Valéry Giscard D'Estaing

Valéry Giscard D'Estaing

male, 83 years old
Valéry Marie René Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. His tenure as...
Nicolas Lemery

Nicolas Lemery

male, deceased (1715)
Nicolas Lémery French chemist, was born at Rouen who was one of the first to develope theories on acid-base chemistry. After learning pharmacy in h...
Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard

male, deceased (1962)
Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher and poet who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy. His most important...
Max Gallo

Max Gallo

male, 77 years old
Max Gallo is a French writer, historian and politician. The son of Italian immigrants, Max Gallo's early career was journalism. At this time he was...

Therese Bentzon

female, deceased (1907)
Therese (Thérèse) Bentzon is the pseudonym of Marie Thérèse Blanc (1840-1907), a French journalist, essayist, and novelist, for many years on t...
Claude Fleury

Claude Fleury

male, deceased (1723)
Claude Fleury (December 6, 1640, Paris - July 14, 1723, Paris), was a French ecclesiastical historian. Destined for the bar, he was educated at the...

Jules Lemaître

male, deceased (1914)
François Élie Jules Lemaître, was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Gre...
William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith

male, 91 years old
William Jay Smith (born 1918) is an American poet. Born in Winnfield, Louisiana, Smith has studied at Washington University, Columbia University,...
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

male, deceased (1890)
Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter, was born at Cologne. He was sent by his family to Paris, and after travelling in Italy returned to...

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac

male, deceased (1638)
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de B...