Laetitia Marie Laure Casta ( born 11 May 1978 ) is a French actress and model.

Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica.

The poet wrote very little about Casta, as most of his inspiration at this time ( as it is the case with the famous rima LIII ) came from his feelings towards Elisa Guillén.

Casta (, ) is a Spanish and Portuguese term used in 17th and 18th centuries mainly in Spanish America to describe as a whole the mixed-race people which appeared in the post-Conquest period.

Casta is an Iberian word ( existing in Spanish, Portuguese and other Iberian languages since the Middle Ages ), meaning " lineage ", " breed " or " race.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg ( A Heroic Life ), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France.

After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta was elected Miss Lumio 93.

Casta has been the L ' Oréal Paris brand ambassador since 1998.

Casta has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including Victoria's Secret catalogs, ELLE magazine, and Vogue magazine.

Casta was one of the company's signature Victoria ' Secret Angels from 1998 to 2000.

For Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

Casta appeared in Les Âmes Fortes, a dramatic film directed by Raùl Ruiz.

Casta served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012.

On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protestation to ask for the immediate release of Ingrid Betancourt, presidential candidate kidnapped since 2002 by the FARC.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

Casta became the focus of a controversy when, after being selected to be Marianne, newspapers in Britain and France reported that she had relocated to London where taxes on high earners are lower.

The French minister of the interior spoke about Casta at the radio ; comparing the advantages of living in France with regard to the drawbacks of London after political opponents used Casta's relocation to London as an opportunity to criticise the government.

On 19 October 2001, Casta gave birth to her daughter, Sahteene.

However, the term continued to be applied to notable models such as Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigová, Carla Bruni, Tatiana Sorokko ,, Yasmin Le Bon, Shalom Harlow, Nadja Auermann, Helena Christensen, Patricia Velásquez, Adriana Karembeu, and Milla Jovovich.

" Her choices were: Symphony No. 41 ( Mozart ), " Casta Diva " from Norma ( Bellini ), " Ode to Joy " ( Beethoven ), Die Walküre ( Wagner ), Liebestod ( Wagner ), " L ' amour est un oiseau rebelle " from Carmen ( Bizet ), " A Whiter Shade Of Pale " ( Procol Harum ) and " Polonaise ", Op.

These non-English terms for " race-mixing " are not considered as offensive as " miscegenation ", although they have historically been tied to the caste system ( Casta ) that was established during the colonial era in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies ; it was used to describe those who had one European-born parent and one who was a member of an indigenous American population in some countries, while it was used to refer to people of European, African and Indigenous admixture in others like Venezuela.

In the Casta system mestizos had fewer rights than European-born persons called " Peninsulares ", and " Creoles " who were persons born in the New World of two European-born parents, but more rights than " Indios " and Negros.

" Casta diva " was one of the most familiar arias of the nineteenth century.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

`` and the more the action claims to be total, the smaller is the part of man engaged ''.

The Jackson report will provide some of the political support Mr. Rusk will need if he is to get rid of department personnel engaged, as Sen. Jackson puts it, `` in work that does not really need doing ''.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

They feel that the United States is engaged in a life-and-death struggle with communism for survival and world supremacy.

The Institute is engaged in an extensive program of medico-military scientific research in both morphological and experimental pathology.

Among the specific areas of concentration in which the staff is engaged, are such projects as biological and biochemical studies of the effects of microwaves ; ;

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

There is currently a major controversy of public education in which group interests and values are heavily engaged.

Mr. Reama, far from really being retired, is engaged in industrial relations counseling.

The problem becomes even more complex where an enterprise is engaged in the manufacture of a wide variety of other goods in addition to the heavy electrical equipment.

This volunteer corps still to date is engaged in doing good to others and trains new volunteering recruits for doing the same.

He is certainly retired at the time of Three Act Tragedy ( 1935 ) but he does not enjoy his retirement and comes repeatedly out of it thereafter when his curiosity is engaged.

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and / or demonstrating an art.

Covered entity can refer to an employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee, and is generally an employer engaged in interstate commerce and having 15 or more workers.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.