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Marchienne (other)
Marchienne may refer to: * R.O.C. de Charleroi-Marchienne, Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi-Marchienne is a Belgian football club from the city of Charleroi, Hainaut. *Marchienne-au-Pont, a section of the Belgian town of Charleroi within the Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut * Mont-sur-Marchienne, a section of the Belgian town of Charleroi within the Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut People * Emile de Cartier de Marchienne (1871–1946), Belgian diplomat * Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne (1872–1903), mother of Marguerite Yourcenar * Louis de Cartier de Marchienne (1921–2013), Belgian businessman. He was managing director of the company Eternit in the sixties * Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian businessman. He is a member of the board and Managing Director of Carta Mundi See also * Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes, a commune in the Nord department in northern France * Bruille-lez-Marchiennes, a commune in the Nord department in northern France * Marchien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marchienne-au-Pont
Marchienne-au-Pont ( wa, Mårciene) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It was a commune in its own right before the merger of communes in 1977, when it had a population of 17,000. Sights * The Castle of Cartier was built on the ruins of an earlier castle, which had been destroyed by the troops of Henri II on July 21, 1554. The Cartier family owned it from 1726 to 1938. It was converted to a library in April 2002. The outer bailey has been replaced by a public swimming pool and the park has been partly destroyed. * The city walls. History To outline the history of the locality of Marchienne-au-Pont, we must go back to the 9th century, to the death of Charlemagne. His Empire is divided into three parts: Francia, Germania, and between the two, a long territory called the Kingdom of Lothair. This turned out to be a large part of present-day Belgium and Burgundy. On November 15, 889, Arnold of Cari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont-sur-Marchienne
Mont-sur-Marchienne ( wa, Mont-dzeu-Mårciene) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th .... It was a municipality of its own before the merger of the municipalities in 1977. Gallery File:Charleroi - Musée de la photographie - nouvelle aile - 2.jpg, Photography museum in Charleroi File:Mont-sur-Marchienne JPG01.jpg, Former town hall File:0 Mont-sur-Marchienne - église de la Conversion du Saint Paul (2).jpg, Church of the Conversion of Saint Paul (16th and 18th century). File:Mont-sur-Marchienne - tour est de l'ancien château-ferme de la Torre.jpg, Tower of the former ''de la Torre'' castel (french: Château-ferme de la Torre), 16th century. File:Mont-sur- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile De Cartier De Marchienne
Baron Emile-Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne (30 November 1871 in Schaerbeek, Belgium – 10 May 1946 in London, United Kingdom) was a Belgian diplomat. Emile de Cartier de Marchienne was Belgian Minister in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Before that he had been the charge d'affaires in Brazil, Japan, China, and France. Diplomatic career Honours * Civic Decoration * 1919: Commander in the Order of Leopold. * Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold. * Knight Grand Cross with Chain of the Royal Victorian Order. * Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. * Commander in the Order of the Sacred Treasure. * Officer in the Legion of Honour. * Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great. * Coronation Medal of HM George VI. Personal life Ambassador de Cartier de Marchienne married in Paris, on 16 July 1919, American socialite Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes Cary (''née'' Marie E. Dow) who was firstly married to Elihu B. Fros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande De Cartier De Marchienne
Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Femina'' and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3. Biography Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour in Brussels, Belgium, to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French bourgeois descent, originating from French Flanders, a very wealthy landowner, and a Belgian mother, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, of Belgian nobility, who died ten days after her birth. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother. She adopted the surname ''Yourcenar'' – an almost anagram of ''Crayencour'', having one fewer ''c'' – as a pen name; in 1947 she also took it as her legal surname. Yourcenar's first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis De Cartier De Marchienne
Baron Louis de Cartier de Marchienne (Turnhout, 26 September 1921 – 21 May 2013) was a Belgium, Belgian businessman. He was managing director of the company Eternit in the 1960s, and in 1971 he became chairman of the Board of the printing company Brepols and led the company through a period of change. His son Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne is a member of the board of Carta Mundi. Family Louis Alphonse de Cartier was the third of five children of colonel-pilot Raoul de Cartier (1884-1941), and Josa Versteylen (1896-1983). His brother Raoul de Cartier (1924-1944) was member of the Belgian Resistance. Captured by the Germans, he was executed. His other brother Baron Paul-Ernest de Cartier (1920-1977) tried to reach England during the war. Unsuccessful, he joined the Belgian army after the Liberation. Louis also tried to escape to England, but he was captured while attempting it and was sent to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Sachsenhausen. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis De Cartier De Marchienne
Baron Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne is a Belgian businessman and farmer. He is a member of the board and managing director of Carta Mundi, the world leader in the production of playing cards. Between 1984 and 1991, he was involved in the establishment of several agricultural companies in Belgium with branches in Hungary and the Netherlands. In 1992 he became a member of the board of directors of publishing house Brepols in Turnhout, where his father was also a board member. In 1995 he became chairman of the board of directors of Brepols and its subsidiaries. In 1998 he became chairman of Cartamundi, a card game producer also based in Turnhout and of which the de Cartier family is a shareholder. Etex. Se ...
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Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes
Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes (, literally ''Tilloy near Marchiennes'') is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region, Northern France. In 2018, it had a population of 516. History In March 2020, Marie Cau won a majority of votes in the first round of the mayoral election (with the entire municipal council also being members of her electoral list) on a platform of developing social and environmental policies like sustainable agriculture. Her inauguration was delayed until May due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her election as the first known openly transgender mayor in France garnered international media coverage. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruille-lez-Marchiennes
Bruille-lez-Marchiennes (, literally ''Bruille near Marchiennes'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Population Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Nord (French department) French Hainaut {{Nord-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
