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2 unusual facts about Humbert


Humbert, bastard of Savoy

He accompanied his father to Paris in 1339 and took part in the campaign against the English near Buironfosse, part of the Hundred Years' War.

In 1341 Humber married Andrée (Andrea), heiress of Arvillars, near Montmélian, and established a local dynasty there: his eldest son, Humbert II, inherited Arvillars, and his second, Amadeus, held the lordship of Mollettes.


Alan Grieve

Alan Grieve joined the well established firm of Gray's Inn solicitors Taylor & Humbert in 1958 after gaining commercial, city and merger and acquisition experience as an assistant solicitor at Slaughter and May.

Bob Ostertag

He also appeared in Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel's 1990 documentary film on Frith, Step Across the Border.

Château de Chinon

In 1173 Henry II betrothed his youngest son, Prince John, to the daughter of Count Humbert, an influential lord in Provence.

Détroit

Both were part of the rock formation Passion Fodder from 1985 to 1991 before they split up and Cantat moved on to establish his own famous band Noir Désir, whereas Humbert went on to join the American band 16 Horsepower, and later to Lilium and Wovenhand, amongst others.

Humbert II

Umberto II of Italy, sometimes Humbert II, (1904–1983), of the House of Savoy, King of Italy

Humbert surface

Humbert, G., Sur les fonctionnes abéliennes singulières. I, II, III.

Lo's Diary

Most notably, the novel takes the interpretation of Humbert as being unattractive or repulsive: he even loses his teeth at one point.

Louis-Amédée Humbert

Louis-Amédée Humbert (23 June 1814, Metz - 6 February 1876) was a French republican politician.

Nicole Humbert

Nicole Humbert, née Rieger (born 5 February 1972 in Landau) is a retired German pole vaulter.

Old Man of the Sea

The Old Man of the Sea is briefly mentioned by Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita in the scene where Humbert Humbert as a child is attempting coitus with his first love, Annabel.

Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church, Mt. Poinsur

The church has had its own Vicar only from 1912 onwards, thus Humbert (J. Humbert, S.J., Catholic Bombay, Her Priests and Their Training, Catholic Press, Ranchi, Bihar, 1964. Vol. II, pg 219).

Pascal Humbert

Humbert and Cantat were also part of a collaborative project for Lebanese-Quebec artist Wajdi Mouawad in Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle (known as Femmes trilogy) within the context of Festival d'Avignon.


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