Duchesne
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People

  • André Duchesne
    André Duchesne
    André Duchesne was a French geographer and historian, generally styled the father of French history. He was educated at Loudun and afterwards at Paris...

     (1584–1640), French historian
  • André Duchesne (musician)
    André Duchesne (musician)
    André Duchesne is a Canadian experimental music guitarist and composer. He was a co-founder of Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and record label, and formed several experimental music bands, including Conventum, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar and Locomotive...

     (1949–), Canadian musician
  • Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
    Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
    Antoine Nicolas Duchesne was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, because mutations can occur...

     (1747-1827) French botanist and strawberry breeder
  • Ernest Duchesne
    Ernest Duchesne
    Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed.-Life and work:Duchesne...

     (1874–1912), French physician
  • Abbé Louis Duchesne
    Louis Duchesne
    Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions....

     (1843–1922), French priest, philologist, teacher and Church historian
  • Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
    Rose Philippine Duchesne
    Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, R.S.C.J., was a Catholic Religious Sister and French-American saint. She spent the last half of her life teaching and serving the people of the Midwestern United States....

     (1769–1852), Catholic nun and French saint
  • Gaétan Duchesne
    Gaetan Duchesne
    Gaétan Duchesne was a professional Canadian ice hockey player. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Duchesne was drafted in 1981 by the Washington Capitals. He played six seasons with the Capitals before he was dealt to the Quebec Nordiques in the trade that sent Dale Hunter to the Capitals...

     (1962–2007), French Canadian ice hockey player
  • Roger Duchesne
    Roger Duchesne
    Roger Duchesne was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in Bob le flambeur .-Selected filmography:...

     (1906–1996), French film actor
  • Steve Duchesne
    Steve Duchesne
    Steve Duchesne is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL with several teams from 1986 until 2002...

     (1965–), French Canadian ice hockey player

Places

  • Duchesne County, Utah
    Duchesne County, Utah
    Duchesne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2010 the population was 18,607, a 29.5% increase over the 2000 figure of 14,371. Its county seat is Duchesne and the largest city is Roosevelt.-Geography:...

    • Duchesne, Utah
      Duchesne, Utah
      Duchesne is a city in and the county seat of Duchesne County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Duchesne city is located at . just west of the junction of the Strawberry and Duchesne rivers in the Uintah Basin of northeastern Utah...

       a town located there
  • Fort Duchesne, Utah
    Fort Duchesne, Utah
    Fort Duchesne is a census-designated place in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 621 at the 2000 census, a slight decrease from the 1990 figure of 655...


Education

  • Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Houston, Texas), Houston, Texas
  • Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Omaha, Nebraska), Omaha, Nebraska

Others

  • Le Père Duchesne
    Le Père Duchesne
    Le Père Duchesne was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guillotine, which took place on March 24, 1794...

    , French newspaper, and its editor Jacques Hébert (1757-1794)
  • Le Père Duchesne (19th c.)
    Le Père Duchesne (19th c.)
    Le Père Duchêne is the title of a newspaper which appeared during revolutionary periods of the nineteenth century. It borrowed its title from the original Père Duchesne published by Jacques Hébert during the French Revolution...

    , a later newspaper
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