Christoffel Plantijn

Christoffel Plantijn

male, deceased (1589)
Christoffel Plantijn (in French Christophe Plantin) (ca. 1520-1589 was an influential Renaissance humanist, book printer and publisher who was born...
Julien Le Roy

Julien Le Roy

male, deceased (1759)
Julien Le Roy was a major 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker. He was born in Tours in 1686, and by the age of 13, had already made his...

Matthew Of Vendôme

male
Matthew of Vendôme was a French poet of the twelfth century, writing in Latin. He was a pupil of Bernard Silvestris, at Tours, as he himself w...
Hugh The Abbot

Hugh The Abbot

male, deceased (886)
Hugh the Abbot (died 886) was a member of the Welf family, a son of Conrad I of Auxerre and Adelaide. After his father's death, his mother married...
Jean V de Bueil

Jean V de Bueil

male, deceased (1477)
Jean V de Bueil, called "le Fléau des Anglais" "plague of the English", count of Sancerre, vicount of Carentan, lord of Montrésor, Ch...
Brian Stonehouse

Brian Stonehouse

male, deceased (1998)
Brian Julian Stonehouse (August 8, 1918 - December 2 1998) was a British painter and Special Operations Executive agent during World War II. He was...

Louis Dutens

male, deceased (1812)
Louis Dutens was a French writer born in Tours, of Protestant parents. He went to London, where his uncle was a jeweller, and there obtained a...

René Rapin

male, deceased (1638)
René Rapin was a French Jesuit and writer. He was born at Tours and entered the Society of Jesus in 1639. He taught rhetoric, and wrote e...

Prætextatus

male, deceased (586)
Saint Prætextatus, also spelled "Praetextatus" or "Pretextatus" and known as Saint Prix, was the archbishop of Rouen in Normandy from 549 until h...
Ludovic Roy

Ludovic Roy

male, 32 years old
Ludovic Roy is a footballer, currently playing in goal for Dundee in the Scottish First Division. Ludovic arrived it Scotland in 1998 joining St...