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Georges de La Tour. Joseph the Carpenter, 1642, Louvre. Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
Background Etymology. The word métis itself is originally French for "person of mixed parentage" and derives from the Latin word mixtus, "mixed.". Semantic definitions. Starting in the 17th century, the French word métis was initially used as a noun by those in the North American fur trade, and by settlers in general, to refer to people of mixed European and North American Indigenous ...
La forme mestis (« qui est fait moitié d'une chose, moitié d'une autre ») est attestée depuis le XIIIe siècle 1. En 1615, le mot « métice », emprunté au portugais, désigne alors une personne née de parents appartenant à des populations présentant des différences phénotypiques visibles (comme la pigmentation de la peau).
DeTour Village (/ d i. t u ə r / DEE-tu-ər) is a village in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 263 in 2020. The village is at the extreme eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in Detour Township, at the turning point for the shipping channel connecting the St. Mary's River with Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac.
Georges de La Tour note 1 est un peintre lorrain, baptisé le 14 mars 1593 à Vic-sur-Seille et mort le 30 janvier 1652 à Lunéville . Artiste au confluent des cultures nordique, italienne et française, contemporain de Jacques Callot et des frères Le Nain, La Tour est un observateur pénétrant de la réalité quotidienne.
Zeus. Offspring. Athena, Porus. Metis ( / ˈmiːtɪs /; Ancient Greek: Μῆτις, romanized : Mêtis, lit. 'Wisdom', 'Skill', or 'Craft'), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, was one of the Oceanids. [1] She is notable for being the first wife and advisor of Zeus, the King of the Gods. She helped him to free his siblings from their ...
By: K. Dumont – 10/2017. The first Métis People emerged in eastern Canada in the early 1600s with the arrival of European explorers and their unions with Indigenous women. One of the earliest Metis baptisms found was for André Lasnier, born in 1620 in Port Latour, Nova Scotia, but baptized in France in 1632.
