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2 unusual facts about Yolande


Henrik Hertz

This was a highly romanticised account of the life of Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine.

House of Valois-Anjou

The Angevin pretensions to Naples were continued intermittently by the House of Lorraine, which descended from René's eldest daughter Yolande, particularly during the Valois-Habsburg War of 1551 to 1559, when Francis, Duke of Guise, a member of a cadet branch of the family, led an unsuccessful French expedition against Naples.


André Beauneveu

The earliest documentary reference to "Master Andrew the Painter" (assumed to be Beauneveu) appears in the accounts of Duchess Yolande de Bar in 1359, where he is recorded as working on the decoration of a chapel in her castle at Nieppe (destroyed).

Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

In 2008 Yolande Clergue’s original ambition to create a Fondation Van Gogh was given new momentum by Luc Hoffmann who established a permanent framework for activities designed to preserve the memory of Van Gogh in Arles and to foster contemporary art.

In 1983 Yolande Clergue, a curator married to the photographer Lucien Clergue, founded the Association for the Creation of the Fondation Van Gogh (subsequently known simply as the Fondation Van Gogh).

Guillaume de Palerme

The French verse romance was composed circa 1200, commissioned by Countess Yolande (who is generally identified as Yolande, daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut).

Jacqueline Mukansonera

In 1998 Jacqueline Mukansonera and Yolande Mukagasana received the “Alexander Langer” Testimonial Award in Bolzano.

Marie, Countess of Eu

Marie of Lusignan or Marie I de Lusignan (born c. 1223 in Melle; died in Poitou, October 1, 1260; buried at the Abbey of Foucarmont), was the only child and daughter of Raoul II of Lusignan and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux.

Martin I of Sicily

He married Yolande Louise (Violante Luisa) de Mur and died at Urena in 1438 without issue.

Pierre de Brézé

He had made his name in the English wars when in 1433 he joined with Yolande, queen of Sicily, the constable Richmond and others, in chasing from power Charles VII's minister La Trémoille.

Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat

Yolande Palaiologina or Violant (Moncalvo, June 1318 – Chambery, December 24, 1342) was the daughter of Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat and Argentina Spinola, a Genoese lady, daughter of Opicino Spinola.

Yung Chang

Yung Chang is also the recipient of the 2008 Yolande and Pierre Perrault award for most promising filmmaker at the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinema québecois; received the 2008 Don Haig Award at Hot Docs; and the Charles Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in North Carolina.


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