Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

Her style of dressing in simple, boyish caps contrasting with gowns that were richly embroidered with plunging décolletage that revealed the nipples, was imitated throughout Italy and at the French court.

Her autobiography Thank Heaven, was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version.

Her first exposure to French artists Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, and Courbet was likely at the Paris World ’ s Fair of 1855.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots " between wind and water ".

Her ancestry was said to include Scots-Irish, English, Irish, French Huguenot, and American Indian ( Tuscarora ).

Her father had tried to also find a brilliant match for Elizabeth with the French Royal court when he paid a visit there.

Her friendship with Louise Abbéma ( 1853 – 1927 ), a French impressionist painter, some nine years her junior, was so close and passionate that the two women were rumored to be lovers.

* 1 October 1791 – 21 September 1792: Her Majesty The Queen of the French

Her screen persona as " a cold, remote erotic object which dreams are made on " reached a peak, according to the critic Philip French, in her second Buñuel film Tristana ( 1970 ).

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

Her last husband was a French banker, Alex Berger, whom she married in 1956.

Her son, Williams ' father, married a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque and Dutch Jewish descent.

Her low score of 1. 57 % in the first round was the party's worst electoral result, and the French ecologist's worst showing since René Dumont in the 1974.

Her next major award came in 1993 when she was received the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction in French for Cantique des Plaines ( 1993 ).

Her risqué routines captivated Paris, and she went on to become the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest paid female entertainer in the world, known for her flamboyance and a zest for the theatrical.

Her mother Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic.

Her second marriage was to the Italian-born French actor Yves Montand in 1950, a union which lasted until her death.

Her relics survived the French Revolution, and are housed in the church of St Leu in Paris.

Her father was executed on 23 July 1794, at the time of the French Revolution, a few days before the end of the Reign of Terror.

* Her Imperial Majesty The Empress of the French

Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes ( 1997 ), The Hi-Lo Country ( 1999 ), The Girl of Your Dreams ( 2000 ) and Woman on Top ( 2000 ).

Her next event was the 2000 Australian Open, which she won in singles without the loss of a set.

Her 22 singles titles mark the record for most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player ( male or female ) since introduction of the Open Era in 1968.

Her winning streak ( unbeaten since the 1989 French Open loss to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ) continued with victories in Tokyo, Amelia Island, and Hamburg.

Her overall record in 56 Grand Slam events was 282 – 34 ( 89 percent ) ( 87 – 10 at the French Open, 75 – 8 at Wimbledon, 73 – 10 at the US Open, and 47 – 6 at the Australian Open ).

Her debut at the Australian Open, Williams defeated younger sister Serena in the second round, which was the sisters ' first professional meeting.

Her next tournament was the Premier Mandatory Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, where she was seeded third.

Her next tournament was the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, a Premier Mandatory tournament.

Her next tournament was the French Open, where she played both singles and doubles despite her knee injury.

Her next tournament was the 2011 Australian Open where she was the fourth seed.

Her next scheduled tournament was the US Open.

Her film career had spread over almost 20 years before she gained international renown as Pina in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist milestone Roma, città aperta ( Rome, Open City, 1945 ).

The track " Open My Eyes " has been said to be the inspiration behind one of the earliest songs written by KISS, " Love Her All I Can ", a song originally intended for the pre-KISS band Wicked Lester.

Her overall record in 67 Grand Slam singles events was 306 – 49. 862 ( 120 – 14 at Wimbledon, 89 – 17 at the US Open, 51 – 11 at the French Open, and 46 – 7 at the Australian Open ).

Her German Open victory, her first win at a Tier I tournament, was noteworthy as she beat Jennifer Capriati in a semifinal and Serena Williams in the final, the then number two and number five ranked players, respectively.

Her announcement was a surprise because Henin was still ranked World No. 1 and was considered the favorite for the 2008 French Open, where she would have been the 3-time defending champion.

Her second came a year later at the French Open with straight-sets wins over Chris Evert in the semifinals and West German left-hander Sylvia Hanika in the final.

Her last consistent performance in a Grand Slam event was at the 1988 Australian Open, where, as the defending champion, she reached the quarterfinals before losing to the eventual champion, Steffi Graf.

Her Open era singles career winning percentage of 91. 37 % ( 593-56 ) is also unequaled.

Her win-loss performance in all Grand Slam singles tournaments was 82. 09 % ( 133-29 ), at the French Open, 84. 21 % ( 16-3 ), at Wimbledon, 83. 33 %% ( 50-10 ), at the US Open, 81. 25 % ( 26 – 6 ), and at the Australian Open, 80. 39 % ( 41-10 ).