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Rigaud Konstanty Sobieski
Rigaud may refer to: People *Cyrille Rigaud (1750–1824), French poet from Occitania *Auguste Rigaud (1760–1835), French poet *André Rigaud (1761–1811), Haitian revolutionary * Clément Rigaud (b.1984), French football player * Émile Rigaud (1824-1890), French lawyer and politician *François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1703-1779), Governor of Montreal, New France (now Canada) *Gaspard Rigaud (1661-1705), French painter *George Rigaud (1905-1984), Argentine film actor *Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), French baroque portrait painter *Jean Rigaud (1912–1999), French painter *John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810), French/Italian painter *Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil (1740-1817), French nobleman *Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1691-1763), French naval officer *Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil (c.1643–1725), Governor-general of New France (now Canada) *Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial (1698–1778), Canadian-born French Governo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrille Rigaud
Jean-Cyrille Rigaud (28 January 1750 – 29 January 1824) was a French poet, playwright and doctor from Occitania. Rigaud was born in Montpellier. Raised by his father, who was a librarian, he studied in Geneva. In his youth, he won a prize awarded by the Académie des Jeux floraux. Publications * ''Éloge de Roucher'', Montpellier, 1807, in-8°. * ''Épître à MM. les étudiants en médecine de la Faculté de Montpellier'', Montpellier, de l'impr. de J. Martel le jeune, 1823, in-8° * ''Pouesias patouesas'', Mounpeïé, Renaud, 1806, in-18. * ''Poésies diverses'', with Auguste Rigaud, Montpellier, de l'impr. de C.-J. Tournel, 1821, in-12 de 138 (contains fables, several speeches, including the Éloge de Roucher, read at the Académie de Montpellier in 1813, and inserted in the collection of that Société.) * ''Pouésias patouèsas de Cyrilla Rigaud émbé edouquas péças d'Augusta Rigaud et dé différens doutvrs'', Mounpéïé, Renaud, 1821, in-12. Translatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Philippe De Rigaud De Vaudreuil
Louis-Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis of Vaudreuil (Quebec City, 26 September 1691 – Rochefort, 27 November 1763) was a French naval officer. Bibliography Vaudreuil served in Canada where his father, Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, was governor from 1703 to 1725, and came back to France only after the death of his father in (1725). Promoted to Captain in 1738, was given command of ''Intrépide'', which he captained at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre on 25 October 1747, North of Cape Finisterre. Louis XV had a tablet made representing the ''Intrépide'' battling the English fleet, and donated it to Vaudreuil. A copy is on display at Versailles Museum. Vaudreuil was promoted chef d'escadre and to lieutenant général des armées navales in 1753. He died in 1763. Marriage and children He married on 22 December 1723 with Élisabeth-Catherine Le Moyne, daughter of Joseph Le Moyne de Sérigny. They had * Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1724-1802), second in comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigaud River
The Rigaud River is a river in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. It rises south of Vankleek Hill, Ontario and flows east, entering the province of Quebec. It joins with the East Rigaud River which rises to the south of it and flows north to empty into the Ottawa River at Rigaud, Quebec. The river was named after Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, the last governor of New France. See also *List of rivers of Ontario Rivers of Ontario Rivers of Montérégie Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality Geography of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell {{Quebec-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigaud, Quebec
Rigaud () is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent region. It is located at the junction of the Ottawa River and the Rigaud River, about west of downtown Montreal and east of Ottawa. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 7,854. History Rigaud is located on the traditional territory of the Algonquin people, Algonquins, who fled the region before the arrival of the French, due to violent attacks by the Iroquois people, Iroquois. Étienne Brûlé was the first European colonization of the Americas, European to travel on the Ottawa River,in 1615 in Quebec, 1615. The :fr:Seigneurie de Rigaud, Seigneury of Rigaud was granted in 1732 to the brothers Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Pierre and François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil, François-Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, governors in New France, and was sold in 1763 to Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinià ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigaud, Alpes-Maritimes
Rigaud (; it, Rigaudo) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Geography The commune is traversed by the Cians, the Cianavelle and the Raton Rivers. Population See also *Communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department The following is a list of the 163 communes of the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Alpes-Maritimes Alpes-Maritimes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigaud Of Assier
Rigaud of Assier was a medieval Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. The Bishop of Winchester has always held ''ex officio'' (except dur .... Rigaud was nominated on 26 November 1319 and consecrated on 16 November 1320. He died on 12 April 1323.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 277 Citations References * Bishops of Winchester 1323 deaths Year of birth unknown 14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Rigaud
Stephen Jordan Rigaud (1816–1859), eldest son of Stephen Peter Rigaud, was an English clergyman and schoolmaster. In September 1846, Rigaud went to Westminster School as Henry Liddell's senior assistant master and now has a house at the school named after him. In 1850 he was elected headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ipswich (now Ipswich School). Rigaud used his wide connections to recruit promising pupils whose fathers he knew. Despite his many lasting achievements, Rigaud was unhappy at the school, which he subsidized from his own pocket. Resentment at the cost of the new school persisted in the town, where there was also a feeling that he preferred boarders to day boys drawn from the local area, and matters came to a head when radicals in Ipswich brought an unsuccessful prosecution against him in April 1856 for punishing a day boy with undue severity. In 1858 Rigaud was chosen Bishop of Antigua; he was consecrated on 2 February and went out to his diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Peter Rigaud
Stephen Peter Rigaud (12 August 1774–16 March 1839) FRAS was an English mathematical historian and astronomer. Rigaud was born into a French Protestant family. His father, Stephen (also known as James Stephen) Rigaud, was Observer at the Kew Observatory. The painter John Francis Rigaud, who painted a portrait of Rigaud, aged four, and his sister Mary Anne was not his uncle but other possible connections are unknown. He was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1794 to 1810, held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1810 to 1827, and was Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1827 to 1839. He lived at 21 Richmond Green in Richmond, Surrey (now Richmond, London) from 1815 to 1826. "He devoted his leisure to research and authorship in the field of scientific biography. A well-informed friend has said of him, — " He had a peculiar delight in tracing the history of an invention, or illustrating the biography of those who, however eminent in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud
Stephen Francis Dutilh Rigaud (London 26 December 1777 – 1861) was an English painter. Life He was the only son of John Francis Rigaud, born at 44 Great Titchfield Street, London. He was not closely related to Stephen Peter Rigaud, but was godson of his father Stephen. Rigaud was brought up by his father as an artist, and in 1792 was admitted a student of the Royal Academy. In 1794 he gained the silver palette from the Society of Arts for a classical group and in 1799 the gold palette for a historical painting. In 1801 he gained the gold medal of the Royal Academy for a historical painting of ''Clytemnestra''. In 1798, while on a visit to the Rev. Robert Nixon at Foot's Cray in Kent, he accompanied Nixon and J. M. W. Turner on a sketching tour. He was the assistant of his father in many of his decorative paintings at Packington, Windsor Castle, and elsewhere. In 1805 he was one of the first six members added to the foundation members of the Old Society of Painters in Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre De Rigaud, Marquis De Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America. He was governor of French Louisiana (1743–1753) and in 1755 became the last Governor-General of New France. In 1759 and 1760 the British conquered the colony in the Seven Years' War (known in the United States as the French and Indian War). Life and work He was born to the Governor-General of New France, Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil and his wife, Louise-Élisabeth, the daughter of Pierre de Joybert de Soulanges et de Marson, in Quebec. He was the uncle of Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil. Vaudreuil rose quickly through the New France military and civil service, in part owing to his father's patronage but also due to his own innate ability. Commissioned an officer of the French army while still a youth, in 1733 he was appointed governor of Trois-Rivières, and in 1742 of French Louisiana, serving there fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe De Rigaud Vaudreuil
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France (now Canada and U.S. states of the Mississippi Valley) from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen Anne's War and Father Rale's War. Life and career He was born at the Castle of Vaudreuil near Castelnaudary in France. He was the second son of Jean-Louis de Rigaud (d. 1659), Baron de Vaudreuil, Seigneur d' Auriac and de Cabanial, by his wife Marie de Château-Verdun. She was the daughter of François, Seigneur de la Razairie. As Chevalier de Vaudreuil, he was sent to command French forces in New France before being appointed Governor of Montreal in 1699, and then Governor General of New France in 1703. He died at Quebec City. He married Louise Élisabeth de Joybert, a daughter of Pierre de Joybert de Soulanges et de Marson, by his wife Marie-Françoise, daughter of Louis-Théandre Chartier de Lotbinière. They lived at Château Vaudreui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hyacinthe François De Paule De Rigaud, Comte De Vaudreuil
Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil (born March 2, 1740–1817) was a Saint Dominican nobleman at the court of King Louis XVI of France. He was the alleged lover of Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, the favourite of Marie Antoinette and over whom he exerted a powerful influence. He was a connoisseur and collector of art, and a patron of artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun who painted two known portraits of him in 1784. Versailles The Comte de Vaudreuil was born in Saint-Domingue, West Indies, the son of Joseph de Rigaud (1706–1764), Marquis de Vaudreuil, the French governor of the island, and his aristocratic white Creole wife, Françoise Guiot de la Mirande. His paternal grandfather, Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, was Governor General of New France. At the age of nineteen, he entered the army and during the Seven Years' War served as staff officer under Charles, Prince of Soubise. When the war ended, he moved to Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
