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Alvina, Anicee b. January 28, 1953 d. November 10, 2006
Actress. Real name Anicee Shahmanesh. Born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, to an Iranian father and French mother, she appeared mainly in international films during the 1970s. She is best known for her co-starring roles in the 1971 movie "Friends" and its sequel "Paul and Michelle" (1974). Alvina's uninhibited nude scenes in these and other films gave her brief notoriety as a screen sex symbol, but damaged her subsequent career as a serious actress. Her other credits include "Une Femme...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Le Cimetiere de Boncourt, Boncourt, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
d'Orléans, Bathilde b. July 9, 1750 d. January 10, 1822
French Royalty. Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Louise Henriette de Bourbon, was born at the Château de Saint-Cloud. She was descended from both King Louis XIV of France and his brother Philippe. She was the sister of Philippe Égalité, who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, despite his loyalty to the Revolution. Bathilde was also the aunt of [Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
d'Orléans, Henri b. January 16, 1822 d. May 7, 1897
French Royalty, Military Commander. Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, son of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, was born at the Palais-Royal in Paris. He was the ninth child and fifth son of the marriage. At birth, he received the title of Duke of Aumale. His father became the King of the French, and his mother was the daughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples and Sicily. At the age of eight, Henri inherited a fortune from his godfather, [Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
d'Orléans, Louise Marie Adélaïde b. August 23, 1777 d. December 31, 1847
French Royalty. Louise Marie Adélaïde Eugénie d'Orléans, daughter of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, was born at the Palais-Royal in Paris. She was the fifth of six children, and the younger twin of her sister Françoise d'Orléans. She received the title of Mademoiselle de Chartres at birth. After the death of her sister Françoise, Adélaïde was Mademoiselle d'Orléans. As she was legitimately descended from Louis XIII along the male line...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
d'Orléans, Philippe II b. August 2, 1674 d. December 2, 1723
Regent of France. Philippe Charles d'Orléans, son of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, was born at the Château de Saint Cloud. His father was Louis XIV's younger brother. Philippe was the grandson of King Louis XIII of France. At birth, he received the title of Duke of Chartres. He served with distinction in the military. In 1692, his father Philippe and his uncle Louis...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
d'Orléans, Duke of Nemours, Louis b. October 25, 1814 d. June 26, 1896
French Royalty. Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans, son of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, was born at the Palais-Royal in Paris. He was the fourth child and second son of the marriage. At birth, he received the title of Duke of Nemours. His father became the King of the French, and his mother was the daughter of King Ferdinand I of Naples and Sicily. Louis became a chevalier of the Order of the Saint Esprit in 1830. He served with...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
de Bourbon, Louis Alexandre b. June 6, 1678 d. December 1, 1737
French Nobility, Military Commander. Legitimized son of the King Louis XIV. He was born to Louis and his mistress Madame de Montespan at the Château de Clagny in the town of Versailles. Legitimized in 1681, he was awarded the title of Count of Toulouse. It was the first of many he would receive. He became commander of the Royal Armies in 1697. The Count was knighted in 1693 and 1704. He commanded the French fleet at the Battle of Málaga in 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1714...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
de Bourbon, Louis François Joseph b. September 1, 1734 d. March 13, 1814
French Royalty, Field Marshal. Louis François Joseph de Bourbon, son of Louis François de Bourbon and his wife Louise Diane d'Orléans, was born at the Hôtel de Conti in Paris. His father was the Prince of Conti. His mother was the daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, the Regent of France for Louis XV. At birth, Louis François received the title of Count of La Marche. His mother died in childbirth when he was two years old. He was the only child of the marriage, excluding a stillborn child. The Count...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
de Bourbon, Louise Marie Adélaïde b. March 13, 1753 d. June 23, 1821
French Nobility. Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, and his wife Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, was born at the Hôtel de Toulouse in Paris. She was the descendant of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan on both sides of her family. Her father was their grandson, and her mother was their great-granddaughter. However, her mother died in childbirth when she was just one year old, and she was raised in a convent...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Louis Jean Marie b. November 16, 1725 d. March 4, 1793
Duke, Philanthropist. Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles, was born at the Château de Rambouillet. His father was the legitimized son of King Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Montespan. At birth, he received the title of Duke of Penthièvre. His mother acted as a surrogate parent to Louis XV, who had been orphaned. The duke was close, therefore, to the young king, who was his godfather. Louis Jean's father died in 1737, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Anne Philbrick)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
De Lamballe, Marie-Louise Princesse b. September 8, 1749 d. September 3, 1792
French Courtier, Aristocrat. Born to Royal blood in Italy, she moved to France and became the best friend of Queen Marie Antoinette. During the French Revolution she was imprisoned for refusing to sign an oath against the monarchy. Eventually she was delivered to the mobs in Paris and brutally murdered. Her death touched off what is now known as the September Massacres. (Bio by: Samantha)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Delannoy, Jean b. January 12, 1908 d. June 19, 2008
Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter. He received the grand prize for "La Symphonie Pastorale" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, Delannoy worked as a journalist before becoming an actor and appearing in a few films during the late 1920s and early 1930s. He would later move behind the camera as an editor and director of shorts. Among his other memorable films are "L'Eternel Retour" (The Eternal Return, 1943) and "Notre Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Norte Dame...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Guainville, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Diane of Poitiers b. September 3, 1499 d. April 25, 1566
Royal Mistress. Duchess of Valentinois. Born the daughter of Jean de Poitiers and Jeanne de Batarnay in Saint-Vallier, Drôme, France. In 1515 she married Louis de Brézé, comte de Maulevrier, grand seneschal of Normandy. She then became lady-in-waiting to Claude de France, wife of Francis I. She was widowed in 1533 and within a few years became the mistress of Henri, the dauphin, who was almost twenty years her junior. Although Henri married Catherine de Medici, Diane eclipsed the queen with her...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Anet Castle, Anet, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Plot: Funeral Chapel
Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans b. September 3, 1810 d. July 13, 1842
French Royalty. Born Ferdinand Philippe Louis Charles Henri Rosolin, Prince héréditaire de France at Palermo, Italy, the son of Louis Philippe I d'Orléans, Roi de France in exile and Maria Amelia Teresa di Borbone, Principessa di Borbone delle Due Sicilie. He gained the title of Duc de Guise and was styled as Duc de Chartres before 1830. He gained the title of Duc d'Orléans in 1830. He married Helene Luise Elisabeth Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin in May 1837 at Fontainebleau, Île-de-France...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Carriage accident
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Feyder, Jacques b. July 21, 1888 d. May 25, 1948
Noted Belgian Motion Picture Director. He is remembered for his films "L'Atlantide" (1921), "Carmen" (1926), "Thérèse Raquin" (1928), "The kiss" (1930), "Anna Christie" (1932), "La Kermesse Heroïque" (1935), "Knight Without Armour" (1937), "Une Femme Disparait" (1941) and "Macadam" (1946). (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimètiere de Sorel Moussel, Sorel-Moussel, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Louis Philippe I., King b. October 6, 1773 d. August 26, 1850
French King.
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Helene Louise b. January 24, 1814 d. May 18, 1858
Duchess d'Orléans. Born Helene Luise Elisabeth Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, the daughter of Friedrich Ludwig Erbgroßherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Karoline Luise Prinzessin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. She married Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans, Prince héréditaire de France, Duc d'Orléans in May 1837 at Fontainebleau, Île-de-France, France. A happy marriage, it produced two sons. Within five years, however, her husband was killed in a...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Queen Marie Amelie Therese b. April 26, 1782 d. March 24, 1866
French Queen Consort. Born Maria Amelia Teresa di Borbone, Principessa di Borbone della Due Sicilie in Caserta, Italy, daughter of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, and Marie Caroline Erzherzögin von Österreich. Driven from Naples in 1798, the Neapolitan royal family fled into exile. She met the exiled Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, in Palermo. She married him in November 1809; the couple eventually produced ten children. The Duke and Duchess of Orleans returned to France in 1814 residing in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Chapelle Royale de Dreux , Dreux, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France
Rosay, Françoise b. April 19, 1891 d. March 28, 1974
Noted French Actress. She is best remembered for her films "Crainquebille" (1922), "La Kermesse Heroïque" (1935), "Pension Mimosas" (1935), "Un Carnet de Bal" (1938), "Une Femme Disparaît" (1942), "Saraband for Dead Lovers" (1948), "La Reine Margot" (1954), "The Seventh Sin" (1957), "Up From the Beach" (1961) and "Pas Folle la Guêpe" (1972). She was married to Motion Picture Director Jacques Feyder. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cimètiere de Sorel Moussel, Sorel-Moussel, Departement d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France

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