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Marguerite Lescop
Marguerite Lescop (Birth name, née Marguerite Geoffrion; 8 November 1915 – 3 April 2020) was a Canadian author, editor, and public speaker. Biography After the death of her husband, René Lescop, she attended writing workshops and wrote her autobiography, ''Le Tour de ma vie en 80 ans'', published in 1996 by Salon du livre de Montréal. The book obtained considerable success, with more than 100,000 copies sold. She gave numerous conferences at retirement homes across Quebec. Lescop founded her own publishing company, Éditions Lescop, and published two books with it: ''En effeuillant la Marguerite'' (1998) and ''Les Épîtres de Marguerite'' (2000). With Éditions Fides, she published ''Nous, les vieux'', a series of interviews with Benoît Lacroix, a good friend of Lescop's. In 2007, she had three books published by Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur. Marguerite Lescop died on 3 April 2020 at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal - Pavillon Alfred-Desrochers in Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
