular venue during the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January and artists such as John Butler Trio, The Baileys, John Williamson, Pete Murray, The Waifs, Missy Higgins, Grinspoon, Xavier Rudd and Kasey Chambers have all played at the club.

Xavier Newswire

The Xavier Newswire (established 1915) is an independent newspaper published weekly during the academic year by the students of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.


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