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Dulac in the ''Shrek'' film series
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Dulac can refer to: People * Bill DuLac, American football player * Catherine Dulac, a professor for molecular biology * Edmund Dulac, French book illustrator * Germaine Dulac, French film director and early film theorist * Henri Dulac, French mathematician Places * Dulac, Louisiana, United States See also * Duloc, the kingdom formerly ruled by Lord Farquaad Lord Maximus Farquaad is the main antagonist of the 2001 animated feature film ''Shrek'', as well as ''Shrek 4-D'' and the musical. He is voiced by John Lithgow. He does not appear in William Steig's original picture book of the same name. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. Early life and career Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse. He also studied art, switching to it full-time after he became bored with law, and having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac (; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, ''La Souriante Madame Beudet'' (''The Smiling Madam Beudet'', 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, '' La Coquille et le Clergyman'' (''The Seashell and the Clergyman'', 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont. Biography Germaine Dulac was born in Amiens, France i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Dulac
Catherine Dulac is a French-American biologist. She is the Higgins Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where she served as department chair from 2007 to 2013. She is also an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was born in 1963 in France. She came to the United States for her postdoctoral study in 1991. Dulac has done extensive research on the molecular biology of olfactory signaling in mammals, particularly including pheromones, and downstream brain circuits controlling sex-specific behaviors. She developed a novel screening strategy based on screening cDNA libraries from single neurons and a new method of cloning genes from single neurons. As a postdoc, Dulac discovered the first family of mammalian pheromone receptors when working in Nobel laureate Richard Axel's laboratory at Columbia University. Biography Dulac grew up in Montpellier, France, graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, Paris, and earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Dulac
Henri Claudius Rosarius Dulac (3 October 1870, Fayence – 2 September 1955, Fayence) was a French mathematician. Life Born in Fayence, France, Dulac graduated from École Polytechnique (Paris, class of 1892) and obtained a Doctorate in Mathematics. He started to teach a class of mathematic analysis at University, in Grenoble (France), Algiers (today Algeria) and Poitiers (France). Holder of a pulpit in pure mathematics in the Sciences University of Lyon (France) in 1911, his teaching was suspended during the first world war (1914 – 1918) and he had to serve as officer in the French army. After the war, he became holder of a pulpit of differential and integral calculus and also taught in École Centrale Lyon. He became examiner at École Polytechnique (Paris) and President of the admission jury. Awarded Officer of Legion d'honneur, the French order established by Napoleon and associate member of the French Academy of Sciences, he published part of Euler's works and contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulac, Louisiana
Dulac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,241 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. Geography Dulac is located at (29.384672, -90.696891). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (18.83%) is water. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,241 people, 521 households, and 283 families residing in the CDP. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,458 people, 768 households, and 609 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,063 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 53.99% White, 2.48% African American, 39.42% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.49% from other races, and 3.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.71% of the population. There were 768 households, out of which 36.6% had ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill DuLac
William Frank DuLac (born January 15, 1951) is a former American football offensive guard who played two seasons for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Eastern Michigan. Early life DuLac was born on January 15, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan. He went to high school at Bishop Gallagher (MI). College career He went to Eastern Michigan for college. He played there from 1970 to 1972. He was named team captain in 1972. Professional career Los Angeles Rams He was drafted in the 7th round (167) of the 1973 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams. He did not play for them in 1973. New England Patriots DuLac played for the New England Patriots The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ... from 1974 to 1975. In both years he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dulac
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
