Diane LamoureuxDiane Lamoureux (born 20 October 1954) is a Canadian professor, essayist, and writer. She serves as Professor of Sociology in the Political Science Department of Laval University in Quebec. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics, sociology, and feminism. In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Dominique MaingueneauDominique Maingueneau (born 1950) is a French linguist, emeritus Professor at Sorbonne University (Paris). His research focuses on discourse analysis. It associates a pragmatic outlook on discourse with linguistic «enunciation» theories and some aspects of Michel Foucault's line of thought. Maingueneau studied linguistics and philosophy at the "École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud" (1970-1974) and at the University of Paris 10 (now Paris Nanterre University).
Pêr-Jakez HeliasPêr-Jakez Helias, baptised Pierre-Jacques Hélias, nom de plume Pierre-Jakez Hélias (1914–1995) was a Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer for radio who worked in the French and Breton languages. For many years he directed a weekly radio programme in the Breton language and co-founded a summer festival at Quimper which became the Festival de Cornouaille. Helias was born in 1914 in Pouldreuzig, Penn-ar-Bed, Brittany. His father, Pierre-Alain Hélias, was a native of the nearby village of Plozévet.
Gouffre BergerThe Gouffre Berger is a cave in the French alps within the commune of Engins high on the Vercors Plateau. It was discovered on 24 May 1953 by Joseph Berger, Bouvet, Ruiz de Arcaute and Marc Jouffrey. From 1953 to 1963, it was regarded as the deepest cave in the world at , relinquishing this title to the previous contender, Pierre Saint Martin, in 1964, after further exploration. The Gouffre Berger is now ranked 39th deepest cave in the world, and the 4th in France.
André Éric LétourneauAndré Éric Létourneau is a French Canadian media and transmedia artist, researcher, author, musician, composer, curator and professor based primarily in Montreal and Saint-Alponse-Rodriguez, Québec, Canada. He uses several pseudonyms, most notably Benjamin Muon and algojo)(algojo. His work has been associated with the development of performance art, radio art, process art, sound poetry and experimental music.
Musées nationaux récupérationNational Museum Recuperation (MNR or Musées nationaux récupération) is the French state organization that manages the looted artworks recovered from Nazi Germany and returned to France after the Second World War. Of 61,000 looted artworks returned to France, 2143 remain in custody of the MNR. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, 61,000 plundered artworks recovered by the Allied Monuments Men in Germany were returned to France which was responsible for restituting them to their original owners.
Claude TresmontantClaude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 – 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher, Hellenist, and theologian. Claude Tresmontant taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science. He was given the Maximilien-Kolbe Prize in 1973 and the Grand Prix of the Academy of Moral and Political Science for his complete works in 1987. fr Essai sur la pensée hébraïque, éd. O.E.I.L., 1953 (republishing 1956). fr Études de métaphysique biblique, éd.
Charles DesnoyerCharles-Louis-François Desnoyer, or Desnoyers, (6 April 1806 – 6 February 1858) was a 19th-century French actor, playwright and theatre manager. He also wrote under the pen name Anatole de Beaulieu. He made his debut as actor and author in 1827 with a comédie en vaudeville, Je serai comédien. He wrote many plays, comedies, dramas and melodramas for theaters on the boulevard du Crime in collaboration with other authors such as Eugène Nus, Léon Beauvallet or Adolphe d'Ennery.
Pierre-Jean SouriacPierre-Jean Souriac is a contemporary French historian, a Lecturer in Modern History at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. Souriac is a specialist of history of religions, and more precisely religious conflicts in the 16th century and their extension in local political contexts, of military history, public finances and political power under the Ancien Régime and the provincial and municipal institutions in Ancien Régime France. La double fidélité des places protestantes sous Louis XIII : au roi et au parti, in Astoul, Guy, Chareyre, Philippe (dir.
Alain LipietzAlain Lipietz (born September 19, 1947 as Alain Guy Lipiec) is a French engineer, economist and politician, a former Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party. He has, however, been suspended from the party since 25 March 2014 and is an elected local politician in Val de Bièvre, Paris, France. Alain Lipietz was raised in Paris in a middle class, Leftist family. His mother was French and his father was a Jewish Pole, who had fled antisemitism in Poland at the age of two and arrived in France in 1924.
