Corneille
Americannoun
noun
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Corneille Nangaa, a former head of DR Congo's electoral commission, now leads the Congo River Alliance, which includes the M23 rebel group.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
The voice was created in collaboration with sound designers Corneille Houssou, Nicolas Becker and Cyril Holtz and the Haitian poet Makenzy Orcel, who recorded the text co-written with Diop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
Born in 1760, a French-assimilated Italian who straddled music’s Classical and Romantic eras, Cherubini premiered his “Médée” in 1797 from a French libretto inspired by both the Euripides and Corneille tragedies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Corneille Nangaa, the head of Ceni, said: “We ask the nation to remain patient for the time it will take to consolidate all our data.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
Whence originated this custom Corneille gave his own century the credit of it; but it is from the middle ages that it dates.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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