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

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

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.

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.

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

Casta began to take up with a man with whom she had had a relationship shortly before marrying Bécquer, something that was later blamed on Bécquer ’ s trips and lack of attention by Casta ’ s acquaintances.

The third child was possibly fruit of the extramarital relations of Casta.

The music that was used in the commercial was from " Casta Diva " from Vincenzo Bellini's Norma because the Simpsons crew would not have to pay for it.

* Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978

He has used the expression Casta Meretrix to argue that the term Whore of Babylon was acceptable in a certain tradition of the Church, in the writings of Rabanus Maurus for instance.

Camille's song " 1, 2, 3 " from Le Sac des Filles was used in the television ad for Cacharel's Promesse perfume starring Laetitia Casta and Matthew Avedon.

Casta was dressed in lingerie and wore a black wig throughout the video.

In June 2005 he sold one of his companies, Especialidades Cerveceras, S. A. ( the makers of premium beer Casta ) to Fomento Económico Mexicano ( FEMSA ), world's second-largest Coca-Cola bottler.

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

Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica.

" 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.

* Vincenzo Bellini and Felice Romani – " Casta Diva " from Bellini's Norma, performed by Angela Gheorghiu and the London Symphony Orchestra, directed by Evelino Pido – recorded in 2000 ( scenes 11, 14, 28, 36 ) and Bellini's Il pirata ( scenes 16, 26 )

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Casta is engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi.

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.

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.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There was no one but me.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

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