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 father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Her eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.

Her mother and father, for instance.

Her father was the chieftain of the barony of Murrisk.

Her father wrote of it, " I see nothing in the way of a good appreciation of Louisa's merits as a woman and a writer.

Her father ’ s marriage to Julia was his third marriage.

Her father was a man of consular rank ; her grandfather's name was Catulus.

Her father had no private income and the parsonage would revert to the church on his death.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her father was Mírzá Muḥammad ` Alí Nahrí of Isfahan an eminent Bahá ’ í of the city and prominent aristocrat.

Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his own father ( Charles Bardot ) in the family business.

Her father was " the sort of rebel destined to transform colonial America "; as clerk of the court, he was jailed for disobeying the local magistrate in defense of middle-class shopkeepers and artisans in conflict with wealthy landowners.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Her Journal reveals her growing sophistication as a critic as well as the influence of her father ’ s friend the artist Sir John Everett Millais who recognised Beatrix ’ s talent of observation.

Her father, unable to bear the grief of his loss, and feeling adrift in a foreign country, returned to his native France for 16 years, with only one visit back to Philadelphia.

" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.

Her father then sets out with Laura in a carriage for the ruined village of Karnstein.

Her grandparents were in a band that played throughout Ireland, her father was the leader of the Slieve Foy Band before opening Leo's Tavern, and her mother played in a dance band and later taught music at Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.

Her father was Emperor Shōmu, and her mother was Empress Kōmyō.

Her father is actor Richard Davalos.

Her father told her she had done well in reaching out to Douglass.

Her father played the ukulele and guitar and sang professionally in nightclubs with a group called Step ' n ' Fetchit.