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Jeanne Lion, or Jeanne Léonnec, (17 August 1876 – 24 December 1956) was a French stage and film actress born in Paris.
Clémence Jane Lion, née le 17 août 1876 à Paris 9 e 1 et morte le 24 décembre 1956 à Paris 17 e 2, est une actrice de théâtre et de cinéma française, connue aussi comme Jeanne Léonnec à ses débuts au cinéma.
Jeanne Lion was born on 22 August 1877 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (1926), Vidocq (1939) and La flambée (1934). She was married to Henri Beaulieu.
- Early Life
- Marriage to Olivier IV de Clisson
- Piracy and Later Life
- Local Tradition
- Historical Evidence
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Jeanne Louise de Belleville, de Clisson, Dame de Montaigu, was born in 1300 in Belleville-sur-Vie (Bellville on the river Vie) in the Vendée. She was a daughter of nobleman Maurice IV Montaigu of Belleville and Palluau (1263–1304) and Létice de Parthenay of Parthenay (1276–?) in the Gâtine Vendéenne on the French side of the border with the Duchy o...
In 1330, Jeanne married Olivier IV de Clisson, a wealthy Breton who held a castle at Clisson, a manor house in Nantes, and lands at Blain. Olivier was initially married to Blanche de Bouville (died 1329). Olivier had a son, Jean, with this first marriage, who would go on to inherit his mother's lands as the Lord of Milly, near Paris. Jeanne, a rece...
After Olivier's execution, Jeanne sold the de Clisson estates, raised a force of about 400 loyal men, and started attacking French forces in Brittany.Jeanne is said to have attacked: 1. A castle at Touffou, near Bignon. The castle was built on the edge of a forest in the parish of Bignon, not far from the abbey of Villeneuve. The castle was under c...
The sea castle of Ile d'Yeu
The lords of Belleville also owned the island of Yeu, as part of their maritime trade. Jeanne had inherited Yeu from her deceased brother and had the old wooden fort demolished and replaced with a stone fortress. This was used to minimise pirate raids. When she eventually married Olivier, he added to the design. This was eventually one of her properties seized by the French Crown. Local tradition speaks of the "red men" or English Soldiers who came to rescue Jeanne at one stage when she had b...
Verifiable references relating to Jeanne's exploits exist. These include: 1. Papal records of the annulment of her second marriage. 2. A French judgement from 1343 convicting Jeanne as a traitor and confirming the confiscation of the de Clisson lands. 3. Records from the English court from 1343, indicating King Edward granting Jeanne an income from...
The Belleville lands were part of a lawsuit when her daughter Louise from her first marriage attempted to prohibit the King from redistributing the family's lands following their confiscation and another lawsuit from Louise's widower who also attempt to prevent this. In 1868, French-Breton writer Émile Pehant's novel Jeanne de Bellevillewas publish...
d'Eaubonne, Françoise (1998), Les grandes aventurieres (in French), Saint-Amard-Montrond: Vernal and Philippe Lebaud, pp. 17–27, ISBN 2865940381Hearst, Michael (2015), Extraordinary People, San Francisco: Chronicle, pp. 28–29, ISBN 978-1-4521-2709-5Froissart, Jean; Scheler, Auguste (1875), Oeuvres de Froissart: publiées avec les variantes des divers manuscrits, vol. 21, p. 12Henneman, John Bell (June 1996), Olivier de Clisson and political society in France under Charles V and Charles VI, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania PressJeanne Lion was born on 22 August 1877 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Jim la houlette, roi des voleurs (1926), Vidocq (1939) and La flambée (1934). She was married to Henri Beaulieu. She died on 15 October 1969 in Paris, France.
- Actress
- August 22, 1877
- Jeanne Lion
- October 15, 1969
Jeanne Lion is known as an Actor. Some of their work includes Monsignor, Nightclub Hostess, The Fear, Mother Love, Don't Need Money, Vidocq, The Stream, and Mama Hummingbird.
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