* 1972 – Manon Rhéaume, Canadian ice hockey player

* September 23-goaltender, Manon Rhéaume became the first woman to play in the National Hockey League during a pre-season game, and also the first woman ever to play in one of the Big Four Pro Sports.

Manon Rhéaume ( born February 24, 1972 ) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender.

In October 2008, the IHL's Port Huron Icehawks announced that they going to have Manon Rhéaume take part in their training camp activities and will play for at least a period of the team's exhibition season opener.

Rhéaume formed the Manon Rhéaume Foundation in 2008 as a way to give back to the community and to the game of ice hockey.

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In 1992, goaltender Manon Rhéaume played in a preseason game for the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first woman to suit up for a male pro sports team in North America.

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The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

Madame Roland ( aka Manon or Marie Roland ) was another important female activist.

Manon Lescaut was a great success and laid the foundations for Puccini's career and reputation.

Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third child of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber.

Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916.

" The narrator learns this copy of Manon Lescaut was a gift from Armand to Marguerite, Armand telling him that she read the story " over and over again ," making notes in the margins and " declar that when a woman loves, she can not do as Manon did.

Manon Lescaut is still widely read in Nezval's version, it was also adapted to film ( 1970, directed by Josef Henke, starring Jana Preissová as Manon, Petr Štěpánek as de Grieux ).

Beyond the name of the heroine, her grandmother was referenced as having sung Manon.

The event that spurred him into writing was the death by polio of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler ( once Gustav Mahler's wife ) and Walter Gropius.

In the following century the abbé Prévost, who was a conscientious collaborator with the Benedictines of Saint-Maur before he became the author of the more profane work Manon Lescaut, was in treaty with a Dutch publisher for a translation which was to consist of ten volumes ; only the first volume appeared ( 1733 ).

The EMI recording of Massenet's Manon with Gheorghiu in the title role won the 2001 Gramophone Award for " Best Opera Recording ", was nominated for " Best Opera Recording " in the 2002 Grammy Awards.

The first Manon was Marie Heilbron ; other noted interpreters include Sybil Sanderson ( Massenet's personal favorite ), Fanny Heldy, Lucrezia Bori, Bidu Sayao, Victoria de los Ángeles, Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills, Edita Gruberova, Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, and Natalie Dessay.

Due to its heavy vocal demands, the role of Manon was described by Sills as " the French Isolde ".

Within a year of its Paris premiere, Manon was given its UK premiere in January 1885, in Liverpool ; in the US, the Academy of Music in New York presented the opera later the same year, on 23 December.

With the disruption of the fire at the Opéra-Comique and Massenet's work on other operatic projects ( especially Esclarmonde ), it was put to one side, until the Vienna Opera, pleased with the success of Manon, asked the composer for a new work.

As a singer, Sayão was forever to remain his passion, one which was accentuated by seeing her in Manon performances in Montreal.

* The Abbé Prévost, ( April 1, 1697 – 1763 ), celebrated novelist known worldwide for his Manon Lescaut, was born in Hesdin.

Ivy St. Helier played Manon, and the role of the aged Marquis of Shayne was played by the 26 year-old Alan Napier, later to gain fame as Batman's butler, Alfred, in the 1960s ( both repeated their roles in the 1933 film ).

The episode was inspired by the French movie Manon of the Spring.

In 1974, he married singer Manon Kirouac, called Anne Renée on the stage: mother of Jean-Pierre Angélil ( born in 1974 ) and Anne-Marie Angélil ( born in 1977 ).

Blondel married Manon Balletti, better known for her relationship with Casanova.

According to Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam, Lukin is married to a Dutch woman named Manon, whom he met in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Llodra and his wife Camille were married on September 9, 2003, and have two children, a daughter, Manon ( born March 23, 2004 ) and a son, Teo ( born September 5, 2007 ).

On 4 July 2007, McCrory married actor Damian Lewis, and they have a daughter, Manon ( b. 2006 ), and a son, Gulliver ( b. 2007 ).

Gerry and Manon have one son, Dylan.

In Underground, the player takes the role of Manon Batiste ( based on Helene Deschamps Adams ), a French woman who appeared in the first game as an advisor.

While with the Minnesota Whitecaps, Ruggiero had the opportunity to play with 1998 Canadian Olympic goalie Manon Rheaume during the 2008-09 Whitecaps season.