- Gabriel Loire
Gabriel Loire (1904-Dec 25, 1996) was a French stained glass artist of the twentieth century whose extensive works, portraying various persons or historical scenes, appear in many venues around the world. He founded the Loire Studio in Chartres, France which continues to produce stained glass windows. Loire was a leader in the modern use of "slab glass" which is much thicker and stronger than the stained glass technique of the Middle Ages. - Bernard Lavilliers
Bernard Lavilliers is a French singer. He was born Bernard Ouillon in Saint-Étienne (Loire). - Pascal Clément
Pascal Clément is a French politician. He has been the French Minister of Justice since 2005. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, he is a barrister by training. Clément has been a Member of the French National Assembly since 1978, representing the Loire. From 1977 to 2001, he was Mayor of Saint-Marcel-de-Felines and from 1993 to 1995 was Minister-Delegate for Parliamentary Relations. Clément succeeded Dominique Perben as Justice Minister on 2 June 2005. - Mesmin
Saint Mesmin (Maximin, Maximinus) is a French saint associated with the Bishopric of Orléans. He provided direction to Leonard of Noblac. Saint Euspicius was his uncle. His feast day is December 15. Clovis gave Euspicius and his nephew Mesmin the domain of Micy, near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, for a monastery in 508. When Euspicius died, Mesmin became abbot, and during his rule the religious life flourished there notably. - Ravachol
François Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, was a French anarchist best known for terrorism. He was born 14 October 1859 at Saint-Chamond (Loire) and died guillotined 11 July, 1892 at Montbrison. - Childeric I
Childeric I was the Merovingian king of the Salian Franks from 457 until his death. He succeeded his father Merovech (Latinised as Meroveus or Merovius) as king, traditionally in 457 or 458. With his Frankish warband he was established with his capital at Tournai, on lands which he had received as a "foederatus" of the Romans, and for some time he kept the peace with his allies. In about 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, … - 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. - Marcellin Champagnat
Saint Marcellin Joseph Benoît Champagnat was born the ninth of ten children near St. Etienne (Loire), France. He was the founder of the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of men in the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to education. Champagnat was ordained a priest in 1816, and was part of a group led by Jean-Claude Colin which founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marist Fathers and Brothers, a separate religious congregation. - Robert The Strong
Robert the Strong (Old Frankish: Rutpert) (died September 15, 866), also known as Robert IV, was Margrave of Neustria. He was nominated by Charles the Bald "missus dominicus" for the Tours and Angers regions in 853. Stoyan lists his wife as Adelaide of Tours. Robert was the father of Odo, Count of Paris and Robert I of France, who both became King of Western Francia. - Joseph Marie Jacquard
Joseph Marie Jacquard was a straw hat maker before becoming a French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom mechanism in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows, what is now known as, the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns. Jacquard died at Oullins (Rhóne), 7 August 1834. - Hugh The Great
Hugh the Great (d. 956) was duke of the Franks and count of Paris, son of King Robert I of France and nephew of King Odo. His eldest son was Hugh Capet who became King of France in 987. Hugh's first wife was Eadhild, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of England, and sister of King Athelstan. At the death of Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, in 936, Hugh was in possession of nearly all the region between the Loire and the Seine, corresponding to the ancient Neustria, … - Victor de Laprade
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade, known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the "département" of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, "Les Parfums de Madeleine". This was followed in 1840 by "La colère de Jesus", in 1841 by the religious fantasy of "Psyche", … - 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. - Riothamus
Riothamus (also spelled Riotimus, Rigothamus, Rigotamos), was a military leader, active circa 470, called "King of the Brittones" by Jordanes, who states in "The Origin and Deeds of the Goths": If the name is a Latinization of "highest leader", some scholars have suggested, it may be a title, and not a personal name. It has been argued whether Jordanes' "Brittones" refers to the Bretons of Brittany, … - Theuderic II
Theuderic II, king of Burgundy (595-613) and Austrasia (612-613), was the second son of Childebert II. At his father's death in 595, he received Guntram's kingdom of Burgundy, with its capital at Orléans, while his elder brother, Theudebert II, received their father's kingdom of Austrasia, with its capital at Metz. During his minority, and later, he reigned under the guidance of his grandmother Brunhilda, evicted from Austrasia by his brother Theudebert II. In 596, … - Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was a French traitor, who served as a spy for Germany. Esterhazy was the perpetrator of the crime of which Alfred Dreyfus had been wrongly accused and convicted. See Dreyfus affair. Born in Paris, Esterhazy belonged to an illustrious Hungarian family, a branch of which had established itself in France at the end of the 17th century, and the head of which had organized there a regiment of "hussars". - Odo The Great
Odo the Great (also called "Eudes" or "Eudo") (d.c.735), Duke of Aquitaine, obtained this dignity about 700. His territory included the southwestern part of Gaul from the Loire to the Pyrenees, with his capital in Toulouse. He retained it until his abdication in 735. His earlier life is obscure, as is his ancestry and succession. Several Dukes of Aquitaine have been named as Odo's father: Boggis or Bertrand, … - Jean Castaneda
Jean Castaneda (born March 20, 1957 in Saint-Etienne, Loire) is a former football goalkeeper from France, who earned nine international caps for the French national team during the early 1980s. A player of AS Saint-Etienne (1977-1989), he was a member of the French team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. - Prosper Ménière
Prosper Ménière was a French physician who in 1861 described the symptoms now known as Ménière's disease, and the symptoms now concerned with vertigo. He was born in Angers, France, and died in Paris. Diseases of the inner ear were unknown until Prosper Ménière in 1861 described the disease that bears his name. This pioneering achievement, however, was not fully appreciated in the Paris of his time. - Marie-Simone Capony
Marie-Simone Capony is, at age 113, currently the oldest living person in France. She became their doyenne following the passing of 114-year-old Camille Loiseau in August 2006. Since June 1, 2007, she ranks 7th-oldest in the world. She was born in Charlieu (Loire), and currently lives in a retirement facility in Cannes. She never married (her fiancé was killed in action at the beginning of the First World War in 1914). Capony hasn't been able to walk since she turned 100, … - Arnoul D'Audrehem
Arnoul d'Audrehem was a French soldier. He was born at Audrehem, in the present arrondissement of Saint-Omer, in the "département" of Pas de Calais. Nothing is known of his career before 1332, when he is heard of at the court of Philip VI of France. Between 1332 and 1342 he went three times to Scotland to aid King David Bruce in his wars. - Pacello da Mercogliano
Pacello da Mercogliano was a designer of gardens and hydraulic engineer, who is documented under Charles VIII at Amboise with the responsibility of bringing water from the Loire up to the garden parterres laid out to one side of the château. He was assisting the architect-engineer Fra Giocondo, who had translated Frontinus' essay "De aquis urbae Romanae". - Euspicius
Saint Euspicius was a French saint. Clovis gave him and his nephew St. Mesmin (Maximinus) the domain of Micy, near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, for a monastery in 508. When Euspicius died, Mesmin became abbot, and during his rule the religious life flourished there notably. - Hunald Of Aquitaine
Hunald (also known as "Chunold", "Hunold", or "Hunaud"), Duke of Aquitaine (735-744 or 748), succeeded his father Odo the Great in 735. He refused to recognize the high authority of the Frankish mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, whereupon Charles marched south of the Loire, seized Bordeaux, and Blaye, but eventually allowed Hunald to retain Aquitaine on condition that he should promise fidelity. - Hugh The Abbot
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 Robert the Strong, the margrave of Neustria. On Robert's death in 866, Hugh became the regent and guardian for Robert's sons, Odo and Robert. Hugh entered the clergy and rose to become abbot of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre. Despite his his vows, he was no peaceful, … - Paul-Henri-Benjamin D'Estournelles de Constant
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque, was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle. - Charles-Angélique-François Huchet de la Bedoyère
Charles-Angélique-François Huchet de la Bedoyère born in Paris in 1786, of a family of magistrates, was a soldier in the French military who aided Napoleon and was executed for treason. He rose from private to an officer to aide-de-camp for Eugene de Beauharnais. After having fought with distinction in Spain, in the countryside of Russia, Germany in 1813 and France in 1814, he was named, by Louis XVIII, colonel of the 7th Infantry Regiment. - Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin duc de Persigny
Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny was a French statesman of the Second Empire. Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse (Loire), the son of a receiver of taxes, and was educated at Limoges. He entered the cavalry school at Saumur in 1826, becoming "maréchal des logis" in the 4th Hussars two years later. The role played by his regiment in the July Revolution of 1830 was regarded as insubordination, and Fialin was dismissed from the army. - Karl von Schmidt
Karl von Schmidt (January 12, 1817 - August 25, 1875), Prussian cavalry general, was born at Schwedt on the Oder, and entered the 4th Ulans as a second lieutenant in 1834. His long regimental service was varied by staff service and instructional work, and in the mobilization of 1859 he had the command of a "landwehr" cavalry regiment. In 1863 he was made colonel of the 4th Cuirassiers, which he commanded in the, for the cavalry arm, … - Alan II, Duke of Brittany
Alan II Wrybeard or "Barbe-Torte" (died 952) was Count of Vannes, Poher, and Nantes, and Duke of Brittany from 938 to his death. During his rule, he defended Brittany from Viking invasions. He had to take refuge, along with his father Mathuedoi, Count of Poher, with the English king, Edward the Elder, because the Norsemen had invaded Armorica. He became ruler of Brittany at the end of a 33-year interregnum after the death of his maternal grandfather, … - Henri Dentz
Henri Fernand Dentz was a Vichy French general during World War II. He was in charge of the defence of the French Mandates of Syria and the Lebanon, and commanded the "Armée du Levant" of approximately 45,000 men. After Vichy authorities allowed German "Luftwaffe" aircraft to refuel in the mandates, the Allies planned an invasion. On June 8, 1941, a force of approximately 20,000 Australian, Indian, Free French and British troops, … - Guy D'Artois
Major Lionel Guy d'Artois, Croix de Guerre (born 1917) was a Canadian Army officer and SOE agent. d'Artois was born in Richmond, Quebec in 1917. He was a student at the Universite de Montreal. He joined the First Special Service Force during World War II. In 1943 he volunteered for SOE. He served in F section until 1945. Codename Dieudonne. He parachuted into Saone and Loire, France one month before D-Day. - Odo II, Count of Blois
Odo II (983 - 15 November 1037), Count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Provins, Rheims, and Tours from 1004 and Count of Troyes and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022, was the son of Odo I of Blois and Bertha, daughter of Conrad of Burgundy. His career was spent in endless feudal warfare with his neighbours and suzerains, whose territories he tried to annex, and in a quest for a crown in Italy and Burgundy. - Milo I of Montlhéry
Milo I the Great was lord of Montlhéry from 1095 until his death. He was the son of Guy I of Montlhéry and Hodierna of Gometz. The identify of his first wife is unknown. His second wife was Lithuise, daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois. This marriage was unusually disproportionate for a noble of such a low status as Milo, … - Laurent Rédon
Laurent Rédon is a race car driver born on Loire, France on the 5th of August 1973. He was a test driver for the Formula One teams Minardi (1998) and Benetton (1999). Most recently he drove for the Mi-Jack Conquest Racing in the Indy Racing League in 2001 and 2002, including the 2002 Indianapolis 500, with a best finish of 3rd at California Speedway. - Felix Of Aquitaine
Felix (died circa 676) was the Patrician of Toulouse, and then Duke of Aquitaine from 660 until his death. He had his seat at Toulouse, and was probably a vassal of the Franks. Evidence suggests that his duchy was a recreation of the old kingdom of Charibert II. The last known duke before Felix was Boggis. In Felix' time, Vasconia formed a part of Aquitaine, into which it had been incorporated following the successful putting down of a rebellion in 645. - Charles, Archbishop Of Mainz
Charles (825 or 830-4 June 863) was the second son of Pepin I of Aquitaine and Engelberga. He lived at the court of his uncle Lothair until 848, when, hearing of the deposition of his brother, he set out in March 849 with a band of followers to claim the Aquitainian realm. He was captured by Vivian, count of Maine at the Loire and sent to Charles the Bald. He was put in the monastery of Corbie as either a monk or a deacon. - Erispoe of Brittany Erispoe Duke of Brittany
Erispoe in the days following the battle and concluded a peace treaty in return for being invested with the counties of Rennes and Nantes. South of the Loire, the "Pays de Retz" was detached from the County of Poitou and granted to him as well. Charles and Erispoe also created a baptismal alliance, whereby Charles stood as godfather at the baptism of Erispoe's infant son Conan, but whether in 851 or 856 is unknown. - Fabien Loire
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