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Monteil
Monteil is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adhémar de Monteil, (died 1098), French bishop and soldier *Amans-Alexis Monteil (1769–1850), French historian *Charles Monteil (1871–1949), French civil servant, ethnologist and linguist. Brother of Parfait-Louis Monteil. * Claudine Monteil (born 1949), French writer *Germaine Monteil, French fashion designer *Jean-Baptiste Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan, (1638–1697), French bishop *Parfait-Louis Monteil (1855–1925), French military officer and explorer. Brother of Charles Monteil. *Vincent Monteil Vincent Monteil (born 1964) is a French conductor. He was born in Angers. Education Monteil studied in several national conservatories in France before completing a degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University in Paris and beginning his conduc ... (born 1964), French conductor See also * Monteils (other) {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parfait-Louis Monteil
Parfait-Louis Monteil (1855 – 29 September 1925) was a French colonial military officer and explorer who made an epic journey in West Africa between 1890 and 1892, travelling east from Senegal to Lake Chad, and then north across the Sahara to Tripoli. Early career Monteil was the older brother of Charles Monteil (1871–1949), who became a distinguished ethologist. Monteil was a graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. He served in Senegal, where his duties included cartographical surveys. In 1884 he was made a member of the ''Société de géographie de Paris'' and in 1886 became an officer of the society. He was influenced by the former governor of Senegal, Louis Faidherbe, whom he regularly visited in his apartment (where Faidherbe was confined by paralysis) in the middle 1880s. Monteil served in the French protectorate of Annam, now part of Vietnam, from 1886 to 1888. He then spent time investigating a railway project to link Bafoulabé and Bamako in Sene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Monteil
Charles Monteil (22 February 1871 – 20 April 1949) was a French civil servant who combined a career in the administration with studies in the ethnology, languages and history of French West Africa. Career Early years (1871–93) Charles Monteil was born in Paris on 22 February 1871. He was the brother of Parfait-Louis Monteil (1855–1925), a French colonial military officer and explorer. He was admitted to the military academy of École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, Saint-Cyr in 1892. French West Africa (1893–1902) Monteil's brother Louis-Parfait took him to French West Africa in 1893, where he began work as a native affairs clerk, and later rose through several administrative levels and held many positions. At one time he was the deputy of Maurice Delafosse in the Ivory Coast. In 1898 Monteil was the first to have collected a Soninke language, soninké version of the legend of Wagadu on the founding of the Mandingo Empire, published in 1967 in an edition edited by Abd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Monteil
Vincent Monteil (born 1964) is a French conductor. He was born in Angers. Education Monteil studied in several national conservatories in France before completing a degree in musicology at the Sorbonne University in Paris and beginning his conducting training with Maestros Gérard Devos and Pierre Dervaux. From 1991 to 1996, Vincent Monteil was assistant conductor at the Toulouse Capitole Opera, where he studied thoroughly French Music with Michel Plasson. This tenure gave him the opportunity to work with conductors such as Friedemann Layer, Maurizio Arena, Richard Bradshaw, Woldemar Nelsson and Donato Renzetti, and singers such as Roberto Alagna, José van Dam, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Leontina Vaduva, Nuccia Focile, Françoise Pollet, and Catherine Malfitano. In 1995, Nicolas Joel, director of the Toulouse Capitole Opera asked him to conduct Giacomo Puccini's ''La bohème''. Career In 1996, Vincent Monteil was appointed associate conductor of Nice Philharmonic Orchestra (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudine Monteil
Claudine Monteil (born 1949) is a French writer, women's rights specialist, historian, and a former French diplomat. Biography Monteil's mother, Josiane Serre, was a chemist who became the director of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Jeunes Filles. Her father is and winning mathematician . Monteil holds a Ph.D. on the study of |
Germaine Monteil
Germaine Monteil was a New York–based French fashion designer and cosmetician who founded the cosmetics and perfume company sharing her name. Fashion Born in France in 1898, Monteil moved to the United States in the early 1930s. A high-end dressmaker as well as a cosmetician, she first established herself as a fashion designer. She made classic dresses with flaring circular or pleated skirts and slim silhouettes, and was renowned for her use of prints which appealed to the American market. In 1938, Monteil won a Neiman Marcus Fashion Award The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus. Unlike the Coty Award, it was not limited to American-based fashion designers. Recipients of th ... in recognition of her influence upon the fashion industry. This was the first year in which the awards were presented. She died in 1987. Cosmetics & perfumes In 1936, Monteil founded with he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monteils (other)
Monteils is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: * Monteils, in the Aveyron department * Monteils, in the Gard department * Monteils, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department See also * Monteille Monteille () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adhémar De Monteil
Adhemar (also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz) de Monteil (died 1 August 1098) was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. He was the chosen representative of Pope Urban II for the expedition to the Holy Land. Remembered for his martial prowess, he led knights and men into battle and fought beside them, particularly at the Battle of Dorylaeum and Siege of Antioch. Adhemar is said to have carried the Holy Lance in the Crusaders’ desperate breakout at Antioch on 28 June 1098, in which superior Islamic forces under the atabeg Kerbogha were routed, securing the city for the Crusaders. He died in 1098 due to illness. Life Born around 1045 into the family of the Counts of Valentinois and elected Bishop of Le Puy around 1080, he was an advocate of the Gregorian Reform. Among his supporters were the future Pope Urban II and Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse and the richest, most powerful nobleman in France. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amans-Alexis Monteil
Amans-Alexis Monteil (7 June 176920 February 1850), French historian, was born at Rodez, and died at Cely (Seine-et-Marne). His tastes were historical, and he taught history at Rodez, at Fontainebleau and at St Cyr. He held that a disproportionate importance had been given to kings, their ministers and generals, and that it was necessary rather to study the people. In his ' (10 vols, 1828–1844) he undertook to describe the different classes and occupations of the community. For this he made a collection of manuscripts, which he sold in 1835 (many of them passed into the library of Sir Thomas Philipps), drawing up a catalogue under the singular title of '. He boasted of having been the first to write really "national" history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled ' (1840; reprinted in 1841 under the title: '). Monteil did not invent the history of civilization, but he was one of the first in France, and perhaps in Europe, to point out its extreme importance. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Adhémar De Monteil De Grignan
Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following: Persons * Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King of Sweden and King of Norway * Charles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada * Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève, orientalist and philologist * Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target, French lawyer and politician * Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray, French painter * Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), American music record producer, singer-songwriter * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French critic, journalist, and novelist * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) * Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith * Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator * Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
