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Camille Chamoun
Camille Chamoun , 1900-1987, Lebanese political leader. Chamoun held a variety of governmental posts before serving as president of Lebanon (1952-58). A Maronite Christian, Chamoun was opposed by Muslim leaders who disliked his pro-Western policies. The Muslim groups openly rebelled against Chamoun'... Read more
Camille Desmoulins
Camille Desmoulins , 1760-94, French revolutionary and journalist. His oratory of July 12, 1789, contributed to the storming of the Bastille two days later. His pamphlets and journals, such as Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789), were received with immense enthusiasm. Elected to the ... Read more
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro , 1830-1903, French impressionist painter, b. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In Paris from 1855, he came under the influence of Corot and the Barbizon school. Later he allied himself with the impressionists, and was represented in all of the eight impressionist exhibitions (1874-1886).... Read more
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , 1796-1875, French landscape painter, b. Paris. Corot was one of the most influential of 19th-century painters. The son of shopkeepers, he worked in textile shops until 1822, when he began to study painting. The classical landscape painters Michallon and Bertin were his ... Read more
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns , 1835-1921, French composer. A child prodigy, he made his debut as a pianist at 10 and entered the Paris Conservatory in 1848. He was a prolific composer, writing in almost every form, and he was organist at the Madeleine for 20 years. Saint-Saëns is best known... Read more
Vincent Auriol
Vincent Auriol , 1884-1966, French statesman, first president (1947-54) of the Fourth Republic. A Socialist deputy after 1914, he was finance minister under Léon Blum (1936-37) and minister of justice in the cabinet of Camille Chautemps (1937-38). He refused (1940) to vote plenary powers ... Read more
Georges Bonnet
Georges Bonnet , 1889-1973, French politician. He entered politics as a Radical Socialist. A financial expert, he was prominent at international conferences on reparations and other economic questions. He was ambassador (1937) to the United States and several times finance minister, notably in the C... Read more
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo 1905-90, American film actress, b. Stockholm, Sweden, as Greta Gustafsson. Garbo's success in the Swedish film The Atonement of Gösta Berling (1923) brought her to Hollywood. Possessing classic beauty and a husky, alluring voice, she was known in her early films for her portrayal... Read more
Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova , 1879-1945, Russian-American actress. She turned from music to drama, studying with Stanislavsky and later appearing at the Moscow Art Theater . In 1905 she emigrated to New York City and played Russian roles in her native tongue. She made her English-speaking debut (1906) in Ibsen... Read more
Gulfport
Gulfport city (1990 pop. 40,775), seat of Harrison co., SE Miss., a port on Mississippi Sound, the Gulf of Mexico, in a resort area; inc. 1898. A port of entry, it receives large shipments of bananas. The city's diverse manufactures include ink and petroleum resins, steel, appliances, furniture, cl... Read more

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Camille Pissaro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Camille Pissaro The French painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was one of the original impressionists...contemporaries, it is no less important in reflecting the new style. Camille Pissarro was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on July 10...
Camille Paglia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Camille Paglia Social critic and educator Camille Paglia (born 1947) has outraged or befuddled countless readers...reasoned conclusions that cannot be dismissed out-of-hand. Camille Paglia was born on April 2, 1947, in Endicott, New York...
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jean Baptiste Camille Corot The fresh and often informal treatment...nature by the French painter Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) marked a significant...the 19th century. On July 16, 1796, Camille Corot was born in Paris, the son of...
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Charles Camille Saint-Saëns The French composer Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote music...passion. Born in Paris into a moderately poor family, Camille Saint-Saëns began his musical education...
Camille Claudel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Camille Claudel The French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was the muse, pupil, and lover of...asylum, where she remained for the last 30 years of her life. Camille Claudel was the eldest of three children born to Louis-Prosper...
Camille
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Camille [ La Dame aux Camélias ]. This dramatization of Alexandre Dumas...following year by Jean M. Davenport in her own version, which she called Camille; or, The Fate of a Coquette . The story remains well known, largely because...
Camille Pissarro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Camille Pissarro , 1830-1903, French impressionist painter, b. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. In Paris from 1855, he came under the...
Camille Lemonnier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Camille Lemonnier , 1844-1913, Belgian novelist and art critic. After abandoning law, Lemonnier published his first work, Salon de...
Camille Jullian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Camille Jullian , 1859-1933, French historian. His monumental Histoire de la Gaule (8 vol., 1908-26) combines scholarly erudition...
Camille Desmoulins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Camille Desmoulins , 1760-94, French revolutionary and journalist. His oratory of July 12, 1789, contributed to the storming of the...

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Camille
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers CAMILLE USA, 1936 Director: George Cukor Production...Cast: Greta Garbo (Marguerite Gautier/Camille ); Robert Taylor (Armand Duval ); Lionel...Toronto), no. 35, 1994. * * * Garbo's Camille not only contains her best screen performance...
Jordan, Camille
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Jordan, Camille ( b. Lyons, France, 5 January 1838; d. Paris, France, 22 January...born into a well-to-do family. One of his granduncles (also named Camille Jordan) was a fairly well-known politician who took part in many events...
Bigourdan, Camille Guillaume
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Bigourdan, Camille Guillaume ( b . Sistels, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, 6 April 1851; d . Paris, France, 28 February 1932) astronomy, history...
Desmoulins, Camille
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Desmoulins, Camille (1760–94) French journalist and Revolutionary. He became an advocate in the Paris PARLEMENT in 1785, and four years...
Pissarro, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Pissarro, Camille (1830–1903). French painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, born on St Thomas in the West Indies, where his parents...
Bombois, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Bombois, Camille (1883–1970). French naive painter. He was the son of a boatman and spent his childhood on canal barges until he...
Corot, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Corot, Camille (1796–1875). French painter, mainly of landscapes. His father was a textile merchant and his mother a fashionable...
Bellaigue, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Bellaigue, Camille ( b Paris, 1858; d Paris, 1930). Fr. music critic, 1885–1930 for Revue des deux mondes . Biographer of Mendelssohn, Gounod, Mozart, and Verdi.
Claudel, Camille
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Claudel, Camille. See Rodin .
Erlanger, Camille
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Erlanger, Camille ( b Paris, 1863; d Paris, 1919). Fr. composer. Works incl. Requiem for double ch. and several operas ( Le Juif polonais , 1900; Le Fils de l'étoile , 1904; Bacchus triomphant , 1909; Le Barbier de Deauville , 1917).

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Hurricane Camille's fury remains vivid 40 years later.(Front)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 8/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...photograph taken three days after Hurricane Camille crashed ashore on Mississippi's Gulf...swept away while trying to wade through Camille's surging waters. Fred Rose is one...granite slabs that ring a memorial to Camille's Mississippi victims, including the...
'CAMILLE CLAUDEL': CORNY YET FULL-BLOODED
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/26/1990; ; 700+ words ; CAMILLE CLAUDEL Directed by: Bruno Nuytten Screenplay...Corner Rated: R (discreet sex scene) "Camille Claudel" is a throwback to the gilded...talented and tempestuous but hugely unlucky Camille Claudel with a somber boldness of gesture...
Camille Prats to give birth in the US.(Mr. Showbiz)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/13/2007; 700+ words ; Former child actress Camille Prats was on nationwide TV last Sunday...speculations why she is leaving for the US. Camille and Anthony gave an exclusive interview...for the States middle of last week. Camille is set to give birth in the US to a...
Camille Black. (Focus on Training)(handicapped athlete)
Magazine article from: Palaestra; 9/22/1992; 700+ words ; Camille has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism...therefore, swimming was not as much fun as it has been. Camille's competitive swimming career ended at age 13. Camille came out of her athletic retirement in 1991 and entered...
Camille, Threading a New Sound
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/4/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Morning Edition (NPR) 08-04-2006 Camille, Threading a New SoundHost: RENEE MONTAGNETime...host: The young French singer known as Camille loves to play with the sound of her voice...different in French than in English. Ms. CAMILLE (French Singer): Languages are melodies...
Camille Prats as assassin?(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 6/3/2004; 700+ words ; ...evil things. And this is the reason why Camille Prats was chosen to play an assassin named...nervous when I was offered the role, Camille told us. I knew it would be very challenging...really be something very different for Camille, something that we believe would be in...
Camille Claudel: Biography constructed as melodrama
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; Bruno Nuytten's 1988 film Camille Claudel presents itself as biography...sanity. And it serves the purposes of Camille's own family in transferring personal...of course has elements of truth-is Camille Claudel herself, the complexity of...
Camille Claudel, la tormentosa amante de Rodin: una devoción tan desenfrenada sólo podía acabar como acabó, con su protagonista sumida en la locura.(escultora)(Biografía)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 5/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...1868-1955), escribi que la escultora Camille Claudel impresionaba desde los 17 aos...Dubois, tras ver algunas de las piezas de Camille. La muchacha solt una fresca risa de...Sus primeros meses en Pars fueron para Camille Claudel los ms felices de su vida. Mayor...
Presenting Camille Yarbrough: The Featured Voice on Fatboy Slim's Praise You .
Business Wire; 1/12/2000; 700+ words ; ...enter the new millennium, Chicago native Camille Yarbrough's voice continues to infuse the music industry! Camille is the 'unidentified' featured vocalist...featured in "Praise You" is taken from Camille's song, "Take Yo' Praise," on...
REDEEMER REMEMBERS CAMILLE WITH CEREMONY ON AUG. 17 AFTERNOON
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/17/2006; 700+ words ; ...says this afternoon's ceremony at the Camille Memorial in Biloxi will be a bit shorter...the Aug. 17 anniversary of Hurricane Camille striking the Mississippi Gulf Coast...prayer and the reading of the names of Camille's 172 victims in south Mississippi...