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Malet
Malet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Malet (historian) (1864–1915), French historian and author of scholarly manuals * Albert Malet (painter) (1912–1986), French painter * Alexander Malet (1800–1886), English diplomat and writer * André Malet (abbot) (1862–1936), abbot of the Trappist abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert at Bellegarde-Sainte-Marie * André Malet (philosopher) (died 1989), Catholic priest who became a Unitarian Protestant * Antoni Malet, Catalan historian of mathematics and professor of history of science * Arthur Malet (1927–2013), British actor * Claude François de Malet (1754–1812), general of the First French Empire, organiser of coup d'état against Napoleon * Elizabeth Malet (1651–1681), English heiress, Countess of Rochester * Frederick de Carteret Malet (1837–1912), New Zealand leader in business, church, and educational matters * Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973), English artist * Jean-Roland Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Malet (historian)
Albert Malet (3 May 1864, Clermont-Ferrand – 25 September 1915, Battle of Thélus, Pas de Calais) was a French historian and author of scholarly textbooks, killed during the First World War. Career Malet failed the entrance exam at Saint-Cyr, However, in 1889 he passed thAggregation of History and Geography Teacher Malet began teaching in Paris as "professeur agrégé d'histoire" (Associate Professor of History) at the lycée Voltaire in 1897. Malet was one of the founding members and served as Secretary and on the Board of the Société d’Histoire de la Révolution in 1904. In 1914, Malet became a teacher at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. In French high schools "exceptional importance asgiven to the teaching of history" courses which were required. The courses were "taught by specialized teachers, who numbered 620 in 1914". Malet was one of this number. However, he not only taught history he wrote about history. Writer Malet contributed to the ''Histoire Générale du I’V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo Malet
Léo Malet (7 March 1909 – 3 March 1996) was a French crime novelist and surrealist. Biography Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925. In the 1930s, he was closely aligned with the Surrealists, and was close friends with André Breton, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, amongst others. During this time, he published several volumes of poetry. He died in Châtillon, a little town just south of Paris where he had lived for most of his life, four days before his 87th birthday. Works Though he dabbled in many genres, Malet is most famous for Nestor Burma, the anti-hero of ''Les Nouveaux Mystères de Paris''. Burma, a cynical private detective, is an astute speaker of ''argot'' (French slang), an ex-Anarchist, a serial monogamist and an inveterate pipe smoker. Of the 33 novels detailing his adventures, eighteen each take place in a sole ''Arrondissements of Paris, arrondiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malet (Magna Carta Baron)
William Malet (born before 1175–1215), feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, was one of the guarantors of ''Magna Carta''. In 1190, he accompanied King Richard the Lionheart on third crusade.Nigel Saul, Magna Carta Trust: William Malet, available at http://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/william-malet/ While still on crusade in 1191, he took part in the Siege of Acre. Upon returning to England, he served as Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1209. The precise nature of his relationship to an earlier William Malet is unknown. William Malet was one of the rebel barons who were heavily indebted to King John. It is believed that by 1214 he owed the king as much as £1333. In 1214 he entered into an agreement to serve with the king along with 10 knights and 20 other soldiers in exchange for the cancellation of his debts. However, the agreement broke down for an unknown reason and by 1215 he joined the rebellion. William Malet seems to ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malet (exile)
William Malet (died c. 1121) was the third of his family to hold the honour of Eye and the lordship of in Normandy. He was either the younger brother, son, or nephew of Robert Malet – in other words, either a son or grandson of the first William Malet. Before 1066, the older William Malet was the Lord of Graville, in Normandy and is known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings, helping to secure the crown of England for William, Duke of Normandy. The Malets were reputedly related by blood or marriage to both William the Conqueror and King Harold of England. William Malet the younger forfeited his English lands and was banished from England, some time between the older Malet's death, circa 1106, and 1113. (Several other barons lost their lands in 1110, so that year is a likely date.) The precise cause is not known, but may be connected to conflict between King Henry I of England and King Louis VI of France Louis VI (late 1081 – 1 August 1137), called the Fat (french: lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malet (companion Of William The Conqueror)
William Malet (french: Guillaume Malet de Graville, died 1071) held senior positions within the Norman forces that occupied England from 1066. He was appointed the second High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1068. Of the so-called companions of William of Normandy, Malet is one of about a dozen for whom there is evidence of their presence at the Battle of Hastings of 14 October 1066. For example, the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers recorded that Malet was present at the battle. According to apocryphal accounts, Malet was related to both William of Normandy and King Harold of England. Some accounts claim that Malet took charge of Harold's body following the Norman victory at Hastings. However, there is no evidence confirming such claims. Malet held substantial property in Normandy – chiefly in the Pays de Caux, with a castle at (now a suburb of Le Havre). After 1066, he held many properties in England as well, most of them in Yorkshire and East Anglia. Biography E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Malet
Sir Thomas Malet (1582–1665) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1628. He was Solicitor general to Queen Henrietta Maria. Life Malet was of Poyntington, Somerset and also inherited lands in Somerset known as St Audries. Somerset.gov.uk, accessed July 2009 He was trained in the law at the and called to the bar in 1606. In 1614 he was elected for |
Thierry Malet
Thierry Malet, is a French composer of film music. He is also the designer of the very first MIDI controller, MIDI guitars and a new 3D spatialization system for feature film music. Life and career Thierry Malet started to study the piano at the age of 7 at the Conservatoire de Paris, Conservatoire of Paris with the pianist and concertist Marie-Claire Laroche, where he took courses in harmony and composition. But it was to be a further ten years before he discovered his true passion at Claude Bolling's school, writing film scores. In order to gain a fuller understanding of musical acoustics, he went to study acoustics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1986, he developed the very first MIDI digital guitar in Belgium with the RTBF International, RTBF laboratories. before moving to the University of Sheffield in England where he graduated with a Ph.D. in bioacoustics and architectural acoustic computer simulation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Maria Malet
Rosa Maria Malet i Ybern (born 1948) is an art historian who directed the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona from 1980 until she retired in 2017. Biography She was born in Badalona. In 1975 she graduated in Philosophy and Letters, specializing in Art History at the University of Barcelona. She discovered the work of Joan Miró in 1968, during the exhibition of his work that took place at the Hospital de la Santa Creu in Barcelona. She began working at the Fundació Joan Miró in the same year of its creation, in 1975, as a curator's assistant, and shortly afterwards as curator. She registered the works of the Foundation's funds. At Joan Miró's house, she worked on the arrangement and registration of the collection of graphic works that the artist had intended for his heirs. In 1980 she became the Director of the Foundation. In 2016, she was awarded for her professional career by the Association of Museologists of Catalonia. She is a member of the ADOM Committee (''Association pou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Malet
Robert Malet (c. 1050 – by 1130) was a Norman-English baron and a close advisor of Henry I. Early life Malet was the son of William Malet, and inherited his father's great honour of Eye in 1071. This made him one of the dozen or so greatest landholders in England. According to the Domesday book he held 221 manors in Suffolk, 32 in Yorkshire, eight in Lincolnshire, three in Essex, two in Nottinghamshire, and one in Hampshire.Domesday book, 1086 He also inherited the family property in Normandy. Public life From 1070 to 1080, Malet was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and helped suppress the rebellion of Ralph Wader. Afterwards, he appeared frequently at King William I's court. All changed with the accession of William II. By 1094 Malet's English lands had been taken away from him. The reasons are unknown, and no more is known of Malet's activities during William II's reign. Most likely he was in Normandy, and it may be that his falling out with William II was due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Malet
Pierre Malet (born 3 September 1955 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a French actor. He is the twin brother of Laurent Malet. Filmography * 1976 : '' Le Siècle des lumières'' (TV) : ''A page'' * 1976 : ''Comme un boomerang'' : ''Other Feldman's son'' * 1976 : '' Un éléphant ça trompe énormément'' * 1977 : '' Au plaisir de Dieu'' (feuilleton TV) : ''Jacques jeune'' * 1978 : '' Un ours pas comme les autres'' (feuilleton TV) * 1978 : '' Kakemono hôtel'' (TV) : ''Jean Cagepain'' * 1979 : '' Staline-Trotsky: Le pouvoir et la révolution'' (TV) : ''Liova'' * 1980 : ' (TV miniseries) : ''Jérôme Fandor'' * 1980 : '' Le Vol d'Icare'' (TV) : ''Icare'' * 1981 : '' Les Fiançailles de feu'' (TV) : ''Joss'' * 1981 : ' (TV film, directed by Étienne Périer) : ''Roland'' * 1981 : '' Arcole ou la terre promise'' (feuilleton TV) : ''Frédéric Dumourier'' * 1982 : ''La Nuit de Varennes'' : ''Emile Delage, student revolutionary'' * 1982 : '' L'Amour s'invente'' (TV) : ''Pierre M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Antoine Anselme Malet
Comte Pierre Antoine Anselme Jean Laurent Malet (14 August 1773 – 9 August 1815) was a maréchal de camp, and général de brigade. He commanded the 3e régiment de chasseurs à pied (Middle Guard The Imperial Guard (French: ''Garde Impériale'') was originally a small group of elite soldiers of the French Army under the direct command of Napoleon I, but grew considerably over time. It acted as his bodyguard and tactical reserve, and he ...) at Waterloo; mortally wounded in this battle by a bullet in the left shoulder, he died of his wounds in the field-hospital at Charleroi. Notes References * 1778 births 1815 deaths Counts of the First French Empire French military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars Generals of the First French Empire {{France-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
