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Benoist (other)
Benoist is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surnames * Alain de Benoist (born 1943), French academic and philosopher * Antoine Benoist (painter) (1632–1717), French artist who was painter and sculptor to Louis XIV * Antoine Benoist (engraver) (by 1721–1770), French draughtsman and engraver in London * Antoine-Gabriel-François Benoist (1715–1776), French soldier * Élie Benoist (1640–1728), French Protestant minister, known as an historian of the Edict of Nantes * Félix Benoist (1818–1896), French painter and lithographer * François Benoist (1794–1878), French organist, composer, and pedagogue * Françoise-Albine Benoist (1724–1808 or 1809), French writer * Gabriel Benoist (1891–1964), a French writer in the Cauchois dialect of the Norman language * Guillaume Philippe Benoist (1725–1770), French line-engraver * Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901–1983), French politician and writer * Joseph Roger de Benoist (1923� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain De Benoist
Alain de Benoist (; ; born 11 December 1943) – also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names – is a French journalist and political philosopher, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite ("New Right"), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE. Principally influenced by thinkers of the German Conservative Revolution, de Benoist is opposed to Christianity, the rights of man, neoliberalism, representative democracy, egalitarianism; and what he sees as embodying and promoting those values, namely the United States. He theorized the notion of ethnopluralism, a concept which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural regions. His work has been influential with the alt-right movement in the United States, and he presented a lecture on identity at a National Policy Institute conference hosted by Richard B. Spencer; however, he has distanced himself from the movement. Biography Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Benoist
Luc Benoist born ''Luc Didier Marie Benoist-Lucy'' (1893–1980) was a French essayist and art historian. He published many books about the art history. His interests were centered on spirituality and symbolism. Biography He became assistant curator of the Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ..., curator of the ''Musées de France'' and of the Fine Arts Museum of Nantes (french: Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes) (1947-1959). Publications * ''The romantic Sculpture'', Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1928, . * ''Versailles and the monarchy'', Paris, Editions of Cluny, 1947. * "Michel-Ange", Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1943. * "Georges de La Tour et les caravagesques au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes", La Revue française, 1961. * "L'ésotéris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condé Benoist Pallen
Condé Benoist Pallen (December 5, 1858 – May 26, 1929) was an American Catholic editor and author. Biography Pallen was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858. His father, Montrose A. Pallen, was a physician who was a native of Mississippi. His mother, Anne Benoist Pallen, was a member of an old French family in St. Louis. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1880 and received a master's degree from Georgetown in 1883 and a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in 1885. In 1896, Georgetown awarded him an honorary degree, the LL.D. Pallen died in New York City on May 26, 1929, after suffering from arteriosclerosis. His remains were buried in a family plot at a cemetery in St. Louis. Works He was editor of '' Church Progress'' and the ''Catholic World'' from 1887 to 1897. He was managing editor of the ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' from 1904 to 1920. He wrote essays, poetry, and novels. His published works included: *''The Philosophy of Literature'' (1897) *''Epochs of Litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoist Stehlin
Benoist Stehlin (c.1732 – 11 July 1774) was a French harpsichord builder. Stehlin was born in the Alsatian village of Jettingen; by 1750 he was living and working in Paris. He married Françoise Lemaire, daughter of a merchant from Péronne, on 13 September 1753. He was elected juror of his district on 23 November 1762, and at the end of 1773 rented an apartment on the Quai des Augustins. He died the following year. He had kept at the apartment several harpsichords and some tools, but the important goods were stored in his shop in the rue des Cordeliers. All of it was sold by his widow on 19 December 1774; he had no children. Woodworking seems to have run in the family; not only was his father Georg a joiner, but his uncle, Jean-Baptiste Keiser (sometimes called L’Empereur) was also a harpsichord maker. The inventories of Stehlin's shop and apartment were made shortly after his death. In the apartment we find a woodworker's bench and significant assortment of tools, along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoist Simmat
Benoist Simmat is a French author and a journalist with ''Le Journal du Dimanche''. Simmat has co-authored the 2008 book ''In Vino Satanas'' with the editor of ''La Revue du vin de France'', Denis Saverot, describing a French wine industry that is currently in a crisis and accusing the French government of subverting the French wine industry in favour of the pharmaceutical industry.Delion, Bruno, ''La Nouvelle Republique'' (October 9, 2010)Il s'attaque à Robert Parker dans une bande-dessinée Kevany, Spohie, wine-business-international.com (October 10, 2008) In 2010 he wrote a ''bande dessinée'' comic book illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. Robert McDowell Parker Jr. (born July 23, 1947) is a retired U.S. wine critic. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter '' The Wine Advocate'' are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting t ..., titled '' Robert Parker: Les S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas W
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Benoist
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist (20 March 1895 – 14 September 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. Early life Born near Rambouillet, Île-de-France, France, Robert Benoist was the son of Baron Henri de Rothschild's gamekeeper. As a young man, Benoist served during World War I in the French infantry, then as a fighter pilot in the new ''Armée de l'Air'' and ultimately as a flying instructor. Grand Prix driver Looking for excitement in the post-war world, Benoist joined the ''de Marçay'' car company as a test driver. He then moved on to Salmson and was very successful in cyclecar races before being signed to drive for Delage in 1924. The next year, teamed with Albert Divo, he won the French Grand Prix in the race that claimed the life of Italian racing star Antonio Ascari. In 1927, driving a Delage 15-S-8, he won the French, Spanish, Italian and British Grand Prix races, earning the season championship title for the French manufacturer. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Benoist
Raymond Benoist (10 June 1881, Vendresse – 17 January 1970) was a French botanist and entomologist. He is known for his research involving the plant family Acanthaceae. He studied botany in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1912. Following graduation, he served as an assistant at the École pratique des Hautes Études. In 1913–14 he was sent by the government to French Guiana to conduct studies of its forests. He later made two scientific trips to Morocco — the first expedition being to the Middle Atlas and the High Moulouya for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1918), and the second trip as an expedition leader for the ''Institut Scientifique Cherifien de Rabat'' (1928). In 1930–32 he taught classes in botany at the medical school in Quito. During his time spent in Ecuador, he conducted phytogeographical research as well as studies in regards to the morphology and biology of plants native to the Andes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Benoist
Michel Benoist (, 8 October 1715 in Dijon, France – 23 October 1774 in Beijing, China) was a Jesuit scientist who served for thirty years in the court of the Qianlong Emperor (1735 - 1796) during the Qing Dynasty, known for his architectural and landscape designs of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanming Yuan). Along with Giuseppe Castiglione, Benoist served as one of two Jesuit advisors to the Qianlong Emperor, and transformed parts of the Old Summer Palace into what historian Mark Elliott calls an "imitation of Versailles or Fontainebleau." Early life Michel Benoist was born on 8 October 1715 in Dijon, France. The name Benoist is an archaic form of the name "Benoît," and both are used interchangeably in textual sources. Benoist studied in Dijon and at Saint Sulpice, Paris. He entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Nancy on 18 March 1737 and was formally ordained as a Jesuit priest in Trier in 1739. Shortly after, he left for Paris to study mathematics, astronomy, and hydraulic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Benoist
Melissa Marie Benoist ( ; born October 4, 1988) is an American actress, singer and producer. Her first major role was Marley Rose on the Fox musical comedy drama '' Glee'' (2012–2014), where she was a series regular during the fifth season. She rose to widespread prominence for portraying the title character on the CBS / CW superhero series ''Supergirl'' (2015–2021), along with related media in the Arrowverse franchise. Benoist's film appearances include the psychological drama '' Whiplash'' (2014), the comedy drama '' Danny Collins'' (2015), the crime comedy ''Band of Robbers'' (2015), the romantic Western '' The Longest Ride'' (2015), the action thriller '' Patriots Day'' (2016), the drama '' Lowriders'' (2016), and the comedy drama ''Sun Dogs'' (2017). She also portrayed the wife of cult leader David Koresh on the Paramount Network miniseries ''Waco'' (2018). On stage, Benoist made her Broadway debut in 2018 as Carole King in the jukebox musical '' Beautiful: The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter. Biography Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her training as an artist began in 1781 under Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and she entered Jacques-Louis David's atelier in 1786 along with her sister Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux. The poet Charles-Albert Demoustier, who met her in 1784, was inspired by her in creating the character Émilie in his work ''Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie'' (1801). In 1791, Benoist exhibited for the first time at the ''Paris Salon'', displaying her mythology-inspired picture ''Psyché faisant ses adieux à sa famille''. Another of her paintings of this period, ''L'Innocence entre la vertu et le vice'', is similarly mythological and reveals her feminist interests—in this picture, vice is represented by a man, although it was traditionally represented by a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Benoist Prize
The Marcel Benoist Prize, offered by the Marcel Benoist Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 1920 to a scientist of Swiss nationality or residency who has made the most useful scientific discovery. Emphasis is placed on those discoveries affecting human life. Since 1997, candidates in the humanities have also been eligible for the prize. The Marcel Benoist Foundation was established by the will of the French lawyer Marcel Benoist, a wartime resident of Lausanne, who died in 1918. It is managed by a group of trustees comprising the Swiss interior minister and heads of the main Swiss universities. It is often dubbed the "Swiss Nobel Prize." History The first award was given to immunologist Maurice Arthus (1862–1945) at the University of Lausanne. Other winners have included computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, astronomer Michel Mayor, and cardiologist Max Holzmann. , eleven Marcel Benoist winners have later also won the Nobel Prize: Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
