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Jean Rousset Jean Rousset (1910, Geneva - 2002) was a Swiss literary critic who worked on French literature, and in particular on "Baroque" literature of the late Renaissance and early seventeenth century. He is sometimes grouped with the so-called "Geneva School" and with early Structuralism.
Jean Rudolph Jean Rudolph is a native of Windsor, Ontario, born in 1952 of a family of Protestants. She showed an early precocious talent for the violin which was later superseded at age fourteen by poetry only coming to be a painter after obtaining a masters degree at the University of Toronto in literature.
Jean Salmon Macrin Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557) was a Neo-Latin poet of French nationality. His poetry was massively successful and influential during his lifetime; however his fame did not live on, and his poetry was never republished after the 16th century.
Jean Scott Jean Scott is a gambling author who is best known for her 1998 book The Frugal Gambler. The book features gambling advice for novice gamblers including money management strategies and how to procure the best casino comps and discounts.
Jean Seznec Jean Seznec (March 19, 1905 - November 22, 1983) was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, has been The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art, published in 1953. Expanding in a tour de force the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western Art.
Jean Shepard Jean Shepard (born November 21, 1933 in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma) or Ollie Imogene Shepard was one of the first female vocalists in the country music field to become a major star in the early 1950's. She has now become one of the most legendary Country singers.
Jean Shepherd Jean Parker Shepherd (July 26, 1921 - October 16, 1999) was an American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is best known to many for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he co-wrote, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories, and narrated.
Jean Shiley Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 - March 11, 1998) is a former American high jumper. She was born as Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, PA, where she joined the team at Haverford High School.
Jean Schmidt Jeannette "Jean" Marie Hoffman Schmidt (born November 29, 1951) is a Member of the United States Congress. A Republican, she represents the Second District (map) of Ohio, stretching from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth.
Jean Schramme Jean Schramme (March 25, 1929, Bruges, Belgium - December 14, 1988, Rondonopolis, Brazil) was a Belgian colonel who became a mercenary while on a mission in Katanga in 1967. He joined the Katangan rebellion troops and led the uprising against president Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire.
Jean Sibelius Johan Julius Christian "Jean"/"Janne" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music and one of the most notable composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity.
Jean Spangler Jean Elizabeth Spangler (born September 2, 1923 Seattle, Washington; disappeared October 7 1949 from Los Angeles, California) was a dancer, model and bit-part actress in Hollywood films and in early television.
Jean Swain Jean Adair Swain (August 12, 1923 – July 17, 2000) was born in New York City and grew up in Port Washington, Long Island, where she graduated from high school at age 16. Her musical talents included playing the cello in orchestras and chamber music groups, arranging, composing and teaching.
Jean Sylvain Bailly Jean-Sylvain Bailly (September 15, 1736–November 12, 1793) was a French astronomer and orator, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Jean Tabaud Jean Tabaud (1914-1996) was born Jean Gilbert Tabaud on July 5 1914, in the small town of Saujon, France, on the Southwest Atlantic coast, north of Bordeaux. He was the son of Lucien Tabaud and Ernestine Tabaud Hillairet.
Jean Taisner Jean Taisner (Taisnier) (in Latin, Johannes Taisnerius) was a Jesuit priest. In 1572, Taisner published from the press of Johann Birkmann of Cologne a work entitled Opusculum perpetua memoria dignissimum, de natura magnetis et ejus effectibus, Item de motu continuo.
Jean Tardieu Jean Tardieu (born in St Germain de Joux, November 1 1903, died in Créteil, January 27 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house.
Jean Tatlock Jean Tatlock had a brief romantic relationship with Manhattan Project scientific leader J. Robert Oppenheimer while she was a graduate student in psychology at Stanford University in 1936 and he was a professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley.
Jean Theophile Victor Leclerc Jean Theophile Victor Leclerc, aka Jean-Theophilus Leclerc and Theophilus Leclerc d' Oze (* 1771 in La Cotte, near Montbrison, France; †1796), was a radical French revolutionist and publicist. After Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated, Leclerc assumed his mantle.
Jean Tiberi Jean Tiberi (born January 30, 1935) is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. As of 2004, he is now mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly.
Jean Tigana Jean Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali) has played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and 1 goal for the France national football team during the 1980s.
Jean Tinguely Jean Tinguely (4 May 1955 in TKO, Switzerland]] - 30 August, 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics.
Jean Todt Jean Todt (b. February 26, 1946) is a French motorsport man, currently executive director of Scuderia Ferrari, the Ferrari company's Formula One constructor. On October 25, 2006, he was appointed as the company's CEO.
Jean V of Armagnac Jean V d'Armagnac (1420-1473), vicomte de Lomagne while his father lived, the next-to-last comte d'Armagnac of the older branch, was the controversial son of Jean IV and Princess Isabel of Navarre, an emblem of 15th century aristocratic violence, treachery and indiscipline, a wildman from one of the most powerful virtually independent feudalities of the southwest. A contemporary chronicler described him:
Jean Van Heijenoort Jean Louis Maxime Van Heijenoort (prounounced highenort) (July 23 1912, Creil France - March 29 1986, Mexico City) was a pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist.
Jean Vander Pyl Jean Vander Pyl (sometimes credited as Jean Vanderpyl) (October 11 1919 – April 10 1999) was an actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones.
Jean Victor Allard General Jean Victor Allard, CC, CBE, GOQ, DSO, ED, CD (June 12, 1913 - April 23, 1996) was the first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian Forces from 1966–1969. He was also the first to hold the accompanying rank of (full, four-leaf) general.
Jean Vigo Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Jean Wallace Chicago-born Jean Wallace (born: Jean "Janina" Walasek to Polish parents) (October 12, 1923 - February 14, 1990) was a film actress who was married 2 times; once to her Jigsaw (movie) co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948 and once to actor Cornel Wilde (her co-star in The Big Combo and Lancelot and Guinevere) from 1951 to 1981. She had two sons with Tone and one with Wilde.
Jean White-Haney Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney (March 11 1877 - October 21 1952), known as Jean White-Haney, was an Australian botanist who was officer-in-charge of the Queensland Board of Advice on Prickly Pear Destruction and held develop biological control methods for managing the invasive cactus.
Jean Ziegler Jean Ziegler (born April 19, 1934) is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Swiss federal parliament from 1981 to 1999, now he is one of the leaders of the anti-economic globalization movement.
Jean-Antoine Alavoine Jean-Antoine Alavoine (1778–1834) was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–40), the Colonne de juillet to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has a capital freely based on the Corinthian order, with exaggerated corner volutes flanking putti holding swags, a complicated and somewhat incoherent design that found no imitators.
Jean-Antoine Dubois Jean-Antoine Dubois (1765 - 1848), French Catholic missionary in India, was ordained in the diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same year under the direction of the Missions étrangères. J.
Jean-Antoine Houdon Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 – July 15, 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (April 1, 1746 - August 25, 1807), was a French jurist and politician in time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis was a diplomat and statesman.
Jean-Baptiste André Godin Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne). The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman.
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21 1774, Paris – February 3 1862, Paris) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through chemical solutions, as well as the relationship between electrical current and magnetism.
Jean-Baptiste Boissière Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806-1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française (Analogical dictionary of French), published by Larousse in 1862.
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814-1891), Belgian stained glass painter, was born in Brussels in 1814, and died there in 1891. He had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his clever restorations of old examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum.
Jean-Baptiste Cinéas Jean-Baptiste Cinéas (1895 - 1958) was a Haitian novelist and jurist. Born in Cap-Haïtien, Cinéas held a law degree and was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Haiti, a position he held until his death.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (September 14, 1665, Paris – September 2, 1746, Paris), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe, duc d'Anjou, heir to the Spanish throne, eventually founding the line of Spanish Bourbons.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November, 1651 - 3 November, 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (John Baptist de La Salle) (born 30 April 1651 in Reims; died 7 April 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of an international educational movement who dedicated more than forty years of his life to the education of the children of the poor. In the process, he standardized educational practices throughout France, wrote inspirational meditations on the ministry of teaching (along with catechisms, politeness texts, and other resources for teachers and students), and became the catalyst and resource for many other religious congregations dedicated to education that were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse, (April 30, 1724 – April 11, 1782) was a well educated priest from the Charente département in central France. His Jesuit training included a third year of philosophy and four years of theology.
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, or Lacurne, (1697-1781) was a French scholar born at Auxerre on the 6th of June 1697. His father, Edme, had been gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV.
Jean-Baptiste de Vivien de Châteaubrun Jean-Baptiste de Vivien de Châteaubrun (1685-1775) was a French playwright and a member of the Académie française. He spent 40 years of his life polishing two plays, but his maid mistook them for wrapping paper, thus losing his life's work.
Jean-Baptiste du Hamel Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (11 June 1624–6 August 1706) was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. Among Du Hamel's prolific publications were the following:
Jean-Baptiste Daoust Jean-Baptiste Daoust (January 18 1817 – December 28 1891) was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Two Mountains (Deux-Montagnes) in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1872 and from 1876 to 1891.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (July 29, 1765-January 25, 1844) was a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army. D'Erlon notably commanded the I Corps of the Armée du Nord at the battle of Waterloo.
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674-1743) was a french historian specialized in China. Although he had not gone to China, he collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided encyclopedic survey on Chinese history, culture and society.
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne (7 November 1860 - 2 April 1936) was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation; and the creator of the French tank weapon.
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Séraphin, comte de Villèle (April 14, 1773 - March 13, 1854), was a French statesman. Several time Prime minister, he was a leader of the Ultra-royalist faction during the Bourbon Restoration.
Jean-Baptiste Huet Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 15 October 1745–Paris, 27 January 1811) was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher.
Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867 – September 16, 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893).
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (August 26, 1736–July 3, 1790) formulated the Law of Constancy of Interfacial Angles in his Traitise on Crystallography (1772), which built on observations by the geologist Nicolaus Steno.
Jean-Baptiste Labat Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663-1738), French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner. Born in Paris, he entered the order of the Dominicans at the age of twenty.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck is however remembered today mainly in connection with his now superseded theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits" (see Lamarckism).
Jean-Baptiste Lamy Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 - February 13, 1888), was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and the first Archbishop of Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States. American writer Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career.
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (of London) (November 18, 1680–July 19, 1730) was a flutist, oboist, and harpsichordist who was born in Ghent, Belgium, which was then part of the Spanish Netherlands. He worked in London and died there.
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870) was one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá (1838–1842), Athens (1850) and Ambassador to London (1852–1863) - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among them those of the Acropolis.
Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste de Lully, originally Giovanni Battista di Lulli (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French subject in 1661.
Jean-Baptiste Marchand Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863 – 1934) was a French emissary in Africa. He was sent in 1890 to explore the sources of the Niger and other rivers, and was afterwards appointed to push on to the White Nile, where he arrived in 1898, hoisting the French flag by the way.
Jean-Baptiste Maunier Jean-Baptiste Maunier was born December 22, 1990 and lives with his parents Thierry and Muriel and his younger brother Benjamin in Lyon, France. Jean-Baptiste enjoys playing tennis, football (soccer), and skateboarding.
Jean-Baptiste Morin Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583—November 6, 1656), also known by his Latin pseudonym as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Born in Villefranche, Yonne, in the Beaujolais, he began studying philosophy at Aix-en-Provence at the age of 16.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (17 March 1686, Paris - 30 April 1755, Beauvais) was a French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his images of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.
Jean-Baptiste Pérès Jean-Baptiste Pérès (1752 - 1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum - a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted "in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative tendencies of the rationalistic criticism of the Scriptures then in vogue" (as The Princeton Theological Review described what it called "the celebrated pamphlet" in 1906 Frederick W. Loetscher, Review of "The Napoleon Myth" by Henry Ridgley Evans, The Princeton Theological Review, p144, Vol.
Jean-Baptiste Poux Jean-Baptiste Poux (born 26 September, 1979) is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing in the top levelof French rugby, the Top 14 competition, for Toulouse. He was a part of the Toulouse side that won the 2002-03 and 2004-05 Heineken Cups.
Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet (May 2, 1746—February 17, 1825) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. His brother, Robert Thomas Lindet, became a constitutional bishop and member of the National Convention.
Jean-Baptiste Say Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business.
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (born in Strasbourg in 1776, died in the same place in 1856) was the author of the third astronomical clock in Strasbourg, built between 1838 and 1843 (not 1842, as it is written on the clock itself).
Jean-Baptiste Stouf Jean-Baptiste Stouf (Paris 1742–Charenton-le-Pont 1826), a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou, was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. His Bust of Belisarius at the J.
Jean-Baptiste Thibault Jean-Baptiste Thibault (14 December, 1810 – 4 April, 1879) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary noted for his role in negotiating on behalf of the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. He also established the first Roman Catholic mission in what would become Alberta, at Lac Sainte Anne in 1842.
Jean-Baptiste van Mour Jean-Baptiste van Mour or Vanmour (January 9, 1671—January 22, 1737) was a Flemish-French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot (August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine de Marbot (1754-1800), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere (Correze).
Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jean-Bédel Bokassa (IPA: ; February 22, 1921–November 3, 1996), also known as Bokassa I and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, was the military ruler of the Central African Republic from January 1, 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from December 4, 1976, until his overthrow on September 20, 1979.
Jean-Bedel Bokassa II Jean-Bedel Georges Bokassa, Crown Prince of Central Africa was born on the 2nd November 1975 the son of Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire and his wife Catherine Denguiadé, who became Empress on Bokassa's accession to the throne. Following his father's decision to become Emperor, he was named as heir apparent with the title of Crown Prince, and he took part in the lavish coronation of the 4th December, 1977.
Jean-Bernard Raimond Jean-Bernard Raimond (born February 6, 1926 in Paris) is a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988, as French ambassador to a number of states from the 1970s to the 1990s, and as a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2002.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004. Aristide was the second elected leader of Haiti and was popular among its poor inhabitants.
Jean-Claude Bajeux Jean-Claude Bajeux is a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, HaĂŻti and also one of the leaders of the political party the National Congress of Democratic Movements, also known as Konakom. He and his family left HaĂŻti in October 1993 after their house was attacked by members of FRAPH, but returned following the reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president.
Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Claude Duvalier (nicknamed Bébé Doc or Baby Doc) (born July 3, 1951) succeeded his father, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti from his father's death in 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986. He married Michèle Bennet.
Jean-Claude Flabel Jean-Claude Flabel is the author of the aerospace engineering textbook Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers; a handbook on practical stress analysis which is widely used within the aerospace industry.
Jean-Claude Fruteau Jean-Claude Fruteau (born 6 June 1947 in Saint-Benoît, Réunion) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer". He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Jean-Claude Gaugy Born in 1944 in the Jura mountain region of France, Jean-Claude Gaugy heard his own call of independence and left his mountain village for Paris at age 14. There he survived by doing sketches in cafes and soon was invited by the owner of a lavish dining club to paint portraits of customers.
Jean-Claude Irvoas Jean-Claude Irvoas (1949-2005) was a French employee of a street furniture firm. On October 27, 2005, the day the 2005 Paris suburb riots started, he died when being beaten by a group of youths in Épinay, after he tried to get back his camera the youths just robbed.
Jean-Claude Izzo Jean-Claude Izzo (June 20, 1945 - January 1, 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three detective novels, Total Kheops, Chourmo, and Solea. All three novels are set in the author's native city of Marseille.
Jean-Claude Juncker Jean-Claude Juncker (born December 9, 1954) is a Luxembourgian politican, the leader of the Christian Social People's Party. He is the incumbent Prime Minister of Luxembourg, having succeeded Jacques Santer on January 20, 1995.
Jean-Claude Lorquet Jean-Claude Lorquet (born September 19, 1935 in Liège, Belgium) is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Liège. He is member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and author of over 100 scientific papers.
Jean-Claude Martinez Jean-Claude Martinez (born 30 July 1945 in Sète, Hérault) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Front National, and therefore sits in the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group in the European Parliament.
Jean-Claude Mézières Jean-Claude Mézières (born 23 September 1938) is a French comic strip artist and illustrator. Born and raised in Paris, he was introduced to drawing by his older brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis.
Jean-Claude Schmitt Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946) is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the socio-cultural aspects of medieval history in Western Europe and has made important contributions in his use of anthropological and art historical methods to interpret history.
Jean-Claude Suarès Jean-Claude Suarès (born 1942) is a New York graphic designer, photographer, illustrator and author. Egyptian-born Suarès is reported to have said of his youth: "I was never allowed a cat or a car in my homeland, so when I came to the United States I got a cat and a Rolls-Royce.
Jean-Claude Usunier Jean-Claude Usunier is a Professor of Marketing at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland, and author of various books on marketing and culture, including International Marketing: A Cultural Approach, Marketing Across Cultures and International and Cross-Cultural Management Research.
Jean-Daniel Cadinot Jean-Daniel Cadinot (born February 10, 1944) is a French director and producer of gay pornographic films. His self-named studio was one of the first of its kind in France and continues to be the most well-known label from that country.
Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936-2004) is a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.
Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby (April, 1952 - March 11 1997) was a French journalist and author and editor of the magazine ELLE. At the age of forty-three, on December 8, 1995, Bauby, a well-known Parisian, suffered a massive stroke which rendered his brain stem inactive.
Jean-Edouard Desmedt Jean-Edouard Desmedt, a Belgian scientist, and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) was awarded the Francqui Prize on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on neurophysiology. He is a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine in France, and the Natural Science Section of the Royal Academy of Science, Humanities and Fine Arts of Belgium.
Jean-François Bergeron Jean-François Bergeron (born July 26, 1973 in St-Jérôme, Quebec) is a boxer from Canada, competing in the super heavyweight (> 91kg) division. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and won the silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.
Jean-François de la Barre Jean-François, knight de la Barre (1745 - July 1, 1766), was a French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and burned at the stake for not having removed his hat before a Catholic procession. In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven.
Jean-François Fortin Jean-Francois Fortin (born March 15, 1979 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the second round, 35th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.
Jean Rudolph Jean Rudolph is a native of Windsor, Ontario, born in 1952 of a family of Protestants. She showed an early precocious talent for the violin which was later superseded at age fourteen by poetry only coming to be a painter after obtaining a masters degree at the University of Toronto in literature.
Jean Salmon Macrin Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557) was a Neo-Latin poet of French nationality. His poetry was massively successful and influential during his lifetime; however his fame did not live on, and his poetry was never republished after the 16th century.
Jean Scott Jean Scott is a gambling author who is best known for her 1998 book The Frugal Gambler. The book features gambling advice for novice gamblers including money management strategies and how to procure the best casino comps and discounts.
Jean Seznec Jean Seznec (March 19, 1905 - November 22, 1983) was a historian and mythographer whose most influential book, for English-speaking readers, has been The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art, published in 1953. Expanding in a tour de force the scope of work by Warburg Institute scholars Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky, Seznec presented a broad view of the transmission of classical representation in Western Art.
Jean Shepard Jean Shepard (born November 21, 1933 in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma) or Ollie Imogene Shepard was one of the first female vocalists in the country music field to become a major star in the early 1950's. She has now become one of the most legendary Country singers.
Jean Shepherd Jean Parker Shepherd (July 26, 1921 - October 16, 1999) was an American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor who was often referred to by the nickname Shep. With a career that spanned decades, Shepherd is best known to many for the film A Christmas Story (1983), which he co-wrote, based on his own semi-autobiographical stories, and narrated.
Jean Shiley Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 - March 11, 1998) is a former American high jumper. She was born as Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, PA, where she joined the team at Haverford High School.
Jean Schmidt Jeannette "Jean" Marie Hoffman Schmidt (born November 29, 1951) is a Member of the United States Congress. A Republican, she represents the Second District (map) of Ohio, stretching from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth.
Jean Schramme Jean Schramme (March 25, 1929, Bruges, Belgium - December 14, 1988, Rondonopolis, Brazil) was a Belgian colonel who became a mercenary while on a mission in Katanga in 1967. He joined the Katangan rebellion troops and led the uprising against president Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire.
Jean Sibelius Johan Julius Christian "Jean"/"Janne" Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957) was a Finnish composer of classical music and one of the most notable composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity.
Jean Spangler Jean Elizabeth Spangler (born September 2, 1923 Seattle, Washington; disappeared October 7 1949 from Los Angeles, California) was a dancer, model and bit-part actress in Hollywood films and in early television.
Jean Swain Jean Adair Swain (August 12, 1923 – July 17, 2000) was born in New York City and grew up in Port Washington, Long Island, where she graduated from high school at age 16. Her musical talents included playing the cello in orchestras and chamber music groups, arranging, composing and teaching.
Jean Sylvain Bailly Jean-Sylvain Bailly (September 15, 1736–November 12, 1793) was a French astronomer and orator, one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution. He was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Jean Tabaud Jean Tabaud (1914-1996) was born Jean Gilbert Tabaud on July 5 1914, in the small town of Saujon, France, on the Southwest Atlantic coast, north of Bordeaux. He was the son of Lucien Tabaud and Ernestine Tabaud Hillairet.
Jean Taisner Jean Taisner (Taisnier) (in Latin, Johannes Taisnerius) was a Jesuit priest. In 1572, Taisner published from the press of Johann Birkmann of Cologne a work entitled Opusculum perpetua memoria dignissimum, de natura magnetis et ejus effectibus, Item de motu continuo.
Jean Tardieu Jean Tardieu (born in St Germain de Joux, November 1 1903, died in Créteil, January 27 1995) was a French artist, musician, poet and dramatic author. He earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house.
Jean Tatlock Jean Tatlock had a brief romantic relationship with Manhattan Project scientific leader J. Robert Oppenheimer while she was a graduate student in psychology at Stanford University in 1936 and he was a professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley.
Jean Theophile Victor Leclerc Jean Theophile Victor Leclerc, aka Jean-Theophilus Leclerc and Theophilus Leclerc d' Oze (* 1771 in La Cotte, near Montbrison, France; †1796), was a radical French revolutionist and publicist. After Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated, Leclerc assumed his mantle.
Jean Tiberi Jean Tiberi (born January 30, 1935) is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. As of 2004, he is now mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly.
Jean Tigana Jean Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali) has played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and 1 goal for the France national football team during the 1980s.
Jean Tinguely Jean Tinguely (4 May 1955 in TKO, Switzerland]] - 30 August, 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics.
Jean Todt Jean Todt (b. February 26, 1946) is a French motorsport man, currently executive director of Scuderia Ferrari, the Ferrari company's Formula One constructor. On October 25, 2006, he was appointed as the company's CEO.
Jean V of Armagnac Jean V d'Armagnac (1420-1473), vicomte de Lomagne while his father lived, the next-to-last comte d'Armagnac of the older branch, was the controversial son of Jean IV and Princess Isabel of Navarre, an emblem of 15th century aristocratic violence, treachery and indiscipline, a wildman from one of the most powerful virtually independent feudalities of the southwest. A contemporary chronicler described him:
Jean Van Heijenoort Jean Louis Maxime Van Heijenoort (prounounced highenort) (July 23 1912, Creil France - March 29 1986, Mexico City) was a pioneer historian of mathematical logic. He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and from then until 1947, an American Trotskyist activist.
Jean Vander Pyl Jean Vander Pyl (sometimes credited as Jean Vanderpyl) (October 11 1919 – April 10 1999) was an actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones.
Jean Victor Allard General Jean Victor Allard, CC, CBE, GOQ, DSO, ED, CD (June 12, 1913 - April 23, 1996) was the first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian Forces from 1966–1969. He was also the first to hold the accompanying rank of (full, four-leaf) general.
Jean Vigo Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 – October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Jean Wallace Chicago-born Jean Wallace (born: Jean "Janina" Walasek to Polish parents) (October 12, 1923 - February 14, 1990) was a film actress who was married 2 times; once to her Jigsaw (movie) co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948 and once to actor Cornel Wilde (her co-star in The Big Combo and Lancelot and Guinevere) from 1951 to 1981. She had two sons with Tone and one with Wilde.
Jean White-Haney Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney (March 11 1877 - October 21 1952), known as Jean White-Haney, was an Australian botanist who was officer-in-charge of the Queensland Board of Advice on Prickly Pear Destruction and held develop biological control methods for managing the invasive cactus.
Jean Ziegler Jean Ziegler (born April 19, 1934) is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Swiss federal parliament from 1981 to 1999, now he is one of the leaders of the anti-economic globalization movement.
Jean-Antoine Alavoine Jean-Antoine Alavoine (1778–1834) was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–40), the Colonne de juillet to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has a capital freely based on the Corinthian order, with exaggerated corner volutes flanking putti holding swags, a complicated and somewhat incoherent design that found no imitators.
Jean-Antoine Dubois Jean-Antoine Dubois (1765 - 1848), French Catholic missionary in India, was ordained in the diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same year under the direction of the Missions étrangères. J.
Jean-Antoine Houdon Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 – July 15, 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis (April 1, 1746 - August 25, 1807), was a French jurist and politician in time of the French Revolution and the First Empire. His son, Joseph Marie Portalis was a diplomat and statesman.
Jean-Baptiste André Godin Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne). The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman.
Jean-Baptiste Biot Jean-Baptiste Biot (April 21 1774, Paris – February 3 1862, Paris) was a French physicist, astronomer and mathematician. In the early 1800s, he studied the polarisation of light passing through chemical solutions, as well as the relationship between electrical current and magnetism.
Jean-Baptiste Boissière Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806-1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française (Analogical dictionary of French), published by Larousse in 1862.
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814-1891), Belgian stained glass painter, was born in Brussels in 1814, and died there in 1891. He had much to do with the modern revival of glass-painting, and first made his reputation by his study of the old methods of workmanship, and his clever restorations of old examples, and copies made for the Brussels archaeological museum.
Jean-Baptiste Cinéas Jean-Baptiste Cinéas (1895 - 1958) was a Haitian novelist and jurist. Born in Cap-Haïtien, Cinéas held a law degree and was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Haiti, a position he held until his death.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy (September 14, 1665, Paris – September 2, 1746, Paris), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe, duc d'Anjou, heir to the Spanish throne, eventually founding the line of Spanish Bourbons.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay Jean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1 November, 1651 - 3 November, 1690) was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (John Baptist de La Salle) (born 30 April 1651 in Reims; died 7 April 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of an international educational movement who dedicated more than forty years of his life to the education of the children of the poor. In the process, he standardized educational practices throughout France, wrote inspirational meditations on the ministry of teaching (along with catechisms, politeness texts, and other resources for teachers and students), and became the catalyst and resource for many other religious congregations dedicated to education that were founded in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse Jean-Baptiste de La Brosse, (April 30, 1724 – April 11, 1782) was a well educated priest from the Charente département in central France. His Jesuit training included a third year of philosophy and four years of theology.
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, or Lacurne, (1697-1781) was a French scholar born at Auxerre on the 6th of June 1697. His father, Edme, had been gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIV.
Jean-Baptiste de Vivien de Châteaubrun Jean-Baptiste de Vivien de Châteaubrun (1685-1775) was a French playwright and a member of the Académie française. He spent 40 years of his life polishing two plays, but his maid mistook them for wrapping paper, thus losing his life's work.
Jean-Baptiste du Hamel Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (11 June 1624–6 August 1706) was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. Among Du Hamel's prolific publications were the following:
Jean-Baptiste Daoust Jean-Baptiste Daoust (January 18 1817 – December 28 1891) was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Two Mountains (Deux-Montagnes) in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1872 and from 1876 to 1891.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon (July 29, 1765-January 25, 1844) was a marshal of France and a soldier in Napoleon's Army. D'Erlon notably commanded the I Corps of the Armée du Nord at the battle of Waterloo.
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674-1743) was a french historian specialized in China. Although he had not gone to China, he collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided encyclopedic survey on Chinese history, culture and society.
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne (7 November 1860 - 2 April 1936) was a general of artillery and a specialist in military engineering, one of the founders of modern French artillery and French military aviation; and the creator of the French tank weapon.
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Séraphin, comte de Villèle (April 14, 1773 - March 13, 1854), was a French statesman. Several time Prime minister, he was a leader of the Ultra-royalist faction during the Bourbon Restoration.
Jean-Baptiste Huet Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 15 October 1745–Paris, 27 January 1811) was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher.
Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste Charcot (July 15, 1867 – September 16, 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893).
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (August 26, 1736–July 3, 1790) formulated the Law of Constancy of Interfacial Angles in his Traitise on Crystallography (1772), which built on observations by the geologist Nicolaus Steno.
Jean-Baptiste Labat Jean-Baptiste Labat (sometimes called, simply, Père Labat) (1663-1738), French clergyman, botanist, writer, explorer, ethnographer, soldier, engineer, and landowner. Born in Paris, he entered the order of the Dominicans at the age of twenty.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck is however remembered today mainly in connection with his now superseded theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits" (see Lamarckism).
Jean-Baptiste Lamy Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 - February 13, 1888), was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and the first Archbishop of Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States. American writer Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career.
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (of London) (November 18, 1680–July 19, 1730) was a flutist, oboist, and harpsichordist who was born in Ghent, Belgium, which was then part of the Spanish Netherlands. He worked in London and died there.
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793–1870) was one of the first daguerrotypists. Baron and French chargé d'affaires in Bogotá (1838–1842), Athens (1850) and Ambassador to London (1852–1863) - during which period he also travelled to China and Japan in 1857 and 1858 — he produced many famous daguerrotypes — chief among them those of the Acropolis.
Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Baptiste de Lully, originally Giovanni Battista di Lulli (November 28, 1632 – March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He became a French subject in 1661.
Jean-Baptiste Marchand Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863 – 1934) was a French emissary in Africa. He was sent in 1890 to explore the sources of the Niger and other rivers, and was afterwards appointed to push on to the White Nile, where he arrived in 1898, hoisting the French flag by the way.
Jean-Baptiste Maunier Jean-Baptiste Maunier was born December 22, 1990 and lives with his parents Thierry and Muriel and his younger brother Benjamin in Lyon, France. Jean-Baptiste enjoys playing tennis, football (soccer), and skateboarding.
Jean-Baptiste Morin Jean-Baptiste Morin (February 23, 1583—November 6, 1656), also known by his Latin pseudonym as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Born in Villefranche, Yonne, in the Beaujolais, he began studying philosophy at Aix-en-Provence at the age of 16.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (17 March 1686, Paris - 30 April 1755, Beauvais) was a French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his images of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.
Jean-Baptiste Pérès Jean-Baptiste Pérès (1752 - 1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum - a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted "in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative tendencies of the rationalistic criticism of the Scriptures then in vogue" (as The Princeton Theological Review described what it called "the celebrated pamphlet" in 1906 Frederick W. Loetscher, Review of "The Napoleon Myth" by Henry Ridgley Evans, The Princeton Theological Review, p144, Vol.
Jean-Baptiste Poux Jean-Baptiste Poux (born 26 September, 1979) is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing in the top levelof French rugby, the Top 14 competition, for Toulouse. He was a part of the Toulouse side that won the 2002-03 and 2004-05 Heineken Cups.
Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet (May 2, 1746—February 17, 1825) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. His brother, Robert Thomas Lindet, became a constitutional bishop and member of the National Convention.
Jean-Baptiste Say Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favour of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business.
Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué (born in Strasbourg in 1776, died in the same place in 1856) was the author of the third astronomical clock in Strasbourg, built between 1838 and 1843 (not 1842, as it is written on the clock itself).
Jean-Baptiste Stouf Jean-Baptiste Stouf (Paris 1742–Charenton-le-Pont 1826), a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou, was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. His Bust of Belisarius at the J.
Jean-Baptiste Thibault Jean-Baptiste Thibault (14 December, 1810 – 4 April, 1879) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary noted for his role in negotiating on behalf of the Government of Canada during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. He also established the first Roman Catholic mission in what would become Alberta, at Lac Sainte Anne in 1842.
Jean-Baptiste van Mour Jean-Baptiste van Mour or Vanmour (January 9, 1671—January 22, 1737) was a Flemish-French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, Baron de Marbot (August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine de Marbot (1754-1800), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere (Correze).
Jean-Bédel Bokassa Jean-Bédel Bokassa (IPA: ; February 22, 1921–November 3, 1996), also known as Bokassa I and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa, was the military ruler of the Central African Republic from January 1, 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from December 4, 1976, until his overthrow on September 20, 1979.
Jean-Bedel Bokassa II Jean-Bedel Georges Bokassa, Crown Prince of Central Africa was born on the 2nd November 1975 the son of Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire and his wife Catherine Denguiadé, who became Empress on Bokassa's accession to the throne. Following his father's decision to become Emperor, he was named as heir apparent with the title of Crown Prince, and he took part in the lavish coronation of the 4th December, 1977.
Jean-Bernard Raimond Jean-Bernard Raimond (born February 6, 1926 in Paris) is a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988, as French ambassador to a number of states from the 1970s to the 1990s, and as a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2002.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born July 15, 1953) is a Haitian politician and former Roman Catholic priest who was President of Haiti in 1991, again from 1994 to 1996, and then from 2001 to 2004. Aristide was the second elected leader of Haiti and was popular among its poor inhabitants.
Jean-Claude Bajeux Jean-Claude Bajeux is a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, HaĂŻti and also one of the leaders of the political party the National Congress of Democratic Movements, also known as Konakom. He and his family left HaĂŻti in October 1993 after their house was attacked by members of FRAPH, but returned following the reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president.
Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Claude Duvalier (nicknamed Bébé Doc or Baby Doc) (born July 3, 1951) succeeded his father, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti from his father's death in 1971 until his overthrow by a popular uprising in 1986. He married Michèle Bennet.
Jean-Claude Flabel Jean-Claude Flabel is the author of the aerospace engineering textbook Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers; a handbook on practical stress analysis which is widely used within the aerospace industry.
Jean-Claude Fruteau Jean-Claude Fruteau (born 6 June 1947 in Saint-Benoît, Réunion) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer". He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Jean-Claude Gaugy Born in 1944 in the Jura mountain region of France, Jean-Claude Gaugy heard his own call of independence and left his mountain village for Paris at age 14. There he survived by doing sketches in cafes and soon was invited by the owner of a lavish dining club to paint portraits of customers.
Jean-Claude Irvoas Jean-Claude Irvoas (1949-2005) was a French employee of a street furniture firm. On October 27, 2005, the day the 2005 Paris suburb riots started, he died when being beaten by a group of youths in Épinay, after he tried to get back his camera the youths just robbed.
Jean-Claude Izzo Jean-Claude Izzo (June 20, 1945 - January 1, 2000) was a French poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who achieved sudden fame in the mid-1990s with the publication of his three detective novels, Total Kheops, Chourmo, and Solea. All three novels are set in the author's native city of Marseille.
Jean-Claude Juncker Jean-Claude Juncker (born December 9, 1954) is a Luxembourgian politican, the leader of the Christian Social People's Party. He is the incumbent Prime Minister of Luxembourg, having succeeded Jacques Santer on January 20, 1995.
Jean-Claude Lorquet Jean-Claude Lorquet (born September 19, 1935 in Liège, Belgium) is a professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Liège. He is member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and author of over 100 scientific papers.
Jean-Claude Martinez Jean-Claude Martinez (born 30 July 1945 in Sète, Hérault) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the south-west of France. He is a member of the Front National, and therefore sits in the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Group in the European Parliament.
Jean-Claude Mézières Jean-Claude Mézières (born 23 September 1938) is a French comic strip artist and illustrator. Born and raised in Paris, he was introduced to drawing by his older brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis.
Jean-Claude Schmitt Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946) is a prominent French medievalist, the former student of Jacques Le Goff. He studies the socio-cultural aspects of medieval history in Western Europe and has made important contributions in his use of anthropological and art historical methods to interpret history.
Jean-Claude Suarès Jean-Claude Suarès (born 1942) is a New York graphic designer, photographer, illustrator and author. Egyptian-born Suarès is reported to have said of his youth: "I was never allowed a cat or a car in my homeland, so when I came to the United States I got a cat and a Rolls-Royce.
Jean-Claude Usunier Jean-Claude Usunier is a Professor of Marketing at HEC, Lausanne, Switzerland, and author of various books on marketing and culture, including International Marketing: A Cultural Approach, Marketing Across Cultures and International and Cross-Cultural Management Research.
Jean-Daniel Cadinot Jean-Daniel Cadinot (born February 10, 1944) is a French director and producer of gay pornographic films. His self-named studio was one of the first of its kind in France and continues to be the most well-known label from that country.
Jean-Daniel Pollet Jean-Daniel Pollet (1936-2004) is a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.
Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby (April, 1952 - March 11 1997) was a French journalist and author and editor of the magazine ELLE. At the age of forty-three, on December 8, 1995, Bauby, a well-known Parisian, suffered a massive stroke which rendered his brain stem inactive.
Jean-Edouard Desmedt Jean-Edouard Desmedt, a Belgian scientist, and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) was awarded the Francqui Prize on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on neurophysiology. He is a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine in France, and the Natural Science Section of the Royal Academy of Science, Humanities and Fine Arts of Belgium.
Jean-François Bergeron Jean-François Bergeron (born July 26, 1973 in St-Jérôme, Quebec) is a boxer from Canada, competing in the super heavyweight (> 91kg) division. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and won the silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.
Jean-François de la Barre Jean-François, knight de la Barre (1745 - July 1, 1766), was a French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and burned at the stake for not having removed his hat before a Catholic procession. In France, he is a symbol of Christian religious intolerance, along with Jean Calas and Pierre-Paul Sirven.
Jean-François Fortin Jean-Francois Fortin (born March 15, 1979 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman. He was drafted in the second round, 35th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.
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