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Eugénie
Eugénie is the French version of the female given name Eugenia. Eugénie or Eugenie may refer to: People * Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920), 9th Countess de Teba; later Empress Eugénie, Empress Consort to Napoléon III * * Princess Eugenie of Sweden and Norway (1830–1889), of the House of Bernadotte * Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), Queen consort of Spain and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria * Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (1910–1989) * Princess Eugenie of York (born 1990), British princess, daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York * Eugenie Anderson (1909–1997), US ambassador, first woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level in US history * Eugenie Besserer (1868–1934), French silent film actress * Eugénie Blanchard (1896–2010), French supercentenarian * Eugenie Bonaparte (1872–1949), aristocrat * Eugenie Bouchard (born 1994), Canadian tennis player * Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American ichthyologist * Eugenie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Montijo
''Doña'' María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marchioness of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo (), was Empress of the French from her marriage to Emperor Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870. Born to prominent Spanish nobility, Eugénie was educated in France, Spain, and England. As Empress, she used her influence to champion "authoritarian and clerical policies"; her involvement in politics earned her much criticism from contemporaries.McQueen, 2011; p. 3 Napoléon and Eugénie had one child together, Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856–79). After the fall of the Empire, the three lived in exile in England; Eugénie outlived both her husband and son and spent the remainder of her life working to commemorate their memories and the memory of the Second Empire. Youth The woman who became the last Empress of the French was born in Granada, Spain, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Eugenie Of Battenberg
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969) was Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII from their marriage on 31 May 1906 until 14 April 1931, when the Spanish Second Republic was proclaimed. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Unlike other members of the Battenberg family, who were accorded the lower rank of ''Serene Highness'', Victoria Eugenie was born with the rank of ''Highness'' due to a Royal Warrant issued in 1886 by Queen Victoria. Early life Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was born on 24 October 1887 at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland. Her father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the fourth child and third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine by his morganatic wife Countess Julia von Hauke, and her mother was Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter of Queen Victoria of the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Henderson
Eugénie Jane Andrina Henderson, FBA (2 October 1914 – 27 July 1989) was a British linguist and academic, specialising in phonetics. From 1964 to 1982, she was Professor of Phonetics at the University of London. She served as Chair of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 1977 to 1980, and President of the Philological Society from 1984 to 1988. Early life and education Henderson was born on 2 October 1914 at Rose Villa, Archbold Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.R. H. Robins, "Henderson , Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 26 Nov 2017/ref> She was the daughter of William Alexander Cruickshank Henderson, a civil engineer, and his wife Pansy Viola (''née'' Schürer)."Henderson, Prof. Eugénie Jane Andrina", ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 26 Nov 2017/ref> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Le Sommer
Eugénie Anne Claudine Le Sommer (born 18 May 1989) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for French club Lyon and the France national team. She primarily plays as a creative attacking midfielder and left winger, but has also played as a second striker for her country. Le Sommer is one of the most decorated players in modern women's club football and has scored more goals for France than any player of any gender. She has won ten French domestic titles and is one of just three players to have won a record eight European Cups with Lyon. Early life Le Sommer is one of seven children, five girls and two boys. Her father, Thierry, was a policeman before he retired. Her mother had played football in her youth. Club career Le Sommer began playing football at the age of five joining the women's section of Trélissac FC. After a four-year stint at the club, she joined AS Guermeur in the Brittany region. She later played at one of the biggest clubs in the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Blanchard
French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians. France was home to the oldest human being ever whose longevity is well documented, Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles for her entire life of 122 years and 164 days. The oldest verified Frenchman ever is Maurice Floquet, a veteran of World War I who lived to age 111 years and 320 days across three centuries (1894–2006). The oldest known living French person is Marie-Rose Tessier, born 21 May 1910 and aged as of . 100 oldest French people ever Biographies Marie Brémont Marie Marthe Augustine Lemaitre Brémont (née Mésange; 25 April 1886 – 6 June 2001) was the oldest recognised person in the world from November 2000 until her death at age 115 years and 42 days. She was born in Noëllet, Maine-et-Loire, on April 25, 1886. Her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Guérin
Eugénie de Guérin (29 January 1805 – 31 May 1848) was a French writer and the sister of the poet Maurice de Guérin. Her ''Journals'' (1861, Eng. trans., 1865) and her ''Lettres'' (1864, Eng. trans., 1865) indicated the possession of gifts of as rare an order as those of her brother, though of a somewhat different kind. In her case mysticism assumed a form more strictly religious, and she continued to mourn her brother's loss of his early Catholic faith. Five years older than he, she cherished a love for him which was blended with a somewhat motherly anxiety. After his death she began the collection and publication of the scattered fragments of his writings. She died, however, before her task was completed. See Sainte-Beuve, ''Causeries du lundi'' (vol. xii.) and ''Nouveaux Lundis'' (vol. iii.); G Merlet, ''Causeries sur les femmes et les hIres'' (Paris, 1865); Selden, ''L'Esprit des femmes de notre temps'' (Paris, 1864); Marelle, ''Eugénie et Maurice de Guérin'' (Berlin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Bonaparte
Eugénie Laetitia Bonaparte (Eugénie Laetitia Barbe Caroline Lucienne Marie Jeanne Bonaparte; 6 September 1872 – 1 July 1949) was the youngest daughter of Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, 5th Prince of Canino and princess Maria Cristina Ruspoli. Eugénie was born in Grotta Ferrata, Italy. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, nephew of Emperor Napoleon I, and Princess Zénaïde Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon and daughter of Joseph I of Spain it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte , house = Bonaparte , father = Carlo Buonaparte , mother = Letizia Ramolino , birth_date = 7 January 1768 , birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic of .... She had two older sisters: Zénaïde Eugénie, who died aged two in 1862, ten years before Eugénie was born; and Marie Léonie, who was two years older, born 10 December 1870. On 16 November 1898 in Rome she married Léon Napoléon Ney (1870–1928), 4th Prince d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre
Eugénie Potonié-Pierre (1844–1898 Paris) was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892. She joined the Society for the Amelioration of Women's Condition with Léon Richer and Maria Deraismes in the 1870s. She served as the secretary and wrote for the organization's publication '' Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights)''. In 1880, with Léonie Rouzade, she founded Union des Femmes. She was secretary of the committee of the International Congress for Women's Rights, in 1892, and 1896. In her speech to the International Congress of 1896 in Berlin, Potonié-Pierre credited herself and French feminist peers with coining the term ''féminisme''. Death She died June 12, 1898 from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 54. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie D'Hannetaire
Marie-Louis-Philippine-Eugénie Servandoni (6 January 1746, Brussels - 22 February 1816, Paris), stage name Eugénie D'Hannetaire, was a French actress. She was the daughter of the actor-director D'Hannetaire and the actress Marguerite Huet (stage name Mlle Eugénie). She made her debut at the Théâtre de la Monnaie aged 8, in child roles, then from 15 as a dancer. She is reported to have succeeded her mother in her roles as a soubrette. She left Brussels in 1773 and in Lyon married the comic-actor Larive, from whom she divorced 20 years later. Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French language, French; in German language, German Karl-Joseph Lamoral 7. Fürst von Ligne (also known as Karl Fürst von Ligne or ''Fürst de Ligne''): (23 May 1735 – 13 December 1814) was a Gen ... vowed her his boundless admiration and dedicated his ''Lettres à Eugénie sur les spectacles'' (1774) to her. References * Henri Liebrecht: Histoire du th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Eugénie Of Greece And Denmark
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark ( el, Ευγενία; 10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Marie-Félix Blanc and Prince Roland Bonaparte, a great-nephew of Napoleon I. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. As a cousin of the bridegroom, she was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She authored ''Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr'', a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990. Marriage and issue She married Prince Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł, member of the House of Radziwiłł, on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946. They had two children: *Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł (b. 28 August 1939); married Dr. Jean Henri Fruchaud.Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie De Keyser
Eugénie De Keyser (17 May 1918, Brussels - 4 April 2012) was a Belgian writer and art critic. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve) and at Saint-Louis University, Brussels (Brussels), specializing in contemporary art and sculpture. She was a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association which promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies su .... She wrote one of the books for Editions d'Art Albert Skira 10 volume series "Art, Ideas, History" titled "The Romantic West, 1789-1850". In 1966 she was awarded the Prix Rossel for her novel ''La surface de l'eau''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Söderberg
Eugenie Söderberg (1903–1973) was a Swedish-American writer and journalist born in Heidelberg, Germany noted for her profound concern with women's issues which she addressed in her novels and short stories. Early years In 1912, her father, Alexander Riwkin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had studied philosophy established himself in Stockholm, Sweden, as an industrialist following a short return to the family's home town, Gomel in Russia. The Riwkin home flourished as a center for culture, attracting both established and upcoming literary figures from Scandinavia and abroad. Eugenie, the eldest daughter was encouraged by her philosopher father who was also a lecturer and writer of short stories in Russian and Yiddish. Eugenie's younger brother Joseph Riwkin also followed a similar path, acting for a while as a stimulating nucleus within a group of the most aspiring young writers of Sweden. These included Gunnar Ekelöf, Harry Martinson, Karin Boye, Ebbe Linde, who with many ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
