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Dumesnil
Dumesnil (; "from the cottage") is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bryan Dumesnil (born 1983), Canadian pitcher * Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969), American poet and editor * Louis Gaulard Dumesnil (died 1702), French operatic tenor * Marie Dumesnil (1713–1803), French actress * Pierre Louis Dumesnil (1698–1781), French painter who specialized in genre scenes * Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), tennis-partner, lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett * Jacques Dumesnil (1904–1998), French film and television actor * Jacques-Louis Dumesnil Jacques-Louis Dumesnil (15 March 1882, in Paris – 15 June 1956, in Paris) was a French politician. He served as Minister of Air from 1931 to 1932. Life From an old Seine-et-Marne family, he initially worked as a journalist and lawyer at the ... (1882–1956), French politician See also * Peterson-Dumesnil House, a Victorian-Italianate house in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dumesnil
Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly; November 9, 1903 – May 8, 1998) was a French film and television actor. Early life Jacques Dumesnil was born as Marie Émile Eugène André Joly on November 9, 1903 in Paris, France. Before becoming an actor, he received training as a mechanical engineer. After starting as a secretary at the aviation school, he became an industrial designer, a profession he left to devote himself to the theater. Career He adopted the pseudonym Dumesnil because of the admiration he had to French actor Camille Dumény. He started out as a fanciful singer in a café located in Paris Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, he was paid in sandwiches and glasses of beer. Dumesnil started on stage in 1927 and divided his career between theater and cinema. Having spent two years at the Comédie-Française, he played among other things in '' Les Tontons flingueurs'' and provided the French voice of Charlie Chaplin in '' Monsieur Verdoux'' (1947) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil
Suzanne Georgette Anna Déchevaux-Dumesnil (Argenteuil 7 January 1900 – Paris 17 July 1989)Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil at findagrave.com was the lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett. In the 1930s, Beckett chose Déchevaux-Dumesnil as his lover over the heiress . Six years older than Beckett, Déchevaux-Dumesnil was an austere woman known for avant-garde tastes and . She was a pianist. During the |
Cheryl Dumesnil
Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969) is an American author, poet and editor. She is a frequent contributor to ''The Huffington Post''. Her poems and essays have appeared in ''Indiana Review'', '' Barrow Street'', '' Calyx'', and ''Literary Mama''. She frequently writes about suburbia, parenthood, and lesbian issues. Dumesnil was awarded the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first full-length book, ''In Praise of Falling''. Dumesnil received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University and taught at Santa Clara University from 1994 to 2001. She lives in Walnut Creek, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ... with her wife and two sons. Selected publications Sample works "Bernal Heights", ''Verse Daily''* Books * (memoir) * (poetry) * (poetry) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Dumesnil
Marie Françoise Dumesnil (2 January 171320 February 1803), original name Marie-Françoise Marchand, was a French actress. She was born in Paris, daughter of a poor nobleman, and began her stage career in the provinces, whence she was summoned in 1737 to make her debut at the Comédie-Française as Clytemnestre in Racine's ''Iphigénie en Aulide''. She at once came into the front rank, playing Cléopâtre, Phèdre, Athalie and Hermione (tragic roles created by contemporary French playwrights) with great effect, and when she created Merope (1743), Voltaire says that she kept the audience in tears for three successive acts. She retired from the stage in 1776, but lived until 1803. Her rival La Clairon having spoken ill of her, she authorized the publication of a ''Mémoire de Marie Françoise Dumesnil, en réponse aux mémoires d'Hippolyte Clairon'' (1800). See also * Troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1752 Composition of the troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1752 Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Louis Dumesnil
Pierre-Louis Dumesnil (1698–1781) was a French painter who specialized in genre scenes. Biography Pierre-Louis Dumesnil was born in 1698. He was received into the Académie de Saint-Luc. There he was professor (1748-1773), rector (1773-1775), and then permanent rector (1775-1776). Between 1751 et 1754 his work was shown as each of the seven exhibitions of the institution. Although some of his works were historical, such as ''Saint Charles Borromée faisant l’aumône'' (1741), most were genre scenes. His paintings show the influence of Jean-Baptiste Chardin both in the selection of themes and the composition. A portrait of Dumesnil by madame Vigée-Lebrun, created in 1774 on the occasion of her reception into the Académie de Saint-Luc, has unfortunately been lost. Œuvres * ''Saint Charles Borromée faisant l’aumône'', 1741, huile sur toile, 215 x 116 cm, collection particulière. * ''Un jeune abbé de catéchisme qui reçoit un jeune enfant amené par sa s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil (15 March 1882, in Paris – 15 June 1956, in Paris) was a French politician. He served as Minister of Air from 1931 to 1932. Life From an old Seine-et-Marne family, he initially worked as a journalist and lawyer at the Cour de Paris. He was elected a conseiller général for Seine-et-Marne aged 25 and a radical deputy for Seine-et-Marne aged 28 in 1910."M. J.-L. Dumesnil, sous-secrétaire d'État de l'Aéronautique", in '' Le Pays de France'', no. 207, 3 October 1918, page 3 He was re-elected in 1914 and remained in post until 1935. He was mobilised for the First World War as a sous-lieutenant. During the course of the conflict he rose to lieutenant then captain, was wounded at the First Battle of the Marne and won the Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Dumesnil
Bryan William Dumesnil (born September 19, 1983) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. Career Dumesnil was a member of the Nanaimo Pirates of the B.C. Premier Baseball League. Dumesnil was a member of Team Canada during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, although he did not enter either of Canada's two games during the preliminary stage of the tournament at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was also on Team Canada for the 2009 Baseball World Cup The 2009 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 38th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through .... Signed with the LA Dodgers in 2002. Played in the Gulf Coast league and pioneer league. 2004 signed with the Baltimore Orioles. Played in the Appy league and 2005 in the New York Penn league with the Ironbirds. In 2006 he joined the Can Am league with Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gaulard Dumesnil
Dumesnil (also known as Louis Gaulard Dumesny) (fl. 1677–1700, died 1702) was a French operatic tenor. His surname is sometimes found spelt Duménil, Dumény, du Mény, or Du Mesny. Little is known about Dumesnil's early life, legend has it that he was working as a cook when Jean-Baptiste Lully heard him singing and was impressed by his natural and well focused voice, his vocal range was then known as haute-contre. He made his stage debut in 1677,In fact, Dumesny (spelt Du Mesnil) is already cited as a member of the chorus performing the Hours of the Day, in the 1676 libretto of Lully's '' Atys'' (accessible for free online aGallica - B.N.F.. singing a small part in ''Isis'', and then went on creating all roles within his range in a series of operas by Lully. After Lully's death he created several other roles in operas by different composers, notably Pascal Collasse, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, and André Cardinal Destouches. An excellent actor with a power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumesny
Dumesny is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Max Dumesny (born 1959), Australian Sprintcar driver * Louis Gaulard Dumesny (fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ... 1677–1702), French operatic tenor * Pierre Joseph Michel Salomon Dumesny (1739–1803), French general during the Battle of Hondschoote (1793) See also * Dumesnil (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Pierre-du-Mesnil
Saint-Pierre-du-Mesnil () is a former commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mesnil-en-Ouche. 9 December 2015 Population See also *Communes of the Eure department
The following is a list of the 585 communes of the Eure department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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