René Lévesque retired in 1985 ( and died in 1987 ).

He achieved international stardom at 38 years old, an age at which most forward-playing footballers have retired, by scoring four goals at the 1990 World Cup, the most memorable of which came in the match against Colombia when he dispossessed the showboating Colombian goalkeeper René Higuita 35 yards from goal, going on to score in the empty net with Higuita stranded.

* 2005: Denis Bouchard ( René Simard had retired before the show started )

In 1485 René took part in the first phase of the so called " Mad War ", but prudentially retired after a while.

Sébastien René Grosjean (; born May 29, 1978, Marseille, France ) is a retired tennis player from France.

René Alexandre Arnoux ( born 4 July 1948 in Pontcharra, Isère ) is a retired French racing driver who is a veteran of 12 Formula One seasons ( 1978 to 1989 ).

* René Hofman ( born 1961 ), retired Dutch footballer

On 1 June 2009, the governor general accepted the resignations of astronomer and inventor René Racine, pianist Jacqueline Richard, and Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte ; on 11 January 2010, did the same for Renato Giuseppe Bosisio, an engineering professor, and Father Lucien Larré ; and on 19 April 2010 for Frank Chauvin, a retired fire-fighter who opened an orphanage in Haiti.

After the return of René to Provence, Alfonso easily reduced the remaining resistance and made his triumphal entrance in Naples on 26 February 1443, as the monarch of a pacified kingdom.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

But after the sudden death of his son John in December 1470, René, for reasons which are not altogether clear, decided to move his residence to Provence and leave Anjou for good.

History and legend has given René the title " Good King René of Provence ", though he only lived in Provence in the last ten years of his life, from 1470 to 1480, and his political policies of territorial expansion were costly and unsuccessful.

Provence benefitted from population growth and economic expansion, and René was a generous patron of the arts, sponsoring painters Nicolas Froment, Louis Bréa, and other masters.

Nicolas Froment ( 1435 – 1486 ) was the most important painter of Provence during the Renaissance, best known for his triptych of the Burning Bush ,( around 1476 ) commissioned by King René I of Naples.

The wines of Aix were originally planted by veterans of the Roman legions in the 1st century BC, and were promoted in the 15th century by René I of Naples, the last ruler of Provence.

# René of Savoy ( 1468-31 March 1525 ), served as Governor of Nice and Provence, known as the Grand Bastard of Savoy and father-in-law of Anne, 1st Duc de Montmorency

René of Anjou ( Rei Rainièr in Occitan ) ( 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480 ), also known as René I of Naples and Good King René ( French Le bon roi René ), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence ( 1434 – 1480 ), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar ( 1430 – 1480 ), Duke of Lorraine ( 1431 – 1453 ), King of Naples ( 1435 – 1442 ; titular 1442 – 1480 ), titular King of Jerusalem ( 1438 – 1480 ) and Aragon ( 1466 – 1480 ) ( including Sicily, Majorca, Corsica ).

Provence retained its formal independence until 1480, when the last Comte de Provence, René I of Naples, died and left the Comté to his nephew, Charles du Maine, who in turn left it to Louis XI of France.

René spent his youth in the court of his grandfather René I of Anjou between Angers and Provence, succeeding to his father in Vaudémont in 1470 and, three years later, to his uncle as captain of Angers, senechal and governor of Anjou.

On 22 July 1474 he drew up a will by which he divided the succession between his grandson René II of Lorraine and his nephew Charles II, count of Maine.

When the latter began to establish garrisons in Lorraine, however, René secretly allied with Louis ( 1474 ).

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).

The Art Nouveau movement in particular made great use of glass, with René Lalique, Émile Gallé, and Daum of Nancy important names in the first French wave of the movement, producing colored vases and similar pieces, often in cameo glass, and also using lustre techniques.

Pablo Picasso painted his famous " Guernica " painting to commemorate the horrors of the bombing and René Iché made a violent sculpture the day after the bombing.

In January, 2007, Haitian President René Préval, made a four-day working visit to Jamaica.

In Renaissance Europe, Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) also made several contributions to neuroscience.

The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

His most noted portrait today is the one he made in 1649 of René Descartes.

In July 1739 he made his first contribution to the field of mathematics, pointing out the errors he had detected in L ' analyse démontrée ( published 1708 by Charles René Reynaud ) in a communication addressed to the Académie des Sciences.

Unfortunately, because of the harsh criticism that he encountered, especially that of René Descartes, he made no attempt to build a telescope of his own invention.

René now made over the government of Lorraine to John, Duke of Calabria, who was, however, only formally installed as Duke of Lorraine on the death of Queen Isabella in 1453.

Despite later reverses in the family's fortunes, on 13 August 1504 their only child, Jeanne de Commines ( d. 1513 ), made a splendid marriage to the heir of Brittany's most powerful family, René de Brosse comte de Penthièvre ( d. 1524 ).

SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross ( 1998 – 2001 ), including works by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, René Magritte, and Piet Mondrian, as well as Marcel Duchamp ’ s iconic Fountain ( 1917 / 1964 ).

According to a study made in 2006 by Le Journal de Montréal and Léger Marketing, René Lévesque was considered by far, according to Québécois, the best premier to run the province over the last 50 years.

His Steeplechase recording, " New York Calling " showed that by 1980 the assimilation of all influences was complete, in this outstanding recording made with his son, René McLean.

He travelled in Italy, sat under Schelling at Munich and under Ludwig Tieck at Dresden, became in 1835-36 a member of Madame de Circourt's salon, and numbered among his friends Alphonse de Lamartine, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Alfred de Vigny, Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and Alexis de Tocqueville, of whose books, Démocratie en Amérique and the Ancien régime, he made standard translations into English.

The Aeolian Quartet leader was Alfred Cave, for recordings made before 1953 of Peter Warlock's The Curlew with Leon Goossens and tenor René Soames and Purcell Fantasias which they recorded with future member Emanuel Hurwitz.

René made his debut with Jackie McLean's band in the mid-1960s as well as leading his own bands.

New attempts were made to create a Huguenot colony in the New World, again at the instigation of Coligny, this time in Florida from 1562 to 1565, under Jean Ribault and René de Laudonnière.

This culminated on 1 June, dubbed by the Tories " Black Friday ", when Speaker René Beaudoin reversed a ruling he had made the previous evening which would have allowed the Opposition to continue the debate past the deadline.

These situations are made even more humorous by the fact that René is not exactly the best-looking man in France, is hardly a hero, and is often forced by his wife to do missions and secret operations.