The novel was said to be semi-autobiographical for Bussy, who had been educated in France's "Les Ruches" girls schools run by Marie Souvestre.
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In the same case is the statuette itself; the ruches of her dress are rendered via deep, uneven gashes, an early taste of his assumed savagery.
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The next year Alice Childress, a playwright, sits by the same window, serene and satisfied, in a blue dress whose ruches Neel renders with fat black lines.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux. . She founded Les Ruches with her partner Caroline Dussaut. Dussaut is Cara in Bussy's novel, Olivia. When they separated in 1883, Souvestre moved to England with Paolina Samaïa, former teacher at Les Ruches who would become a teacher at Allenswood Academy as well as Souvestre's long-term partner.
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Vasileios protested to the Greek Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, against his unprovoked expulsion.Albania's Captives. Pyrrhus J. Ruches. Argonaut, 1965. p. 103.
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From these actions, many villagers managed to escape to the nearby island of Corfu.P. J. Ruches. Albanian historical folksongs, 1716–1943.
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On May 17, 1914 as a member of the International Commission of Control he signed the Protocol of Corfu.Albania's Captives. Pyrrhus J. Ruches. 1965. P. 91.
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In the subsequent legislative elections, Dimitrios Doulis was elected as member of the Greek parliament for the Argyrokastron Prefecture.Albania's Captives. Pyrrhus J. Ruches. Argonaut, 1965. p. 97.
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The Albanians: A Modern History. I.B. Tauris, 1999. , p. 20.Ruches, Pyrrhus J. Albanian Historical Folksongs, 1716-1943: A Survey of Oral Epic Poetry from Southern Albania, with Original Texts.
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The leading spirit was Vasilios Sahinis, a native from Douvian (Dropull).Ruches 1965: 156 The organization was a branch of the right-wing EDES that operated in Greece and its headquarters moved from place to place in southern Albania.
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She was educated at the Marie Souvestre girls' school at Les Ruches, Fontainebleau, France and later in England when Souvestre removed the school to Allenswood there. She was later a teacher with Souvestre, and one of her pupils was Eleanor Roosevelt.
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MacKubin studied drawing in Florence, Italy. She then studied at Les Ruches, a Protestant school at Fontainbleau under M. Lainé. In Munich she studied under Professor Herterich. She studied under Louis Deschamps in oil and Julius Rolshoven in pastel, and Mlle.
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Kyriakoulis Argyrokastritis (; died 1828) also known as Kyriakoulis PolychronisPyrrhus Ruches. Albanian historical folksongs, 1716-1943: a survey of oral epic poetry from southern Albania, with original texts. Argonaut, 1967 p. 62 was a Greek resistance leader of the Greek War of Independence.
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Two years before Toupie's birth, the Earl of Lonsdale died and left her father a healthy inheritance of £125,000 (). She was educated in France at the boarding school Les Ruches in Avon, Seine-et-Marne and received a bachelor's of science from the Sorbonne.
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Roosevelt and Souvestre maintained a correspondence until March 1905, when Souvestre died, and after this Eleanor placed Souvestre's portrait on her desk and brought her letters with her. Dorothy Bussy, the sister of writer Lytton Strachey, anonymously published a novel, Olivia (1949), about her experience as a pupil at Les Ruches, describing the protagonist's crush on the headmistress Mlle. Julie (i.e., Souvestre).
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Zografos concluded his speech by stating that the Northern Epirotes would not accept the destiny the Powers had imposed upon them:Pyrrhus Ruches. Albanian historical folksongs, 1716–1943: a survey of oral epic poetry from southern Albania, with original texts. Argonaut, 1967 p.106 The Northern Epirote flag as depicted by the French magazine L'Illustration (April 1914) in the Sarandë headquarters.
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Pyrrhus J. Ruches. Argonaut, 1965, p. 156: "In June 1942 a leadership... Its leading spirit was Basil Sachines..." He protested to the Italian Occupation Forces, accusing them that they supported various activities of the Albanian resistance groups against the local Greek population. He became finally targeted by Albanian communists, he was tortured and executed as an agent (November 18, 1943).
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As Chams were used as a propaganda theme by Italians, the invasion force of Italy in Epirus was called "Ciamuria Army Corps". Part of the Chams supported the Italy's attack on Greece. The invasion force included native Albanians, estimated at 2,000–3,500 strong, (among them Chams and Kosovars), in three volunteer battalions attached to the Italian army.P. J. Ruches Albania's captives.
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A pencil suit is a variety of salwar kameez. The suit follows the principles of a pencil skirt and merges it with the traditional salwar kameez. While salwars are loosely fitted pants, pencil suits have tightly fitted pants that follow the contours of the lady's leg. It differs from the churidar only in the lack of the ruches or the “churis” near the ankle.
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Saint Procopius Church of Tirana ( Ekklysia Agiou Prokopiou) is an orthodox church on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania. It was one of only two orthodox churches that existed in the city before World War II,Ruches, Pyrrhus J., Albanian historical folksongs, 1716-1943: a survey of oral epic poetry from southern Albania, with original texts (1967), Argonaut the other one being the 19th century Evangelismos Church, which was demolished in 1967.
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93: "Chimara was the center of an autonomous district consisting of seven villages and its inhabitants had often revolted against the Turks" On February 22, Zografos sent a note to the representatives of the Great Powers where he addressed the present situation:Pyrrhus J. Ruches. Albanian historical folksongs, 1716-1943: a survey of oral epic poetry from southern Albania, with original texts. Argonaut, 1967, p. 104. The following week a number of cities declared their autonomy: Himara, Gjirokaster, Sarandë (Agioi Saranta) and Delvinë (Delvino).
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Beatrice continued her education in Fontainebleau at Les Ruches, a private school for girls. By 1888 she was back in Edgbaston where she was able to give up the role of châtelaine to her father when he married for the third time. Beatrice was free to gather funds for the Children's Country Holidays Fund whilst she helped manage primary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham. Her new stepmother, Mary, introduced her to leading American politicians including Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
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She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist Émile Souvestre. She founded the girls' boarding schools Les Ruches ("the beehives") in Fontainebleau, France, where writer Natalie Clifford Barney and her sister Laura Clifford Barney were later educated, and Allenswood Boarding Academy, in Wimbledon, outside London, where her most famous pupil was Eleanor Roosevelt. Souvestre took a special interest in Roosevelt, who learned to speak French fluently and gained self-confidence. Roosevelt wished to continue at Allenswood, but in 1902 was summoned home by her grandmother to make her social debut.
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Ruching created by sewing stitches down the centre of a fabric strip, then pulling one end of the thread to gather the fabric. In the sewing technique ruching (pronounced , also spelled rouching), a large number of increases are introduced in one row, which are then removed by decreases a few rows later. This produces many small vertical ripples or "ruches" in the fabric, effectively little pleats. The technique of shirring produces a similar effect by gathering the fabric in two parallel rows (not necessarily horizontal), usually by smocking.
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Pyrros Ruches, Argonaut 1965, p. 65. After the campaign in Macedonia was over, a large part of the Army was redeployed to Epirus, where Crown Prince Constantine himself assumed command. In the Battle of Bizani the Ottoman positions were breached and Ioannina taken on . During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.
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Ruches (1967) p. 82 In his home place in Epirus he founded a male and female teachers college (Zographeion College) where the graduates became Greek language teachers. Zografos offered on annual base scholarships to 60 assiduous students (30 females and 30 males) that came from poor families, with complete coverage of their living costs. Other grants went to the Patriarchate's Halki seminary on Heybeliada (Halki), while he was awarded with the Gold Cross of the Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim II. His son Georgios Christakis-Zografos became a notable diplomat, politician and head of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (1914).
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She attended Les Ruches, a French boarding school founded by feminist Marie Souvestre. While continuing her studies in Paris, Laura met May Bolles (later Maxwell), a Canadian Baháʼí, and was converted to the faith in about 1900. Her mother converted soon afterward. In 1911, she married (married name Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney). Laura Barney financed the visit of the Persian Baháʼí scholar Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání to the United States in 1901-04, in order to propagate the faith there, and helped to publish the translation of his Ḥojaj al-bahīya (Cairo, 1342/1925; tr. Ali-Kuli Khan as The Baháʼí Proofs, New York, 1902; 2nd ed.
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After the outbreak of World War I, the situation in Albania became unstable, and political chaos emerged as the country was split into a number of regional governments. As a consequence of the anarchy in central and northern Albania, sporadic armed conflicts continued to occur in spite of the Protocol of Corfu's ratification,Ruches 1965: 94 and on September 3 Prince Wilhelm departed the country. In the following days, an Epirote unit launched an attack on the Albanian garrison in Berat without approval from the provisional government, managing to capture its citadel for several days, while Albanian troops loyal to Essad Pasha initiated small-scale armed operations. These events worried Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, as well as the possibility that the unstable situation could spill over outside Albania, triggering a wider conflict.
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