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Masson (surname)
Masson is a French and Scottish surname, and may refer to: * André Masson (1896–1987), a French artist * André Masson (born 1950), a French economist * Angela Masson (born 1951), an American pilot and artist * Antoine Masson (1636–1700), a French engraver * Antoine Masson (boxer), a Belgian boxer * Charles Eadie Masson (1884–1954), a Canadian amateur ice hockey right winger * Charles François Philibert Masson (1762–1807), a private secretary to the future Tsar Alexander I * Charles Masson (1800–1853), the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier and explorer * David Masson (1822–1907), a Scottish writer * David I. Masson (1915–2007), a Scottish science-fiction writer and librarian, grandson of David Orme Masson * David Orme Masson (1858–1937), an Australian chemist, son of David Masson * David Parkes Masson (1847–1915), a wealthy banker in India and distinguished philatelist * Didier Masson (1886–1950), a French pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany, Occi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson
Édouard Masson (May 4, 1826 – August 5, 1875) was a businessman and political figure in Canada East. Life He was born Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson at Montreal in 1826, the son of seigneur and merchant Joseph Masson and the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Raymond. Masson studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and then in England. With his older brother Wilfred, he took over the family business when his father died in 1847. He was also a major in the local militia and president of the Montreal Gas Company. In 1855, he became a member of the municipal council for Montreal. In 1856, he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for Thousand Islands division; he was defeated by Léandre Dumouchel in 1864 when he ran again in the same division. Masson founded a settlement at Sainte-Marguerite, which later became the parish of Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson. He died at Montreal in 1875. His brother Louis-Rodrigue Masson Louis-Rodrigue Masson, (ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul-Marie Masson
Paul-Marie Masson (9 September 1882 – 27 January 1954) was a French musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ..., music teacher and composer. A specialist of the lyrical work of Jean-Philippe Rameau, in 1930 he published his thesis on ''L’Opéra de Rameau'', which is still a reference work. Masson has been president of the French association of musicologists Société française de musicologie (1944-1947). References External links Paul-Marie Massonon Encyclopédie Larousse « Les musicologues français face à Vichy. Le cas Paul-Marie Masson » {{DEFAULTSORT:Masson, Paul-Marie 20th-century French composers 20th-century French musicologists 1882 births People from Sète 1954 deaths Officers of the Legion of Honour Presidents of the Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Masson
Maxime Masson (October 15, 1867, in Saint-Justin – October 2, 1960) was a Roman Catholic priest. He was the main architect of religious buildings in the town of Sainte-Thècle, located in Mauricie, in the province of Quebec. He was pastor of the Sainte-Thècle parish for 52 years. During that time, he was the main coordinator for the construction of the church from 1903 to 1905, as well as the rectory and other buildings on the lot of the ''Fabrique de Sainte-Thècle''. He was instrumental in the erection of the monastery (''couvent'' in French) in 1912, led by the religious community Daughters of Jesus ("Filles de Jésus" in French), and the erection in 1939 of the first college run by the religious Brothers of St. Gabriel (''Frères de Saint-Gabriel'' in French). Craftsman talent He designed and built including the magnificent calvary (in 1935) located in the cemetery land, a cement lion in 1939 located on the outside of the church and the paintings on the ceiling of the sac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laetitia Masson
Lætitia Masson (born 18 August 1966) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed twelve films since 1991. Her film ''À vendre'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival The 51st Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1998. American director, producer, screenwriter, and film historian Martin Scorsese was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Greek film '' Mia aioniotita kai mia mera'' by Theo A .... Early life and education Laetitia Masson spent her early years in Nancy, France. Her parents, both teachers, appreciated film. Masson saw her first film by Jean-Luc Godard at the age of seven. Her father was an amateur filmmaker inspired by New Wave cinema, and exposure to this love of film may have contributed to her study of literature and cinema in Paris, before studying as La Fémis film school. There, Masson graduated from the “Départment Image,” in 1991. Career Laetitia Masson has had a prolif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Masson
Joseph Masson (January 5, 1791 – May 15, 1847) was a Canadian businessman, who is considered the first French Canadian millionaire. Seigneur of Terrebonne, Quebec, president of Masson societies, president of the City Gas, he was also vice-president of the Banque de Montréal, president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal, and member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. He was a major Canadian businessman in the 1830 years, and he is a member of the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Biography Masson, born in Saint-Eustache, Quebec in 1791, was the only son (there were also three daughters) born to Antoine Masson, joiner who did not know how to write, and Suzanne ''née'' Pfeiffer or Payfer. After studies at Saint-Eustache school, he went at 16 to Saint-Benoît, Mirabel''"Masson, Joseph"'', in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', volume VII, 1988. to learn the commercial business, as an apprentice of the merchant Duncan McGillis. Import-export Masson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author. Masson is best known for his conclusions about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In his ''The Assault on Truth'' (1984), Masson argues that Freud may have abandoned his seduction theory because he feared that granting the truth of his female patients' claims (that they had been sexually abused) would hinder the acceptance of his psychoanalytic methods. Masson is a veganism advocate and has written about animal rights. Early life Jeffrey Masson is the son of Jacques Masson, a Frenchman of Bukharian Jewish ancestry, and Diana (Dina) Zeiger from an Ashkenazi strict Orthodox Jewish family. Both of his parents were followers of the guru Paul Brunton. Masson's mother later became a follower of mystic and philosopher John Levy. During the 1940s and 1950s, Brunton often lived with them, eventually designating Masson as his heir apparent. In 1956, Diana and Jacques Masson moved to Uruguay becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Papire Masson
Jean Papire Masson la, Papirius (1544 in Saint-Germain-Laval, Loire – 1611) was a French humanist historian, known also as a geographer, biographer, literary critic and jurist. Life Masson was initially a Jesuit, but left the Society. He studied law at Angers under François Baudouin around 1570. He became close to the circle of Catherine de' Medici, particularly to Carlo Boni, and became professor of law at Angers, where Boni was bishop. Later he was librarian to the Chevalier de Chiverny, was ''avocat'' to the Parlement of Paris, and married. Works He defended Antoine Matharel against François Hotman. He may in fact have written much of Matharel's ''Responsio'' (1575) to Hotman's monarchomach work '' Francogallia''. The debate became a pamphlet war and slanging match. The Latin life of John Calvin attributed to Masson had a reputation in its time as fair-minded. Masson discovered a manuscript of Agobard Agobard of Lyon (–840) was a Spanish-born priest and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Masson
Gérard Masson (born 12 August, 1936, in Paris) is a French composer. Biography Gérard Masson grew up listening to jazz, played jazz trumpet, and began studying the piano in 1945, but had no formal training in composition until, after military service in Algeria, he returned to France in 1962. He approached Max Deutsch, who sent Masson to one of his students for lessons in counterpoint. At about this same time, he made the acquaintance of Pierre Souvtchinsky, who introduced him to Igor Stravinsky. Masson brought to his meeting with Stravinsky his first orchestral score, ''Dans le deuil des vagues'', in which Stravinsky showed considerable interest. When, upon returning to the United States, Stravinsky was asked by a reporter whether he had heard any young musicians, Stravinsky replied, "none at all, except Gérard Masson". It was Souvtchinsky who suggested that Masson go to Cologne to study with Karlheinz Stockhausen, which he did in 1965–66 and again in 1966–67. He was par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Masson
Louis Claude Frédéric Masson (8 March 1847, Paris – 19 February 1923, Paris) was a French historian. Life and career His father, Francis Masson, a solicitor, was killed on 23 June 1848 when he was a major in the ''garde nationale''. Young Masson was educated at the college of Sainte Barbe, and at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, and then travelled in Germany and in England. From 1869 to 1880 he was librarian at the Foreign Office. At first he devoted himself to the history of diplomacy, and published between 1877 and 1884 several volumes connected with that subject. Later he published a number of more or less curious memoirs illustrating the history of the Revolution and of the empire. But he is best known for his books connected with Napoleon. In ''Napoléon inconnu'' (1895), Masson, together with Guido Biagi, brought out the unpublished writings (1786-1793) of the future emperor. These were notes, extracts from historical, philosophical and literary books, and personal ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Masson
Francis Masson (August 1741 – 23 December 1805) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist and gardener, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew Gardens’ first Botanical expedition, plant hunter. Life Masson was born in Aberdeen. In the 1760s, he went to work at Kew Gardens as an under-gardener. Masson was the first plant collector to be sent abroad by the newly appointed director Sir Joseph Banks; he sailed with James Cook on HMS Resolution (1771), HMS ''Resolution'' to South Africa, landing in October 1772. Masson stayed until 1775, during which time he sent back to England over 500 species of plant. In 1776, Banks sent Masson abroad again, this time to Madeira, Canary Islands, the Azores and the Antilles. Whilst in Grenada, Masson was captured and imprisoned by the French, a traumatic experience which haunted him for the rest of his life. Although he was eventually released, his collections deteriorated during the delay in securing a passage home, and a hurricane in St. Lucia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes Masson
Forbes (Robertson) Masson (born 17 August 1963 in Falkirk) is a Scottish actor and writer. He is an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for his roles in classical theatre, musicals, comedies, and appearances in London's West End. He is also known for his comedy partnership with Alan Cumming. Masson and Cumming wrote '' The High Life'', a Scottish situation comedy in which they play the lead characters, Steve McCracken and Sebastian Flight. Characters McCracken and Flight were heavily based on Victor and Barry, famous Scottish comedy alter-egos of Masson and Cumming. Forbes also stars in the 2021 film The Road Dance, set on The Isle of Lewis as the Reverend MacIver. Personal life Masson completed a three-year drama course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has a BA in Dramatic Studies. Masson met Cumming during this time, and the pair performed some cabaret work together in order to earn Equity cards. He lives in North Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
