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François de Grossouvre François de Grossouvre (March 29, 1918, Vienne, Isère - April 7, 1994, Paris) was a French politician charged in 1981 by newly-elected president François Mitterrand with overseeing national security and other sensitive matters, in particular those concerning Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Gabon, the Gulf countries, Pakistan and the two Koreas. He was also in charge of the French branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary secret armies during the Cold War.
François de Charette François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (May 2, 1763 - March 26, 1796) was a French soldier and politician, one on the leaders of the bloody Revolt in the Vendée. His relative Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie was a noted military leader.
François de la Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandré François de la Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandré (1672 - 1739) was a British soldier, who had left France as a Huguenot refugee. He became a field marshal in the British Army on July 2, 1739, the same year he died.
François de La Rocque François de La Rocque (1885–1946) was leader of the French right-wing league named the Croix de Feu from 1930-1936, before forming the more moderate Parti Social Français (1936-1940), seen as a precursor of Gaullism René Rémond, Les Droites en France (first ed. Aubier-Montaigne, 1968 .
François de La Rochefoucauld (Cardinal) François de la Rochefoucauld (December 8, 1558 - February 14, 1645) was a French Cardinal and an "important figure in the French Counter Reformation church".Yale University Press review of Bergin's book
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15, 1613 – March 17, 1680), was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. He was born in Paris in the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court oscillated between aiding the nobility and threatening it.
François de La Vérendrye François de La Vérendrye (b 1715 – d July 31, 1794) was the third son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye. He was born at Sorel, New France in 1715 and was active in his father's trade activities from Fort Kaministiquia to the North Saskatchewan River.
François de Laval François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of New France and was one of the most influential men of his day. He was appointed when he was 36 years old by Pope Alexander VII.
François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort (January 16 1616 – 25 June 1669) was the illegitimate grandson of Henri IV of France. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean.
François du Souhait François du Souhait (between 1570 and 1580 - 1617, Nancy) was a French language author (translator, novelist, poet, satirist, moral philosopher) of the late 16th and early 17th century from the Duchy of Lorraine (at the time, a sovereign court with ties to France).
François Delsarte François Alexandre Nicolas Chéri Delsarte (November 11, 1811, Solesmes—July 20, 1871, Paris) was a French-American musician, born in Solesmes, France. He was a pupil of the Conservatoire, was for a time tenor singer in the Opéra Comique, composed a few melodies, and wrote several romances, but is chiefly known as a teacher in singing and declamation.
François Dollier de Casson François Dollier de Casson, (1636 – 27 September 1701), was born in France into a wealthy bourgeois and military family. He began his adult life in the army which he left after three years to continue his studies and become a priest.
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier Francois Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier (1755-1838), French publicist, was born at Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) on the 16th of April 1755, the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility. He was returned in 1791 to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat on the Royalist side, and he emigrated on its dissolution in September 1791.
François Douaren François Douaren (Latin: Franciscus Duarenus; 1509 — 1559) was a French jurist and professor of law at the University of Bourges. Like his compatriots Jacques Cujas, François Hotman and Hugues Doneau, Douaren was one of the leading represantatives of a new school of thought within the science of Roman law on the European continent.
François Duquesnoy François Duquesnoy (January 12, 1597 Brussels – July 12, 1643 Livorno) was a prominent Baroque sculptor in Rome. His more idealized representations are contrasted with the emotional character of Bernini's works and compared to the similar temperament expressed by Algardi, both contemporaries.
François Flameng François Flameng (1856-1923) was a very successful French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of a celebrated engraver and received a first-rate education in his craft.
François Franceschi-Losio François Franceschi-Losio (1770, Milan - 1810), was an Italo-French general, who entered the French Revolutionary army in 1795. He served through the Italian campaign of 1796-97, and subsequently, like Franceschi-Delonne, with Masséna at Zurich and at Genoa, and at the headquarters of King Joseph Bonaparte in Italy and Spain.
François Georges-Picot François Georges-Picot was a French diplomat who signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement during World War I, with the Englishman, Sir Mark Sykes, dividing up the Ottoman Empire in British, French and, later, Russian and Italian spheres of influence. He was responsible along with Sykes for the annexation of Arab lands and their incorporation into British and French empires.
François Girard François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a Canadian director and screenwriter particularly noted for his innovative film Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Born in Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit.
François Grimaldi François Grimaldi (François Malizia "the Cunning") was the leader of the Guelphs who captured the Rock of Monaco on the night of January 8, 1297. He was the son of Guglielmo Grimaldi by his wife Giacoba.
François Henri de la Motte Francis Henry de la Motte, or François Henri de la Motte, was a French citizen and ex-French army officer executed in London for High Treason on July 27, 1781. He had been arrested in January, 1781 on suspicion of being a spy, and held for six months in the Tower of London.
François Chau François Chau (born October 26, 1959 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a Cambodian actor best known for his role as Dr. Marvin Candle/Mark Wickmund in ABC's Lost, and as Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
François Christophe Kellermann François Christophe Kellermann or de Kellermann (28 May 1735 - 23 September 1820), duke of Valmy and marshal of France, came of a Saxon family, long settled in Strasbourg and ennobled. He entered the French army as a volunteer, and served in the Seven Years' War and in Louis XV's Polish expedition of 1771, on returning from which he was made a lieutenant-colonel.
François Isaac de Rivaz François Isaac de Rivaz (Paris, December 19 1752 – Sion, July 30 1828) was an inventor from Switzerland. He is credited with the construction of the first internal combustion engine during 1806 and a rudimentary automobile powered by it in 1807.
François Jacob François Jacob (born June 17, 1920 in Nancy, France) is a Jewish French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965.
François Joseph Bosio Baron François Joseph Bosio (19 March 1769 - Paris 29 July 1845) was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.
François Jouffroy François Jouffroy (February 1, 1806, Dijon-Laval, Mayenne, June 25, 1882) was a French sculptor. The son of a baker, he attended the drawing school in Dijon before being admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1824.
François Labbé François Labbé (born September 23, 1928) is a pioneering Canadian mass media owner from Thetford Mines, Quebec, who started the first commercial French language radio network in Canada, the Réseau des Appalaches or Appalachian Network, in 1972.
François Laruelle François Laruelle (born 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Laruelle is notable for developing a science of philosophy that he calls "non-philosophy".
François Le Diascorn François Le Diascorn (Born January 10 1947 at La Flèche, near Mans, Sarthe département) is a French photographer, close to the humanist school, who has developed a poetic vision of the world through his unusual images in which a dream-like world seems to superimpose itself upon reality.
François Legault François Legault (born May 26, 1957 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue) is a Quebec politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. A member of the Parti Québécois, he was first elected in the Quebec general election in the riding of Rousseau.
François Lespingola François Lespingola (Joinville, I644- Paris, 16 Jul 1705) was a French sculptor in the team that provided original sculptures, vases and copies after the Antique for the gardens at Versailles. The Ludovisi Gaul, then known as Arrius and Paeta was copied by Lespingola in Rome in 1684 for Versailles: it still stands, paired with Laocoön, at the entrance to the Tapis Vert.
François Lonseny Fall François Lonseny Fall (born 1949) was the prime minister of Guinea from February 23, 2004, until April 30, 2004. He was the foreign minister of that country from June 10, 2002 until February 23, 2004, when he became prime minister.
François Loos François Loos (born on 24 December 1953) was appointed Minister Delegate for Industry on 2 June 2005, following a term as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade (June 2002 to May 2005). He was Minister Delegate for Higher Education & Research in the first Raffarin government.
François Mackandal François Mackandal (died 1758) was one of the most famous leaders of the Haïtian Maroons. The Maroons were mainly black slaves that escaped from plantations and made their lives in the mountains and hills, banding together with other former slaves to form communities.
François Mansart François Mansart (January 13, 1598 in Paris - September 23, 1666 in Paris) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".
François Mitterrand (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of government since 1957.
François Morellet François Morellet (born 1926, Cholet, Maine-et-Loire) is a contemporary French painter, engraver, sculptor and light artist. His early work prefigured Minimal art and Conceptual art, and he has played an important role in geometrical abstraction over the past half century.
François Ngeze François Ngeze was the head of state of Burundi from 21 October 1993 to 27 October 1993. He was chosen by the military Committee of Public Salvation, a group of army officers that overthrew the democratically elected government of president Melchior Ndadaye (who was killed during the coup).
François Nicole François Nicole (December 23, 1683 - January 18, 1758) was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who published his Traité du calcul des différences finies in 1717; it contains rules both for forming differences and for effecting the summation of given series. Besides this, in 1706 he wrote a work on roulettes, especially spherical epicycloids; and in 1729 and 1731 he published memoirs on Newton's essay on curves of the third degree.
François Nourissier François Nourissier (born May 18, 1927 in Paris, France) is a journalist and writer. He was the Secretary-General of Éditions Denoël (1952-1955), editor of the review, "La Parisienne" (1955-1958), and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house (1958-1996).
François Ozon François Ozon (born November 15, 1967) is a French writer and director whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality. He has recently achieved international acclaim for his films 8 femmes (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003).
François Pérusse François Pérusse (born October 8, 1960, in Quebec City) is a Quebecois comedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humor. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple (The 2 Minutes of the People).
François Pelletier François Pelletier was a French illusionist, famed in his time for his use of magnets as an entertainment basis for his act. His reputation was such that he was invited to perform at the court of Maria Theresa of Austria at Schönbrunn Palace in 1769.
François Piétri François Piétri (8 August 1882 - 17 August 1966) was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime.
François Picquet François Picquet, (4 December 1708 – 15 July 1781), was a Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734. He spent the next few years studying Indian languages and customs and serving the local parish.
François Pierre La Varenne François Pierre (de) La Varenne (1618 – Dijon 1678), Burgundian by birth, was the author of Le cuisine françois, the founding text of authentically French cuisine. La Varenne broke with the Italian traditions that had revolutionized medieval French cookery in the 16th century.
François Poulin de Francheville François Poulin de Francheville, Seigneur de Saint-Maurice (7 October 1692 – November 1733) was a Montreal merchant who was granted permission by the King of France to mine the iron ore deposits on his seigneury in 1730.
François Roberday François Roberday (1624 – October 13 1680) was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices, a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ pieces.
François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, (14 October 1733 – 21 July 1798), Austrian field marshal, was born at the Castle of Bruille in Hainaut in the Austrian Netherlands. He entered the Austrian army in 1753.
François Tombalbaye François Tombalbaye, also called Ngarta Tombalbaye, (June 15, 1918 – April 13, 1975) was a teacher and a trade union activist who served as the first president of Chad. Tombalbaye succeeded Gabriel Lisette as head of the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT), heading Chad's colonial government from 1959.
François Tourte François Xavier Tourte (1747 - 1835) was a Frenchman who, though trained as a watchmaker, quickly changed his focus to making bows for playing western classical string instruments such as the violin. He is considered to be the single most important figure in bringing the bow into its modern form.
François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French "New Wave" in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he fulfilled the functions of screenwriter, director, producer or actor in over twenty-five films.
François van Kruijsdijk François Henricus van Kruijsdijk (born May 25, 1952 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a former medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There he was eliminated in the heats of the 200m Individual Medley.
François Vaillant de Gueslis François Vaillant de Gueslis (20 July, 1646 - 24 September, 1718) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Orleans. He entered the Society of Jesus, on the 10 November, 1665, and went to Canada in 1670; and was ordained priest at Quebec, on the 1st December, 1675.
François Van Campenhout François Van Campenhout (Brussels, 5 February, 1779 - Brussels 24 April, 1848) was a Belgian opera singer, conductor and composer. He is the author of the music for the Belgian national anthem, the Brabançonne.
François Vase The François Vase, a milestone in the development of Greek pottery, is a large volute krater decorated in the black-figure style which stands at 66cm in height. Dated at circa 570 BCE it was found in 1844 in an Etruscan tomb in the necropolis of Fonte Rotella near Chiusi and named after its discoverer Alessandro François; it is now in the Museo Archeologico at Florence.
François Vatel François Vatel (1631 – April 24, 1671) was a French chef, famous for inventing Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honor of Louis XIV by Louis, the great Condé in April 1671 at the Château de Chantilly - hence the name crème Chantilly.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Court of Auditors of Montpelier, demonstrated in 1709 that he could make fabric from spider silk. Many cocoons were boiled, washed and dried and the thread was collected with fine combs.
François Xavier Ovide Méthot François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot (September 19 1843 – October 19 1908) was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He presented Nicolet in the in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1871 to 1876 and in the Canadian House of Commons as an Independent Conservative member from 1877 to 1884.
François-André Danican Philidor François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 - August 31, 1795) was a French chess player and composer. He was regarded as the best single chess player of his age (see any of the #References), although the title of World Chess Champion was not yet in existence.
François-André Isambert François-André Isambert (November 30, 1792—April 13, 1857) was a French lawyer, historian, and politician. Isambert was founder and for an extended period contributor of the Gazette des Tribunaux and actively participated in Louis François Wolowski's Révue de législation et de jurisprudence.
François-Bernard Mâche François-Bernard Mâche (born April 4, 1935 Clermont-Ferrand) is a French composer of contemporary music. He is a former student of Émile Passani and Olivier Messiaen and has also received a diploma in Greek archaeology (1957) and a teaching certificate (Agrégation de Lettres classiques, 1958).
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Piney, called de Luxembourg (January 8, 1628 - January 4, 1695), was a French general, marshal of France, famous as the comrade and successor of the great Condé.
François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770 – 1841) oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825. The son of Georges Jacob, an outstanding chairmaker who worked in the Louis XVI style of the earlier phase of Neoclassicism and executed many royal commissions, Jacob-Desmalter, in partnership with his older brother, assumed the family workshop in 1796.
François-Joseph Fétis François-Joseph Fétis (March 25, 1784 — March 26, 1871), Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (December 17 1772, St Malo - November 17 1838, Vitry-sur-Seine) was a French physician. From his father, who was also a physician, he received his first instructions in medicine, and he studied for some years at the college of Dmn.
François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil François-Josué de La Corne Dubreuil, (b October 7, 1710 – d October 17, 1753) was an officer in the colonial regular troops of New France and, as was the norm of the day, involved in family commercial enterprises . He was the son of Jean-Louis de la Corne de Chaptes and a brother of Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne and Luc de la Corne.
François-Léon Sicard François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934) is considered one of the more talented yet most elusive sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th century. His credits include work on the adornments of the Louvre, and numerous sculptures around the world.
François-Louis Ganshof François-Louis Ganshof (*14 March 1895;†1980) was a Belgian historian of the middle ages. After studies at the Athénée Royal, he came to the University of Ghent, where he came under the influence of Henri Pirenne.
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (December 27, 1803–February 15, 1839), also known under various shorter names as François-Marie-Thomas de Lorimier, Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier or Chevalier de Lorimier, was a notary who fought as a Patriote and Frère chasseur for the independence of Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) in the Lower Canada Rebellion. For these actions, he was incarcerated at the Montreal Pied-du-Courant Prison and was hanged at the site by the British authorities.
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie François-Marie de Broglie, later 1st duc de Broglie (11 January 1671–22 May 1745), the third son of Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, was a French military leader. He was named for his grandfather, François-Marie, the first comte de Broglie in France.
François-Marie, comte de Broglie François-Marie, comte de Broglie (1 November 1611–2 July 1656) was a prominent soldier and commander in the Thirty Years' War. Born in Piedmont, he was originally known as Francesco-Maria di Broglia, conte di Revel before becoming naturalized in France after 1643.
François-Noël Babeuf François-Noël Babeuf (November 23, 1760 - May 27, 1797), known as Gracchus Babeuf (in tribute to the Roman reformers, the Gracchi, and used alongside his self-designation as Tribune), was a French political agitator and journalist of the Revolutionary period. He was executed for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals.
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Comte de Brueys, (February 12, 1753 – August 1, 1798) was the French commander in the Battle of the Nile, in which the French Revolutionary Navy was defeated by Royal Navy forces under Admiral Horatio Nelson. The British victory helped to ensure their naval supremacy throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
François-Raoul Larche François-Raoul Larche (1860 Saint-André-de-Cubzac - 1912 Paris) was a French Art Nouveau sculptor whose work included several figures of Christ, but who may be better known for his numerous female figures, both nude and draped.
François-Serge Lhabitant Francois-Serge Lhabitant is the Chief Investment Officer at Kedge Capital and a Professor of Finance at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Edhec Business School. Lhabitant is the author of several books and research papers on hedge funds, emerging markets and the modeling of interest rate contingent claims.
François-Thomas Germain François-Thomas Germain (1726 - 1791), the son of Thomas Germain, was a French silversmith who was often commissioned by royalty. In 1765 Germain broke guild regulations by working with financiers to receive some debts owed to him, as he was only allowed to enter into partnerships with his fellow smiths.
François-Xavier Lemieux (Quebec MNA) François-Xavier Lemieux (April 9 1851 – July 18 1933) was a Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure. He represented Lévis in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1883 to 1892 and Bonaventure from 1894 to 1897.
François-Xavier Verschave François-Xavier Verschave (October 28 1945, Lille, France; June 29 2005, Villeurbanne) was primarily known as one of the founders of the French NGO Survie ("Survival"), which he presided since 1995, and as the coiner of the term Françafrique, since then passed into popular usage - the expression designed the specific form of neocolonialism which has been endured by the former French Colonies. Verschave also researched the concept of global public goods and the economic theories of famous historian Fernand Braudel.
François, comte de Clermont HRH Prince François Henri Louis Marie d'Orléans, Comte de Clermont and Dauphin de France (born 7 February 1961), is the eldest son of the Orleanist pretender to the French throne, Henri, Comte de Paris, Duc de France. Both he and his younger sister, Blanche, are mentally handicapped from congenital toxoplasmosis.
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat (August 18, 1754 - October 3, 1833), French general and military engineer, was born at St Semi. (Lower Charente), of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774.
Françoise Claustre Françoise Claustre (born 8 February 1937, in Paris, died 3 September 2006), was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardai, in the Tibesti mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Mrs.
Françoise David Françoise David (born 1948) is the spokesperson, with Amir Khadir, of Québec solidaire - a left-wing political movement which advocates the separation of Quebec from the other provinces of Canada. Quebec Solidaire was born from the merger of Option Citoyenne with l'Union des Forces Progessistes.
Françoise Dior Françoise Dior (7 April, 1932 – 1993) was the French wife of British National Socialist Colin Jordan. A notorious admirer of Adolf Hitler, Françoise Dior made a small fortune, available to Jordan for his political campaigning.
Françoise Ducros Françoise (Francie) Ducros is a member of the Quebec Bar (1986) and holds degrees in Common Law and Civil Law from McGill University and an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Ottawa. She has practised law, worked for an NGO and held several executive positions in the Govenmnent of Canada.
Françoise Giroud Françoise Giroud, born France Gourdji (September 21, 1916 in Lausanne, Switzerland and not in Geneva as often written - January 19, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician. She was a co-founder of the French newsmagazine L'Express and held ministerial responsibilities from 1974 to 1977 in the cabinets of Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre.
Françoise Hardy Françoise Hardy (born Françoise Madeleine Hardy, January 17 1944 in Paris) is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is considered an iconic figure in many respects (fashion, music style, personality) in the Francophile world.
Françoise Héritier Françoise Héritier is a French anthropologist and successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France. Her work deals mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest (both theories based on the notion of exchange of women).
Françoise Meltzer Françoise Meltzer is a professor of religion and literature and of the philosophy of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is also the Mabel Greene Myers Professor of the Humanities in French and in Comparative literature.
Françoise Mouly Françoise Mouly (b. 1955) is a Paris-born French artist and designer best known for her work with RAW, a showcase publication for cutting edge comic art, and as art editor of The New Yorker, a position she has held since 1993.
Françoise Robertson Françoise Robertson is an actress known to US audiences for her portrayal of D'orothea Wilson in the TV miniseries More Tales of the City (1998) and its follow-up Further Tales of the City (2001). These miniseries were sequels to Tales of the City (1994), which starred Cynda Williams in the role of D'orothea.
Françoise Rosay Françoise Rosay, (Françoise Bandy de Nalèche), (April 19, 1891 - Paris, France - March 28, 1974) was a French actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema.
Françoiz Breut Françoiz Breut (born December 10, 1969 in Cherbourg) is the stage name of Françoise Breut, a French illustrator and chanteuse of moody and melancholic pop. Breut got involved with music when her then-fiancé, French pop star Dominique A, asked her to contribute vocals on three songs of his 1993 album, Si Je Connais Harry.
Françonne La Françonne is a creek situated north of Mirabel aux Baronnies in France and to the east of the former Jewish quarter called les Josiols. This quarter existed until 1348, when the inhabitants of Les Josiols were assassinated due to rumours that they had caused the outbreak of the pest in Mirabel by poisoning the wells.
Franc The franc is the name of several currency units, most notably the French franc, the currency of France until it adopted the euro in 2002; and the Swiss franc, still a major world currency today due to the prominence of Swiss financial institutions. The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription francorum rex ("King of the Franks") on early French coins, or from the French franc, meaning "free" (and "frank").
Franc Cardinal Rode Franc Cardinal Rode, CM (born 23 September 1934, Rodica near Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a Roman Catholic cardinal, and a Vincentian (member of the Congregation of Priests of the Mission), a former archbishop of Ljubljana (1997-2004), and current Prefect of Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Until 2006 he served as Pro-Prefect.
Franc Frakelj Franc Frakelj (real name: Peter Skalar) was a member of collaborational Slovene home guard (after the Italian fascist capitulation in 1943) and a member of a secret murderous war organization ÄŚrna roka (Black Hand) who killed (as he said in the name of God) over 60 people during the Second World War.
Franc O'Shea Franc O'Shea is a bassist and composer born in Swaziland, Africa. He has worked with many renowned artists including Steve Howe (Yes), Lisa Moorish, Mike Lindup (Level 42), Bah Samba, members of Jamiroquai and Beverley Martyn.
Franc Serafin Metelko Franc Serafin Metelko (1779-1860) was a Slovene priest who in 1825 proposed his version of the to-be Slovene alphabet called "metelÄŤica". The alphabet was phonetic and too complicated as it contained a significant number of unneeded letters, some of which he took from Cyrillic alphabet.

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