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Naville is a French surname. People with the name include: * Denise Naville (1896–1979), French writer and translator * Édouard Naville (1844–1926), Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar * François Naville (1883–1968), Swiss physician * Marguerite Naville (1852–1930), Swiss artist, photographer and writer * Pierre Naville (1903–1993), French Surrealist writer and sociologist See also * Navile The Navile is a canal in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It originates from the Reno canal, which owes its name (and waters) to the Reno River, from which it originates at the Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno. Geography The Navile runs from south ..., a canal in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy * Neville (name) {{surname ...
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Marguerite Naville
Marguerite-Isabelle Naville ( de Pourtalès; 1852–1930) was a Swiss artist, photographer and writer. After marrying the Egyptologist Édouard Naville in 1873, she accompanied him on 14 archaeological trips to Egypt, meticulously recording his finds in photographs and drawings. Her extensive diaries and correspondence provide detailed descriptions of life in Egypt at the turn of the 20th century. Biography Born on 14 August 1852 in Versoix, Canton of Geneva, Isabelle-Marguerite de Pourtalès was the daughter of Alexandre Joseph de Pourtalès (1810–1883), a Prussian count and artillery officer, and his wife Augusta Marie Élisabeth née Saladin (1815–1885). She was influenced by her family's allegiance to the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 but went on to support the French during the First World War. Together with the Egyptologist Édouard Naville, whom she married in 1873, she had five children. She accompanied him on 14 trips to Egypt from 1884 to 1914. Whi ...
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Édouard Naville
Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. Born in Geneva, he studied at the University of Geneva, King's College, London, and the Universities of Bonn, Paris, and Berlin. He was a student of Karl Richard Lepsius and later his literary executor. He first visited Egypt in 1865, where he copied the Horus texts in the temple at Edfu. During the Franco-Prussian War he served as a captain in the Swiss army. His early work concerned the solar texts and the Book of the Dead. In 1882 he was invited to work for the newly founded Egypt Exploration Fund. He excavated a number of sites in the Nile Delta including Tell el-Maskhuta (1882), the Wadi Tumilat (1885–86), Bubastis (1886–89), Tell el-Yahudiyeh (1887), Saft el-Hinna (1887), Ahnas (1890–91), Mendes and Tell el-Muqdam (1892). Many of the objects he found in his Delta excavations are preserved in the Cairo Museum, British Museum, and the Museum of F ...
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Pierre Naville
Pierre Naville (1 February 1903 – 24 April 1993) was a French Surrealist writer and sociologist.Stubb, JeremyObituary: Pierre Naville ''The Independent'', 3 June 1993. He was a prominent member of the "Investigating Sex" group of Surrealist thinkers. In politics, he was a Communist and then a Trotskyist, before joining the PSU. He led a career as an occupational sociologist. Early life Naville was born in 1903 in Paris, to a family of Swiss Protestant bankers. Surrealist from its earliest times In 1922 he founded the avant-garde periodical ''L'Å“uf dur'' (''The Tough Egg'') together with Philippe Soupault, François Gérard, Max Jacob, Louis Aragon and Blaise Cendrars. He was co-editor with Benjamin Péret for the three first numbers of ''La Révolution Surréaliste'', founded the Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes in (1924 and participated in surrealist activities with André Breton before eventually opposing Surrealism because of his political divergences from the eme ...
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François Naville
Fran̤ois Naville (14 June 1883 Р3 April 1968) was a Swiss physician and director of the medico-legal Institute of the University of Geneva. He was the only truly neutral expert participating in the international Katyn Commission investigating the Soviet Katyn massacre of some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war, mostly Polish Army officers, who had been arrested and imprisoned in the course of the Soviet and German invasion of Poland. Their bodies were discovered in a series of large mass graves in the forest near Smolensk in Russia following the Nazi German Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after .... Katyn affair :"''On April 13, 1943, the German radio announced that a common grave containing the corpses of Polish officers was found in the forest of ...
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Denise Naville
Denise Lévy, née Kahn, later Denise Naville (1896-1979) was a French writer and translator.Isabelle KalinowskiDenise Naville traductrice in Françoise Blum, ed., ''Les vies de Pierre Naville''. Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007. Active in early surrealism, she and her husband Pierre Naville later moved away from surrealist activity to work with Leon Trotsky. She translated writing by Trotsky, Friedrich Hölderlin, Hans Erich Nossack, Carl von Clausewitz, Friedrich Engels, Nikolai Bukharin and Paul Celan from German into French.A. CuenotNAVILLE Denise, née KAHN Denise ''Maitron'', version posted on November 30, 2010, last modified December 11, 2020. Accessed December 21, 2020. Life Denise Kahn was born on June 26, 1896, to a French-speaking family in Sarreguemines, then part of the German imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine. Simone Kahn (later Simone Breton) was a cousin. By 1920 she was an active part of socialist intellectual life in Strasbourg. In 1921 she marrie ...
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Navile
The Navile is a canal in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It originates from the Reno canal, which owes its name (and waters) to the Reno River, from which it originates at the Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno. Geography The Navile runs from south to north; it goes through the town of Bologna and crosses the Bolognese plain until it joins the Reno river once again near Passo Segni after a journey of about 40 km, of which 5.3 from the Chiusa di Casalecchio to Bova di Via Lame (where the Port was located). Its regime is partly determined by adjustments of the locks, partly by the collection of meteoric waters in Bologna and a portion of the plain; its ordinary average flow rates can be estimated at 10 cubic meters per second, while the maximum flow can reach 100 cubic meters per second. History The Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno, where the Canale di Reno originates, was built in the upper Middle Ages as an impressive work of hydraulic engineering in masonry: the Chiusa has a ...
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