Among the competing understandings of what unites the various currents designated by " Esotericism " in the scholarly sense, perhaps the most influential has been proposed by Antoine Faivre.

* Antoine Faivre, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism ( 1996 ), Albany: SUNY Press (“ SUNY Séries in Western Esoteric Traditions ”), 2000, XXXV-269 p.

), in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Leiden / Bristol: Brill, 2005, 2 vols., 1228 p. ISBN 90-04-14187-1.

Antoine Faivre notes, “ the theosophist dedicates his energy to inventing ( in the word ’ s original sense of ‘ discovering ’) the articulation of all things visible and invisible, by examining both divinity and nature in the smallest detail .” The knowledge that is acquired through meditation is believed to change the being of the meditator.

Antoine Faivre successfully created a taxonomy approach as a means to comparing the various traditions.

* Antoine Faivre

His father, Antoine Chrysostome Seurat, was a legal official and a native of Champagne ; his mother, Ernestine Faivre, was Parisian.

Antoine Faivre, in The Eternal Hermes ( 1995 ) has pointed out that Hermes Trismegistus has a place in the Islamic tradition, though the name Hermes does not appear in the Qur ' an.

Antoine Faivre posits four fundamental elements, necessary conditions for a document, group, or movement to be eligible for consideration by scholars as esoteric.

* Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz-The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina ; an English translation, in one volume, of Histoire de la Louisiane, published in 1758

It was designed by French architect Antoine Grumbach to evoke the atmosphere of the American National Park lodges built around the beginning of the 20th century, such as the Old Faithful Inn ( 1904 ) in Yellowstone National Park and others in Yosemite and other Western National Parks.

* French — Duhamel, Antoine: Pierrot le fou: Four Pieces for Orchestra ( 1965 / 66 ); Françaix, Jean: Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night ( 1980 ; ballet, libretto by Michel Tournier ; see above under Fiction ); Lancen, Serge: Masquerade: For Brass Quintet and Wind Orchestra ( 1986 ; # 3: " Pierrot "); Naulais, Jérôme: The Moods of Pierrot ( n. d .; flute and piano ).

Under the ideological guidance of Antoine Waechter, the party in 1986 signalled a break with the traditional divide in French politics, declaring that environmental politics could not be “ married ” to either the left or the right ( which gave rise to its famous slogan “ ni droite, ni gauche ”-" neither right, nor left ").

By the time the group released their first album in 1986 the Parisian alternative music scene had taken flight, and Manu, his brother Antoine Chao, and friends such as Alain from Les Wampas formed Los Carayos to incorporate this sound with the rockabilly and punk styles of Hot Pants.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

Antoine Lavoisier, in his famed 1789 Traité Élémentaire de Chimie ( Elements of Chemistry ), refers to Bergmann ’ s work and discusses the concept of elective affinities or attractions.

Despite this, by September 1960, following the four-way division of the country, there were four separate armed forces: Mobotu's ANC itself, numbering about 12, 000, the South Kasai Constabulary loyal to Albert Kalonji ( 3, 000 or less ), the Katanga Gendarmerie which were part of Moise Tshombe's regime ( totalling about 10, 000 ), and the Stanleyville dissident ANC loyal to Antoine Gizenga ( numbering about 8, 000 ).

* Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole ' Logic ', or The Art of Thinking, ( known as the Port-Royal Logic ), translated J. Buroker, Cambridge 1996

The members of the junta, known as the Military Executive Committee ( Comité Exécutif Militaire ), were Garde commander Colonel Franck Lavaud, Major Antoine Levelt, and Major Paul E. Magloire, commander of the Presidential Guard.

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

* Antoine Busnois ( – 1492 ), French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg ( A Heroic Life ), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

Dynasties of Parisian ébénistes, some of them German-born, developed a style of surfaces curved in three dimensions ( bombé ), where matched veneers ( marquetry temporarily being in eclipse ) or vernis martin japanning was effortlessly complemented by gilt-bronze (" ormolu ") mounts: Antoine Gaudreau, Charles Cressent, Jean-Pierre Latz, Jean-François Oeben, Bernard II van Risamburgh are the outstanding names.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794 ), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

Two of Paul's sons were printers — Joseph at La Rochelle, and Antoine ( died 1674 ), who became " Printer to the King " in Paris in 1613.

This voyage went to Brazil, where Banks made the first scientific description of a now common garden plant, bougainvillea ( named after Cook's French counterpart, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ), and to other parts of South America.

These pseudonyms were usually related to the soldier's place of origin ( e. g. Jean Deslandes dit Champigny, for a soldier coming from a town named Champigny ), or to a particular physical or personal trait ( e. g. Antoine Bonnet dit Prettaboire, for a soldier prêt à boire, ready to drink ).

* L ' âge d ' or de l ' astronomie ottomane, Antoine Gautier, in L ' Astronomie, ( Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882 ), December 2005, volume 119.

* L ' observatoire du prince Ulugh Beg, Antoine Gautier, in L ' Astronomie, ( Monthly magazine created by Camille Flammarion in 1882 ), October 2008, volume 122.

* Le recueil de calendriers du prince timouride Ulug Beg ( 1394 – 1449 ), Antoine Gautier, in Le Bulletin, n ° spécial Les calendriers, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, juin 2007, pp. 117 – 123.

* Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant ( 1594 – 1661 ), Protestant poet converted to Catholicism

* Pierre Antoine Motteux ( 1663 – 1718 ), French born English translator and dramatist

Now that James IV was dead, Antoine d ' Arces promoted the appointment of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, a grandson of James II of Scotland as Regent to rule Scotland instead of Margaret and her son.

After the proclamation of the Fifth Republic, the CNIP leader Antoine Pinay became Minister of Economy and Finance and chose him as Secretary of State for Finances from 1959 to 1962.

* Former Arkansas State Treasurer and current state auditor Gus Wingfield was born in Antoine and attended public school in Delight.

He was selected as New York State Mr. Basketball and also named a McDonald's All-American and took MVP honors at the 1994 McDonald's All-American Game, scoring 24 points amongst a group that included future collegiate standouts and NBA pros Antoine Walker, Raef LaFrentz, Trajan Langdon, Chris Herren, and others.

Van Exel was traded on August 18, 2003 to the Golden State Warriors along with Evan Eschmeyer, Avery Johnson, Popeye Jones, and Antoine Rigaudeau in exchange for Antawn Jamison, Chris Mills, Danny Fortson, and Jiri Welsch.

The Mavericks acquired Antawn Jamison, Danny Fortson, Jiri Welsch and Chris Mills from Golden State in exchange for Nick Van Exel, Evan Eschmeyer, Popeye Jones, Avery Johnson and Antoine Rigaudeau.