Charles Joseph d'Ailleboust des Muceaux
Charles Joseph d'Ailleboust des Muceaux (between 1623 and 1626 – November 20, 1700) was a soldier, merchant and judge in New France.
He served as acting governor of Montreal from 1651 to 1653.
He was a member of the Communauté des Habitants and of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal.
The son of Nicolas d'Ailleboust de La Madeleine et de Coulonges and Dorothée de Manthet, he was born in France and came to Canada with his uncle Louis d'Ailleboust, the newly appointed governor, in August 1648.
In 1652, he married Catherine, the daughter of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny.
He was lieutenant of the Montreal garrison in 1663.
Des Muceaux served as the civil and criminal judge of Montreal from 1666 to 1677.
He died at Montreal in 1700.
Caspian Rain
Caspian Rain is the fourth novel from Gina B. Nahai and takes place in the decade before the Islamic Revolution.
The book was published in 2007 by MacAdam/ Cage in the United States and has been published in 15 languages.
François Daudet
François Daudet( born 20 January 1965) is a French classical pianist.
Born in Lyon, Daudet won first prize for piano at the Conservatoire de Paris, and first grand prize at the international Claude Kahn competition in 1983.
He benefited from Germaine Mounier's and Menahem Pressler's teaching.
He won international competitions in Colmar, Graz, Trapani, Florence, and won a first international prize in" The Glory of Mozart" competition.
He has performed in many countries in Europe, America and Asia.
His partners are Marie- Annick Nicolas, Natalie Chee, Virginie Robilliard, David Louwerse and Dorothée Bocquet.
His recordings have received several awards in the specialized press.
Dorothée Munyaneza
Dorothée Munyaneza( born 1982) is a British- Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer.
She has produced two performance pieces," Samedi Détente" and" Unwanted", both about the Rwandan genocide.
Ata Nahai
Ata Nahai is an Iranian novelist and short story writer who writes in Sorani Kurdish.
He was born in Baneh in 1960.
He was graduated from high school in 1978, receiving a diploma of literature.
As to the revolutionary atmosphere of Iran in 1979 and the universities being closed for the next four years he could not continue his studies.
He began his literary career by writing short stories in Kurdish( Sorani) and producing essays on the art of fiction.
He has published three collections of short stories and three novels in Kurdish as well as translating a number of world short stories and literary essays into Kurdish.
In the First Conference on Teaching Kurdish language, held in Tehran in 2002, he won the first vote of the elections and afterwards became the head of the Kurdish Language Academy in Iran.
In 2005 Ata Nahai was awarded the Aras prize for Kurdish literature.
He was also awarded the Ahmad Hardi Prize for Creativity in Sulaymaniyah in 2008.
Guillaume Le Breton
Guillaume Le Breton( sometimes also called Gabriel) was a French dramatist of the sixteenth century.
Little is known of his life, although the title of his play" Adonis" mentions he was from the Nièvre region.
Like his contemporary François d'Amboise, he associated himself with the king's" Procureur général", Gilles Bourdin, as well as other dramatists of the period, such as Odet de Turnèbe and Pierre de Larivey.
According to François d' Amboise, Le Breton wrote several tragedies —" TullieCharitéDidon" and" Dorothée" — which are today lost.
His only extant theatrical work is a mythological play entitled" Adonis", which was probably produced in 1569 before Charles IX, then again eight years later at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and finally in 1579 at the Collège de Boncourt.
Le Breton was also responsible for a translation of the travels of Cortés.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne
Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne (August 22, 1844 – September 30, 1910) was a lawyer, journalist and political figure in Quebec.
He represented Wolfe in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1904 as a Conservative.
He was born in Saint-Pie, Canada East, the son of Jérôme Chicoine and Dorothée Deslandes, dit Champigny, and was adopted by his godfather Joseph Charbonneau at the age of three.
Chicoyne was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe.
He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1868 and set up practice in Saint-Hyacinthe.
Earlier the same year, he had married Marie-Rose-Caroline Perrault.
In 1872, he left the practice of law to become an immigration agent for Quebec.
Chicoyne contributed to the "Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe" and "L'Opinion publique".
He established the newspaper "La Colonisation" in Sherbrooke in 1886 and then was the owner and editor of the "Pionnier de Sherbrooke" from 1888 to 1901.
He served on the municipal council for Sherbrooke and was mayor from 1890 to 1892.
Chicoyne was also mayor of La Patrie and Mégantic.
In the Quebec assembly, he developed the Quebec Agricultural Syndicates’ Act which allowed farmers to set up cooperative associations, leading to the development of caisses populaires.
Chicoyne died in Saint-Hyacinthe at the age of 66.
He published "Causeries agricoles: une visite chez le capitaine B" in 1874 under the pen name Jean Bellevue.
Susann Cokal
Susann Cokal is an American author and academic.
She is best known for having written the novels" The Kingdom of Little Wounds Mirabilis", and" Breath and Bones", along with short stories, literary and pop-culture criticism, and book reviews.
" The Kingdom of Little Wounds" won a Printz silver medal from the American Library Association in 2014.
Cokal contributed short stories to anthologies and journals including" Prairie SchoonerHayden's Ferry ReviewBellevue Literary Review The Cincinnati Review", and Ohio State University's" The Journal".
She also contributed essays about contemporary writers to" CritiqueScandinavian StudiesTexas Studies in Literature and LanguageStyleBroad Street Magazine", and" The Centennial Review".
She has reviewed almost four dozen books for the" New York Times Book Review" and has contributed reviews and essays to numerous other reviewing organs.
Cokal was once an assistant professor of creative writing and modern literature at California Polytechnic State University and is currently an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The range of her interests can be seen in her contributions to the" St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture" on abortion, supermodels, Kate Moss, and zoos.
She teaches literature of the last 150 years with an international perspective, often featuring Vladimir Nabokov( whom she has called one of her literary idols), Colette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Knut Hamsun, Marcel Proust, Patrick Süskind, Sarah Waters, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf, and magic- realist authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Louise Erdrich, Gina Nahai, and Winterson.
Pierre Careau
Pierre Careau( October 1786 – July 15, 1856) was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada.
He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1833 to 1838 as a supporter of the Parti patriote.
His surname also appears as Carreau.
He was born in Saint- Mathias, Quebec, the son of Joseph Careau and Dorothée Loisel.
Careau married Victoire Tétrau in 1804.
He was first elected to the provincial assembly in an 1833 by-election held after the death of François Rainville.
Careau voted in support of the Ninety- Two Resolutions.
He died at Sainte- Marie- de- Monnoir at the age of 69.

Question: Were Ata Nahai and Dorothée Munyaneza of the same nationality?
Answer: no