- Raimu
Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire. Born in Toulon in the Var département, he made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theater scene.
- Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor. Born in Cannes, as a teenager Philipe took acting lessons before going to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. At age 19, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, "Caligula", brought an invitation to work with the "Théâtre national populaire" (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, …
- Mireille Darc
Mireille Darc (born May 15 1938) is a French model and actress born in Toulon, Var. She was Alain Delon's longtime companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film "Week End".
- Maurice Arreckx
Maurice Arreckx was a French politician of the right-wing liberal UDF. He was mayor of the major city of Toulon from 1959 to 1985. He was president of the general council of Var department from 1985 to 1994. Arreckx was a senator. He received a prison sentence in 1996 for a major corruption scandal.
- Inès de la Fressange
Inès Marie Laetitia Eglantine Isabelle de Seignard de la Fressange, is a French designer of fashion and perfumes. She was born in Gassin, Var, France. Her French father (a marquis) was a stockbroker, and her mother was an Argentinian model. She grew up in an 18th century mill outside Paris with three brothers. Her grandmother was Madame Simone Jacquinot, heiress to the Lazard banking fortune. In the 1980s, she modeled for photographer Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, …
- Roxane Mesquida
Roxane Mesquida is a French actress born in October 1 1981 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She grew up in Le Pradet though, a little town located between Hyères and Toulon in the Var "département". She was discovered at the age of 13, while walking on a road in her region, …
- Maximin Isnard
Maximin Isnard, French revolutionist, was a dealer in perfumery at Draguignan when he was elected deputy for the "département" of the Var to the Legislative Assembly, where he joined the Girondists. Attacking the court, and the Austrian committee in the Tuileries, he demanded the disbandment of the king's bodyguard, and reproached Louis XVI for infidelity to the constitution. But on June 20, 1792, when the crowd invaded the palace, …
- Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (December 1, 1580 - June 24, 1637) was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry, whose own researches were not confined to the matter of determining the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa.
- Moise Kisling
Moise Kisling was a Polish painter. Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he was encouraged to go on to Paris, France, at the time, the center for artistic creativity. In 1910, Kisling moved to Montmartre and a few years later to Montparnasse. At the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for service in the French Foreign Legion, and in 1915 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme, …
- Joseph-Louis Lambot
Joseph-Louis Lambot, is the inventor of ferro-cement, which led to the development of what is now known as reinforced concrete. He studied in Paris, where his uncle Baron Lambot was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Bourbon. In 1841 he moved to his family's estate of Miraval in the Department of the Var (Southern France), where he applied himself to agriculture. It is at that time that he started constructing tanks using cement and iron reinforcement.
- Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière was a French writer and critic. Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again. He turned to private tuition and literary criticism. After the publication of successful articles in the "Revue Bleue", …
- Jean-Marie Auberson
Jean-Marie Auberson was a Swiss conductor and violinist, student of Ernest Ansermet and Carl Schuricht. He was born in Chavornay, Vaud canton, Switzerland and died in Draguignan, Var, France.
- Philippe Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau (30 December 1940, Toulon, Var, France - 28 June 1979, Lisbon, Portugal) was the second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He was born in 1940 to Jacques-Yves Cousteau's first wife Simone. He first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 4 years old. He died in 1979 in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon. His children Alexandra Cousteau (born on March 21, 1976) and Philippe Cousteau Jr. (born on January 20,1980, …
- Mario Zatelli
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.
- Gazan de la Peyrière
Honoré Théodore Maxime Gazan de la Peyrière was a French general who fought under Napoleon. He was born in the small town of Grasse, France. His lawyer father sent him to College of Sorèze where he received military training and eventually joined the French Royal Life Guards in 1786. Afterwards he also joined the Freemasons. Upon the eruption of the French Revolution, Gazan returned to Grasse and joined the national guard.
- René Renoult
René Renoult was a French Minister and lawyer. Renoult is the son of Étienne and Élisa Geranger, a female day laborer. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1888. He married for the first time with Blanche-Clothilde Wormser in 1910, and a second time with Henriette-Emelie-Céleste Giriat in 1937. Renoult was member of the Radical Party.
- Paul-Thérèse-David D'Astros
Paul-Thérèse-David d' Astros (1772, Tourves, Var - 29 September, 1851) was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal. A nephew of Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, he was engaged in the formulation of the Concordat of 1801. On its conclusion he was made vicar general of Archbishop Belloy, of Paris, and after the latter's death in 1808 administered the diocese until the nomination of Cardinal Jean-Sifrein Maury.
- Pierre Louis Jean Casimir
Pierre Jean Casimir, first "prince et duc" (prince and duke) de Blacas d'Aulps (January 10 1771, Vérignon, Var - November 17 1839, Vienne, Austria) was a French antiquarian, nobleman and diplomat. He was baptized at Aups on 11 January 1771. As sous-lieutenant in the Noailles dragoons, he emigrated in 1790 and - exiled by the French Revolution - attached himself to the diplomatic mission of the comte de Provence (the future Louis XVIII), …
- Gonzague Truc
Gonzague Truc was a French writer. Truc was born at Flayosc, Var. A frequent contributor to the "Revue Philosophique", he was a Thomist who sympathised with Charles Maurras and the Action Française. He latterly lived in Paris.
- Joseph Balthasar Comte Siméon
Joseph Balthasar, Comte Siméon, was a French politician. He was the son of Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon. He entered the diplomatic service under the Empire. At the Restoration he was successively prefect of Var, Doubs and Pas de Calais. He was director-general of fine arts in 1828, and had a great reputation as a connoisseur and collector.
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