Nicole MosconiNicole Mosconi (2 June 1942 – 7 February 2021) was a French philosopher and professor. A specialist in educational questions, she was a member of the Institut Émilie-du-Châtelet from 2006 until her death. Mosconi, née Aubineau, graduated from the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in 1961 with an agrégation in philosophy. She earned a doctorate from Paris Nanterre University in 1986 under the direction of Gilles Ferry with the title "La mixité dans l'enseignement secondaire : un faux-semblant ?" In 1992, she published "Savoir, rapport au savoir et différence des sexes".
École Spéciale des Travaux PublicsÉcole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, du bâtiment et de l'industrie (ESTP Paris) is a French engineering school and grande école located in Paris. The ESTP was founded in 1891 by Léon Eyrolles and was officially recognized by the State in 1921. It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of construction and project management. ESTP Paris is the most prestigious Civil Engineering schools in France. It has trained a total of 24,000 engineers and 7,000 construction site managers.
Haut-IntyamonHaut-Intyamon (Hôt-Enque-amont) is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The municipalities of Albeuve, Lessoc, Montbovon and Neirivue formed it on 1 January 2002. Haut-Intyamon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 9.5% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.
ÉtrembièresÉtrembières (etʁɑ̃bjɛʁ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Étrembières territory is a land extension of long (5 miles), located at foot of mount Salève, and at banks of Arve River, between Annemasse, Gaillard and Bossey communes. The commune has a population of 1600 inhabitants (2006). The Sàleve mount surges at a steep cliff at west producing an inclination to the Arve's river valley. Sàleve mount is composed of two parts. The great Salève (1318 m.
Maquis de l'OisansDuring the Second World War, the Oisans maquis was an important center for the French Resistance, in the Oisans region between the Belledonne range and Grenoble to the north, the Grandes Rousses massif of the Alps and the Croix de Fer pass to the east, the Drac valley to the west and the Barre des Écrins and the Provencal Alps to the south. Oisans contains and follows the Romanche valley from its source to its confluence with the Drac. Topographically, the Romanche basin (a tributary of the Isère) is a particularly deep valley.
François PéronFrançois Auguste Péron (22 August 1775 – 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer. Péron was born in Cérilly, Allier, in 1775, the son of a tailor (not a harness maker as is frequently asserted). Although intended for the priesthood, due to the Revolution, Péron reluctantly joined the 2nd Allier Volunteer Battalion in 1792 and helped defend besieged Landau. In the following year he was wounded and taken prisoner by Prussian forces near Hochspeyer in the Pfalzwald.
Gustave ThibonGustave Thibon (tibɔ̃; 2 September 1903 – 19 January 2001) was a French philosopher. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times by Édouard Delebecque, in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1968. Although essentially self-taught (he left school at the age of thirteen), Thibon was an avid reader – especially of poetry, in French, Provençal and Latin. He was very impressed by the First World War, which led him to hate patriotism and democracy.
Marie-Thérèse CheroutreMarie-Thérèse Cheroutre (17 May 1924 – 4 January 2020) was a French historian and professor of philosophy. She served as general commissioner of Guides de France from 1953 to 1979. Cheroutre was born in 1924. She discovered Scouting just before World War II. After she obtained a degree in philosophy, Cheroutre briefly worked as a teacher. She then moved to Paris became general commissioner of the Guides de France, summoned by Olave Baden-Powell, where she served from 1953 to 1979.
1966 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley.
Ambérieu-en-BugeyAmbérieu-en-Bugey (ɑ̃beʁjø ɑ̃ byʒɛ, byʒe; Ambèriô) is a commune in the department of Ain, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It is the largest town in the arrondissement of Belley and the capital of the Canton of Ambérieu-en-Bugey which consists of 8 communes with a total of 21,226 inhabitants in 2007 with 17,466 inhabitants in its own urban area in 2010. It is also the capital of the historic region of Bugey. Its inhabitants are known as Ambarrois or Ambarroises.
