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Géraud De Cardaillac
Géraud is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Géraud-Pierre-Henri-Julien Bessières (1777–1840), French scientist and diplomat * Géraud de Cordemoy (1626–1684), French philosopher, historian and lawyer * Géraud Duroc (1772–1813), French general noted for his association with Napoleon * Pierre Géraud-Keraod (1917–1997), one of the founders of the Bleimor Scouting movement in 1946 * Géraud Michel de Pierredon (1916–2006), the Ambassador of the Order of Malta to France * Géraud du Puy (died 1420), French Roman Catholic bishop of Montauban, Saint-Flour, Mende and Carcassonne * Géraud Réveilhac (1851–1937), French career officer, Général de division during World War I * Jules-Géraud Saliège (1870–1956), French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Géraud Sénizergues (born 1957), French computer scientist at the University of Bordeaux See also * La Chapelle-Saint-Géraud, commune in the Corrèze department in central France * Saint-Géraud, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud De Cordemoy
Géraud de Cordemoy (6 October 1626 in Paris – 15 October 1684 in Paris) was a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language. Biography Géraud de Cordemoy was born in a family of ancient nobility coming from Auvergne (from the town of Royat). He was the third of four children. His father was a master in arts at the University of Paris named Géraud de Cordemoy who died when he was nine years old. His mother was named Nicole de Cordemoy. As for Géraud, he was a private tutor and a linguist and practised as a lawyer. Géraud de Cordemoy used to haunt the philosophical circles of the capital; he made acquaintance with Emmanuel Maignan and Jacques Rohault. A friend and a protégé of Bossuet who admired Descartes too, Géraud de Cordemoy was appointed ''lecteur'' (tutor) to the Dauphin (son of King Louis XIV), at the same time as Fléchier. He was elected a member of Académie française in 1675. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud Duroc
Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc (born de Michel du Roc; 25 October 1772 – 23 May 1813), 1st Duke of Frioul (''Duc de Frioul''), was a French general and diplomat who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his friendship with Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ..., who appointed him as the first Grand marshal of the palace, the head of the Military Household of the Emperor, Emperor's military household. Early life and education Du Roc was born in Pont-à-Mousson on 25 October 1772, to a family of the ''noblesse de robe'' from the Gévaudan. His father, Claude Du Roc, was a former captain of the dragoons who had retired to Pont-à-Mousson due to hearing loss. Du Roc entered the local military school in 1781, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Géraud-Keraod
Perig (Pierre) Géraud-Keraod (July 1, 1917 – October 21, 1997) was one of the founders of the Bleimor Scouting movement in 1946, and later founder of the ''Scouts d'Europe''. Background He attended the railroad school of Orléans, to become an inspector, and developed training courses. At the end of World War II, he was deputy stationmaster in Étampes, where he avoided being shot by the Wehrmacht. After the war he entered the Ministère de la Reconstruction (Ministry for Rebuilding) and moved his family in Paris. New to the capital, he entered a Celtic Circle, where participants meet each week, welcome newcomers from Brittany and dance and sing together. Among the members of this Celtic Circle were many Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. At this point he and his wife Lizig had the idea to create a ''Centre Scout d'expression bretonne'' (Scout Center of Breton Expression). This center took the name ''Bleimor'', the pen name of the Breton poet Jean-Pierre Calloc'h, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud Michel De Pierredon
Count palatine, Count Géraud Michel de Pierredon (22 April 1916, Magné, Vienne, Magné - 17 November 2006, Magné, Vienne) served as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to France from 1982. Life The son of Count Thierry Michel de Pierredon and Princess Mabel Constance de Polignac, his family were created Papal nobility, papal counts in 1882. The family own :fr:Liste des châteaux de la Vienne, Château de la Roche, near Magné, Vienne, Magné in France, where the ''Museum of the Knights of Malta'' is located. The Count wrote several books on the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and was a Knight Grand Cross, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Malta, Order, and a Grand Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi. His elder daughter, Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon (born 1953), who married firstly in 1995 (divorced) the Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool, 5th Earl of Liverpool, is a Orders, decorations, and medals of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud Du Puy
Géraud du Puy, also known as Géraud du Puy de Miremont (? – September 4, 1420) was a French, Roman-Catholic bishop of Montauban, Saint-Flour, Mende and Carcassonne. He also had a substantial political career. He was perhaps born in Saint-Flour in Auvergne, although this is uncertain. On 13 November 1403, he was elected bishop of Montauban. One year later, on 17 December 1404, he also became bishop of Saint-Flour, although he didn't take office until 25 May 1410. On January 4, 1413 the bishopric of Mende was added, which ''ex officio'' made him also the count of Gévaudan, because of an arrangement in 1307 with the French crown. In May of the same year, his fourth and final title was added, the bishop of Carcassonne. Next to his ecclesiastical career, du Puy had an extensive politic and diplomatic career. In 1415, he attended the Council of Constance The Council of Constance was a 15th-century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud Réveilhac
Géraud François Gustave Réveilhac (16 February 1851 – 26 February 1937) was a French général de division during World War I. He gained infamy for the Souain corporals affair in 1915 when four non-commissioned officers were executed as an example to other troops he commanded who had refused to attack a heavily-defended position on the Western Front. His actions were an inspiration for Humphrey Cobb's novel ''Paths of Glory''; the 1957 film of the same name was made by Stanley Kubrick.Military Directory of 1913 web.genealogie.free.fr In 1916 he was relieved of front line duty. He was made a commander in the French reserves until the end of the war. Early life and career Born on 16 February 1851 in |
Jules-Géraud Saliège
Jules-Géraud Saliège (24 February 1870 – 5 November 1956) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toulouse from 1928 until his death, and was a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism in France. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. For his efforts to protect Jews during the Nazi Holocaust he was recognised as Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Biography Born in Saint-Flour, Jules-Géraud Saliège studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris before being ordained to the priesthood on 21 September 1895. He then taught at the minor seminary in Pleaux until 1903, and at the seminary in Saint-Flour from 1903 to 1907, when he was named its rector. He was made an honorary canon of the cathedral chapter of Saint-Flour on 14 September 1905, before becoming an honorary vicar general on 31 March 1918. During World War I, he served as a military chaplain. On 29 October 1925, Saliège was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Géraud Sénizergues
Géraud Sénizergues (born 9 March 1957) is a French computer scientist at the University of Bordeaux. He is known for his contributions to automata theory, combinatorial group theory and abstract rewriting systems. He received his Ph.D. (Doctorat d'état en Informatique) from the Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) in 1987 under the direction of Jean-Michel Autebert. With Yuri Matiyasevich he obtained results about the Post correspondence problem. He won the 2002 Gödel Prize "for proving that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata is decidable". In 2003 he was awarded with the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (, , ; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws .... References External linksHomepage* Living people French computer scientists Academic staff of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Chapelle-Saint-Géraud
La Chapelle-Saint-Géraud (; oc, La Chapèla Sent Geraud) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. Population Geography The Maronne river forms the commune's northeastern boundary. See also *Communes of the Corrèze department The following is a list of the 279 communes of the Corrèze department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Corrèze {{Corrèze-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Géraud
Saint-Géraud (; oc, Sent Guiraud) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in south-western France. See also * Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department References Saintgeraud {{LotGaronne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Géraud-de-Corps
Saint-Géraud-de-Corps is a commune in the Dordogne department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Dordogne department References Communes of Dordogne {{Dordogne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
