Robert R. WarneckeRobert R. Warnecke was a noted French electrical engineer. Warnecke was director of research at the Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil (CSF) in Paris. He received the 1954 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his many valuable contributions and scientific advancements in the field of electron tubes, and in particular, the magnetron class of traveling wave tubes." Warnecke, R.R., Kleen, W., Lerbs, A., Dohler, O., Huber, H., "The Magnetron-Type Traveling-Wave Amplifier Tube", Proceedings of the IRE, Volume: 38, Issue: 5, May 1950, pages 486-495.
Directorate-General for External SecurityThe General Directorate for External Security (Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure, DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 2 April 1982. The DGSE safeguards French national security through intelligence gathering and conducting paramilitary and counterintelligence operations abroad, as well as economic espionage. It is headquartered in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Dominican CreolesSaint Dominicans (Saint-Domingais), or simply Dominicans (Domingais), also known as Saint Dominguans, or Dominguans, are the people who lived in the French colony of Saint-Domingue before the Haitian Revolution. Dominican Creoles formed an ethnic group native to Saint-Domingue, they were all of the people who were born in Saint Domingue. The Creoles were well educated, and they created much art, such as the famed St. Dominican French Opera; their society prized manners, good breeding, tradition, and honor.
Pierre RedonPierre Redon is a French avant-garde music composer and transdisciplinary artist. He is also an author, musician, producer, photographer, filmmaker, known for Marche Sonore and founder of the multimedia studio Les Soeurs Grées. From 2003 onwards, through the practice of field recording, sound in landscape becomes a central axis of his art, and he brings into play the relationship to the landscape, which he defines as a border; a state of awareness of the sensory relationship to the environment.
