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Regnier
Régnier or Regnier is a French given name, personal name and surname, and may refer to: Surname * Adolphe Regnier (1804-1884), French linguist * Anatol Regnier (* 1945), German classical guitarist and writer * Charles Regnier (1914–2001, father of Anatol Regnier), German actor * Claude Ambroise Régnier (1746–1814), French lawyer and politician * Émile Régnier (1894–1940), French World War I pilot * Eva Regnier (born 1971), American decision scientist * Henri de Régnier (1864–1936), French symbolist poet * Marc Regnier (born circa 1960), American classical guitarist * Mary Pius Regnier (1914–2005), American nun and former general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana * Mathurin Régnier (1573–1613), French satirist * Michel Régnier (1931–1999), "Greg", Belgian comics writer and artist * Natacha Régnier (born 1974), Belgian actor * Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), Flemish painter and art collector * Paule Régnier (1888–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Pius Regnier
Mother Mary Pius Regnier, S.P. (April 28, 1914 – November 27, 2005) was the Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, from 1966 to 1976. She held office immediately following the Second Vatican Council, a time when Roman Catholic congregations underwent drastic changes. Regnier began the process for revising the Congregation's ''Constitutions'' to bring it into accordance with the Church's recommendations for the renewal of religious life. Early life Born Helen Marie Regnier in 1914, she was the oldest daughter of Fred A. and Anna McDonnell Regnier in Aurora, Illinois. A brother, William, later became a Roman Catholic priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford, Illinois. Regnier entered the Sisters of Providence on January 23, 1932. Taking the religious name of Sister Mary Pius, she professed first vows on August 15, 1934, and final vows on January 23, 1940. Her early area of ministry was education, where she showed a love of sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Regnier
Eva Dorothy Regnier (born 1971) is a decision scientist whose research concerns the interaction between human decision-making and environmental prediction. She is a professor of decision science in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy of the Naval Postgraduate School. Education and career Regnier graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering science. After working from 1993 to 1996 in industry as an environmental engineer, she went to the Georgia Institute of Technology for a master's degree in operations research in 1999 and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2001. Her dissertation, ''Discounted Cash Flow Methods and Environmental Decisions'', was supervised by Craig Tovey. She joined the Defense Resources Management Institute of the Naval Postgraduate School in 2001, moved to the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy in 2017, and was promoted to full professor in 2019. Regnier was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Regnier
Marc Regnier is an American classical guitarist. Biography Marc Regnier is a Grammy-nominated classical guitarist. He has been described by critics as "a master of his instrument" and "a musician of intelligence, lyricism and subtlety." Since his concert debut at the age of fifteen, Regnier has performed in major cities throughout America from San Francisco to New York's Carnegie Recital Hall. He also has appeared in concert and given master classes in Canada and South America. He is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. His Grammy-nominated 2010 recording ''Gnattali: Solo & Chamber Works for Guitar'' was recorded at Skywalker Sound, produced by four-time Grammy winners Marina and Victor Ledin, and recorded by Grammy winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones. His music has been released on Naxos, Musical Heritage Society, and Dorian Sono Luminus labels. Regnier's recordings have drawn such critical acclamation as "Rarely have the repertoire and the skill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regnier De Graaf
Regnier de Graaf (English spelling), original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff (30 July 164117 August 1673), was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomy, anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. He specialized in iatrochemistry and iatrogenesis, and was the first to develop a syringe to inject dye into human reproductive organs so that he could understand their structure and function. Biography De Graaf was born in Schoonhoven in a Roman Catholic family, as the son of a carpenter/engineer (equivalent to a modern architect). He studied medicine in Leuven (1658), Utrecht and Leiden (1663). There his co-students were Jan Swammerdam, Niels Stensen, Ole Borch and Frederik Ruysch, cooperating with professor Franciscus Sylvius, Johannes van Horne and :de:Lucas Schacht, Lucas Schacht. All of them were interested in the organs of procreation and influenced by Rene Descartes' Iatrophysics, iatrophysical approach. He submitted his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe Regnier
Adolphe Regnier (born Jacques-Auguste-Adolphe Regnier) (7 July 1804, Mainz - 20 October 1884, Fontainebleau) was a French philologist. Life and career From 1823 he was a teacher at various institutes of higher education in France, including from 1838 as a professor of rhetoric at the Collège de France and as teacher of German language and literature at the École normal supérieure in Paris (1841-43). In 1843 he was appointed preceptor to Prince Philippe, Count of Paris by Louis-Philippe, whom he also accompanied into exile after the February Revolution of 1848. Back in Paris in 1853, he was accepted into the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1855 and became the director of the "Collection des grands écrivains de la France" (being succeeded after his death in that position by Gustave Lanson). He was also proposed by the Institut de France as professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France in 1862, which he did not accept. In 1873 he was appointed librarian of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Régnier
Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), known in Italy as Niccolò Renieri, was a painter, art dealer and art collector from the County of Hainaut, a French-speaking part of the Spanish Netherlands. He is often referred to as a Flemish people, Flemish artist because this term was often used to designate people from the Spanish Netherlands. After training in Antwerp, he was active in Italy where he was part of the international Caravaggisti, Caravaggesque movement. His subjects include genre scenes with card players, fortune tellers, soldiers and concerts, religious scenes, saints, mythological and allegorical scenes, and portraits. He also painted a few scenes with carnivals. Life Régnier was born in Maubeuge. It was previously believed that his birth date was 6 December 1591. A review of his baptismal records has led to the conclusion that he may have been born at least a year earlier. He apprenticed in Antwerp with Abraham Janssens, a Flemish painter who had studied in Rome at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathurin Régnier
Mathurin Régnier (December 21, 1573 – October 22, 1613) was a French satirist. Life Régnier was born in Chartres, which at that time was part of the Orléanais. His father, Jacques Régnier, was a bourgeois of good means and position; his mother, Simone Desportes, was the sister of the poet Philippe Desportes. Desportes, who was richly beneficed and in great favor at court, seems to have been regarded as Mathurin Régnier's natural protector and patron; and the boy himself, with a view to his following in his uncle's steps, was tonsured at eight years old. Little is known of his youth, and it is chiefly conjecture which fixes the date of his visit to Italy in a humble position in the suite of the cardinal, François de Joyeuse, in 1587. The cardinal was accredited to the papal court in that year as protector of the royal interests. Regnier found his duties irksome, and when, after many years of constant travel in the cardinals service, he returned definitely to France abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régnier Motor Company
Régnier Motor Company (Fr:''Société anonyme des établissements Emile Regnier'') was a French aircraft engine manufacturer founded by Émile Régnier in the 1920s. Régnier was a World War I flying ace. Postwar, he became the French agent for de Havilland. He displayed a Gipsy III and Gipsy Major at the 1932 Paris Air Show. He later built de Havilland Gipsy series engines under license. Some sources suggest that he began in the 1920s. According to Gunston he only began manufacture with the Gipsy Major and Gipsy Six, which appeared respectively in 1932 and 1933. These were both air-cooled inverted inline types, of four and six cylinders respectively, and shared many common parts. By 1934, he began building his own inverted inline designs as the Régnier Motor Company. He developed an inverted air-cooled six-cylinder engine for use in a privately entered Caudron C.366 to compete in the ''Coupe Deutsch de Meurthe'' air race in 1934. The 217 brake horsepower motor was developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paule Régnier
Paule Joseph Marie Eugénie Charlotte Régnier (19 June 1888 in Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne) – 1 December 1950 in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) was a French writer, laureate of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1934. Biography Paule Regnier grew up in Versailles, where her father, a career officer, had been sent in 1890, and where he left his family when the obligations of the military profession caused him to change his residence. After the death of her father in 1902, her mother moved with her and her two older sisters to Paris. After the marriage of these, Paule Regnier remained alone with her mother until the death of the latter in 1926. Works *1913: ''Octave'' *1924: ''La Vivante Paix'' *1929: ''Heureuse Faute'' *1919: ''Marcelle, faible femme'' *1930: ''Le Roi Mage de Maillezais'' *1931: ''Petite et Nadie'' *1933''L'Abbaye d'Évolayne''– Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française *1936: ''Cherchez la joie'' *1941: ''Tentation'' *1942: ''L'Expérie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natacha Régnier
Nathalie "Natacha" Régnier (born 11 April 1974) is a Belgian actress. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award, a European Film Award, and a César Award for her role in the 1998 film '' The Dreamlife of Angels''. Régnier is the first Belgian actress to win a César Award. Life and career Born in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, she was attracted to theatre from early adolescence. Her first screen role was in ''The Motorcycle Girl'' (1993), a short film by Stéphan Carpiaux. After that, she played a number of roles for French television. In 1998 Régnier and Élodie Bouchez received the ''Prix d'interprétation féminine'' (Best Actress) at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for their roles in '' La vie rêvée des anges'' by Erick Zonca. She has stated that her idol is film actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Régnier dated Jérémie Renier. Natacha Régnier was married to French musician Yann Tiersen, but they are now divorced. They have a daughter. She received a Magrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Régnier
Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for ''Achille Talon'', and later became editor of ''Tintin'' magazine. Biography Regnier was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1931. His first series, ''Les Aventures de Nestor et Boniface'', appeared in the Belgian magazine '' Vers l'Avenir'' when he was sixteen. He moved to the comic magazine ''Héroic Albums'', going on to work for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou'' in 1954. In 1955 he launched his own magazine, ''Paddy'', but eventually discontinued it. The series for which Greg is best known, ''Achille Talon'', began in 1963 in ''Pilote'' magazine, also the source of comics such as ''Asterix''.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Greg". In België gestript, pp. 117-119. Tielt: Lannoo. This series, which he both wrote and illustrated, presents the comic misadventures of the eponymous mild-mannered polysyllabic bourgeois. In all 42 albums appeared, the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Régnier
'' Sous lieutenant'' Émile Julien Mathurin Régnier (29 July 1894 – 4 September 1940) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He served in the French infantry from September 1914 until early June 1917, suffering two serious wounds in the process. On 28 June 1917, he transferred into aviation as a corporal. He joined ''Escadrille 89'' as a fighter pilot on 8 January 1918. He would serve through war's end, sharing in six confirmed victories scored in conjunction with other pilots. Postwar, he would be granted the ''Légion d'honneur'' to add to his ''Médaille militaire'' and ''Croix de Guerre''. He became successively an agent for De Havilland beginning in 1932, then an air racing participant, and finally an aircraft engine designer and builder beginning in 1934. He died at Pozzi, Valeggio sul Mincio, Italy, aged 46. Régnier's death did not close down his aircraft engine company, which subsequently was captured and used by the Nazis during World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
