The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported ( in part ) by Gottfried Leibniz.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

He was an efficient member of the American revision committee for the Revised Version ( 1881-1885 ) of the King James Bible, and helped prepare Caspar René Gregory's Prolegomena to the revised Greek New Testament of Constantin von Tischendorf.

However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.

René Préval was declared to have won with over 50 percent of the vote.

René Thom was another prominent figure in its early history.

It was only in the late 19th century, with the work of such masters as Peter Carl Fabergé and René Lalique, that art began to take primacy over function and wealth.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

His architecture teacher in the Art School was the architect René Chapallaz, who had a large influence on Le Corbusier's earliest houses.

Among them was René Blum, founder of the Opera, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

In 1449 King René d ' Anjou gave to Angers Cathedral the amphora from Cana in which Jesus changed water to wine, acquiring it from the nuns of Marseilles, who told him that Mary Magdalene had brought it with her from Judea, relating to the legend where she was the jilted bride at the wedding following John the Evangelist received his calling from Jesus.

Optical theory progressed in the mid-17th century with treatises written by philosopher René Descartes, which explained a variety of optical phenomena including reflection and refraction by assuming that light was emitted by objects which produced it.

In 1644, René Descartes theorized that pain was a disturbance that passed down along nerve fibers until the disturbance reached the brain, a development that transformed the perception of pain from a spiritual, mystical experience to a physical, mechanical sensation.

The first was the defeat of the referendum on Quebec sovereignty, called by the Parti Québécois government of René Lévesque.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

René Descartes (; Latinized form: Renatus Cartesius ; adjectival form: " Cartesian "; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 ) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967 ) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (; 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 ), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet.

He was born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Prague, capital of Bohemia ( then part of Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic ).

Odo was portrayed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by actor René Auberjonois

She was well-read in the works of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza.

René Guénon in Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism ( Sophia Perennis 2003 ) contended that Sufism was the esoteric aspect of Islam supported and complemented by exoteric practices and Islamic law.

* October 12 – René Lacoste, French tennis champion ( b. 1904 )

The anecdote on the Colbert-Le Gendre meeting was related in a 1751 article in the Journal Oeconomique by the French minister and champion of free trade, René de Voyer, Marquis d ' Argenson — which happens to also be the phrase's first known appearance in print.

He also crossed more than once the Dutch Calvinist – Presbyterian champion, Gisbertus Voetius, still remembered for his attacks on René Descartes.

European Formula Two champion in 1977, René Arnoux graduated to Formula One in 1978, with the small French Martini team of Tico Martini.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Galiazzo finished his ranking round as the defending champion with a total of 667 points, twelve points behind leader Juan René Serrano.

* René Lacoste, born 1904 in Paris died 1996 à Saint-Jean-de-Luz, French tennis champion ;

René Lacoste, the French 7-time Grand Slam tennis champion, decided that the stiff tennis attire was too cumbersome and uncomfortable.

In 1929 René Lacoste, the French 7-time Grand Slam champion, decided that the stiff dress shirts and ties usually worn by tennis players were too cumbersome and uncomfortable for the tennis court.

In 1914, Boillot's 3-liter L5 set a new Indy lap record of, and Duray placed second ( beaten by ex-Peugeot ace René Thomas in a Delage ).

The first definite record of his employment is dated 19 April 1477, and it shows that he was a singer at the chapel of René, Duke of Anjou, in Aix-en-Provence.

The township has a rich and varied history as far back as October 15, 1660, with the arrival of the first white man on record, French Jesuit priest Father René Menard.

Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record.

* September 26 – The French aviators Dieudonné Costes and René de Vitrolles fly 4, 100 km ( 2, 546 miles ) from Paris, France, to Assuan, Egypt, in an attempt to break the world distance record.

René Dreyfus won the 1934 La Turbie hillclimb with a record average speed of in a Type 53.

* Isabella ( 1400 – 1453 ), who became Duchess suo jure on his death and married René, later holder of many prestigious titles

The Futuroscope theme park and research park project, built in 1986 – 1987 in nearby Chasseneuil-du-Poitou after an idea from René Monory, established the city as a touristic destination and opened it to the era of information technology.

In general, Gaultier was a masterful melodist, effortlessly writing graceful melodic lines with clear phrase structures, but his music is less inventive harmonically than that of some other French lutenists of the era, such as René Mesangeau or Pierre Dubut.

Also resonating with the Junimist club was Iorga's vision of the French Revolution — according to French author René Girault, the Romanian was an " excellent connaisseur " of this particular era.

The first European to visit Tafilalt in the modern era was René Caillié ( 1828 ), the next Gerhard Rohlfs ( 1864 ).

In an era in which tournament doubles matches were considered almost as important as singles, they lost one of the most famous matches in the early history of tennis, being beaten 4 – 6, 9 – 11, 6 – 4, 6 – 1, 3 – 6 by one of the great French teams of Jean Borotra and René Lacoste.

In an era in which tournament doubles matches were considered almost as important as singles, they lost one of the most famous matches in the early history of tennis, being beaten 4 – 6, 9-11, 6 – 4, 6 – 1, 3 – 6 by one of the great French teams of Jean Borotra and René Lacoste.