Papillon (name)
Papillon is a name meaning "butterfly" in French. Notable people with the name include: *Annick Papillon (born 1980), Canadian politician * Godfrey Papillon (1867–1942), English cricketer *Jean-François Papillon (died 1805), African-born slave in Haiti * John Papillon (cricketer) (1806–1889), English cricketer * John Papillon (1838–1891), British photographer and army engineer *Thomas Papillon (1623–1702), English merchant and politician *Papillon Soo Soo ''Full Metal Jacket'' is a 1987 war drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel ''The Short-Timers'' and stars Matthew M ...

Annick Papillon
Annick Papillon (born May 27, 1980) is a Canadian politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015. She represented the electoral district of Québec as a member of the New Democratic Party. Biography Papillon was born in Rimouski, Quebec, and grew up in Quebec City. She earned a BA in public communications, law, and history and pursued advanced studies in journalism at Université Laval. She specialized in international politics and field journalism while studying at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and performed an internship at Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté francophone. Back in Quebec, she volunteered for humanitarian organizations. At the time of her election, she worked for the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Running in her first campaign, she defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Christiane Gagnon with a margin of 7,709 votes in the 2011 Canadian federal election. She endorsed Tom Mulcair in the 2012 New Demo ...
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Godfrey Papillon
Godfrey Keppel Papillon (24 September 1867 – 14 August 1942) was an English cricketer. Papillon was a right-handed batsman. The son of Philip Oxendon Papillon and Emily Caroline Garnier, Papillon was born at Lexden Manor at Lexden, Essex. Papillon appeared once in first-class cricket when he was selected to represent the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture of 1892 at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings. In a match which ended as a draw, Papillon batted once in the Gentlemen's first-innings, scoring 10 runs before he was dismissed by William Attewell. He later played minor counties cricket for Northamptonshire, debuting for the county in the 1901 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. He played minor counties cricket for Northamptonshire until 1903, making twenty further appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. He married Jessie Winifred Wilson Paton in 1899. He died at Hexham, Northumberland on 14 August 1942. Several of his relatives were ...
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Jean-François Papillon
Jean-François Papillon (died in the early 1800s) was one of the principal leaders in the Haitian Revolution against slavery and French rule. He led the initial uprising of enslaved workers and later allied with Spain against the French. He was born in Africa but enslaved and taken in captivity to the North Province of Saint-Domingue (the future nation of Haiti). There he worked in the plantation of Papillon in the last decades of the 18th Century. He escaped from that plantation and became a maroon, so when the revolution started in August 1791 he had already enjoyed a direct experience of freedom. Ascent to power Right after the tragic death of Boukman Dutty, the insurgent slaves’ first leader, Jean-François Papillon imposed his authority over the other black generals, especially Georges Biassou, Jeannot Bullet, and Toussaint Bréda (later Toussaint Louverture), and became commander-in-chief of the Haitian former slaves. By late 1791, some weeks after the revolutiona ...
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John Papillon (cricketer)
John Papillon (30 December 1806 – 20 October 1889) was an English cleric, and a cricketer with amateur status. He was associated with Oxford University and made his first-class debut in 1827. Papillon was educated at Winchester College and then at University College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1825, and graduated B.A. in 1828. He became a Church of England priest and was rector of Bonnington, Kent, 1831–41 and of Lexden Lexden is a suburb of Colchester and former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Colchester, in the Colchester district, in the county of Essex, England. It was formerly a village, and has previously been called Lessendon, Lassendene and ..., Essex, from 1841 until his death. References 1806 births 1889 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Oxford University cricketers Alumni of University College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub ...
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John Papillon
John Ashton Papillon (1838–1891) was a British photographer and Royal Engineer who was commissioned to accompany and photographically document the Anglo-French military expedition to northern China during the Second Opium War in 1860. Papillon produced images taken from between Canton and the Taku Forts The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located southeast of the Tianjin urban center. History The f ... but became ill and was evacuated on 29 September 1860 before completing his mission. References * Bennett, Terry. ''History of Photography in China, 1842-1860'' (London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2009). (hbk), (hbk) * Thiriez, Régine. ''Barbarian Lens: Western Photographers of the Qianlong Emperor's European Palaces'' (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998), 6. 19th-century British photographers British people of the Second ...
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Thomas Papillon
Thomas Papillon (6 September 1623 – 5 May 1702) was an English merchant and politician, an influential figure in the City of London for half a century. He served as a Commissioner for the Victualling of the Navy from 1689 to 1699. Early life He was the third son of David Papillon by his second wife, Anne Marie Calandrini, he was born at Roehampton House, Roehampton, on 6 September 1623. He went to school at Drayton, Northamptonshire, was articled in 1637 to Thomas Chambrelan, a London merchant, and in the following year was apprenticed to the Mercers' Company, of which he received the freedom in 1646. Under the Commonwealth Papillon was implicated in the riots of 26 July 1647, when a mob broke into St. Stephen's and forced Parliament to rescind the recent ordinance by which the City of London had been deprived of the control of its militia. When the Independent faction regained the ascendency over the Presbyterians (August), he slipped off to France to avoid arrest, but ret ...
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