Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China.

Jacques Mayol ’ s lifelong passion for diving was based on his love for the ocean, his personal philosophy and his desire to explore his own limits.

Jacques Mayol predicted that, within a couple of generations, some people would be able to dive to 200m and hold their breath for up to ten minutes.

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* 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

Luc Besson was initially unsure of whom to cast in the main role of Jacques Mayol.

The film charts the competition and friendship of real-life champions Jacques Mayol ( played by Barr ) and Enzo Maiorca ( renamed in the film to " Enzo Molinari ", and played by Reno ).

The movie begins with Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari as children.

Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.

Jacques Abbadie was born at Nay, Béarn, probably in 1654, although 1657 and 1658 have been given ; he is " most probably the Jacques Abbadie who was the third child of Violente de Fortaner and Pierre Abbadie, baptized on 27 April 1654.

Pope Benedict XII ( died 25 April 1342 ), born Jacques Fournier, the third of the Avignon Popes, was Pope from 1334 to 1342.

* April 18 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( b. 1677 )

* April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race driver, Formula 1 world champion

* April 28 – Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher ( b. 1882 )

April: Jacques Cartier.

* April 9 – Jacques Necker, French statesman ( b. 1732 )

* April 19 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer ( d. 1721 )

* April 21 – French presidential election, 2002: The first round results in a runoff between Jacques Chirac and the leader of the main French far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

* April 30 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* April 3 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician ( b. 1640 )

Starting in April, however, a Committee of Public Safety was formed, and men such as Jacques Hébert were beginning to call for Antoinette's trial ; by the end of May, the Girondins had been chased out of power and arrested.

The first execution by guillotine was performed on highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on 25 April 1792.

Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, () ( born April 9, 1971 ), is a Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician.

The draft treaties and correspondence with the English found in their baggage, along with Jacques de Rue's confessions under interrogation, were all that Charles V needed to send an army into northern Normandy to capture all the King of Navarre's remaining domains there ( April – June 1378 ).

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium to Romain Brel and Elisabeth Lambertine Brel.

Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 190011 April 1977 ) was a French poet and screenwriter.

The city is known for its World Heritage buildings: The Place Stanislas ( XVIII °) which was opened April 2005 by Jacques Chirac after refurbishment.

His last two works were first performed posthumously, in April and June 1963: the Sonata for Oboe and Piano was given by Pierre Pierlot and Jacques Février and the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein.

The 2002 French presidential election consisted of a first round election on 21 April 2002, and a runoff election between the top two candidates ( Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen ) on 5 May 2002.

Agénor Bardoux ( Bourges, Cher, 15 January 1829 – Paris, 23 November 1897 ) was a French statesman and republican, son of Jacques Bardoux ( Moulins, 3 February 1795-Clermont-Ferrand, 8 January 1871 ) and wife Thérèse Pignet ( Limoges, 6 April 1807-St. Saturnin, 25 March 1883 ).

Married in Montpellier on 15 July 1873 Clémence Villa ( Millau, 26 December 1847-Paris, 2 December 1939 ), daughter of Achille Villa ( Millau, 17 April 1818-Millau, 7 April 1901 ) and wife Sophie Bimar ( Montpellier, 13 October 1824-Montpellier, 6 February 1885 ), by whom he had at least one son, the French senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux.

* Jacques Freu et Michel Mazoyer, Des origines à la fin de l ' ancien royaume hittite, Les Hittites et leur histoire Tome 1, Collection Kubaba, L ' Harmattan, Paris, 2007 ;

The first was the manned descent by Swiss-designed, Italian-built, United States Navy-owned bathyscaphe Trieste which reached the bottom at 1: 06 pm on 23 January 1960, with U. S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board.

* October 1 – Jean Jacques Annaud, French film director

* November 1 – Jacques Attali, French economist

* September 1 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer ( b. 1491 )

His paternal grandparents were Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 29 September 1683 – Pau, 3 October 1760 ) and wife ( m. Pau, 1 May 1707 ) Marie du Pucheu dite de La Place ( Pau, 6 February 1686 – Pau, 5 October 1773 ), daughter of Jacques du Pucheu dit de La Place and wife Françoise de Labasseur.

* August 1 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France ( b. 1567 )

( Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world.

On 1 December Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert flew La Charlière, the first manned hydrogen balloon, for 2 hours 5 minutes and covered 36 km.

* Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation Interview with Gary A. Olson, in JAC Volume 10 Issue 1

Ten centuries after Bede, the French astronomers Philippe de la Hire ( in the year 1702 ) and Jacques Cassini ( in the year 1740 ), purely to simplify certain calculations, put the Julian Dating System ( proposed in the year 1583 by Joseph Scaliger ) and with it an astronomical era into use, which contains a leap year zero, which precedes the year 1 ( AD ) but does not exactly coincide with the year 1 BC.

Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of roughly £ 1, 000.

After this rebuff Bizet entered an opera competition which Jacques Offenbach had organised for young composers, with a prize of 1, 200 francs.

# Jacques ( Genève 29 November 1444-Genève 1 June 1445 ).

Jacques Cartier ( December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557 ) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France.

On 1 August 1589, Henry III lodged with his army at Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris, when a young fanatical Dominican friar, Jacques Clément, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.

Following the assassination of her husband King Henry III by the monk Jacques Clément on August 1, 1589, Louise of Lorraine retired to Chenonceau in meditation and prayer.

* Jacques Delille ( 22 June 1738 – 1 May 1813 ), poet

* Tome 1: Superdupont ( by Jacques Lob, Gotlib and Alexis )

On 1 June 1950, Jacques and Miche were married at Laeken, a Brussels commune.

* Carre, Jacques, " Lord Burlington's Garden at Chiswick ", in Garden History, Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 1973, 23 – 30

: 1925: H L ' Aiglon, co-written with Jacques Ibert ; libretto for acts 2 – 4 by H. Cain, after E. Rostand, libretto for acts 1 and 5 by Ibert, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 10 March 1937