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unusual facts about Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe


Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Dunford suggests he was probably from the Pau area in southernmost France and a Protestant, that his first name was "Jean" and that he had two daughters named Brigide and Françoise.


Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont

In 1825 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, afterwards working as a physician at a nursing home in Sainte-Colombe.

All the World's Mornings

It is a retelling of the apprenticeship of Marin Marais in the house of austere, recluse, and mysterious violist Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, obsessed with his late wife, and of his romantic entanglements with his master's two daughters.

Charles Medlam

As well as ensemble work, Medlam has begun to popularise and record the solo gamba music of composers such as Hotman, Dubuisson, Sainte-Colombe and De Machy.

Kenza Dali

Kenza Dali (born 31 July 1991 in Sainte-Colombe) is a French football player who currently plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain of the Division 1 Féminine.

Nicolas Métru

His duets for two viols (Paris, 1642) are the first printed example, and therefore probably antedate the duets of Sainte-Colombe.

Pascal Quignard

But his most popular book is probably Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings in the World), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens

St. Lupus (Lou, or Leu, born c. 573): bishop between around 609 and 623, son of Blessed Betto of the royal house of Burgundy and St Austregilde (founder of the monastery of Ste-Colombe and perhaps the monastery of Ferrières in the Gatinais.

Saint Flavitus

He died on 18 December 630 and his relics are kept at the church of Sainte-Colombe in Sens.

Tous les Matins du Monde

The film revolves around the late-17th-/early-18th-century composer Marin Marais' life as a musician, his mentor Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Sainte-Colombe's daughters.


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