Researching Madeleine Blais
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The name Madeleine means "form of MADELINE - woman from Magdala" and is of French origin.
Records of Madeleine Blais on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Madeleine Blais and the Blais Family History
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Some Famous People called Madeleine Blais
Madeleine Blais
Madeleine Blais (born 1946) is an American journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for the Miami Herald, Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand", a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at The Boston Globe (1971–1972), The Trenton Times (1974–1976) and the Miami Herald (1979–1987). She has also published articles in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Northeast Magazine in the Hartford Courant, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Nieman Reports, the Detroit Free Press and the San Jose Mercury News. She is from Amherst, Massachusetts.
Source: Madeleine Blais, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Blais
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