79 Notable alumni of
University of Caen Normandy
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The University of Caen Normandy is 795th in the world, 283rd in Europe, and 26th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 79 notable alumni from the University of Caen Normandy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Occupations
- statisticianpoliticianphysicistuniversity teachermathematician
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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. Laplace also popularized and further confirmed Sir Isaac Newton's work. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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- engineercivil engineerrailway engineerarchitectmechanical engineer
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
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Michel Onfray
- Enrolled in the University of Caen Normandy
- In 1986 graduated with doctorate in France
- Occupations
- philosopherpunditessayist
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Michel Onfray is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the Cynic and Cyrenaic schools, as well as French materialism. He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique (translated into English as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), Politique du rebelle: traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, La puissance d'exister and La sculpture de soi for which he won the annual Prix Médicis in 1993.
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René Coty
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- lawyerpolitician
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Gustave Jules René Coty was President of France from 1954 to 1959. He was the second and last president of the Fourth French Republic.
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Malika Ménard
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- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Malika Ménard is a French model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder, who was crowned Miss France 2010. She later represented France in Miss Universe 2010, placing in the Top 15.
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Denis Brogniart
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- journalistradio personality
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Denis Brogniart is a French sport journalist and television host. He presents the show Koh-Lanta since 2002 and Formula One racing on TF1 with Marion Jollès Grosjean.
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Thomas Jolly
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- lighting designerscenographerdirectoractor
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Thomas Jolly is a French actor and artistic director of La Piccola Familia, a theatre company that he founded in Rouen in 2006.
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Jean-Vincent Placé
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- politician
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Jean-Vincent Placé is a South Korean-born, French Green politician.
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François Morel
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- recording artistfilm directorsingeractordirector
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François Morel is a French actor, comedian, voice actor, rapper and director. He is best known for appearing in sketch television series Les Deschiens (1993–2002) and in the series Les Daltons as the dog Rantanplan.
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Philippe Montanier
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Philippe Jacques William Montanier is a French professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Ligue 1 club Toulouse. As a player, he was as a goalkeeper.
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William Petty
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- businesspersonpoliticianphysiciansociologistmathematician
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Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. He also remained a significant figure under King Charles II and King James II, as did many others who had served Cromwell.
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Amandine Petit
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- modelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Amandine Petit is a French model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss France 2021. She had previously been crowned Miss Normandy 2020, and is the seventh woman from Normandy to win Miss France. She represented France at Miss Universe 2020, where she placed in the Top 21.
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Urbain Le Verrier
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- astronomerpoliticianmeteorologistwritermathematician
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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
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Jules Dumont d'Urville
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- botanistmilitary personnelexplorercartographerexpedition leader
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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs and to places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand.
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Hervé Morin
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- politicianpermanent politician
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Hervé Morin is a French politician of the Centrists who has been serving as the first President of the Regional Council of Normandy since January 2016. Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, he was the Minister of Defence.
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Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
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- essayistwriternovelisthistorianjournalist
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James, Léon Bloy, Marcel Proust and Carmelo Bene.
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Marcel Gauchet
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- philosopherdirector of studieshistorian
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Marcel Gauchet is a French historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is professor emeritus of the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and former head of the periodical Le Débat. Gauchet is one of France's most prominent contemporary intellectuals. He has written widely on such issues as the political consequences of modern individualism, the relation between religion and democracy, and the dilemmas of globalisation.
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Jean Eudes
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- Catholic priest
- Biography
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John Eudes, CIM was a French Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as The Eudists, in 1643. He was also a professed member of the Oratory of Jesus until 1643.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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- botanistgeographical engineer (military cartographer)writernovelist
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel, Paul et Virginie, a very popular 18th-century classic of French literature.
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Alain Corbin
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- high-school teacheradjunct professorhistorianuniversity teacher
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Alain Corbin is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
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Remy de Gourmont
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- poet lawyernovelistwritercriticphilosopher
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Remy de Gourmont was a French symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
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- writerdiplomatmilitary personnel
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Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American author, diplomat, and farmer.
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Nasser Larguet
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- association football playerassociation football manager
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Nasser Larguet is a Moroccan football coach, former head of the academy for Marseille. He was briefly the interim coach of the Marseille senior team.
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Rexhep Meidani
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- politicianphysicistuniversity teacher
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Rexhep Qemal Meidani is an Albanian physicist, professor, diplomat and politician. Meidani was the president of Albania from 1997 to 2002, and the second to be elected after the first multi-party elections in 1991.
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Pierre Varignon
- Enrolled in the University of Caen Normandy
- Studied in 1682
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- physicistprofessorCatholic priestuniversity teacherscientist
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Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year.
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Nicolas Lemery
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- pharmacistphysicianchemist
- Biography
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Nicolas Lémery, French chemist, was born at Rouen. He was one of the first to develop theories on acid-base chemistry.
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Charles de Saint-Évremond
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- French moralistliterary criticwritermilitary personnelessayist
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published, although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. The first full collection of his works was published in London in 1705, after his death.
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Abdourahman Waberi
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- writerliterary critic
- Biography
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Abdourahman A. Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic, and short-story writer from Djibouti.
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Gaël Duval
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- computer scientistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Gaël Duval is a French entrepreneur. In July 1998, he created Mandrake Linux (which became Mandriva Linux, now discontinued), a Linux distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux and KDE. He was also a co-founder of MandrakeSoft (which merged in Mandriva, now discontinued) with Jacques Le Marois and Frédéric Bastok.
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Roger Vercel
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- writernovelistbiographer
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Roger Vercel was a French writer.
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Pierre Akendengué
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- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- composermusician
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Pierre-Claver Akendengué is a Gabonese musician and composer. In 1997, he received his country's "Prix d'excellence" at the Africa Music awards in Libreville, honoring his body of work. He also serves as a cultural advisor for the government of Gabon.
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Aminata Dramane Traoré
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- writerpoliticiansinger
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Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and also worked as coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme. She is the current Coordinator of Forum pour l'autre Mali and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.
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Cécile DeWitt-Morette
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- physicistmathematician
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Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded the Les Houches School of Physics in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.
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François Pouqueville
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- art historianphysiciananthropologistexplorerarchaeologist
- Biography
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François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville was a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, and member of the Institut de France.
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Caspar Barlaeus
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- theologianphysicianuniversity teachergeographerwriter
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Caspar Barlaeus was a Dutch polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian.
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Alain Tourret
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Alain Tourret is a French politician. He served as the deputy for Calvados's 6th constituency. He was deputy from 1997 to 2002, then again from 2012 to 2022. He was previously a member of Radical Party of the Left then La République En Marche! from 2017.
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Maud Petit
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- corporate administrative and commercial executivepoliticiananciens cadres
- Biography
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Maud Petit is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2024, representing Val-de-Marne.
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Nicole Ameline
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicole Ameline is a French politician, lawyer, diplomat and women's rights advocate. She served as a member of the National Assembly of France for several terms between 1991 and 2017, and held various roles in the Government of France from 1995; she was Minister of the Sea in 2002 and Minister of Gender Equality from 2002 to 2005. She has been a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since 2008 and was the committee's chairperson from 2013.
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Arcisse de Caumont
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- art historianarchaeologisthistoriangeologistanthropologist
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Arcisse de Caumont was a French historian and archaeologist.
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Philippe Duron
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- politician
- Biography
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Philippe Duron is a French politician. He was the mayor of Caen between 2008 and 2014 and deputy for Calvados's 1st constituency.
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Abdelwahab Abdallah
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Abdelwahab Abdallah is a Tunisian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia and was advisor to the President.
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Django Sissoko
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- 1948-2022 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Django Sissoko was a Malian civil servant who was Prime Minister of Mali from December 2012 to September 2013. He was Minister of Justice from 1984 to 1988 and subsequently served twice as Secretary-General of the Presidency, from 1988 to 1991 and from 2008 to 2011. He also served as Ombudsman from 2011 to 2012.
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Guillaume-François Rouelle
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- philosopherwriterpharmacistchemist
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Guillaume François Rouelle was a French chemist and apothecary. In 1754 he introduced the concept of a base into chemistry as a substance which reacts with an acid to form a salt.
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Sébastien de Brossard
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- composerlexicographerCatholic priestmusic theoristbibliophile
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Sébastien de Brossard was a French music theorist, composer and collector.
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Jean Follain
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- judgejuristpoetlawyerwriter
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Jean Follain was a French writer, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy. He was a contributor to many journals, such as La Nouvelle Revue française, Commerce, Europe, Le Journal des Poètes and Les Cahiers des Saisons. In 1970, he was awarded the Grand Prize of Poetry from L'Académie française for his life's work. A small part of his archives is conserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô in France. Prix littéraire Jean Follain de la Ville de Saint Lô is a literary award honouring his name and contributions to French literature. He studied law in Paris and became a judge. He died in 1971 in a car accident.
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Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie
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- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie is a French politician of The Ecologists. Since 2020, she has served as mayor of the 12th arrondissement of Paris. She was a candidate for Paris's 8th constituency in the 2017 legislative election, and has been a member of the Council of Paris since 2020.
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Alexandre Bigot
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- ceramicistchemist
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Alexandre Bigot was a French ceramicist. He was primarily a ceramics manufacturer, producing the designs of many artists and architects of the French-Belgian Art Nouveau movement, including: Jules Lavirotte, Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle, Henri Sauvage, Henry van de Velde, Auguste Perret, Andre Arfvidson, Anatole de Baudot and more.
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Laurent Beauvais
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- Class A officialpolitician
- Biography
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Laurent Beauvais is a French politician of the Socialist Party who served as President of the Regional Council of Lower Normandy.
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Jean Regnault de Segrais
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- politicianwriterpoettranslatorliterary
- Biography
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Jean Regnault de Segrais was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1662.
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François Eudes de Mézeray
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- historianwriter
- Biography
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François Eudes de Mézeray was a French historian.
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Claire Lefilliâtre
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Claire Lefilliâtre is a contemporary French soprano specialising in Baroque music repertoire.
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Pascal Allizard
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- politician
- Biography
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Pascal Allizard is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the Senate of France since 2014, representing the Calvados department.
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Yves Delage
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- marine biologistzoologist
- Biography
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Yves Delage was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity. Delage estimated the probability that the image on the shroud was not caused by the body of Jesus Christ as 1 in 10 billion.
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Fabrice Le Vigoureux
- Enrolled in the University of Caen Normandy
- In 1997 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politicianprofesseur des universitésprofessors, scientific professions
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Fabrice Le Vigoureux is a French politician and member of Renaissance. In June 2017, he was elected to serve as Deputy for the 1st constituency of Calvados in the French National Assembly. He was reelected for a second term at the 2022 French legislative election. He stood down at the 2024 election.
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Émile Deshayes de Marcère
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- magistratepolitician
- Biography
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Émile-Louis-Gustave Deshayes de Marcère was a French politician.
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Houda Darwish
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- writernovelistpoet
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Houda Darwish is an Algerian novelist, poet, writer, and women's rights activist. According to Abdel Madjid Djaber, a Palestinian critic and academician, she is a "charming lady of Algerian literature.".
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Brigitte Le Brethon
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- politician
- Biography
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Brigitte Le Brethon is a French politician, and a member of The Republicans. She was born in Campeaux, Calvados, France.
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Gérard Férey
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Gérard Férey was a French chemist who was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He specialized in the physical chemistry of solids and materials. He focused on the crystal chemistry of inorganic fluorides and on porous solids.
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Pierre François Olive Rayer
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- physiologistpathologistdermatologist
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Pierre François Olive Rayer was a French physician who was a native of Saint Sylvain. He made important contributions in the fields of pathological anatomy, physiology, comparative pathology and parasitology.
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Ingrid Tanqueray
- Enrolled in the University of Caen Normandy
- 2006-2009 studied management
- Occupations
- basketball playersportsperson
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Ingrid Tanqueray is a French basketball player for Basket Lattes and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship.
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Gilbert Barbier
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- politician
- Biography
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Gilbert Barbier was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Jura department.
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Jean François Sarrazin
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Jean François Sarrazin, or Sarasin, was a French writer.
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Pierre Lepape
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- writerjournalistliterary critic
- Biography
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Pierre Lepape was a French journalist, writer, and literary critic.
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Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty
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- 1611-1649 (aged 38)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty was a French aristocrat and philanthropist. He ruled the Company of the Blessed Sacrament between 1639 and 1649, and was under the influence of the French Oratorians, through his confessor Paul de Condren.
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Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre
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- poet
- Biography
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Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre was a French poet.
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Pierre-François Jamet
- Occupations
- presbyter
- Biography
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Pierre-François Jamet was a French Roman Catholic priest who refused to take the oath of allegiance during the French Revolution. He is also called the "Second Founder" due to restoring the dwindled congregation of the Sisters of the Good Saviour. In 1827 he was awarded the Legion of Honor for his service as a priest.
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George Diamandy
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- politiciansociologistchildren's writerarchaeologistdiplomat
- Biography
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George Ion Diamandy or Diamandi, first name also Gheorghe or Georges, was a Romanian politician, dramatist, social scientist, and archeologist. Although a rich landowner of aristocratic background, he was one of the pioneers of revolutionary socialism in France and Romania, obtaining international fame as founder of L'Ère Nouvelle magazine. He was an early affiliate of the Romanian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, but grew disenchanted with its radical policies, and, as a member of its "generous youth" faction, played a major part in dissolving it. With other members of this reformist group, he joined the National Liberal Party, serving as one of its representatives in Chamber.
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Jean-Yves Marin
- Occupations
- archaeologistcurator
- Biography
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Jean-Yves Marin is an archeologist, medievalist and chief curator of French heritage. He was born in Caen in 1955.
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John Baptiste Charles Lucas
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Baptiste Charles Lucas was a French-born member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. After meeting Benjamin Franklin, Lucas was so inspired—and so impatient with class injustices in France—that he sailed to America. Armed with a letter of introduction from Franklin, Lucas was made a federal land grant judge by Thomas Jefferson, then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He eventually resigned and moved to St. Louis, reportedly in part because he and his wife, Anne, missed French society.
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Louis Énault
- Occupations
- translatorjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Louis Énault was a French journalist, novelist and translator. He sometimes used the pseudonym Louis de Vernon.
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Robert Pipon Marett
- Occupations
- judgepoetlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Sir Robert Pipon Marett was a lawyer, journalist, poet, politician, and Bailiff of Jersey from 1880 until his death.
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Gervais de La Rue
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Gervais de La Rue, French historical investigator, once regarded as one of the chief authorities on Norman and Anglo-Norman literature.
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Pierre Augustin Dangeard
- Occupations
- mycologistuniversity teacherbotanist
- Biography
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Pierre Clement Augustin Dangeard was a botanist and mycologist known for his investigations of sexual reproduction in fungi. He was the father of botanist Pierre Dangeard (1895–1970) and geologist Louis Dangeard (1898–1987).
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Peter Johan Lor
- Occupations
- university teacherlibrarianlibrary scientist
- Biography
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Peter Johan Lor is a South African librarian and library and information science scholar specialising in international librarianship.
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Léonor Joseph Havin
- Occupations
- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Léonor-Joseph Havin was a French politician.
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Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps
- Occupations
- zoologistuniversity teacherpaleontologist
- Biography
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Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps was a French paleontologist and naturalist born in Caen, the son of paleontologist Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (1794–1867). He died at Château Matthieu, Calvados.
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Henri Bourde de La Rogerie
- Occupations
- historianarchivist
- Biography
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Henri Bourde de La Rogerie was a French archivist and historian of Brittany.
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Fabrice Jaumont
- Enrolled in the University of Caen Normandy
- 1995-1997 studied cultural studies
- Occupations
- writerlanguage teacherpedagogue
- Biography
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Fabrice Jaumont is a French-born author and educator best known for his advocacy for dual-language bilingual education around the world. He is the author of several books translated in multiple languages.
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Louis Lepecq de la Clôture
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Louis Lépecq de La Clôture was a French surgeon and epidemiologist. His work consisted mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy.
