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unusual facts about Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte


Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte

He was born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East in 1848, the son of Joseph-Édouard Turcotte and Flore Buteau, and was educated at the Jesuit-run Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal and the Séminaire Saint-Joseph in Trois-Rivières.


Adolf of Nassau

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817–1905), Duke of Nassau and later Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur

Adolphe Bazaine was then given responsibility for the construction of the railway line from Mulhouse to Thann; then, with Mr. Chaperone, he established the project of the section Strasburg Bâle.

Adolphe Muzito cabinet

The Adolphe Muzito cabinet consists of the Ministers of State, Ministers and Vice-Ministers that form the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo under Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, who took office on 10 October 2008.

Adolphe Schneider

Adolphe's grandson Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) inherited the family business, and was a balloonist and aircraft enthusiast who created the Schneider Trophy.

Adolphe Teikeu

Adolphe Teikeu Kamgang (born 23 June 1990 in Bandjoun) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for FC Metalurh Zaporizhya of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Adolphe Vorderman

In a 2007 episode of the BBC genealogical documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, Carol Vorderman researched her great grandfather Adolphe.

Adolphe-Félix Cals

Art dealer Pierre–Firmin Martin, known as "Father Martin", liked his work, and Cals went on to paint portraits of Martin and his wife (now in the "Musée Eugène Boudin" in Honfleur).

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

The Verein was responsible for the large emigration of Germans to Texas in the 19th Century, and on January 9, 1843, established the 4,428 acre Nassau Plantation in Fayette County, Texas and named it after the Grand Duke.

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich) (24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was the first monarch of Luxembourg from the House of Nassau-Weilburg.

Anna Whelan Betts

After graduating, she moved to Paris where she was tutored by the French painter Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois.

Antoine Beaussant

Antoine Beaussant is thus carrying on the family tradition started by his grandfather Charles-Gustave Beaussant, an entrepreneur and music lover who graduated from HEC in 1923, and upheld by his father Philippe Beaussant, a writer, baroque music expert and member of the Académie française.

Black Russian

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

Dominic Tang

appointed him on 1 October 1950 as Apostolic Administrator of Canton (Guangzhou), and on 13 February 1951 was ordained titular bishop of Elateia by Bishop Gustave Deswaziere, who said of him: By accepting the appointment from the Holy See in these difficult times, the new bishop was showing absolute obedience and a spirit of sacrifice.

Edna White

At 11, after an invitation from Frank Damrosch, she entered the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School) in New York City, where, under the instruction of Adolphe Dubois, she switched from the cornet to the trumpet.

Étienne Moreau-Nélaton

Moreau-Nélaton's father, who was also named Adolphe Moreau (1827–1882), was a high government official and led the railroad company Chemins de fer de l'Est.

Fränk Schleck

Their father, Johny Schleck, was a professional road bicycle racer between 1965 and 1974, as was their grandfather, Gustave Schleck, who contested events in the 1930s.

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813 – 13 January 1901) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist who was born in Isère, and died in Les Essarts-le-Roi.

George Joseph Gustave Masson

Gustave was educated at Tours, was exempted from military service as eldest son of a widow, and was awarded the diploma of 'Bachelier es Lettres' by the University of France on 8 August 1837.

Gustave Bebbe

Gustave Anicet Bebbe Mbangue (born 22 June 1982 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Sông Lam Nghệ An in the Vietnamese V-League.

Gustave Cloëz

Gustave Cloëz (born Quincy, 1890, died Paris, 1970) was a French conductor who was particularly active at the Paris Opéra-Comique in the mid-20th century, and made a significant number of recordings, often accompanying major singers of the time.

Gustave d'Eichthal

Correspondance inédite de Stuart Mill avec Gustave d'Eichthal, translation and preface by Eugène d'Eichthal (1898)

Gustave Diamond

Gustave Diamond (born 1928) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Gustave Doyen

Gustave Doyen (Festieux, 1837 - ?) was a French painter working during 19th and 20th centuries in France.

Gustave Niebaum

Gustave Ferdinand Niebaum (originally Nybom) (b. 1842 in Oulu, Finland - 1908) acquired his maritime schooling in Helsinki, Finland.

Gustave Roud

René Auberjonois, Avant les autruches, après les iguanes… Lettres à Gustave Roud, 1922-1954, éd.

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

Today the Espace Ferrié (Musée des Transmissions) continues his memory in Cesson-Sévigné.

Gustave-Henri Jossot

Around ten years later, he followed the well-known Algerian Sufi shaykh Ahmad al-Alawi.

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck, name also given as Henri Gustave Muehlenbeck (2 June 1798, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – 21 November 1845, Mühlhausen) was an Alsatian physician and botanical collector known for his work with bryophytes.

Herbert John Burgman

Herbert John Burgman was born in Hokah, Minnesota, the son of Gustave Burgman and Karoline Dahlke Burgman.

Jacques Van Offelen

Jacques Louis Gustave Van Offelen (Isleworth, 18 October 1916 - Ukkel, 22 February 2006) was a Belgian liberal politician, burgomaster and minister for the PVV.

John O. Meusebach

In 1843, the Vereins purchased a 4,428 acre plantation in Fayette County and named it after the Archduke of Nassau.

Johnnie Davis

Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood.

Lawrence Murphy

Lawrence Gustave Murphy (1831 – October 20, 1878) was Irish, Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party leader, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, and a main instigator of the Lincoln County War.

Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 20 February 1882) was a French soldier and musicologist.

Louis I, Duke of Bar

On the death of his brother Edward III, Duke of Bar at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, Louis inherited the dukedom and successfully defended his claim to it against that of his brother-in-law Adolphe, Duke of Juliers and of Berg, who felt that, as a clergyman, Louis was not suited to inherit the dukedom and its revenues.

Morris Philipson

At the University of Chicago Press, Philipson became known for large-scale scholarly projects such as The Lisle Letters (a six-volume collection of 16th-century correspondence by Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle), The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, a four-volume translation of the Chinese classic The Journey to the West, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s five-volume The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857.

Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts

Others included Enid Bell, Gustave Cimiotti, Hannes Beckman (design and color), Hillaire Hiler (color), Joseph Konzal (sculpture), Gerson Leiber (print making), Reuben Nakian (sculpture), Robert Conover, Leo Dee, Jane Burgio, and Grigory Gurevich.

Order of Adolphe of Nassau

The other side has the inscriptions "1292" (in that year that Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg was crowned as King of the Romans) and "1858" (this was the year of creation of the order by Adolphe, Duke of Nassau), in gold letters on a white-enamelled background.

Otis Murphy

Murphy has won numerous awards and prizes which include: 2nd Prize in the Adolphe Sax International Saxophone Competition (1998) in Belgium, 3rd Prize in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition (1996) in France, 1st Prize in the Heida Hermanns Young Artist Competition, 2nd Prize in the St. Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition, and the J. William Fulbright Grant that allowed saxophone study in France.

Paul Séjourné

1904 : Pont Adolphe in Luxembourg (road bridge over the Pétrusse, with an 84m centre span).

Peter und Ännchen

The libretto was based on Charles Simon Favart and Marie Favart's text for Annette et Lubin, a comédie mêlée d'ariettes with music by Adolphe Benoît Blaise, which was in turn based on Jean-François Marmontel's morality tale of the same name.

Pierre-Gustave Staal

Pierre-Gustave-Eugène Staal (Vertus, 2 September 1817–Ivry, 19 October 1882), was a French artist and draughtsman.

Pomme d'api

Gustave recognizes Catherine as his love, but she is indifferent to his regrets, unmoved even by the photo of them the day she was rose queen at Nanterre.

Portraits by Vincent van Gogh

The twelve-year-old Adeline Ravoux was the daughter of Arthur-Gustave Ravoux, whose inn is where Van Gogh lodged in Auvers-sur-Oise.

Rencontre

La rencontre, an 1854 painting by Gustave Courbet nicknamed "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet"

Routhier

Adolphe-Basile Routhier (1839–1920), Canadian judge, author, and lyricist

Rue Adolphe Mille, Paris

Rue Adolphe Mille is a street in Paris' XIXe arrondissement, near the parc de la Villette, the Conservatoire de Musique et de Danse and the Cité de la Musique.

Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada

His work led to the first converts in the province; Gustave Litke of Leduc and Dr. Menzel and his family, of Stony Plain.


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