Frère León (English: Brother León, Spanish: Hermano León; December 31, 1871 – November 20, 1955) was a French-born Cuban botanist and De La Salle Brother...
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Spanish provinces León, Salamanca, and Zamora Viscounty of Léon, a feudal state in France during the 11th to 13th centuries Saint-Pol-de-Léon, a commune in...
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It was founded in 1902 by wholesalers Ernest and Henri Maus and retailer Léon Nordmann. Its oldest business remains the Manor department store chain, which...
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Annona moaensis (category Taxa named by Frère León)
is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is endemic to Cuba. Frère León and Henri Alain Liogier, the botanists who first formally described the...
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Elijah Benoît Mernier: The Prince, La Dispute (premiere) Olivier Messiaen: Frère Léon, Saint François d'Assise Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, L'Orfeo ; Ulisse,...
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gerygone. Frère Elie – Notou Francis' most contrarian brother, Elias, receives the birdcall of this "gloomy sounding pigeon" from New Caledonia. Frère Bernard...
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Jean-Marie Arlette Didier : Arlouse Jenny Clève : la sœur de Léon Alain Frérot : le frère de Léon Olivier Barret : Kronk Fabien Béhar : client au restaurant...
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Serécourt; † 16 August 1794), canon at Remiremont (Washington) Mopinot, Jean, frère Léon (b. April 7, 1724, at Rheims; † May 21, 1794), member of the Brothers...
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and Léon-Alfred Appert (1837 – 1925), became involved. In 1865 Louis-Adrien withdrew from glassmaking and the company was renamed "Appert Frères". The...
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contains the correspondence with Léonie Leon Caricatures de Léon Gambetta Caricatures et Caricature Wikiquote has quotations related to Léon Gambetta....
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Bonn Frères (in English: Bonn Frères Furniture Showroom) is an Art Deco-style building in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, designed by the architect Léon Bouvart...
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Léon Gozlan (11 September 1803 – 14 September 1866) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright. When he was still a boy, his father, who had made...
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Frankfurt, Andrej Bolkonski in Prokofiev's Krieg und Frieden in Cologne, and Frère Léon in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise at the San Francisco Opera. He appeared...
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Léon de Bercy, called Léon Drouin de Bercy or Léon Hiks (10 December 1857 in Paris – 31 July 1915 in Orléans, aged 57) was a French chansonnier. A member...
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Arts Florissants; "Joas" in Porpora's Il Gedeone with Martin Haselböck; "Frère Léon" in Messiaen's Saint François d’Assise in the last composer supervised...
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Léon Ernest Gaumont (French: [ɡomɔ̃]; 10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion...
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Orientalist. The son of a Paris music publisher, Frère studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Cogniet and Camille Roqueplan. On completing his...
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species is known from only a single collection made by French-born botanist Frère León in 1939. Roystonea stellata was a large palm which reached heights of...
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1007/s10980-007-9100-z ———————, ed. (2007) Marie-Victorin à Cuba. Correspondance avec le frère Léon. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal. 217 p. ISBN 978-2-7606-2066-7...
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Dubly is a surname. Maurice Dubly (1876–?), Léon Dubly (1878–?), Albert Dubly (1881–1949), André Dubly (1884–1972), Jean Dubly (1886–1942), and Raymond...
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Rothschild family (redirect from Rothschild Frères)
patron of bebop and jazz writer – often called the "Jazz Baroness" Baron Léon Lambert (1929–1987), Belgian art collector Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917)...
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Léon Lambert, 3rd Baron Lambert (2 July 1928 – 28 May 1987) was a Belgian banker and art collector. Single and without children, he devoted his whole life...
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Group in 1998, becoming ING Belgium. In 1982-1983, financier Albert Frère displaced Léon Lambert as the main driving force of GBL;: 22 Since 2012, GBL divested...
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his father-in-law. He became sole owner in 1858. With his brother-in-law Léon Whittman, Etienne began to manufacture photographic products, which up to...
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walked away with $700 million in profit. In 1998, with businessman Albert Frère, Arnault purchased Château Cheval Blanc in a personal capacity. LVMH acquired...
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Ernest and Henri Maus together with Léon Nordmann opened their first department store in Lucerne in 1902, under the “Léon Nordmann” name. The more familiar...
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Léon Serpollet (4 October 1858 – 1 February 1907) was a French engineer and developer of flash steam boilers and steam automobiles. Léon Serpollet was...
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2020). "Naissance du prince Vito von Fürstenberg : un nouveau frère pour Talita, Tassilo et Leon". Histoires Royales (in French). Retrieved June 19, 2020....
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de Nice, the title role in Monteverdi's Orfeo at Opéra d'Avignon, and Frère Lèon in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise at Opéra National de Paris. He has...
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François Léon Ormancey (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa le.ɔ̃ ɔʁmɑ̃sɛ]) was a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He...
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