- Hilary Of Poitiers
Hilarius or Hilary was bishop of Poitiers ('Pictavium') and considered an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "malleus Arianorum" ("hammer against Arianism") and the “Athanasius of the West”. His name comes from the Greek word for happy or cheerful, the same root as English "hilarious". He died on January 13, his saint's day since 1970. As this was traditionally the Octave Day of the Epiphany, … - William Of Poitiers
William of Poitiers, Norman chronicler, was born at Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke William (William the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux. Orderic Vitalis gives a short biography of him in his "Historia ecclesiastica" and says that he also wrote verses. He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, … - Peter Of Poitiers
Peter of Poitiers (born at Poitiers or in its neighbourhood about 1130; died in Paris in 1215) was a French scholastic theologian. - Renaud Of Poitiers
Renaud was Count of Poitiers (795-843) while Poitiers was part of Aquitaine. Renaud was preceded by Guerin of Poitiers (or Warin[us]) (638–677) and was succeeded by Bernard I of Poitiers (815–844). - Bernard Of Poitiers
Bernard was the Count of Poitou from 840 to his death. He was the brother of Emenon, Count of Angoulême. Upon the death of Louis the Pious, he was istalled to succeed Renaud by Charles the Bald. However, he associated Renaud's son Hervé, Count of Herbauges, with him in his war against the rebellious Lambert I of Nantes. Bernard was killed in battle near Poitiers. - Saint Junien
Saint Junien is the patron saint of Poitou plowmen. He was born in the year AD 500 or 501 in the area of "Briosso" (now called Briançais) on an estate named "Champagné" which still exists close to the village of Mairé in the commune of Perigné, Deux-Sèvres, and was educated by his parents who were Gallo-Roman nobility. Although his name is undoubtedly of pagan origin, coming from the Roman gods Juno/Jupiter, … - Camille Guérin
Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (b. December 22, 1872, Poitiers, France; d. June 9, 1961, Paris. French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Camille Guérin was born in Poitiers to a family of modest means. His father died of tuberculosis in 1882 (as well as his wife, in 1918). - Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530-c. 600/609) was a Latin poet and hymnodist, and a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. - René Monory
René Monory, in Loudun, is a French politician. He began his career as the owner of a garage. He is the founder of the Poitiers Futuroscope. Monory first became a Senator in 1968. A member of the Union for French Democracy, he was Minister of Economy and Finance (1978-1981) in the government of Raymond Barre. He later served as Minister of Education (1986-1988) in the government of Jacques Chirac. - Jean-Pierre Abelin
Jean-Pierre Abelin (born September 3 1950 in Poitiers, Vienne) is a French politician. He has been a member of the XIIth legislature of the French National Assembly since 1978, most recently re-elected in 2002 for the district of Vienne. He is a member of the UDF. He also was an Member of the European Parliament between 1984 and 1989 in the European People's Party. - Radegund
Radegund (also spelled "Rhadegund") was born to King Berthar, one of the three kings of Thuringia (a kingdom located in present day Germany), some time in the first half of the 6th century. Radegund's uncle, Hermanfrid, killed Berthar in battle, orphaning her. Then, after allying with the Frankish King Theuderic, Hermanfrid defeated his other brother Baderic. However, having crushed his brothers and seized control of Thuringia, … - Gilbert de la Porrée
Gilbert de la Porrée, also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis (1070 - September 4, 1154) was a scholastic logician and theologian. He was born in Poitiers. He was educated under Bernard of Chartres and Anselm of Laon. After teaching for about twenty years in Chartres, he lectured on dialectics and theology in Paris (from 1137). Stephen of Alinerre was among his pupils. - Arthur Ranc
Arthur Ranc (20 December 1831 - 10 August 1908) was a French leftwing politician and writer. Born at Poitiers, he was educated for the law. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a secret society; for his share in anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to Algeria without a trial. The amnesty of 1859 permitted him to return to Paris, … - Urbain Grandier
Urbain Grandier was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft. Grandier served as priest in the church of Sainte Croix in Loudun, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Poitiers. Ignoring his vow of priestly celibacy, he is known to have had sexual relationships with a number of women and to have acquired a reputation as a philanderer. In 1632, a group of nuns from the local Ursuline convent accused him of having bewitched them, … - Chlodomer
Chlodomer, also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer was the second of the four sons of Clovis I, King of the Franks. On the death of his father, in 511, he divided the kingdom of the Franks with his three brothers: Theuderic I, Childebert I, and Clotaire I. Although Theuderic, the eldest, had a better claim, Chlodomer divided half of the kingdom with his two other brothers. - Pierre Bec
Pierre Bec, is an Occitan poet and linguist. Born in Paris, 1921, he spent his childhood in Comenge, where he learnt Occitan. He has been deported to Germany from 1943 al 1945. After coming back, he studied in Paris, where he graduated in 1959. He was one of the founders of the "Institut d'Estudis Occitans" (Institute for Occitan studies, IEO), and its president as well from 1961 on. - Solange
Solange (died 10 May, c. 880) was a Frankish shepherdess and a locally-venerated Christian saint, whose cult is restricted to Sainte Solange, Cher. Saint Solange was the patron of the traditional Province of Berry, of which Cher is a part. Solange was born to a poor but devout family in the town of Villemont, near Bourges, and consecrated her virginity at the age of seven; according to some, her mere presence cured the sick and exorcised devils. - Chlothar I
Chlothar I (or "Chlothachar", "Chlotar", "Clothar", "Clotaire", "Chlotochar", or "Hlothar", giving rise to Lothair; 497 - 561), called the Old ("le Vieux"), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis. He was born about 497 in Soissons (now in Aisne "département", Picardie, France). On the death of his father in 511, he received, as his share of the kingdom, the town of Soissons, … - Abel Bonnard
Abel Bonnard was a French poet and novelist. Born in Poitiers, his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literature, he was a graduate of the École du Louvre and a member of the École française de Rome. Politically, a follower of Charles Maurras, his views evolved towards fascism in the 1930s. Bonnard was one of the ministers of National Education under the Vichy regime (1942-44). - Étienne Pasquier
Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters, was born at Paris, on the 7th of June 1529 by his own account, according to others a year earlier. He was called to the Paris bar in 1549. In 1558 he became very ill through eating poisonous mushrooms, and did not recover fully for two years. This compelled him to occupy himself by literary work, and in 1560 he published the first book of his "Recherches de la France". - Joël Robuchon
Joël Robuchon is a celebrated French chef. Robuchon was born in Poitiers, France. At the age of 15, Robuchon became an apprentice chef at the Relais of Poitiers hotel. At 28, he was appointed as head chef at the hotel Harmony-Lafayette and was awarded the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France. He was awarded "Chef of the Century" by the Guide Gault Millau. He later started his own restaurant in Paris. - Charibert I
Charibert I (c. 517-November or December 567) was the Merovingian King of Paris, the second-eldest son of Chlothar I and Ingund. His elder brother was Gunthar, who died sometime before their father's death. In 556, Chlothar sent Charibert and his next youngest brother Guntram against their younger brother Chramn, who was in revolt against his father and was hiding out on Black Mountain in the Limousin. Negotiations failed and the two armies prepared for battle. - John Hawkwood
Sir John Hawkwood (1320-1394) was an English mercenary or condottiere in the 14th century Italy. Jean Froissart knew him as "Haccoude" and Italians as "Giovanni Acuto". Hawkwood served first the Pope and then various factions in Italy for over 30 years. Hawkwood's youth is shrouded in tales and legends and it is unclear how he exactly became a soldier. - Leodegar
Saint Leodegar or Leger, Bishop of Autun (c. 615 - Sarcing, Somme October 2, 679), was the great opponent of Ebroin- the mayor of the Palace of Neustria- and the leader of the faction of Austrasian great nobles in the struggles for hegemony over the waning Merovingian dynasty. His torture and death made him a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, which embraced the cause of the Austrasian mayors of the palace, the Arnulfings, … - Gaucelm Faidit
Gaucelm Faidit (c.1170 - 1230) was a troubadour, born in Uzerche, in the Limousin, from a family of knights in service of the count of Turenne. He travelled widely in France, Spain and Hungary. His known patrons include Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, for whose death he wrote a famous planh (lament). - Paternus
Saint Paternus (c. 482-565) was born around the year 482, although the exact year is unknown, in Poitiers. He was born into a Christian family. His father Patranus went to Ireland to spend his days as a hermit in holy solitude. Because of this, Paternus embraced religious life. He became a monk at the Abbey of Marnes in France. Before long, he wished to attain the perfection of Christian virtue by a life of penance in solitude. He went into solitude with his fellow monk, … - Marc Augé
Marc Augé is a French anthropologist. In an essay and book of the same title, "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity" (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places." Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket. - Robert Knolles
Sir Robert Knolles (died 1407) was an important English soldier of the Hundred Years' War, who, operating with the tacit support of the Crown, succeeded in taking the only two major French cities, other than Calais and Poitiers, to fall to Edward III. His methods, however, earned him infamy as a freebooter and a ravager: the ruined gables of burned buildings came to be known as "Knolly's Miters". - Emenon
Emenon or Emeno was the Count of Poitou (828 - 839), Périgord (863 - 866), and Angoulême (863 - 866). It is unknown who nominated him count of Poitou, but it was probably Pepin I of Aquitaine, at whose side he had fought against the emperor Louis the Pious. During his tenure in Poitous, the Empress Judith was imprisoned in the abbey of Sainte-Croix at Poitiers for a while. - Simon Pagenaud
Simon Pagenaud (born May 18, 1984) is a French race car driver born in Poitiers. In 2002 and 2003 he competed in French Formula Renault and in 2002 and 2004 competed in Formula Renault Eurocup. He then moved up to the World Series by Renault in 2005 where he finished 15th. In 2006 he came to the United States and won the Champ Car Atlantic Championship with Team Australia in his rookie season by just a few points over Graham Rahal. - Yves-Marie Adeline
Yves-Marie Adeline (born March 24, 1960 in Poitiers, France) is the founder and leader of the French political party, Alliance Royale. He is the father of eight. - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. He was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in Lyon, Rhône, France, the son of a mining engineer, descendant of an old family of Burgundy. Pierre Puvis was educated at the Lyons College and at the Lycee Henri IV in Paris, … - Georges Vedel
Georges Vedel was a French public law professor from Auch, France.<br /><br /> Vedel is credited as being “the reviser of public law [in France].” He taught in faculties of universities in Poitiers, Toulouse, and Paris, at both the University of Paris II and the Institute of Political Studies. He was a published author, having written manuals on constitutional and regulatory law, publications which both left their mark on generations of French legal experts. - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was a French scientist of wide-ranging interests who made contributions in many fields, especially entomology. Réaumur was born and educated at La Rochelle. He was taught philosophy in the Jesuits' college at Poitiers, and in 1699 went to Bourges to study civil law and mathematics under the charge of an uncle, canon of La Sainte-Chapelle. In 1703 he came to Paris, where he continued the study of mathematics and physics, and in 1708, … - Mummolus
Mummolus, Mommolus, or Mummulus, born "Eunius" to one Peonius, Count of Auxerre. He was a Gallo-Roman patrician and prefect who served Guntram, King of Burgundy, as a general. Peonius sent his son to the Guntram with gifts in order to guarantee his reappointment as count, but Mummolus used his gifts for his own request for the comital office, which he received. Mummolus attained prominence in Gaul during the first Lombard invasion. - Lionel Charbonnier
Lionel Charbonnier (born October 25 1966 in Poitiers, France) is a French football goalkeeper. Charbonnier was the third choice goalkeeper of the French national team that won the 1998 World Cup. However, he has got only one cap (Italy, June 11 1997, 2-2). He moved from Auxerre to Rangers in 1998, but could not displace Stefan Klos as first choice goalkeeper. He has last been recorded to be playing for Swiss team Lausanne-Sports. - Peter des Roches
Peter des Roches (died 1238) was bishop of Winchester in the reigns of John of England and his son Henry III. Roches was not an Englishman, but a Poitevin. Towards the end of Richard I's reign, Roches became Lord Chamberlain and an influential counsellor. In 1205, through John's influence, he was elected to the see of Winchester. His election was disputed but, on appeal, confirmed by Pope Innocent III, who honored Roches by consecrating him in person. - Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Peter I of Bourbon (1311 - September 19 1356, Poitiers) was the second Duke of Bourbon, from 1342 to his death. Peter was son of Louis I of Bourbon, whom he also succeeded as Grand Chamberlain of France, and Mary of Hainaut. Duke Peter is reported to have been mentally somewhat instable, a trait of nervous breakdowns presumably hereditary that showed clearly for example in his daughter Jeanne de Bourbon, the queen, and in her son, king Charles VI of France, … - Catherine Guy-Quint
Catherine Guy-Quint (born 1 September 1949 in Poitiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for central France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the Committee on Budgets. She is also chair of the delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee, a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, … - Jean Balue
Jean Balue, was a French cardinal and minister of Louis XI. He was born of very humble parentage at Angle in Poitou, and was first patronized by the bishop of Poitiers. In 1461 he became vicar-general of the bishop of Angers. His activity, cunning and mastery of intrigue gained him the appreciation of Louis XI, who made him his almoner. In 1465 he received the bishopric of Évreux; the king made him "le premier du grant conseil", and, in spite of his dissolute life, …
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