Daniel DuguéDaniel Dugué was a French mathematician specializing in probability and statistics. He was born on 22 September 1912 in Saint-Louis in Senegal and died on 10 September 1987 in Paris, France. After finishing high-school studies in Bordeaux, Daniel Dugué was admitted to ENS and with a degree agrégation de mathématiques when he was 21 years old, in 1933. He defended the doctoral dissertation in mathematics when he was 25 years old under the supervision of Georges Darmois and defended it before Émile Borel and Arnaud Denjoy.
Lucien FrançoisLucien François (born 26 March 1934) is a Belgian lawyer. Lucien François joined the University of Liège in 1951, earning Doctor of Law (1956) and Doctor of Social Sciences (1963) degrees. He subsequently studied abroad at the Faculties of Law in Paris, Hamburg and Florence. He taught at the University of Liège (philosophy of law, labour law, criminal law) as associate lecturer (1967), ordinary professor (1970) and extraordinary professor (1985-1999).
Mont-la-VilleMont-la-Ville is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Morges. Mont-la-Ville is first mentioned in 1140 as in Monte Villa. Mont-la-Ville has an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 52.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, 49.
François BœspflugFrançois Bœspflug (May 30, 1945) is a French historian of Christianity and Christian art, in particular of the Middle Ages. He specialises in the iconography of the Bible moralisée. François Bœspflug undertook a scientific curriculum that led him to the l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, where he was a student from 1964 to 1965. From 1969 to 1975, he obtained a degree in scholastic philosophy and a master's degree in theology from the Catholic University of Paris.
Françoise PommaretFrançoise Pommaret (born 1954) is a French ethno-historian and Tibetologist. Pommaret grew up in the Congo. She received her Master of Arts in the history of art and archeology from the Sorbonne University and completed her studies in Tibetan at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientalest (INALCO). Her doctoral thesis on "People who come back from the netherland in the Tibetan cultural areas" received the prix Delalande-Guérineau from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Hubert DamischHubert Damisch (28 April 1928 – 14 December 2017), was a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 until 1996. Damisch studied at the Sorbonne with Maurice Merleau-Ponty and, later, with Pierre Francastel. In 1967 he founded the Cercle d’histoire/théorie de l’art that would later become the CEHTA (Centre d'histoire et théorie des arts) at the EHESS.
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.
Jacques VergèsJacques Vergès (5 March 1925 – 15 August 2013) was a Siamese-born French lawyer and anti-colonial activist. Vergès began as a fighter in the French Resistance during World War II, under Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. After becoming a lawyer, he became well known for his defense of FLN militants during the Algerian War of Independence. He was later involved in a number of controversial and high-profile legal cases, with a series of defendants charged with terrorism, serial murder, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Frédérique Apffel-MarglinFrédérique Apffel-Marglin is a professor emerita of anthropology. She taught at Smith College in Massachusetts. Apffel-Marglin finished high school at the Lycée Regnault, Tangier, Morocco. She received both her B.A. (Mediterranean Studies, 1973) and her Ph.D. (Anthropology, 1980) from Brandeis University. Apffel-Marglin lived in India for several years. She was first a student of Indian Classical Dance (Odissi style) and later did her first field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple in Orissa in the mid-1970s.
Michel DroitMichel Droit (23 January 1923 - 22 June 2000) was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007). After studying at the Faculté des lettres de Paris and Sciences Po, Droit joined the army in 1944 and was wounded near Ulm in April 1945. He took on a career as a press, radio and television journalist after the Second World War and at the 1960s he was the preferred television interviewer of général de Gaulle. His first novel, Plus rien au monde, dates to 1954.
