The Moulin de Mougins is a celebrated restaurant, situated in an abandoned mill ("moulin") in the inland French Riviera town of Mougins. Founding chef Roger Vergé made the restaurant's name renowned with his novel and light "Cuisine de Soleil". At last report the Moulin (technically classified as an auberge or inn, as it has a couple of guest rooms) had two Michelin stars. Following the retirement of M. Vergé, the Mougin welcomed a new chef-proprietor, …

Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 - January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker.

Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy was born on November 7, 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the wealthy Wiborg family. Her father, Frank, was a self-made millionaire by the age of 40, and her mother was a member of the noted Sherman family, counting Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman as an uncle. Originally raised in Cincinnati, Sara Wiborg and her family moved to Germany for several years when she was a teenager, …

Gerald Clery Murphy, (March 25, 1888 - October 17, 1964) was a Boston-born American artist who was active as a painter in Europe from 1921 until 1929. He is known for his hard-edged still-lifes in a Precisionist/Cubistic style. Murphy was an heir of the family which owned the Mark Cross Company, sellers of fine leather goods, and he served as president of the company from 1934 to 1956.

Tino Rossi was a singer and film actor. Born "Constantino Rossi" in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, he became a tenor of French cabaret and one of the great romantic idols of his time. Gifted with an operatic voice, a "Latin Lover" persona made him a movie star as well. Over his career, Rossi made hundreds of records and appeared in more than 25 films, the most notable of which was the 1953 production, "Si Versailles m'était conté" directed by Sacha Guitry.

Rex Ingram (January 12, 1893 - July 21, 1950) was a film director, producer, writer and actor. Born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Saint Columba's College, near Rathfarnam, County Dublin. He spent most of his adolescent life living in the Old Rectory, Kinnity, Birr, County Offaly where his father was The Church of Ireland rector. He emigrated to the United States in 1911.

Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes (6 April 1853 - 1 January 1918) was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ('DMG') between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach for the first 'modern' car. Jellinek required naming the engine after his daughter, Mercedes Jellinek. The Mercedes 35hp model later contributed to the brand name developed in 1926, …

Michel Ocelot (a pseudonym, real name unknown) was born in 1943 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera. He went on to spend much of his childhood in Guinea, West Africa, his teenage years in Anjou, and now lives in Paris. He is mostly known as the writer and director of animated films, but has also worked in the fields of production designer, actor, editor, and cinematographer.

Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild was a French socialite, art collector, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. Known as Béatrice, she was born in Paris, France, the daughter of the extremely wealthy banker Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827-1905) and Leonora de Rothschild (1837-1911).

Alice Terry (July 29, 1899 - December 22, 1987) was an American actress. Born Alice Frances Taaffe in Vincennes, Indiana, she appeared in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. In 1921 she married director Rex Ingram, with whom she remained until his passing in 1950. She played several different characters in the 1916 anti-war film "Civilization", co-drected by Thomas H. Ince and Reginald Barker.

Clarence Aaron “Tod” Robbins was an American author of horror and mystery fiction. Robbins attended Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia) and -- along with Mark W. Sheafe (1884?-1949) and Thornton Whitney Allen (1890-1944) -- wrote the college song "Washington and Lee Swing." Sheafe wrote the tune in 1905, Allen set the music down on paper in 1909 and Robbins provided the words. The completed version was published in 1910.

Marcel Thil ( May 25, 1904 - August 14, 1968) was a French world champion boxer. Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Marcel Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen. For a number of years he was a journeyman boxer but as he matured to full adult strength, with training he developed power in both hands that saw him begin to win regularly by knockout.

Diana Hope Rowden (January 31, 1915 - July 6, 1944) was an Special Operations Executive (SOE) member who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.

Mathilde Kschessinskaya, Kschessinska was the first who managed to repeat this feat. The scandals and rumours around her name persisted, however, as she formed a Ménage à trois with two Grand Dukes of the Romanov family - Sergei Mikhailovich and his cousin Andrei Vladimirovich. Through her aristocratic connections, she managed to amass much valuable property in the Russian capital.

Eugène Weidmann was the last person to be publicly executed in France. Weidmann was born in Frankfurt am Main to the family of an export businessman, and went to school there. He was sent to live with his grandparents at the outbreak of World War I; during this time he started stealing. Later in his twenties he served five years in jail for robbery. During his time in jail Weidmann met three men who would later become his partners in crime: Roger Million, …

Jeanne Hébuterne was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. Born in Paris, France to a Roman Catholic family, her father, Achille Hébuterne, worked at Le Bon Marché department store. A beautiful girl, she was introduced to the artistic community in Montparnasse by her brother André Hébuterne who wanted to become a painter. She met several of the then starving artists and modeled for Tsuguharu Foujita.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury (22 May, 1938-2004) was a British aristocrat. In November 2004 he went missing in France having been murdered by his brother-in-law during an argument regarding a divorce from his wife Jamila. On 6 April 2005, Lord Shaftesbury's body was found in the Alps. His widow and her brother were convicted of his murder on 25 May 2007. He inherited the Earldom of Shaftesbury in 1961 from his grandfather, the 9th Earl; his father, …

Ted Tinling (June 23 1910 - May 23 1990), sometimes known as Teddy Tinling, was a British tennis player, fashion designer, spy and author. He was a firm fixture on the professional tennis tour for over sixty years. He was born in Eastbourne and in 1923, suffering from bronchial asthma, his parents sent him to the French Riviera on doctor's orders. It was there he began playing tennis, particularly at the Nice Tennis Club where the then biggest star of the game, …

Dr. Emil Vodder (February 20, 1896 - February 17, 1986) and his wife Dr. Estrid Vodder pioneered the specialty of medicine called "lymphology". While working on the French Riviera treating patients with chronic colds, they noticed these patients had swollen lymph nodes. In the 1930s it was taboo to tamper with the lymphatic system due to the medical profession's poor understanding of this system.

Emile Delahaye was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles. Emile Delahaye was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, in the Loire Valley. He studied engineering at a trade school in the city of Angers, the same school later attended by Louis Delâge, another automobile pioneer. For a time, Delahaye worked in Belgium before returning to Tours where he was married in 1873.

Mike Mendoza (born Michael David Mendoza 1 November 1947) is a British radio presenter on talkSPORT, heard nationally on 1089 & 1053 AM, Sky channel 0108, DAB Digital Radio and across the globe on www.talksport.net.

Lucien Achille Mauzan was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted. After a period of study in the “École des Beaux-Arts” at Lyon, France, Mauzan divided his life between Milan, Paris and Buenos Aires. Between the years 1920 and 1940, the period between the wars, he used forms and materials under the influence of the avant-garde cubists.

Isabelle Demongeot (born September 18, 1966 in Gassin, France) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on May 1, 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled down further south in Gassin. Demongeot won her only WTA Tour singles title in Purchase in New York state in 1991. She achieved her best Grand Slam singles performance by reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon in 1986.

Apo Lazarides (born October 16, 1925 - died October 30, 1998), was a French champion cyclist. Born Jean Apotre Lazarides in Marles-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais of Greek ancestry, as a boy he cycled in the mountains. During the German occupation of France in World War II, the teenaged Lazarides used his cycling skills to surreptitiously transport supplies to members of the French Resistance. Nicknamed "Apo", a short version of his middle name, …

Adam Oliver Brown is a professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Sciences in the department of Biology at the University of Ottawa. He studied his undergraduate degrees at the University of Western Ontario (B.Sc. in Biology and Environmental Science, 1996 and B.Sc. (Honours Standing) in Ecology and Evolution, 1998).

Mario Zatelli was a French football (soccer) player and manager. Born in Sétif, Algeria, but of Italian origin, he mostly played for Olympique de Marseille. For the French national team he got 1 caps (scored 1 goal) in 1939. He was in the roster also for 1938 FIFA World Cup, without playing any game. He later managed Olympique de Marseille in the 1970s and won one Ligue 1 and Coupe de France in 1972. He died in Sainte-Maxime, Var, French Riviera, at 91 years old.

Eric Aubriot is a chef currently from Chicago, Illinois, USA, who has twice been nominated for the James Beard Rising Star award. Having opened three restaurants in Chicago's bustling north side - Aubriot and Tournesol, and, more recently, Fuse - Aubriot is the darling of some food critics of Chicago. Eric began his career training under culinary icon Michel Guerard at the Michelin Three-Star Les Pres d'Eugenie in Eugenie Les Bains, France, …

William Allen Sturge (1850-1919) was an English physician and archaeologist. After receiving his medical degree in 1873 from University College in London, Sturge became resident medical officer and later registrar at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy. In 1876 he went to Paris to study neurology with Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), and pathology with Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1915).

Nelly Adamson Landry (born December 7, 1916, in Bruges, Belgium) was a female tennis player from France (became French citizen after marriage). She is best remembered as the 1948 women's singles champion at the French Championships. On January 16, 1934, Adamson (not yet Landry) married American author and emigre Tod Robbins at the town hall in Villefranche on the French Riviera.

Mara Darmousli, in Greek: "Μάρα Δαρμουσλή", is a Greek fashion model. She has appeared in many international fashion events and magazines, her face appearing on the covers of such magazines as Vogue, Marie Claire and Bazaar. In 1998 she won the Greek Elite Model Look final contest and advanced to the Nice International final, held in September in the French Riviera, where she did very well, coming in second overall in the Pantene contest.

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity. Davringhausen was born in Aachen. Mostly self-taught as a painter, he began as a sculptor, studying briefly at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts before participating in a group exhibition at Flechtheim's gallery in 1914. He also traveled to Ascona with his friend the painter Carlo Mense that year. At this early stage his paintings were influenced by the expressionists, …

Michael Abbate is a young french actor. He was born April 30, 1983, in Frejus, French Riviera, France.

I have been working as a volunteer developer for Ubuntu and Kubuntu, making Debian software packages, triaging and fixing bugs, writing technical documentation, administrating machines. I have also set my own project, Ichthux, with the same technical issues, in addition to project management. In my current job, I supervise the technical side of the software deployment services for about 2000 Linux and Unix machines, including RedHat, Debian and Solaris OSes. I work on setting a new . . .

I'm a nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist, but I was too embarassed to accept the prize in person because of my horrifyingly disgusting harelip.

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