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unusual facts about Lucile



Birge Clark

He was married to the former Lucile Townley, daughter of Stanford mathematician and astronomer Sidney Dean Townley for sixty-three years, until her death in 1986.

Comédie larmoyante

There are many examples of 'comédie larmoyante' in both French and Italian opera where it gave birth to the genre of opera semiseria: André Grétry's Lucile, Nicolas Dalayrac's Nina, ou La folle par amour, Pasquale Anfossi's La vera costanza (1776) and Joseph Haydn's work of the same name (1779).

David Packard

Prompted by his daughters Nancy Packard Burnett and Julie Packard, in 1978 Dave and Lucile Packard created the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.

Fred Albert Shannon

They had five children; Lucile, Mary, Edna, Marjory and Frederick A. Shannon, M.D., herpetologist.

John Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury

His grandmother was the Edwardian couturiere Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known by her professional name Lucile, and who was a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster.

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre

This address became famous in the early 20th century as the salon de couture of the British designer, "Lucile".

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was founded in 1991 after a $40 million donation in 1986 from David and Lucile Packard, and since then LPCH has become one of the nation's most prominent children's hospitals.

San Antonio Botanical Garden

Lucile Halsell Conservatory (1988) - Designed by award winning, Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz this subterranean structure consists of five climate specific greenhouses surrounding a central courtyard.

Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

The defendant, Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, otherwise known as "Lucile" (her couture label), was a leading designer of fashions for high society as well as the stage and early silent cinema, and was a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.


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