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1997 In France
Events from the year 1997 in France. Incumbents * President of France, President: Jacques Chirac * Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister: Alain Juppé (until 3 June), Lionel Jospin (starting 3 June) Events *27 January – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis. *25 May – 1997 French legislative election, Legislative Election held. *1 June – 1997 French legislative election, Legislative Election held. *31 August – Diana, Princess of Wales is Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, killed in a car crash in Paris. *3 November – In France, striking truck drivers blockade ports during a pay dispute. Arts and literature *6 September – A Jean Michel Jarre List of Jean-Michel Jarre concerts#Oxygene in Moscow, Oxygene in Moscow concert, celebrating the city's 850th anniversary, draws 3.5 million people. Sport *17 April – 1997 Paris–Roubaix, Paris–Roubaix cycling race won by Frédéric Guesdon. *29 June – 1997 French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (french: Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces. As the presidency is the supreme magistracy of the country, the position is the highest office in France. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, in addition to their relation with the Prime Minister of France, prime minister and Government of France, have over time differed with the various constitutional documents since the French Second Republic, Second Republic. The president of the French Republic is the ''Ex officio member, ex officio'' Co-Princes of Andorra, co-prince of Andorra, grand master of the Legion of Honour and of the Ordre national du Mérite, National Order of Merit. The officeholder is also honorary proto-canon of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, although some have rejected the title in the past. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérémie Boga
Jérémie Boga (born 3 January 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Atalanta. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team. Coming through Chelsea's youth system, Boga spent the 2015–16 season on loan to Rennes and the 2016–17 season with Granada, also on loan, before making his first-team debut for Chelsea in August 2017. He then joined EFL Championship club Birmingham City on loan for the remainder of the season. In 2018, he moved to Italian club Sassuolo on a permanent deal. Internationally, Boga represented his native France up to under-19 level, but then chose to play for his parents' country, Ivory Coast, at senior level. He was also eligible to represent England. Club career Chelsea In 2008, Boga joined Chelsea from ASPTT Marseille as a youngster when he moved with his family to London, where his father worked. He was educated at Richard Challoner School in New Malden. After impressing in Chelsea's Academy, he earn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Pierre-Henri Teitgen (29 May 1908 – 6 April 1997) was a French lawyer, professor and politician.Johnson, Douglas (9 April 1997) ''The Independent''. Retrieved 21 January 2016 Teitgen was born in Rennes, Brittany. Taken POW in 1940, he played a major role in the French Resistance.Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération"Pierre-Henri Teitge" Retrieved 21 January 2016 . Teitgen's father, Henri Teitgen (1882–1965), was a senior politician of the centre-right MRP (party). A member of French Parliament from 1945 to 1958 for Ille-et-Vilaine, Pierre-Henri was president of the Popular Republican Movement (Christian Democratic Party) from 1952 to 1956. He was Minister of Information in 1944 (one of the founders of the daily ''Le Monde''), Minister of Justice in 1945–1946 (in charge of the purges from government of the Vichy regime's followers and of Nazi collaborators), Minister of Defence in 1947–48 in Robert Schuman's government at the time of the insurrectional strikes. In May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Guillevic
Eugène Guillevic ( Carnac, Morbihan, France, August 5, 1907 Carnac – March 19, 1997 Paris) () was a French poet. Professionally, he went by the single name ''Guillevic''. Life He was born in the rocky landscape and marine environment of Brittany. His father, a sailor, was a policeman and took him to Jeumont ( Nord) in 1909, Saint-Jean-Brévelay (Morbihan) in 1912, and Ferrette (Haut-Rhin) in 1919. After a BA in mathematics, he was placed by the exams of 1926, in the Administration of Registration (Alsace, Ardennes). Appointed in 1935 to Paris as senior editor at the Directorate General at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, he was assigned in 1942 to control the economy. He was from 1945 to 1947 in the Cabinets of Ministers Francis Billoux (National Economy) and Charles Tillon (Reconstruction). In 1947 after the ouster of Communist ministers, he returned to the Inspector General of Economics, where his work included studies of the economy and planning, until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Foccart
Jacques Foccart (31 August 1913 – 19 March 1997) was a French businessman and politician, best known as a chief adviser to President of France, French presidents on African affairs. He was also a co-founder of the Gaullist Party, Gaullist Service d'Action Civique (SAC) in 1959 with Charles Pasqua, which specialized in covert operations in Africa. From 1960 to 1974, Foccart was Secretary-General for African and Malagasy Affairs under Presidents Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, and was pivotal in maintaining France's sphere of influence in sub-Saharan Africa (or ''Françafrique'') by putting in place a series of cooperation accords with individual African countries and building a dense web of personal networks that underpinned the informal and family-like relationships between French and African leaders. After de Gaulle, Foccart was seen as the most influential man of the French Fifth Republic, Fifth Republic. But through SAC, he was considered to be involved in various cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Jean-Dominique Bauby (; 23 April 1952 – 9 March 1997) was a French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ''Elle''. Early life and career Bauby was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and grew up in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, on Rue du Mont-Thabor, north of the Tuileries Garden, living in the building where Alfred de Musset had lived. He began his journalism career at ''Combat'' and then ''Le Quotidien de Paris''. He received his first by-line the day Georges Pompidou died in 1974. At age 28, he was promoted to editor-in-chief of the daily ''Le Matin de Paris'', before becoming editor of the cultural section of ''Paris Match''. He then joined the editorial staff of ''Elle'', and later became the magazine's editor. Bauby was in a relationship with Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld for ten years. They had a son and a daughter together. They separated when he began a relationship with Florence Ben Sadoun, also a journalist at ''Elle''. Memoir On 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled ''The Year 1905'' to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland. Canada and the U.S. expand west, with the Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces and the founding of Las Vegas. 1905 is also the year in which Albert Einstein, at this time resident in Bern, publishes his four ''Annus Mirabilis'' papers in ''Annalen der Physik'' (Leipzig) (March 18, May 11, June 30 and September 27), laying the foundations for more than a century's study of theoretical physics. Events January * January 1 – In a major defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, General Anatoly Stessel of the Russian Army surrender Port Arthur, located in mainland China, to the Japanese. * January 3 – Japan take former posses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershon Liebman
Gershon Liebman (1905 – 8 March 1997) was a leader of the Novardok Yeshiva movement after World War II, and ''rosh yeshiva'' of Novardok in France, where he created 40 Torah institutions. He devoted his life to rebuilding the Novardok style of '' musar'' and service of God through intensive work on one's personal character traits after the Novardok movement was largely destroyed in the Holocaust. Biography Before World War II Liebman was a student of the Novardok Yeshiva. Before World War II, he was part of the rabbinical leadership of the Novardok Yeshiva in Białystok with Rabbi Avraham Yoffen. He was known there as Rav Gershon Ostropoler. He was a friend of Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky and accompanied him from Białystok to Vilna for Kanievsky's engagement with the sister of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz. During World War II During the war, Liebman endured many horrors, first at the hands of the Soviets and later by the Nazis. In 1941, before he was sent to the camps, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Edern Hallier
Jean-Edern Hallier (1 March 193612 January 1997) was a French writer, critic and editor. After his exclusion from the literary review ''Tel Quel'', which he co-founded with Philippe Sollers, Hallier went on to publish novels and satirical pamphlets, and created the controversial newspaper ''L'Idiot International.'' Overview The son of World War I French General André Hallier, Jean Hallier was born in 1936. While the Hallier family has ancient Breton roots on his father's side, he later claimed in his novel ''L'évangile du fou'' (1986) that his mother had Alsatian and Jewish heritage. He was baptised in the village of Edern, whose name he later added to his first name Jean. Hallier, returning to France after World War II, first studied at the Pierre-qui-vire convent and then at a Paris lycée and at the University of Oxford . He travelled extensively, even getting shipwrecked in the Persian gulf, and in 1960 founded the literary review ''Tel Quel'' along with Philippe So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Ferrari
Carla Ferrari (born 1996) is a young French chef and TV presenter. Biography Ferrari has been cooking since she was six years old. Although she was born to a family without a preference for cooking,"Une jeune prodige des fourneaux sur TF1" ''Ouest France'', March 10, 2010. Accessed August 25, 2010. Ferrari was a candidate in August 2008Aurélie Chaigneau "Carla, la surprise du chef" '' |
Michelito Lagravere
Michel Lagravère Peniche (born December 1, 1997, in Mérida, Yucatán) is a French Mexican bullfighter. Biography He has been plying his trade mostly in Mexico and other Latin American countries due to the age restrictions which prevent him from fighting in Spain and also because a child bullfighter in Latin countries can earn around a hundred thousand dollars a year. The minimum age for bullfighters in Spain is 16 years. Michelito was embroiled in a controversy recently for killing six young bulls in a single fight in the bullring of Mérida, Mexico in a bid to get his name in the Guinness Book of World Records (24 Jan 2009). Animal right activists and child protection groups in the region had objected to such an event but a local judge ruled in its favor after reviewing licenses submitted by Michelito's father. Michelito, who was eleven at the time, killed six calves aged from one to two years old. However, the Guinness World Records said that it was not aware of such an even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garance Le Guillermic
Garance Le Guillermic (born 11 September 1997) is a French former child actress. She starred in six movies but is best known for her role as witty 11-year-old Paloma in Mona Achache's 2009 film ''The Hedgehog'' along with Josiane Balasko. Filmography * 2009: ''The Hedgehog'' (Original title "Le Hérisson") by Mona Achache (as Paloma) * 2008: ''London Mon Amour'' (Original title "Mes Amis, Mes Amours") by Lorraine Lévy Lorraine Lévy (born 29 January 1964) is a French screenwriter, film and stage director, and playwright. She is the sister of writer Marc Levy. Life and career After studying literature and law, Lévy became a screenwriter for Jean-Loup Dabadie ... (as Emilie) * 2007: ''Angie by Olivier Megaton'' (as Angie) * 2006: ''I Hate My Best Friends' Kids'' (Original title "Je Déteste les Enfants des Autres) by Anne Fassio (as Sataya) * 2006: ''Have Mercy on Us All'' (Original title "Pars Vite et Reviens Tard) by Régis Wargnier (as Lucie) Television * 2014: ''Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
