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# Théodore Bachelet

Jean-Louis-Théodore Bachelet (15 January 1820 – 26 September 1879) was a 19th-century French historian and musicologist.

## Biography

After studying at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen and the Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he entered the École normale in 1840 and was received agrégé d'histoire in 1846. Successively a teacher of history at colleges in Le Havre, Chartres and St. Quentin, then in high schools at Clermont-Ferrand and Coutances, he was appointed in 1847 Professor of History at lycée of Rouen, where he taught until 1873 and in the preparatory school to higher education in this city. Also an accomplished musicologist, he donated his important fifteenth to eighteenth centuries sheet music collection at the Library of Rouen of which he also was responsible after 1873.
In collaboration with Charles Dezobry, Bachelet wrote:
* Dictionnaire Général de Biographie et d'Histoire, de Mythologie, de Géographie ancienne et Moderne comparée, des Antiquités et des Institutions grecques, romaines, françaises et étrangères [fr], Paris, 1857 and 1863. Reprint: Paris, Delagrave, 1889, 2 vol., 2989 p.;
* Dictionnaire des Lettres, des Beaux-Arts et des Sciences Morales et Politiques [fr], Paris, 1863.
He is also the author of simple popular works, published under his name or under the pseudonyms "Bosquet" or "Mignan", by the éditions Mégard [fr] in Rouen; The nine children's books published by Mégard had a circulation of nearly 200,000 copies.

## Publications

* 1837: Psaumes et cantiques en faux bourdon, Rouen, Fleury Fils Ainé.
* 1852: La Guerre de cent ans, Rouen, Mégard; rééd. Nîmes, Lacour, 2013.
* 1863: Les Français en Italie au XVI, Rouen, Mégard.
* 1853: Mahomet et les Arabes, Rouen, Mégard
* 1853: Les Rois catholiques d’Espagne, Rouen, Mégard.
* 1859: les Grands Ministres français : Suger, Jacques Cœur, Sully, Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert
* 1868: Histoire de Napoléon Ier, Rouen, Mégard
* 1863: Saint-Louis roi de France
* 1868–75: Cours d’histoire, 3 vol., Paris, A. Courcier, 1878–1885.
* 1869: François Ier et son siècle
* 1871–74: Cours d’histoire de France, 3 vol., Paris, A. Courcier, 1874–1879.
* 1864: Les Hommes illustres de France, Rouen, Mégard.
* 1874: Histoire des temps modernes, Paris, A. Courcier.
* 1886: Les Arabes : origine, mœurs, religion, conquêtes, Rouen, Mégard.

## Sources

* Édouard Frère, Manuel du bibliographe normand, Rouen, Le Brument, 1860, (p. 59).
* Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Paris, Hachette, 1870, (p. 84).
# Konrad von Altstetten

Konrad von Altstetten (fl. 1320–1327) was a German petty nobleman and Middle High German lyric poet in the Minnesang (courtly love) tradition. He belonged to a family of vassals of the Abbey of Saint Gall, based in Altstätten. His poetry, light in style, was influenced by Gottfried von Neifen. Three of his songs are preserved in the Codex Manesse.

## Life

Konrad von Altstetten belonged to a family of ministeriales (or Dienstmannen, that is, unfree vassals) of the Abbey of Saint Gall. The centre of the family was the old castle of Altstätten in the Oberrheintal (today part of Switzerland). The family is attested between 1166 and 1436. The younger line that held the Meieramt (stewardship) of Altstätten after 1279. There are several known Konrads in the family. A knight named Konrad von Altstetten is attested in 1235 and a priest in 1268, but it is generally accepted that the poet is the Meier (steward) mentioned in a few documents.
Konrad's father was named Walther (fl. 1280–1316). He had younger brothers named Rudolf, Dietrich and Walther. The exact dates of Konrad's stewardship are not known. In 1320, he and Rudolf witnessed a document issued by Abbot Hiltbold. In 1327, the abbot pledged to him the profits of justice (income from court fees) from the ecclesiastical court in Altstätten. In a document of 1334, Konrad's brother Walther is mentioned as steward, meaning that Konrad had probably died. In 1338, the castle of Altstätten was destroyed in a conflict between the steward and the city of Konstanz and its allies. On 30 January 1341, Walther met with representatives of the cities to secure a peace. In 1372, Konrad's three nephews, Christoffel, Rudolf and Hermann, the sons of his brother Rudolf, made a pious endowment to Saint Gall in his memory.

## Works

Konrad's poetry is light in style and shows the influence of Gottfried von Neifen. His language, however, belongs to the later generation of Johannes Hadlaub, active in the early 14th century. Three of his songs, a total of thirteen stanzas, are preserved in a single manuscript, the Codex Manesse. All three seem to be dances:
* Ich hân mîn herze
* Wol dem meien, wol der wunne
* Der sumer hât den meien
In the Codex Manesse, there is an illustration of Konrad holding a hunting falcon and reclining in his lover's arms beneath a rose bush. The tied falcon suggests that "his sexual aggression has been tamed". The scene may depict the woman distracting Konrad from feeding his falcon. It represents the most intimate pose in the illustrations of the codex, and is certainly reflective of the intimacy of the lyrics. Above and to the left is a depiction of Konrad's coat-of-arms. Unlike other members of his family, Konrad did not use his coat-of-arms on his seal. Surviving examples of his seal show a helmet with three hackles, which is depicted in the top right of the illustration in the Codex Manesse.
# Death of a Ladies' Man (film)

Death of a Ladies' Man is a 2020 Canadian-Irish coproduced comedy-drama film, directed by Matt Bissonnette. The film stars Gabriel Byrne as Samuel O'Shea, a college literature professor in Montreal who must confront his mortality and make peace with his family after a series of hallucinations lead to his diagnosis with an inoperable brain tumour.
The film's cast also includes Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Karelle Tremblay, Suzanne Clément, Joel Bissonnette, Pascale Bussières, Alexandre Nachi and Tyrone Benskin.
The film's themes are reflected through the use of seven Leonard Cohen songs in its musical soundtrack: "Bird on the Wire", "Memories", "Hallelujah", "Why Don't You Try", "Heart with No Companion", "The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien errant)" and "Did I Ever Love You". The use of Cohen's literary or musical work is a recurring motif in Bissonnette's work, also seen in his 2002 filmmaking debut Looking for Leonard and his 2009 film Passenger Side. The film shares the title of Cohen's 1977 album of the same name.
The film premiered on September 24, 2020 at the Calgary International Film Festival, and went into commercial release in Canada in theatres and on video on demand platforms on March 12, 2021.
# Wilkes Bashford

Wilkes Bashford was a clothing retailer headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. In November 2009, it was acquired by Mitchells Stores.
The flagship store was opened in 1966 by its namesake Wilkes Bashford. It is favored by some prominent individuals such as former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. The original store is in the Union Square Shopping District in San Francisco, California. Later the company expanded to Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California.
It sold brands such as: Brioni, Brunello Cucinelli, Ermenegildo Zegna, Loro Piana, Kiton, Missoni, Pucci, Oxxford Clothes, Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, and more. The store has a shoe department featuring Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Bontoni, John Lobb, and Gravati.
The store's namesake Wilkes Bashford died of prostate cancer on January 16, 2016, at the age of 82.

## Controversies

In 1985, founder Wilkes Bashford and partner Jack Guillaume were charged with cheating the City of San Francisco out of $1 million in rent.

## In popular culture

Wilkes Bashford merchandise is an "addiction" for a wealthy closeted gay character, Beauchamp Day, in Armistead Maupin's eponymous first book from the Tales of the City series, which is mostly set in San Francisco.
# Yasmin Angoe

Yasmin Angoe is a Ghanaian American writer, known for her novel Her Name is Knight (2021), first of the Nena Knight series, published by Thomas & Mercer.
Her books have been optioned by Fifth Season for a television series, which is currently under development.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Angoe taught middle and high school English. She moved to South Carolina in 2009 and continues to live there with her husband and their family.
# John Banister (composer)

John Banister (1630 – 3 October 1679) was an English musical composer and violinist.

## Early life

Banister was the son of one of the waits (municipal musicians) of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and that profession he at first followed. His father was his first instructor, and he arrived at such proficiency on the violin that Charles II became interested in him and sent him for further education to France. On his return, Charles appointed him to the post of leader of his own band, vacated by the death of Thomas Baltzar in 1663.

## Court life

About 1666–1667 he is said to have been dismissed by the king for an impertinent remark concerning the appointment of French musicians to the royal band. This seems to be referred to in Pepys's Diary, dated 20 February 1666 – 1667, although Banister's name occurs in a list of the King's Chapel in 1668.
   When we come to the Duke of York here ... they talk also how the King’s viallin, Bannister, is mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some part of the King’s musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth.

## Concerts

On 30 December 1672, he inaugurated a series of concerts at his own house, which are remarkable as being the first lucrative concerts given in London. One peculiarity of the arrangements was that the audience, on payment of one shilling, were entitled to demand what music they wished to be performed. These entertainments continued to be given by him, as we learn from advertisements in the London Gazette of the period, until within a short time of his death, which took place on 3 October 1679. He was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

## Compositions

His most important composition is the music to the tragedy of Circe by Dr. C. Davenant, which was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1676. Manuscript copies of the first act are preserved in the library of the Royal College of Music, and in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. In the same year he wrote music to The Tempest in conjunction with Pelham Humphrey.
Several songs by Banister, some of them belonging to some classic tragedy of which the name is unknown, and written jointly with Dr. Blow, are in a manuscript in the Christ Church Library, Oxford. In the contemporary collections of printed music his name occurs frequently. Besides his vocal compositions, he wrote a great many short pieces for one, two, and three violins, and also for the lute. He was especially skilled in writing upon a ground bass.

## Family

His son, John Banister the Younger, was a pupil of his father's, and became, like him, a violinist in the royal band. He performed under Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, and Anne. When the first Italian operas were given in England at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, he played the first violin. He died in 1735. There is a portrait of John in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
# Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach

Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach (May 29, 1617 – October 17, 1672) was a German poet and painter. She was a daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden.

## Life

Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach was a daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden from his second marriage to Agathe of Erbach. After the early death of her mother (1621) she grew up under the care of her "faithful Starschedelin" in the Margrave's Dragon Castle on the Ill in Strasbourg. Like her younger sister Elisabeth, she received a thorough education, although at the time the Thirty Years War was worsening. She had a poetic and artistic talent, and quite early she began to write and paint.
According to Karl Obser (1935), her poetry was influenced by the Strasbourg "Sincere Society of the Firs". She wrote poems and sayings. "They are free of baroque tears and express their instructive wisdom and their simple-religious meaning in a pleasing way. The poetic element is small, but the God-given view of life finds and gives consolation". "Some examples of headings may illustrate their moral purpose and life experience: Anger is an evil of all evils . A faithful friend is a great treasure , praise of humility , thought from eternity ,Beauty passes, virtue persists."
Anna Maria of Baden-Durlach also wrote a longer poem about the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus (1647), a lovely bukolika on "the Lord's President Selmmitzen Feldgut zu Berghausen". She also translated poems from Italian and French, occasional poems wrote to name days. Her literary work was not published during her lifetime.
Among her works there are red chalk, Indian ink and pen drawings, portraits and tracings on the Dutch model, animal and flower displays. Her work was usually given to family members or friends.
Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach was closely associated with her younger sister Elisabeth, who was also artistically active, but less gifted. They worked together on many things. Anna Maria maintained contacts to numerous artists. In the field of paper cutting she made remarkable. After she had spent the youth in Strasbourg, later lived alternately in the Margravial courts in Basel and Strasbourg. She remained unmarried. Although she died in Basel, she was buried in Pforzheim on November 1, 1672.
# Mermet de Cachon

Eugène-Emmanuel Mermet-Cachon (10 September 1828 – 14 March 1889), was a French priest and Roman Catholic missionary in Bakumatsu period Japan, who served as interpreter for and advisor to French diplomatic missions, playing crucial role in the development of a special relationship between the French government and the Tokugawa shogunate.

## Biography

Mermet-Cachon was born in La Pesse, in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France. He entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in July 1952 and was ordained on 11 June 1854. On 25 August 1854, less than two months after his ordination, he was sent to Hong Kong.
Together with Father Prudence Seraphin-Barthelemy Girard and Father Louis-Theodore Furet, he arrived at Naha, the capital of the Kingdom of Ryukyu on 6 May 1855. During his two years in Okinawa, he was unable to win a single convert; however, during this time he developed a working knowledge of the Japanese language. On his return to Hong Kong, he was recruited by Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, whom he assisted at Edo with the negotiations cumulating in the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan which was signed on 9 October 1858.
In November 1859 he returned to Japan, this time to Hakodate, the main town on the island of Hokkaido where he opened a French-language school of French in April 1860; however, his efforts to open a hospital were frustrated as Russian Orthodox missionaries had arrived first, and had received official blessing to establish a clinic. His efforts as a missionary also met with no success, and disappointed and humiliated, and suffering from ill health, he left Hakodate in 1863.
Mermet-Cachon returned to Edo and served as an interpreter for Prince Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt, who was a strong advocate of the use of force to govern relations with Japan and who supported the French intervention in the 20 July 1863 Bombardment of Shimonoseki. After returning to France in July 1863, Mermet-Cachon abandoned the Paris Foreign Missions Society, and after renouncing his vows as a Catholic priest, returned to Japan in a private capacity as interpreter to the French diplomat Léon Roches in April 1864. On 1 April 1865, he established a French language school in Yokohama and took a former prostitute as his common-law wife. He returned to France again on 27 October 1866, apparently with the intention of making only a short stay; however, in 1867, he was requested to serve as an assistant to Tokugawa Akitake, the 14-year-old son of Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyō of Mito Domain, who had arrived as a special envoy of the Tokugawa shogunate for the 1867 World Fair in Paris, where Japan had a pavilion. He also acted as interpreter for Tokugawa Akitake's audience with Napoleon III, which subsequently resulted in strong French support for the Tokugawa shogunate. Mermet-Cachon never returned to Japan, but died in Cannes on 14 March 1889. His grave is at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
# Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova

Nadija Mykolajivna Hordijenko Andrianova (Ukrainian: Надія Миколаївна Гордієнко-Андріанова, IPA:; also Andrianova Hordijenko; 15 December 1921 – 27 March 1998) was a Ukrainian writer and translator of the Esperanto language.
She graduated in literature and journalism at Kyiv University in 1945, and studied foreign languages until 1950. She wrote as a literary critic and translator for a number of journals, including Radianskyi selianin [uk] (1945–46), Paco and Hungara Vivo [eo]. Between 1946–62, she was the editor of the State Literary Publishing House of Ukraine (now Dnipro Publishers). She was also active as a popularizer of the Esperanto language, founding the Esperanto Commission at the Council for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (1968–73), whose bulletin Tra la Soveta Ukrainio she was chief editor for. Since 1957, she was a member of the Ukrainian Literary Union.
As a translator from Esperanto, Russian, German, English, Bulgarian and French to Ukrainian, she adapted works by authors of the likes of Vikenty Veresaev, Vladimir Korolenko, Alexander Herzen, Aleksandr I. Kuprin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Konstantin Fedin, Wolfgang Schreyer, Manfred Gregor, Helen Keller, Vasili Eroshenko, Bruno Apitz, Henri Barbusse, the Brothers Grimm, Alphonse Daudet, Victor Hugo, Theodore Dreiser, Maurice Maeterlinck, Guy de Maupassant, Ludwig Renn, Bertolt Brecht, Anatole France and Stefan Zweig, among others. She also translated to Esperanto works by the following authors of Ukrainian literature: Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Maksym Rylsky, Oles Honchar, Ivan Drach and Yevhen Hutsalo.
In 1986, she won a prize at the International Literary Competition in Vittoria, Italy, and in 1987, the Hungarian Esperanto Association published her autobiography Vagante tra la mondo maltrankvila.

## Selected publications

* "Monumentoj de l'eterna amikeco; Renkonto kun Baba Paraŝkeva; Disiĝo kun Rodopoj; Glorkanto al Jambol; Glorkanto al Esperanto". Bukedo (in Esperanto): 64–74.
* Vagante tra la mondo maltrankvila (in Esperanto). Budapest: Hungarian Esperanto Association. 1987. ISBN 963-571-182-4.

## Selected translations

* Ukrainaj popolaj fabeloj (in Esperanto). Sofia: BEA. 1983.
* Ukrainka, Lesja (1971). Liriko (in Esperanto). Kyiv: Ukrainian Esperanto Commission at the Council for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
# Outline of Bábism

Bábism is a monotheistic religion that was founded in 1844 in Qajar Persia by ʻAli Muhammad Shirazi (1819–1850), who took the title of the Báb (meaning "gate").
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bábism.

## History
### Background

* Shaykhism – a Shi'a Islamic religious movement out of which Bábism emerged
** Shaykh Ahmad – the founder of Shaykhism
** Kazim Rashti – the leader of Shaykhism after the death of Shaykh Ahmad

### Events

* Conference of Badasht – a meeting of leading followers of the Báb in 1848
* Battle of Fort Tabarsi – a seven-month battle between the Báb's followers and the Shah's army from 1848 to 1849
* Execution of the Báb – the execution of the Báb on July 9, 1850

### Baháʼí/Bábí connection

Baháʼí–Azali split – the division of the Báb's followers into Baháʼís (who followed Baháʼu'lláh) and Azalis (who followed Subh-i-Azal)
* Baháʼí Faith – a religion founded by Baháʼu'lláh, who claimed to have fulfilled the Báb's prophecies of Him whom God shall make manifest, and which today has 5–8 million followers
* Azalis – the Bábís who followed Subh-i-Azal

### Chroniclers

* Edward Granville Browne – a British Iranologist (1862–1926) who wrote extensively about Bábí history
* Nabíl-i-Aʻzam – a Bábí and then Baháʼí who wrote a chronicle of Bábí and Baháʼí history from a Baháʼí perspective, known as The Dawn-Breakers

## People

* Báb – the founder of Bábism
* Letters of the Living – the title given by the Báb to a group of his followers
** Mulla Husayn – the first follower of the Báb when he made his religious claims in 1844
** Mullá 'Alíy-i-Bastámí – a prominent follower of the Báb
** Táhirih – an influential Bábí poet and theologian, who was born as Fátimih Baraghání and later became known as Táhirih ("the pure one")
** Quddús – a prominent follower of the Báb
* Khadíjih-Bagum – the wife of the Báb
* Subh-i-Azal – the appointed successor of the Báb, who went on to lead the Azali Bábís
* Baháʼu'lláh – a prominent follower of the Báb who later founded the Baháʼí Faith, claiming to fulfill the Báb's prophecies of He whom God shall make manifest
* Dayyán – a prominent follower of the Báb

## Teachings

Teachings of the Báb

## Texts written by the Báb

* Bayán – a term used both for the entire corpus of the Báb's writings and for two specific texts
** Arabic Bayán
** Persian Bayán
* Qayyūm al-asmā
* Dalá'il-i-Sab'ih
* Kitábu'l-Asmáʼ
* Selections from the Writings of the Báb – a compilation of excerpts from the Báb's writings published by the Universal House of Justice, the world governing body of the Baháʼí Faith

## Places

* Báb's house – the place where the Báb first made his religious claims, which was demolished in 1979
* Shrine of the Báb – the site of the Báb's remains, administered by the leadership of the Baháʼí Faith
# Valentina Meriño

Valentina Franca Meriño Ferretti (born 26 January 1987) is a retired Chilean rhythmic gymnast. She's a medalist at South American and Pan American level.

## Biography

In 2003 Valentina was the national Chilean champion and participated in the World Championships in Budapest, the first in which Chile took part.
Selected for the 2006 South American Games in Buenos Aires she won bronze in the ribbon final, behind Anahí Sosa and Ana Paula Scheffer.
In September 2007 she competed at the World Championships in Patras, taking 97th place in the All-Around. A month later she won gold in teams (along Paloma Garate, Catalina Ulloa and Catalina Vichez), in the All-Around, with rope, hoop and clubs at the South American Championships.
Meriño studied physical education at the Autonomous University of Chile, and psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She retired in 2010.