The magazine also was essential to the creation of the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, of French cinema, which centered on films directed by Cahiers authors such as Godard and Truffaut.

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

Enlightenment authors generally mocked and ridiculed anything from the " Dark Ages " including feudalism, projecting its negative characteristics on the current French monarchy as a means of political gain.

Some authors reject both the French and Goidelic theories and instead suggest that the ultimate source both for the Norman French, Scots and Goidelic variants of this word are to be found in a common Norse root.

Later, while Sartre was labeled by some authors as a resistant, the French philosopher and resistant Vladimir Jankelevitch criticized Sartre's lack of political commitment during the German occupation, and interpreted his further struggles for liberty as an attempt to redeem himself.

Peter W. Edbury, on the other hand, argues that William, as well as the thirteenth-century authors who continued William's chronicle in French and were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family, cannot be considered impartial.

The Kellogg – Briand Pact is named after its authors: United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand.

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

Numerous French authors helped cement French policy around mercantilism in the 17th century.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

Other versions, which include other authors, are available in French, Japanese, and Arabic.

The concept is extended by some authors back as far as Clausewitz ’ s classic work On War as " absoluter Krieg " ( however, the relevant passages have been interpreted in diverging ways by different authors ), and to the French " guerre à outrance " during the Franco-Prussian War.

Although he was influenced by French Symbolism, Yeats concentrated on an identifiably Irish content and this inclination was reinforced by his involvement with a new generation of younger and emerging Irish authors.

** French authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their comments against Charles De Gaulle.

The unicorn also figured in courtly terms: for some 13th century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival, the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.

The accounts of the 13th-century authors who continued the Historia in French must also be considered suspect, as they were allied to Raymond's supporters in the Ibelin family.

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

Eugene Victor Debs was named after the French authors Eugene Sue and Victor Hugo.

The authors of the " Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identity " state that The French rappers rap about " the history of slavery, humanity's origins in Africa, Europe's destruction of African civilizations and the independence struggle led by the Front De Liberation Nationale.

The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections ( Italian, French and Spanish ).

French authors were influential, especially authors like Balzac.

René-Louis Baire (; 21 January 1874 – 5 July 1932 ) was a French mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems.

René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d ' Argenson ( October 18, 1694, Paris – January 10, 1757 ) was a French statesman, son of Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d ' Argenson, the first Marquis d ' Argenson, and brother of Marc-Pierre d ' Argenson.

* 1925 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director ( d. 2003 )

* 2009 – Maurice Druon, French novelist ( b. 1918 )

* 1842 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman ( d. 1911 )

* 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1925 – Maurice Bambier, French politician ( d. 1994 )

He spent his younger years working at a pâtisserie until being discovered by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who would later cook for the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

* 1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist ( b. 1871 )

* 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer ( d. 1910 )

* 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman ( d. 1838 )

Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.

* 1998 – Maurice Schumann, French politician and writer ( b. 1911 )

Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

The French composer Maurice Duruflé is sometimes said to be " the Ravel of the organ " and is clearly inspired by both Ravel and Debussy in several of his compositions, most notably perhaps the Sicilliene of the Suite pour orgue, op.

* 1919 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer, first to ascend an 8000m peak, Annapurna in 1950

* 1911 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman ( b. 1842 )

* 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French director and screenwriter ( d. 1990 )

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

* 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer ( d. 1986 )

* 1907 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician ( d. 1999 )

On 10 September 1933, two French pilots, Maurice Samat and Paul Louis Lemerle, flew from Reunion Island to Mauritius on a Potez 43 plane called Monique.

* 1684 – Françoise Charlotte d ' Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles ( d. 1739 )

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* 1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist ( d. 1991 )

* 1877 – Maurice Farman, French motor racing champion and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1964 )

* 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer ( b. 1924 )