Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte ; a socially prominent Parisian family.

He studied and earned a degree in philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, an institution of higher education that was the alma mater for several prominent French thinkers and intellectuals.

He was a prominent mystical theologian, and was prior of the famous Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris from 1162 until his death in 1173.

By 1902, Durkheim had finally achieved his goal of attaining a prominent position in Paris when he became the chair of education at the Sorbonne.

Beza spent two years in Paris and gained a prominent position in literary circles.

She was also a prominent patron of architecture, being responsible for the building of the Place Louis XV ( now called Place de la Concorde ) and the École Militaire in Paris, both built by her protégé Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

In Paris, Anthony is reunited with his friend, prominent banker Vincent Nolte, whom he saves from bankruptcy by giving him his fortune.

The most prominent attempt was a 22 August 1962 ambush at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb, planned by a military engineer who was not an OAS member, Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry.

Notre Dame de Paris is often reputed to be one of the most prominent examples of Gothic architecture in both France and in Europe as a whole, and the naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

In 1993, the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, several exhibitions were held, among which the most prominent were those held in the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Galerie Lelong, Paris.

After 1938, however, much of Anouilh's later work was directed by the prominent Paris scenic designer André Barsacq, who had taken over as director of the Théâtre de l ' Atelier after Charles Dullin's retirement in 1940.

Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia, which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille, wore a cockade of blue and red, the city's traditional colours.

Her French father, Michael Heine, was a scion of a prominent German-rooted Berlin and Paris banking Jewish family and a cousin of poet Heinrich Heine.

Both London and Paris hosted powerful philhellenic committees, supported by prominent and wealthy personalities, such as the romantic poet Lord Byron in England ( who died fighting for the Greek cause in 1824 ) and the writers Chateaubriand and Victor Hugo in France.

The piece was at first called Chant de guerre pour l ' armée du Rhin (" War Song for the Army of the Rhine ") and only received its name of Marseillaise from its adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10 August.

In Paris, he presented his wife, Elizabeth Armistead, for the first time in seven years of marriage, creating yet another stir back at court in London, and had three interviews with Napoleon, who – though he tried to flatter his most prominent British sympathiser – had to spend most of the time arguing about the freedom of the press and the perniciousness of a standing army.

In Paris he forged relationships with such prominent cultural figures as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Aaron Copland, Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Orson Welles, Jean Cocteau, and Gertrude Stein.

He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and he was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Cubism.

Princess Mathilde lived in a mansion in Paris, where she was a prominent member of the new aristocracy during and after the Second French Empire as a hostess to men of arts and letters as a salon holder.

Réaumur was born in a prominent La Rochelle family and educated in Paris.

This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.

Séguier was born in Paris, France, into a prominent legal family originating in Quercy.

He studied with prominent social scientists such as Marcel Cohen, Marcel Mauss and Paul Rivet ( director of the Institut d ' ethnologie de Paris ).

The newspaper celebrated the Revolutionary zeal of " patriots " from the battlefields of Brabant to the Cordeliers district in Paris ( home to the well-known and powerful revolutionary Club des Cordeliers, of which Desmoulins was a prominent member ), and also criticized the excesses and inequities of, among a wide range of targets, the aristocratic regime.

During the following three decades, he lived in Paris, while his children were prominent in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

De Pomiane worked as a physician at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he gave Félix d ' Herelle a place to work on bacteriophages.

He was retained as travelling physician (" Livmedikus hos Kong Christian VII ") on 5 April 1768, and accompanied the entourage on the King ’ s foreign tour to Paris and London via Hannover from 6 May 1768 to 12 January 1769.

In response, Burgundian winemakers hired physician Jean-Baptiste de Salins, dean of the medical school in Beaune, to speak to a packed auditorium at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.

* John Ayrton Paris ( 1785 – 1856 ), physician

A local physician bound and patched the affected eye and even arranged for Louis to be met the next day in Paris by a highly-respected surgeon, but no treatment could save the damaged organ.

On 5 May 1778, Dr. Lassonne, Marie Antoinette's private physician, confirmed her pregnancy .< ref > Castelot, André, Madame Royale, Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris, 1962, p. 15, ISBN, ( French ).</ ref > On 19 December 1778, the Queen gave birth to a daughter, who was named Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, and given the honorific title Madame Royale.

She wanted to return to Paris, but was dissuaded from doing so by physician Jean-Nicolas Corvisart and the Duchess of Montebello.

There, he became acquainted with Henri Alexandre Tessier ( 1741 – 1837 ), a physician and well-known agronomist who had fled the Terror in Paris and assumed a false identity.

Later he studied medicine at Paris and Padua ( where he attended Cesare Cremonini's lessons ), and became physician to Louis XIII.

His fame grew to the point that he was even recommended as a physician to Benjamin Franklin during a stay in Paris.

Pinel was physician to Biutre prison in Paris where a large number of lunatics were kept.

He was born in Paris, his father being an English physician and his mother a French dancer.

Through his friend Dr. John Dix Fisher, a Boston physician who had started a movement there as early as 1826 for establishing a school for the blind, he had learned of a similar school founded in Paris by Valentin Haüy.

He acquired his anatomical knowledge, thanks to Jean Tagault, a famous physician physician of Paris and also dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

Herta Schiel would remain in Paris throughout the war, where she would make acquaintance with the physician Jacques Weil when he was called upon to treat her sister Molly for the then-incurable tuberculosis ( TB ).

In 1783, Huskisson was sent to Paris to live with his maternal great-uncle Dr. Richard Gem, who was physician to the British embassy there.

Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin () ( 28 May 1738, Saintes – 26 March 1814, Paris ) was a French physician who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France.

Its use was suggested in 1902 by Paris physician Gilbert Sersiron as a symbol for the " crusade " against tuberculosis.

Pierre André Latreille was born on November 29, 1762 in the town of Brive, then in the province of Limousin, as the illegitimate child of Jean Joseph Sahuguet d ' Amarzit, général baron d ' Espagnac, and an unknown mother ; the surname " Latreille " was formally granted to him in 1813, and derives from a nickname of unclear provenance .. Latreille was orphaned at an early age, but had influential protectors – first a physician, then a merchant from Brive, and later a baron and his family ( after the baron's death ), who brought him to Paris in 1778.

In 1812 he was appointed secretary to the Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen, in 1816 was appointed physician to the royal family in Hanover () by the prince regent, in 1821 was made a knight-commander of the Guelphic Order, and in 1831 was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.

Hacker lives in New York and Paris with her partner of ten years, physician assistant Karyn London, and teaches at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Claude Perrault ( 25 September 1613 – 9 October 1688 ) is best known as the architect of the eastern range of the Louvre Palace in Paris ( see Perrault ’ s Colonnade ), but he also achieved success as a physician and anatomist, and as an author, who wrote treatises on physics and natural history.

As physician and physicist with a degree of doctor from the University of Paris, Perrault became one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences when it was founded in 1666.