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Jacques Arnold Jacques Arnold (born 27 August 1947) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Gravesham in Kent from 1987, when he succeeded Tim Brinton, until he lost his seat in the landslide 1997 election.
Jacques Aymar-Vernay Jacques Aymar-Vernay (17th century) was a stonemason from the village of Saint Marcellin in Dauphiné, France, who reintroduced dowsing with a divining rod into popular usage in Europe. He claimed to have discovered springs and treasures hidding in the earth using his rod, and even tracked down criminals using it.
Jacques Émile Blanche Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) was a French painter born in Paris. He enjoyed an excellent cosmopolitan education, being brought up at Passy in a house once belonging to the Princesse de Lamballe, which still retained the atmosphere of 18th century elegance and refinement and influenced his taste and work.
Jacques Balmat Jacques Balmat, called le Mont Blanc (1762, Chamonix valley - 1834, Sixt valley) was an Italian mountain guide. A modest chamois hunter and collector of crystals, Balmat realized the first ascent of Mont Blanc with Michel-Gabriel Paccard on August 8, 1786.
Jacques Baron Jacques Baron (1905 - 1986) was a French poet, whose first collection of poems was published in Aventure in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921, and contributed to La Révolution surréaliste .
Jacques Barrot Jacques Barrot (born 3 February 1937 in Yssingeaux, Haute-Loire) is a French politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Transport. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission.
Jacques Basnages Jacques Basnages De Beauval (1653 - September 23, 1723) was a celebrated Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote a History of the Reformed Churches and on Jewish Antiquities.
Jacques Bellange Jacques Bellange (c1575, place unknown - 1616) was an artist and printmaker from Lorraine, now in France, whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today. They are among the most striking Mannerist old master prints.
Jacques Bensimon Jacques Bensimon was born in Morocco, grew up in Montreal, and completed his film studies in New York. He is currently the president of the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal, a post he has held since June 2006.
Jacques Benveniste French immunologist Jacques Benveniste (March 12, 1935 - October 3, 2004) gained international notoriety in 1988 when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature that claimed to have found valid evidence for homeopathy. Sparking what became known as the Benveniste Affair, it announced that a homeopathically diluted solution of antibodies could activate white blood cells without relying on a chemical reaction, via a proposed mechanism a journalist (not Benveniste) called water memory.
Jacques Berthomeau Jacques Berthomeau is an influential wine consultant commissioned by the French Ministry of Agriculture to prepare a report in 2001, now known as The Berthomeau Report, to "establish the goals and means to be deployed in terms of people, regulations and finance for a winning strategy for French wine as we approach the year 2010" Winemakers in our own appellations.
Jacques Besson It is believed that Jacques Besson was born in Grenoble, France, around 1540. Little record is found on Besson's early days, which have obstruct access to details to find out what are his early activities which made him successful.
Jacques Bongars Jacques Bongars (1554 - 29 July 1612), French scholar and diplomatist, was born at Orleans, and was brought up in the reformed faith. He obtained his early education at Marburg and Jena, and returning to France continued his studies at Orleans and Bourges.
Jacques Bonjawo Jacques Bonjawo is a software engineer, an author and a columnist in the application of technology to sustainable development. He's given a series of talks at various institutions, including Harvard University, the World Bank, and other international forums.
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September, 1788–5 August, 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French geologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.
Jacques Bourboulon Jacques Bourboulon (born December 8, 1946) is a French photographer, specializing in nude photography of teenage girls. He started as a fashion photographer, but switched to nude photography in the mid seventies.
Jacques Bouveresse Jacques Bouveresse (born 1940) is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Musil, Karl Kraus, the philosophy of science, epistemology, the philosophy of mathematics, and analytical philosophy. As a result of his attacks on Michel Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, and others, he has sometimes been likened to neo-conservative thinkers.
Jacques Boyceau Jacques Boyceau, sieur de la BarauderieAccording to the inscription on his portrait engraved by Gregoire Huret not "Baraudière" as is sometimes reported. (ca 1560–1633) was a French garden designer, the superintendent of royal gardens under Louis XIII], whose posthumously-produced Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art.
Jacques Boyer Jonathan "Jacques" Boyer (October 18 1955, Utah, USA) was a professional bicycle racer who was the first American to participate in the Tour de France in 1981. Boyer grew up in Monterey, California and was a member of the Velo Club Monterey there.
Jacques Brault Jacques Brault (born March 29, 1933) is a French Canadian poet and translator who lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Jacques Brautbar Jacques Brautbar (March 14, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) is an American photographer and guitarist, formerly of rock band Phantom Planet. He left the band in 2004, after their self-titled third album, to pursue a career in photography.
Jacques Brel Jacques Romain Georges Brel (April 8, 1929 – October 9, 1978) was a respected Belgian French-speaking singer-songwriter, considered by many as a poet as well given the quality and evocative power of his lyrics.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is an American musical revue of the songs of Jacques Brel. The original show debuted Off-Broadway in 1968 at The Village Gate Theater in Greenwich Village and ran for more than four years.
Jacques Brugnon Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon (born May 11, 1895 in Paris – died March 20, 1978 in Paris) was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was primarily a doubles specialist who won 10 Grand Slam doubles titles in the French, American, Australian and British championships.
Jacques Camatte Jacques Camatte is a French writer who once was a marxist theoretician and member of the Internationalist Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga, which denounced the USSR as capitalist and aimed to rebuild a "true" Leninism; following the theses of the early Italian Communist Party (under Bordiga's leadership), it refused all participation in electoral systems and generally considered democracy a perversion of class struggle and a means of oppression. Camatte left the ICP in 1966 to protest against its "activist" turn, and to defend the purity of revolutionary theory in his journal Invariance.
Jacques Cartier (jeweler) Jacques-Theodule Cartier (1885 - 1942) was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Pierre Cartier and Louis Cartier. Pierre's grandfather, Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904) had taken over the jewellery workshop of his teacher, Adolphe Picard, in 1847, thereby founding the famous Cartier jewelry company.
Jacques Cartier Bridge The Jacques Cartier Bridge (French: pont Jacques-Cartier) is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.
Jacques Cartier Park Jacques Cartier Park is a park in Gatineau, Quebec, across the river from the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It is named for French explorer Jacques Cartier, who arrived at the mouth of the Ottawa River while he was looking for a route to China.
Jacques Castérède Jacques Castérède was born in Paris in 1926, and gained his baccaluareat in elementary mathematics, before going on to the Paris Conservatoire, where he was to win prizes in piano, chamber music, harmony, composition (with Tony Aubin), analysis and aesthetics in music (with Olivier Messiaen). Having won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1953, he then spent four years in the Villa Medici before taking up a post at the Paris Conservatoire in 1960, where he taught musical training for singers, musical analysis and composition.
Jacques Cathelineau Jacques Cathelineau (January 5, 1759–July 14, 1793), nicknamed le Saint d'Anjou ("the Saint from Anjou") was a French Vendéan insurrection leader during the French Revolution. His grandson, Henri de Cathelineau, was an officer in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
Jacques Copeau Jacques Copeau (February 4 1879 – October 20 1949) was an influential French theater director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in 1909, along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.
Jacques Corrèze Jacques Corrèze (February 11 1912, Auxerre—28 June 1991, Paris), a French businessman and politician, was the former chief executive officer of the United States operation of L'Oréal (L'Oréal USA), the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty products. He was the adoptive son of Eugène Deloncle.
Jacques Corriveau Jacques Corriveau is a Quebec businessperson and owner of the graphic design firm Pluri Design Canada Inc. His close ties to the Liberal Party of Canada and his firm's involvement with the Sponsorship Program has put him and his firm at the center of the Sponsorship Scandal.
Jacques Courtois (lawyer) Edmond Jacques Courtois (1920-1996) was a Canadian lawyer and public official. Courtois was appointed chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee on December 23 1992, the third person ever to chair the body responsible for oversight of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, located in southeastern New Jersey, encompasses over 110,000 acres of terrestrial, wetland and aquatic habitats within the Mullica River-Great Bay Ecosystem.
Jacques Curie Jacques Curie (October 29, 1856 – 1941) was a French physicist and professor at the University of Montpellier. He and his brother, Pierre Curie, studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.
Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen Baron Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen (February 20, 1880–November 5, 1923) was a French aristocrat and minor author and poet. In 1903, after a scandal involving Parisian schoolboys had made him a persona non grata in the salons and dashed his marriage plans, he took up residence in Capri, where he lived with his longtime boyfriend, Nino Cesarini, until his suicide from an overdose of cocaine in 1923.
Jacques de Bernonville Jacques de Bernonville (born December 20, 1897 - died April 26, 1972), was a French traitor and senior police officer in the Vichy regime in France infamously known as the man who hunted down resistance fighters during World War II.
Jacques de la Palice Jacques de la Palice or la Palisse (1470 – February 24, 1525) was a French nobleman and military officer. His full name and titles are Jacques II de Chabannes, Lord of La Palice, of Pacy, of Chauverothe, of Bort-le-Comte and of Héron.
Jacques de Lalaing Jacques de Lalaing was a Walloon knight of the 15th century. He was originally in the service of the Duke of Cleves and afterwards in that of the Duke of Burgundy, Philip III, the Good, gaining great renown by his prowess in the tiltyard.
Jacques de Larosière Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu is a French civil servant. He is the Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the French Treasury and Advisor to BNP Paribas, became President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in September 1993 in the wake of the scandals that led to the departure of the EBRD's first president, Jacques Attali.
Jacques de Vaucanson Jacques de Vaucanson (February 24,1709-November 21,1782) was a French engineer and inventor who is credited with creating the world's first true robots, as well as for creating the first completely automated loom.
Jacques Damala Aristides Damalas (Greek: Aριστεíδης Δαμαλάς, alternative spellings Aristidis or Aristide), known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala, (15 January 1855 – 18 June 1889), was a Greek military officer-turned-actor, who is mostly remembered as being husband to Sarah Bernhardt for a number of years.
Jacques Demy The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (June 5, 1931 - October 27, 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the golden age of Hollywood.
Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy and literary theory.
Jacques Desoubrie Jacques Desoubrie was a French traitor and double agent during the German occupation of France during the World War Two. He worked with the Gestapo against the French escape network known as the Comet Line, that helped Allied airmen whose planes were lost over France or Spain to return to Britain.
Jacques Duclos Jacques Duclos (October 2 1896, Louey in the Hautes-Pyrénées-April 25 1975, Montreuil) was a French Communist politician. He played a key role in French politics since 1926 when he entered the French National Assembly after defeating Paul Reynaud, until 1969, when he achieved a substantial porportion of the vote in the Presidential Elections.
Jacques Dudon Jacques Dudon is a living French composer and instrument builder. He is best known for a unique series of instruments that produce sound from patterns of light (a light source shines through painted glass discs; the resulting patterns of light are picked up by solar cells and converted into sound waves).
Jacques Dupuis Jacques Dupuis (5 December 1923, Huppaye, Belgium - 28 December 2004, Rome) was a Belgian Jesuit priest who wrote several significant works on Catholicism and religious pluralism, including Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism (1997).
Jacques Ellul Jacques Ellul (January 6 1912–May 19 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society", and about Christianity and politics, such as Anarchy and Christianity (1991) - arguing that anarchism and Christianity are socially following the same goal.
Jacques FĂ©lix Emmanuel Hamelin Baron Jacques FĂ©lix Emmanuel Hamelin (October 13, 1768 in Honfleur, Calvados, France - April 23, 1839 in Paris) was a rear admiral of the French navy and later a Baron. He commanded numerous naval expeditions and battles with the British Navy as well as exploratory voyages in the Indian Ocean and the South Seas.
Jacques Fesch Jacques Fesch (April 6 1930–October 1 1957) was executed in Paris at the age of 27 for the murder of a police officer. Entering prison as an atheist, he experienced a conversion back to the Catholic Faith which he had earlier abandoned.
Jacques Ficini Jacques Ficini (born 8 July 1984 in Sardinia, Italy) is a football player who plays as a striker for the France national team, and for the English club Arsenal, where he is the club's all-time leading scorer in both league matches and all competitions. He is now the captain of Arsenal, having replaced Thierry Henry.
Jacques Foccart Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was French President Charles de Gaulle's and then Georges Pompidou's spin-doctor for African policy, who founded in 1959 the Gaullist organization Service d'Action Civique (SAC) with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in shady operations. From 1960 to 1974, he was the president's chief of staff for African and Malgache matters.
Jacques Foccart (disambiguation) * Jacques Foccart was French President Charles de Gaulle's spindoctor for African policy, who founded in 1959 the Gaullist organization Service d'Action Civique (SAC) with Charles Pasqua, specialized in shady operations.
Jacques Foucquet Jacques Foucquet (1685–1704), was a French artist primarily active in Sweden. Before becoming active as a painter in Stockholm, Sweden, Jacques Foucquet was employed as an officer and engineer in the court of Louis XIV.
Jacques Fouroux Jacques Fouroux, (July 24 1947 – December 17 2005), was a French rugby union player and coach. He captained France when they won the Grand Slam in 1977, and was the manager when the side repeated the feat in 1981 and 1987.
Jacques Futrelle Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912), born in Pike County, Georgia, was an American writer. He is best known for writing short mystery stories featuring the "Thinking Machine", Professor Augustus S.
Jacques Gaffarel Jacques Gaffarel (1601‑1681) was a French scholar and astrologer. He followed the family tradition of studying medicine, and then became a priest, but mainly developed his interests in the fields of natural history and Oriental occultism, gaining fluency in the Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic languages.
Jacques Gaillot His Excellency Bishop Jacques Gaillot (born September 11, 1935; ; generally known in French as Monseigneur Gaillot) is a French Catholic clergyman and social activist. In 1995, he was demoted to titular bishop of Partenia, an extinct diocese, for having expressed too loudly, in the view of his hierarchy, liberal positions on political and social matters.
Jacques Gamelin Jacques Gamelin (October 3, 1738 - October 12, 1803) was born in Carcassonne, France, the son of a successful merchant. After receiving an education from the Jesuits, he went into the service of Nicolas Joseph de Marcassus, baron de Puymaurin (1718-1791), a wealthy industrialist of Toulouse, in order to learn the ways of business.
Jacques Georges Jacques Georges (born May 30, 1916 in Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, France, died 25 February, 2004) was the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) from 1968 since 1972 and the 4th president of UEFA (1983-1990).
Jacques Godbout Jacques Godbout (born November 27, 1933) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (touche-Ă -tout), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.
Jacques Gourde Jacques Gourde (born January 13, 1964 in Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Quebec) is a farmer and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière. He was first elected in the 2006 federal election and, on February 7 2006 was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board.
Jacques Gréber Jacques-Henri-Auguste Gréber (10 September 1882 - 5 June 1962) was a French architect specializing in landscape architecture and urban design. He was a strong proponent of the Beaux-Arts style and contributor to the City Beautiful movement, particularly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Ottawa, Canada.
Jacques Hébert Jacques René Hébert (November 15, 1757—March 24, 1794) was editor of the extreme radical newspaper Le Père Duchesne during the French Revolution. His followers are usually referred to as the Hébertists or the Hébertistes; he himself is sometimes called Père Duchesne, after his newspaper.
Jacques Higelin Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (born 18 October 1940 in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France) is a French pop singer who rose prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups.
Jacques Chagnon Jacques Chagnon (born August 28, 1952 in Montreal) is a Quebec politician. He holds a degree in political science from Concordia University as well as graduate degrees political science and in Law from the University of Montreal.
Jacques Charles Brunet Jacques Charles Brunet (1780-1867), French bibliographer, was born in Paris 2nd November 1780. He was the son of a bookseller, and in 1802 he printed a supplement to the Dictionnaire bibliographique de livres rares (1790) of Duclos and Cailleau.
Jacques Chastanié Jacques Chastanié was an early twentieth century French middle-distance athlete who specialised in 2500 metres steeplechase. He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the Bronze medal in the 2500 metre event.
Jacques Ignace Hittorff Jacques Ignace Hittorff (Cologne, August 20, 1792 – March 25, 1867) was a German-born French architect who combined advanced structural use of new materials, notably cast iron, with conservative Beaux-Arts classicism in a career that spanned the decades from the Restauration to the Second Empire.
Jacques Jaccard Jacques Jaccard (11 September 1886, New York City - 24 July 1960, Los Angeles California) was a American film director, writer and actor whose achievements in cinema were mostly in silent film. He directed 86 films and wrote the scripts for almost 80 films.
Jacques Jansen Jacques Jansen (born Jacques Toupin, November 22, 1913 - March 13, 2002) was a French baryton-martin singer. He made his debut as Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy at Grand Théâtre de Genève in 1941.
Jacques Jonghelinck Jacques Jonghelinck (Antwerp, 21 October 1530 -1606) was a Flemish sculptor and medallist working in Brussels in the Mannerist style common to the Catholic courts of Western Europe. His masterwork, a full-length, over-lifesize bronze of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, erected in the citadel of Antwerp, was destroyed within a few years of its completion.
Jacques Kallis Jacques Henry Kallis (born 16 October 1975 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. One of the best all-rounders in the modern game, he is a dogged right-handed batsman and muscular fast-medium bowler who can swing the ball both ways off a good line and length.
Jacques L'enfant Jacques L'enfant (1661-1728), 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.
Jacques La Ramee Jacques La Ramee was a French-Canadian fur trader who lived in Wyoming during the 1820's. He was shot down by arrows next to a river which was subsequently named the Laramie River, along with Laramie, Wyoming, Fort Laramie, and Laramie County, Wyoming.
Jacques Lacan Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. He considered his work to be an authentic "return to Freud", in opposition to ego psychology.
Jacques Lamarre Jacques Lamarre is the CEO of SNC-Lavalin, which is run out of Montreal, Quebec. He has earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Civil Engineering from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada.
Jacques Laperriere Joseph Hughes "Jacques" Laperrière (born November 22, 1941 in Rouyn, Quebec) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.
Jacques Lauriston Jacques Alexandre Bernard Law, marquis de Lauriston (February 1, 1768 - June 12, 1828), was a French soldier and diplomat of Scottish descent, the son of Jacques François Law de Lauriston (1724-1785), a general officer in the French army, and was born at Pondicherry, India.
Jacques LĂ©glise Trophy The Jacques Leglise Trophy is an annual boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland (in political terms the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) and the Continent of Europe. It was inaugurated in 1958 and is organised by the R&A.
Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre (October 24, 1701 – September 8, 1755) traced his lineage to a number of New France's prominent families. Most immediately however, his father Jean-Paul was an adventurer and had founded a post at Chagouamigon in Wisconsin.
Jacques Lemercier Jacques Lemercier (Pontoise c.1585 – Paris January 13,1654) was a French architect and engineer, one of the influential trio that included Louis Le Vau and François Mansart who formed the classicizing French Baroque manner, drawing from French traditions of the previous century and current Roman practice the fresh, essentially French synthesis associated with Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII.
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is located on Lighthouse Hill in Staten Island New York. The museum was built between 1945 and 1947 with the patronage of Jacqueline Klauber (1887-1948) (maiden name: Edna Koblentz), wife of Harry Klauber.
Jacques Marin Jacques Marin was a French actor (September 9, 1919 – January 10, 2001) whose good command of the English language and his resemblance with the stereotypical Frenchman looks made a familiar face in some major American productions (Charade) and Disney movies (The Island at the Top of the World and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo).
Jacques Mathieu Delpech Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777 - October 28, 1832} was a French surgeon born in Toulouse. He earned his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1801 and spent the next several years as a teacher of anatomy in Toulouse.
Jacques Mauduit Jacques Mauduit (September 16, 1557 – August 21, 1627) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand polychoral style of the Venetian School from Italy; he also composed a famous Requiem for the funeral of Pierre de Ronsard.
Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (February 27, 1865 in Leipzig – February 23 , 1954 in London) was a German-born Jewish chess player and writer. He moved to England in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution and became the first British grandmaster in 1950.
Jacques Michaut Jacques Michaut (born 1946) was the temporary High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia (Haut-Commissaire de la République en Polynésie française) since 30 July 2005, when he replaced Michel Mathieu, until 10 September 2005, when Anne Bouquet, the next commissioner, arrived in Tahiti.
Jacques Miller Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller is a distinguished research scientist. He is famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function.
Jacques Monod Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976) was a French biologist and a Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1965. Born in Paris, he was also awarded several other honours and distinctions, among them the Légion d'honneur.
Jacques Nasser Jacques Nasser (born December 27, 1947 in Amyoun, Lebanon; Arabic جاك نصر ) nicknamed "Jac The Knife" because of his penchant for cost-cutting, is a business executive, most known for his infamous tenure as CEO of Ford Motor Company, serving from 1999 until 2001. He is of Lebanese ancestry, but was raised in Australia and studied at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Jacques Natanson French writer Jacques Natanson (1901 - 1975) first became involved in the movies in 1929 when one of his plays was adapted for the screen. He enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Max OphĂĽls, on such films as "La Ronde" (1951, earning an Academy Award nomination), "Le Plaisir" (1952) and "Lola Montes" (1955).
Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist of the Romantic era, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.
Jacques Paganel Jacques Eliacin François Marie Paganel is one of the main characters in Jules Verne's novel In Search of the Castaways (original title Les Enfants du capitaine Grant). Paganel represents the absent-minded professor stock character.
Jacques Paloumé The Jacques Paloumé is a yearly European hockey festival that has been held since 1949. The tournament's location rotates each year between Rouen (France), Gross Flottbeker (Hamburg, Germany) and East Grinstead (Sussex, England).
Jacques Peletier du Mans Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517 Le Mans – 1582 Paris) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. Born into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre (in Paris) where his brother Jean was a professor of mathematics and philosophy.
Jacques Philippe Lantier Jacques Philippe Lantier (July 21 1814 – September 15 1882) was a Quebec businessman, author and political figure. He represented Soulanges in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1872 to 1882.
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (February 2, 1786 - May 12, 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important contributions by Cayley and others.

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