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Chantal Deberg
Chantal () is a feminine given name of French origin. The name Chantal can be traced back to the Old Occitan word ''cantal'', meaning " stone." It came into popular use as a given name in honor of the Catholic saint, Jeanne de Chantal. It may also be spelled Chantel, Chantalle, Chantelle, Shantal, Shantel, or Shantelle usually in the USA. In Europe and Quebec, the name is generally pronounced as "Chantal". Chantal *Chantal Akerman (born 1950), Belgian film maker *Chantal Botts (born 1976), South African badminton player * Chantal Chamandy, Canadian singer * Chantal Chawaf (born 1943), French writer * Chantal Coché (1826 – 1891), Belgian industrialist * Chantal Claret (born 1982), American singer *Chantal Galladé (born 1972), Swiss politician * Chantal Garrigues (1944–2018), French actress * Chantal Goya (born 1942), French singer and actress *Chantal Grevers (born 1961), Dutch cricketer * Chantal Groot (born 1982), Dutch swimmer * Chantal Joffe (born 1969), English painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Groot
Chantal Groot (born 19 October 1982) is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who has represented her country in many international championships since 1999. The best distance of Chantal Groot is the 50 m butterfly in which she won five European LC Championships medals, for the first time in 1999 in Istanbul, and became European Champion in 2008 in Eindhoven. Swimming career After winning a gold and a silver medal at the European Junior Swimming Championships 1998 in Antwerp she made her international debut at the 1999 FINA Short Course World Championships in Hong Kong. Groot immediately won her first international medal, a silver, in the 4×100 m freestyle relay together with Thamar Henneken, Wilma van Hofwegen and Inge de Bruijn. Individually she finished 14th in the 100 m butterfly. A few months later she competed in the 1999 European Aquatics Championships in Istanbul. In the 50 m butterfly she won her first individual medal, at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Strand
Chantal Strand (born October 15, 1987) is a Canadian voice and stage actress as well as former stunt performer known for her vocal roles in animation, anime and video games. Her vocal role credits include those for little female human characters in the ''Barbie'' films between 2001 and 2009, Holly in ''The Charlie Horse Music Pizza'', Sarah's Sister in ''Life-Size'', Cassie in ''Dragon Tales'', Tammy in '' Air Bud: World Pup'', '' Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch'', and '' Air Bud Spikes Back'' and Molly O in ''Generation O!.'' Biography At a young age, Strand started off doing stunts on ''Look Who's Talking Now'' with her twin sister, Michelle. Strand began working on many projects including ''The Outer Limits'', ''The Commish'', ''The Charlie Horse Music Pizza'', ''Life-Size'', ''Air Bud: World Pup'', ''Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch'' and ''Air Bud: Spikes Back'' throughout her elementary and high school years. In 2010, Strand graduated from Capilano University with an Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Spitz
Chantal T. Spitz (born 11 November 1954) is a Mā’ohi author and activist. Biography Spitz was born in Papeete, French Polynesia, in 1954. Although raised outside of French Polynesia, after completing her education she returned and now lives in Huahine. Spitz's work focuses the experiences of indigenous people. She has produced poems, essays, and novels. Her best-known work, ''L'Ile des rêves écrasés'', is the first ever novel by an indigenous French Polynesian writer. Set in French Polynesia in the time period leading up to the first nuclear tests in the region, it tells the story of several generations of Mā’ohi. Due to its criticisms of the French government, its publication in French Polynesia was polarising. In 2007 it was translated into English by Jean Anderson, as ''Island of Shattered Dreams'', and published by Huia Publishers Huia Publishers (HUIA) is a book publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand established in 1991. HUIA publish material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Singer
Chantal Singer is a Canadian water skier from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She began Water skiing at the age of 4. She has competed in international competitions and won first place in three Pan-American waterski championships, in the years 2010, 2012 and 2016. , she attends and skis collegiately for Rollins College, a liberal arts school located in Winter Park, Florida. Singer is a member of the Ontario Water Ski Team and the under 21 Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... Water Ski Team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Singer, Chantal Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian water skiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Renaud
Chantal Renaud (born 26 August 1946) is a Québécoise script writer, and a past yé-yé singer and actress. She was the wife of former Quebec Premier and former Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry. Renaud began her career as a yé-yé singer, with a hit called "Comme un garçon", originally performed by Sylvie Vartan, in France. After acting in the sitcom ''Moi et l'autre'' and films such as '' Here and Now (L'Initiation)'' and '' Finalement...'', Renaud relocated to France, where she built a respectable career as an award-winning script writer. On 26 June 2004, after a courtship of some years, she married the widower former Premier of Quebec and then Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry. She figures prominently in the 2003 documentary ''À Hauteur d'homme'' about the 2003 Quebec general election, during which Landry defended his post as leader of Quebec. She also portrayed a village woman in '' Je T'aimerai Toujours'' in 1969. See also *Yé-yé *List of Quebec musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Réga
Chantal Réga (born August 7, 1955, in Nîmes) is a retired track and field sprinter and hurdler from France, best known for winning the bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ... in the women's 400 m hurdles at the 1982 European Championships. A two-time Olympian (1976 and 1980) she won a total number of fifteen national titles during the 1970s and early 1980s. International National Championships * Champion of France at 100m in 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980 * Champion of France at 200m in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1980 * Champion of France at 100m hurdles in 1974 and 1975 * Champion of France at 400m hurdles in 1982 * Champion of France at 60m Indoors in 1977 * Champion of France at 200m Indoors in 1982 * Champion of France at 60m hurdles Indoors in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Calix
Chantal Francesca Passamonte (28 October 1969 – 25 March 2022), known professionally as Mira Calix ( ), was a South African-born, British-based audio and visual artist and musician signed to Warp Records. Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic, from the 2000s onwards she incorporated writing for classical instrumentation into her musical works and expanded her practice to include multidisciplinary performance, film and multi-channel installation artworks. She often stated that she considered sound a sculptural material. Biography Calix was born Chantal Francesca Passamonte in Durban, South Africa on 28 October 1969. She was raised in Durban in a liberal middle-class family of English and Italian descent. She grew up learning ballet and listening to jazz and classical music. She moved to London in 1991. She began to work at a record shop and took up organising parties and DJing. She worked at the labels 4AD and Warp Records, where she held the position of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Quesnel
Chantal Quesnel (sometimes credited as Chantal Quesnelle, born 1971) is a Canadian actress. She currently is a voice actress for the TV animated series ''Zeroman'', shown in Canada on Teletoon. She also appeared in Don Mancini's film '' Curse of Chucky''. Career Her most extensive TV role was as ''Yvonne Bernini'', on ''Paradise Falls'', a soap opera on Showcase Television, starting in 2001. She has also had several roles, mainly on TV movies and in George A. Romero's '' Bruiser''. She has had guest roles on various TV series, such as ''Odyssey 5'', '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye'', ''Goosebumps'', '' La Femme Nikita'' and ''Forever Knight''. Most recently Chantal has played the role of "The Cougar" in SpikeTV's '' Blue Mountain State''. Her role "The Cougar" is a sex-crazed older woman that looks for sexual relations with the younger football players and later gets pregnant by their coach. She also appeared in the video game ''Far Cry 2 ''Far Cry 2'' is a 2008 first-person shooter d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Nijkerken-de Haan
Chantal Nijkerken-de Haan (born 18 September 1973) is a Dutch politician, she has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 31 March 2015, when she replaced Klaas Dijkhoff who took up a position as State Secretary in the cabinet. Previously she was alderman in Onderbanken between 2010 and 2012 and in Meerssen between 2013 and 2014. Career Nijkerken-de Haan studied policy, governance and management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She worked as a staff and freelance advisor at the Academic Hospital Maastricht between 2000 and 2010. Nijkerken-de Haan became member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in 2009. Between April 2010 and April 2012 she was alderman in Onderbanken. She left as alderman when the local coalition with the Christian Democratic Appeal broke down. In May 2013 she took up the same position in Meerssen, where she left after the municipal elections of 2014. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe (; born 17 June 1943) is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her contribution to the development—jointly with Ernesto Laclau, with whom she co-authored her most frequently cited publication ''Hegemony and Socialist Strategy''—of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis, a type of post-Marxist political inquiry drawing on Gramsci, post-structuralism and theories of identity, and redefining Leftist politics in terms of radical democracy. She is also the author of influential works on agonistic political theory, including ''Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically'' and ''The Democratic Paradox''. Her most recent book is ''For a Left Populism'', published in 2018. Education Chantal Mouffe studied at the Universities of Leuven, Paris and Essex and has worked in many universities throughout the world (in Europe, North America and Latin America). She has also held visiting positions at Harvard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Mauduit
Chantal Mauduit (24 March 1964 – 13 May 1998) was a French alpinist. Biography Born in Paris, Mauduit arrived in the French Alps at age five and started climbing at the age of 15. After several difficult routes in the Alps, she focused her attention on the Andes, and then the Himalayas, where she climbed K2 (1992; fourth woman overall), Shisha Pangma (1993), Cho Oyu (1993), Lhotse (1996; first woman solo), Manaslu (1996), and Gasherbrum II (1997), all without supplemental oxygen. Along with her Sherpa partner Ang Tsering, she was killed at Camp II on Dhaulagiri on May 11, 1998. Her body was returned to France and the autopsy concluded that the cause of death was a broken neck. In honor of her generosity, her friends and family created a foundation to help needy Nepalese children, especially girls and those in need of schooling: The Association Chantal Mauduit Namasté. Created by the Association, the Chantal Mauduit School in Kathmandu now enrolls 200 children. Controvers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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