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14 unusual facts about Marguerite


1722 in Canada

March 23 - Born Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins (1722–1792) the second Mother Superior of the Grey Nuns.

Bourgeoys

Marguerite-Bourgeoys, a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite is a canton of France, located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

It is composed of the part of the 9th municipal arrondissement of Marseille not within the Canton of Marseille-Mazargues.

Île Sainte-Marguerite

As well as the Man in the Iron Mask, a mysterious prisoner whose identity remains unknown, Abdel Kadir (an Algerian rebel leader), Marquis Jouffroy d’Abbans (inventor of the steamboat) and Marshal Bazaine (the only successful escapee from the island) have all spent time there.

It was in the news recently because the Indian businessman Vijay Mallya, owner of the Formula 1 team Force India and the Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore, has purchased a unique piece of luxury real estate on the Island of Sainte-Marguerite, the largest of the four islands of Lérins.

La Roque-Sainte-Marguerite

Lying deep in the scenic Dourbie gorge, the commune absorbed the formerly separate commune of St Verin in 1940, and it also incorporates the village of Pierrefiche du Larzac, which lies much higher on the Causse du Larzac (Larzac Plateau), at about 670 metres above sea level.

Marguerite

Argyranthemum, a genus of daisy-like flowering plants widely sold for garden use

Marguerite-Louise Couperin

The Chapelle royale did not ordinarily permit women to take part in performances, instead using falsetti and castrati male artists.

Marguerite, Duchess of Rohan

A great heiress, she inherited the Duchy (later principality) of Soubise which was given to her daughter Anne.

Marguerite has various descendants throughout Europe; Through her son she is a direct male line ancestress of Josselin de Rohan, member of the Senate of France.

August 1698) married Alexandre Guillaume de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy and had issue; was grandmother of Anne Julie de Melun, Princesse de Soubise, wife of Jules de Rohan, a grandson of the above Anne.

Pair-et-Grandrupt

The territory of the commune forms a triangle between Neuvillers-sur-Fave to the east, Nayemont-les-Fosses to the west and north and Remomeix together with Sainte-Marguerite in the south.

Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Duclair

Karin Viard, a French actress born in 1966, spent much of her childhood here.


Adrien d'Épinay

He married Marguerite Le Breton de la Vieuville on 14 April 1817 in Flacq, and was the father of the sculptor Prosper d'Épinay (1836–1914), whose greatest work was undoubtedly the bronze statue of Adrien d'Épinay, unveiled on 26 September 1866 in the French East India Company garden at Port-Louis.

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.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation was started in 1948 in Seattle, Washington, by UPS founder James E. Casey and his siblings George, Harry and Marguerite.

Butter at the Old Price

Butter at the Old Price: The Autobiography of Marguerite de Angeli is an account of the life and work of the children's author and illustrator Marguerite de Angeli, who wrote such books as The Door in the Wall, Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery Store, Henner's Lydia, and Black Fox of Lorne.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.

Edith Halpert

Her interest was further expanded by spending time in 1926, with Samuel, in Ogunquit, Maine, and artists Stefan Hirsch, Bernard Karfiol, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Laurent, Katherine Schmidt, Niles Spencer, and Marguerite and William Zorach.

Émile Armand Gibon

# Laure Helen Marguerite Gibon (1869–1957) who married Charles Louis Lacretelle (1859–1915), the nephew of Gibon's long-time friend General Charles Nicolas Lacretelle on 26 January 1891.

Fadhma Aït Mansour

Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche (c. 1882 in Tizi Hibel, Algeria – July 9, 1967 in Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, France) is the mother of writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.

François Bigot

He was the son of Louis-Amable Bigot (1663-1743), Conseilleur du Roi, Counsellor to the Parliament at Bordeaux and Receiver General to the King; by his wife, Marguerite de Lombard (1682-1766), daughter of Joseph de Lombard, Baron du Cubzagués, Commissioner of the Marine at Guyenne and a representative of an old and powerful Guyenne family.

Gerry Ottenheimer

He was born London, England, the son of Frederick and Marguerite (Ryan) Ottenheimer, he was educated at the University of Rome, University of Paris, Cambridge University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Fordham University.

Gonzalo, Duke of Aquitaine

In December 1959 Gonzalo's engagement to Dorothy Marguerite Fritz of San Francisco, daughter of Nicholas Eugene Fritz, Jr., was announced.

Herbert von Bismarck

On 21 June 1892 in Vienna he married Countess Marguerite Hoyos, a member of the originally Spanish magnate family of Hoyos from Hungary, who herself was half-English and a granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo.

Jean de Lescun

In 1465 he married Marguerite di Saluzzo (died after 1478), daughter of Ludovico I, Marquess of Saluzzo.

Jean de Nogaret de La Valette

He was born at Caumont-Guienne, the son of Pierre Nogaret de La Valette (1497-1553) and Marguerite de L'Isle de St. Aignan (1499-1535), and died in battle at the Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573).

Jean Richardot

He was born in Champlitte in 1540 as the son of Guillaume Grusset and Marguerite Richardot.

Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet

Il avait épousé Cécile Marguerite Séraphine de Guinot, fille du marquis de Monconseil, qui lui apporte la terre d'Ambleville.

Jean-Loup Philippe

Philippe began his acting career in 1956, appearing uncredited in the film En effeuillant la marguerite, with Daniel Gélin and Brigitte Bardot.

John Harvey Gahan

In 1956 he married Marguerite Depugh who had been a nurse for Spencer Tracy’s son John, and was at the time a nurse to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans children.

John II of Chalon-Arlay

Louis I of Chalon (died 1366) Seigneur d'Arguel, married Marguerite of Vienne in 1363 (daughter of the Seigneur de Pymont Philippe de Vienne)

Lise de Baissac

Once her leg healed, she returned to France (dropped by Lysander near Villers-les-Ormes on the night of 9/10 April 1944) to work for the PIMENTO network, headed by Anthony Brooks, under the new codename Marguerite.

Lívia Ághová

Her other roles with the company included Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, and Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust.

Ma Belle Marguerite

"Ma Belle Marguerite" is a song with music by Vivian Ellis and lyric by AP Herbert, which was a great success in the musical Bless the Bride, being sung by Georges Guétary, playing the part of French actor Pierre Fontaine.

Macaroon

Later, two Benedictine nuns, Sister Marguerite and Sister Marie-Elisabeth, came to Nancy seeking asylum during the French Revolution.

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Casey Family Grants Program was renamed Marguerite Casey Foundation in 2003 to honor the sister of Jim Casey, founder of UPS and benefactor of several philanthropic foundations, including Annie E. Casey Foundation and Casey Family Programs.

Marguerite De La Motte

In the 1930s when Roberts moved to Los Angeles he was Marguerite's houseguest and drove her Marmon convertible car.

Marguerite Harl

Marguerite Harl was a pupil of Henri-Irénée Marrou and is a contemporary French scholar working in the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria and early patristic writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Josyane Savigneau, Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life (1993).

George Rousseau, Marguerite Yourcenar: A Biography (London: Haus Publishing, 2004).

Naomi Jacob

Known by her friends as Micky, she had a strong circle of friends including Marguerite Broadfoote, Radclyffe Hall, 'Little Tich', Marie Lloyd, Bransby Williams and many others.

Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval

He married Marguerite of Lorraine (17 November 1662 – 16 December 1730), daughter of Louis, Count of Armagnac.

Pierre Moreau

He was first elected to represent the riding of Marguerite-D'Youville in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2003 provincial election, but was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by Simon-Pierre Diamond of the Action démocratique du Québec.

Pierre Robineau de Portneuf

He was born on August, 9th, 1708 in Montreal, Quebec, second son of René Robineau de Portneuf and Marguerite Daneau de Muy, He married Marie-Louise Dandonneau Du Sablé on April 22, 1748.

Rowena Farre

This is confirmed by family trees published on Ancestry.com and elsewhere which show Daphne Lois Macready as the daughter of Brig. Gen. John Macready (1887-1957) and Marguerite Mary Milling (1890-1982).

Rowland George

Sylvia Beatrice Norton, daughter of Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan and Marguerite Cecil Huntington, at St Mary's Henley on 22 April 1933 and had three sons and a daughter.

Simon Boyleau

Boyleau had long had close ties with the court of Marguerite of Savoy, as evident from music he dedicated to Marguerite and her husband, Emanuele Filiberto, many years earlier; these ties helped him gain a post at Turin Cathedral in 1582.

Suzanne Adams

Her roles at the Met included Juliette, Marguerite, Marguerite de Valois from Les Huguenots, Micaela from Carmen, Cherubino from Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, Philine from Mignon, Berthe from Le prophète, the Forest Bird from Siegfried, Nedda from Pagliacci, Gilda from Rigoletto, Infanta from Le Cid, Inès from L'Africaine, and Mimì from La bohème among others.

Symphorien Champier

Symphorien Champier (1471–1538), a Lyonnese doctor born in Saint-Symphorien, France, was a relation of the Chevalier de Bayard through his wife, Marguerite Terrail.

To Marguerite: Continued

It was first published in Empedocles on Etna (1852), with the title, "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis".

Villa Marguerite

The Villa Marguerite or Château Marguerite is a mansion in Neussargues-Moissac in the Cantal department in the Auvergne region of France.