- Yves Robert
Yves Robert was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, in his teens Robert went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. To support himself, he worked at a variety of jobs including that of a typesetter at a print shop. In 1949 he made his motion picture debut with one of the secondary roles in the film, "Les Dieux du dimanche". - Jehan Alain
Jehan Ariste Alain (February 3, 1911 - June 20, 1940) was a French organist and composer. - Didier Courrèges
Didier Courrèges is a high-level horse rider. He is professor of equitation at the National School of Equitation in Saumur, France, and a member of its equestrian display team, the "Cadre Noir". He is a non-commissioned officer in the French Army with a rank of "major". In 2004, he was in the French team who won the gold medal in the team eventing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. - Constance Menard
Constance Menard (born may 17 1968, in France) is a professional Dressage Rider, She is Graduate instructor from the french national school in Saumur. She started training with Michel Autran Ecuyer from the Cadre Noir in 2003. She has been placed in more than 40 international Grand Prix (Dressage), and a member of the french team - Louis Cappel
Louis Cappel, was a French Protestant churchman and scholar. Cappel, a Huguenot, was born at St Elier, near Sedan. He studied theology at Sedan and Saumur; and Arabic at the University of Oxford, where he spent two years. At the age of twenty-eight he accepted the chair of Hebrew at Saumur, and twenty years later was appointed professor of theology. Amongst his fellow lecturers were Moses Amyraut and Josué de la Place. - George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France and Germany, 1943-45. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. - Francis Turretin
Francis Turretin was the grandson of Francesco Turrettini, who left his native Lucca in 1574 and settled in Geneva in 1592. Francis was born to Benoit Turretin at Geneva on October 17, 1623 and died there on September 28, 1687. He was educated at Geneva, Leiden, Utrecht, Paris, Saumur, Montauban, and Nimes. Returning to his native city, he was made pastor of the Italian church there in 1648, and professor of theology in 1653. He is the father of Jean Alphonse Turretin. - Bruno Mégret
Bruno Mégret is a French politician. He is the leader of the "Mouvement National Républicain" political party. Bruno Mégret studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and is by profession a senior civil servant. He also holds a Master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of the armored cavalry school of Saumur, he is also a reserve captain. - Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France - November 27, 1754 in London, England; pronounced as) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling. - André Dacier
André Dacier, was a French classical scholar. He was born at Castres in upper Languedoc. His father, a Protestant lawyer, sent him first to the academy of Puy Laurens, and afterwards to Saumur to study under Tanneguy Lefebvre. On Lefebvre's death in 1672, Dacier moved to Paris, and was appointed one of the editors of the Delphin series of the classics. In 1683 he married Anne Lefèvre, the daughter of his old tutor. Better known by her married name of Madame Dacier, … - Jean-Nicolas Stofflet
Jean-Nicolas Stofflet was a French leader of the Revolt in the Vendée against the First French Republic. Born in Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), the son of a miller, he was for long a private in the Swiss Guard, and afterwards gamekeeper to the comte de Colbert-Maulévrier, he joined the Vendéans when they rose against the Revolution to defend Roman Catholicism and Royalist principles. - Anne Lefèvre
Anne Lefèvre, better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar and translator of the classics. She was born at Saumur and grew up there. On the death of her father, Tanneguy Lefebvre, in 1672, she moved to Paris, carrying with her part of an edition of Callimachus, which she afterwards published. This was so well received that she was engaged as one of the editors of the "Delphin" series of classical authors, … - Josué de la Place
Josué de la Place was a French theologian who was born at Saumur. He became pastor at Nantes in 1625 and was professor of theology at his native city from 1633 till his death. Placeus together with Moise Amyraut and Louis Cappel belong, as followers of John Cameron, to that theological movement at Saumur which in contrast with the orthodox school of Sedan sought to moderate Calvinistic doctrine by emphasizing the ethical and common human elements, without, however, … - Louis Marie de Lescure
Louis-Marie Joseph, marquis de Lescure was a French soldier and adversary of the French Revolution, the cousin of Henri de la Rochejaquelein. He was born near Bressuire, and educated at the "École Militaire", which he left at the age of sixteen. Lescure was in command of a company of cavalry in the "Regiment de Royal-Picmont", but being opposed to the ideas of the Revolution, he emigrated in 1791, but soon returned, and, … - Bernard Lamy
Bernard Lamy was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. - Jean Le Clerc
Jean le Clerc [Clericus] (March 19, 1657 - January 8, 1736), Swiss Protestant theologian, was born at Geneva, where his father, Stephen Le Clerc, was professor of Greek. The family originally belonged to the neighborhood of Beauvais in France, and several of its members acquired some name in literature. Jean Le Clerc applied himself to the study of philosophy under JR Chouet (1642-1731) the Cartesian, and attended the theological lectures of P Mestrezat, … - Tanneguy Lefebvre
Tanneguy Lefebvre (Tanaquillus Faber) (1615 - September 12, 1672), was a French classical scholar. He was born at Caen. After completing his studies in Paris, he was appointed by Cardinal Richelieu inspector of the printing-press at the Louvre. After Richelieu's death he left Paris, joined the Reformed Church, and in 1651 obtained a professorship at the academy of Saumur, which he filled with great success for nearly twenty years. - Philippe Vercruysse
Philippe Vercruysse (born January 28, 1962 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire) is a former football midfielder from France, who earned a total number of twelve international caps (one goal) for the French national team during the 1980s. A player of RC Lens (1980-1986), he was a member of the French team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup. - Jean Frederic Ostervald
Jean-Frédéric Ostervald, Swiss Protestant pastor, was born at Neuchâtel in 1663 in a patrician family, a son of the Reformed pastor Johann Rudolf Ostervald. He was educated at Zürich and at Saumur (where he graduated), studied theology at Orléans under Claude Pajon, at Paris under Jean Claude and at Geneva under Louis Tronchin, and was ordained to the ministry in his native place in 1683. He spent the most part of his life at Neuchâtel, first as a diacon, … - Alain de Boissieu
Alain de Boissieu was a French general, Free French, Compagnon de la Libération, Army chief of staff (1971-1975) and son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle. - Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars
Aristide Aubert du Petit Thouars was a French naval officer, and a hero of the Battle of Aboukir, where he died. He was born on August 31, 1760, in the castle of Boumais, near Saumur. He studied at the Collège Royal de La Flèche, and entered the French Navy in 1778. He participated that same year to the Battle of Ouessant. In 1719, he participated to the conquest of Saint-Louis du Sénégal. - Zachary Boyd
Zachary Boyd (1585 - 1653) was a Scottish religious writer. He belonged to the family of Boyd of Pinkhill, Ayrshire and was educated at Glasgow and at Saumur. He translated many parts of Scripture into uncouth verse. Among his works are "The Garden of Zion" and "Zion's Flowers". - Bettina Goislard
Bettina Goislard (11 November 1974 - 16 November 2003) was a French employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), assigned to its mission in Afghanistan. She was the first United Nations worker to be killed in that country since the fall of the Taliban in December 2001. Goislard, the daughter of career diplomat Bernard Goislard and his English wife, was born in Saumur, France. She took a degree in Arabic in Paris and Cairo and, after graduation, … - Charles Oudinot
Lieutenant-General Charles Nicolas Victor Oudinot (1791-June 7, 1863), 2nd duc de Reggio, the eldest son of Napoleon I's marshal General Nicolas Oudinot, also made a military career. He served through the later campaigns of Napoleon, 1809-1814, and was promoted to major in 1814 for gallant conduct. - Mohamed Lamari
Lt. Gen. Mohamed Lamari was Chief of Staff of the Algerian army during most of the Algerian Civil War. He was born on 7 June 1939 in Algiers, to a family originally from Bordj Benazzouz (near Biskra). He joined the French army, completing his training in the cavalry at the Ecole de guerre in Saumur. In 1961, seven years into the Algerian War of Independence (and just a year before independence), he changed sides, joining the National Liberation Army. - Jakob Abbadie
Jakob Abbadie (1654? - September 25, 1727<sup></sup>), also known as Jacques or James Abbadie, Swiss Protestant divine and writer, was born at Nay in Bern, Switzerland. He studied at Sedan, Saumur and Puylaurens, with such success that he received the degree of doctor in theology at the age of seventeen. After spending some years in Berlin as minister of a French Protestant church, where he had great success as a preacher, … - Isaac de Beausobre
Isaac de Beausobre, was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his history of Manichaeism, "Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme" in two volumes (Amsterdam 1734-1739), Beausobre was born at Niort. After studying theology at the Protestant academy of Saumur, he was ordained at the age of twenty-two, becoming pastor at Chatillon-sur-Indre. After the revocation of the edict of Nantes he fled to Rotterdam (November 1685), … - Louis Thomassin
Louis Thomassin was a French theologian and Oratorian. At the age of thirteen he entered the Oratory and for some years was professor of literature in various colleges of the congregation, of theology at Saumur, and finally in the seminary of Saint Magloire, in Paris, where he remained until his death. His chief works are: "Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'église touchant les bénéfices et les bénéficiers" 93 vols. - Paul de Rapin
Paul de Rapin (March 25, 1661 - 1725), sieur of Thoyras (and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin), was a French historian writing under English patronage. The son of Jacques de Rapin, an "avocat" at Castres (Tarn), he was educated at the Protestant academy of Saumur, and in 1679 became an advocate, but soon afterwards joined the army. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and the death of his father led him to come to England; but, unable to find work there, … - Christian de Castries
Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries (August 11, 1902 - July 29, 1991) was the French commander at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He came from a distinguished family in France, long associated with the military. Castries was born into a distinguished military family and enlisted in the army at the age of 19. He was sent to the Saumur Cavalry School and in 1926 was commissioned an officer, but he later resigned to devote himself to equestrian sports. - 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. - Francis Burgersdyk
Francis Burgersdyk or Burgersdicius (1590-1629), Dutch logician, was born at Lier, near Delft, and died at Leiden. After a brilliant career at the University of Leiden, he studied theology at Saumur, where while still very young he became professor of philosophy. After five years he returned to Leiden, where he accepted the chair of logic and moral philosophy, and afterwards that of natural philosophy. His "Logic" was at one time widely used, … - Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu was a French economist, brother of Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, born at Saumur on the 9th of December 1843, and educated in Paris at the Lycée Bonaparte and the École de Droit. He afterwards studied at Bonn and Berlin, and on his return to Paris began to write for "Le Temps", "Revue nationale" and "Revue contemporaine". - 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. - Jacques L'Enfant
Jacques L'enfant, French Protestant divine, was born at Bazoche in La Beauce on the 13th of April 1661, son of Paul L'enfant, Protestant pastor at Bazoche and afterwards at Châtillon-sur-Loing until the revocation of the edict of Nantes, when he removed to Cassel. After studying at Saumur and Geneva, L'enfant completed his theological course at Heidelberg, where in 1684 he was ordained minister of the French Protestant church, … - Elmer J. Holland
Elmer Joseph Holland (January 8, 1894-August 9, 1968) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Elmer Holland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and the University of Montpellier, France. He was graduated from Saumur Cavalry School, France, in 1919. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery. - Fulk III of Anjou III of Anjou
Fulk III (972 - 21 June 1040), called Nerra after his death, was Count of Anjou from 21 July 987 to his death. He was the son of Geoffrey Greymantle and Adelaide of Vermandois. He was the founder of Angevin power. He was only fifteen years of age when he succeeded his father. He had a violent and pious temperament, partial to acts of extreme cruetly and penitence. - Theobald I of Blois I of Blois
Theobald I, called the Cheater or the Trickster ("le Tricheur"), was the first count of Blois, Chartres, and Châteaudun from 960, and Tours from 945. Theobald was initially a vassal of Hugh the Great, Duke of France. Around 945, he captured King Louis IV to the benefit of Hugh. In return for freedom, the king granted him the city of Laon. He took the title of "count" in Tours. - William VII of Aquitaine VII of Aquitaine
William VII (born Peter, "Pierre-Guillaume") (1023 - Autumn 1058), called the Eagle ("Aigret") or the Bold ("le Hardi"), was the duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou (as William V) between 1039 and his death, following his half-brother Otto. William was the third son of William V of Aquitaine by his third wife, Agnes of Burgundy. He was brother-in-law of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, … - Carol Saumur
Im a independent, adventurice, fun loving, rock and roller.
|
| |