Georges ChenetGeorges Chenet (13 June 1881 - 31 May 1951) was a French archeologist from Argonne who participated in excavation in Syria. Chenet served in the French infantry during the First World War. He became the last Master tiler at Claon, where he was also elected mayor, serving in that office from de 1929 to 1939. Chenet started his career as a specialist of Gallo-Roman pottery in Argonne, with no academic credentials or diploma. His work in the region focuses on the Gallo-Roman ceramics of Argonne, on the Merovingian cemetery of Lavoye and on the prehistory of the upper Aisne valley.
Dezallier d'ArgenvilleThe family of Dezallier d'Argenville produced two writers and connoisseurs, father and son, in the course of the 18th century. The father, Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765) is now best known for writing the fullest French treatise on the French formal garden style of his lifetime, as well as books on natural history, and as a significant collector of old master prints. His son, Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville (1723–1796), wrote successful guides to Paris and its monuments, as well as books on natural history, a biographical collection on architects and sculptors, and other subjects.
Museum of Art and Archeology of PérigordThe Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord, often abbreviated MAAP, is a municipal museum located in Périgueux. It is the oldest museum in the Dordogne department and it includes over 2,000 square metres of permanent exhibition. A first museum was established in 1804 in the city's Jesuit chapel by Count Wlgrin de Taillefer. In 1808, the increasing collection was moved to the Vomitorium of the arena of Périgueux and thence took the name of Vésunien Museum. Count Wlgrin de Taillefer died on February 2, 1833.
Gilbert RenaultGilbert Renault (August 6, 1904 – July 29, 1984), known by the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy, was a notable French secret agent active in World War II, and was known under various pseudonyms such as Raymond, Jean-Luc, Morin, Watteau, Roulier, Beauce and Rémy. Gilbert Renault was born in Vannes, France, the oldest child of a Catholic family of nine children. His father was a professor of Philosophy and English, and later the inspector general of an insurance company.
La Femme au ChevalLa Femme au Cheval (also known as Woman with Horse, L'Écuyère and Kvinde med hest) is a large oil painting created toward the end of 1911, early 1912, by the French artist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants (20 March–16 May) in 1912 and the Salon de la Section d'Or, 1912. The following year La Femme au Cheval was reproduced in The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations by Guillaume Apollinaire (1913).
Myriam BenraadMyriam Benraad is a French political scientist. She specializes in the politics of the Arab world. Benraad graduated from the Institut d'études politiques in 2002. She then received her PhD in political science from the same institution in 2011. Benraad was an early scholar of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, chronicling its accumulation of power beginning in 2006 and its centrality in the evolution and reconfigurations of power that have occurred in Iraq since then.
Cap-de-la-MadeleineCap-de-la-Madeleine is a former city in Quebec, Canada at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River and the St. Lawrence River. It was amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002. Population (2006 census) 33,022. Cap-de-la-Madeleine was founded March 20, 1651. The establishment was named by Jacques de La Ferté, who was abbot of Sainte-Madeleine de Châteaudun in France. The city is famous for its basilica, Basilique Notre-Dame du Cap, dedicated to Our Lady of the Cape.
Jeanne GaillardJeanne Gaillard (23 December 1909 – 19 September 1983) was a French historian and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was born at La Rochelle. Her father, a career officer, having been killed during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, she grew up at Béziers and received a scholarship to enable her to study history at Montpellier. After graduating in 1930, she became a teacher, holding positions at Guéret and Toulouse and, in 1936, at the Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, where she continued until 1950.
East African CommunityThe East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of seven countries in the Great Lakes region of East Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republics of Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda. Évariste Ndayishimiye, the president of Burundi, is the current EAC chairman. The organisation was founded in 1967, collapsed in 1977, and was revived on 7 July 2000.
Marie-Jo BonnetMarie-Josèphe Bonnet (born 1949 in Deauville) is a French specialist in the history of women, history of art, and history of lesbians. She has also published books in the history of the French resistance and occupation. Bonnet obtained a BA in history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and went on to get her Master and PhD from Paris Diderot University. Working with Michelle Perrot she published her thesis, Romantic Relations between women of the 16th and 20th centuries (Les relations amoureuses entre les femmes du xvie au xxe siècle), in 1995.
