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Poulet is a French surname, meaning chicken. Notable people with the name include: * Anne Poulet (born 1942), American art historian * Gaston Poulet (1892–1974), French violinist and conductor * Georges Poulet (1902–1991), Belgian literary critic * J. Poulet (fl. 1811–1818), English cricketer * Olivia Poulet (born 1978), English actress and screenwriter * Paul Poulet (1887–1946), Belgian mathematician * Quentin Poulet (fl. 1477–1506), Burgundian Catholic priest, scribe, illuminator, and librarian * Robert Poulet (1893–1989), Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist * William Poulet (publisher), pseudonym used by Jean-Paul Wayenborgh to write his History of Spectacles "Die Brille" * Auguste Poulet-Malassis (1825–1878), French printer and publisher See also * Poulett Poulett is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Anne Poulett (1711–1785), fourth son of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, was a British Member of Parliament * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and a younger male may be called a cockerel. A male that has been castrated is a capon. An adult female bird is called a hen and a sexually immature female is called a pullet. Humans now keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and as pets. Traditionally they were also bred for cockfighting, which is still practiced in some places. Chickens are one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion , up from more than 19 billion in 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird. There are numerous cultural references to chickens – in myth, folklore and religion, and in language and literature. Genetic studies have pointed to mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Poulet
Anne Poulet (born March 20, 1942) is a retired American art historian. Poulet is an expert in the area of French art, particularly sculpture. In her career, she organized two major monographic exhibitions on the French sculptors Clodion and Jean-Antoine Houdon, respectively. Early life On March 20, 1942 Poulet was born in Washington, DC, U.S. Education In 1964, Poulet earned a B.A. degree from Sweet Briar College, a private all women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Poulet graduated cum laude. In 1970, Poulet completed her graduate studies at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. In 1993, Poulet earned a certificate of graduation from Museum Management Institute in Berkeley, California. Career Poulet served for twenty years as a Curator Emerita in the department of decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Boston, Massachusetts. While Poulet was the curator, she was responsible for adding many acquisitions to the museum, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Poulet
Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor. He played an important part in the diffusion of the contemporary music of the first half of the 20th century. His son Gérard Poulet, born in 1938, is also a violinist. Life and career Born in Paris, Poulet entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1904, studying under Lefort and Jean Huré, and winning a first prize in 1910 in violin. Alain Pâris. ''Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interpretation musicale au XX siècle.'' Éditions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995 (). Noticed by Pierre Monteux, Poulet soon became recognized as one of the leading violinists of his generation and was taken on as leader of the orchester for performances by the Ballets Russes. He thus took part in many premieres by the company of Serge Diaghilev. In 1914 he founded an eponymous string quartet with Henri Giraud (violin), Albert Leguillard (viola)et Louis Ruyssen (cello). He was called up for service during the First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Poulet
Georges Poulet (; 29 November 1902 – 31 December 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Best known for his four-volume work ''Studies in Human Time'', Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the reader to open his or her mind to the consciousness of the author. His work has had a lasting influence on critics such as J. Hillis Miller. Biographical information Georges Poulet was born in Chênée, now part of Liège, Belgium in 1902. Poulet received his doctorate from the University of Liège in 1927, after which he taught at the University of Edinburgh. In 1952, Poulet became a professor of French Literature at Johns Hopkins University where he also acted as chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He later taught at the University of Zurich and the University of Nice. Poulet died in Brussels, Belgium in 1991. His estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Poulet
Olivia Poulet (born 9 July 1978) is an English actress and screenwriter. Early life Poulet was born in south-west London and attended Putney High School. She studied drama at Manchester University. Career After her graduation in 2001, Poulet landed her first role in the television series ''The Bill''. In 2005, she portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Queen Consort in the television film ''Whatever Love Means''. She appeared in the feature film '' In the Loop'' in 2009. The same year she portrayed Carol Thatcher in the television film '' Margaret''. She has also had roles in ''Day of the Flowers'', '' Sherlock'', ''Dappers'', ''The Thick of It'', ''Reggie Perrin'' and '' Outnumbered''. Poulet has also appeared on stage productions including ''The Queef of Terence'' and ''The Bird Flu Diaries''. She has also voiced roles in video game ''Dragon Age II'' by BioWare. Poulet is an ambassador of The Park Theatre The Park Theatre opened in Finsbury Park, north LondonCecilia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Poulet
Paul Poulet (1887–1946) was a self-taught Belgian mathematician who made several important contributions to number theory, including the discovery of sociable numbers in 1918. He is also remembered for calculating the pseudoprimes to base two, first up to 50 million in 1926, then up to 100 million in 1938. These are now often called Poulet numbers in his honour (they are also known as Fermatians or Sarrus numbers). In 1925, he published forty-three new multiperfect numbers, including the first two known octo-perfect numbers. His achievements are particularly remarkable given that he worked without the aid of modern computers and calculators. Career Poulet published at least two books about his mathematical work, ''Parfaits, amiables et extensions'' (1918) (''Perfect and Amicable Numbers and Their Extensions'') and ''La chasse aux nombres'' (1929) (''The Hunt for Numbers''). He wrote the latter in the French village of Lambres-lez-Aire in the Pas-de-Calais, a short distance acr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Poulet
Quentin Poulet (fl. 1477–1506) was a Burgundian Catholic priest, known as a scribe, illuminator, and librarian, from Lille.Michael Van Cleave Alexander, ''The First of the Tudors: a study of Henry VII and his reign'' (1981), p. 160Google Books Between 1492 and at least 1506, when he disappears from the historical record, he was the first recorded librarian of the Old Royal Library of England, and probably "an arbiter of continental taste for the English royal court". Life He enrolled as an apprentice in the Confraternity of St John the Evangelist in 1477, in Bruges. It was in Bruges that he learned his craft as book artist.Arn, p. 162Google Books The confraternity was mainly for artists, leading several scholars to think Poulet trained as an illuminator, but other book trades were also represented, and no miniatures have ever been attributed to him.Kren & McKendrick, p. 520 He was appointed librarian by Henry VII of England in 1492, with other duties including French Secretary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Poulet
Robert Poulet (4 September 1893 – 6 October 1989) was a Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist. Politically he was a Maurras-inspired integral nationalist who became associated with a collaborationist newspaper during the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany. Literature Educated at the Faculté des Mines in his hometown, Poulet served in the First World War and before taking odd jobs in Belgium and France. He began writing for a number of literary reviews in the 1920s and published his first novel, the surrealist ''Handji'', in 1931. He became a part of the 'Groupe du Lundi' that built up around Franz Hellens which attacked the regional novels prevalent in France at the time and instead endorsed magic realism. As a literary critic he became noted for his rejection of female authors, dismissing them as ''midinettes en diable''. Politics Poulet was involved in politics during the early 1930s when he was a member of the corporatist study group ''Réaction''.David Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Poulet (publisher)
William Poulet was the pseudonym used by Jean-Paul Wayenborgh to write his History of Spectacles "''Die Brille''". This history was the first systematic presentation and description of more than 2000 historical spectacles from the Zeiss Collection in Oberkochen, Germany, the Hallauer Collection (Museum for the History of Medicine in Bern, Switzerland) and the Pierre Marly Collection (now Essilor Collection). Poulet wrote further under his real name: ''IBBO-International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Vision Scientists'', Wayenborgh Publishing, Ostend 2001-2002. He wrote a historical paper in the medical journal "''Strabismus''": J.-P. Wayenborgh ''Florent Cunier (1812-1852). A tragic Figure in Ophthalmic History'', Strabismus, 9,177-178, Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse 2001. Wayenborgh is publisher of Julius Hirschberg Julius Hirschberg (18 September 1843 – 17 February 1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian. He was of Jewish ancestry. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Poulet-Malassis
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (16 March 1825 – 11 February 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire. Biography In his short six years of printing and publishing, Poulet-Malassis released very few books, and with little gain financially. He seemed to have been more concerned with their aesthetics and their appeal to his close friends than, much to the despair of his partner and brother-in-law , the profits and financial state of his business. The books were always beautifully bound and printed on fine paper with illustrations. Poulet-Malassis famously printed and published the works of Baudelaire, but also printed works that would have been safer, by more acclaimed novelists, poets and critics. These included Théodore Faullain de Banville, Théophile Gautier, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Champfleury. It sometimes seems as if he had printed his friends' work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poulett
Poulett is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Anne Poulett (1711–1785), fourth son of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, was a British Member of Parliament * George Poulett, 8th Earl Poulett (1909–1973), English peer, landowner, and a member of the House of Lord * John Poulett (other), multiple people, including: ** John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett, (1585–1649), English sailor and politician who sat in the House of Commons **John Poulett, 2nd Baron Poulett, (1615–1665), English peer and Member of Parliament **John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett (c. 1641 – 1679), English peer **John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (1663–1743), English peer, the son of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett **John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (1708–1764), English peer, known as Viscount Hinton from birth until 1743 **John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett (1756–1819), English peer and militia officer **John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (1783–1864), English peer and militi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
