Jean-Baptiste Alphonse KarrJean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the Collège Bourbon, became a teacher there. Some of his novels, including his first, Sous les Tilleuls (1832), were autobiographical romances. A second novel, Une heure trop tard, followed next year, and was succeeded by many other popular works.
Chemin de fer de Boulogne à BonninguesThe Chemin de Fer de Boulogne à Bonningues (CF de BB) was a gauge railway from Boulogne to Bonningues-lès-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France, where it had a connection with the Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais. It opened in 1900 and closed in 1948. History of rail transport in France In France, the building of railways was controlled by the Government. This avoided the duplication of routes that was seen in the United Kingdom and meant that the large cities and towns were connected.
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'AnvilleJean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (ʒɑ̃ batist buʁgiɲɔ̃ dɑ̃vil; born in Paris 11 July 1697 - 28 January 1782) was a French geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. D'Anville became cartographer to the king, who purchased his cartographic materials, the largest collection in France. He made more than 200 maps during his lifetime, which are characterized by a careful, accurate work largely based on original research.
Jacques-Joseph Champollion-FigeacJacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (ʃɑ̃pɔljɔ̃ fiʒak), also known as Champollion l'aîné ('the Elder'; 5 October 1778 – 9 May 1867) was a French archaeologist, elder brother of Jean-François Champollion (decipherer of the Rosetta Stone). He was born at Figeac in the département of Lot. He became professor of Greek and librarian at Grenoble. His research in Grenoble in 1803 revealed the existence of a Merovingian crypt under the church of St. Laurent. He was compelled to retire in 1816 on account of the part he had taken during the Hundred Days.
Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de BarthélemyAnatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy (1 July 1821 - 27 June 1904) was a French archaeologist and numismatist. He was born at Reims in 1821, and died at Ville d'Avray in 1904. In collaboration with J. Geslin de Bourgogne he published Études sur la Révolution en Bretagne in 1858, and between 1855 and 1879 an exhaustive work in six volumes on the Anciens évêchés de Bretagne; histoire et monuments. In 1880 appeared the Choix de documents inédits sur l'histoire de la ligue en Bretagne, by himself alone.
Émile Henriot (writer)Émile Henriot (emil ɑ̃ʁjo; 3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic. A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the First World War. He first wrote as a journalist for Temps in the inter-war period. He became literary critic for Monde, the heir of Temps on the Liberation of France, and for them coined the term 'nouveau roman' in 1957. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1946 at the same time as Édouard Le Roy.
André Pelletier (historian)André Pelletier (11 January 1937) is a French historian and archaeologist, a professor and specialist of ancient Rome. Agrégé of history, Doctor of Letters in 1972, he directed the excavations of Vienne for 15 years, the site to which he devoted his doctoral thesis. In 1963 and 1964, he uncovered Roman mosaics in the old hospital sector. He searched the Odeon from 1970 to 1976, in collaboration with P. Senay, and under his direction only from 1973. In 1974 then in 1982, he published two monographs summarizing current knowledge on ancient Vienne.
Henri-Jean Guillaume MartinHenri-Jean Guillaume "Henri" Martin (ɑ̃ʁi ʒɑ̃ ɡijom maʁtɛ̃; 5 August 1860 – 12 November 1943) was a French painter. Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1917, he is known for his early 1920s work on the walls of the Salle de l'Assemblée générale, where the members of the Conseil d'État meet in the Palais-Royal in Paris. Other notable institutions that have featured his Post-Impressionist paintings in their halls through public procurement include the Élysée Palace, Sorbonne, Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Palais de Justice de Paris, as well as Capitole de Toulouse, although the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux and Musée des Augustins also have sizeable public collections.
Igor and Grichka BogdanoffIgor Youriévitch Bogdanoff (iɡɔʁ juʁi.evitʃ bɔɡdanɔf; 29 August 1949 – 3 January 2022) and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff (ɡʁeɡwaʁ ɡʁiʃka; 29 August 1949 – 28 December 2021) were French twin television presenters, producers, and essayists who, from the 1970s on, presented various subjects in science fiction, popular science, and cosmology. They were involved in a number of controversies, most notably the Bogdanov affair, which brought to light the fact that the brothers had written nonsensical advanced physics papers that were nonetheless published in reputable scientific journals.
Frédéric AiraultFrédéric Airault (fʁedeʁik ɛʁo; born 18 May 1868 in Paris) was a French engineer and dirigible pilot who was technical director of a number of automobile and aviation firms before the First World War. He enrolled at the École des Arts et Métiers campus in Angers from 1884 gaining his diplôme d'ingénieur in 1887. Airault served with the French Navy for five years, and in 1892 he joined the Société française de constructions mécaniques.
