Famous People with Name Marguerite

Marguerite Vivian Young            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marguerite Vivian Young: was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism. Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism.Her first book of poetry was published in 1937, while she was teaching high-school English in Indianapolis. In that s

Marguerite Acarin            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marguerite Acarin: was a Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist.Acarin is generally known by her stage-name, Akarova. She was called "the Belgian Isadora Duncan". She studied music and dance under Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, creator of eurhythmics, after which she joined the Antwerp ballet. She soon left due to disputes with the ballet mistress.In 1922, attending a meeting arranged by Isadora Duncan's brother Raymond, she met artist Marcel Baugniet, with whom she would collaborate for many years. They married on 31 October 1923, but separated in 1928. Baugniet coined Marguerite's stage name. In this period she danced, choreographed, and designed sets and costumes, in performances to works by composers such as Igor Stravinski and Maurice Ravel. Her second marriage, to artistic patron Louis Lievens, took place on 6 April 1935. This marriage too ended in a separation, in 1939.

Marguerite Boulc'h            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Boulc'h: was a French singer and actress.orn in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris. In her teens she got a break when she met one of the female music-hall

Marguerite Durand            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Durand: was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.In 1888, she gave up her career in the theatre to marry an up-and-coming young lawyer, Georges Laguerre. A friend and follower of the politically ambitious army general Georges Boulanger, h

Marguerite Long            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marguerite Long: was a French pianist.Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine Marmontel. Marguerite Long gave the first performances of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Piano Concerto in G major. From 1906 to 1940 she taught at the Paris Conservatoire, her students including Jacques Février,Willem Ibes and Samson François.

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite: the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician.