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Rivière à Pierre (Ha! Ha! River)
Rivière, La Rivière, or Les Rivières (French for "river") may refer to: Places Belgium * Rivière, Profondeville, a village Canada * La Rivière, Manitoba, a community * Les Rivières (Quebec City), a borough France * La Rivière, Gironde * Rivière, Indre-et-Loire * La Rivière, Isère * Rivière, Pas-de-Calais * La Rivière, Réunion, home of the SS Rivière Sport football club Other uses * Rivière, a style of necklace or bracelet * "Riviere", a 2006 song by Deftones from ''Saturday Night Wrist'' People with the surname * Anna Riviere (1810-1884) opera singer known by her married name of Anna Bishop * Beatrice Rivière, French applied mathematician * Briton Rivière (1840–1920), British artist * Charles Marie Rivière (1845–?), French botanist abbreviated C.Rivière * Daniel Riviere (1780-1846) artist and father of a family of noted artists and singers * Émile Rivière (1835-1922), French archaeologist * Emmanuel Rivière (born 1990), Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivière, Profondeville
Rivière ( wa, Rivire) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Profondeville, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Remains dating back to the Magdalenian have been discovered in the village, and the area appears to have been permanently settled from the Mesolithic era. During the Middle Ages, the village was subservient to Anhée. A chapel was first built in the village in 1630; the presently visible village church was built 1844 to 1845. A castle has existed in the village, but it was burnt down in August 1914. During World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ..., the entire village was severely damaged by fire in September 1944. Many civilians were also killed during the war during fighting in the village. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Botanists By Author Abbreviation (C)
__NOTOC__ A–B To find entries for A–B, use the table of contents above. C * C.A.Arnold – Chester Arthur Arnold (1901–1977) * Cabactulan – Derek Cabactulan ( fl. 2016) * Cabanès – Jean Gustave Cabanès (1864–1944) * C.A.Barber – Charles Alfred Barber (1860–1933) * C.Abbot – Charles Abbot (1761–1817) * C.Abel – Clarke Abel (1789–1826) * Cabezudo – Baltasar Cabezudo (born 1946) * C.A.Br. – Clair Alan Brown (1903–1982) * Cabrera – Ángel Lulio Cabrera (1908–1999) (not to be confused with botanist Ángel Cabrera (1879–1960)) * C.A.Clark – Carolyn A. Clark ( fl. 1979) * Cadet – Thérésian Cadet (1937–1987) * Cady – Leonard Isaacs Cady (born 1933) * Caflisch – Jakob Friedrich Caflisch (1817–1882) * C.Agardh – Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859) * C.A.Gardner – Charles Austin Gardner (1896–1970) * Cajander – Aimo Cajander (1879–1943) * Calder – James Alexander Calder (1915–1990) * Calderón – Graciela Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joannès Rivière
Joannès "Jo" Rivière is a French chef, restaurateur and cookbook author specializing in Cambodian cuisine. He has been regarded as the leading Western authority on Cambodian food. Biography Rivière was born and grew up in Roanne, France. He recalls his Christmas family dinners being a mix of French and Southeast Asian dishes, such as larp, which was introduced by his uncle who had worked as a pilot in Cambodia in the 1970s. Rivière learned cooking while working in his family restaurant. After graduating from a culinary school in France Rivière worked as a pastry chef in Nantucket and Philadelphia in the United States for two years. Having to do military service, Rivière opted for civic service instead and moved to Cambodia in August 2003 to work as a volunteer culinary teacher and restaurant manager for the non-profit Sala Baï Hotel and Restaurant School in Siem Reap. To raise funds for the school he wrote a Cambodian cookbook ''La cuisine du Cambodge avec les ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Riviere
Joan Hodgson Riviere (28 June 1883 – 20 May 1962) was a British psychoanalyst, who was both an early translator of Freud into English and an influential writer on her own account. Life and career Riviere was born Joan Hodgson Verrall in Brighton, the daughter of Hugh John Verrall and his wife Ann Hodgson. Her father was a lawyer and her mother a vicar's daughter. She was educated in Brighton and then at Wycombe Abbey. At the age of seventeen, she went to Gotha, Germany, where she spent a year and became proficient in the German language. Her interests were primarily artistic and she was for a time a court dressmaker. Riviere married Evelyn Riviere in 1907 and had a child, but suffered a breakdown on the death of her father around that time. She took an interest in divorce reform and the suffragette movement. Her uncle, Arthur Woollgar Verrall organised meetings of the Society for Psychical Research where she discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, and this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Rivière
Jérôme Rivière (born 8 July 1964) is a French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) until 2007, he was a member of the National Rally (RN), previously known as the National Front (FN), from 2017 until 2022, when he announced his support for Éric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election and was appointed vice chairman of Zemmour's newly-founded Reconquête party. Biography Education Born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine near Paris. Rivière received a master's degree from the ISG business school and an MBA from the European University of America at the University of San Francisco. Career He served as the deputy chief of staff for the Minister of Defense from 1993 to 1995 and was elected to the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur where he served from 1998 to 2004. Rivière represented the first constituency of Alpes-Maritimes in the French N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Rivière
Jean-François Rivière (born 28 February 1977) is a retired French footballer who played as a striker. His previous clubs include Chamois Niortais, Stade Lavallois, Amiens SC, Besançon RC, AC Ajaccio, Clermont Foot, and Gazélec Ajaccio. Career In January 2013, Rivière joined Gazélec Ajaccio Gazélec Football Club Ajaccio ( co, Gazélec Football Club Aiacciu), commonly referred to as GFC Ajaccio, GFCA, Gazélec Ajaccio or simply Gazélec (), is a French football club from Ajaccio, Corsica. Founded in 1960, Gazélec plays in the Champ .... References 1977 births Living people Association football forwards French footballers Stade Lavallois players Amiens SC players Racing Besançon players Chamois Niortais F.C. players Angers SCO players AC Ajaccio players Clermont Foot players Gazélec Ajaccio players Ligue 2 players {{france-footy-forward-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Rivière
Jacques Rivière (15 July 1886 – 14 February 1925) was a French "man of letters" — a writer, critic and editor who was "a major force in the intellectual life of France in the period immediately following World War I". He edited the magazine ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1919 until his death. He was influential in winning a general public acceptance of Marcel Proust as an important writer. His friend and brother-in-law was Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier), with whom he exchanged an abundant correspondence. Biography Rivière was born in Bordeaux, the son of an eminent physician. He became friends with Henri-Alban Fournier (later known as Alain-Fournier) at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Both students prepared for the entrance examination for the École Normale Supérieure, and both failed. Rivière returned to Bordeaux in 1905, and from that date until his death maintained a frequent correspondence with Alban-Fournier. Rivière obtai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Goldwin Rivière
Hugh Goldwin Rivière (1869–1956) was a noted British portraitist. He was one of seven children of Briton Rivière and was of Huguenot descent. Examples of his work are held in a very wide variety of public collections, including the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, Guildhall Art Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Gloucestershire County Council, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. His portrait painting of Sir Squire Bancroft and several drawings and prints are in the National Portrait Gallery collection. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2014-01-06. One of his best portraits is that of |
Henri Rivière (bobsleigh)
Henri Joseph Rivière (16 January 1922 – 20 June 1989) was a French bobsledder who competed in the 1950s. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ..., he finished fifth in the two-man and 11th in the four-man events. References 1952 bobsleigh two-man results * Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rivière (painter)
Henri Rivière (March 11, 1864 – August 24, 1951) was a French artist and designer best known for his creation of a form of shadow play at the ''Chat Noir'' cabaret, and for his post-Impressionist illustrations of Breton landscapes and the Eiffel Tower. Biography Early life and education Rivière was born in Paris. His father, Prosper Rivière, was an embroidery merchant from the Pyrénées. His mother, Henriette Thérese Leroux Rivière, was a Parisienne "from a petit bourgeois family". Rivière had one brother, Jules, born 1866. In 1870, fleeing from the advancing Prussians during the Franco-Prussian war, his father moved the family back to Ax-les-Thermes, his childhood home in the Pyrenees. Rivière's time spent in the rural environment helped develop his love of nature, later a strong theme in his art. After the war finished in 1871, Rivière returned to Paris with his parents, while his brother remained in Ax to finish his studies. Rivière was enrolled in a boarding- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Rivière (naval Officer)
Henri Laurent Rivière (1827–1883) was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and Dai Nam (as Vietnam was known then) that culminated one year later in the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886). Early career Born in Paris on 12 July 1827, Rivière entered the École Navale in October 1842. He passed out as a midshipman (second class) in August 1845, and saw his first naval service in the Pacific Ocean on ''Brillante''. In February 1847 he was posted to the South Seas naval division, to ''Virginie''. He was promoted to midshipman (first class) in September 1847 and to ''enseigne de vaisseau'' in September 1849. During the next five years he served in the Mediterranean squadron aboard ''Iéna'' (1850), ''Labrador'' (1851) and ''Jupiter'' (1852–54). Signific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Henri Rivière
Georges-Henri Rivière (1897–1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. Biography Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the École du Louvre from which he graduated in 1928. During the following years, he cared for the D. David-Weill collection, which included Chinese porcelains, Greek and Roman antiquities, and European decorative arts and paintings. In 1928, Rivière curated his first show of ancient American art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and joined Paul Rivet as his vice-director to begin the renovation of the dusty Musée du Trocadéro, which was reintroduced to the public as a fully modernized Musée de l'Homme in 1938. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of ''Documents'', to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Berg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
