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Lesieur
Lesieur is a last name, and may refer to: * Art Lesieur (1907–1967), American ice hockey player * Émile Lesieur (1885–1985), French rugby player * Eugène Lesieur Eugène Lesieur (24 March 1890 – 2 April 1975) was a French wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling ho ... (1890–1975), French wrestler * Jean-Pierre Lesieur (born 1935), French poet * Georges Lesieur (1848–1931), French businessman * Marie Lesieur (1799–1890), known as Marie Lesueur, French ballet dancer * Stephen Lesieur, Swiss-born English diplomat {{surname Surnames of French origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Lesieur
Stephen Lesieur or Le Sieur ( fl. 1575 –1640) was a Swiss-born English ambassador to Denmark, Florence, and the Holy Roman Empire. Career Lesieur was born in Geneva, came to England in 1575, and was first employed as a servant of Sir Philip Sidney. In March 1583 an envoy in London collecting money for the church in Geneva, Jean Maillet, met Lesieur and they discussed efforts to raise a ransom for the English diplomat Daniel Rogers, who had been captured by Maarten Schenck van Nydeggen. Lesieur came to Edinburgh as the secretary of Robert Sidney in August 1588 and made the acquaintance of a Flemish mining engineer, Eustachius Roche. The Danish council was angered by a letter from Queen Elizabeth which he brought in October 1599, and they claimed to believe it came from private persons, rather than the queen or her advisors. Lesieur was given a gift of Christian IV's portrait. In 1602 he was appointed as assistant to an embassy sent to Bremen to meet Danish ambassadors incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lesieur
Georges Lesieur (1848–1931), born in Paris (France), was a French businessman and founder of the brand of edible oils of the same name (Huiles Lesieur). He married Esther Dupuis with whom he had five children. Lesieur was born into a family of farmers based in Septeuil (Yvelines department), a city of which his father was the Mayor. Career at Desmarais Frères Lesieur started working at the age of 15 as a shop assistant for Desmarais Frères (DF), an industrial company specialized in purification and distribution of vegetal oils for lighting purposes. DF later oriented its activity towards petroleum - originally used for lighting as well - to eventually become one of the major actors on that Market. He became co-manager of DF before turning 30 and actively contributed to its development for more than 40 years. He joined the Paris Chamber of Commerce in 1895 to become, from 1901 to 1903 its treasurer, from 1903 to 1904 its vice president and its president from 1905 to 1907. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Lesieur
Joseph Arthur Lesieur (September 13, 1907 – December 31, 1967) was an American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 100 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ..., in 1931 he became the first American-born player to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup as a member of the Montreal Canadiens. Lesieur played most of his professional hockey career with the Providence Reds of the Canadian-American (CanAm) Hockey League and the American (AHL) Hockey League, where he led the Reds to 3 Fontaine Cup titles and 2 Calder Cup championships as a player, team captain and/or player coach. In 1941, just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and midway t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Lesieur
Émile Lesieur (1885–1985) was a French rugby player. 1885 births 1985 deaths HEC Paris alumni French rugby union players Rugby union centres Rugby union wings Stade Français players France international rugby union players {{France-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Lesieur
Eugène Lesieur (24 March 1890 – 2 April 1975) was a French wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat spor .... He competed in the lightweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1890 births 1975 deaths Olympic wrestlers of France Wrestlers at the 1912 Summer Olympics French male sport wrestlers Sportspeople from Paris 20th-century French people {{France-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Lesueur
Marie Lesieur (8 October 1799, Paris – 6 April 1890, Ixelles, Brussels), known as Lesueur, was a French ballet dancer. Life The daughter of Hébert Lesieur and Marie Calliaud, Lesieur made her debut at the Théâtre de Marseille in 1816, as a 'sujet de la danse'. In the course of a production of the ballet ''La Naissance de Vénus'' (''The Birth of Venus'') in July 1817 she was noted for turning her back on the public, in an inconvenient attitude, but she was pardoned for this and quickly became Marseilles's favourite dancer. Two years later she moved to Brussels to join the ballet troupe formed there by Jean-Antoine Petipa with some of the dancers from Marseille. The ''Almanach des spectacles'' for 1820 stated: She made her Brussels debut at the Théâtre de la Monnaie on 20 May 1819 in the ballet ''Almaviva et Rosine'' and was an immediate and massive success with the public. The 1822 ''Revue des spectacles'' described her as a dancer In a production of the ballet ''Psyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Lesieur
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