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Andrée Sodenkamp
Maud Andrée Sodenkamp, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on June 18, 1906, and died in Walhain on January 27, 2004, was a Belgium, Belgian poet who wrote in French. She worked as an inspector of public libraries. Biography Family Her father, Henri Sodenkamp, a Dutchman from a family of officers, was a lieutenant-colonel in the army of King William I of the Netherlands. He was also an editor of a magazine called ''Chasse et pêche'' and an expert at dog shows. Her mother, Blanche-Henriette Leurs, was Belgian and 30 years younger than her husband. Her father died in 1913, and her mother committed suicide the same year when Andrée was only six. She was taken in by her maternal grandparents who ran a small grocery store in Schaerbeek. Although her uncle, a staff officer, became her legal guardian, he was killed in October 1918 during the final German offensive. Andrée was thus considered a "war orphan." She lived with her grandparents until she was 29. Her grandfather died in 1923, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode () or Sint-Joost-ten-Node (), often simply called Saint-Josse or Sint-Joost, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the north-eastern part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels and Schaerbeek. , the municipality had a total population of 26,965. The total area is , which gives a population density of . From a total of 581 municipalities in Belgium, Saint-Josse is both the smallest in area size and the most densely populated. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). History Named after Saint Judoc, Saint-Josse was originally a farming village on the outskirts of Brussels. In the centuries before the dismantling of the ramparts encircling Brussels, Saint-Josse was also the place where noblemen built country estates, the most notable amongst them the Castle of the Dukes of Brabant built by Philip the Good in 1456. The area surrounding that castle wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vildrac
Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager",''1971 Britannica Book of the Year'' (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, ''L'Île rose'' (1924). Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published ''Le Verlibrisme'', a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems. He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez. The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him. Works * ''Poèmes (1905)'' * ''Images et mirages'' (1907), poems * ''Livre d'amour'' (1910), poems * ''Notes sur la technique poétique'' (1910), ''Notes on Poetic Technique'', with Georges Duhamel * ''Chants du désespéré (1914–20)'' (1920), ''Songs of a Desperate Man'', poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Norac
Carl Norac (born 29 June 1960) is a Walloon Belgian author of children's books and poetry. Biography Carl Norac was born in Mons, Belgium in 1960, as the son of poet Pierre Coran and comedian Irène Coran. In 1968, they moved to the small village Erbisoeul, now a part of Jurbise. He studied in Liège and became a teacher of French, but quit after two years. For the next six years, he travelled around the world, while working as a writer. His poetry collection ''Le maintien du désordre'' was awarded the Prix Robert Goffin. After witnessing an eruption of the Krakatau in 1993, he published ''Nemo et le volcan'': with illustrations by Louis Joos, which was rewarded the Pomme d'Or, the European illustration award. In 1996, he became a Professor of Literature at the Royal Conservatorium of Mons, a theatre school. In 1999, he moved to France, and the same year his daughter Else was born. By 2000, he was a full-time writer, mainly creating juvenile illustrated fiction. Bibliogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anise Koltz
Anise Koltz (born 1928) is one of Luxembourg's major contemporary authors. Best known for her poetry and her translations of poetry, she has also written a number of children's stories. In 1962, she was a cofounder with Nic Weber of the successful literary conference series ''Journées littéraires de Mondorf'' (now ''Académie Européenne de Poésie'') in which she has always played a key role."Koltz, Anise (geb. Blanpain)", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Biography Born on 12 June 1928 in the Eich district of Luxembourg City, Koltz began to write fairy stories in the 1950s mainly in German and Luxembourgish. She has also worked as a translator. Many of her works have been translated into English, Spanish and Italian. She is considered to be Luxembourg's most important contemporary poet. Since 1963, the ''Journées littéraires de Mondorf'' (Mondorf Literary Days) have created links between Luxembourg writers and the international scene. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Ménard (poet)
René Ménard (2 March 1605 – 4 July 1661?) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who traveled to New France in 1641, learned the language of the Wyandot, and was soon in charge of many of the satellite missions around Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. Ménard also worked with the Iroquois, and was said to speak six Indian dialects.Kellogg, Louise P."The First Missionary in Wisconsin" ''The Wisconsin Magazine of History'', Volume 4, number 4, June 1921. He survived the continuous attacks from the Iroquois on the Huron. Biography René Ménard was born in Paris on 2 March 1605. He joined the Jesuits there on 7 September 1624. After the usual course of studies at La Flèche, Bourges, and Orleans, he set out from Dieppe in the beginning of May 1640. Arriving at Québec he was assigned to work among the Hurons, laboring first, however, among the Nippissings. From 1651 to 1656 he was the superior at Trois-Rivières. From 1656 to 1658 he was a missioner to the Cayuga, and later to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Prassinos
Gisèle Prassinos (26 February 1920 – 15 November 2015) was a French writer of Greek heritage, associated with the surrealist movement. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and emigrated to France with her family at the age of two, where they lived initially in Nanterre. At the age of fourteen, Gisèle Prassinos began writing automatic texts to show the surrealists, who she met through Henri Parisot and her brother Mario Prassinos, who was a noted artist and designer. Gisèle captivated André Breton and Paul Éluard because of "the wonder of her poetry and her personality as a woman-child".Biro & Passeron, op. cité They see in her texts "the true illustration of automatic language par excellence". Marianne van Hirtum observed that the surrealists of the time recognised these early writings as a "veritable illustration of automatic language ''par excellence''." Her writing was discovered by André Breton in 1934, when she was just fourteen, and published in the French surreali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Chedid
Andrée Chedid ( ar, أندريه شديد) (20 March 1920 – 6 February 2011), born Andrée Saab Khoury, was an Egyptian-French poet and novelist of Syrian/Lebanese descent. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards and was made a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour in 2009. Life Chedid was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 20 March 1920 to a Lebanese Christian family. She was the daughter of Selim Saab, a Maronite Christian born in Baabda, Lebanon and Alice Khoury who was born in the Greek Orthodox community of Damascus and from a Lebanese family from Baabda as well. When she was 10 years old, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At 14, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go to the American University. Her dream was to become a dancer. When she was 22, she married Louis Selim Chedid, a Lebanese physician from a Maronite bourgeois family in Cairo and former research director at the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Vandercammen
Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include: * Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician * Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer * Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician * Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1892), French writer * Edmond Etling (before 1909–1940), French designer, manufacturer * Edmond Halley (1656–1742), English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist * Edmond Haxhinasto (born 1966), Albanian politician * Edmond Maire (1931–2017), French labor union leader * Edmond Rostand * Edmond James de Rothschild * Edmond O'Brien * Edmond Panariti * Edmond Robinson *Edmond Tarverdyan, controversial figure in MMA In fiction * Edmond Dantès, The main character in 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas. * Edmond Elephant, a character from Peppa Pig * Edmond Honda, a character from the ''Street Fighter'' series * Edmond, a character from Rock-A-Doodle * Edm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ayguesparse
Albert Ayguesparse (1900–1996) was a Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language ... writer. Bibliography Essays * ''Machinismes et culture'' * ''Magie du capitalisme'' Poetry * ''Neuf offrandes claires'' (1923) * ''Le Vin noir de Cahors'' (1957 – Prix Engelman) * ''Langage'' Novels * ''La main morte'' * ''Notre ombre nous précède'' (Prix Rossel 1952) * ''Une génération pour rien'' (1954 – Prix triennal du roman). References Sources Albert Ayguesparse(French) (French) 1900 births 1996 deaths Writers from Brussels Belgian poets in French 20th-century Belgian poets Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique {{Belgium-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Pierson-Piérard
Marianne () has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty. Marianne is displayed in many places in France and holds a place of honour in town halls and law courts. She is depicted in the ''Triumph of the Republic'', a bronze sculpture overlooking the Place de la Nation in Paris, as well as represented with another Parisian statue on the Place de la République. Her profile stands out on the official government logo of the country, appears on French euro coins and on French postage stamps. She was also featured on the former franc currency and is officially used on most government documents. Marianne is a significant republican symbol; her French monarchist equivalent is often Joan of Arc. As a national icon Marianne represents opposition to monarchy and the championship of freedom and democracy against all fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Deroisin
Marie de Romrée de Vichenet (she wrote under the name Sophie Deroisin; 3 June 1909 – 17 December 1994) was a Belgian writer. Early life The daughter of Count Charles de Romrée, Belgian ambassador, and Marie-Madeleine Crombez, she was born in Bern. In 1938, she married André Nève de Mévergnies; he died later that same year in a car accident. From 1940, she moved with her father to various diplomatic postings. She served as press attaché at the Belgian consulate in South Africa. While there, she began to write ''La Taverne des sept mers. Carnets de guerre, Capetown 1941–1943, Alger 1944''. In 1944, she returned to Belgium by way of Algiers and Paris. Publications Her first novel was ''Les Publicains''. In 1975, she received the Prix Victor-Rossel for her novel ''Les Dames''. Her last novel ''Petites filles d'autrefois'' was awarded the Prix littéraire de la Communauté française in 1984. At this point, poor health prevented her from finishing any further work. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Claire D'Orbaix
Marie-Claire is a given name. It is a combination of the names Marie and Claire, which are both of French origin. It may refer to: * Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013), organist and organ teacher *Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), contemporary artist *Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021), author and playwright *Marie-Claire Cremers, better known as Amber (born 1970), Dutch-German singer-songwriter *Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo, singer *Marie-Claire Foblets, Belgian lawyer and anthropologist *Marie-Claire Houart, civil servant *Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité (1758–1858), Empress of Haiti * Marie-Claire Kirkland (1924–2016), judge and politician * Marie-Claire Restoux (born 1968), judoka * Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, French physicist *the ''nom de guerre'' of Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, a prominent resistance agent in Nazi-occupied France See also * Claire-Marie Le Guay *''Marie Claire ''Marie Claire'' is a French international monthly magazine first published in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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