Ma mère l'OyeMa mère l'Oye (English: Mother Goose, literally "My Mother the Goose") is a suite by French composer Maurice Ravel. The piece was originally written as a five-movement piano duet in 1910. In 1911, Ravel orchestrated the work. Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, Sonatine, to their parents).
Georges MenahemGeorges Menahem is a French sociologist and economist whose work employs methods drawn from economics, sociology and statistics. He is a Research Director in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Previously, he had been a senior research fellow in the Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (IRDES), a French research institute specializing in health economics and health statistics. Georges Menahem began his university training at Grenoble University (France) where he graduated in mathematics and physics.
Christophe Chaptal de ChanteloupChristophe Chaptal de Chanteloup Managing Partner of Experience makers and Publishing Director of Design fax. Born in Versailles, (France) on December 26, 1961. Christophe Chaptal de Chanteloup graduated from the ESDI-Creapole School of Industrial Design in 1986. While still a student, he founded Design Service, an industrial design consultancy which quickly became one of the reference agencies in the product design sector.
Missiri mosqueThe Missiri Mosque is a former French military community center inspired by sub-Saharan Islamic architecture. It was constructed in 1928–1930 for the Senegalese Tirailleurs based in military camps in Fréjus, southern France. Although its appearance evokes that of a mosque, its purpose and uses remained secular. The building was included in the supplementary inventory of French historic monuments on 18 June 1987. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (Tirailleurs Sénégalais) was a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army.
Bas-RhinBas-Rhin (bɑ.ʁɛ̃; Alsatian: Unterelsàss, ‘s Unterlànd or ‘s Ingerlànd; traditional Niederrhein; Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) department. Note that both belong to the European Upper Rhine region. It is, with the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine), one of the two departments of the traditional Alsace region which until 1871, also included the area now known as the Territoire de Belfort.
Je te rends ton amour"Je te rends ton amour" (English: "I'm Giving You Your Love Back") is a 1999 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. The second single from her fifth studio album Innamoramento, it was released on 8 June 1999. The song became another top 10 hit in France for Farmer, and its controversial music video gained considerable attention at the time, being censored by several television channels.
Société préhistorique luxembourgeoiseThe Société préhistorique luxembourgeoise (S.P.L.) syndicates people interested in the Prehistory and Protohistory of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. The association currently counts 199 members (2013), of which 34 are from abroad, and is located in the town of Waldbillig. The S.P.L. was founded on June 11, 1979 in Luxembourg-City. The founding members were: Germaine Geiben-Bianchy (Diekirch), Joseph Herr (Diekirch), Marcel Lamesch (Luxembourg-City), Jean Joseph (John. J.
Jean GillibertJean Gillibert (1925 – 31 October 2014) was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, poet, translator, playwright and theatre director. Gillibert graduated from the Paris conservatory in 1945. In 1947, he attended a lecture by Antonin Artaud at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, which had a decisive influence on his career, under the sign of the exploration of madness and theater. A part of his career was devoted to psychoanalysis. Gillibert died on 31 October 2014 in his home in Bourg-la-Reine.
Jacques BouveresseJacques Bouveresse (buvʁɛs; 20 August 1940 – 9 May 2021) was a French philosopher who wrote on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy. Bouveresse was called "an avis rara among the better known French philosophers in his championing of critical standards of thought." He was Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France where until 2010 he held the chair of philosophy of language and epistemology.
Nestor GréhantNestor Louis François Gréhant (2 April 1838 in Laon – 26 March 1910) was a French physiologist. In 1864 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where he later earned a doctorate in natural sciences (1870). He served as a préparateur to Claude Bernard at the faculty of sciences in Paris, and subsequently became director of the laboratory of general physiology at the École pratique des Hautes Études. In Paris, he also served as a professor of physiology at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle.
