Nicolas LemeryNicolas Lémery (or Lemery as his name appeared in his international publications) (17 November 1645 – 19 June 1715), French chemist, was born at Rouen. He was one of the first to develop theories on acid-base chemistry. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of Christophe Glaser in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures, but following 1683, being a Calvinist, he was obliged to retire to England.
Anarchism in FranceAnarchism in France can trace its roots to thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who grew up during the Restoration and was the first self-described anarchist. French anarchists fought in the Spanish Civil War as volunteers in the International Brigades. According to journalist Brian Doherty, "The number of people who subscribed to the anarchist movement's many publications was in the tens of thousands in France alone.
Jean DelvilleJean Delville, born Jean Libert (19 January 1867 – 19 January 1953), was a Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. Delville was the leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s. He held, throughout his life, the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty. He executed a great number of paintings during his active career from 1887 to the end of the second World War (many now lost or destroyed) expressing his Idealist aesthetic.
Gilbert TrauschGilbert Trausch (20 September 1931 – 3 June 2018) was a Luxembourgish historian. He and other colleagues of the post-World War II generation of Luxembourg historians, such as Paul Margue, brought a new concern for Luxembourg's international relations to their study of its history. Trausch came from a Catholic middle-class family background. His father was an engineer in the steel firm Hadir. Gilbert Trausch attended the Lycée de garçons Luxembourg, where he was influenced by Tony Bourg, and finished school in 1950.
Stephen GilbertStephen Gilbert (15 January 1910 – 12 January 2007) was a painter and sculptor from Scotland. He was one of the few British artists fully to embrace the avant-garde movement in Paris in the 1950s. Gilbert was born in Wormit, in the north-east of Fife, Scotland, of English parents. His father was a commander in the Royal Navy; his grandfather was the sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert. He studied architecture at the Slade School of Art in London from 1929 to 1932, where he befriended fellow student Roger Hilton.
Khirbet el-'OrmehKhirbet el-'Ormeh (خربة العرمة) or Horvat Ormah (חורבת עורמה) is an archaeological site located in the West Bank, around ten kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The site contains the remains of a Hasmonean-Herodian fortress consisting of a fortification wall, rectangular towers constructed in the Hellenistic style, and a series of large cisterns for storing rainwater. The site is in Area B of the West Bank, under partial control of the State of Palestine, and has been designated as a Palestinian Heritage Site.
NewfundNewfund is a venture capital firm focused on early stage investment in France and the United States. Founded in 2008, it had raised more than 230 million euros as of September 2018, mostly from entrepreneurs, business leaders, and family offices. It typically invests between €500,000 and €2m per company. It has repeatedly been listed among the most significant venture capital funds in France. Newfund's geographical scope of investment is in France and the United States, including a dedicated fund in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and the Basque Country initiated in December 2018.
MicroEJMicroEJ (pronounced "micro-EDGE") is a French-American independent software vendor with headquarters in Nantes, France and offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded by Fred Rivard in 2004. It is known for developing MICROEJ VEE, a Virtual Execution Environment for embedded software development and other software development tools such as the software development kit MICROEJ SDK. Fred Rivard founded MicroEJ under the name Industrial Smart Software Technologies (IS2T). MicroEJ established its offices in Boston in 2016.
Fischia il vento"Fischia il vento" ("The Wind Blows") is an Italian popular song whose text was written in late 1943, at the inception of the Resistenza. The tune is based on the Russian song Katyusha (song). Along with Bella ciao it is one of the most famous songs celebrating the Italian resistance, the anti-fascist movement that fought the forces that occupied Italy during World War II.
Armand LemayArmand Henri Georges Lemay (11 October 1873 – 1963) was a French architect, one of the many prominent designers active in Lille during the era of extensive growth before the First World War. Lemay was born in Lille soon after the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the son of a blacksmith, Adolphe François Pierre Lemay. He matriculated to the local Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille where he studied under Emile Vandenburgh, himself a Lille native, who had studied in the atelier of the great Henri Labrouste in the 1850s at the central Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
