Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with Norwegian pilot Leif Dietrichson, French pilot René Guilbaud, and three more Frenchmen, looking for missing members of Nobile's crew, whose new airship Italia had crashed while returning from the North Pole.

Ernst, Henny and Jan H. enjoyed the success, unlike René whose behaviour was seen as a problem.

René had the confidence of Charles VII, and is said to have initiated the reduction of the men-at-arms set on foot by the king, with whose military operations against the English he was closely associated.

If his writing is often seen as trying to popularize the astronomical theories of René Descartes, whose greatest exponent he is sometimes considered, it also appealed to the literate society of the day to become more involved in " natural philosophy ," thus enriching the work of early-Enlightenment scientists.

Her brother Michel Dondalinger Dion sent the recording to music manager René Angélil, whose name he discovered on the back of a Ginette Reno album.

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.

In Asterix at the Olympic Games ( published to coincide with the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ), René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo depict a ' Colossal ' Olympic player from Rhodes, whose family are all extremely tall.

" At the time of his death, Horman was investigating the murder of René Schneider, the Commander-in-Chief in the Chilean army whose support for Allende and the constitution was seen as an obstacle to the coup.

Yet while he was oriented towards the West and the new allies of West Germany and paid little attention to comparatists in Eastern Europe, his conception of a transnational ( and transatlantic ) comparative literature was very much influenced by East European literary theorists of the Russian and Prague schools of structuralism, from whose works René Wellek, too, derived many of his concepts, concepts that continue to have profound implications for comparative literary theory today " ... A manual published by the University of Munich lists 31 departments which offer a diploma in comparative literature in Germany, albeit some only as a ' minor '.

Groulx, who is one of the intellectual guides of two generations of Quebecers and one whose name some wanted to see removed from the Lionel-Groulx station a few years ago, to probably replace it by the " Mordecai Richler " station, the René Lévesque Boulevard by, no doubt, " Ariel Sharon " boulevard, the Jacques-Cartier Place by the " Galganov " place, and so on.

While studying at Stanford, Thiel also encountered René Girard, whose mimetic theory influenced him.

It was active during the purported " Révolution nationale " enacted by Vichy France, though, which has been considered by René Rémond not as a fascist regime but as a counterrevolutionary regime, whose motto was Travail, Famille, Patrie (" Work, Family, Fatherland "), which replaced the Republican motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.

René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou ( 25 February 1714 – 29 July 1792 ) was a French politician, chancellor of France, whose attempts at fiscal reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.

Samuel Sorbière ( 1615 – 1670 ) was a French physician and man of letters, a philosopher and translator, who is best known for his promotion of the works of Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi, in whose view of physics he placed his support, though unable to refute René Descartes, but who developed a reputation in his own day for a truculent and disputatious nature.

René Clair was born and grew up in Paris in the district of Les Halles, whose lively and picturesque character made a lasting impression on him.

Stevens poses as drug dealer ' John Hull ' in order to infiltrate and work his way up the network of the west coast's largest drug importer, Anton Gallegos ( Arthur Mendoza ) and his uncle Hector Gúzman, ( René Assa ) a South American politician whose influence allows Gallegos to bring drugs into the country.

Swiss driver Claude Haldi was assigned to partner René Metge, but the two were later joined by Kees Nierop whose 962C had been destroyed in a qualifying accident.

His father, whose first name is unknown, was Chief Conductor of the Paris-Orleans Express and seldom home, was unable to raise young René himself, so the boy was sent to live with his grandparents while a toddler.

The staff at Variety liked the work of the young cast and Forsyth's direction, and wrote, " Filmmaker Bill Forsyth, whose friendly, unmalicious approach recalls that of René Clair, is concerned with young students ( in particular, a soccer team goalie, Gregory ) seeking out the opposite sex.

In Bologna he entertained himself by performing various translations, such as Cartas de Jose Antonio Constantini ( Letters from Jose Antonio Constantini ), in eight volumes, which he completed in the Papal States, Arte de encomendarse a Dios by Father Antonio Francesco Bellati, and the famous picaresque novel by Alain René Lesage, Gil Blas de Santillana, in whose prologue he accused the French author of having stolen and translated several Spanish novels of the genre to compose his own.

# Life is No Picnic-Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, who were defended by Lord Byron, who meets John Galt in Turkey, avoiding the same blockade that inspires the " Star-Spangled Banner ," which was really an English song all about a Greek poet discovered by a publisher whose son-in-law is pals with Joseph Justus Scaliger of chronology fame, whose military boss, Maurice, inspires Gustavus of Sweden, father of the runaway Christina, whose teacher René Descartes ' mechanical universe inspires the book about brains by Willis, which is illustrated by the architect of St. Paul's, Christopher Wren, who's dabbles in investments like John Law's Louisiana scam that ruins France, and Pierre Beaumarchais, and later the French finance minister Jacques Necker, whose daughter is the opinionated de Stael, whose romantic pals get Thomas Henry Huxley looking into jellyfish so he can defend Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

The five copies were once in the possession of René Dahinden, John Willison Green, Grover Krantz, Jon-Erik Beckjord, and Peter Byrne.

After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of René of Anjou the name " Duchy of Lorraine " was adopted again, only retrospectively called " Upper Lorraine ".

When Louis of Bar died in 1430 René came into sole possession of his duchy, and in the next year, on his father-in-law's death, he succeeded to the duchy of Lorraine.

In 1903, French mycologist René Maire proposed a new classification system that emphasized the possession of " stichic " basidia ( basidia with nuclear spindles arranged longitudinally ), a characteristic of the Cantharellaceae that linked the family to the Hydnaceae and Clavulinaceae.

An unidentified artist ( possibly Barthélemy van Eyck ) worked on the famous calendar miniatures in the 1440s when the book apparently was in the possession of René d ' Anjou, and in 1485 Jean Colombe finished the work for the House of Savoy.

In 1488 the Neapolitans offered him the crown of the Kingdom of Naples, and René set an expedition to gain possession of the realm ; he was however halted by the new French king, Charles VIII, who intended to claim the realm himself.

Other notable films of the 1930s included René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ), Jacques Feyder's Carnival in Flanders ( 1935 ), and Julien Duvivier's La belle equipe ( 1936 ).

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

In 1926, together with Vilém Mathesius and others he became one of the founders of the " Prague school " of linguistic theory ( other members included Nikolai Trubetzkoi, René Wellek, Jan Mukařovský ).

Key writers, in addition to Berman and Piller, included show runner Ira Steven Behr, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Ronald D. Moore, Peter Allan Fields, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Hans Beimler, and René Echevarria.

The group included the musician, poet, and artist E. L. T. Mesens, painter and writer René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte, and André Souris.

Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was the Chairperson, Jacques Maritain, René Cassin and Stéphane Hessel of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of the Republic of China, among others.

Chelsea residents from the Warhol scene included Edie Sedgwick, Viva, Ultra Violet, Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, Andrea Feldman, Nico, Paul America, René Ricard and Brigid Berlin.

Since Caesar is one of the characters in the Astérix and Obélix albums, René Goscinny included gags for French schoolchildren who had the Commentarii as a textbook.

Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, Paul and Nusch Éluard.

Notable CBC alumni have included television and radio personalities, former Governors General of Canada Jeanne Sauvé, Adrienne Clarkson, and Michaëlle Jean, as well as former Quebec premier René Lévesque.

By extension, however, certain pupils of Schoenberg's pupils ( such as Berg's pupil Hans Erich Apostel and Webern's pupils René Leibowitz, Leopold Spinner and Ludwig Zenk ) are usually included in the roll-call.

Other voice actors included Kay E. Kuter as Griswold Goodsoup, Tom Kane as Captain René Rottingham and the Flying Welshman, Patrick Pinney as Stan, and Victor Raider-Wexler as Slappy Cromwell and the Snowcone Guy.

Leading historians of the period who testified as " experts " during the trial included Jean-Pierre Azéma, André Kaspi, Marc-Olivier Baruch, Henry Rousso, Denis Peschanski, Maurice Rajsfus, René Rémond, Jacques Delarue, Henri Amouroux, Michel Bergès, as well as US historian Robert Paxton and Swiss historian Philippe Burin.

This led to the creation of Modeste et Pompon, a gag series which included contributions from René Goscinny ( of Astérix fame ) and Peyo.

The tune was written originally as " Amarren Al Loco " (" Tie up the crazy guy ") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note " 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 " riff.

The Cocarde, nationalist, anti-parliamentarist and xenophobic, included a diverse collection of contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds ( monarchists, socialists, anarchists, Jews, Protestants ), including Frédéric Amouretti, Charles Maurras, René Boylesve and Fernand Pelloutier.

The founding members were all connected to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and included Henri Cartan, Claude Chevalley, Jean Coulomb, Jean Delsarte, Jean Dieudonné, Charles Ehresmann, René de Possel, Szolem Mandelbrojt and André Weil.

His classmates included future symbolists René Ghil and Pierre Quillard.

Other commanders of units during the conflict included Major Raúl Menéndez Tomassevich, Major Filiberto Olivera Moya, Major René de los Santos, Major Augusto Martínez Sanchez, Major Félix Duque, Major Pedro Miret, Major Flavio Bravo, Major Antonio Lussón, Captain Orlando Pupo Pena, Captain Victor Dreke, Captain Emilio Aragonés, Captain Angel Fernández Vila, Arnaldo Ochoa, Orlando Rodriguez Puerta.

In August 1914, Guesde was included in the national unity government of René Viviani as a Minister without Portfolio, and continued to serve in that role until the end of 1916.

On his return, Billaud-Varenne was included to the Reign of Terror's Committee of Public Safety, which had decreed the mass arrest of all suspects and the establishment of a revolutionary army, caused the extraordinary criminal tribunal to be named officially " Revolutionary Tribunal " ( on 29 October 1793 ), demanded the execution of Marie Antoinette, and then attacked Jacques René Hébert and Danton.

He is widely credited with being one of main authors of the important " Manifesto of the 121 ", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Antelme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, René Char, Henri Lefebvre, Alain Resnais, Simone Signoret and others, which supported the rights of conscripts to refuse the draft in Algeria.

Wilcox directed the sequence featuring Neagle, Milland, Smith and Rains, while other directors who worked on the film included René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville and Robert Stevenson.

He therefore bought an English edition of Euclid's Elements which included an index of propositions, and, having turned to two or three which he thought might be helpful, found them so obvious that he dismissed it " as a trifling book ", and applied himself to the study of René Descartes ' Geometry.