Researching Pierre Chevalier
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 179 people with the Chevalier surname? In that year Chevalier was ranked number 3400 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Pierre means "Form of PETER. A Rock" and is of French origin.
Records of Pierre Chevalier on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Pierre Chevalier and the Chevalier Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 191 people with the Chevalier surname in the UK? Chevalier is now ranked number 3863 for popularity in the UK. |
Chevalier Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Pierre Chevalier
Pierre Chevalier (politician)
Pierre Antoine Marie Chevalier (born 8 October 1952) is a Belgian politician and member of the Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD). He is a former Secretary of State in the Belgian Federal Government and was elected to the Belgian Senate in 2003 by the Dutch electoral college. He studied Laws and Criminology at the University of Ghent before he became a lawyer. He became involved in politics early on, first as a Trotskyist, as a socialist later on, and since 1992 as a liberal. In October 2000, he was forced to resign as Secretary of State by Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who is also a member of the VLD, after it became public that he had been named in a criminal investigation in Switzerland.
Source: Pierre Chevalier (politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Pierre Chevalier (director)
Pierre Chevalier (born in Orbec, France on 23 March 1915; died on 10 February 2005) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films included mainstream, erotic and pornographic films. Horror film buffs know him for his 1971 opus Orloff and the Invisible Man (a.k.a. The Invisible Dead).
He also assisted well-known directors in films, notably with Henri Verneuil, René Clément, Jesus Franco and others. Chevalier served as art director on Jesus Franco's Man Hunter (1980), and filmed some additional footage that was added to the adult film Cecilia (the retitled 1983 re-release version of Jesus Franco's Sexual Aberrations of a Married Woman).
Jesus Franco co-directed Convoy of Women with Chevalier (uncredited) in 1974. The film was re-released in 1978 as East of Berlin.
Source: Pierre Chevalier (director), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Chevalier
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