- Christine Boutin
Christine Boutin is a French politician. As of 2004, she is a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Yvelines "département". She is the leader of the Forum des républicains sociaux (Forum of Social Republicans, FRS), a French conservative Christian-democratic party. She became famous in 1998 for opposing the PACS domestic partnership plan, …
- Jack Lang
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician and a member of the French Socialist Party. Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, France, …
- Philippe de Villiers
Philippe de Villiers (born Viscount Philippe Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon on March 25, 1949) was the Mouvement pour la France nominee for the French presidential election of 2007. He received 2.23% of the vote, putting him in sixth place. As only the top two candidates advance to the second round of voting, he was eliminated from the race. After the vote, he called on his supporters to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy.
- Patrick Devedjian
Patrick Devedjian is a French politician. As a student at the University of Paris II, he was a member of the far-right group Occident. He was admitted to the Paris bar in 1970. He became a militant in the Gaullist movement as early as 1971 and participated in the foundation of the RPR party in 1976. In 1983, he was elected mayor of Antony (Hauts-de-Seine) for the first time, and was re-elected in 1989, 1995 and 2001.
- Michel Barnier
Michel Barnier is a conservative French politician. Michel Barnier was born in La Tronche in the Isère "département" of the Rhône-Alpes "région", in France. He graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Paris in 1972. He was elected to the House of Representatives as a deputy for the Savoie in 1978 and served in this function until 1993.
- Dominique Voynet
Dominique Voynet is a French senator for the "département" of Seine-Saint-Denis, and a member of the The Greens.
- Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance.
- Christian Estrosi
Christian Estrosi is a French politician and is Secretary of State in charge of the French Overseas, under Michèle Alliot-Marie, minister of the interior. His is also President of the general council for the Alpes-Maritimes "département". He is a supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy. Estrosi is also a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His nickname is "the Motodidact", because he has no diploma.
- Bernadette Chirac
Bernadette Chirac, born Bernadette Chodron de Courcel is a French politician and the wife of former President Jacques Chirac of France. They met while both students at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as "Sciences Po"), and were married in France on 16 March 1956. They have two children: Laurence and Claude Chirac, and a Vietnamese foster-daughter, Anh Đào Traxel.
- Philippe Séguin
Philippe Séguin OQ (born April 21, 1943) is a former French politician, and is now first president of France's "Cour des Comptes" (Court of Financial Auditors). He entered the Court of Financial Auditors in 1970, but he began a political career in the Neo-Gaullist party RPR. In 1978, he was elected to the National Assembly as a deputy for the Vosges "département".
- Paul Doumer
Paul Doumer was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, …
- Manuel Aeschlimann
Manuel Aeschlimann is a French politician. He began his political career at the early age of 25, as a city councillor in Asnières sur Seine. He was appointed first deputy major and went on to be elected mayor of Asnières in 1999. He was elected deputy to the French National Assembly in June 2002 as a member of the ruling right-wing party UMP; he is a member of the commissions of laws of the Assembly.
- Renaud Muselier
Renaud Muselier, born May 6, 1959, is a French politician. His political mandates include: * 1992, puis 1993 - 1995 : Conseiller général ("counsellor") of the "département" of Bouches-du-Rhône * 1993 - : Député ("MP") of Bouches-du-Rhône * 2002 - : Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs He is the grandson of Admiral Émile Muselier.
- Pierre Mauroy
Pierre Mauroy is a French Socialist politician. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984. A teacher, he led the Socialist Young Movement and the Technique Teaching Union in the 1950s. He became a leading figure in the Socialist federation of Nord "département", which was among the third biggest of the SFIO party and climbed quickly in the party. In 1966, he became number 2 of the party behind the secretary general Guy Mollet.
- Robert Badinter
Robert Badinter is a French politician (after being a high-profile criminal lawyer and a university professor in Law). He belongs to the French Socialist Party and is currently a senator for the Hauts-de-Seine "département". He is mainly known for his struggle against the death penalty.
- Guillaume Sarkozy
Guillaume Georges Didier Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, simply known as Guillaume Sarkozy, is a French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers. Guillaume Sarkozy is the older brother of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He was enrolled in the private Catholic middle and high school "Cours Saint-Louis de Monceau", and then in the public "Lycée" (High School) "Janson-de-Sailly", both located in Paris.
- Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Poincaré was a French conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Born in Bar-le-Duc, Département Meuse, France, the son of Nicolas Antoinin Hélène Poincaré, a distinguished civil servant and meteorologist. Educated at the University of Paris, Raymond was called to the Paris bar, and was for some time law editor of the "Voltaire".
- Frédéric Mistral
Frédéric Mistral was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary "félibrige" movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. Mistral's father was a well-to-do farmer in the former French province of Provence. He was born and died in Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône "département", France.
- Xavière Tiberi
Xavière Tiberi is the spouse of former mayor of Paris Jean Tiberi. She is mostly known for being involved in corruption scandals in the Paris region. Xavière Tiberi received 200,000 French Francs for a report on francophonie for the general council of the Essonne "département". This 36-page long report, possibly written after the payment as a justification, was extremely poorly written (contained numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes, for instance).
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan is a French eurosceptic politician. A member of the National Assembly from the Essonne "département", he was a member of the right-wing UMP party until January 2007, and now heads his own party, "Debout la République" ("let the Republic stand up"). He intended to run in the 2007 French presidential election, but withdrew his candidacy on 16 March 2007 after failing to gather the necessary 500 signatures of elected officials.
- Serge Lepeltier
Serge Lepeltier is a French politician. He studied at École des Hautes Études Commerciales. He was mayor of Bourges in 1995 and again in 2001. He was elected senator of the Cher "département" on September 27, 1998. He won the municipal elections in Bourges in 1995 over the communist candidate. On March 31, 2004, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's government announced a reshuffle because of the massive losses in the French regional elections.
- Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996) was a French writer and film director. She was born in Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her father having passed on, her mother raised her along with her two other brothers. They were very poor and the mother went practically mad, beating her children and turning Marguerite into a sort of prostitute. At 18, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, …
- Bernard Lama
Bernard Lama is a former French footballer born in the Indre-et-Loire "département" but originating from French Guiana who played as a goalkeeper, spending a number of years in goal for Lille and Paris Saint-Germain. He also played for Brest, Lens, Metz and West Ham. His debut with the France national team was on February 17, 1993 against Israel in a 4-0 victory, and he would go on to win 44 caps for his nation.
- Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Jacques Chaban-Delmas (March 7, 1915-November 10, 2000) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. Jacques Chaban-Delmas was born Jacques Delmas; in the resistance underground, his final pseudonym was "Chaban", and, after World War II, he formally changed his name to "Chaban-Delmas". General of a brigade in the resistance, he took part in the Parisian insurrection of August 1944.
- Giverny
Giverny is a village and commune of the Eure "département", in France. It is best known as the location of Claude Monet's garden and home.
- Raymond Forni
Raymond Forni is a French Socialist politician. Son of an Italian immigrant, deputy of Territoire de Belfort "département" until 2002, he was chairman of the National Assembly from 2000 to 2002. He is chairman of Franche-Comté regional council since 2004.
- Paul Fort
Paul Fort was a French poet. Born on in Reims, Marne "département", France, he became an important part of the artistic community of Montparnasse. By 1912 his accomplishments and influence were such that Paul Verlaine gave him the title "Prince of the Poets." Paul Fort was the founder of "Vers et Prose" with the collaboration of Guillaume Apollinaire. One of his famous works was "La Ronde".
- Paul Quilès
Paul Quilès is a French Socialist politician. Deputy of Tarn "département", close to Laurent Fabius, he was Defense Minister from 1985 to 1986, after the Rainbow Warrior scandal. He was Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993, then chairman of the Defense commission in the French National Assembly from 1997 to 2002.
- Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress and model. She was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the Yvelines "département". She started taking acting classes at a very young age and had her film debut at age 10 in "Je veux rentrer a la maison" and "Les maris, les femmes, les amants". In 2001, she was named one of the Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion. Sagnier performed in two films in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, …
- Georges Courteline
Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family moved to Paris shortly after his birth. During the time of the Paris Commune, at age 13, he was sent to study at Collège de Meaux and after graduation in 1876, he went on to serve in the French military before taking a job as a civil servant.
- Edmond Hervé
Edmond Hervé is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party. He was born in La Bouillie in the Côtes-d'Armor "département", in France. He has been mayor of Rennes since 1977, succeeding Henri Fréville. His parents were tenant farmers, he graduated in public law at the university of Rennes and also has a graduate degree in political science. He became a teacher in administrative law and in constitutional law in 1969.
- Antoine Pinay
Antoine Pinay (December 30, 1891, Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, Rhône, France - December 13, 1994) was a French conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of France from 1952 - 1953 (technically, "president of the Council"). Early in life, Pinay managed a small business. He served as mayor of Saint-Chamond (Loire) from 1929 to 1977. He was elected to the French National Assembly in 1936, running as a conservative.
- Armand Fallières
Clément Armand Fallières was a French politician, president of the French republic from 1906 to 1913. He was born at Mézin in the "département" of Lot-et-Garonne, France, where his father was clerk of the peace. He studied law and became an advocate at Nérac, beginning his public career there as municipal councillor (1868), afterwards mayor (1871), and as councillor-general of the "département" of Lot-et-Garonne (1871).
- Philippe de Girard
Philippe Henri de Girard, was a French engineer and inventor of the first flax spinning frame in 1810, as well as the name-sake for the town of Żyrardów in Poland. Girard was born in the village of Lourmarin in the "département" of Vaucluse, France, to a wealthy aristocratic family. As a child he was sent by his parents to some of the most notable French schools of the era. However, in the effect of the French Revolution, …
- Bertin
St. Bertin is a saint and abbot of Saint-Omer. He was born near Coutances. At an early age he entered the monastery of Luxeuil in France where, under the austere Rule of St. Columban, he prepared himself for his future missionary career. About the year 638 he set out, in company with two confrères, Mummolin and Ebertram, for the extreme northern part of France in order to assist his friend and kinsman, Bishop St. Omer, in the evangelization of the Morini.
- Charles Floquet
Charles Thomas Floquet was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Basses-Pyrénées). He studied law in Paris, and was called to the bar in 1851. The "coup d'état" of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet, who had, while yet a student, given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848. He made his name by his brilliant and fearless attacks on the government in a series of political trials, …
- Bernard Brunhes
Bernard Brunhes was a French geophysicist known for his pioneering work in paleomagnetism, in particular, his 1906 discovery of geomagnetic reversal. The Brunhes-Matuyama reversal is named for him. Brunhes was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, from which he graduated as an "agrégé" qualified in physics. In November 1900, he was appointed as head of the Puy-de-Dôme Observatory, built on an extinct volcano in the Auvergne region of France, …
- Alain Calmat
Alain Calmat (also Calmanovich) (born August 31, 1940, in Paris) is a French Jewish former competitve figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962-1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962-1965 French national champion.
- Jean Rey
Jean Rey was a French physician and chemist. Born at Le Bugue, in the Périgord (Dordogne "département"), he studied medicine at the University of Montpellier. He practised medicine in his native town and corresponded with Descartes and Mersenne. He discovered that the weight of lead and tin increases when they are calcinated, and attributed this phenomenon to the weight of air, which he believed to become more dense when heated ("Essays", 1630).
- François Ponsard
François Ponsard, was a French dramatist. He was born at Vienne, in the "département" of Isère. Trained as a lawyer, his first literary work was a translation of "Manfred" (1837). His play, "Lucrèce",, was performed at the Thêâtre Français on April 1, 1843. This date is notable in literature and dramatic history, because it marked a reaction against the romantic style of Alexandre Dumas, père and Victor Hugo.