* 1905 – Louis Jean Heydt, American actor ( d. 1960 )

In addition to Bonaparte himself, Louis Alexandre Berthier, Auguste de Marmont, Jean Lannes, Joachim Murat, Louis Desaix, Jean Reynier, Antoine-François Andréossy, Jean-Andoche Junot, Louis-Nicolas Davout and Dumas were all passengers on the cramped Mediterranean crossing.

This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

* 1935 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer ( b. 1875 )

* Notable draftsmen of the 19th century include Paul Cézanne, Aubrey Beardsley, Jacques Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon, Edgar Degas, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Jean Ingres, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, and Vincent van Gogh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* In 1689, Jean Baptiste Racine wrote Esther, a tragedy, at the request of Louis XIV's wife, Françoise d ' Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon.

It largely evolved from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, and Dziga Vertov and film theorists like Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer.

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

* Collection of three vinyl recordings of Jean Cocteau including La Voix humaine by Simone Signoret, 18 songs composed by Louis Bessières, Bee Michelin and Renaud Marx, on double-piano Paul Castanier, Le Discours de réception à l ' Académie Française, Jacques Canetti JC1, 1984

* Hommage à Jean Cocteau, mélodies d ' Henri Sauguet, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Jean Wiener, Max Jacob, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Georges Auric, Guy Sacre, by Jean-François Gardeil ( baryton ) and Billy Eidi ( piano ), CD Adda 581177, 1989

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* Lascoux Jean Louis, 2001, 2007.

* Lascoux Jean Louis, 2008.

The differences between tantalum and niobium were unequivocally demonstrated in 1864 by Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, and Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville, as well as Louis J. Troost, who determined the formulas of some of the compounds in 1865 and finally by the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1866, who all proved that there were only two elements.

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

** Jean Louis Delolme, constitutional writer ( died 1806 )

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* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

* 1826 – Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor ( b. 1740 )

It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon ( 1725 ), Jean Baptiste Falcon ( 1728 ) and Jacques Vaucanson ( 1740 )

* 1681 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader ( d. 1740 )

* November 28 – Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader ( d. 1740 )

The couple also took a mutual interest in the work of such authors as the Marquis de Sade ( 1740 – 1814 ), Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881 ), Franz Kafka ( 1883 – 1924 ) and Jean Genet ( 1910 – 1986 ), all of whose works explored the themes of sex and violence.

* 1740 — Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, in Mémoire sur la réfraction des corps solides, explains the process of refraction.

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

Jean Cavalier, real name Joan Cavalièr in Occitan, ( November 28, 1681 – May 17, 1740 ), the famous chief of the Camisards, was born at Mas Roux, a small hamlet in the commune of Ribaute near Anduze ( Gard, southern France ).

* Henriette de Bourbon ( 1725 – 1780 ), Mademoiselle de Verneuil, who married Jean, marquis de Laguiche, ( 1719 – 1770 ) in 1740.

His daughter Jean Leslie ( d. 1740 ) styled herself as 3rd " Lady Newark ", as a lady in her own right.

From 1882 to 1925 Juvisy-sur-Orge was the location of the astronomer Camille Flammarion's observatory, as well as the 1740 Pyramid erected to memorialize the work of Jean Picard and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in measuring the Earth's circumference.

Urs App recently offered new evidence for the authorship of Jean Calmette ( 1692 – 1740 ).

In 1740, the then owner, Baron de Gasq, Minister of Parliament for Bordeaux, sold the Château to Monsieur Jean Letellier, ship-chandler to the navy, who delivered his wine and merchandise from his residence at rue du Chai des Farines in Bordeaux to the docks.

* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist ( d. 1980 )

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress ( d. 1977 )

* 1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1962 )

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )

* 1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist ( d. 1959 )

* 1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist ( d. 1891 )

* 1922 – Jean Darling, American actress and singer

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

; Jean Pierre Sarrasin, in same vol., pp. 254 – 235 ; William of Nangis in Recueil des historiens des Gaules, xx.

* 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( d. 1867 )

Others who anticipated the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey ( 1583 – 1645 ), Joseph Black ( 1728 – 1799 ), and Henry Cavendish ( 1731 – 1810 ).

* 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor ( d. 2008 )

* 2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop ( b. 1924 )

* 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor ( b. 1920 )

* 1702 – Jean Bart, French admiral ( b. 1651 )

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.