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Le Maistre
Le Maistre (also ''Lemaistre'', ''leMaistre'') is a surname, and may refer to: * Antoine Le Maistre (1608–1658), French Jansenist lawyer, author and translator * Catherine Lemaistre (1590-1651), French religious figure * Charles LeMaistre (1925-2017), U.S. medical doctor * Janice leMaistre, Canadian judge * Jean Le Maistre, Vice-Inquisitor for Rouen, at the Trial of Joan of Arc * Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684), French priest * Malcolm Le Maistre (born 1949), English musician, experimental artist and theatre director * Mattheus Le Maistre (c.1505–1577), Flemish choirmaster and composer * Stephen Caesar Le Maistre (died 1777), British judge in India See also * * * Le Maitre (surname) * De Maistre (surname) * Maistre Maistre is a surname. It may refer to: Persons * Joseph de Maistre (1753 – 1821), French-language Savoyard political philosopher and diplomat * Casimir Maistre (1867-1957), French geographer * François Maistre François Maistre (14 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Le Maistre
Antoine Le Maistre (2 May 1608 – 4 November 1658) was a French Jansenist lawyer, author and translator. His name has also been written as Lemaistre and Le Maître, and he sometimes used the pseudonym of Lamy. Background and early life Le Maistre was the son of Isaac Le Maistre, a king’s counsellor, and of Catherine Arnauld, who was the eldest daughter of the lawyer Antoine Arnauld (1560–1619) and the granddaughter of another Antoine Arnauld, seigneur de la Mothe. The Arnaulds were a family of the lesser nobility which had come to Paris from the Auvergne during the 16th century. Le Maistre's grandfather Arnauld, a well known lawyer, defended the University of Paris against charges laid by the Jesuits in 1594 and presented his case so forcefully that his defence has been called ''the original sin of the Arnaulds''. He married Catherine Marion de Druy, and they had twenty children, of whom ten died young. All but one of their ten surviving children were connected with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Lemaistre
Catherine Arnauld (1590–1651) was a French religious figure of the 17th century, belonging to the Arnauld family of Jansenists. She was the eldest daughter of Antoine Arnauld (lawyer) Antoine Arnauld (August 6, 1560, Paris – 29 December 1619, Paris) was a lawyer in the Parlement de Paris, and a Counsellor of State under Henry IV. A skilled orator, his most famous speech was in 1594 in favor of the University of Paris and ag ... (1560–1619). She married Isaac Le Maistre, conseiller du roi (King's Councillor), and they had many children, including Antoine Le Maistre, Simon Le Maistre and Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. After her husband's death she became a nun and retired to Port-Royal-des-Champs, Port-Royal. References Sources Encyclopædia Britannica 1590 births 1651 deaths Jansenists 17th-century French nuns Cistercian nuns {{France-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles LeMaistre
Charles Aubrey "Mickey" LeMaistre (February 10, 1924 – January 28, 2017) was an American physician, medical educator, and academic administrator who served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from 1971 to 1978 and as president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1978 to 1996. He also has the dubious distinction of serving on the board of directors of the Enron Corporation. Biography LeMaistre was born in 1924 in Lockhart, Alabama. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama and earned his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in 1947. He did his medical residency in New York Hospital and completed a fellowship in tuberculosis and infectious diseases at Cornell University. He began his career split between teaching at Cornell and in the U. S. Public Health Service, Epidemic Intelligence Service. In 1954, at the age of 29, LeMaistre was offered a department chairmanship at Cornell. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice LeMaistre
Janice leMaistre was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on November 23, 2006. Judge leMaistre graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba in 1991. She completed her articles with Manitoba Justice and worked in the Crown's office until her appointment to the bench, developing expertise in matters involving child abuse, elder abuse, spousal abuse prosecutions, inquests, and assize and appellate work. More recently, she held the position of supervising senior Crown attorney in the family violence unit. She took part in the development of a number of key initiatives, such as the award-winning Domestic Violence Front End Project, the child victim support initiative, phase two of zero tolerance A zero tolerance policy is one which imposes a punishment for every infraction of a stated rule.zero tolerance, n.' (under ''zero, n.''). The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1989. Retrieved 10 November 2009. Italy, Japan, Singapore China, Indi ... and the Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trial Of Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc was a young French woman who said she had been sent to help Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War, which led to her capture by the English-allied Burgundians during the siege of Compiègne in 1430. She was sold to the English, who had her put on trial by a pro-English church court at Rouen, Normandy in 1431. The court found her guilty of heresy and she was burned at the stake. The verdict was later nullified at Joan's rehabilitation trial, which was overseen by the Inquisitor-General, Jean Bréhal, in 1456. Considered a French national heroine, she was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920. The trial is one of the most famous in history, becoming the subject of many books and films. Background and context In the spring of 1429, acting in obedience to what she said was the command of God, Joan inspired the Dauphin's armies in a series of stunning military victories which lifted the Siege of Orléans and destroyed a large percentage of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre De Sacy
Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (29 March 1613 – 4 January 1684), a priest of Port-Royal, was a theologian and French humanist. He is best known for his translation of the Bible, the most widespread French Bible in the 18th century, also known as the ''Bible de Port-Royal''. Biography Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy was born in Paris, one of five sons of Huguenot Isaac Le Maistre, and of Catherine Arnauld, who was one of the sisters of Marie Angélique Arnauld. In 1638, when his older brothers Antoine and Simon gave up their careers to retire to Port-Royal, Louis-Isaac joined them to take care of his education. In 1650, he published a collection of prayers, the ''Heures de Port-Royal,'' in which he translated the highly successful liturgical hymns. De Sacy was imprisoned in the Bastille on 13 May 1666, remaining there until 14 November 1668. He took advantage of this time to complete the translation of the Old Testament into French from the Vulgate begun by his brother Antoine, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Le Maistre
Malcolm Le Maistre (born 21 March 1949) is an English people, English musician, experimental artist and theatre director, who was a member of The Incredible String Band in the 1970s. He was born in England, his father a France, French born journalist and his mother an United States, American writer. After they split up, he attended boarding school in Surrey, where he developed an interest in experimental theatre. In 1966, with friend John "Rakis" Koumantarakis, he moved to London, where they promoted one of the first concerts by Pink Floyd, and then joined David Medalla's Exploding Galaxy counter-cultural arts and dance troupe.Adrian Whittaker (ed.), ''Be Glad: The Incredible String Band Compendium'', 2003, He met Robin Williamson and Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band in New York City in 1968, and returned with Williamson and others to set up a commune in a farmhouse near Newport, Pembrokeshire, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales. There, they developed ideas for multi-media ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattheus Le Maistre
Mattheus Le Maistre or Matthaeus Le Maistre ( 1505–1577) was a Flemish Renaissance choirmaster and composerPratt p. 131 who is best known for his time in Dresden. His music was superior but in no way progressive, influential in both Counter-Reformation and Lutheran courts. Biography Early life and employment Born circa 1505 in Roclenge-sur-Geer,Sadie p.538 in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in the Low Countries, and he considered himself a "Belgian" throughout his lifetime. Musical education was little valued in his house,Gresch p.vii yet he studied music from his early childhoodBlume p. 1548 Nothing is known regarding the identity of his musical instructors.Kade p.4 It is speculated that, prior to his time in Munich, he worked in Leipzig because his name appears in music directories there. In 1550 Le Maistre was employed at the Bayerische Hofkapelle in Munich as a composer, in no small part because of the importance imparted to music by the newly-ascended Albrecht V, Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Caesar Le Maistre
Stephen Caesar Le Maistre was a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act of 1773. It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcu .... Along with Justice Hyde and to some extent Impey, he argued for greatly expanding the powers of the Supreme Court. He died on 4 November 1777. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Maistre, Stephen 1777 deaths British India judges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Maistre (surname)
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de Maistre (also ''Demaistre'', ''deMaistre'') is a surname. People with this name include: * Gilles de Maistre (born 1960), French screenwriter * Henriette-Marie de Sainte-Marie Baronne Almaury de Maistre (1809-1875), French composer * Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821), Savoyard jurist & political conservative * Roy De Maistre (1894–1968), Australian artist * Rodolphe de Maistre (1789-1866), French military man * Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852), French military man and writer * Xavier de Maistre (harpist) (born 1973), French harpist See also * * * Le Maistre (surname) * Maistre Maistre is a surname. It may refer to: Persons * Joseph de Maistre (1753 – 1821), French-language Savoyard political philosopher and diplomat * Casimir Maistre (1867-1957), French geographer * François Maistre François Maistre (14 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
