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Frère
Frère is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albert Frère (1926–2018), Belgian businessman *Aubert Frère (1881–1944), French general, founder of ''Organisation de résistance de l'armée'' * Bernard-Georges-François Frère (1764-1826), French general *Charles Edouard Frère (1837-1894), French painter, son of Pierre Edouard Frère * Charles-Théodore Frère (1814-1886), french painter *Édouard Frère (1797–1874), French bookseller, archivist, scholar and biographer * Gérald Frère (born 1951), Belgian businessman, son of Albert *Henry Bartle Frere (1815–1884), British diplomat *John Hookham Frere (1769–1846) British diplomat, politician and writer *Maurice Frère (died 1970), governor of the National Bank of Belgium *Paul Frère (1917–2008), Belgian racing driver and journalist *Pierre Edouard Frère (1819–1886), French painter, father of Charles Edouard Frère *Théodore Frère Charles-Théodore Frère (21 June 1814, Paris – 24 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edouard Frère
Charles-Édouard Frère (July 10, 1837 – November 2, 1894) was a French painter of rural landscapes and daily life, known especially for paintings of horses and blacksmithing. Upbringing in Écouen Frère was born in Paris. He was the son of the genre painter Pierre Édouard Frère (1819-1886), and is sometimes called Frère ''fils'', and was the nephew of the Orientalist painter Théodore Frère (1814-1888). Around 1847, the elder Frère settled the family in the village of Écouen, about eight miles north and a short train ride from Paris. The Frère atelier became the nucleus of a group of students and resident artists that would become known as the .Round, W.M.F. (William Marshall Fitts)"With Frère and His Confrères" ''The Art Journal'', New Series, Vol. 2, 1876, pp. 341-342. A number of Americans including Henry Bacon spent time in Écouen, and Mary Cassatt made several visits. From infancy, Frère ''fils'' played a role in his father's career. A visitor to Écouen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Frère
Albert, Baron Frère (4 February 1926 – 3 December 2018) was a Belgian billionaire businessman. Early life Frère grew up as a son of a nail merchant and helped in the business since an early age. His father died when Frère was 17; Frère had to leave school and run the family business by himself. Career At the age of 30, he started investing in Belgian steel factories, and by the end of the 1970s he practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi. He foresaw the coming steel crisis of the late 1970s and sold his enterprises to the Belgian state after merging them with the competing steel firm Cockerill to create Cockerill-Sambre. Frère used the proceeds from this sale to build an investment empire around the Swiss holding company Pargesa which he founded with the Canadian investor Paul Desmarais. Pargesa took over the Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert in 1982 and over the year added significant stakes in such wide-ranging Belgian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubert Frère
This surname has Anglo-Saxon pre-8th century origins; spelling variations include Albert, Albertson and Alberts in English names. It is derived from the Old German compound 'Aedelbeort' meaning 'noble-bright'. However, many sources show it as a French surname, with many spelling variations on the French form. It is now found in many locations of the world, spread by French Huguenot refugees, amongst others. Notable people with this surname include the following: * Abbé Aubert (1731–1814), French playwright, poet and journalist * Louis Aubert (painter) (1720 – ), painter and composer * Alexander Aubert, English merchant * Alvin Aubert (1930–2014), American poet * Anaïs Aubert, known as Mademoiselle Anaïs (1802–1871), French actress * Andreas Aubert (art historian), Norwegian art historian * Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars, French naval officer * Arnaud Aubert, Catholic Chamberlain * Étienne Aubert, later became Pope Innocent VI * Aubert of Avranches, bishop of Avra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisation De Résistance De L'armée
The ''Organisation de résistance de l'armée'', ''O.R.A.'' (Fr: resistance organisation of the army) was a French paramilitary resistance organisation during the Second World War. It was created on 31 January 1943, following the November 1942 German invasion of the ''zone libre'' as a self-styled apolitical organisation bringing together former French military personnel in pursuit of active resistance against the German occupiers, but rejecting Charles de Gaulle. The ORA was founded by General Aubert Frère, president of the tribunal which had condemned de Gaulle to death in August 1940. Frère was arrested in 1943 and deported. He died in Struthof on 13 June 1944. The ORA's next leader was Major General Jean-Edouard Verneau, who was arrested on 23 October 1943 and died while being deported to Buchenwald on 14 September 1944. The leadership was then assumed by Major General Georges Revers, whose second was Brigadier General Pierre Brisac. The ORA grew quickly in the southern zo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard-Georges-François Frère
Bernard-Georges-François Frère, Count of the Empire, (; 8 January 1762, in Montréal, Aude – 16 February 1826, in Paris) was a French soldier of the French Revolutionary Wars, who later rose to the top military rank of General of Division, taking part in the Napoleonic Wars. Revolutionary Wars A pharmacist in the city of Carcassonne at the outbreak of the French Revolution, Frère exercised this profession until 1791, when he decided to join the army. He was rapidly elected captain and took part to Pyrenees military operations against Spain during the War of the First Coalition. He distinguished himself in battle and gained the rank of ''chef de battalion'' (battalion commander) in 1793. Following the signature of the treaty of peace between the Kingdom of Spain and the young French Republic, Frère was assigned to the Army of Italy and took part to several battles, including the assault of the Serra redoubts, where was wounded, and at the battle of Bassano. Sent to serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Edouard Frère
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. People with the given name * Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement * Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher * Pierre (footballer), Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) * Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Frère
Édouard Frère (27 September 1797, Rouen – 7 April 1874, Rouen) was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area. Life The son and grandson of booksellers, Frère's father, Jacques-Christophe operated a significant and almost a century-old library on the port of Rouen.A description can be found in Dibdin's ''A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany'', 1821. Despite having received an education that gave him access to all the liberal professions, Frère's family background gave him a strong taste for books to which he remained faithful until his death. He succeeded his father in 1827 at the family library, and was, from 1827 to 1842, one of those applied and learned booksellers who was of assistance both to letters and its servants. He carried on the traditions of Rouen's most renowned publishers by publishing major works, all related to Normandy, without having misgivings about the considerable sacr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérald Frère
Gérald Frère (born 17 May 1951) is a Belgian businessman, the chairman of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert since January 2012, and its former CEO. Early life Gérald Frère was born in Charleroi, Belgium on 17 May 1951. He is the eldest son of Albert Frère and his first wife, Nelly Poplimont, and they had a son, Gerald. Career Frère is the chairman of Loverval Finance, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Stichting Administratie Kantoor Bierlaire, Domaines Frère-Bougeois, and the vice chairman of Pargesa Holding. Frère is the managing director of Financière de la Sambre, Frère-Bourgeois, and Pargesa Holding. Albert Frère was regent at the National Bank of Belgium, but reached the age limit in 1995. Consequently, he did everything he could to get his son Gérald appointed to the regency, which - despite objections of nepotism - succeeded in 1998. Previously, Gérald Frère was already a censor at the National Bank. In April 2018, it became known that Gérald would be replaced in the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bartle Frere
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a Welsh British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862–1867). However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877–1880), he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880–1881). The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly. Early life Frere was born at Clydach House, Clydach, Monmouthshire, the son of Edward Frere, manager of Clydach Ironworks, and Mary Ann Green. His elder sister, Mary Anne Frere, was born circa 1802 in Clydach, and his younger sister, Frances Anne Frere, was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hookham Frere
John Hookham Frere (21 May 1769 – 7 January 1846) was an English diplomat and author. Early life Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, a member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and became Second Wrangler in 1763. His mother, Jane, daughter of John Hookham, a rich London merchant, was cultured and wrote verse in private. His father's sister Ellenor, who married Sir John Fenn, editor of the ''Paston Letters'', wrote educational works for children under the pseudonyms "Mrs Lovechild" and "Mrs Teachwell". Young Frere was sent to Eton College in 1785, and there began a friendship with George Canning which greatly affected his life. From Eton, he went to his father's college at Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1792 and MA in 1795. He entered public service in the foreign office under Lord Grenville, and sat from 1796 to 1802 as Member of Parliament for the borough of West Looe in Cornwall. Career From his boyhood he had admired Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Frère
Maurice Frère (8 August 1890, Charleroi – 11 August 1970, Side) was a Belgian civil servant and governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from 1944 until 1957. He lectured at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Maurice Frère graduated as a commercial engineer at the École de Commerce Solvay. During the years between World War I and II, he participated as an expert in several conferences concerning the problems of the German reparations and the general economic situation. In 1938 he was appointed as president of the Belgian Banking Commission, where he succeeded Georges Janssen. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he became administrator at the Banque d'Émission à Bruxelles, but in 1942 he resigned from that post. At the end of the war, he was appointed governor of the National Bank of Belgium. Immediately after his appointment he had to deal with the massive currency reform, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
