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.

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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.

* 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye opened the area west of lake Superior and in 1738 reached the Mandan villages on the upper Missouri in North Dakota.

* November 17 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian trader and explorer ( d. 1749 )

* December 5 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader ( b. 1685 )

Denis Gaultier ( Gautier, Gaulthier ; also known as Gaultier le jeune and Gaultier de Paris ) ( 1597 or 1602 / 3 – 1672 ) was a French lutenist and composer.

However, an archival document from the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris hospital states that Gaultier was twenty-three at the time of his convalescence in the hospital, which was from 24 October 1626 to 12 December 1626.

Two other collections, Pièces de luth sur trois différens modes nouveaux ( c. 1669 ) and Livre de tablature [...] de Mr. Gaultier Sr. de Nève et de Mr. Gaultier son cousin ( c. 1672 ) both begin with basic instructions on lute playing.

de: Denis Gaultier

Loraine was founded in 1907 and is said to have been named by Mohall banker Sherwood H. Sleeper ( namesake of Sherwood ) for Fort La Reine, one of the forts of the exploration directed by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in the 18th century.

The comte de Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family ’ s failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791.

On 27 January 1473 the king wed him to a Poitevin heiress, Hélène de Chambes ( d. 1532 ), dame of the seigneuries of Argenton, Varennes, and Maison-Rouge.

Nicéphore Niépce died on July 5, 1833, financially ruined by the semi-delirious spending of Claude such that his grave in the cemetery of Saint-Loup de Varennes was financed by the municipality.

In combination with the Flight to Varennes, this event, known as the ' Champs de Mars Massacre ' ( Fusillade du Champs de Mars ), furthered the public's mistrust of Lafayette and Bailly ; in the aftermath, Lafayette resigned from the National Guard and Bailly left his post as mayor.

Criticism plagued Lafayette's mayoral campaign: his role in the flight to Varennes and in the Champs de Mars massacre were denounced both by politicians on the left and right.

On the arrest of the king and the royal family during the Flight to Varennes, Barnave was one of the three appointed to conduct them back to Paris, along with Jerome Petion and the Marquis de Latour-Maubourg.

Along with Jérôme Pétion and the Marquis de Latour-Maubourg, Barnave had been sent on behalf of the National Assembly to escort the extravagant berline carriage, with the Royal Family within, from Varennes back to Paris.

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ( November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749 ) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer.

Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Pierre was the youngest son of René Gaultier de Varennes, who came to Canada as a soldier in 1665, and Marie, the daughter of Pierre Boucher, the first Governor of Trois-Rivières.

Jean Bailleul's Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye sculpture in front of Parliament Building ( Quebec )

Joseph-Émile Brunet's statue of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in Saint Boniface, Manitoba.