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Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez (July 17 1729 - December 8 1788) - French admiral; was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a family of nobles of Provence which claimed to have emigrated from Lucca in the 14th century. He was born in the Château de Saint Canat, near Aix-en-Provence in the present département of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Pierre Arnoul de Marneffe Pierre - Arnoul de Marneffe is a Belgian computer scientist and professor at the University of Liege (ULg). He studied civil engineering and obtained a PhD in applied sciences at the ULg (1976), in addition he obtained a Ph.
Pierre Auger Observatory Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory designed to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays -- Oh-My-God particles. These are sub-atomic particles (protons or other nuclei) with energies beyond 10^{20} electron-volts, the energy of a tennis ball traveling at 53.
Pierre Bachand Pierre Bachand, 22 March 1835 – 3 November 1878, was a lawyer and politician from Lower Canada who studied law with Louis-Victor Sicotte in Saint-Hyacinthe. He was, at various times, deputy protonotary of the Superior Court and assistant clerk of the Circuit Court in his area.
Pierre Barbet Pierre Barbet (May 16, 1925 - July 20, 1995) was the main pseudonym used by French science fiction writer Claude Avice. Claude Avice, a Doctor in Pharmacy, also used the pseudonyms of Olivier Sprigel and David Maine.
Pierre Basile Pierre Basile (died April 6, 1199), also named Bertran de Gurdun and John Sabroz was a French boy famous for shooting King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Châlus-Charbrol on March 26, 1199. King Richard, who had removed some of his chainmail, was not mortally-wounded by Basile's bolt; however, the wound resulted in gangrene, and Richard's subsequent death occurred on April 6 of the same year.
Pierre Basile Benoit Pierre Basile Benoit (October 8 1837 – November 11 1910) was a Quebec farmer and political figure. He represented Chambly in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1874 and from 1876 to 1886.
Pierre Bastien Pierre Bastien (born 1953 in Paris) is a French musician, composer, and instrument builder. He began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys.
Pierre Bézier Pierre Étienne Bézier (September 1, 1910 – November 25, 1999) (pronounced "bay zee ay") was a French engineer and creator of the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces that are now used in most computer-aided design and computer graphics systems.
Pierre Beauchamp Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, sometimes mistakenly called Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (1631–1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation. He was made director of the Académie Royale de Danse in 1671 (although he was not a founding member of the Académie as is often claimed).
Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 – May 17-18, 1799) was a watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, invalid, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). He was best known, however, for his theatrical works, especially the three Figaro plays.
Pierre Bellocq Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is an American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb". As a small boy, his family moved to Maisons-Laffitte where his father worked at the local race track.
Pierre Benoît Dumas Pierre Benoît Dumas was born in 1668 and died in 1745 was French Governor General for Pondichéry and Réunion. Predecessor of La Bourdonnais to the Isles and Dupleix in the Indies, Dumas was the man of the Southern France.
Pierre Bezukhov Count Pierre Bezukhov (, or Pierre Bezuhov according to Rosemary Edmonds translation) is a central fictional character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. He is an illegitimate son of Count Kirill Vladimirovich Bezukhov, who was one of the richest people of Russia of the time.
Pierre Blaise Pierre Blaise was discovered by Louis Malle who gave him the leading role in his 1974 film Lacombe Lucien. Pierre Blaise spurned a cinema career to return to wood cutting in rural France, but only a year after the film, he was killed in a car accident.
Pierre Boitard Pierre Boitard (1789 – 1859) was a French botanist and geologist. As well as describing and classifying the Tasmanian Devil, he is notable for his fictional natural history Paris avant les hommes (Paris Before Man), published posthumously in 1861, which described a prehistoric ape-like human ancestor living in the region of Paris.
Pierre Boivin Pierre Boivin (born October 28, 1953) is a French Canadian businessman and current president of the Montreal Canadiens since September 2, 1999, succeeding Ronald Corey. Pierre is married to Lucie Nadeau and is the father of three children: Patrick, Catherine and Richard.
Pierre Bossier Pierre Evariste Jean-Baptiste Bossier (March 22, 1797 -- April 24, 1844) was a soldier, planter, and politician born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bossier Parish (pronounced BO ZURE), which includes the parish seat of Benton and the larger Bossier City, located east of the Red River from Shreveport, is named for him.
Pierre Bouchard Pierre Emile Bouchard (born February 20, 1948 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who won five Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s. He also played for the Washington Capitals over the course of a 12-year NHL career.
Pierre Boulle Pierre Boulle (20 February, 1912 – 30 January, 1994) was a French novelist largely known for his combination of psychology and adventure most famously in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963).
Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. He is best known for his book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, in which he tried to connect aesthetic judgements to positions in social space.
Pierre Bourque (politician) Pierre Bourque (born May 29 1942) is a Quebec businessman and was the mayor of Montreal, Quebec from 1994 to 2001. He subsequently attempted to enter provincial politics, running as an Action démocratique du Québec candidate in the 2003 Quebec election, but was defeated.
Pierre Bouvier Pierre Charles Bouvier (May 9 1979 in Montréal, Quebec) is the lead singer of the Canadian pop punk band Simple Plan. Before and partly during his musical career, Bouvier worked as a youth in a barbecue restaurant in his hometown of Montréal as a cook.
Pierre Brasdor Pierre Brasdor (1721-September 28, 1799), French surgeon, was born in the province of Maine. He took his degree in Paris as master of surgery in 1752, and was appointed regius professor of anatomy and director of the Academy of Surgery.
Pierre Braunstein Pierre Braunstein (born October 4 1947) is a French chemist. He is director of the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur) of Strasbourg (France) and a member of the French Academy of Science.
Pierre Brejoux Pierre Brejoux served as an expert wine taster in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He was Inspector General of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board, which controls the production of top French wines.
Pierre Briant Pierre Briant (Angers, September 30, 1940) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Collège de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of the website Achemenet.com.
Pierre Brice Pierre Brice (born 6 February 1929 in Brest, France), birth name Baron Pierre Louis de Bris, is a French actor, mainly known to the audience for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May movies.
Pierre Brissaud Pierre Brissaud (December 23, 1885- 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and engraver. He was born in Paris, France and trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris.
Pierre Broué Pierre Broué (1926 – July 26 2005) was a French historian and Trotskyist. His work covers various topics including the history of the Bolshevik Party, the Spanish Revolution and biographical works on Leon Trotsky.
Pierre Capretz Pierre Jean Capretz is an educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language Laboratory and then Director of the Language Development Studio.
Pierre Carette Pierre Carette (born December 16, 1952 in Charleroi) was the leader of the Belgian extreme-left terrorist group Communist Combatant Cells or CCC. Although Carette was sentenced to life-long imprisonment for terrorist attacks, he was released in 2003.
Pierre Caroli Pierre Caroli, born in 1480 in Rosay-en-Brie, deceased probably after 1545, was a French refugee and religious man. Had a Doctor in theology from Paris, and was receptive to the ideas of the Protestant Reformation.
Pierre Cartier (mathematician) Pierre Cartier (born in Sedan, France in 1932) is a mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry and representation theory, mathematical physics category theory.
Pierre Ceresole The Swiss Pierre Ceresole (1897–1945) founded the Service Civil International (SCI) in 1920, an organisation that helped in the reconstruction after the war with the goal of achieving an atmosphere of brotherhood. Being a pacifist, he had refused to pay taxes that were used for the acquisition of arms, to fulfill his draft period and to accept money from his inheritance.
Pierre Certon Pierre Certon (c1510-1520 – February 23, 1572) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late development of the French chanson.
Pierre Ceyrac Pierre Ceyrac was a longstanding friend of Jean Marie Le Pen who served the French Front National Party first as a Deputy (1986) to the National Assembly of France, and then (1988) as a Member of the European Parliament.
Pierre Clergue Pierre Clergue was a priest in the village of Montaillou, France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. He is the central figure in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's book Montaillou a pioneering work of microhistory.
Pierre Corneille Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606–October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly 40 years.
Pierre Cot Pierre Cot (20 November 1895 - 21 August 1977), French politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as an admirer of the World War I conservative leader Raymond Poincaré, but moved steadily to the left over the course of his career.
Pierre Cuypers Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers (May 16 1827, Roermond – March 3, 1921, Roermond) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881-1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876-1885), both in Amsterdam.
Pierre d'Hozier Pierre d'Hozier, seigneur de la Garde (July 10, 1592 - December 1, 1660), French genealogist, was born at Marseille. He belonged to the household of the Marshal de Créqui and gave him aid in his genealogical investigations.
Pierre de Bané Pierre de Bané, PC, QC (born August 2 1938) is a Canadian Senator. He was the first person of Arab descent to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons in Matane and next Matapédia—Matane, and is a former member of the Canadian Cabinet.
Pierre de BĂ©rulle Pierre de BĂ©rulle (February 4, 1575 - October 2, 1629) was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France, and founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples St. Vincent de Paul and St.
Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard (1540 - 1562); French poet, was born in Datiphin; a scion of the house of Bayard, grandson of Chevalier de Bayard. His name is inseparably connected with Mary, Queen of Scots, for whom he conceived an insane passion.
Pierre de Coubertin medal The Pierre de Coubertin medal (also known as the De Coubertin medal or the True Spirit of Sportsmanship medal) is a special medal given by the International Olympic Committee to those athletes that demonstrate the spirit of sportsmanship in Olympic events. The medal was named in honor of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games.
Pierre de La Primaudaye Pierre de La Primaudaye (1546-1620) was a French writer. He is known particularly for L'Academie Française, which was influential in English translations, from 1584 onwards, particularly The French Academie of 1618.
Pierre de Polignac Prince Pierre of Monaco, Duke of Valentinois, Count of Polignac (24 October 1895 – 10 November 1964) is best known for having been the father of Rainier III of Monaco, and thus the paternal grandfather of Albert II of Monaco.
Pierre de Ronsard Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard (September 11, 1524 – December, 1585), was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him). He was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Loir-et-Cher.
Pierre du moulin Pierre Du Moulin (1568-1658) was a Huguenot minister in France. He was a prolific author, penning a critique of the Roman Catholic Mass based on the Bible, Anatomie de la Messe, and a defense of the French Reformed Confession of Faith against its Jesuit detractors, Bouclier de la Foi.
Pierre Dagenais Pierre Dagenais (born March 4, 1978 in Blainville, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in both the 1996 NHL Entry Draft (round 2, #47 overall) and the 1998 NHL Entry Draft (round 4, #105 overall).
Pierre Dangicourt Pierre Dangicourt (1664 Rouen – 12 Feb 1727 Berlin) was a French mathematician. As a Protestant, he left France after the Edict of Fontainebleau and settled in Prussia, where he was made an associate member of the Academy of Berlin.
Pierre Delorme Pierre Delorme (de L'Orme) (ca October 1 1832 – November 10 1912) was a Métis fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure. He represented Provencher in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1872.
Pierre Deniker Pierre Deniker (born 1917) was involved in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine) the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950's. Thorazine had been used in surgical procedures peri-operatively as an anti-nausea medication in France.
Pierre Denys de Montfort Pierre Dénys de Montfort (1766 – 1820) was a French naturalist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the giant squid Architeuthis, which was thought to be an old wives' tale, and for which he was long dismissed. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an eight-metre long tentacle found in the mouth of a sperm whale.
Pierre Derbigny Pierre Augustin Charles Bourguignon Derbigny (1769-1829) was Governor of Louisiana. Born in 1769, at Laon near Lille, France, the eldest son of Augustin Bourguignon d'Herbigny who was President of the Directoire de l'Ainse and Mayor of Laon, and Louise Angelique Blondela.
Pierre Desloges Born in 1747 in the Touraine region of France, Pierre Desloges moved to Paris as a young man, where he became a bookbinder and upholsterer. He was deafened at age seven from smallpox, but did not learn to sign until he was twenty-seven, when he was taught by a deaf Italian.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays, who lived and died in Paris. He became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, and was a well-known collaborationist during the Vichy period.
Pierre Dubuc Pierre Dubuc (born May 25, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is the director and editor of L'aut'journal, a progressive monthly paper. He is one of the founders of SPQ Libre, a left-wing political club within the Parti Québécois.
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (21 February 1675 – 7 June 1736) was a Canadian who commanded several areas in North America colonized by France in the early 18th Century, rising to become the fourth governor of the French colony of Louisiana.
Pierre Duhem Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages.
Pierre Dulaine Pierre Dulaine is a dance instructor who was the influence for the main character of Take the Lead. He is also a real leading dance instructor in the inner part of New York City, and his teaching has brought his techniques all across schools in the U.
Pierre Dupong Pierre Dupong (1885-11-01 - 1953-12-23) was a Luxembourgian politician and statesman. He was the sixteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for sixteen years, from 1937-11-05 until his death, on 1953-12-23.
Pierre et Gilles Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are gay French artistic and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs.
Pierre Edouard Frere Pierre Edouard Frère (1819-1886), French painter, studied under Hippolyte Delaroche, entered the école des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. The marked sentimental tendency of his art makes us wonder at John Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frere's work the depth of William Wordsworth, the grace of Joshua Reynolds, and the holiness of Fra Angelico.
Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí (Paris, November 4, 1902; Salvador, Brazil, February 11, 1996) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest of Ifa) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and economical flows from and to Africa.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School is a public elementary school in Vancouver, British Columbia part of School District 39 Vancouver. Enrolling 350 students from Kindergarten through Grade Seven, approximately half the students speak Punjabi at home.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation or Trudeau Foundation is a Canadian non-partisan charitable foundation established in 2002 with an endowment of C$125 million from the Government of Canada to honour former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School (commonly known as PETHS, PET, or simply Trudeau) is a public, bilingual English and French-immersion secondary school in Markham, Ontario, Canada, named after the former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It became the first secondary school in Ontario to be named after Trudeau.
Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse Pierre-Emmanuel-Albert, Baron du Casse (also Ducasse, 1813-1893) was a French soldier and military historian born at Bourges on the 16th of November 1813. He is best known for being the first editor of the correspondence of Napoleon I.
Pierre Etchebaster Pierre Etchebaster (December 8, 1893 - March 24, 1980) is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis (in France jeu de paume), the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis (which has usurped the name "tennis"), is descended.
Pierre F. Patricio Pierre Patricio Farum (born on February 20, 1960 in Dumalag, Capiz,Philippines) is a Filipino self-taught artist who already took an interest in art at the tender age of five. He is the second son of Emerson Patricio Bereber, a sugar technologist, and Teresita Farum Castro, a public school teacher.
Pierre Falcone Pierre Falcone is a French businessman known for his involvement, as a key player, in the Angolagate oil-for-arms scandal in the 1990s, in which Falcone and his partner, Russian émigré businessman Arcadi Gaydamak, are alleged to have arranged up to $600m in illegal transfers of Slovak-produced arms to the government of Angola starting in late 1993.
Pierre Fauchard Pierre Fauchard (born 1678 in Brittany; died March 22 1761 in Paris) was a significant French physician, he is credited to be the "father of modem dentistry". He is widely known for his book, Le chirurgien dentiste, "The Surgeon Dentist" 1728, where he described the basic oral anatomy and function, signs and symptoms of oral pathology, operative methods for removing decay and restoring teeth, periodontal disease (pyorrhea), orthodontics, replacement of missing teeth, and tooth transplantation.
Pierre Ferret Pierre Joseph Ferret (1908 - 1978), nicknamed "Baro" (meaning "Big One" in Romany) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer. Through his brother Matelo Ferret, Baro met Django Reinhardt and the two became both friends and notorious rivals.
Pierre Foldès The French surgeon, of Hungarian origin, Pierre Foldès is the inventor, in collaboration with the urologist Jean-Antoine Robein, of a technique to repair the damage caused by Female Genital Cutting.http://www.
Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal (22 November, 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born French colonial governor in the North-America. He was born November 22, 1698 to the governor of New France, Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil and his wife Louise-Élisabeth de Joybert de Soulanges et de Marson, in Quebec.
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days, from 1794 onwards, that it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological version of neoclassicism we recognize as Empire style.
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (August 10 1780 - March 17 1845), was a French entomologist. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and aide de campe to Napoleon.
Pierre Frieden Pierre Frieden (1892-10-28 - 1959-02-23) was a Luxembourgian politician and writer. He was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven months, from 1958-03-29 until his death, on 1959-02-23.
Pierre Gagnaire Pierre Gagnaire is a well known French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris. Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef who was at the forefront of the fusion movement.
Pierre Galle Pierre Galle, born January 13th, 1945, in Calais (France), was a basketball player and is a basketball coach. Called “the Brain” by the daily newspaper L'Équipe, he was a particularly skilful left-handed leader and a long distance shooter.
Pierre Galopin Pierre Galopin was a French military officer who came to international attention when he was captured by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 4 August 1974 in the Tibesti mountains, in the middle of the Sahara desert. He was tried by a "revolutionary tribunal", sentenced to death on 26 December 1974 and, on 4 April 1975, executed by hanging.
Pierre Gaspard Pierre Gaspard is a Belgian physicist and professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems and the Service de Physique Non-Linéaire and Mécanique Statistique of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His research interests are on nonlinear physics, statistical physics, and chemical physics.
Pierre Gassendi Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer/astrologer and mathematician], best known for attempting to reconcile [[Epicureanism|Epicurean atomism with Christianity and for publishing the first official observations of the Transit of Mercury in 1631. The Moon's Gassendi crater is named after him.
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye (b December 26, 1714 – d September 13, 1755), an explorer and fur trader, was born at Sorel, New France. The second oldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye spent two years in the colonial regular troops as a cadet before he accompanied his father to the West in 1731.
Pierre Gemayel Sheikh Pierre Gemayel () (November 6, 1905 – August 29, 1984) (last name also spelt Jmayyel or Jemayyel, Sheikh is an honorific title in Arab countries, Arabic الشيخ بيار الجميّل), was a Lebanese political leader. He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the Presidency of the Republic in his lifetime.
Pierre Georges Pierre Georges (1919-1944), better known as Colonel Fabien, was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who committed the first assassinations on the brutal invading army in World War II (see Military history of France during World War II). By then many French communists had died in concentration camps just as many French former soldiers had died on building projects as slave laborers in Nazi Germany, while Jews were being attacked and killed by the Nazi state.
Pierre Georges Louis d'Hughes Pierre Georges Louis d'Hughes was a French fencer who competed in the early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and successfully fought his way through the preliminary heats, the quarter finals and the semi finals reaching the foil final.
Pierre Gilliard Pierre Gilliard (1879 - May 30, 1962), a Swiss citizen, was the French tutor for the five children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. Years after the Imperial Family was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in July 1918, Gilliard wrote a book Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, about his time with the family.
Pierre Goldman Pierre Goldman, (Lyon, June 22 1944 – September 20 1979 in Paris) was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and assassinated mysteriously. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder.
Pierre Gripari Pierre Gripari (7 January 1925- 23 December 1990 in Paris), was a French writer. Born to a Greek father and a French mother, he was orphaned in 1944 and had to interrupt his studies and support himself with various jobs.
Pierre Guillaume Pierre Guillaume was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the negationist publishing house of the same name. A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and P.
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (April 11, 1806 - April 5, 1882 in Paris), was a French engineer, sociologist and economist, born at La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur, a village near Honfleur (Calvados), the son of a custom-house official.
Pierre Hadot Pierre Hadot (Paris, 1922) is a French philosopher, specialized in Ancient philosophy (in particular neo-platonism). He was director at the EHESS from 1964 to 1986, and was named professor at the Collège de France in 1982 where he held the "chaire d'histoire de la pensée hellénistique et romaine.
Pierre Hermans Lambertus Maria Petrus ("Pierre") Hermans (born May 16, 1953 in Vught, Noord-Brabant) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Hermans earned a total number of 86 caps, in the years 1977-1984.
Pierre Huyghe Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) is an acclaimed French artist who works in a variety of media, from film and video to public interventions. He trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and started his artistic career with the painters group Les Frères Ripoulin along with other French artists Nina Childress and Claude Closky.
Pierre Chambon Pierre Chambon (born February 7, 1931, Mulhouse, France) is currently a director of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France. Specifically, his major contribution to science involved discovering nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiology.
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872, was a French physician, known for introducing the use of numerical method in the field of medicine, that is, the idea that knowledge about the disease, its history, clnical presentation and treatment could be derived from aggregated patients data. He became known for his research on tuberculosis and typhoid fever and for the controversy that opposed him to François Joseph Victor Broussais about the use of bloodletting in the treatment of pneumonitis (today pneumonia).
Pierre Charles L'Enfant Pierre Charles L'Enfant (2 August 1754; Paris, France – 14 June 1825; Prince George's County, Maryland) was a French-born American architect and urban planner. L'Enfant designed the first street plan for the Federal City in the United States, now known as Washington, D.

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