* Pierre Capretz, developer of the French in Action series for teaching French, was born in Mazamet in 1925.

French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University.

Pierre Jean Capretz ( born 1925 ) is an educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French.

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

It was unanimously chosen as the host city during a congress organized by Pierre de Coubertin, a French pedagogue and historian, in Paris, on June 23, 1894.

Others included horror show host Auntie Gruesome, bumbling magician Matzoh Heppelwhite, Frenchman Pierre Ragout, and Miklos Molnar, the sardonic Hungarian host of a cooking show.

He is now a well-known television sports host and nature photographer known as Bill Patrick and is a board member of the Pierre Monteux School.

), both she and Marcie were shown as being attracted to Pierre, the son of their host family in Paris, France.

In a bid to host the Memorial Cup in 2012, Durocher in 2010 added former NHL players Mike McPhee and Guy Chouinard, former NHL coach Pierre Creamer, and Michel Boucher to the hockey staff in consulting roles.

Apart from promoting the Eucharist, Saint Pierre Julien Eymard also performed meditations before the Blessed host and his writings were later published as a book: The Real Presence.

Logo used for most of the 1970s and 1980s. From 1970 until the late 1980s, CKAC was regularly one of the very few stations in Canada to attract over one million listeners according to BBM ratings and regularly made millions of dollars in profits every year, as it was home to such famous and renowned hosts as long-time morningman Jacques Proulx, mid-morning host Suzanne Lévesque and 1980s midday host Pierre Pascau.

individuals whom he trusted and considered worthy of support ... His personal support of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin during the last years of the life of this eccentric genius is but one outstanding example ... He leaves behind him the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research which he built, an international host of friends whom he helped, and a wife whom he cherished and appreciated.

Longtime host Pierre Granger retired from the series in 2009.

He is script writer and host of the television profiles ( for Bulgarian television ) " Alexander McQueen ", " Gianfranco Ferré ", " John Galliano ", " Daniel Hechter ", " Emanuel Ungaro ", " Hubert de Givenchy ", " Issei Miyake ", " Carmen Carven ", " Kenzo ", " Christian Lacroix ", " Lloyd Klein ", " Michiko Koshino ", " Nino Cerruti ", " Olivier Lapidus ", " Paco Rabanne ", " Pierre Cardin ", " Hanae Mori ", " Zhana Zhekova ", " Maria Nedkova "," Nathaly Genova "," Zapryan Marinov " and others.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

`` Oh, the French are a very curious people '', Pierre had laughed.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

In 1806, the French chemists Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated a compound in asparagus that was subsequently named asparagine, the first amino acid to be discovered.

* 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist ( d. 2002 )

* 1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor

* 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1934 – Pierre Richard, French actor

* 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.

** edited by Pierre Chiron, Collection Budé, with French translation, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-251-00498-X

* 1962 – Pierre Carles, French documentarist

His education was filled with the ideals of the French Enlightenment of the time, and he was fascinated by Pierre Macquer's dictionary of chemistry.

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 68th Prime Minister of France ( b. 1846 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

A significant contribution to the chemistry of alkaloids in the early years of its development was made by the French researchers Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, who discovered quinine ( 1820 ) and strychnine ( 1818 ).

The French physicist Pierre Victor Auger also discovered it in 1923 upon analysis of a Wilson cloud chamber experiment and it became the central part of his PhD work.

* 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer ( b. 1079 )

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.

Another French inventor by the name of Douglas Grasso had a failed prototype of Pierre Lallement's bicycle several years earlier.

In 1794, this fortress was used by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain for observations relating to a survey stretching to Dunkirk that provided the official basis of the measurement of a metre.

Bézier curves were widely publicized in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

* Pierre Corneille: Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place

For his 75th birthday … By David Sanson et Pierre Yves Macé In Mouvement Musique Action, Cahier Spécial, May 18 – 29, 2005, p. 10-12

The murder was carried out by members of Action Directe's Pierre Overney Commando ( named after a Maoist militant killed by a Renault factory guard ).

They waited until his death to elect his successor, Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix, who was himself close to the Action Française and collaborated with Pierre Boutang's La Nation Française monarchist review.

He also said there will be a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) house show coming to Montreal on Thursday, December 27, at the Centre Pierre Charbonneau Arena.

The small membership did not however isolate Coty's group: the Solidarité Française found itself integrated in the loose coalition of far right movements such as Action Française and Pierre Taittinger's Jeunesse Patriotes.

The explicit concept of symbolic capital was coined by Pierre Bourdieu, and is expanded upon in his books Distinction and, later, in Practical Reason: on the Theory of Action.

His son, Pierre Pujo led Action Française until his death on 10 November 2007.

He became an editor of Je suis partout, a fascist paper founded by dissidents from the Action Française and led by Pierre Gaxotte.

Hulme's politics were conservative, and he moved further to the right after 1911 as a result of contact with Pierre Lasserre, who was associated with Action Française.

His Canadian Film Award-winning documentary Action: The October Crisis of 1970 ( 1973 ) used a similar approach to tell the story of the kidnapping of British diplomat James Richard Cross and the murder of Pierre Laporte.

* Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film ( 1963 ) for Heureux Anniversaire shared with Pierre Étaix

Charles Lescat, a French member of Action Française ( an organization suppressed by Pius XI and rehabilitated by Pius XII ), and Pierre Daye, a Belgian with contacts in the Spanish government, were among the primary organizers.

A prospectus for the new journal was published in July 1910, signed by both revolutionary syndicalists ( Georges Sorel and Édouard Berth ) and Action Française members ( Jean Variot, Pierre Gilbert and Georges Valois ).

In the 2007 elections, Legendre was surprisingly defeated by the Action democratique du Quebec's Pierre Gingras who was a former mayor for the City of Blainville.