Eugène Léon Vivier
Eugène Léon Vivier (1821–1900) Percy A. Scholes. "Vivier, Eugène Léon" in ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music''. Oxford University Press, 1964. was a French horn player, admired by Napoleon III. Life He was born in 1821 in Ajaccio, Corsica; his father was a tax collector. He moved to Paris, where he became a member of the orchestra of the Théâtre-Italien."Vivier, Eugene Leon"
Grande Musica. Retrieved 14 April 2019."Vivier, the Horn Player: Practical joking which was in vogue under Napoleon III"
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BOYER 2506 - Eugène Vivier
Boyer () is a French surname. In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names. Origins and statistics Boyer is found traditionally along the Mediterranean (Provence, Languedoc), the Rhône valley, Auvergne, Limousin, Périgord and more generally in the Southwest of France. It is also found in the north of the country. There are two variant spellings: Boyé (southwest) and Bouyer (Loire-Atlantique, Charente-Maritime). , Boyer ranks 55th in the most common surnames in France. For the period 1891–1990 it ranked 34th. Like many other surnames, it used to be a nickname describing somebody's job: "bullock driver", "cowherd", that is to say '' Bouvier'' in common French. It derives mainly from the Occitan ''buòu'' "ox", with the suffix ''-iar / -ier'', frenchified phonetically or, further north, sometimes from a variant form in dialectal French ''bô, bou'' "ox" corresponding to common French ''bœuf'' with the suffix ''-ier''. In French, the modern ...
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