Why is pooky quesnel called pooky


Biography

French painter and designer. He was the son of Pierre Quesnel (d. ca. 1574), a French painter in the service of James V of Scotland. His brothers, Nicolas Quesnel (d. 1632) and Jacques Quesnel (d. 1629), and his son, Augustin Quesnel (1595-1661), were also painters.

Documentary sources reveal that François was active in France as a decorator, designer of tapestries, coins and medals, as a map-maker and as a painter of altarpieces, but above all as a portrait painter. A number of portrait drawings have been attributed to Quesnel on the basis of a signed Portrait of a Child (private collection). A painted portrait of Mary Anne Waltham (1572; Althorp House, Northamptonshire) signed with a monogram is the basis for the attribution of portraits such as that of Henry III (Musée du Louvre, Paris). His style is typical of late 16th-century French portraiture, in which the naturalism of François Clouet was stylised to such a degree that there is an almost complete absence of modelling and the picture is dominated by flat, linear pattern. Several of Quesnel's works were engr

General François Jean Baptiste Quesnel du Torpt

General who distinguished himself in the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees during the Revolution and served in Portugal, Spain, and Italy during the empire


By Nathan D. Jensen



Born: January 18, 1765

Place of Birth: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France

Died: April 8, 1819

Place of Death: Avranches, France

Arc de Triomphe: QUESNEL on the west pillar

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The son of a naval artillery officer, François Jean Baptiste Quesnel du Torpt first enlisted in the infantry regiment of Poitou in 1782. After the onset of the French Revolution, he received a commission as a sous-lieutenant in September of 1791, a promotion to lieutenant in April of 1792, and then a promotion to capitaine in May of 1792. Quesnel served with the Army of the Ardennes in late 1792 and then in May of 1793 he was wounded in combat, promoted to chef de bataillon, and sent to the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees. Only four months later he received a promotion to chef de brigade. At the end of 1793 Quesnel was named chief of staff of Pérignon's div

Joseph Quesnel

French Canadian composer, poet and playwright

Joseph Quesnel (15 November 1746 – 2 or 3 July 1809) was a French Canadian composer, poet and playwright. Among his works were two operas, Colas et Colinette and Lucas et Cécile; the former is considered to be the first Canadian opera and probably of North America.[1][2]

Early life and education

Quesnel was born in Saint-Malo, France, the third child of Isaac Quesnel de La Rivaudais (1712-1779), a prosperous merchant, and his wife Pélagie-Jeanne-Marguerite Duguen.[3] He studied at the Collège Saint-Louis (1766).

Life and career

Quesnel joined the French merchant marine and sailed to Pondicherry and Madagascar, travelled in Africa, and the Caribbean.[4] He engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1768, as a second-lieutenant on board the Mesny, he sailed to Cabinda (modern-day Angola) where 514 "Blacks of all ages" were purchased and taken to modern-day Haiti where they were sold, according to French archival sources quoted in a novel about him.

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