Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Henri Jacques Chrétien ( 1 February 1879, Paris – 6 February 1956, Washington, D. C .) was a French astronomer and an inventor.

He married Danish-born actress Marie-Hélène Copeau ( 1902 – 1994 ), the daughter of the influential French writer, editor, and drama critic Jacques Copeau ( 1879 – 1949 ) and Agnès Thomsen.

The company was founded in 1879 by Maurice and Jacques Braunstein.

Jacques Copeau ( February 4, 1879 – October 20, 1949 ) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist born in Paris.

His opera libretti include La Marocaine ( 1879 ), music of Jacques Offenbach ; Le Chevalier d ' Harmental ( 1896 ) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of André Messager ; La Fille de Tabarin ( 1901 ), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné.

* La Marocaine, music by Jacques Offenbach, 1879.

* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1952 – Jacques Audiard, French director

* 1930 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1938 – Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1930 – Jacques Tits, Belgian-French mathematician

* 1944 – Jacques Demers, Canadian ice hockey coach and politician

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

* 1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician

* 1930 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive ( d. 2006 )

* 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist ( d. 1823 )

* 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.

Other notable films of the 1930s included René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ), Jacques Feyder's Carnival in Flanders ( 1935 ), and Julien Duvivier's La belle equipe ( 1936 ).

* 1936 Jacques Feyder for La Kermesse Héroique

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

French geographer and geopolitician Jacques Ancel is considered to be the first theorician of geopolitics in France notably through the lectures he gave at the Carnegie foundation and his book " Géopolitique " published in 1936.

As his playing progressed, Jacques received his first regulation goaltender's stick for Christmas of 1936.

Jacques René Mesrine was born in Clichy-la-Garenne near Paris on 28 December 1936 to a couple of blue collar origin who had moved up in social class.

* 1936: Soigne ton gauche directed by René Clément, starring Jacques Tati ( Roger ), Jacques Broido ( sparring partner ), Max Martel ( the postman ).

* La Passante du Sans-Souci ( 1936 ; turned into a movie by Jacques Rouffio in 1982 )

At the col is a memorial to Jacques Goddet, director of the Tour de France from 1936 to 1987, and a large statue of Octave Lapize gasping for air as he struggles to make the climb.

Darnand joined a number of right-wing political, paramilitary organizations ; l ' Action Francaise in 1925, les Croix-de-Feu in 1928, La Cagoule and Jacques Doriot's French popular Party ( PPF ) in 1936.

In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati.

* Jacques Chardonne, Les Destinées sentimentales ( 1934 – 1936 )

In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy was a member of an expedition that scaled Mount Carstensz, the highest mountain in the Dutch East Indies.

In 1936 the House Of Worth showed a first collection, at 120 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, under the direction of members of the fourth generation of the Worth family, Jacques Worth and Roger Worth.

| 1476 Cox || 1936 RA || Jacques Cox ( 1898 – 1972 ), professor of astronomy at the University of Brussels

In Paris he began acquainted with Jacques Palaci, a Jewish medical student from Istanbul, and paid a visit to him in 1936.

João Baptista Gonçalves da Rocha ( 1872 – 1873 ); Joaquim Pedro Corrêa de Freitas, Diretor de Instrução Pública ( 1873 – 1881 ); José Coelho da Gama e Abreu, Barão de Marajó ( 1881 – 1882 ); Antonio Manuel Gonçalves Tocantins ( 1882 ); Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna ( 1882 – 1884 ); Joaquim Pedro Corrêa de Freitas ( 1883 – 1884 ); Hildebrando Barjona de Miranda ; Abel Augusto César de Araújo ( 1885 ); Álvaro Pinto de Pontes e Souza ( 1886 – 1888 ); Emílio Augusto Goeldi ( 1894 – 1907 ); Jacques Hüber ( 1907 – 1914 ); Marie Emilie Snethlage ( 1914 – 1921 ); Rodolfo Siqueira Rodrigues ( substitute ); Carlos Estevão de Oliveira ( 1930 – 1936 ); José Cândido de Melo Carvalho ( 1955 – 1960 ).

He also played Jacques Paganel in the memorable 1936 adaptation of Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant.

He made contributions to several Jacques Feyder films, Le Grand Jeu ( 1934 ), La Kermesse héroïque ( Carnival in Flanders ) ( 1935 ), Die Klugen Frauen ( 1936 ) and Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), his first under producer Alexander Korda in England.

* Jacques Ibert: Piece ( 1936 )