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Le Maire
Lemaire (or LeMaire or Le Maire) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrien Lemaire (1852–1902), French botanist * Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire, French military musician * Axelle Lemaire, (born 1974), French politician * Bernard Lemaire (born 1936), Canadian businessman * (1946-2009), French civil servant (prefect) * Bruno Le Maire (born 1969), French Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fishing * Christophe Lemaire (full name Christophe Patrice Lemaire, born 1979), French-born jockey * Charles LeMaire (1897–1985), American costume designer * Charles Lemaire (explorer), Belgian explorer of the Belgian Congo * Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), French botanist and botanical author * Denise Lemaire (born 1956), former Canadian handball player * Edward LeMaire (died 1961), American figure skater * Géry Lemaire (1928-2013), Belgian orchestra conductor and orthodox priest * Ghislain Lemaire (born 1972), French judoka * Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624), merchant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Le Maire
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615 and 1616. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honour, though not without controversy. It was Le Maire himself who proposed to the council aboard ''Eendracht'' that the new passage should be called by his name and the council unanimously agreed with Le Maire. The author or authors of ''The Relation'' took ''Eendracht'' captain Willem Schouten's side by proclaiming: :“ ... our men had each of them three cups of wine in signe of ioy for our good hap ... nd the naming ofthe ''Straights of Le Maire'', although by good right it should rather have been called ''Willem Schouten Straight'', after our Masters Name, by whose wise conduction and skill in sayling, the same was found.”. ''Eendracht'' then rounded Cape Horn, proving that Tierra del Fuego was not a continent. Biography Jacob Le Maire was born in either Antwerp or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Horn
Cape Horn ( es, Cabo de Hornos, ) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America (which are the Diego Ramírez Islands), Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. Cape Horn was identified by mariners and first rounded in 1616 by the Dutchman Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, who named it after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands. For decades, Cape Horn was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs. The need for boats and ships to round Cape Horn was greatly reduced by the opening of the Panama Canal in August 1914. Sailing around Cape Horn is still widely regarded as one of the major challenges in y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemaire Channel
Lemaire Channel is a strait off Antarctica, between Kyiv Peninsula in the mainland's Graham Land and Booth Island. Nicknamed "Kodak Gap" by some, it is one of the top tourism, tourist destinations in Antarctica; steep cliffs hem in the iceberg-filled passage, which is long and just wide at its narrowest point. It was first seen by the German expedition of 1873-74, but not traversed until December 1898, when the ''RV Belgica (1884), Belgica'' of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition passed through. Expedition leader Adrien de Gerlache named it for Charles Lemaire (explorer), Charles Lemaire (1863-1925), a Belgian explorer of the Congo. The channel has since become a standard part of the itinerary for Cruising (maritime), cruising in Antarctica; not only is it scenic, but the protected waters are usually as still as a lake, a rare occurrence in the storm-wracked southern seas, and the north-south traverse delivers vessels close to Petermann Island for landings. The principal difficulty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire
Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (August 28, 1789 in Paris – August 9, 1861 in Paris) was a French journalist. Biography Towards the end of the First French Empire, First Empire he was proprietor of the ''Journal de la littérature et des arts'', which he transformed at the Restoration into a political journal of Liberal tendencies, the ''Nain jaune'', in which Louis XVIII of France, Louis XVIII himself had little satirical articles secretly inserted. After the return from Elba the ''Nain jaune'' became Bonapartist and fell into discredit. It was suppressed at the second Restoration. Cauchois-Lemaire then threw himself impetuously into the Liberal agitation, and had to take refuge in Brussels in 1816, and in the following year at the Hague, whence he was expelled for publishing an ''Appel à l'opinion publique et aux Etats-Généraux en faveur des patriotes français''. Returning to France in 1819, he resumed the struggle against the ultra-royalist party with such temer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimée Bologne-Lemaire
Aimée Bologne-Lemaire (6 January 1904 – 20 December 1998) was a Belgian feminist, member of the resistance, and Walloon activist. Estelle Aimée Lemaire was born into a middle-class family in Saint-Gilles, Belgium. Her father was a lawyer, socialist and university professor; her mother was a school teacher. Aimée studied at the ULB, where she joined the student socialist society, graduating in 1926. She became a teacher, first in Charleroi, then in Ixelles until 1943, then returning to Charleroi to take up the post of director of the ''Athénée Royal Vauban''. In 1929 she married Maurice Bologne, an activist in the Parti Ouvrier Belge, predecessor of the modern Belgian socialist parties (Socialist Party and Socialist Party – Different). During the 1930s, the couple were active in left-wing circles, including support for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and membership in the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes. In 1938 Lemaire- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabitha Lemaire
Tabitha () is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Saint Tabitha, mentioned in the New Testament. In the Bible Tabitha or Dorcas is a woman mentioned in the New Testament. The English name is derived from an Aramaic word, /ܛܒܝܬܐ ''ṭaḇīṯā'' " emalegazelle", cf. he, צְבִיָּה '' Tzviya'' (classical ''ṣəḇīyāh''). It is a biblical name from Acts of the Apostles (), which in the original Greek was , in which Tabitha is a woman raised from the dead by Saint Peter. Variants Other spellings include Tabytha, Tabatha, Tabata, Tabathina and Tabea. Use in the United States and the United Kingdom The name was common in 18th century New England, and of those born between 1718 and 1745, ranked about 31st as most common female given names, about 0.56% of the population. The name gained a resurgence in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was ranked among the 200 most popular names for girls. The character Tabitha Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lemaire
Robert Lemaire (23 July 1916 – 27 June 1994) was a Belgian chess player, Belgian Chess Championships winner (1950). Biography From the mid-1940s to end of 1950s Robert Lemaire was one of Belgium's leading chess players. He was a multiple medalist of the Belgian Chess Championship. In 1946, in Antwerp Robert Lemaire shared 1st – 2nd place with Albéric O'Kelly de Galway in Belgian Chess Championship but lost additional match for the title – 0:4. In 1950, in Ghent he won Belgian Chess Championship. In 1952, in Ghent he ranked 2nd in Belgian Chess Championship. In 1955, in Merksem Robert Lemaire shared 1st – 3rd place in Belgian Chess Championship but ranked only 3rd in additional tournament for the title of champion (tournament won Jos Gobert). In 1960, in Ghent he shared 1st – 2nd place in this tournament but remained 2nd after the additional factor. Robert Lemaire played for Belgium in the Chess Olympiad: * In 1954, at fourth board in the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire
Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire (9 January 1798, Valenciennes - 2 August 1880, Paris) was a French sculptor, working in a neoclassical academic style. Life and career He was a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, and won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1821. Lemaire sculpted the high relief of the Last Judgment for the pediment of the Église de la Madeleine, Paris. He is among the major academic sculptors of France who are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris: the others are Jean-Pierre Cortot, François Rude, Antoine Étex, and James Pradier. His bronze monument for the city of Quimper, commemorating the Breton Napoleonic hero and antiquarian, Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne, was melted down during World War II. Selected works File:Lille PdBA lemaire napoleon.JPG, Napoleon at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. Image:Claude Louis Constant Corbineau.jpg, Portrait bust of Claude Corbineau Image:Paryż magdalena fasada.JPG, Detail of the pedimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philema Lemaire
Philema Lemaire (7 July 1856 in Verberie, Oise, France – 6 May 1932 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France) was a French politician. He was Governor General of Pondicherry in Second French Colonial Empire. Philema Lemaire, a member of Arthur Blocher's congregation, was also elected deputy in the French National Assembly The National Assembly (french: link=no, italics=set, Assemblée nationale; ) is the lower house of the bicameral French Parliament under the Fifth Republic, the upper house being the Senate (). The National Assembly's legislators are known a ... (1907–14). References French colonial governors and administrators Governors of French India People of the French Third Republic 1856 births 1932 deaths People from Oise {{Puducherry-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulin Lemaire
Paulin Alexandre Lemaire (18 December 1882 in Maubeuge – 17 October 1932) was a French gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ... who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1908 Summer Olympics, and the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the French team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920. References External links * 1882 births 1932 deaths French male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1900 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics People from Maubeuge Sportspeople from Nord (French department) 20th-century F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximiliaan Le Maire
Maximiliaan le Maire (February 28, 1606 in Amsterdam – c. 1654 in prob. Batavia) was a merchant/trader and official of the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie'' or VOC).Historigraphical Institute (Shiryō hensan-jo), University of Tokyo"Diary of Maximiliaen Le Maire" retrieved 2013-2-4. Early life Maximilaan was one of the surviving 13 or 14 children of Isaac le Maire, in 1602 one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company or "VOC", and Maria Walraven, and was a brother of the explorer and circumnavigator Jacob le Maire (1585-1616). He grew up in Egmond aan den Hoef. Career Le Maire served for the VOC starting around 1630 in Malabar followed by Moçambique and Hirado. He was the Dutch Opperhoofd at Dejima from 14 February 1641 to 30 October 1641. He was the first "new" chief trader at the island outpost. From 1643 to 1644 he was Governor of Formosa (Taiwan), where a polder was named after him. He returned home, and in 1647 remarried, in The Hag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Lemaire
Madeleine Lemaire, ''née'' Coll (1845 – 8 April 1928), was a French painter who specialized in elegant genre works and flowers. Robert de Montesquiou said she was ''The Empress of the Roses''. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a ''salon'' where she received high society in her ''hôtel particulier'' on the Rue de Monceau. Lemaire exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. George Painter stated in his book ''Marcel Proust'' she is one of the models of Proust's Madame Verdurin (''In Search of Lost Time ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...''). Links ''The Salon of Mme Madeleine Lemaire'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
