The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

* 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician

Pierre Cartier, a visiteur de longue durée (" long-term guest ") at the IHÉS, wrote a piece about Grothendieck for a special volume published on the occasion of the IHÉS's fortieth anniversary.

His early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin.

This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

* de Wit, Pierre.

This idea was heavily supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as well as the Greeks.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

During WWII, an alpine team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France which became the deepest explored cave in the world (- 658m ) at that time.

Cartier was followed by nobleman Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts who was accompanied by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain in a 1604 expedition where they established the second permanent European settlement in North America, following Spain's settlement at St. Augustine.

In January 1208 the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, was sent to meet the ruler of the area, Count Raymond VI of Toulouse.

Precise indications of this are found in the registers of the Inquisitors, Bernard of Caux, Jean de St Pierre, Geoffroy d ' Ablis, and others.

The idea of this system was developed in 1637 in writings by Descartes and independently by Pierre de Fermat, although Fermat also worked in three dimensions, and did not publish the discovery.

However many new approaches have appeared in recent years, especially by such scholars as Wilda Anderson, Kurt Ballstadt, Daniel Brewer, Jay Caplan, Andrew Clark, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Rosalina de la Carrera, Julie Candler Hays, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Walter Rex, and Pierre Saint-Amand.

Perhaps the first use of the term deist is in Pierre Viret's Instruction Chrétienne en la doctrine de la foi et de l ' Évangile ( Christian teaching on the doctrine of faith and the Gospel ) ( 1564 ), reprinted in Bayle's Dictionnaire entry Viret.

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* Rosenberg, Pierre, Peronnet, Benjamin, Un album inédit de David in Revue de l ' art, n ° 142 ( 2003-4 ), pp. 45 – 83 ( complete the previous reference )

In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scribbled on the margin of his copy of Arithmetica: " It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second into two like powers.

In studying Arithmetica, Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat owned a copy, studied it, and made notes in the margins.

Pierre de Frédy was born in Paris on 1 January 1863 into an established aristocratic family.

Family tradition held that the Frédy name had first arrived in France in the early 15th century, and the first recorded title of nobility granted to the family was given by Louis XI to an ancestor, also named Pierre de Frédy, in 1477.

The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ( French: Comité international olympique, CIO ) is an international non-governmental organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre, Baron de Coubertin, on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

* 1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

The group grew to include Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy.

* June 23 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

With travel expenses high, many European athletes did not come, nor did modern Olympics founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

The modern pentathlon was invented by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.

* Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais ( 1774 – 1853 ), Napoleonic French Baron and leader of the Red Lancers

Soon, he co-founded, with another Genevese, the famous bank of Thellusson, Necker et Cie. Peter Thellusson ( also known as Pierre Thellusson ) superintended the bank in London ( his son was made a peer as Baron Rendlesham ), while Necker was managing partner in Paris.

It was this poem which inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin and other founders of the modern Olympic Games to invent a running race of 42 km called the Marathon.

Years later, Pierre DuPonceau, an aide to Baron von Steuben, recalled that in the evenings the ladies and officers at camp would meet at each other ’ s quarters for conversation.

Pierre Berton, who played Baron Scarpia, had been Bernhardt's on and off lover for many years and a frequent stage partner.

Pierre Berton as Baron Scarpia

Finally, another famous inhabitant of La Hulpe was the first Belgian aviator, Baron Pierre de Caters ( 1875 – 1944 ), whose estate is called today Domaine de Nysdam.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin wanted the 1912 Games to be " more dignified " than those of 1908.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, President of the IOC and founder of the modern Olympic movement, won the gold medal for literature.

The IOC president for these Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

In 1253, Pierre II of Savoy acquired Faucigny by marrying Agnès, the daughter of the Baron de Faucigny.

Soon after, Volney befriended Pierre Jean George Cabanis, the Marquis de Condorcet, the Baron d ' Holbach, and Benjamin Franklin.

Some notable current and retired jazz musicians in Hawaii include Gabe Baltazar ( saxophone ), Henry Allen ( guitar ), Adam Baron ( drums ), Vic Castellini ( Drums ), David Choy ( saxophone ), Rich Crandall ( piano ), Dan Del Negro ( keyboards ), Pierre Grill ( piano / keyboards / trombone ), Bruce Hamada ( bass ), DeShannon Higa ( trumpet ), Jim Howard ( piano ), Steve Jones ( bass ), John Kolivas ( bass ), Ryan Kunimura ( saxophone ), Noel Okimoto ( drums / percussion / vibes ), Michael Paulo ( reeds ), Rene Paulo ( acoustic grand piano ) was a forerunner of recording Hawaiian music in the jazz venue in the early 1960s and is one of Hawaii's legendary music greats, Robert Shinoda ( guitar ), Arex Ikehara ( bass ), Phil Bennett ( drums ), Aron Nelson ( piano ), Tennyson Stephens ( piano ), Dean Taba ( bass ), Betty Loo Taylor ( piano ), Tim Tsukiyama ( saxophone ) and Abe Lagrimas Jr. ( drums / ukulele / vibes ).

In the Rhone wine region Baron Pierre Le Roy Boiseaumarié, a lawyer and winegrower from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, obtained legal recognition of the Côtes du Rhône appellation of origin in 1937.

Eventually she formed a literary salon, which had among its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis Piron and others.

The revival of the Olympic Games by Baron Pierre de Coubertin was also heavily influenced by the amateur ethos of the English public schools.

Biniou and bombarde duos include Jean Baron and Christian Anneix, Youenn Le Bihan and Patrick Molard, and Pierre Crépillon and Laurent Bigot.

Himself an active rower and rider, the count was very interested in sports, and a meeting with Baron Pierre de Coubertin interested him for the reinstatement of the Olympic Games.