Colossal Octopus by Pierre Denys de Montfort

Pierre Denys de Montfort, also sometimes spelled " Pierre Dénys de Montfort ", ( 1766 – 1820 ) was a French naturalist, in particular a malacologist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the giant squid Architeuthis, which was thought to be an old wives ' tale, and for which he was long dismissed.

The cast also includes Pierre Bourgault, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Julien Guiomar and Germain Houde.

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.

* 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician

Pierre Cartier, a visiteur de longue durée (" long-term guest ") at the IHÉS, wrote a piece about Grothendieck for a special volume published on the occasion of the IHÉS's fortieth anniversary.

His early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin.

This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

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This idea was heavily supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as well as the Greeks.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

During WWII, an alpine team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France which became the deepest explored cave in the world (- 658m ) at that time.

Cartier was followed by nobleman Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts who was accompanied by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain in a 1604 expedition where they established the second permanent European settlement in North America, following Spain's settlement at St. Augustine.

In January 1208 the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, was sent to meet the ruler of the area, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.

Precise indications of this are found in the registers of the Inquisitors, Bernard of Caux, Jean de St Pierre, Geoffroy d ' Ablis, and others.

The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in writings by Descartes and independently by Pierre de Fermat, although Fermat also worked in three dimensions, and did not publish the discovery.

However many new approaches have appeared in recent years, especially by such scholars as Wilda Anderson, Kurt Ballstadt, Daniel Brewer, Jay Caplan, Andrew Clark, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Rosalina de la Carrera, Julie Candler Hays, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Walter Rex, and Pierre Saint-Amand.

Perhaps the first use of the term deist is in Pierre Viret's Instruction Chrétienne en la doctrine de la foi et de l ' Évangile ( Christian teaching on the doctrine of faith and the Gospel ) ( 1564 ), reprinted in Bayle's Dictionnaire entry Viret.

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* Rosenberg, Pierre, Peronnet, Benjamin, Un album inédit de David in Revue de l ' art, n ° 142 ( 2003-4 ), pp. 45 – 83 ( complete the previous reference )

In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled on the margin of his copy of Arithmetica: " It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second into two like powers.

In studying Arithmetica, Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat owned a copy, studied it, and made notes in the margins.

Peter II ( in Breton Pêr II, in French Pierre II ) ( 1418 – 1457, Nantes / Naoned ), was duke of Brittany, count of Montfort and titular earl of Richmond, from 1450 to his death.

On his return to Paris, in 1392, an attempt was made to assassinate him by Pierre de Craon, allegedly at the instigation of John de Montfort, now John V, Duke of Brittany.

Then, in 1766, Pierre Simon Pallas predicted that these hydatid cysts found in infected humans were actually larval stages of tapeworms.

Bougainville left Nantes on 15 November 1766 with two ships: La Boudeuse ( captain: Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot ) and the Étoile ( commanded by François Chenard de la Giraudais ).

* Pierre Menard ( 1766 – 1844 ), fur trader and Illinois politician

Pierre Hyacinthe Azais ( 1766 – 1845 ) was a French philosopher.

Pierre Menard ( 7 October 1766 – 13 June 1844 ) was a fur trader and U. S. political figure.

* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

* 1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1847 )

* 1948 – Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive

* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1931 – Pierre DuMaine, American bishop

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

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 ).

* 1986 – Pierre Garçon, American football player

* 1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor

* 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German footballer