* November 6 – André Marty, French Communist Party leader ( d. 1956 )

The ringleaders ( including André Marty and Charles Tillon ) received long prison sentences.

* André Delvaux by Henri Agel, Joseph Marty

Stencils were popular as a method of book illustration, and for that purpose the technique was at its height of popularity in France during the 1920s when André Marty, Jean Saudé and many other studios in Paris specialised in the technique.

During the Spanish Civil War, it was the headquarters and training camp of the International Brigades, whose political commissar was André Marty, also known as the " Butcher of Albacete ".

During his absence, the party was de facto controlled by his ally Jacques Duclos, who expelled Thorez's rival André Marty.

* André Edouard Marty

He was political commissar of the André Marty Battalion and the XIV International Brigade.

Poupard received his episcopal consecration on the following 6 April from Cardinal François Marty, with Archbishop André Pailler and Bishop Jean Orchampt serving as co-consecrators, in the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

A commemorative concert was held in Paradiso, with performances by Hans Dulfer, André Hazes, and Jules Deelder, and leading Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR devoted an entire issue to him.

They had a powerful advocate in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading Church figure and a nephew of André de Montbard, one of the founding knights.

After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of auteurs Jean-Luc Godard ( Hail Mary, 1985 ), Jacques Doillon ( Family Life, 1985 ) and André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous.

It was to be later in 1985 that Binoche would fully emerge as a leading actress with her role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous.

The writer Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle, the philosopher André Morellet and the historian Jean-François Marmontel, for example, were detained not for their more obviously political writings, but for libellous remarks or for personal insults against leading members of Parisian society.

Andrew Lortie ( born André Lortie ), a leading Huguenot theologian and writer who led the exiled community in London, became known for articulating Huguenot criticism of the Holy See and transubstantiation.

Other conductors who have recorded the work include Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg and André Previn, as well as leading English conductors from Sir Henry Wood and Sir Adrian Boult to Sir Simon Rattle.

Investigating the works ' main characteristics, George Călinescu stressed that Eliade owed much of his style to the direct influence of French author André Gide, concluding that, alongside Camil Petrescu and a few others, Eliade was among Gide's leading disciples in Romanian literature.

The conference, which concluded in June 1991, chose André Milongo as Prime Minister during the transitional period leading to scheduled elections in 1992.

In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, " Le Grand Jeu " with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.

As a freelancer he was engaged at the Opéra-Comique, where he continued to play from time to time for several years, leading the viola section at the 1902 premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande under the baton of André Messager.

He visited Paris in 1788 where he made the acquaintance of Jean-François de La Harpe, André Chénier, Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes and other leading writers of the time.

Under André Dumont ’ s guidance, the first coal-bearing drill cores were obtained in Campine in 1901, leading to several coalmines being established in the region.

The others left and Arnold came to André on horseback, leading an extra horse for André's use.

These troops repulsed Augereau's leading demi-brigade under General of Brigade Louis André Bon.

Some personalities and voters defined themselves as " left-wing Gaullists "-a view often ascribed to leading Gaullist André Malraux.

André founded the Citroën automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth-largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the early 1930s.

Even leading Surrealists, amongst them André Breton, failed to grasp the joke and praised Magritte for this undertaking.

Still leading the 2nd Division during Marshal André Masséna's 1810 invasion of Portugal, Hill fought at the Battle of Bussaco.

Fortunately that day, André Arthur ended his broadcast 20 minutes early, leading Lortie to enter the building and make his way to the Assembly Chamber while it was still mostly empty.

André 3000 then uses a deceptive cadence after a 2 / 4 measure of the dominant D major chord, leading into two 4 / 4 measures of an E major chord.

Her frequent appearances with the leading international orchestras and conductors ( Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelík, Carlo Maria Giulini, Benjamin Britten, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Sir Neville Marriner, Karl Münchinger, André Previn, Edo de Waart among others ) established her as one of the greatest singers of our age.

His luck began to change when Pathé's top comedy star André Deed left to work with the Italian film company Itala, leaving Linder as the companies leading comedic actor.

Benoit Joseph André Rigaud ( 1761 – 1811 ) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haïtian Revolution.

* 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar ( d. 1722 )

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

* 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer ( d. 1974 )

* 1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist ( d. 1958 )

Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

Sweeping forwards, virtually without resistance, the 21 Danish squadrons reformed behind the French around the area of the Tomb of Ottomond, facing north across the plateau of Mont St André towards the exposed flank of Villeroi ’ s army.

Now, far too late, Villeroi tried to redeploy his 50 unused squadrons, but a desperate attempt to form line facing south, stretching from Offus to Mont St André, floundered amongst the baggage and tents of the French camp carelessly left there after the initial deployment.

In 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

* 1853 – André Messager, French composer ( d. 1929 )

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

In the years after World War II, the French film critic and theorist André Bazin reacted against this approach to the cinema, arguing that film's essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality, not in its difference from reality.

* 1896 – André Breton, French poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1951 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1869 )

* 1878 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer ( d. 1935 )

* 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist ( d. 1980 )

* 1903 – André Berthomieu, French film director and screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

He became a close friend and inspirer of the French philosopher André Gorz.

French scholar André Lemaire has reconstructed a portion of line 31 of the stele as mentioning the " House of David "., The Tel Dan stele ( c. 841 ) tells of the death of a king of Israel, probably Jehoram, at the hands of a king of Aram Damascus.