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    Henri Louis Rémy Didon, OP (17 March 1840, in Le Touvet – 13 March 1900, in Toulouse) was a French Dominican friar. He was also a writer, educator, and...
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  • Didon is the title of two French operas: Didon (Desmarets), a 1693 opera by Henri Desmarets Didon (Piccinni), a 1783 opera by Niccolò Piccinni Dido (disambiguation)...
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  • Didon is a tragédie en musique or opera in a prologue and five acts by librettist, Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, and composer Henri Desmarets...
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    1924. The motto was coined by Coubertin's friend, the Dominican priest Henri Didon OP, for a Paris youth gathering of 1891. Coubertin's Olympic ideals are...
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    International Olympic Committee. Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who was an athletics enthusiast. Coubertin said that...
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  • Catholic family, was the instigator of this tradition. It was the Dominican Henri Didon, to whom we owe the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortis" (Faster, higher...
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    1 June 1888 Pierre de Coubertin, with the support of Jules Simon and Henri Didon, formed the Comité pour la Propagation des Exercises Physiques. This...
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    of Notre Dame has been occupied by a succession of Dominicans. Père Henri Didon (1840–1900) was a Dominican. The house of studies of the province of...
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    Higher, Stronger – Together) in 2021. The traditional motto was coined by Henri Didon OP, a friend of Coubertin, for a Paris youth gathering of 1891. The Pierre...
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    included Pierre de Coubertin. De Coubertin took the motto from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominican priest who had coined the phrase during a speech before...
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    Columba Adams Frances Raphael Drane Bernard Chocarne Mary Cathedrine Smith Henri Didon Samuel Henderson Jacques Monsabré Félix Villé Maurice de Blic Marguerite...
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    Didon (Dido) is a tragédie lyrique in three acts by the composer Niccolò Piccinni with a French-language libretto by Jean-François Marmontel. The opera...
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  • motto Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) was coined by Henri Didon for a Paris youth gathering in 1891, and later proposed as the official...
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  • of philosophy and theology at the college. Master of Sacred Theology. Henri Didon (1840–1900). 1862 complete his theological studies at the college. Famed...
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    Sports Athlétiques (USFSA) for over 20 years, as the story of Father Henri Didon and his Albert-le-Grand d'Arcueil institute testifies. The FGSPF, which...
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    these institutions, the Albert-le-Grand school in Arcueil, run by Father Henri Didon, a member of the first board of directors of the Union of French athletic...
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  • of Christ, an 1874 book by Frederic Farrar Life of Christ, a book by Henri Didon The Story of Christ, a 1921 book by Giovanni Papini, published as Life...
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    Master of the Jesuit college Louis-le-Grand in 1693 and premiered his opera Didon in June of that year. It was the first of his stage works to be performed...
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    the Suppression of Vice and authorities elsewhere. Magician in Henri Desmarets's Didon (Paris, 1693) Clorinde in André Campra's Tancrède (Paris, 1702)...
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  • 1782) Porus in Alexandre aux Indes (by Lefroid de Méreaux, 1783) Iarbe in Didon (by Piccinni, 1783) Florestan in La caravane du Caire (by Grétry, 1784)...
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  • Gulbenkian, Paul McCreesh Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens, Joyce DiDonato- Didon, Marie-Nicole Lemieux- Cassandre, Stéphane Degout- Chorèbe, Michael Spyres-...
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  • Celse martyr (1687, lost) Philomèle (lost) Artaxerse (lost) Médée (1693) Didon (1693) Circé (1694) Théagène et Chariclée (1695) Vénus et Adonis (1697)...
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    et Pélée (1699 revival), André Cardinal Destouches' Issé (1697), Henri Desmarets' Didon (1704 revival), André Campra's Iphigénie en Tauride (1704), and...
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    Faust (Marguerite) La Scala, Metropolitan Opera November 2008 Les Troyens (Didon) Théâtre du Châtelet, (Paris); Metropolitan Opera; San Francisco Opera Marc...
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  • which she contributed performed at the Royal Academy of Music in France, Didon. The daughter of Pierre Gillot de Beaucourt and Geneviève de Gomez de Vasconcelle...
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  • by Collasse 1690: Énée in Énée et Lavinie by Collasse 1693: Énée in Didon by Henri Desmarets 1693: Jason in Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1697: Octavio...
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  • BWV 1023 Antonio Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo André Campra – Enée et Didon Giovanni Maria Casini – Pensieri per Organo Arcangelo Corelli Christmas...
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  • Rousset Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre. William Christie 1999 Henri Desmarets: Didon. Christophe Rousset Antonio de Literes: Acis y Galatea. Eduardo...
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    Circé (Desmarets) (category Operas by Henri Desmarets)
    of that name. She also wrote the libretto for the opera Didon, also composed by Desmarets. Henri Desmarets (1661–1741) was a French Baroque era composer...
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    (Paris, 1684) Sidonie in Lully's Armide (Paris, 1686) Anne in Henri Desmarets's Didon (Paris, 1693) Créuse in Charpentier's Médée (Paris, 1693) Doris...
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