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Fernande
Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress * Fernande Arendt (1891–), Belgian tennis player *Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist *Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier * Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer *Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist *Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer *Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper *Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member *Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), Belgian-F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include: *Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress * Fernande Arendt (1891–), Belgian tennis player *Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist * Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter * Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier * Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier * Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist * Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer * Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer * Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist * Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer * Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper * Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member * Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande De Mertens
Fernande Hortense Cécile de Mertens (9 May 1850 - 24 January 1924) was a Belgian-French painter. Life Fernande de Mertens was the fifth of six children of the baron Edouard Mertens and his wife Sophie Lambertine Woelfling, and Fernande was thus a baroness herself. Hélène Échinard writes that in Marseille, Fernande attended the École des Beaux-Arts where she was taught by Théodore Jourdan and Dominique Antoine Magaud. Aged 35, on 27 April 1886, she married the French painter Pierre Jean, and thus acquired French citizenship. In 1888, she became a member of the Société des Artistes Français. The couple had a dedicated studio at the Boulevard de la Corderie in Marseille, where she taught the use of pastel – a popular technique at the time for young girls of respected background. Fernande and her husband never had children. Although her father Edouard and his three brothers had a total of fourteen children among them, there were no grandchildren for the Mertens nobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Olivier
Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 29 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model and first muse of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier. Early years Olivier was born in Paris on 6 June 1881 of an out-of-wedlock relationship between her mother and a married man. She was raised by an aunt and uncle, who attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Instead, Olivier ran away and married a man who abused her. In 1900, when she was 19 years old, she left her husband without a formal divorce and moved to Paris. She changed her name so that her husband could not find her. Olivier quickly found work modeling for artists and was known in Montmartre as "La Belle Fernande". She was a fixture in the circle of friends of writer Guillaume Apollinaire, where she also became friends with Paul Léautaud, Kees van Dongen and Edmond-Marie Poullain. V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Saint-Martin
Fernande Saint-Martin (March 28, 1927 – December 11, 2019) was a Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer. A graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University, her career began at ''La Presse'' in 1954 before being made editor-in-chief of ''Châtelaine'' magazine in 1960. Saint-Martin left the magazine in 1972 and was made director of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She was a professor and researcher at Université Laval and later Université du Québec à Montréal from 1979 to 1996. Saint-Martin wrote several books and essays, contributed to various art publications and was awarded the Molson Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Canada Council for her work in semiology in 1989. She was also president of the International Association for Visual Semiotics from 1990 to 1994. Early life and education Saint-Martin was born on March 28, 1927, in Montreal, Quebec, to the health medical officer Théo Saint-Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Decruck
Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 18966 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or viola, dedicated to Marcel Mule. Life Fernande Breilh was born in the village of Gaillac in France to a local merchant. She began learning piano aged eight and studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse. She was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ... in 1918 studying organ and composition. There she won prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, and piano accompaniment. Her studies in improvisation on organ led her to travel to America where she gave her first organ recitals in New York. Her husband, Maurice Decruck, a clarinetist, saxop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Barrey
Fernande Barrey (9 January 1893 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – 14 July 1960 in Paris) was a French artist model and painter. Biography Fernande Barrey left her native Picardy in about 1908 and moved to Paris, where she survived as a child prostitute. She then became the model for many painters, including Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, who persuaded her to study painting and art history at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In March 1917, she met the Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita at the Café de la Rotonde in Montparnasse, who fell madly in love with her and married her thirteen days later. In 1918 the couple moved to escape the German bombs to Cagnes-sur-Mer, where she spent a year painting and meeting many friends. During this period, she became friends with Jeanne Hébuterne, the bride of Modigliani. When Modigliani died of tuberculosis in 1920, Barrey tried in vain to console the new widow, but Jeanne, eight months pregnant, committed suicide. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Albany
Fernande Françoise Raoult, known professionally as Fernande Albany (22 December 1889, Lison – 25 November 1966, Paris), was a French actress in theatre and film. Career Albany appeared in many of the films of Georges Méliès. Her work on the Parisian stage included roles in ''L'alcôve de Marianne'' by Félix Gandera (Théâtre de l'Athénée, 1920), ''Les Fontaines lumineuses'' by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil (Théâtre des Variétés, 1935), and ''Crépuscule du théâtre'' by Henri-René Lenormand (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, 1937). Albany was married to the French stage and film actor Charles Dechamps. Filmography Silent films Source: at IMDB * 1904 : ''Voyage à travers l'impossible'' (English title: '' |
Fernande Sadler
Fernande Sadler (7 July 1869 – 2 December 1949) was a French painter and engraver. She established the art collection at Grez-sur-Loing and became the mayor of that town in 1945. Life Sadler was born in 1869 in Toul. left, Young Girls On The Edge Of Loing – Oil On Canvas She trained at the Julian Academy and studied with Marcel Baschet and Henri Lucien Doucet. She exhibited at the Nancy and Paris Salons. She began at the Paris Salon in 1894 and exhibited miniature paintings at the Nancy Salon. She made her home in Grez-sur-Loing and painted pictures of the area. The town was popular with artists including the visitors like the Glasgow Boys. In 1910 she began to collect paintings for the town prompted by a suggestion and donations by . The local museum now houses the collection which still receives donations by visiting artists. She had showed an interest in art documenting the role of local and visiting artists. In 1907 she was awarded a silver medal by the Société de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Bochatay
Fernande Bochatay (born 23 January 1946) is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant Slalom. Bochatay was the aunt of Swiss speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, who was killed on a training run at the 1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron .... She married in 1968 and next year retired from competitions. The year after she gave birth to her first child, and two more followed later. She was still skiing in her late sixties with her grandchildren. References 1946 births Living people Swiss female alpine skiers Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Medalists at the 1968 Winter Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Keufgens
Fernande Keufgens Davis (born 14 December 1923), also known as Freddie Davis, was a Belgian resistance fighter with the during the Second World War. Early life Fernande Keufgens was born in Montzen, Belgium on 14 December 1923, as one of eight children in a close-knit family. She was sixteen years old when the Germans invaded Belgium. Before World War II began, Keufgens's father—who witnessed the horror of World War I—foresaw the Nazi invasion and the subsequent draft into munitions factories. Her father then arranged for her to move further from the German border to Verviers. Two years after the German invasion, however, Keufgens was summoned back to her home; she was ordered to report to a German munitions factory. Keufgens refused, however, to serve the Nazi army; she boarded the train to the factory, and jumped off before it arrived at the work camp to join the Belgian Resistance. World War II After jumping off the train, Keufgens walked to her uncle's home. He was wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Bayetto
Fernande Bayetto (9 October 1928 – 7 November 2015)Fernande Bayetto's obituary was a French who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ... .
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Fernande Baetens
Fernande Baetens (1901 Antwerp – 1977) was a 20th-century Belgian Catholic feminist jurist. In 1930, she joined the National Council of Belgian Women (CNFB). She became assistant to the National Secretary in 1933 and took part in the International Council of Women The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's rights organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington, D.C., wit ... (CIF) in Stockholm. In 1935, she was appointed National Secretary of the CNFB and Vice President until 1957. She was particularly affected by the situation of poor families and advocated for the education of mothers at the social, civic and personal levels. References Belgian women lawyers 20th-century Belgian lawyers People from Antwerp 1901 births 1977 deaths 20th-century women lawyers {{Belgium-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
