Jean LeuneJean Victor Charles Edmond Leune (28 December 1889 – 13 May 1944) was a French war correspondent, writer, press photographer, military aviator and member of the French Resistance. Jean Leune was born on 28 December 1889 in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), France. He was the son of Alfred Leune (2 September 1857, Rouen, Normandy – 9 December 1930, Paris) and Céline Blanche "Léonie" Daix (1871–1942). The couple had three children. In 1902, Jean obtained a government scholarship to attend the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
Il FoglioIl Foglio (English: "The Paper") is an Italian daily newspaper with circulation around 25.000 copies per day, with an overall spread of 47.000, as of 2015. It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara. Since 2015, it has been directed by Claudio Cerasa. Il Foglio was founded in 1996 by Ferrara after he left as editor of the magazine Panorama. The paper is headquartered in Rome.
René GateauxRené Eugène Gateaux (ʁəne øʒɛn ɡɑto; 5 May 1889 – 3 October 1914) was a French mathematician. He is principally known for the Gateaux derivative, used in the calculus of variations and in the theory of optimal control. He died in combat during World War I. Paul Lévy produced a posthumous edition of his works, extending them considerably, in his Leçons d'analyse fonctionnelle of 1922. Gateaux was born on at Vitry-le-François, Marne, 222 years after another mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, was born there (de Moivre, being of Huguenot ancestry, fled to London after the Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685).
Charles Sorel, sieur de SouvignyCharles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (c. 1602 – 7 March 1674) was a French novelist and general writer. Very little is known of his life except that in 1635 he was historiographer of France. He wrote on science, history and religion, but is only remembered for his novels. He tried to destroy the vogue for the pastoral romance by writing a novel of adventure, the Histoire comique de Francion (first edition in seven volumes, 1623; second edition in twelve volumes, 1633).
Abraham MolesAbraham Moles (19 August 1920 – 22 May 1992) was a pioneer in information science and communication studies in France, He was a professor at Ulm school of design and University of Strasbourg. He is known for his work on kitsch. Moles studied electrical and acoustics engineering at the University of Grenoble while preparing a bachelor in sciences of nature. He became a research assistant at the Laboratory of metal physics, under the direction of Félix Esclangon, then of Louis Néel.
Alice CaffarelAlice Marie-Claude Caffarel-Cayron (born 30 June 1961) is a French-Australian linguist. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Caffarel is recognized for the development of a Systemic Functional Grammar of French which has been applied in the teaching of the French language, Discourse analysis and Stylistics at the University of Sydney. Caffarel is recognised as an expert in the field of French Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Jules René BourguignatJules René Bourguignat (19 August 1829, Brienne-Napoléon, Aube – 7 April 1892) was a French malacologist, a scientist who studied mollusks. He served as secretary-general of the Société malacologique de France. He traveled widely, visiting, for example, Lake Tanganyika and North Africa. He reportedly defined 112 new genera and around 2540 new species of mollusks. Bourguignat named and described many genera and species of mollusks, including: Aspatharia Bourguignat, 1885, a genus of freshwater mussel.
Marc-Antoine ParsevalMarc-Antoine Parseval des Chênes (27 April 1755 – 16 August 1836) was a French mathematician, most famous for what is now known as Parseval's theorem, which presaged the unitarity of the Fourier transform. He was born in Rosières-aux-Salines, France, into an aristocratic French family, and married Ursule Guerillot in 1795, but divorced her soon after. A monarchist opposed to the French revolution, imprisoned in 1792, Parseval later fled the country for publishing poetry critical of the government of Napoleon.
Il PiccoloIl Piccolo is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. Its name derives from the paper's original small format. Il Piccolo was founded by Teodoro Mayer in 1881. He was also the owner and editor-in-chief of the paper. Mayer and other people who were instrumental in the establishment of the paper were right-wing pro-Italians. Mayer supported the idea that Trieste was part of Italy. One of its contributors was Carolina Luzzatto who was a supporter of this view. Il Piccolo ceased publication at the beginning of World War I and was relaunched in 1919.
Henri WittmannHenri Wittmann (born 1937) is a Canadian linguist from Quebec. He is best known for his work on Quebec French. Henri (Hirsch) Wittmann was born in Alsace in 1937. After studying with André Martinet at the Sorbonne, he moved to North America and taught successively at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Alberta in Edmonton, the University of Windsor and McGill University in Montreal before teaching in the French university system of Quebec, the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and at Rimouski as well as the Université de Sherbrooke.
