Paul-Louis CouchoudPaul-Louis Couchoud (kuʃu; July 6, 1879, at Vienne, Isère – April 8, 1959, at Vienne) was a French philosopher, a graduate from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, a physician, a man of letters, and a poet. He became well known as an adapter of Japanese haiku into French, an editor of Reviews, a translator, and a writer promoting the German thesis of the non-historicity of Jesus Christ.
Guillaume PikettyGuillaume Piketty (born 1965) is a French historian. His specialty is the 20th century history of Europe, especially the Second World War and the French Resistance. He received his doctorate from Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po Paris) in 1998 for his thesis "Itinéraire intellectuel et politique de Pierre Brossolette" he has specialized in studies of the resister Pierre Brossolette and in the history of the Free French movement during the Second World War.
Maison de la Radio et de la MusiqueMaison de la Radio et de la Musique, nicknamed “maison ronde” (“the round house”) is the headquarters of Radio France. It is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris near the Eiffel Tower. Built in the shape of huge ring 500 meters in circumference, with a central utility tower, the building houses the administrative offices, broadcasting studios, and performance spaces for all of Radio France's national stations and its four permanent ensembles—Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national de France, Chœur de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France.
François BrousseFrançois Brousse (7 May 1913 – 25 October 1995) was a philosophy professor who had mainly taught in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and is the author of some 80 works including poetry, essays (metaphysical, astronomical, historical and esoteric), novels, plays and storybooks. He was a pioneer of the philosophy cafes that were popping up almost everywhere in France at the end of the 20th century. Brousse was born in Perpignan, France and died in Clamart, France. In his approximately 40 poetry books, François Brousse embodies the role of a poet.
Cousin BetteLa Cousine Bette (la kuzin bɛt, Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please Valérie, who leaves him for a well-off merchant named Crevel.
Jehan AlainJehan-Aristide Paul Alain (ʒɑ̃ aʁist alɛ̃; 3 February 1911 – 20 June 1940) was a French organist, composer, and soldier. Born into a family of musicians, he learned the organ from his father and a host of other teachers, becoming a composer at 18, and composing until the outbreak of the Second World War 10 years later. His compositional style was influenced by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy, as well as his interest in music, dance and philosophy of the far east.
Eugène BurnandEugène Burnand (øʒɛn byʁnɑ̃; 30 August 1850 – 4 February 1921) was a prolific Swiss painter and illustrator from Moudon, Switzerland. Born of prosperous parents who taught him to appreciate art and the countryside, he first trained as an architect but quickly realised his vocation was painting. He studied art in Geneva and Paris then settled in Versailles. In the course of his life he travelled widely and lived at various times in Florence, Montpellier, Seppey (Moudon) and Neuchâtel.
Adele RenaultAdele Renault was born in Liège, Belgium. She is a visual artist and muralist, known for her hyper- and photo-realistic paintings from smaller works on canvas and large-scale public pieces. Renault’s work is a combination of traditional and contemporary techniques. With her skills she captures the characteristic beauty of everyday life with precise and detailed craftsmanship. Adele Renault was raised in the Belgian Ardennes and grew up in a musical and creative family.
Joëlle MorosoliJoëlle Morosoli (born 1951) is a French-Canadian sculptor of French and Swiss descent. Her work takes the form either of installations or of architecturally integrated art in public buildings. Most of her works have moving parts, driven by mechanical systems. Born of a French mother, Gisèle Talbot, and a Swiss father, Erwin Morosoli, Joëlle immigrated to Quebec with her family in 1961. Morosoli completed a bachelor's degree in visual arts at Laval University in Quebec City in 1975.
Armand Gautier (chemist)Emile Justin Armand Gautier (23 September 1837, in Narbonne – 27 July 1920, in Cannes) was a French biochemist and dietitian. He studied medicine and sciences at the University of Montpellier, where from 1858 he worked as a préparateur of chemistry. In 1862 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, and for several years worked as an assistant under chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz. In 1869 he became an associate professor and assistant director in Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville's laboratory at the Sorbonne, then from 1875 to 1884, he served as deputy director at the laboratory of chemical biology.
