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Vigée is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Claude Vigée (born 1921), French poet * Étienne Vigée (1758–1820), French playwright * Louis Vigée (1715–1767), French painter *Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 *"Louise", by Clan of ...

Claude Vigée
Claude Vigée (born Claude Strauss; 3 January 1921 – 2 October 2020) was a French poet who wrote in French and Alsatian. He described himself as a "Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish". Life Vigée was born in Bischwiller, Bas-Rhin, the son of Germaine (Meyer), a homemaker, and Robert Schwartz, who worked in business. He was descended from an old family of Alsatian cloth merchants. He spent his youth in Bischwiller, then attended secondary school in Strasbourg. Displaced from Alsace by the invasion of the Germans in 1940, he began to study medicine in Toulouse before joining the Résistance. In 1942, he published his first poems in the underground magazine " Poésie 42". He fled to the United States in 1943, where he obtained his doctorate in Romance Languages and Literature in 1947. He taught French Language and Literature at Ohio State University, then at Wellesley College and then at Brandeis University. Since 1950, he has regularly published his ...
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Étienne Vigée
Louis-Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Vigée (2 December 1758 – 8 August 1820) was a French playwright and man of letters. Early life Born into an artistic family, he was the son of the pastellist Louis Vigée and the brother of the celebrated painter Élisabeth Vigée. Biography Vigée was popular in the salons for his pleasant personality and quick wit. He was employed as a secretary to Marie Joséphine of Savoy, the Countess of Provence, wife of future king Louis XVIII, and sister in law of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He wrote poetry in praise of the French Revolution, although his enthusiasm quickly faded and he was at one point arrested as a Girondist. He lived long enough to write poetry both in praise of Napoleon and Louis XVIII. He succeeded Sautreau de Marsy as editor of the poetry magazine ''Almanach des Muses'' from 1794 until 1820, and replaced La Harpe at the ''Lycée'', but had nowhere near the same success as a teacher. As a playwright he was a skilled ...
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Louis Vigée
Louis Vigée (2 February 1715 – 9 May 1767) was a French portraitist, fan painter, artist in pastels and a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc. In 1750, he married Jeanne Vigeé. In 1755, Jeanne gave birth to their first child Élisabeth Louise Vigée, whom became a painter, and in 1758, Jeanne gave birth to their second child Étienne Vigée, whom became a playwright and ''man of letters''. External links *http://www.artnet.com/artist/644753/louis-vigee.html 1715 births 1767 deaths 18th-century French painters French male painters Louis Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ... 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub ...
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