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Louis Martineau, fils de Jean Martineau et de Mathurine Bonne, est né en 1624 au Saint-Savignan, France. Il est arrivé au Canada en 1652. Il épouse Madeleine Marecot le 9 avril 1663. Ils ont eu trois enfants. Les descendants habitent principalement dans la province du Québec.
Bulletin de la Société de généalogie de Québec.
Jean Dumets, Dumay ou Demers est né à Dieppe, France en 1630. Il est arrivé à Québec vers 1643. Il épouse Jeanne Voidy (Védié) en 1654. Ils ont eu treize enfants. Il est mort le 5 juillet 1708 à Québec. Les descendants habitent principalement dans la province du Québec.
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she ...
From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval world. Believed to dwell in exotic, remote areas, these inexplicable parts of God's creation aroused fear, curiosity, and wonder in equal measure. Powerfully captured in the illustrations of manuscripts, such as bestiaries, travel books, and devotional works, they continue to delight audiences today with their vitality and humor. Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops, and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind.