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Pasquier
Pasquier is a French surname derived from Latin ''pascuarium'' (verb ''pascere'') meaning "pasture". Pasquier shares the same root of given name and surname Pascal, from Latin ''Pascha'', in turn from the Hebrew ''pesach'' that means literally "pass over". Alternative spellings and related names are: Pasquett, Pasquié, Pâquier, Paquier, Pasqueraud, Pasquerault, Paqueraud, Paquerault, Paquereau. Pasquier may refer to: * Edme-Armand-Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier (1823–1905), French politician and member of the Académie française, *Étienne Pasquier (1529–1615), French lawyer and man of letters, *Étienne-Denis Pasquier (1767–1862), French statesman * Jérôme Pasquier (courtier), French servant and clerk of Mary, Queen of Scots * Jules Pasquier (1839-1928), French politician. *Jules-Paul Pasquier (1774-1858), French member of the Conseil d'État. *Georges Pasquier (1878-?) French road racing cyclist *Pierre Pasquier (colonial administrator) (1877-1934) *Pierre Pasquier (viol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Du Pasquier
Nathalie Du Pasquier (born 1957) is a Milan-based artist and designer mostly known for her work as a founding member of the Memphis Group. Her early body of work includes furniture, textiles, clothing designs and jewelry in addition to iconic work in decoration and patterns. Since 1987, she has consistently dedicated herself to painting. Early life Du Pasquier was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1957. Du Pasquier drew influence from her parents. Her mother was an art historian, which gave Du Pasquier an appreciation for classic art. From 1975 to 1977, she traveled through Gabon and West Africa, and in 1979 she moved to Milan. Du Pasquier drew influence from African art and music. Career Memphis Group In Milan, she met the designer George Sowden and in 1981, she and Sowden were asked to become two of the founding members of the Memphis Group by designer and architect Ettore Sottsass. Du Pasquier, the youngest member of the Memphis Group, designed textiles and furniture ite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Pasquier (courtier)
Jérôme Pasquier was a French servant of Mary, Queen of Scots, involved in writing and deciphering coded letters. Working for a captive queen Pasquier is recorded as a groom of the chamber to Mary and master of her wardrobe. The other grooms were Bastian Pagez and Hannibal Stuart. He was described as "young Pasquier". Adam Blackwood described him as "''commis et argentier''", a clerk and treasurer or purse keeper. The French ambassador also called him a steward or ''argentier''. On 20 March 1586, at Chartley, Pasquier and Bastian Pagez witnessed a document in which Jacques Gervais, Mary's surgeon, placed his affairs in the hands of Jean de Champhuon, sieur du Ruisseau, a brother-in-law of Mary's secretary Claude Nau. Ruisseau was an administrator of Mary, Queen of Scots' French estates. Pasquier worked with Mary's secretaries Claude Nau and Gilbert Curle managing Mary's correspondence. Letters in cipher from the French ambassador London, Guillaume de l'Aubéspine, Baron du Châte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Pasquier (violist)
Pierre Pasquier (14 September 1902 – 1986) was a French violist. Born in Tours, Pasquier was a student of Maurice Vieux. He obtained his first prize in viola in 1922. He founded the trio Pasquier with his brothers Jean and Étienne, as soon as he came out of the Conservatoire de Paris, in 1927. At the same time, his career as an international soloist was complemented by that of an orchestral musician and music educator. Appointed a professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire in 1943, he trained many students who distinguished themselves by their exceptional musical sense. Since childhood, Pierre Pasquier also showed a real talent for caricature as a cartoonist. at Éditions Payot. His son [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régis Pasquier
Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, le Trio Pasquier. His brother Bruno Pasquier is a violist. Biography Born in Fontainebleau, Régis Pasquier was a student of Zino Francescatti, with whom he latter recorded the Concerto for Two Violins by J.S. Bach. In 1958, he won the First Prizes in violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1977 to 1986, he was principal violin of the Orchestre National de France. In 1985, he was appointed professor of violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he taught until 2011. Since 1960, he has toured extensively abroad. With his brother Bruno (violist and conductor) and cellist Roland Pidoux, he was for a while a member of a sought-after trio. In 1988, he received the Charles Cros Prize, and in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Pasquier
Étienne Pasquier (7 June 15291 September 1615) was a French lawyer and man of letters. By his own account he was born in Paris on 7 June 1529, but according to others he was born in 1528. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549. In 1558 he became very ill by eating poisonous mushrooms and took two years to recover. This compelled him to occupy himself with literary work and in 1560 he published the first book of his ''Recherches de la France''. In 1565, when he was thirty-seven he became famous after giving a speech in which he pleaded the cause of the University of Paris against the Jesuits and won it. Meanwhile, he pursued the ''Recherches'' steadily and published other miscellaneous work from time to time. His literary and his legal occupations coincided in a curious fashion at the ' of Poitiers in 1579. These Grands Jours (an institution which fell into desuetude at the end of the 17th century, with bad effects on the social and political welfare of the French provinces) we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Denis Pasquier
Étienne-Denis, duc de Pasquier (21 April 17675 July 1862), ''Chancelier de France'', (a title revived for him by Louis-Philippe in 1837), was a French statesman. In 1842, he was elected a member of the Académie française, and in the same year was created a duke by Louis-Philippe. Biography Born in Paris in a family of the ''noblesse de robe'', with ancestors such as Étienne Pasquier, he was destined for the legal profession and was educated at the ''Collège de Juilly'' near Paris. He then became a counsellor of the ''parlement de Paris'', and witnessed many of the incidents that marked the growing hostility between that body and Louis XVI of France in the years preceding the French Revolution of 1789. His views were those of a moderate reformer, determined to preserve the House of Bourbon in a renovated France; his memoirs depict in a favorable light the actions of his (an institution soon to be abolished towards the end of the year 1789, under growing revolutionary pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Pasquier (colonial Administrator)
Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier (6 February 1877 – 15 January 1934) was a French colonial administrator. French Indochina Pasquier served as the governor-general of French Indochina two times; from October 1926 to May 1927 (in temporary replacement of Alexandre Varenne) and from December 1928 to January 1934. Works * * See also * Dewoitine D.332 The Dewoitine D.332 was a 1930s French eight-passenger airliner built by Dewoitine. Design and development The D.332 was an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane. The pilot and co-pilot were seated side by side in a cabin located forward of ... References Further reading * * * External links Entryin Léonore ('' Légion d'honneur'') database 1877 births 1934 deaths Governors-General of French Indochina Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau {{France-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Pasquier
Bruno Pasquier (born 10 December 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), is a French violist, the son of Pierre Pasquier, also a violist. Biography After a First Prize at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1961, Pasquier won the ARD International Music Competition in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was first soloist in the Paris Opera orchestra and subsequently, from 1985 to 1990 at the Orchestre national de France. Since 1970, he has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris, first as assistant to Serge Collot, then as viola and chamber music teacher (since 1983). With his brother Régis Pasquier (violinist and conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Music * Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra. * ''Conductor'' (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas * Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation ...) and cellist Roland Pidoux, he was for a while a member of a sought after trio. Bruno Pasquier plays a viola by Paolo Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edme-Armand-Gaston D'Audiffret-Pasquier
Edme-Armand-Gaston, duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier (21 October 1823, in Paris4 June 1905), known as Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier, was a French politician and member of the Académie française, Seat 16. He was preceded in his position by Félix Dupanloup and succeeded by Alexandre Ribot. Life He was the grand-nephew and adopted son of Baron Etienne Denis Pasquier, an academician. He inherited the title of duke in 1844, and became auditor at the council of state in 1846. After the revolution of 1848 he retired to private life. Under the Second Empire he was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the legislature, but was elected in February 1871 to the National Assembly of France, and became president of the Centre-right parliamentary group in 1873. After the fall of Thiers, Audiffret-Pasquier directed the negotiations between the different royalist parties to establish the Comte de Chambord as King of France, but as Chambord refused to give up the white flag of the Bourbons in favor of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Pasquier
Jules Pasquier (1839-1928) was a French politician. Early life Jules Pasquier was born on 1 April 1839 in Goudelancourt-lès-Pierrepont, France. He was educated in Reims. Career Pasquier started his career as a civil law notary in 1866. Pasquier joined the Popular Liberal Action, a conservative political party. He served as the mayor of Autremencourt. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 22 September 1889 to 14 October 1893, and from 5 March 1905 to 31 May 1910. He voted against the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. Death He died on 10 March 1928 in Laon Laon () is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territori ..., France. References 1839 births 1928 deaths People from Aisne Mayors of places in Hauts-de-France Popular Liberal Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Pasquier (businessman)
Pierre Pasquier (born August 20, 1935) is the CEO and co-founder of Sopra Steria, as well as the chairman of its subsidiary, Axway Axway Software is a French-American publicly held information technology company that provides software tools for enterprise software, enterprise application integration, business activity monitoring, business analytics, mobile application devel .... He has been instrumental in building and developing Sopra Group into a systems and solutions integration company, and he has some 40 years’ experience in executive management and development of IT services. Education In 1962, Pasquier graduated from the University of Rennes with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics. Career In the early and mid-1960s, Pasquier worked for Bull, a subsidiary of General Electric. When GE lost interest in developing mainframes and “big” business machines, he left the company, and in 1968, Pasquier, François Odin and Leo Gantelet opened Sopra Group operations in Annec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules-Paul Pasquier
Jules-Paul Pasquier (1774–1858) was a French member of the Conseil d'État. Early life Jules-Paul Pasquier was born on 25 January 1774 in Paris. Career He served as the Prefect (France), prefet of the Sarthe departments from 1814 to 1818.Julien Remi Pesche, ''Biographie et bibliographie du Maine et du département de la Sarthe: faisant suite au dictionnaire statistique du même département'', Imprimerie de Monnoyer, 1828, p. cxxxi/ref> He served as a member of the Conseil d'État. He became a Commandeur of the Legion of Honor in 1844. Death He died on 28 December 1858. He was buried in Coulans-sur-Gée Coulans-sur-Gée is a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Sarthe department The following is a list of the 354 communes of the Sarthe department of France. The co .... References 1774 births 1858 deaths Politicians from Paris Prefects of Sarthe Members of the Conseil d'État (F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
