Famous People with Name Jeanne

Jeanne Balibar            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jeanne Balibar: a French actress.She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.Recently she starred

Jeanne Louise Calment            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jeanne Louise Calment: was a French woman with the longest confirmed lifespan in history at age 122 years 164 days.[2] She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. Because her husband was a bourgeois, she never worked, instead li

Jeanne-Marie Darré            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jeanne-Marie Darré: was a French classical pianist. She was known for her lyrical and elegant interpretations of the solo works of Chopin and Liszt, and of the Saint-Saens Concertos. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur and made a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.Darré was born in Givet, France, in 1905. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Isidor Philipp and Marguerite Long, and worked with Faure, Saint-Saens and Ravel among others. She made her debut at the age of 14 and her first recordings at 16. When she was 21, she played all five of the Saint-Saens Piano Concertos in a single concert with the Concerts Lamoureux orchestra

Jeanne Duval            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jeanne Duval: was a Haitian-born actress and dancer of mixed French and black African ancestry. For 20 years, she was the muse of French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. They met in 1842, when Duval left Haiti for France, and the two remained together, albeit stormily, for the next two decades. Duval is said to have been the woman whom Baudelaire loved most, in his life,[1] after his mother. She was born in Haiti on an unknown date, sometime around 1820.

Jeanne-Marie Marsan            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jeanne-Marie Marsan: was a French dramatic actress and an opera singer, active in France and Germany in Europe, and in the French West Indies and Louisiana. She was the leading actress and opera singer in Saint-Domingue (pre-revolutionary Haiti), and later in the first theatre in New Orleans in Louisiana.