In 1854, with her daughter, she left Russia for Warsaw, where she intended to continue dancing, but she became pregnant by Prince Léon Radziwill who then persuaded her to retire from ballet at the height of her fame.

Though Provence was generally conservative, it often elected reformist leaders ; Prime Minister Léon Gambetta was the son of a Marseille grocer, and future prime minister Georges Clemenceau was elected deputy from the Var in 1885.

Upon reaching adulthood, Weygand was legally acknowledged as a son by Francois-Joseph Weygand, an accountant in the employ of M. Cohen de Léon, thereby granting him French citizenship.

Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth ( née Clausels ) and Léon Bresson.

Charles was born on 6 October 1610, being the second son of Léon de Sainte-Maure, baron de Montausier.

The liberals who were Orléanists found their leaders in men eminent in letters and in practical affairs — François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, Adolphe Thiers, Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie and his son Jacques Victor Albert, the banker Jacques Laffitte and many others.

The daily was edited by Léon Daudet, son of the writer Alphonse Daudet, and other contributors included the historian Jacques Bainville, the critic Jules Lemaître and the economist Georges Valois, who later left the movement to found the fascist Faisceau.

* Pierre Pratt, Léon sans son chapeau

Théodore's son, Léon ( 1893 – 1943 ), became the keeper of the archives at Villa Kerylos.

Henri Léon Emile Lavedan ( 9 April 1859-30 September 1940 ), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist.

His son Horace Émile Say ( 1794 – 1860 ), the father of Léon Say, was educated at Geneva, and had travelled in America before establishing himself in business in Paris, where he became president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1848.

His son, Léon, was also a playwright.

Valentine's son Léon was killed at the front.

Inspired by Wilbur Wright's 1908 demonstrations of powered flight in Paris and being personally acquainted with several aviators, including artist-turned-aviator Léon Delagrange, who was reputed to be the father of her son André, de Laroche determined to take up flying for herself.

He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest .< ref >

* his son, Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest ( 1816 – 1889 )

Born Albert Léon Gleizes and raised in Paris, he was the son of a fabric designer who ran a large industrial design workshop.

He was born in Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, son of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a French realist painter.

While at Versailles, the Duke displays Léon before the Comte's wife and his son and heir.

They had a son on 3 December 2008 named Léon and a girl named Lila in the year 2011.

The Count has been suspicious all these years that he is not the father of Léon, the Countess's son, and so he has been rapidly trying to spend his fortune to ensure the boy won't inherit any of it, even having gone so far as to renounce his title and move the family to Paris ; but he has nevertheless held some doubts, and therefore has never officially disowned the boy or even brought up his suspicions to the Countess.

* Chevalier Léon, their son ; young man obsessed with freedom, like all ardent new souls.

Ever since the Count and Countess's only son died in a duel, the Count has cast off Léon, whom he considers to be the fruit of the Countess's impardonable act of adultery.

The Countess warns Florestine that she shouldn't marry Bégearss, and then adopts her as a daughter, and the Count finally adopts Léon as his son.

The French CGT leadership under Léon Jouhaux faced similar criticism from its own left-wing, after its close collaboration with Government during the First World War and, later, the Popular Front ( France ); However, unlike the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists, on both occasions the CGT stopped short of full Cabinet participation.

Schillinger wrote his First Airphonic Suite for Léon Theremin, who played the instrument at the premiere in 1929 with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff.

* Leon Michaux as First Policeman ( as Léon Michaux )

André Léon Alphonse Debry ( 15 June 1898 – 31 August 2005 ) was, at age 107, one of the last surviving French veterans of the First World War.

By 1905, Pathé was the largest film company in the world, a position it retained until World War I. Léon Gaumont began film production in 1896, with his production supervised by Alice Guy.

Some of the brilliant scientists and engineers imprisoned in sharashkas were released during and after World War II, continuing independent careers and becoming world-famous, such as Léon Theremin.

If the idiom has fallen out of favour since World War II it is thanks to its association, rightly or wrongly, with the pastiche classicism of Albert Speer which still provokes controversy as witnessed in Léon Krier's provocative essay " Krier on Speer ".

Although Leaders of Government ( French: ) had been appointed since the independence of the country, until 1918 the King often presided over the Council of Ministers, so the modern era of the " Premiership " started after World War I with Léon Delacroix.

Furthermore, under the leadership of Léon Jouhaux, the confederation joined the " sacred union " during World War I, which provoked the CGT's first internal division.

Following the German occupation of France during World War II the Villa was seized by the Nazis and Léon and Béatrice Reinach and their two children were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were murdered.

A new production by Albert Carré ( including the Venice act ) was mounted at the Opéra-Comique in 1911, with Léon Beyle in the title role and Albert Wolff conducting ; this remained in the repertoire until the Second World War, reaching 700 performances of the piece at the theatre.

This family is now extinct ; the last descendants, Nissim de Camondo was killed in aerial combat during World War I in 1917, his father Moïse de Camondo died in 1935, his daughter ( and sister of Nissim ) Béatrice de Camondo, and her two children Fanny and Bertrand as well as her husband Léon Reinach were deported and murdered in Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945 during World War II.

Léon Gambetta (; 2 April 1838, Cahors – 31 December 1882, Sèvres ) was a French statesman prominent during and after the Franco-Prussian War.

He had exchanged his moderate republicanism for radical views before he became War Minister in the cabinet of Léon Bourgeois ( November 1, 1895 to April 29, 1896 ).

Finally, the socialists's support of the National Union government ( including Alexandre Millerand's nomination as Minister of War ) marked a shift towards the French Section of the Workers ' International's ( SFIO ) turn towards social democracy and participation in " bourgeois governments ", although Léon Blum maintained a socialist rhetoric.

Although Léon Blum ( as well as the PCF ) wanted to intervene to help the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), the Radicals were opposed to it, and threatened to quit the government if he helped them.

French philosopher Pierre-André Taguieff has argued that the first wave of what he describes as " la nouvelle judéophobie " emerged in the Arab-Muslim world and the Soviet sphere following the 1967 Six Day War, citing papers by Jacques Givet ( 1968 ) and historian Léon Poliakov ( 1969 ) in which the idea of a new anti-Semitism rooted in anti-Zionism was discussed.

Within a year, however, Léon Blum's government collapsed over economic policy, opposition from the bourgeoisie ( the famous " 200 hundreds families ") and also over the issue of the Spanish Civil War ( Blum decided that he couldn't afford to support the Spanish Republicans, which led to huge defections among the French left-wing, while Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini unashamedly armed and supported Francisco Franco's troops ).

He appeared twice in Doctor Who: first as Léon Colbert in 1964's The Reign of Terror, and second as the War Chief, one of the main villains in the 1969 serial The War Games.

The French Prime Minister previous to Daladier, Léon Blum, was acutely aware of the dangers of the German and Nazi rise, and even desired to send military aid to the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War ( the Germans were supporting the opposite Nationalist side in this conflict ), but decided against doing so in order to maintain France's alliance to Britain because then-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his staff including Anthony Eden strongly opposed any aid because of fear of Communism and of war.