Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.

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.

The ladies were delighted and Jean Jacques was applauded.

Duclos, the historian, pointed out to Jean Jacques that this was impossible.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

The family was one of the first to be recognized as a distinct group in Jacques Daleschamps ’ 1586 Historia generalis plantarum.

Due to his close proximity with Jacques Doriot's fascist Parti Populaire Français ( PPF ) during the 1930s and his role in implementing eugenics policies during Vichy France, he was accused after the Liberation of collaborationism, but died before the trial.

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 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

Andrew was accompanied on this mission by brother Jacques.

The position was given to Jacques Tits.

The auctioneer, Jacques Tajan, was also convicted.

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

Boron was not recognized as an element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard.

Ninety-eight attackers and just one defender died in the actual fighting, but in the aftermath, de Launay and seven other defenders were killed, as was the ' prévôt des marchands ' ( roughly, mayor ) Jacques de Flesselles.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

This however was overturned after her death, as Willy ’ s son from a prior relationship, Jacques Gauthier-Villars, sued to have his father ’ s name restored, which was carried out.

However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

It is unclear whether this first expedition was the expedition by Jacques l ' Hermite to the coast of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, set up by Stadthouder Maurice with the support of the States General and the VOC.

For example, Frenchmen Philippe Noiret and Jacques Perrin were dubbed into Italian for Cinema Paradiso and Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger was dubbed for Hercules in New York.

* In France, the Dominicans are known as Jacobins, because their first convent in Paris was built near the church of Saint Jacques, ( St. James ) and Jacques ( James ) is Jacobus in Latin.

* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1952 – Jacques Audiard, French director

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* Jean Jacques Barthelemy's The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece ( French )

* 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer ( d. 1721 )

Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).

* 1823 – Jacques Charles, French chemist ( b. 1746 )

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.

A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.

Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

* 1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician ( d. 1963 )

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).