Georges Carpentier ( pronounced car-pont-yay ) ( January 12, 1894 – October 28, 1975 ) was a French boxer and actor.

Carpentier was known for his speed, his excellent boxing skills and his extremely hard punch.

Carpentier was also a referee during the early stages of his career, supervising a number of fights including the world title bout between Jack Johnson and Frank Moran in June 1914.

Carpentier was badly beaten around before suffering a knockout in the second minute of the fourth round.

His last truly noteworthy fight was on July 24, 1924, with Gene Tunney at the Polo Grounds in New York ; Carpentier lost the bout by TKO after fifteen rounds.

Carpentier died in Paris in 1975 of a heart attack, and was buried in the Cimetiere de Vaires-sur Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Other notable chefs who support the Peruvian origin of the plate include Chilean Christopher Carpentier and Spaniard Ferran Adrià, who in an interview stated that " Cebiche was born in Peru, and so the authentic and genuine is Peruvian.

Morphy's mother, Louise Thérèse Félicité Thelcide Le Carpentier, was the musically talented daughter of a prominent French Creole family.

The show was produced by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier.

Critic Luis Leal attests that Carpentier was an originating pillar of the magical realist style by implicitly referring to the latter's critical works, writing that " The existence of the marvelous real is what started magical realist literature, which some critics claim is the truly American literature.

It was won by Kevin Harvick, while Quebec native Patrick Carpentier finished second.

The next fight for " The Manassa Mauler " was against Frenchman Georges Carpentier, who had been a war hero during World War I and was extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic.

The bout was shrewdly promoted by Tex Rickard, emphasizing the differences between the two men, and George Bernard Shaw, who claimed that Carpentier was " the greatest boxer in the world " and the odds were 50 to 1 against Dempsey .< ref name =" Sann ">

According to Alejo Carpentier ( quoting Buenaventura Pascual Ferrer ) at the beginning of the XIX Century there were held in Havana up to fifty dance parties every day, where the famous “ guaracha ” was sung and danced, among other popular pieces.

On May 23, 1922, Harry Greb was matched with Gene Tunney, the undefeated American Light Heavyweight Champion ( The World title was then in the hands of Frenchman Georges Carpentier ).

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont ( December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980 ) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous " boom " period.

Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.

Carpentier died in Paris in 1980 and was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery with other Cuban political and artistic luminaries.

Carpentier was born on December 26, 1904 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Jorge Julián Carpentier, a French architect, and Lina Valmont, a Russian language teacher.

Carpentier and Uslar-Pietri, for example, were strongly influenced by European artistic movements, such as Surrealism, during their stays in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.

It was also during this time that, with the help of Robert Desnos, Carpentier became part of the surrealist movement which became a positive influence in his work.

In 1943, accompanied by French theatrical director Louis Jouvet, Carpentier made a crucial trip to Haiti, during which he visited the fortress of the Citadelle Laferrière and the Palace of Sans-Souci, both built by the black king Henri Christophe.

He defeated the likes of Whipper Billy Watson, Lou Thesz, Gene Kiniski, Bruno Sammartino, Édouard Carpentier, Ernie Ladd, Jay Strongbow and even André the Giant during Andre's first extensive tour of North America in 1974.

The original sanctioning body of professional boxing, the World Boxing Association can be traced back to the original National Boxing Association, organized in 1921 ; the first bout recognized by the organization being the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier Heavyweight Championship bout in New Jersey, USA.

* The Kingdom of this World ( 1949 ), novel by Alejo Carpentier, first published in Spanish in Mexico as El Reino de Este Mundo.

From this angle, Carpentier views the baroque as a layering of elements, which translates easily into the post-colonial or transcultural Latin American atmosphere that Carpentier emphasizes in The Kingdom of this World.

Alejo Carpentier originated the term lo real maravilloso ( roughly the " marvelous reality ") in the prologue to his novel The Kingdom of this World ( 1949 ); however, some debate whether he is truly a magical realist writer, or simply a precursor and source of inspiration.

* 24 September — Battling Siki captures the World Light Heavyweight Championship when he knocks out Georges Carpentier in the 6th round in Paris.

* World Light Heavyweight Championship – Georges Carpentier → Battling Siki

Carpentier returned to Cuba and continued to work as a journalist at the outbreak of World War II.

While in Cuba, Carpentier attended a santería ceremony that was to further deepen his interest in Afro-Cubanism .> In 1949, he finished his novel The Kingdom of this World.

* Following victories in France against Georges Carpentier and Billy Papke, German-American boxer Frank Klaus re-establishes the lineage of the World Middleweight Championship, broken since the death of Stanley Ketchel in 1910.

* 12 October – Georges Carpentier wins the World Light Heavyweight Championship after he knocks out Battling Levinsky in the 4th round at Jersey City, his victory setting up the first " million dollar gate " when he fights Jack Dempsey in 1921.

* World Light Heavyweight Championship – Battling Levinsky → Georges Carpentier

* World Light Heavyweight Championship – Georges Carpentier

On June 12, 1961, Carpentier lost a match to Freddie Blassie which created the basis for the WWA World Heavyweight Championship ( Los Angeles version ).

Carpentier lost his title to Gagne in Omaha on August 9, 1958, making him the recognized NWA World champion in the NWA territories that had recognized Carpentier, before dropping the belt three months later to Wilbur Snyder.

** NWA World Tag Team Championship ( Chicago version ) ( 1 time ) – with Edouard Carpentier

Carpentier, the reigning World and European champion, agreed to fight Siki for the title, and they met in Paris, France on September 24, 1922.

Marcel Maurice Carpentier ( 2 March 1895 – 14 September 1977 ) was a French Army general who served in World War I, World War II and First Indochina War.

Carpentier himself indicated that he was tiring of Paris, and "... in 1939 without any other reason than the nostalgia of Cuba, I vacated my apartment and started the return to La Havana ".