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Voisin (French for "neighbour") may refer to: Companies *Avions Voisin, the French automobile company :*Voisin Laboratoire, a car manufactured by Avions Voisin *Voisin (aircraft), the French aircraft manufacturer * Voisin, a Lyon-based chocolatier, owned by the Boucaud family, which manufactures Coussin de Lyon Buildings * Château de Voisins (Louveciennes), French palace People *André Voisin (1903-1964), French biochemist, farmer and author *André Voisin, French chess player *Adrien Voisin (1890–1979), American sculptor *Benjamin Voisin, (born 1996), French actor *Catherine Monvoisin, known as "La Voisin" (1640–1680), French sorceress during the reign of Louis XIV *Charles-Henri-Joseph Voisin (1887–1942), Belgian lawyer and colonial administrator. *Claire Voisin mathematician, algebraic geometer, and authority on the Hodge conjecture. *Daisy Voisin (1924–1991), born Alexandra Voisin, Parang singer and composer from Trinidad and Tobago *Félix Voisin (1794–1872) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avions Voisin
Avions Voisin was a French luxury automobile brand established by Gabriel Voisin in 1919 which traded until 1939. History Gabriel B. Voisin was an aviation pioneer and manufacturer who in 1919 started producing cars using Knight-type sleeve valve engines at Issy-les-Moulineaux, an industrial suburb to the southwest of Paris. Former student of the Fine Arts School of Lyon and enthusiast for all things mechanical since his childhood, Voisin's uncompromisingly individual designs made extensive use of light alloys, especially aluminum. One of the company's most striking early designs was the ''Voisin Laboratoire'' Grand Prix car of 1923; one of the first cars ever to use monocoque chassis construction, and utilising small radiator-mounted propeller to drive the cooling pump. The characteristic Voisin style of 'rational' coachwork he developed in conjunction with his collaborator André Noel. Noel prioritized lightness, central weight distribution, capacious luggage boxes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of Algebraic Geometry at the Collège de France. Work She is noted for her work in algebraic geometry particularly as it pertains to variations of Hodge structures and mirror symmetry, and has written several books on Hodge theory. In 2002, Voisin proved that the generalization of the Hodge conjecture for compact Kähler varieties is false. The Hodge conjecture is one of the seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems which were selected in 2000, each having a prize of one million US dollars. Voisin won the European Mathematical Society Prize in 1992 and the Servant Prize awarded by the Academy of Sciences in 1996. She received the Sophie Germain Prize in 2003 and the Clay Research Award in 2008 for her disproof of the Kodaira conjecture on deformations of compact Kähler manifolds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Voisin
René Louis Gabriel Voisin (19 November 1893 - 16 January 1952) was a French trumpeter. Born in Angers, Voisin was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpet section for 24 years, between 1928 and his death in 1952; he was also father and teacher to Roger Voisin, the trumpet player and pedagogue who would later become principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony. Voisin was a student of Pierre Vignal (1879–1943) at the Conservatoire de Paris. Whilst in Paris, Voisin worked as a freelance musician, and played in the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's ''The Rite of Spring''; here he also became friends with conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and played with the ''Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire'' between 1920 and 1928. Koussévitzky later succeeded Pierre Monteux Pierre Benjamin Monteux (; 4 April 18751 July 1964) was a French (later American) conductor. After violin and viola studies, and a decade as an orchestral player and occasional conductor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Voisin
Pierre Voisin (1910–1987) was a senior French reporter. As a reporter for ''Paris-Midi'' from 1933, he took part to the Second World War, first in the 2nd Armored Division, then in Senegal, Morocco and Corsica. He participated to Operation Dragoon in August 1944, then left as a volunteer in French Indochina in October 1945. In 1947 he returned to civilian life and made reports for ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Figaro'' (Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ..., French West Africa). In 1951, he specialized in aviation (private plane pilot and helicopter) until his retirement in 1973. His reports have taken him throughout the world: Israel, Algeria, the United States, Argentina, Malaysia, Venezuela, Caribbeans, etc. In 1941, he published ''Ceux des chars'' and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni, Comtesse de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. She is credited with (though not confirmed as) being the first ballerina to truly dance ''en pointe''. Early life Taglioni was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to the Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni and the Swedish ballet dancer Sophie Karsten, maternal granddaughter of the Swedish opera singer Christoffer Christian Karsten and of the Polish opera singer and actress Sophie Stebnowska. Her brother, Paul (1808–1884), was also a dancer and an influential choreographer; they performed together ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M&M Meat Shops
M&M Food Market (french: link=no, Les aliments M&M), formerly known as M&M Meat Shops, is a Canadian frozen food retail chain. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga, Ontario, and has locations in all ten Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories; the company formerly had operations in the Midwestern United States under the MyMenu brand that operated between 2008 and 2013. Origin M&M was founded by Michael "Mac" Voisin and Mark Nowak in Kitchener, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario, in 1980. Voisin's and Nowak's original business model was to provide good quality meat at lower prices. The partners discovered that flash freezing, flash-frozen meats retained their freshness with Canadian-grown (Health Canada safe) meats with no steroids, added preservatives and no torture farms. But because they could be stored over a longer term, could be sold at a price comparable to supermarket meats. M&M locations are generally sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Voisin
Gabriel Voisin (5 February 1880 – 25 December 1973) was a French aviation pioneer and the creator of Europe's first manned, engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft capable of a sustained (1 km), circular, controlled flight, which was made by Henry Farman on 13 January 1908 near Paris, France. During World War I the company founded by Voisin became a major producer of military aircraft, notably the Voisin III. Subsequently, he switched to the design and production of luxury automobiles under the name Avions Voisin. Early life Gabriel Voisin was born on 5 February 1880 in Belleville-sur-Saône, France, and his brother Charles Voisin, two years younger than him, was his main childhood companion. When his father abandoned the family his mother, Amélie, took her sons to Neuville-sur-Saône, where they settled near her father's factory. Their grandfather, Charles Forestier, took charge of the boys' education with military rigor. The boys also went for expeditions along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Voisin
Félix Voisin (19 November 1794 – 23 November 1872) was a French psychiatrist born in Le Mans. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1819 he earned his doctorate. He was a disciple of Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840), and a colleague of Jean-Pierre Falret (1794–1870), with whom he founded a private mental institution at Vanves in 1822. Later he provided services for mentally disabled people at a hospice on the rue de Sèvres, relocating to the Bicêtre Hospital in 1840, where he worked with the mentally impaired until his retirement in 1865. One of Voison's better known assistants was educator Édouard Séguin (1812–1880). Voisin was a leading advocate of the phrenological theories of Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) and Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), and along with Louis Delasiauve (1804–1893) and Jacques-Étienne Belhomme (1800–1880), he is considered to be one of the more prominent members in the French school of phrenology. Voison was particularly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Voisin
Daisy Voisin (23 September 1924 – 7 August 1991) was a Parang singer and composer. Life and career Voisin was born and grew up in Carapal Erin, Trinidad and Tobago. She began her singing career in the Village Council and other local groups. A deeply religious person, she received the message to spread the gospel of Parang in a church in Siparia in 1973. Not long after she was launched into the spotlight at a "Best Village" competition in 1971. She did her best to live up to that calling. Hailed as the undisputed "Queen of Parang" for her vocal prowess and the many triumphs and popularity of the band she led, the ''La Divina Pastora Serenaders'', Daisy Voisin left an indelible mark on the local Parang scene in Trinidad and Tobago. Armed with her sweet, powerful voice and a bouquet of flowers in hand, she ruled Parang music in for countless years. Her signature songs "Hurray Hurrah" and "Alegría, Alegría" becoming Christmas classics, sung with her characteristic musical trill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hodge Conjecture
In mathematics, the Hodge conjecture is a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry and complex geometry that relates the algebraic topology of a non-singular complex algebraic variety to its subvarieties. In simple terms, the Hodge conjecture asserts that the basic topological information like the number of holes in certain geometric spaces, complex algebraic varieties, can be understood by studying the possible nice shapes sitting inside those spaces, which look like zero sets of polynomial equations. The latter objects can be studied using algebra and the calculus of analytic functions, and this allows one to indirectly understand the broad shape and structure of often higher-dimensional spaces which can not be otherwise easily visualized. More specifically, the conjecture states that certain de Rham cohomology classes are algebraic; that is, they are sums of Poincaré duals of the homology classes of subvarieties. It was formulated by the Scottish mathematician William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Henri-Joseph Voisin
Charles-Henri-Joseph Voisin (29 October 1887 – 20 November 1942) was a Belgian lawyer and colonial administrator. He served as attorney general of the Belgian Congo, then as governor of the mandated territories of Ruanda-Urundi. He deposed the traditional king of Ruanda and replaced him by the king's son. Early years (1887–1909) Charles-Henri-Joseph Voisin was born on 29 October 1887 in Flobecq, Hainaut, Belgium. His parents were Charles Voisin and Valérie-Palmyre-Joseph Venquier. Voisin studied law at the Catholic University of Louvain. Attorney in Belgian Congo (1910–1930) On graduating from university, Voisin entered the service of the Belgian Congo. He was appointed a provisional magistrate by ministerial decree on 31 January 1910, and on 3 March 1910 embarked in Antwerp for Boma in the lower Congo. On 26 March 1910 the attorney general at the court of appeal in Boma appointed Voisin substitute deputy of the public prosecutor at the court of first instance in Nia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voisin Laboratoire
The Voisin Laboratoire was a racing car designed by Gabriel Voisin, who made airplanes before the First World War. Voisin Laboratoire is highlighted in various magazines and news outlets including French magazines '' Causeur'' and '' Challenges''. In 1995, ''The Washington Post'' highlighted Voisin Laboratoire as "...the Voisin Laboratoire of 1923 has the excited but dated feel of a Futurist manifesto". See also * Voisin Type C6 * Voisin (aircraft) * Avions Voisin Avions Voisin was a French luxury automobile brand established by Gabriel Voisin in 1919 which traded until 1939. History Gabriel B. Voisin was an aviation pioneer and manufacturer who in 1919 started producing cars using Knight-type sl ... References Car brands French brands Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France Cars powered by Knight engines Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers Motor vehicle manufacturers of France Car manufacturers of France {{Automobile-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
