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2 unusual facts about Joséphine-Charlotte metro station


Joséphine-Charlotte metro station

The name of the station is from the green square adjacent to the entrance (Joséphine-Charlottesquare / Square Joséphine-Charlotte) in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre / Sint-Pieters-Woluwe.

In late 2008 the original "Pavimento Pirelli" black rubber flooring on the platforms was replaced with new biscuit-coloured terrazzo floor tiles.


Angophora floribunda

It was growing from seed in Empress Josephine's arboretum at Malmaison by 1804, when Étienne Pierre Ventenat catalogued it in his Jardin de la Malmaison.

Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville

Anne Marguerite, Baroness Hyde de Neuville (born Henriette Anne Marguerite Joséphine Rouillé de Marigny on 10 May 1771 Sancerre - died 14 September 1849 Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre) was a French watercolourist and painter.

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq

Auguste Bouché-Leclercq was born in 1842 at Francières, Oise as son of Louis-Thomas Bouché and Marie-Joséphine Leclercq.

Augustin Kambale

He was married in a religious ceremony to his wife, Josephine, in 1990, but didn't marry her in a civil ceremony until March 31, 2007, in Kiwanja, near Rutshuru.

Barbara Wiedemann

Wiedemann has authored a critical study, Josephine Herbst’s Short Fiction: A Window to Her Life and Times, on the work of Josephine Herbst, the radical American writer, and is the co-editor of two books, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion and "My Name Was Martha": A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem.

Carol I of Romania

His family being closely related to the Bonaparte family (one of his grandmothers was a Beauharnais, Joséphine's niece-in-law, and the other a Murat, Joachim's niece Marie Antoinette Murat), they enjoyed very good relations with Napoleon III of France.

Carolyn Dennis

She was the singing voice for the 1991 made-for-television movie The Josephine Baker Story starring Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker.

Catherine Seton

Catherine Josephine Seton (28 June 1800-3 April 1891) was the daughter of Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder Sisters of Charity of St.

Eccles Building

In particular, an antique chandelier from the Chateau Malmaison, the retreat for Napoleon and Josephine, and owned by the Caldwell firm, was replicated for the Board members' offices.

Eduard Clam-Gallas

He was the eldest son of Count Christian Christoph Clam-Gallas (1771–1838), patron of Beethoven, and Countess Josephine Clary-Aldringen (1777–1828).

Eugène Oudin

Oudin made his operatic stage debut in New York as Montosol in Josephine Sold by Her Sisters at Wallack's Theatre in August 1886 under the direction of John A. McCaull who brought Oudin over from Great Britain to appear with his McCaull Comic Opera Company.

Francis Janssens

Francis Janssens was born in Tilburg, North Brabant, to Cornelius John and Josephine Anne (née Dams) Janssens.

George Bellew

Born in Dublin, Bellew was the son of Richard Eustace Bellew (son of Edward Bellew, 2nd Baron Bellew, and grandson of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew and his Spanish wife, Anna Fermina de Mendoza) and Gwendoline Marie Josephine (née Herbert-Huddleston).

Hugh Clifford

Clifford was born in Roehampton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford and his wife Josephine Elizabeth, née Anstice; his grandfather was Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe

Lord Robert Edward Innes-Ker (22 July 1885 – 19 July 1958); married first on 27 October 1920 (divorced 1935) at the Registry Office in London to Charlotte Josephine Cooney, otherwise the musical comedy actress Jose Collins (23 May 1887 – 6 December 1958), as her first husband.

Jemima West

West later went on to star in the French television shows Ben & Thomas, Trouble Paradis and R.I.S. Police Scientifique, Josephine Ange Gardien which was followed by her second film role in King Guillaume, co-starring alongside Florence Foresti.

Joanna Priest

She influenced the theatre designer, Kenneth Rowell, and her students that rose to have major careers in dance include Stephen Baynes, Jacqui Carroll, Rosetta Cook, Roma Egan, Lisa Heaven, Josephine Jason, John Nobbs, and Paul Saliba.

Joe Kirk

Born Ignazio Curcuruto (simply known by his pet name Nat Curcuruto to his family), Kirk was born in New York City as one of four children - Letitia, Philip (1902 - 1995), Nat (1903 - 1975), and Josephine - to the Sicilian American immigrants Giuseppe "Joe" Curcuruto and Elvira Puglisi Curcuruto (1882–1977).

John Henry Smith

His second wife, Josephine Grosbeck Smith, spend 1888 until 1896 in exile in Manassa, Colorado, to avoid her being used as a witness to convict Smith of unlawful cohabitation.

John V. Cox

John Cox, son of coal miner Norris Cox and wife Ruth, was born and raised in Bevier, Macon County, Missouri along with older brother Lynn and sisters Josephine and Nancy.

Josephine Brunsvik

Steblin, Rita (2002): "Josephine Gräfin Brunswick-Deyms Geheimnis enthüllt: Neue Ergebnisse zu ihrer Beziehung zu Beethoven." Josephine Countess Brunsvik-Deym's Secret Revealed: New Results about her Relationship to Beethoven. Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 57/6 (June), pp.

Skwara, Dagmar/Steblin, Rita (2007): "Ein Brief Christoph Freiherr von Stackelbergs an Josephine Brunsvik-Deym-Stackelberg." A Letter by Christoph Baron von Stackelberg to Josephine Brunsvik-Deym-Stackelberg. Bonner Beethoven-Studien, vol.

Beethoven composed not only this song (Op. 32) but the intensely lyrical piano piece Andante favori WoO 57, a musical declaration of love, especially for Josephine (thought by some to have been intended as the original middle movement for the stormy Waldstein Sonata Op. 53, discarded for its sensuousness for an austere, introspective introduction to the concluding rondo finale).

Josephine Butler College

Butler College Boat Club (BCBC) is the boat club of Josephine Butler College, at Durham University.

Josephine Elder

Twenty years later Clare Mallory, another leading exponent of the girls' school story, dedicated one of her own books, Juliet Overseas to Josephine Elder, describing her as "Author of the best girls' school story I know: Evelyn Finds Herself."

Josephine Kablick

Josephine Ettel Kablick (1787–1863) was a pioneering Czech botanist and paleontologist.

Josephine Phelan

Josephine Phelan (1905-1979), Canadian writer and librarian, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1951 for The Ardent Exile, a biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

Josephine Porter Boardman

The Josephine B. Crane Foundation continues to support the Sierra Club, scientific research and various scholarships.

Josephine Wall

Pop singer Britney Spears has used a number of Josephine's images on her website.

Josi Meier

"Josi" Josephine Johanna Meier (born in Dagmersellen on 31 August 1926; died 4 November 2006 in Luzern) was the first women in the Swiss Parliament and had been called the "Grand Old Lady" of Swiss politics.

Kerby, Oregon

An act of the territorial legislature of December 18, 1856 changed the name from "Kirbeyville" to "Napoleon", possibly because of the association of Napoleon with the name Josephine.

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo

Liberty: The Siege of The Alamo, is a musical by Bernard J. Taylor that had its world premiere stage production at the Josephine Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, in 2000.

Marcia Barrett

When Farian announced he would not be making any new recordings, the group went to France to record "Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" with producer Barry Blue.

Marie Walewska

The Emperor planned to divorce Josephine and instead marry Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma and maintaining an affair with another woman seemed inappropriate.

Naked Pilseners

This release contains two original songs and a cover of the song "Josephine" by The Magnetic Fields.

Nell Minow

The daughter of Josephine (Baskin) and former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow, and sister of Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and library law expert Mary Minow, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (1974) and the University of Chicago Law School (1977).

North Toronto Players

The Captain consults his daughter Josephine and reminds her that she has the opportunity to marry Sir Joseph Porter, who is First Lord of the Starfleet Admiralty and a wealthy Ferengi.

Office at Night

During this time, according to entries in the diary kept by his wife Josephine (‘Jo’), he occupied himself by reading a book by the French essayist, Paul Valéry.

Peaks and Valleys

Bred by Josephine Abercrombie's Pin Oak Stud in Versailles, Kentucky, he was the son of Carter Handicap winner Mt. Livermore, a son of the very important Champion sire, Blushing Groom.

Philip Francis, Prince of Leyen

Maria Amalia Theodora Maria Antonia Charlotte Friederike Sophie Walpurgis (Blieskastel 2 September 1789 – Sulz 21 July 1870), married at Paris 10 August 1810 to count Louis Tascher de La Pagerie, a first cousin of the French Empress Josephine.

Pierre Cartellier

Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.

Players' Theatre

The artistes recorded were Miss Stella Moray, Mr Maurice Browning, Miss Margaret Burton, Miss Patricia Rowlands, Miss Hattie Jacques, Mr John Rutland, Miss Joan Sterndale Bennett, Miss Josephine Gordon, Mr Robin Hunter, Miss Daphne Anderson, Mr Clive Dunn and Mr Bill Owen, with Mr Peter Greenwell and Mr Geoffrey Brawn (piano).

QRS Records

Among the artists who recorded for QRS were Ed Bell, Clarence Williams, Clifford Gibson, South Street Ramblers, Earl Hines, James "Stump" Johnson, Sara Martin, Anna Bell and Edith North Johnson, as well as the preacher Missionary Josephine Miles.

Swami Kuvalayananda

Dr. Josephine Rathbone, a professor of health and physical education, visited from Columbia University in 1928.

The Basil and Josephine Stories

Unlike other rebellious teenagers, such as Holden Caulfield, Josephine understands her academic problems will sort themselves out on their own.

The Bonny Bunch of Roses

It is a conversation between Napoleon's son (Napoleon II, 1811-1832, named King of Rome by his father upon birth) and his mother (Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon's second wife, whom he married after divorcing Josephine).


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