Hortense

Direction and origin of the name

Hortense is a drifting female first name of Hortensius, Roman name. It seems to be derived from “hortus” (garden).

Hortense Mancini (1646 - 1699), duchess
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783 - 1837), known as the Queen Hortense , mother of Napoleon III.
Hortense Powdermaker (1900 - 1970), anthropologist American
Hortense Dufour, (born in 1946), woman-writer (many biographies: George Sand, Colette, Cléopâtre, Néron…)
Hortense Archambault (born in 1970), Co-director of the Festival of Avignon

In the Illuminations of Rimbaud, a poem intitué H pays homage to Hortense.
Hortense Picsou, sister of Balthazar Picsou and mother of Donald Duck. Balthazar Picsou will name its Hortense horse besides in the honor of his/her sister.
Hortense Daniel offers enigmas to Arsène Lupin in the Eight Blows of the Clock of Maurice Leblanc.
Hortense Josserand one of the characters of Pot-Face, is published by Emile Zola in 1882
Guy of Maupassant, under the pseudonym of Maufrigneuse, wrote in Gil Blas of the April 24th 1883 a text entitled the Queen Hortense . It was published in Moonlight .
Jacques Roubaud wrote many novels putting in scene Hortense.
Basile, Hortense and Amédé was a series drawn by Chica and published in four numbers of Pif in 1959.
Jacques Laurent, under the pseudonym of Cécil the St. Lawrence wrote 1963 with 1967 Hortense 1914-18 .
In 1978, the Journal of Spirou published Chronique skate of aunt Hortense .
Hortense is the second tome cheese of the series Four sisters , written by Malika Ferdjoukh, published with the School of the Leisures.
Hortense is the name which carries a character of the novel Mislayings of the heart and spirit of Crébillon

Karin Viard plays the part of Hortense Lassalle in Reines one Day old of Marion Vernoux (2001).
Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays the part of Hortense in Secrets and Lies of Mike Leigh (1996, Palme of Gold the same year with Cannes).
Lynn Storey plays the part of Hortense Feuchtwenger in the Small Shop with the Horrors of Roger Corman (1960).

a butterfly bears this name: Heliconius hortense , Latin name of the mountain longwing .
a kind of Guigne bears the name of Queen Hortense
the violin maker Richard Schneider created a guitar “Hortense”
Beautiful Hortense is the name of a coffee of the 4th district (Rue Old woman-of-Temple) where it is possible to read while drinking, by borrowing one of the many books which they propose.
the Blason of the town of Rueil-Malmaison carries flowers of hydrangea in honor of the Hortense Queen.
Three hurricanes was called Hortense:

of the September 23rd to the October 2nd 1984, to broad of the east coasts of the Canada.
of the 25 to the August 31st 1990, to broad of the the Caribbean.
of the 3 to the September 16th 1996, more the meurtier: of category 4, it was the largest hurricane of 1996, with wind of 120 km/h and a pressure minimum of 935 hPa. It made fourteen dead in Dominican Republic and with Puerto Rico before moving towards the east coast of Canada.

a Cyclone was named Hortense: the 4 and October 5th 1983, its remainders were felt in the south-west of the France.

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