Batterie de BouviersThe Batterie de Bouviers is located in the commune of Guyancourt, Yvelines, France. It is a former fortification built beginning in 1879 and occupied by the army until 1932. From 1933 it was leased by the Hispano Suiza company as a factory, surrounded by other industrial structures. The site was abandoned by Hispano Suiza in 1990, and was sold by the Ministry of Defense in 1999. In 2006 the battery became the "Cafe Musiques", surrounded by office buildings and a music school. In 1870 France was partly occupied by the Prussian army.
Louis RibouletLouis Riboulet (Saint-Alban-d'Ay, January 15, 1871 – 1944) was a French pedagogue, writer and professor of philosophy in Notre-Dame de Valbenoîte, author of several works about teaching methods. Riboulet made his first studies at Marist Brothers school in his homeland. In 1886, he entered the seminary of the same religious congregation in Saint-Genis-Laval and three years after, gets the title schoolteacher, by examining the state. Receiving an invitation, he went to North America, where he remains until 1914.
Amy DahanAmy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change. Dahan earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1979 and taught mathematics at the University of Amiens until 1983, when she became a researcher for the CNRS. She has also taught at the École Polytechnique, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and Université libre de Bruxelles. She earned a second doctorate in the history of mathematics in 1990, and is an emeritus member of the Alexandre Koyré Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology.
Philippe BordeynePhilippe Bordeyne (born December 21, 1959) is a French priest, academic and theologian, and President of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. Bordeyne previously served as dean of Theologicum from 2006 to 2011 and rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris (Institut Catholique de Paris — ICP) from 2011 to 2021. Bordeyne has been a Knight of the Legion of Honour since December 31, 2014. Bordeyne was born in Paris in 1959.
Bernard FriotBernard Friot is a French sociologist and economist. He is (since 2009) an emeritus professor of Sociology, and previously taught at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. He's been a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) since 1970. He began his academic career in 1971 at the University Institutes of Technology of the University of Lorraine as an assistant and then as a lecturer in economics. His economics PhD thesis relates to the building up of the French social security system between 1920 and 1980.
Louis BoisgibaultLouis Boisgibault (born June 30, 1962) is a French higher education director, corporate director, professor, researcher and author known for his publications on energy transition in the EMEA Region. He works as director of development and cooperations, full-time faculty member, at North American Private University in Sfax, Tunisia. Boisgibault was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He graduated in 1984 with a master's degree in economics and management from Université Paris-Dauphine.
Cornelius de PauwCornelius Franciscus de Pauw or Cornelis de Pauw (dəˈpʌu; Corneille de Pauw; 18 August 1739 — 5 July 1799) was a Dutch philosopher, geographer and diplomat at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. Although born in Amsterdam, son of Antonius Pauw and Quirina van Heijningen, he spent most of his life in Kleve. Working for the clergy, he nonetheless became familiar with the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Sœur EmmanuelleSœur (Sister) Emmanuelle, N.D.S. (16 November 1908 – 20 October 2008) was a Religious Sister of both Belgian and French origins, noted for her involvement in working for the plight of the poor in Turkey and Egypt. She was honoured with Egyptian citizenship in 1991. She was born Madeleine Cinquin in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a French father, Jules Cinquin, and a Belgian mother, Berthe Lenssens. Her parents were wealthy lingerie manufacturers; their background was from Saint-Omer.
René TruhautRené Truhaut (May 23, 1909 – May 10, 1994) was a French toxicologist. He was made chairman of the department of toxicology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He is known for having introduced the concept of daily intake in 1956, and for coining the term "ecotoxicology" (in 1969) which defined it as "the branch of toxicology concerned with the study of toxic effects, caused by natural or synthetic pollutants, to the constituents of ecosystems, animal (including human), vegetable and microbial, in an integral context”.
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.
