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 mother called her Paus'l, a Luxemburg endearment meaning `` pussycat ''.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Her mother had done it before her, and even her old grandmother, who had collected money for smallpox and unwed mothers.

Her mother also was a person of superior mind and broad interests.

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

Her mother and father, for instance.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Her mother was already considerably concerned over her daughter's future.

Her mother is the former Miss Stella Hayward.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.

Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her mother and her siblings had travelled with Agrippa.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Her mother was Anaxo, daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia, daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon.

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His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.