Philippe CouvreurPhilippe Couvreur, (born 29 November 1951 in Schaerbeek, Belgium), is a jurist specialized in international law. He served as the Registrar of the International Court of Justice in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 2000 to 2019. After a classical education at the Collège Jean XXIII in Brussels, Philippe Couvreur studied law at Notre-Dame de la Paix University in Namur and at the Université catholique de Louvain, and international and European law at King's College London, at the Complutense University of Madrid and at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Aline Réveillaud de LensAline Réveillaud de Lens (born March 2, 1881, in Paris, died February 10, 1925, in Fez), was a French novelist and painter who lived and worked in Tunisia and Morocco. She signed her works A. R. de Lens, A.-R. de Lens and Aline de Lens. De Lens was the first of five children of Emile Delens (the spelling of the family name was officially changed in 1921). Her father was a famous Parisian surgeon. The well-off family provided the children with an artistic education typical of the time: de Lens played the violin and drew.
Jean Charles Léonard de SismondiJean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi, (ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl leɔnaʁ də sismɔ̃di; 9 May 1773 – 25 June 1842), whose real surname was Simonde, was a Swiss historian and political economist, who is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas. His Nouveaux principes d'économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population (1819) represents the first liberal critique of laissez-faire economics.
Science & Vie JuniorScience & Vie Junior is a French science magazine targeting children. The magazine is published by Mondadori France, a subsidiary of the Italian media company Mondadori. The headquarters of the magazine is in Paris. Science & Vie Junior was started in 1989. The magazine is published on a monthly basis. The magazine is a spin-off of Science & Vie made for teenagers. In 2010, it won the Grand prix des Médias. In 2012 the circulation of the monthly was 166,451 copies. The magazine has three main parts.
Émaux et CaméesÉmaux et Camées (Enamels and Cameos) is a collection of poetry by the French poet Théophile Gautier. Originally published in 1852 with 18 poems, Émaux et camées grew to include 37 poems in later editions. Whereas Gautier's earlier work was more concerned with romantic aestheticism, the formalism of this last collection is a point of reference for the arrival of Parnassianism.
LanderneauLanderneau (lɑ̃dɛʁno; Landerne, lãnˈdɛrne) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. It lies at the mouth of the Elorn River which divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, east of Brest. The name is from Lan Terneo and can mean "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan (Tyrnog)": allegedly a Welshman who also had llans in the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales and in Somerset, and who moved to Brittany in the 7th century. Lann means a religious sacred place.
Thomas William Marshall (painter)Thomas William Marshall was an English post-impressionist painter and water colorist, born on at Donisthorpe in England. He died on in Paris. He painted landscapes, portraits, nudes and produced watercolours, in Paris, in Île-de-France, in Normandy, on the French Riviera and in Corsica. Between 1904 and 1914, He exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon d'Automne, as well as the Salon des Indépendants and also at the Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
Abdelkebir KhatibiAbdelkebir Khatibi (عبد الكبير الخطيبي) (11 February 1938 – 16 March 2009) was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. His collection of essays Maghreb pluriel is one of his most notable works. Khatibi was born on 11 February 1938, in the Atlantic port city of El Jadida.
Roger LaouenanRoger Laouenan (28 August 1932 – 30 March 2022) was a French writer and historian. Born into a family with a peasantry background, Laouenan became a journalist with Le Télégramme. He is a friend of Anjela Duval and published her biography. He was the author of the series Les Bretons dans la Grande guerre, a reference for the history of experiences by the Bretons in World War I. Laouenan died in Lannion on 30 March 2022, at the age of 89. La Nuit du pendu (1959) Le Dernier Breton (1978) Anjela Duval (1982) L
Paul JorionPaul Jorion (born 22 July 1946 in Brussels) is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics. Paul was born and raised in Belgium, and has been a professor at the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, Paris VIII and University of California at Irvine. He was a visiting scholar of the "Human Complex Systems" Program at UCLA from 2005 to 2009. He currently lives in France, where he runs a popular blog on financial and economic matters.
