* 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist ( d. 1941 )

Henri Jardry called Henri Cornet ( Desvres, France, 4 August 1884, died Prunay-le-Gillon, 18 March 1941 ) was a French cyclist who won the 1904 Tour de France.

It's not known why he changed his name from Henri Jardry to Henri Cornet.

Henri Cornet never had further success in the Tour, dropping out in 1905 on the fourth day.

Henri Cornet after the finish of the 1908 Tour de France

Henri Cornet, originally the fifth-place finisher, was awarded the victory four months after the race.

One of the absentees was Henri Cornet, winner of the 1904 Tour de France.

* 1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

Further exploration by Henri Lambert, French Consular Agent at Aden, and Captain Fleuriot de Langle led to a treaty of friendship and assistance between France and the sultans of Raheita, Tadjoura, and Gobaad, from whom the French purchased the anchorage of Obock in 1862.

In the sixteenth century, Diana's image figured prominently at the châteaus of Fontainebleau, Chenonceau, & at Anet, in deference to Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri of France.

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

" Henri Matisse was so moved by the care that he received from the Dominican Sisters that he collaborated in the design and interior decoration of their Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire in Vence, France.

A contretemps occurred during the progress in mid-August when the Queen twice requested Oxford to dance before the French ambassadors, who were in England to negotiate a marriage between the 46 year old Elizabeth and the younger brother of Henri III of France, the 24 year old Duke of Anjou.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

* 1751 – Henri François d ' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France ( b. 1668 )

* Henri Poincaré 1854-1912, Paris ( France )

In France, Henri Langlois called Hawks " the Gropius of the cinema " and Swiss novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars said that the film " definitely marked the first appearance of contemporary cinema.

* Henri, comte de Paris, duc de France born 1933, Orléanist pretender to the French throne as Henry VII

From 1968 to 1986 Henri Chopin lived in Ingatestone, Essex, but with the death of his wife Jean in 1985, he moved back to France.

Following the death of Henri Count of Chabord, the Legitimist ( Bourbon ) party was limited within the political arena within France.

History painting was the dominant form of academic painting in the various national academies in the 18th century, and for most of the 19th ; in France artists such as Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin were among the leading figures.

Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.

* 1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France ( Chef de l ' État Français ).

The revival began during the 1870s, especially in France with artists such as Odilon Redon, Henri Fantin-Latour and Degas producing much of their work in this manner.

A few artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Pierre Bonnard, remained in France and survived.

Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus ' greatest admirers.

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him ' interpreting ' his own verse X. 6 ( a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes ) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

A team led by Henri de France working at Compagnie Française de Télévision ( later bought by Thomson, now Technicolor ) invented SECAM.

The idea of reducing the vertical color resolution comes from Henri de France, who observed that color information is approximately identical for two successive lines.

* Henri Pélissier ( France ) wins the 17th Tour de France

* 1900: Henri wins his first Bronze Medal in the Paris Exhibition.

* 1904: The Selmer Paris clarinets are presented for the first time at the International Saint Louis Fair ( USA ), where Henri wins a Gold Medal.

* Mémoires du duc de Persigny ( 2nd ed., 1896 ), edited by Count Henri de Laire d ' Espagny, his former secretary.

Plutarch ( 1st and 2nd centuries ), Thomas Aquinas ( 13th century ), Nicholas Remy ( 16th century ), and Henri Boguet ( 16th and 17th centuries ), among others, disagreed, saying that demons did not know lust or desire and cannot have good feelings like love ; as jealousy would be a consequence of love, they could not be jealous.

** 2nd Henri Blanchoud

He married ( 2nd ) in Paris, on 3 February 1276 to Blanche of Artois, widow of Enrique ( or Henri ) I, King of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie, and daughter of Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant.

* Henri de Bourbon-Montpensier, 2nd Duke of Châtellerault ( 1573 – 1608 )

Henri Desgrange ( 2nd from right ) TdF 1913

* Henri Guillaume Bossau, founder of the Boshoff family in South Africa and great-grandfather of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, 2nd state president of the Orange Free State, arrives in Cape Town from Bayonne, France as locksmith in the service of the Dutch East India Company.

Henri de Massue, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny, afterward Earl of Galway PC ( 9 April 1648 – 3 September 1720 ) was a French Huguenot soldier and diplomat who was influential in the English service in the Nine Years ' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.