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Vaillant (surname)
Vaillant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ;Artists of the Dutch Golden Age * Andries Vaillant (1655–1693), engraver and painter * Bernard Vaillant (1632–1698), painter * Jacques Vaillant (1643–1691), painter * Jan Vaillant (1627–1668), painter *Wallerant Vaillant (1623–1667), painter ;Politics *Auguste Vaillant (1861–1894), French anarchist * Cornelis Vaillant (1781–1849), Dutch judge and governor of Suriname *Daniel Vaillant (born 1949), French socialist politician *Édouard Vaillant (1840–1915), prominent French socialist ;Science and medicine *François Le Vaillant (1753–1824), French explorer and ornithologist * George Clapp Vaillant (1901–1945), American anthropologist *George Eman Vaillant (born 1934), American psychiatrist *Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), French zoologist * Louis Vaillant (1876–1963), French doctor, naturalist, explorer and soldier *Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722), French botanist ;Other *André Vaillant (1890–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andries Vaillant
Andries Vaillant (1655 in Amsterdam – 1693 in Berlin), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and artist. According to Houbraken he learned to draw from his oldest brother Wallerant Vaillant and then travelled to Paris to learn engraving.Andries Vaillant Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature From there he travelled to Berlin to visit his brother Jacques, where he died young. According to the RKD he was the younger half-brother of the painter Wallerant Vaillant.Andries Vaillant in the RKD He travelled between A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Vaillant
André Vaillant (November 3, 1890 – April 23, 1977), was a French linguist, philologist and grammarian who also specialized in Slavic languages. He was born in Soissons. After studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he became professor at the Collège de France, acting as a Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1952. In Russia, he studied manuscripts written in Old Church Slavonic. He worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies of Paris. He collaborated in the drafting of the Journal of Slavic Studies which served as the basis for the development of his comparative grammar of Slavic languages . He wrote twenty books including the six-volume Comparative Grammar of Slavic languages (''Grammaire comparée des langues slaves''), the two-volume Handbook of Old Church Slavonic (''Manuel de vieux-slave'') and a grammar of Serbo-Croatian together with Antoine Meillet. He translated and published many liturgical texts written in Church Slavonic. He died in Paris Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Henri Vaillant
Pierre Henri Vaillant (30 January 1878, in Paris – 8 May 1939, in Chartres) was a French painter and engraver. He specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Biography His father, Charles Émile Vaillant, was the Departmental Architect for Eure-et-Loir, and he spent most of his childhood in Chartres. He initially studied art at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where his primary instructors were Jean-Léon Gérôme and Marcel Baschet. After leaving school, he began painting in Brittany, where he became friends with Charles Cottet, who had a significant influence on his style. His favorite place to paint was in Camaret-sur-Mer, and the Pardon Ceremony was one of his favorite subjects. In 1905, he had his first solo exhibition at the Salon des artistes français, and was a frequent exhibitor there until 1914, when he was conscripted into the Army. Throughout his service, he continued to sketch and was part of several campaigns at the Western Front. During one of these, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Le Vaillant
Nigel Le Vaillant (born 11 June 1958) is a British former actor, who worked in television in the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Early life Le Vaillant's English father moved to Pakistan after service during the Second World War, and worked in the tea plantation industry there, eventually becoming Chief Executive for Brooke Bond in South Asia. Le Vaillant was born in the country and raised in Karachi. The family returned to England, settling in Sussex when he was 16, although he regularly returned to Asia, especially India, in the following years. He was educated at Bryanston school in England and at St Peter's College, Oxford, although he later stated that, despite his outward appearance, he "never felt like a Westerner". Acting career Le Vaillant began acting soon after the family returned to England, although he initially struggled to find work in the industry and spent nine years unemployed. After short appearances, such as P.C. Miller in The Gentle Touch in 1980, he spent th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Vaillant
Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier (12 May 1855 – 5 May 1930) was a French soprano who made her debut in Brussels at La Monnaie in 1880 in the title role of Gounod's ''Mireille''. After appearing in Marseille the following year, she sang in operettas in Paris in the early 1880s. On 19 October 1882, she created the role of Micaëla in Lecocq's '' Le cœur et la main'' at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. In 1888, she gained success in the title role of Bizet's ''Carmen'' at the Opéra-Comique. She also appeared in Buenos Aires and Saint Petersburg. Early life, family and education Born in Paris on 12 May 1855, Marguerite Vaillant was the daughter of the civil engineer Paul Louis Vaillant (1818–74) and his wife Caroline Adèle Emma née Isot (1829–97). One of the family's four children, she attended the Conservatoire de Paris where in 1878 she was awarded first prizes in singing for both opera and comic opera. On 22 February 1879 in Brussels, Marguerite Vaillant marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vaillant
John Vaillant (born June 4, 1962) is an American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in ''The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic'', and '' Outside''. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books. Personal life Vaillant was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. He is the son of Harvard psychologist George Eman Vaillant, and grandson to the famed anthropologist George Clapp Vaillant. Writing career His first book, ''The Golden Spruce'', dealt with the felling of the Golden Spruce or Kiidk'yaas on Haida Gwaii by Grant Hadwin. His 2010 work, ''The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival'' is about a man-eating tiger incident that happened in the 1990s in Russia's Far Eastern Primorsky Krai, where most of the world's Amur tigers live. It is a mixture of investigative journalism, social history, geography and natural writing. It won a number of awards and was selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaillant Group
The Vaillant Group is a company that develops products for heating, cooling and hot water. The company employs ~17,000 people worldwide and generates an annual turnover of approximately 3.7 billion euros. This makes the Vaillant Group one of the largest companies in its sector in Europe. The family-owned company is a global market leader in the wall-hung boiler segment. The Group's activities focus on the development of green products, and energy-saving and environmentally friendly products in particular, with the aim of achieving sustainable and profitable growth. The Vaillant Group's headquarters are located in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company is still one-hundred per cent family owned today. History The history of the Vaillant Group dates back to 1874, when Johann Vaillant set up a master fitter's business. In 1894 Johann Vaillant patented a new "closed-system" gas-fired bathroom boiler. This was the first device that made it possible to heat water hygienicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehan Vaillant
Jehan Vaillant (; also spelled Johannes Vayllant) was a French composer and music theorist. He is named immediately after Guillaume de Machaut by the '' Règles de la seconde rhétorique'', which describes him as a "master … who had a school of music in Paris".Quoted in : ''maistre … lequel tenoit à Paris escolle de musique''. Besides five (possibly six) pieces of music surviving to his name, he was also the author of a treatise on tuning. With Grimace and F. Andrieu and P. des Molins, Vaillant was part of the post-Machaut generation whose music shows few distinctly ''ars subtilior'' features, leading scholars to recognize Vaillant's work as closer to the '' ars nova'' style of Machaut. Life and career Vaillant's works are conserved in the Chantilly Manuscript, which is also the main source for the works of the Papal singers Matheus de Sancto Johanne, Johannes Symonis Hasprois and Johannes Haucourt. This connexion with the Papal group suggests to certain modern scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, 1st Comte Vaillant (6 December 1790 – 4 June 1872), born in Dijon, was a Marshal of France. Vaillant entered the French army in 1809 in the corps of engineers. He served in the French invasion of Russia (1812) and the next year became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Kulm. During the Hundred Days Vaillant fought at Ligny and Waterloo. Vaillant commanded a battalion in the 1830 campaign against Algiers. Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he served under Gérard in the expedition into Belgium in 1831. Vaillant commanded the fortress at Algiers from 1837 to 1838, recalled to France, he was made director of the École polytechnique. Promoted to lieutenant general, Vaillant was put in charge of the building of the Parisian fortifications in 1845 under the command of Dode de la Brunerie. In 1849, Vaillant was given command of the engineers in the French expeditionary corps to Rome. Promoted to Marshal of France in 1851, Vaillant served as Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Alexandre Vaillant
Jean Alexandre Vaillant (1804 – 21 March 1886) was a French and Romanian teacher, political activist, historian, linguist and translator, who was noted for his activities in Wallachia and his support for the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. A Romantic nationalist and Freemason, he was an associate of the liberal faction in both Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as a collaborator of Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Ion Câmpineanu, Mitică Filipescu, and Mihail Kogălniceanu. A tutor and later teacher at the Saint Sava School in Bucharest during the 1830s, he rose suspicions for his involvement in political conspiracies and was ultimately banned from Wallachia. Vaillant advocated the unification of the Danubian Principalities and other Romanian-inhabited areas, an ideal he notably expressed in his 1844 work ''La Roumanie''. Credited with having publicized the Romanian cause in his native country during the 1850s, and with having introduced the modern references to "Romania" in international di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Vaillant
Greta Vaillant (born Josette Vaillant In Rennes, Brittany, France; 1 January 1942 – 7 April 2000) was a French actress and author. She was sometimes credited as Greta Vayan and Gretta Vaillont. Vaillant made her film debut in 1968, as main actress of ''Balsamus, l'uomo di Satana'', the debut film of director Pupi Avati and actor Gianni Cavina. She worked again with Avati in ''House of Pleasure for Women'' and ''Tutti defunti... tranne i morti'', and appeared in a number of Italian genre films, mainly commedie sexy all'italiana. In 1992 she was the main actress in the Barilla ''Barilla'' refers to several species of salt-tolerant (halophyte) plants that, until the 19th century, were the primary source of soda ash and hence of sodium carbonate. The word "barilla" was also used directly to refer to the soda ash obtained ...'s commercial directed by Federico Fellini. In 2000 Vaillant wrote her only novel, ''Le géant des sable''; she died of a heart attack a few weeks after its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Vaillant De Gueslis
François Vaillant de Gueslis (20 July 1646 – 24 September 1718) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Orléans. He entered the Society of Jesus, on 10 November 1665, and went to Canada in 1670; and was ordained priest at Quebec, on 1 December 1675.Melançon, Arthur. "François Vaillant de Gueslis." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 14 January 2018 He attempted to convert the to between 1679 and 1684. In the beginning of 1688 he was chosen by the Canadian authorities as ambassador to [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
