** François Duvalier, president of Haiti, dies ; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows him as president-for-life.

Les Durs consisted of: Jean-Claude Delorme, Legal Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation ; Dale Rediker, Director of Finances ; Colonel Edward Churchill, Director of Installations ; Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, Director of Operations, dubbed " The Mayor of Expo "; Pierre de Bellefeuille, Director of Exhibitors ; and Yves Jasmin, Director of Information, Advertising and Public Relations.

* French — Boutet, Gérard: Pierrot and the Secret of the Fire Rocks ( 1999 ; children's book, illustrated by Jean-Claude Pertuzé ); Major, Henriette: The Vampire and the Pierrot ( 2000 ; children's book ); Tournier, Michel: " Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night " ( 1978 ).

The Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and raised here ; this is also the site of the Cité Moderne a housing project from 1922-1925 designed by the great Belgian architect Victor Bourgeois.

* January 1: Pascal Couchepin takes office as President of the Confederation and Interior Minister of Switzerland ; Ruth Metzler-Arnold becomes vice president ; Claude Lässer becomes president of the Council of State of Fribourg, Stefan Engler president of the government of Graubünden, Gérald Schaller president of the government of Canton of Jura, Margrit Fischer-Willimann Schultheiss of Luzern, Christian Wanner Landammann of Solothurn, and Jean-Claude Mermoud president of the Council of State of Vaud, and Walter Suter Landammann of Zug.

Edwige Perfetti, soprano ; Tibère Raffali, Christian Papis, tenors ; Gilles Cachemaille, baritone — Orchestre d ' Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris ; Claude Pichaureau, conductor — Chœur de l ' Armée Française ; Serge Zapolski, chorus-master — Chorale a Chœur Joie la Gondoire ; Daniel Catenne, chorus-master — Chorale Populaire de Paris ; Jean-Claude Chambard, chorus-master.

Jean-Claude Juncker ( ; born 9 December 1954 ) is a Luxembourg politician, 23rd and current Prime Minister of Luxembourg since 20 January 1995.

The film features the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas ; there is little dialogue, the majority of the film story being told through song and pantomime.

* The Order ( 2001 film ), a 2001 film directed by Sheldon Lettich ; written by and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

* Jean-Claude Milleron ( 1963 ), Economist ;

A new three-volume series ( in French ) entitled ‘ Les pionniers de l ' or noir de Pechelbronn ’ by Jean-Claude Streicher is in the process of preparation covering the scientific developments in the region ; Boussingault is probably to be a major subject in Volume 3.

* Roy, Vincent ; Ruelb, Jean-Claude and Plamondon, André P. ( 1999 ).

He continued to make recordings with Deutsche Grammophon: with Barbizet, the violin sonatas of Brahms, Schumann, Franck and Lekeu ; and also a disc with Jean-Claude Ambrosini at the piano.

The opening ceremony each year is presided over by a prominent politician, referred to as the Orateur ; they have included Angela Merkel, David Miliband, Jean-Claude Juncker, Javier Solana, José Manuel Barroso, Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand.

* Lord Lyllian ( 1905 ): novel ; republished Montpellier ( France ) QuestionDeGenre / GKC, 2011 with a preface by Jean de Palacio and postface by Jean-Claude Féray

In 2011, some 250 public figures ( head of state or government, cabinet ministers, ambassadors, heads or senior officials of international organization ) attended the annual meeting, including: Felipe Calderón, Robert B. Zoellick, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ban Ki-moon, Angela Merkel, N. Chandrababu Naidu, Ferenc Gyurcsany, François Fillon, Morgan Tsvangirai, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Min Zhu, Paul Kagame, Queen Rania of Jordan, Dmitry Medvedev, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Kevin Rudd, Barney Frank, Kofi Annan, Werner Faymann, Leonel Fernández, Jacob Zuma, Naoto Kan, Jean-Claude Trichet and Zeng Peiyan.

Prof. Antony Flew ( UK ), Tom Flynn ( USA ), Jim Herrick ( UK ), Christopher Hitchens ( USA ), Ellen Johnson ( USA ), Prof. Paul Kurtz ( USA ), Lavanam ( India ), Dr. Richard Leakey ( Kenya ), Iain Middleton ( New Zealand ), Dr. Henry Morgentaler ( Canada ), Dr. Taslima Nasreen ( Bangladesh ), Steinar Nilsen ( Norway ), Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker ( France ), James Randi ( USA ), Prof. Ajoy Roy ( Bangladesh ), Dr. Younus Shaikh ( Pakistan ), Dr. G N Jyoti Shankar ( deceased, USA ), Barbara Smoker ( UK ), Richard Stallman ( USA ), Prof.

Its elected representatives are Alfred Marie-Jeanne, Daniel Marie-Sainte, Lucien Veilleur, Vincent Duville, Lucien Adenet, Jean-Philippe Nilor, Sylvain Bolinois, Francine Carius, Jean-Claude Soumbo, Raymonde Téreau, Georges Buisson, Marianne Malsa, Marcel Thelcide, Michel Michalon, Lise N ' Guéla, Mady Ericher, Marie-Claude Cléry, Gisèle Aribo, Alain Rapon, Laurence Gracienne, Sandrine Saint-Aimé, Yolande Philémont-Montout, Marie-Line Lesdéma, and Aurélie Dalmat.

* Jean-Claude Thiolier, ed., Édition critique et commentée de Pierre de Langtoft, Le règne d ' Édouard Ier ( Créteil: C. E. L. I. M. A., Université de Paris XII, 1989-).

* Jean-Claude Vuillemin, " Jean Desmarets de Saint Sorlin ,", in L. Foisneau, ed., Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, 2 vols.

L ' Exercice du Différend ( with essays by Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Claude Milner ).

* De Giscard à Mitterrand: 1977-1983 ( editorials from L ' Express ), with preface by Jean-Claude Casanova, Paris: Éditions de Fallois, 2005

* 2002: The Adversary ( L ' Adversaire ) as Jean-Marc Faure ( based on real-life criminal Jean-Claude Romand )

Beaune, Jean-Claude, L ' automate et ses mobiles, Paris, 1980

Two years later she starred in L ' Oiseau rare directed by Jean-Claude Brialy.

* 1992: Jean-Claude Dunyach, for L ' autre côté de l ' eau

** Mystérieuse, matin, midi et soir by Jean-Claude Forest, L ’ Association

** Comment décoder l ’ etircopyh by Jean-Claude Forest, L ’ Association

L ' Aéropostale preface by Jean-Claude Killy.

In 1979, filmmaker Jean-Claude Labrecque made a feature film on the matter entitled L ' Affaire Coffin.

The skiing area between Tignes and Val d ' Isère is marketed as L ' Espace Killy, after the 1968 ( Winter ) Olympic gold medalist, Jean-Claude Killy.

* L ' Adversaire ( The Adversary ) ( 2000 ), nonfictional account of the life of the murderer Jean-Claude Romand, after the author corresponded with the criminal in jail ( 1993 ), and watched his trial ( 1996 ).

*“ Confusion of Values ,” originally published in French as “ La Confusion de Valeurs ,” pp. 11 – 28 in Pierre-Michel Menger and Jean-Claude Passeron, eds., L ’ art de la recherche: Melanges, Paris: La Documentation Française, 1994.

The Ecumenical Center for Human Rights ( Centre Oecumenique des Droits de L ' Homme ) is a human rights organisation founded in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1979 to monitor the situation in Haiti under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier.

Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.

* 1997 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director ( b. 1953 )

Its members included Valerie Mayoux, Jean-Claude Lerner, Alain Adair and John Tooker.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

Some of the first films of this new genre were Godard's Breathless ( À bout de souffle, 1960 ), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us ( Paris nous appartient, 1958-distributed in 1961 ), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959 ) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.

* 1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

Under Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's economic and political condition continued to decline, although some of the more fearsome elements of his father's regime were abolished.

Content to leave administrative matters in the hands of his mother, Simone Ovid Duvalier, while living as a playboy, Jean-Claude enriched himself through a series of fraudulent schemes.

The Service d ' Intelligence National, nominally a counter-narcotics agency created after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, participated in drug trafficking.

* Translation from the original Calvin: Biographie, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, 1995.

* Zeltner, Jean-Claude: Pages d ' histoire du Kanem, pays tchadien, Paris 1980.

The current Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker follows this European tradition.

The Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker visited Estonia in 1999 and 2007.

Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.

This era produced some Hollywood action stars with martial arts background, such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

* 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor ( d. 1992 )

He says, " When I met Danny, I said, ' This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.

In defense of the government's position, Giuliani testified that " political repression, at least in general, does not exist " under President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime.

* 1930 – Jean-Claude Forest, French writer and illustrator ( d. 1998 )

Street Fighter: The Movie used digitized images from the Street Fighter film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Author Jack Higgins wrote the foreword and US-French radio-operator, Jean-Claude Guiet, who had accompanied her on the mission in the Limousin, wrote the introduction.

** Nous les amoureux by Jean-Claude Pascal ( music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.

* January 7 – In Haiti, an attempted coup by an associate of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier is thwarted by Loyalist troops.