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Thévenet
Thévenet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alizee Thévenet (born 1990), French financial analyst, fiancée of James Middleton * Bernard Thévenet (born 1948), French bicycle racer *Cécile Thévenet (1872–?), Belgian opera singer * Saint Claudine Thévenet (1774–1837), French religious woman * Homero Alsina Thévenet (1922–2005), Uruguayan journalist and film critic * Pierre-Louis Thévenet, American production designer, art director and set decorator * Virginie Thévenet Virginie Thévenet (born 12 January 1957, in Paris) is a French actress, director and screenwriter. Films with Virginie Thévenet as actress * 1970 : '' Les Stances de Sophie'', by Moshé Mizrahi * 1972 : ''Faustine et le Bel Été'' * 1972 : ' ... (born 1955), French actress and director {{DEFAULTSORT:Thevenet French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Thévenet
Bernard Thévenet (; born 10 January 1948) is a retired professional cyclist. His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. He is twice a winner of the Tour de France and known for ending the reign of five-times Tour champion Eddy Merckx, though both feats are tarnished by Thévenet's later admission of steroids use during his career. He also won the Dauphiné Libéré in 1975 and 1976. Origins Thévenet was born to a farming family in Saône-et-Loire in Burgundy and lived in a hamlet called Le Guidon (The Handlebar).L'Équipe, France, 12 July 2003 It was there in 1961 that he saw the Tour de France for the first time, on a 123 km stage from Nevers to Lyon. At the time Thévenet was a choirboy in the village church. He said: "The priest brought forward the time for Mass so that we could watch the riders go by. The sun was shining on their toe-clips and the chrome on their forks. They were modern-day knights. I had already been dreaming of becoming a racing cyclist and that mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cécile Thévenet
Cécile Thévenet (born November 22, 1872) was a Belgian opera singer. Early life Cécile Thévenet was born in Bruges, the daughter of Alphonse Thévenet and Anne Van Vyve. Her father was a music teacher and baritone singer. She was raised and educated in Brussels. Her brothers Pierre Thévenet (1870-1937) and (1874-1930) became painters. Career Cécile Thévenet sang with the Opéra-Comique in Paris. "Alike as a singer and an actress Mlle. Thévenet is a very great artist, a wonderfully clever creator of the characters she represents", commented one American publication in 1905. In 1913 she sang the part of Euryclea in the premiere of Gabriel Fauré's ''Pénélope'' in Paris, with Lucienne Bréval in the title role. She was also in the original cast of the Gustave Charpentier opera ''Julien'', in 1913. She was known for her performances of ''Carmen''. Other roles Thévenet sang included Musette in Leoncavallo's '' La bohéme'' (1899), Leoncavallo's ''Zaza'' (1900), Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudine Thévenet
Claudine Thévenet, RJM (30 March 1774 – 3 February 1837), religious name Marie of Saint Ignatius, was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the French Revolution – she saw two of her brothers executed – and went on to cater to the needs of children while using her congregation to provide local girls with a religious education. Thévenet was beatified on 4 October 1981 and was later canonized as a saint on 21 March 1993. Life Claudine Thévenet was born in the Kingdom of France on 30 March 1774 as the second of seven children. During her adolescence, Thévenet studied at the Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains convent. The French Revolution saw the destruction of the old government and the formation of a new one that soon led to a violent massacre in her hometown in which two of her brothers were guillotineed in public on 5 January 1794. Her brothers died forgiving their killers and the pair beseeched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Thévenet
Virginie Thévenet (born 12 January 1957, in Paris) is a French actress, director and screenwriter. Films with Virginie Thévenet as actress * 1970 : '' Les Stances de Sophie'', by Moshé Mizrahi * 1972 : ''Faustine et le Bel Été'' * 1972 : '' Les Zozos'', by Pascal Thomas, Martine * 1976 : '' Small Change'', by François Truffaut * 1976 : '' La Surprise du chef'', by Pascal Thomas, Sabine * 1977 : '' Une sale histoire'', by Jean Eustache * 1977 : ''La Nuit tous les chats sont gris '', by Gérard Zingg, Jeannette * 1978 : ''La Tortue sur le dos '', by Luc Béraud, Nathalie * 1981 : ''Quartet'', by James Ivory, Mademoiselle Chardin * 1981 : ''L'Année prochaine... si tout va bien '', bye Jean-Loup Hubert, The girl who loves comics * 1982 : ''Le Beau Mariage'', by Éric Rohmer, La mariée * 1983 : '' Debout les crabes, la mer monte !'', by Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan, Agnès * 1984 : ''Il ne faut jurer de rien '', by Christian Vincent (director) (short film) * 1984 : ''Les Nuits d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Louis Thévenet
Pierre-Louis Thévenet was a French production designer, art director and set decorator. Awards He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Patton'' (1970). He won a Goya Award for Best Art Direction for the film ''Goya in Bordeaux'' (1999). Selected filmography * ''Patton George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in Franc ...'' (1970) References External links * * French production designers French set decorators Best Art Direction Academy Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Living people French art directors {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Middleton (British Businessman)
James William Middleton (born 15 April 1987) is an English entrepreneur. He is the younger brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales. Born in Reading, Berkshire, Middleton was educated at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne. He briefly attended the University of Edinburgh before dropping out and founding a cake-making business. Middleton began receiving media attention during his eldest sister's relationship and subsequent marriage to Prince William. In 2013, he started a personalised greeting card company, Boomf. Middleton is a mental health advocate and has spoken about his experiences with major depressive disorder. Middleton and his dog, Ella, are ambassadors for the Pets As Therapy charity. Early life and education James William Middleton was born on 15 April 1987 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, the youngest child and only son of Michael Middleton (born 1949), a former British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Middleton (born 1955), a former flight attendant. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints. Catholic Church Canonization is a papal declaration that the Catholic faithful may venerate a particular deceased member of the church. Popes began making such decrees in the tenth century. Up to that point, the local bishops governed the veneration of holy men and women within their own dioceses; and there may have been, for any particular saint, no formal decree at all. In subsequent centuries, the procedures became increasingly regularized and the Popes began restricting to themselves the right to declare someone a Catholic saint. In contemporary usage, the term is understood to refer to the act by which any Christian church declares that a person who has died is a sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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