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Laferrière
Laferrière (or Laferriere) () is a French habitational surname connected to a multitude of settlements called La Ferrière (historically indicating the presence of artisanal mining of iron ore) that is also common in French America. Notable people with this name include: *Alex Laferriere (born 2001), American ice hockey player *Alexandre Laferrière (born 1973), Canadian screenwriter *Dany Laferrière (born 1953), Haitian-born Canadian novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker *Édouard Laferrière (1841–1901), French lawyer and politician *Hubert Julien-Laferrière (born 1966), French economist and politician *Joseph Edward Laferrière (born 1955), American botanist *Kimberly Laferriere (born 1984), Canadian actor *Victor Julien-Laferrière (born 1990), French cellist * Yves Laferrière (1943–2020), Canadian actor and composer See also *Ferreira (surname), a related Portuguese surname *Herrera (surname) Herrera is a surname of Spanish origin, from the Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Laferrière
Édouard Louis Julien-Laferrière (26 August 1841 – 2 July 1901) was a French lawyer and authority in administrative law who held various senior administrative positions during the French Third Republic. He wrote a treatise on administrative law that defined the basis for modern French administrative law. He was appointed Governor-General of Algeria during a crisis in 1898, and established an elected advisory assembly with little real power. He encouraged southward expansion into the Sahara. Life Early years (1841–70) Édouard Laferrière was born in Angoulême on 26 August 1841. His parents were Louis Firmin Julien-Laferrière (1798–1861) and Jeanne Elisabeth Elise Lajarthe (1811–1875). His father was an advocate in Angoulême, then Bordeaux, professor at Rennes (1838), Inspector General of Faculties of Law (1846), Councilor of State (1849) and Rector of Toulouse (1854). His father was a professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Paris. Edouard Laferrière became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière (; born Windsor Klébert Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a writer and filmmaker. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and Paris. Life Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Petit-Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haiti before moving to Canada in 1976. Brian Busby"Dany Laferrière" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 16, 2009. He also worked as a journalist in Canada and hosted television programming for the TQS network. Laferrière published his first novel, '' How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer)'' in 1985. The novel was later adapted into a screenplay by Laferrière and Richard Sadler, earning a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. The film adaptation of the novel starred Isaach De Bankolé and was directed by Jacq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Julien-Laferrière
Hubert Julien-Laferrière (born 27 February 1966) is a French economist and politician. As member of La République En Marche! (REM), he was elected to the National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Rhône. He was then re-elected on 19 June 2022, this time with the left-wing union NUPES and is a member of the Ecologist Group. Julien-Laferrière previously served twice as Mayor of the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, from 2003 to 2008 and from 2014 until 2017, as a member of the Socialist Party, which he left to run for Parliament as the REM nominee in the department's 2nd constituency. In May 2020 he left REM to join the new Ecology Democracy Solidarity group. In June 2022 he was re-elected as an ecologist member of the New Ecological and Social People's Union. Political career Having previously been affiliated with the Socialist Party, Julien-Laferrière joined LREM in 2017. In parliament, Julien-Laferrière serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Julien-Laferrière
Victor Julien-Laferrière (born 1990 in Paris) is a French cellist and conductor who won the first prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition The Queen Elisabeth Competition (, ) is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in City of Brussels, Brussels. The competition is named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1876–1 ... in 2017. References External links * https://www.victorjulienlaferriere.com/ * https://www.musicaglotz.com/musiciens/julien-laferriere-victor-2/?lang=en French classical cellists 1990 births Musicians from Paris Living people Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition {{France-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Laferrière
Alexandre Laferrière (born 1973) is a Canadian screenwriter known for working with the director Maxime Giroux. Among his screenplays are ''Demain'' (2009) and '' Jo for Jonathan'' (''Jo pour Jonathan'') (2010), directed by Giroux. In meeting with Giroux at cafes to discuss their next project, Giroux said, "We'd see these women and men walking by and we just didn't know anything about them." This provided inspiration for their script '' Felix and Meira''. Laferrière did much of the research. For the 2014 film, Laferrière won Best Screenplay at the Whistler Film Festival, and the Jutra Award for Best Screenplay.- References External linksAlexandre Laferrièreat the Internet Movie Database IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ... 1973 births 21st-century Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Edward Laferrière
Joseph Edward Laferrière (born 1955) is an American botanist with a particular interest in ethnobotany. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1991 with a dissertation titled "Optimal use of ethnobotanical resources by the Mountain Pima of Chihuahua, Mexico". Among other institutions, he has held professional positions at Washington State University, Biosphere 2, and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (in Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; , "near the woods" , Otomi language, Otomi: ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state, state of Morelos in Mexico. Along with Chalcatzingo, it is likely one of the origins of the Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican civilizatio ..., Mexico). He is the author or co-author of the botanical names of some 120 taxa, including '' Berberis pimana, Hymenocallis clivorum, Hymenocallis pimana, Laennecia pimana, Pectis pimana, Prionosciadium saraviki'', and '' Yucca de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Laferrière
Yves Laferrière (1943 – December 11, 2020) was a Canadian musician and composer. He was a two-time Genie Award winner, for Best Original Song at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for "Touch Me", which he cowrote with Paule Baillargeon and Marjolène Morin for the film '' A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel)'',Jay Scott, "The Bay Boy's catch: 6 Genies". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 22, 1985. and for Best Original Score at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990 for ''Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)''. Filmography Composer *''The Red Kitchen (La Cuisine rouge)'' - 1980 *''La Phonie furieuse'' - 1982 *'' Lucien Brouillard'' - 1983 *'' Just a Game (Rien qu'un jeu)'' - 1983 *'' A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel)'' - 1984 *''Like a Heartbreak (C'est comme une peine d'amour)'' - 1985 *'' Sonia'' - 1986 *''Transit'' - 1986 *''Le Chemin de Damas'' - 1988 *''Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)'' - 1989 *''White Is the Night (Blanche est la nuit)'' - 1989 *'' Impasse de la v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ferrière (other)
La Ferrière or Laferrière may refer to: Places France * La Ferrière, Côtes-d'Armor, in the Côtes-d'Armor ''département'' * La Ferrière, Indre-et-Loire, in the Indre-et-Loire ''département'' * La Ferrière, Isère, in the Isère ''département'' * La Ferrière, Vendée, in the Vendée ''département'' * La Ferrière-Airoux, in the Vienne ''département'' * La Ferrière-au-Doyen, in the Orne ''département'' * La Ferrière-aux-Étangs, in the Orne ''département'' * La Ferrière-Béchet, in the Orne ''département'' * La Ferrière-Bochard, in the Orne ''département'' * La Ferrière-de-Flée, in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'' * La Ferrière-en-Parthenay, in the Deux-Sèvres ''département'' * La Ferrière-Harang, in the Calvados ''département'' * La Ferrière-sur-Risle, in the Eure ''département'' Other places * Citadelle Laferrière, a large mountaintop fortress in Nord, Haiti * La Ferrière, Switzerland, in the canton of Bern See also * Laferrière * Ferrières ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Laferriere
Kimberly Laferrière (born November 3, 1982) is a Canadian actress. A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, she has appeared on successful television series in both French and English in the United States and Canada. Her recent work includes the role of Natasha on the TVA drama series '' Fugueuse'' which was nominated for a Prix Gémeaux in 2018, as well as The CW crime drama series '' In The Dark'', the CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ... drama series '' 21 Thunder'' and the web series '' Féminin Féminin'', co-created and directed by Chloé Robichaud. References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Laferriere, Kimberly Living people Actresses from Quebec 1984 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreira (surname)
Ferreira (Latin ''ferraria and ferrus)'' is a Portuguese language, Portuguese and Galician language, Galician toponymic and occupational surname, meaning "iron mine" (name of several locations in Portugal) and also the feminine variant of "blacksmith" ("ferreiro"), related to ironworks. The variants Ferreiro, Ferreiró, Ferreiros, Ferro, or Ferraria are less common. Like Smith (surname), Smith in English or Schmidt (surname), Schmidt in German, Favre in France, Kovalenko in Ukraine, Kuznetsov in Russia, Ferrari (surname), Ferrari in Italy, Kowalski in Poland, this Portuguese equivalent surname is one of the most common in the country. This surname exists mainly in Lusophone countries, South Africa, and also, via Galician migration, in Spanish speaking countries and numerous other nations around the world. Jewish Origin Ferreira is also a Sephardic Jews, Sephardic Jewish surname, originating from the settlement of Jews in the Iberian peninsula due to the History of the Jews in the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herrera (surname)
Herrera is a surname of Spanish origin, from the Latin word ''ferrāria'', meaning "iron mine" or "iron works" and also the feminine of Latin ''ferrārius'', "of or pertaining to iron"; or, alternatively, the feminine of Spanish ''herrero'' ("ironsmith", from ''ferrārius''), which also gives the surname Herrero. Variants of the name include Errera, Ferrera and the less common Bherrera. Its equivalent in Portuguese and Galician is Ferreira. Also, because of Spanish naming customs, some people are listed here with their family name as their second-to-last name. A * Aaron Herrera (born 1990), Mexican boxer * Abel Ernesto Herrera (born 1955), Argentine footballer * Abraham Cohen de Herrera or Alonso Nunez de Herrera (c. 1570–c. 1635), European religious philosopher and kabbalist * Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera (1828–1879), Spanish writer and politician * Agustín Enrique Herrera (born 1985), Mexican football player * Alex Herrera (born 1976), Venezuelan baseball player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
