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Lettre : V ( Number of Famous People : 50 ) |
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| French novelist, poet and journalist |
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| Born in the family chateau at Verrières-le-Buisson, a suburb southwest of Paris, de Vilmorin was the descendant of a great French seed company fortune, that of Vilmorin. She was afflicted with a slight limp that became a personal trademark. Vilmorin was best known as a writer of delicate but ... |
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| French journalist and author |
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| His father was a supervisor of studies, later a teacher, and unfaithful to Jules' mother. Jules was a brilliant student. The Revolution of 1848 in France found him participating in protests in Nantes where his father had been assigned to teach. It was during this period that he began to align ... |
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| French soprano |
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| Ninon Vallin studied at the Lyon Conservatoire and later in Paris. At first she had no intention of performing opera, preparing herself for a career on the concert platform. In 1911 she was chosen by Claude Debussy to sing the part of Erigone in the first performance of his Le martyre de Saint ... |
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| 8th President of the United States |
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| Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York. His father, Abraham van Buren (1737–1817) was a farmer, the owner of a few slaves, and a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook. Abraham Van Buren supported the American Revolution and later the Jeffersonian Republicans. He died while Martin ... |
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