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Garrigues (comarca),
Garrigues may refer to: * Garrigues, Hérault, a commune in the Hérault department of France * Garrigues-Sainte-Eulalie, a commune in the Gard department of France * Garrigues, Tarn, a commune in the Tarn department of France * Garrigues (comarca), a county in Catalonia, Spain * Garrigues (law firm), a law firm headquartered in Madrid, Spain People * Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish professional tennis player * Chantal Garrigues (1944-2018), French actress * Charles Harris Garrigues (1903–1974), California journalist * Charlotte Garrigue (1850–1923), wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia * Daniel Garrigue (born 1948), member of the National Assembly of France * Henry Jacques Garrigues Henry Jacques Garrigues (June 6, 1831July 7, 1913) was a Danish-born American doctor considered to have introduced antiseptic obstetrics to the United States. Early life and education Henri Jacques Garrigues was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to the ... (1831 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrigues, Hérault
Garrigues (; oc, Garrigas) is a Communes of France, commune in the Hérault Departments of France, département in Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie in southern France. Population Its inhabitants are called ''Garrigois''. See also *Communes of the Hérault department References Communes of Hérault {{Hérault-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrigues-Sainte-Eulalie
Garrigues-Sainte-Eulalie (; Provençal: ''Garriga e Senta Olha'') is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It lies from Montpellier. Population The residents are called ''Garrigois''. History Traces of the early peoples of the "Fontbouisse culture" have been discovered, as well as many Roman ruins. The area was a feudal domain belonging to the Duke of Uzès. Before 1789 this commune was in two parts: Garrigues and Sainte-Eulalie. During the French Revolution the two communes were combined and given the name Canteperdrix. In 1814 the combined commune was maintained under the name Garrigues-et-Sainte Eulalie, and on 16 February 1976 the current hyphenated form was adopted. Economy The local economy includes general agriculture, vineyards. orchards and sheep raising. Architecture The 19th century Sainte-Eulalie Church was built on the ruins of a former fortified castle, which burned in 1704. Its tower is now the clock-tower of the church. The castle was deede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrigues, Tarn
Garrigues (; Languedocien: ''Garrigas'') is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. See also *Communes of the Tarn department The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Tarn (department) {{Tarn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrigues (comarca)
Les Garrigues () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Les Borges Blanques. Its symbol (on the flag and shield in the right panel) is an olive branch, Les Garrigues being the center of olive cultivation (most of it without the necessity of irrigation) in all of Catalonia History The cave paintings at Roca dels Moros, El Cogul, are the most important vestiges of prehistoric settlement in Les Garrigues. A Neolithic tomb has been found at Les Borges Blanques Les Borges Blanques () is the capital of the comarca of Les Garrigues, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. According to the 2014 census, the municipality has a population of 6,088 inhabitants. Geography It lies in the southern sector of .... During the Iberian era, the comarca was settled by the Ilergetians. There is documentation also for Roman summer residences and country villas, particularly in the north, but the Roman influence died out soon after Municipalities References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garrigues (law Firm)
Garrigues is a law firm with offices in Spain, Portugal, London, New York, and 9 other countries. Founded in 1941, the firm has experience in a wide range of fields and industries, from traditional practice areas to the newest legal fields. As of July 2015, Garrigues was the second largest law firm in turnover in Continental Europe. Founders In 1941, two brothers, Joaquín and Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate, founded J&A Garrigues. Born in 1899, Joaquín Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate became a professor of commercial law at age 29. According to the Garrigues company’s website, he oversaw reforms to Spanish company law in 1944 at the Institute of Political Rights, he founded the Revista de Derecho Comercial (Commercial Law Review) in 1946, and soon after he prepared the draft legislation that would become the Spanish Corporations Law (1951) and the Limited Liability Companies Law. The younger brother, Antonio Garrigues Díaz-Cañabate, was born in 1904. He practiced law until his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues (, ; born 31 July 1982) is a Spanish tennis coach and former professional player. As a player she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 16 in 2020, and won 11 singles and 28 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open, 2008 and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual. Like many of her Spanish compatriots, she was a clay-court specialist who grinds to win most of her rallies. However, unlike most of her fellow Spaniards, she preferred to play on hardcourts. She won the Women's Tennis Association, WTA tournament in Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, beating Katarina Srebotnik in the final in May 2008, thus defending the title she won the previous year against Amélie Mauresmo. Her other singles titles came at Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, Palermo in 2011, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2001, at Richard Luton Properties Canberra International, Canberra in 2006, Strasbourg in 2005 and Fès in 2009. After retirement from singles tennis ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Garrigues
Chantal Garrigues (14 November 1944 – 29 June 2018) was a French actress. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films. She was also a stage and television actress, and she played Gisèle Favrot in ''Soda''. Early life Garrigues was born 14 November 1944 in Montpellier. Career Garrigues began her career in the theatre, where she appeared in plays by Molière, Feydeau and Chekhov. She played in her first film in 1984. Over the course of her career, she appeared in a dozen films, including ''Female Agents'' in 2008 and ''Boule et Bill 2'' in 2017. Garrigues appeared on television series like '' Joséphine Ange Gardien'', '' Avocats et Associés'' and '' Boulevard du Palais''. She also played Gisèle Favrot on ''Soda Soda or SODA may refer to: Chemistry * Some chemical compounds containing sodium ** Sodium carbonate, washing soda or soda ash ** Sodium bicarbonate, baking soda ** Sodium hydroxide, caustic soda ** Sodium oxide, an alkali metal oxide * Sod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harris Garrigues
up Charles Harris Garrigues (1902–1974) was an American writer and journalist who wrote as C.H. Garrigues. He was a general-assignment reporter in Los Angeles, California, in the 1920s, a grand jury investigator and political activist in the 1930s, a newspaper copy editor in the 1940s and a jazz critic in the 1950s. His nickname was Brick, for his red hair. Biography Kansas and the Imperial Valley The fourth child of Charles Louis and Emily Young Garrigues, Charles Harris was born on July 7, 1902, in Utica, Kansas. The family later moved to Imperial, California, near the Mexican border. While attending Imperial High School, the 15-year-old Garrigues wrote a letter to the local newspaper, the '' Imperial Enterprise,'' calling a previous letter-writer "ignorant" because of the views the latter had expressed in attacking a resigned Imperial High principal. As a result, the lad was expelled by the school board in May 1918. The expulsion resulted in what the ''Enterprise'' ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk ( cz, Charlotta Garrigue-Masaryková; née Garrigue; 20 November 1850 – 13 May 1923) was the American-born wife of the Czechoslovak philosopher, sociologist, and politician, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia. Background Garrigue was born in Brooklyn to a Unitarian family with Huguenot ancestry on her father's side and Mayflower passengers on her mother's. She was a niece of Henry Jacques Garrigues and a great-granddaughter of Christian Vilhelm Duntzfelt. Career In 1877, visiting a friend studying at a conservatory in Leipzig, Germany, she first met her future husband, Tomáš Masaryk, who was staying there after having earned his doctorate at the University of Vienna. They married a year later in the United States, after which they settled in Vienna. After the wedding, her husband added her surname into his name, thus becoming Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, as he is remembered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (or often by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Garrigue
Daniel Garrigue (born 4 April 1948 in Talence) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented Dordogne's 2nd constituency from 2002 to 2012 as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was the sole member of the Assembly to vote against the French ban on full length Islamic veils stating that, "To fight an extremist behavior, we risk slipping toward a totalitarian society." In 1974, was a founding member of the Club de l'horloge The Carrefour de l'Horloge (literally ''The Clock Crossroad''), formerly Club de l'Horloge (1974–2015), is a French far-right national liberal think tank founded in 1974 and presided by Henry de Lesquen. The organization promotes an "integral n .... References 1948 births Carrefour de l'horloge people Living people People from Talence Rally for the Republic politicians Union for a Popular Movement politicians United Republic politicians Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jacques Garrigues
Henry Jacques Garrigues (June 6, 1831July 7, 1913) was a Danish-born American doctor considered to have introduced antiseptic obstetrics to the United States. Early life and education Henri Jacques Garrigues was born in Copenhagen, Denmark to the merchant of French Huguenot origin Jacques Louis Garrigue (1789-1854) and his wife Cecile Olivia Duntzfelt (1798-1863), daughter of Danish merchant William Duntzfelt and granddaughter of Frédéric de Coninck. Charlotte Garrigue, the first lady of Czechoslovakia, was his niece. His first cousin was Malvine Garrigues, the noted soprano. Career Garrigues graduated from the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health Sciences with a medical degree in 1869.After graduating, Garrigues moved to the United States where he resided and worked in New York City. He was named an obstetric surgeon at the New York Maternity Hospital and a physician in the Gynecologic Department of the German Dispensary (now Lenox Hill Hospital). In 1877, Garrigues be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Garrigue
Jean Garrigue (December 8, 1912 – December 27, 1972) was an American poet. In her lifetime, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a nomination for a National Book Award. Life Jean Garrigue was born Gertrude Louise Garrigus in Evansville, Indiana, to Allan Colfax and Gertrude (Heath) Garrigus. She was born in 1912 but later gave 1914 as her birth year. She had one sister, Marjorie, and one brother, Ross. Garrigue lived in Indianapolis for much of her early life, graduating from Shortridge High School in 1931. After attending Butler University, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, where her roommate was novelist Marguerite Young. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1943. She changed her name to Jean Garrigue in 1940, bringing the name closer to its original French spelling, and making it more gender-ambiguous. Garrigue moved to New York City and spent most of her life in Manhattan, aside from her teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
