Abba Mari ben Isaac of St Gilles was a prominent French Jewish official who flourished about the middle of the twelfth century, and lived at Saint-Gilles, near Lunel, in Languedoc.
In its center is the tomb of St. Giles, a medieval place of veneration until in the 16th century, his relics were moved to the Basilica of Saint Sernin at Toulouse.
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These include, in the lower sector, a bestiary and scenes from the Old Testament; in the middle one it has statues and characters from the New Testament; the frieze and the tympana above the latter have also scenes from the same book, including the "Adoration of the Magi", the "Crucifixion of Jesus" and a "Maestà".
In the autumn of 1176, Alfanus accompanied Richard Palmer and Robert of Caserta with twenty-five galleys to Saint-Gilles to take custody of Joan, daughter of Henry II of England, who was betrothed to William II.
Charles de Chambrun (1930-2010), French politician, secretary of state for foreign commerce (1966–1967), mayor (FN) of Saint-Gilles (1989–1992)
He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.
As also Dewez had fallen into disfavor - officially due to shortcomings in his designs for the Vilvoorde prison - they choose for new architects to work in their service such as Charles de Wailly and Louis Montoyer.
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At the end Guimard did not get the commission and the building was eventually carried out after the project of court architect Laurent-Benoît Dewez.
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Instead of Guimard it was the slightly older Walloon architect Laurent-Benoît Dewez who succeeded Faulte as official architect of the court.
The reputation of this contest is based on the value of the contest's jurys and its award winners, whose some are internationally recognized, like Victor Horta, Pierre Alechinsky, Emile Claus, Paul Delvaux, Léon Frédéric, Victor Horta, Fernand Khnopff or … Constant Permeke.
Before his position as Master, he had been grand prior of Saint-Gilles.
Through the aid of the latter, he was appointed to govern the grand priories of the kingdoms of Castile and León, and of the abbey of Saint-Gilles in southern France, the richest priory of the order.
He received Saint-Gilles with the title of "count" from his father and displaced his niece Philippa, Duchess of Aquitaine, his brother William IV's daughter, in 1094 from inheriting Toulouse.
Born at Saint-Gilles, Gard, he was a son of Raymond V and Constance of France.
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Debutant Gilles Villeneuve also took part, along with Patrick Tambay, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Brett Lunger, Patrick Nève, Mikko Kozarowitzky, another debutant Andy Sutcliffe, Guy Edwards, Tony Trimmer, David Purley, Emilio de Villota, Brian Henton, Arturo Merzario and yet another debutant, Brian McGuire.
Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years.
When Pope Urban II, the greatest of the Gregorian reformers after Gregory, travelled through Languedoc and Provence, visiting Montpellier, Nîmes, Saint-Gilles, Tarascon, Avignon, Aix, Cavaillon, and other cities, preaching the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095, he had to avoid Arles, where the deposed bishop was still in power.
His family carries on his work today, and they have a museum in Château-Richer near Quebec City, which showcases Gilles' and the family's works.
Arturia is a software company located in Grenoble, France and founded in 1999 by Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both INPG-qualified engineers.
In June 1953 Marathon’s first pre-production prototype was presented to Gilles Guérithault who was managing editor of L'Auto-Journal, and who thereby obtain exclusive details of the car which would debut in production form only in October at the Paris Motor Show.
Under the direction of composer and arranger Brian Fahey, the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra also did a lot of television work accompanying the likes of Kenneth McKeller, Lena Martell, Moira Anderson, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Lena Zavaroni and Anne Lorne Gilles.
Through his mother's side of the family, Bertrand was related to the Counts of Toulouse, William IV and Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, who were his cousins.
The album was recorded at Château d'Hérouville near Paris, France, produced by Pierre Lattès and engineered by Gilles Salle.
It was released on 12" vinyl under the YABA Music and Just'In Distribution labels, and is currently out of print. Personnel include Étienne Charry (guitar/vocals,) Michel Gondry (drummer,) Nicolas Dufournet (bassist) and Gilles Chapat (keyboards.) Tracks one and two, "Les Cailloux" and "Ma Maison," respectively, were both made into music videos by drummer and filmmaker Michel Gondry, though the version of "Ma Maison" used for the video differs markedly from the LP version.
It passed from owner to owner until it was purchased in 1860 by the commune of Fumel, who obtained the classification Monument historique(1862) and began some restoration work by B Cavailler in 1868 and by the arrondissements architect A Gilles in 1876.
His father died in 1578, and in 1579, his oldest brother, Gilles, killed at the Siege of Maastricht; Claude succeeded his brother as governor of Charleville.
Here he met a young Jacques Villeneuve who had been sent to the school following the death of his Formula One driver father Gilles.
This press release can also be read in La colonisation, la loi et l’histoire by Claude Liauzu and Gilles Manceron (dir.), Éditions Syllepse, 2006, Paris, 183 p.
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Les Saqueboutiers du Toulouse, Dominique Vellard, Glossa
She sings equally with the flamenco guitarist Juan Carmona or medieval European repertoire with the Ensemble Gilles Binchois or with the Boston Camerata .
Etudes de philosophie et d'histoire des sciences, by C. Bouligand, G. Canguilhem, P. Costabel, F. Courtes, François Dagognet, M. Daumas, Gilles Granger, J. Hyppolite, R. Martin, R. Poirier and R. Taton
Gilles Augustin Binya (born 29 August 1984 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Gaziantepspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.
Gilles is a favorite of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who stops in to the stand for a hot dog and soda nearly every time he visits Milwaukee.
Born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1938, Gilles Larrain, the great great grand son of Paul Blanchy, first mayor of Saigon from 1895 to 1901, and the first producer of pepper in Viet Nam, started in education at the Lycée Français de New York from 1954 to 1957, before who went through the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts (architecture), in Paris from 1960 to 1965, and one of the pioneers in kinetic art in the 1960s, using air, smoke, light, water and neon tubes.
The records of Arras Cathedral note that a requiem was held for Gilles, called Dominus Aegidius (Lord Gilles), on 13 November 1252.
Gilles Pargneaux (b. 24 March 1957 in Harcigny) is a French politician, Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the North-West constituency and leader of the PS federation in Lille.
Born January 20, 1971, Gilles Roux is a French speedcuber primarily known for inventing a 3x3 method, the Roux Method, and achieving fast solves with it.
The latter grew quite rapidly thanks to both the development of light and neutron scattering and the strong collaboration established with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (collège de France), Paris) and the Léon Brillouin Laboratory at CEN-Saclay.
Andruet's son Gilles was a chess player and was murdered in 1995 in murky circumstances.
Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (15 September 1700, Saint-Pol-de-Léon – 21 March 1784, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, bishop of Limoges and preceptor to the grandchildren of Louis XV.
She has worked with other world's top photographers including Herb Ritts, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, Inez and Vinoodh, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Patrick Demarchelier, Regan Cameron and Gilles Bensimon.
It is one of the basic components in Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner's blending theory, a theory within Cognitive semantics.
On his return to Paris, Pineau found the Régence manner had been transformed in the decade of his absence by the carver-designer François-Antoine Vassé and the designer Gilles-Marie Oppenord (see Rococo).
In 1187, four brothers from Walcourt settled at Oignies, Three of the brothers, Gilles, Robert and John, were priests, while the fourth, Hugo, was a jeweller and metalworker.
Among his most famous monumental works, located in Brussels, are the monument to Frederic de Merode, and the tribute to Edith Cavell and fellow nurse Marie Depage (of the RMS Lusitania), the Four Elements group in the Botanical Garden of Brussels, and several sculptures in the City of Saint-Gilles.
The result was the very successful 1993 edition that was held in Valle de Bravo under the direction of Gilles Spitalier.
Born in Teeswater in 1924 and attending primary and secondary school in the community, Dr. Gilles went on to become the founding Dean of the Schulich School of Business and an M.P. during the 30th Canadian Parliament.
Théophile Charles Gilles Ferré (Paris, May 6, 1846 – Satory, November 1871) was one of the members of the Paris Commune, who authorized the execution of Georges Darboy, the archbishop of Paris, and five other hostages, on 24 May, 1871.
De Castellane was brought up by her maternal grandmother and her uncle, Gilles Dufour, one of Karl Lagerfeld’s principal assistants, first at Fendi then Chanel.