Maxime Laignel-LavastinePaul-Marie Maxime Laignel-Lavastine, born in Évreux, France on September 12, 1875, from a family originally from Elbeuf, France, and died in Paris on September 5, 1953, was a French psychiatrist. Maxime came from a family of several doctors: his maternal grandfather, Louis Bidault, received the 7th place in the 1842 Paris hospital internship rankings, and his great-uncle, Jacques Daviel, was the inventor of the cataract operation by extraction.
François DupratFrançois Duprat (26 October 1940 – 18 March 1978) was a French essayist and politician, a founding member of the Front National party and part of the leadership until his assassination in 1978. Duprat was one of the main architects in the introduction of Holocaust denial in France. François Duprat was born on 26 October 1940, in Ajaccio, Corsica, and was educated in Bayonne, Toulouse, at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He graduated in history at the Sorbonne, earning a diploma of higher studies in history in 1963.
Comité des forgesThe Comité des forges (Foundry Committee) was an organization of leaders of the French iron and steel industry from 1864 to 1940, when it was dissolved by the Vichy government. It typically took a protectionist attitude on trade issues, and was opposed to social legislation that would increase costs. At times it was influential, particularly during World War I (1914–18), and the Left often viewed it with justified suspicion. However the Comité des forges always suffered from divisions among its members, and the government often ignored its advice.
André DjaouiAndré Djaoui (born in Tunis) is a producer, painter, writer and film director. 1981: L'Amant de Lady Chatterley de Just Jaeckin 1983: Au nom de tous les miens de Robert Enrico 1985: Liberté, égalité, choucroute de Jean Yanne 1986: La famille d'Ettore Scola 1986: Pourvu que ce soit une fille de Mario Monicelli 1987: Trois sœurs de Margarethe von Trotta 1988: Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale de Jean-Pierre Mocky 1990: Les 1001 nuits de Philippe de Broca 1990: La voce della luna de Federico Fellini 2005: Ô Jérusalem de Élie Chouraqui In 1992, André Djaoui co-produced with Antenne 2, Rai 2, RTVE, NHK Japan, Channel 4 UK, USA Warner video, a series of seven Portraits of Scientists, writers, artists, politicians, Philosophers who changed the world.
Great ReplacementThe Great Replacement (Grand Remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory disseminated by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans.
François Louis Isidore ValleixFrançois Louis Isidore Valleix (14 January 1807 in Toulouse – 12 July 1855 in Paris) was a French pediatrician. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1831 he began work as a hospital intern. In 1835 he received his medical doctorate with a thesis on slow asphyxia of the newborn. In 1836 he became médecin du Bureau central, and from 1841 onward, served as médecin des hôpitaux in Paris. He died in 1855 after contracting diphtheria from a sick child. In 1834 he became a member of the Société anatomique de Paris.
The Song of La Palice"The Song of La Palice" (in French: La chanson de la Palisse) is a burlesque song attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye (1641–1728) about alleged feats of French nobleman and military leader Jacques de la Palice (1470–1525). From that song came the French term lapalissade meaning an utterly obvious truth—i.e. a truism or tautology. When you say something obvious, the interlocutor responds '"So would have said La Palice!" (in French: La Palice en aurait dit autant!).
Grand Quartier Général (1914–1919)The Grand Quartier Général (abbreviated to GQG or Grand QG in spoken French) was the general headquarters of the French Army during the First World War. It served as the wartime equivalent of the Conseil supérieur de la guerre and had extensive powers within an area defined by the French parliament. The GQG was activated by parliament on 2 August 1914, after the violation of French borders by German military patrols, and remained in existence until 20 October 1919.
Georges MenahemGeorges Menahem is a French sociologist and economist whose work employs methods drawn from economics, sociology and statistics. He is a Research Director in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Previously, he had been a senior research fellow in the Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (IRDES), a French research institute specializing in health economics and health statistics. Georges Menahem began his university training at Grenoble University (France) where he graduated in mathematics and physics.
Georges-Elia SarfatiGeorges-Elia Sarfati is a philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis. He has translated Viktor E. Frankl. He is the grand-nephew of the sociologist Gaston Bouthoul. G.-E. Sarfati (born in Tunis, 20 October 1957) is a University professor (French linguistic), member of the teaching staff of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, and educational director of the University Center Sigmund Freud in Paris.
