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Faivre
Faivre is a French surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 90.8% of all known bearers of the surname ''Faivre'' were residents of France (frequency 1:4,311), 3.7% of the United States (1:564,455) and 2.7% of Switzerland (1:17,361). In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,311) in the following regions: * 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:447) * 2. Mayotte (1:1,888) * 3. French Polynesia (1:2,529) * 4. New Caledonia (1:2,936) * 5. Réunion (1:3,441) * 6. Grand Est (1:3,696) People * Antoine Faivre (1934–2021), French scholar * Florence Faivre (born 1983), Thai actress and model * Guillaume Faivre (born 1987), Swiss football player * Jacques Faivre (1932-2020), French football player * Virginie Faivre Virginie Favre (born September 6, 1982) is a Swiss freestyle skier. She is the reigning FIS World Champion with her gold from 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. She is the President of the organizing committee for the 2020 Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Faivre
Florence Vanida Faivre ( th, ฟลอเรนซ์ วนิดา เฟเวอร์; born 8 June 1983) is a French and Thai actress and model. She began her career as a teen television hostess in Thailand, and later branched into modelling and acting, making her film debut starring in the 2004 film '' The Siam Renaissance''. She later moved to the United States, and has appeared in several films and television series. Life and career Faivre was born in Bangkok to a French father and a Thai mother. She grew up in Aix-en-Provence in France, and moved to Thailand with her family when she was eight years old. At thirteen years of age, she started working as a television host for ''Teen Talk'' and ''E for Teen''. A year later, she started modelling work. After graduating from high school in Thailand, she was cast as Maneechan, the main character in ''The Siam Renaissance'', a 2004 film adaptation of the novel ''Thawiphop''. The film was at that time "the second largest Thai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Faivre
Guillaume Faivre (born 20 February 1987) is a Swiss former professional football goalkeeper. He played his entire career in Switzerland and is mostly known for his time at FC Thun, before he ended his career at BSC Young Boys in the Swiss Super League The Swiss Super League (known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a Swiss professional league in the top tier of the Swiss football league system and has been played in its current format since the 2003–04 season ... on 30 March 2022. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Faivre, Guillaume Living people 1987 births Footballers from Bern Swiss men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players FC Vaduz players Swiss expatriate men's footballers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein FC Wil players FC Thun players BSC Young Boys players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Faivre
Antoine Faivre (5 June 1934 – 19 December 2021) was a French scholar of Western esotericism. Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the ''Cahiers del Hermétisme'' and of ''Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme'', and was with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal ''Aries''. Thought Antoine Faivre affirmed occultism, gnosticism and hermeticism share a set of common characteristics that include the faith in the existence of secret and syncretistic concordances -both symbolic and real- between the " macrocosm and the microcosm, the seen and the unseen, and indeed all that is". Those doctrines believe in alchemic Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Faivre
Jacques Faivre (25 November 1932 – 13 August 2020) was a French professional footballer. He was born in Bourg-en-Bresse. External linksProfile 1932 births 2020 deaths Sportspeople from Bourg-en-Bresse Footballers from Ain French men's footballers [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Faivre
Virginie Favre (born September 6, 1982) is a Swiss freestyle skier. She is the reigning FIS World Champion with her gold from 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. She is the President of the organizing committee for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR .... References External links FIS-Ski.com Profile 1982 births Living people Swiss female freestyle skiers Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic freestyle skiers of Switzerland Presidents of the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games Swiss sports executives and administrators 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany, Occi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.). , coordinates = , largest_city = Zürich , official_languages = , englishmotto = "One for all, all for one" , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , religion = , demonym = , german: Schweizer/Schweizerin, french: Suisse/Suissesse, it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Federalism, Federal assembly-independent Directorial system, directorial republic with elements of a direct democracy , leader_title1 = Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council , leader_name1 = , leader_title2 = , leader_name2 = Walter Thurnherr , legislature = Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections of December 2015, electing 100 members to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region covers an area of and eight departments; it had a population of 2,811,423 in 2017. Its prefecture and largest city is Dijon, although the regional council sits in Besançon, making Bourgogne-Franche-Comté one of two regions in France (along with Normandy) in which the prefect does not sit in the same city as the regional council. Toponymy The text of the territorial reform law gives interim names for most of the merged regions, combining the names of their constituent regions separated by hyphens. Permanent names would be proposed by the new regional councils an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayotte
Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is located in the northern part of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Southeastern Africa, between Northwestern Madagascar and Northeastern Mozambique. Mayotte consists of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Maore), a smaller island, Petite-Terre (or Pamanzi), as well as several islets around these two. Mayotte is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for immigration. Mayotte's land area is and, with its 299,348 people according to January 2022 official estimates, is very densely populated at 800 inhabitants per km2 (2,073 per sq mi). The biggest city and prefecture is Mamoudzou on Grande-Terre. The Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi International Airport is located on the neighbouring is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze") , anthem = , song_type = Regional anthem , song = " Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui" , image_map = French Polynesia on the globe (French Polynesia centered).svg , map_alt = Location of French Polynesia , map_caption = Location of French Polynesia (circled in red) , mapsize = 290px , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , established_title = Protectorate proclaimed , established_date = 9 September 1842 , established_title2 = Territorial status , established_date2 = 27 October 1946 , established_title3 = Collectivity status , established_date3 = 28 March 2003 , established_title4 = Country status (nominal title) , established_date4 = 27 February 2004 , official_languages = French , regional_languages = , capital = Papeete , coordinates = , largest_city = Fa'a'ā , demonym = French Polynesian , ethnic_groups = 66.5% unmixed Polynesians7.1% mixed Polynesians9.3% Demis1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
