Mireille
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Mireille miʁɛj is a French given name, derived from the Provençal Occitan name Mirèio
Mirèio
Mirèio is a poem in Occitan by French writer Frédéric Mistral. It was written in 1859.-The plot:In Provence, Mirèio is the daughter of a rich farmer. She is in love with a modest basketmaker, Vincènt. Her father disapproves of the relationship and seeks other suitors. Mirèio, in despair, escapes...

(Mirèlha in the classical norm of Occitan) miˈrɛjɔ, miˈrɛʎɔ. It could be related with the Occitan verb mirar "to admire" or with the Occitan surnames Miriam "Myriam", Maria "Mary".

A given name

  • Mireille Darc
    Mireille Darc
    Mireille Darc is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End...

     (born 1938), a French actress
  • Mireille Gingras
    Mireille Gingras
    Mireille A. Gingras founded HUYA Bioscience International, a biotech consulting firm, in 2004. She is president and chief executive officer of HUYA, which is headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices in Pudong, Shanghai, China.Gingras is by education a neurobiologist...

     (born 1971), Canadian-American neurobiologist and entrepreneur
  • Mireille Guiliano
    Mireille Guiliano
    Mireille Guiliano is a French-American author.Mireille wrote French Women Don't Get Fat which reached #1 on the New York Times "Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous: Hardcover bestseller" list, followed by French Women for All Seasons...

     (born 1946), a French-American author
  • Mireille Hartuch
    Mireille Hartuch
    Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille"....

     (1906–1996), a French singer and composer
  • Mireille Johnston (1935-2000), a French/American chef
  • Mireille Mathieu
    Mireille Mathieu
    Mireille Mathieu is a French chanteuse, and pop singer. Hailed in the French press as the successor to Édith Piaf, she has achieved great commercial success, recording over 1200 songs in nine different languages, with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.-Childhood to early...

     (born 1946), a French singer
  • Mireille Nguimgo
    Mireille Nguimgo
    Mireille Nguimgo is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.She has not competed on top level since the 2004 season.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*200 metres - 23.64 s...

    , a Cameroonian sprinter
  • Mireille Roccatti
    Mireille Roccatti
    Mireille Roccatti Velásquez born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, is a Mexican scholar and jurist who served as President of the country's National Human Rights Commission.-Personal life and education:...

    , a Mexican scholar and jurist
  • Mireille Enos, "Big Love" / "The Killing" actress

Other

  • Mireille Belleau
    French in Action
    French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series....

    , a fictional Character in French in Action
    French in Action
    French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series....

     Language course, played by Valérie Allain
    Valérie Allain
    Valérie Allain is a French actress.She portrayed "Mireille" in the 1987 instructional television series French in Action, which acquired a cult following largely because of the appeal of the romantic comedic theme of its fifty-two episodes of full-immersion French language lessons...

  • Mireille Bouquet, a fictional character in the anime series Noir
    Noir (anime)
    is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2001 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed Noir, it was written by Ryoe Tsukimura, and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura...

  • Mireille (opera)
    Mireille (opera)
    Mireille is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio.-Composition history:...

    , an opera by Charles Gounod
  • 594 Mireille
    594 Mireille
    -External links:*...

    , an asteroid
  • Typhoon Mireille
    Typhoon Mireille
    Super Typhoon Mireille was one of the deadliest typhoons of the 1991 Pacific typhoon season as it crossed Japan in September.-Meteorological history:A poorly organized area of convection was first noted in the monsoon trough...

  • a fictional character in the anime/manga series .hack//Legend of the Twilight
    .hack//Legend of the Twilight
    is a science fiction manga series written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and drawn by Rei Izumi. The twenty-two chapters of .hack//Legend of the Twilight appeared as a serial in the Japanese magazine Comptiq, and published in three tankōbon by Kadokawa Shoten from July 2002 to April 2004...

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