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Michel-Joseph François was a colonel in the Haitian army. He helped topple Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in 1991, then terrorized his country as chief of the police and secret police under dictator General Raoul Cédras; some 4,000 Haitians were killed. François fled the country in 1994 to the Dominican Republic. Though convicted in Haiti of assassinating an Aristide supporter, he was never extradited. - Joseph Pascal François
Joseph Pascal François was Governor General for various colonies in Second French Colonial Empire under the Third Republic. - Francois Joseph
I am a cool guy, i got love for eveybody and respect everybody.I like to go out,party,clubing and movies I am a good guy,i like to make people laugh. Its fun to be around me. - Francois Joseph
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My name is Francois and I am a Process Engineer for Siemens Oil Gas and Marine unit. I size relief valves all day and its a lot of fun. I will be starting school partime next year to get my JD/MBA degree. I hardly go out anymore...so you will not find me at a club but I love to hang out with friends. - Francois Joseph
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François Byssot de la Rivière, was an early figure in the New World, his presence being recorded at Île aux Ruaux in 1639 when the Jesuits took possession of the property. Byssot was active in a number of pursuits and his name is associated with some of the earliest land grants and was also a person of note in seigneurial justice. In 1661, he received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, a concession in what is now Labrador and may have constructed a post at Mingan. - Grgo Kusic
Grgo Kusic was a Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. Known as the Gulliver of Dalmatia, the 237 cm Grabovac native was a personal imperial guard to emperor François-Joseph in Vienna. Grgo stood a little over 7 foot 9 inches tall and was one of history's tallest person. Croatia's tallest person ever, and Austro-Hungary's tallest soldier. The currently tallest man in the world, Mongolian Xi Shun, is about 1 centimeter shorter than Grgo. - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de la Vérendrye
Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, was a French Canadian fur trader and explorer who took part in extending these activities westerly from the Great Lakes during the eighteenth century, an enterprise for which he and other members of his family were largely responsible. The youngest, but perhaps the most significant son of Pierre La Vérendrye, Louis-Joseph joined the family business in 1735, travelling west from his home with his father. - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix Count of Clerfayt
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal, was born at the Castle of Bruille in Hainaut in the Austrian Netherlands. He entered the Austrian army in 1753. In the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763) he distinguished himself, earning rapid promotion, and receiving the decoration of the order of Maria Theresa. At the conclusion of the peace (Treaty of Hubertusburg, 15 February 1763), though still under thirty, … - Francois De Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
François de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis (1719–1787) was a French general, and took over command from Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm after the Battle of Québec (1758). Lévis was popular with the French troops, and his leadership played a decisive part in the French victory at the Battle of Sainte-Foy. In 1756, the Marquis de Vaudreuil was informed that King Louis XV of France was sending the Marquis de Montcalm to take over the French forces at Fort Carillon. - François Modesto
François Joseph Modesto is a French footballer who plays as a defender for AS Monaco. He played his first professional match for SC Bastia against Monaco, in which Bastia won 2-0. After two seasons and 16 games for Bastia he spent four seasons in Italy with Cagliari until September 2004 when he left for Modena FC. He then returned to Cagliari but signed for Monaco in 2005 where he has scored 4 goals in 94 games. - François Coty
François Coty (born Joseph Marie François Spoturno; May 3 1874, Ajaccio, Corsica-July 25 1934, Louveciennes) was a French perfume manufacturer and the founder of the fascist paramilitary group Solidarité Française. He married Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron in 1900, and took the more French-looking name "Coty", a variation on his mother's maiden name, when he moved to Paris. He began by selling essences derived from flowers in Grasse, … - François Brassard
François Joseph Brassard was a Canadian ethnomusicologist, organist, composer and music teacher. Brassard studied piano with Rolland-Georges Gingras, organ with Omer Létourneau and harmony with Robert Talbot. As a scholarship student of the Académie de musique du Québec he was a student of Léo-Pol Morin and Claude Champagne in Montreal in 1930. - François Chabas
François Joseph Chabas was a French egyptologist. Chabas came from a modest background, studied at Chalon and became a wine merchand. Self-taught, he learned Latin, Greek and other languages. Interested in anthropology, he turned to study Old Egyptian languages. Chabas was a member of several academies and later president of the "Conceil Departmental" of Saône-et-Loire. Between 1876 and 1880, Chabas edited the journal "L'Égyptologie". - François de Boivin
François de Boivin, Baron de Villars was a French chronicler. He entered the service of Charles, Marshal Brissac, as secretary, and accompanied him to Piedmont in 1550 when the marshal went to take command of the French troops in the war with Spain. Remaining in this service he was sent after the defeat of the French at St Quentin in 1557 to assure the French king Henry II of the support of Brissac. - François Leclerc du Tremblay
François Leclerc du Tremblay, also known as Père Joseph, was a French Capuchin friar, confidant and agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He was the eldest son of Jean Leclerc du Tremblay, president of the chamber of requests of the parlement of Paris, and of Marie Motier de Lafayette. As a boy he received a careful classical training, and in 1595 made an extended journey through Italy, returning to take up the career of arms. - François Joseph Paul de Grasse
François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse was a French admiral. He was born at Bar-sur-Loup, in the present "département" of the Alpes-Maritimes. At the age of eleven, he entered the Order of Malta as a page of the Grand Master. In 1734, de Grasse became an ensign on the galleys of the Knights Hospitaller and, in 1740, he entered the French Navy. - François Joseph Lefebvre
François Joseph Lefebvre, duc de Dantzig was Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Lefebvre was from Alsace, the son of a hussar, he enlisted in French army at the age of 18. When the French Revolution began he was a sergeant in the Gardes Françaises and like most of the regiment he joined it. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1793 and took part in the Battle of Fleurus (June 24, 1794). - François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel
François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist, was born at Périgueux. He was an extremely precocious boy, and at Bordeaux, where he was educated, he produced a play when he was nine years old. Five years later his mother took him to Paris, where he found a patron. in the princesse de Conti, to whom he dedicated his tragedy of "Jugurtha" or, as it was called later, "Adherbal" (1694). - François Joseph Gossec
François-Joseph Gossec was a Belgian composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works who worked in France. - François Joseph Bosio
Baron François Joseph Bosio was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy. - François Joseph Heim
François Joseph Heim was a French painter. He was born at Belfort. He early distinguished himself at the École Centrale of Strassburg, and in 1803 entered the studio of Vincent at Paris. In 1807 he obtained the first prize, and in 1812 his picture of "The Return of Jacob" (Musée de Bordeaux) won for him a gold medal of the first class, which he again obtained in 1817, when he exhibited, together with other works, a St John--bought by Vivant Denon. - François Joseph Westermann
François Joseph Westermann was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars and political figure of the French Revolution. - François Joseph Bouvet
François Joseph Bouvet was a French admiral. - François Joseph des Camus
François Joseph des Camus, a French mechanic, was born near St. Mihiel. After studying for the church, he devoted himself to mechanical inventions, a number of which he described in his "Traité des forces mouvantes pour la pratique des arts et métiers", Paris, 1722. He died in England in 1732. - François Roger de Gaignières
François Roger de Gaignières, French genealogist, antiquary and collector, was the son of Aimé de Gaignires, secretary to the governor of Burgundy. He became "cuyer" (esquire) to Louis Joseph, duke of Guise, and afterwards to Louis Joseph's aunt, Marie of Guise, by whom in 1679 he was appointed governor of her principality of Joinville. At an early age he began to make a collection of original materials for history generally, and, in particular, … - François Tavenas
François Tavenas was a Canadian academic. Born in Bourg-de-Péage, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from INSA in 1963 and a Doctorate with specialization in soil mechanics in 1965 from the Université de Grenoble. In 1968, he moved to Canada to become a lecturer in the Departement of Civil Engineering at Université Laval. A Canadian citizen since July 15, 1971, he became an assistant professor in 1970, an associate professor in 1973, … - François Henri Turpin
François Henri Turpin was a French man of letters. He was born at Caen. He was first a professor at the university of his native town, then went to seek his fortunes in Paris, where he made some stir in philosophical circles, and especially in that of the magnificent Helvetius; but he was only enabled with difficulty to earn a livelihood by putting his pen at the service of the booksellers. He translated, or rather adapted from the English, … - Joseph Eugène Frédéric François Dompierre
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