Le Défi Media GroupLe Défi Media Group is a mass media company based in Port Louis, Mauritius. The group's operations include newspapers, magazines, radio and digital media. The newspapers, magazines and radio are mostly published and broadcast in French. The Défi group owns two magazines and some of the leading newspapers in Mauritius. Le Dimanche/L'Hebdo This weekly newspaper are issued on Sunday and published in French Language. Le Défi Foot Newspaper issued on Football/ Soccer.
François Daviet de FoncenexFrançois Daviet (1734-1799) was a military officer and mathematician from Savoy in the 18th century. The family name is sometimes also reported in original sources as Daviet de Foncenex, probably from the original village of the family. Little is known about his life. Born in Savoy, he studied in the Accademia di Torino under the professorship of Lagrange, two years younger than him. In 1759 he was named member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.
L'Art culinaireL'Art culinaire was a biweekly gastronomical magazine for professional chefs founded in Paris in 1882 by Maurice Dancourt, who later used the pseudonym Châtillon-Plessis. Its first issue appeared as a supplement to La Petite Revue illustrée: littéraire, artistique et gastronomique in January 1883. Its editors and contributors included Philéas Gilbert, Auguste Escoffier, and other leading chefs. In the 1890s, it was edited by Châtillon-Plessis and became "the leading professional culinary journal in the world", with contributors across Europe and North America, and a claimed readership of 10,000.
René Le BossuRené Le Bossu or le Bossu (16 March 1631 - 14 March 1680) was a French literary critic. Le Bossu was born in Paris, studied at Nanterre, and in 1649 became one of the regular canons of the Abbey of St Genevieve. His published his first book, Parallèle des principes de la physique d'Aristote et de celle de René Descartes, in 1674. The book aimed to show that the principles of Aristotle and René Descartes were more similar than generally thought. This book was indifferently received.
Jean FourastiéJean Fourastié (ʒɑ̃ fuʁastje; 15 April 1907 in Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nièvre - 25 July 1990 in Douelle, Lot) was a French civil servant, economist, professor and public intellectual. He coined the expression Trente Glorieuses ("the glorious thirty [years]") to describe the period of prosperity that France experienced from the end of World War II until the 1973 oil crisis. Jean Fourastié received his elementary and secondary education at the private Catholic College of Juilly from 1914 to 1925.
Pierre BoutrouxPierre Léon Boutroux (butʁu; 6 December 1880 – 15 August 1922) was a French mathematician and historian of science. Boutroux is chiefly known for his work in the history and philosophy of mathematics. He was born in Paris on 6 December 1880 into a well connected family of the French intelligentsia. His father was the philosopher Émile Boutroux. His mother was Aline Catherine Eugénie Poincaré, sister of the scientist and mathematician Henri Poincaré. A cousin of Aline, Raymond Poincaré was to be President of France.
Gustave Le BonCharles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (ɡystav lə bɔ̃; 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. A native of Nogent-le-Rotrou, Le Bon qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Paris in 1866.
Alexandru Dimitrie XenopolAlexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (alekˈsandru diˈmitri.e kseˈnopol; March 23, 1847, Iași – February 27, 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian credited with authoring the first major synthesis of the history of the Romanian people. His daughter Margareta Xenopol became a well-known Romanian composer. Xenopol was born in Iași. His father was of Jewish origin and a convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, while his mother was of Greek origin.
FuturoscopeFuturoscope, or Parc du Futuroscope (paʁk dy fytyʁɔskɔp), formerly known as Planète Futuroscope, is a French theme park based upon multimedia, cinematographic futuroscope and audio-visual techniques. It has several 3D cinemas and a few 4D cinemas along with other attractions and shows, some of which are the only examples in the world. It is located in the department of Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, north of Poitiers, in the communes of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou and Jaunay-Clan. The park had 1.83 million visitors in 2015.
Gabriel DelafosseGabriel Delafosse (16 April 1796 – 13 October 1878) was a French mineralogist who worked at the Natural History Museum in Paris and for sometime at the University of Paris. He contributed to development of the idea of unit cells in crystallography. The mineral Delafossite is named after him. He was one of the founding members of the Société Geologique de France. Delafosse was born in Saint-Quentin, the son of a magistrate. He was educated locally and at Rheims before joining the École Normal Supérieure and then went to work at the Museum of Natural History from 1816 under René Just Haüy.
