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Irénée (other)
Irénée is the French version of the name Irenaeus. It may refer to: People *Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (1658–1743), French writer and radical *Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), French-born Huguenot chemist and industrialist *Francis Irénée du Pont (1873–1942), American chemist, and manager at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company *Henri-Irénée Marrou (1904–1977), French historian *Irénée du Pont (1876–1963), U.S. businessman, former president of the DuPont company and head of the Du Pont trust *Irénée Pelletier (1939–1994), Canadian politician *Irénée Vautrin, Canadian politician *Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878), French statistician Locations *Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve, an ecological reserve in Quebec, Canada *Saint-Irénée, Quebec Saint-Irénée is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Demographics Population Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 300 (total dwellings: 460) Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irenaeus (other)
Saint Irenaeus of Lugdunum (Lyons) was a Catholic bishop, theologian and early church father. Irenaeus or similar may also refer to: * Irenaeus (Bekish) (1892–1981), primate of the Orthodox Church in America * Irenaeus (Susemihl) (1919–1999), metropolitan bishop of Vienna and Austria of the Russian Orthodox Church and Soviet spy * Irenaeus of Sirmium (died 304), bishop and martyr * Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1928–2018), Austrian ethnologist * Patriarch Irenaios (Irenaios Skopelitis) (born 1939), patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem See also * Irinej, the Slavic form of Irenaeus * Irineu (other), the Portuguese form of Irenaeus * Irénée (other), the French form of Irenaeus * Irene (other) Irene is a name derived from εἰρήνη (eirēnē), the Greek for "peace". Irene, and related names, may refer to: * Irene (given name) Places * Irene, Gauteng, South Africa * Irene, South Dakota, United States * Irene, Texas, Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Irénée Castel De Saint-Pierre
Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times. His proposal of an international organisation to maintain peace was perhaps the first in history, with the possible exceptions of George of Poděbrady's '' Tractatus'' (1462–1464) and Émeric Crucé. He influenced Rousseau and Kant. Biography Saint-Pierre was born at the château of Saint-Pierre-Église near Cherbourg, where his father, the Marquis de Saint-Pierre, was ''grand bailli'' of Cotentin. He was educated by the Jesuits. The youngest of five children and unsuited to a military career owing to poor health, he became a priest. He was introduced by family connections into the salons of Madame de la Fayette and the Marquise de Lambert in Paris. He was elected to the Académie française in 1695, although he had previously produced no notable work; his election was an episode in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, Sain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éleuthère Irénée Du Pont
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (; ; 24 June 1771 – 31 October 1834) was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the du Pont family, have been one of America's richest and most prominent families since the 19th century, with generations of influential businessmen, politicians and philanthropists. In 1807, du Pont was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia. Early life and family Du Pont was born 24 June 1771, in Paris, the son of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours and Nicole-Charlotte Marie-Louise le Dée de Rencourt. His father was a political economist who had been elevated to the nobility in 1784 by letters patent granted by King Louis XVI, allowing him to carry the honorable ''de Nemours'' suffix. Growing up on his father's estate, "Bois des Fossés", near Égreville, young du Pont was enthusiastic about his studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Irénée Du Pont
Francis Irénée du Pont (December 3, 1873 – March 16, 1942) was an American chemist and executive at the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Company. He was the great grandson of its founder, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. Biography Francis I. du Pont was the eldest son of Francis Gurney du Pont and Elise Wigfall Simons. He was born and grew up at Hagley, near Greenville, Delaware, attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale University’s Sheffield Scientific School in 1895. He was placed at his father's Carney's Point, New Jersey facility, where he joined in the research into the development of the new smokeless powder. This product was high sought after as the military was moving towards its use. He was known for his scientific expertise and managerial abilities, became superintendent of Carney's Point, and was the first head of DuPont’s new Experimental Station research facility in 1904. When the company was reorganized following its purchase by the three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-Irénée Marrou
Henri-Irénée Marrou (; 12 November 1904 in Marseilles – 11 April 1977 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French historian. A Christian humanist in outlook, his work was primarily in the spheres of Late Antiquity and the history of education. He is best known for his work ''History of Education in Antiquity''. He also edited, for Sources Chrétiennes, the early Christian work ''Letter to Diognetus'', the only manuscript of which perished in a fire at the University of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War. Marrou edited the collection Patristica Sorbonensia, published by Le Seuil. His work has been criticised by the philosopher Ilsetraut Hadot. Marrou also wrote under the pseudonym of Henri Davenson. His ''Carnets posthumes'' were published in 2006 under the editorial supervision of his daughter Françoise Marrou-Flamant. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1967. Publications * ''Fondements d'une culture chrétienne'', P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée Du Pont
Irénée du Pont I (December 21, 1876 – December 19, 1963) was an American businessman, president of the DuPont company and head of the Du Pont trust. Early life Irénée du Pont I was born on December 21, 1876, in New Castle, Delaware, the son of Mary Belin and Lammot du Pont I, and a descendant of DuPont founder Éleuthère Irénée du Pont. When he was eight years old, his father was killed in an explosion at the DuPont works in Repauno, New Jersey. He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1892 before attending Phillips Academy for a year, graduating in 1894, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1897. He received his Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT a year after graduation. While at MIT, he was a member of the Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity. Career He worked for Fenn's Manufacturing Contracting Company for a number of years before he joined DuPont in 1903. du Pont first worked in the organization of a construction division in black p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée Pelletier
Irénée Pelletier (17 March 1939 – 11 February 1994) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-André, New Brunswick and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Francis Xavier University in Halifax. He then earned a PhD in political science at France's University of Toulouse. He became a professor and author by career. Pelletier represented the Quebec federal riding of Sherbrooke where he won in the 1972 federal election. Pelletier won re-election in the 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections, but lost in 1984 to Jean Charest of the Progressive Conservative party. Pelletier served four consecutive terms from the 29th to the 32nd Canadian Parliaments. He also participated in various international delegations, and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; french: Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée Vautrin
Irénée Vautrin was a Canadian politician from Quebec. Background He was born on December 21, 1888, near Napierville and became an architect. Member of Legislative Assembly Vautrin ran as a Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1919 election for the district of Montréal–Saint-Jacques and won but was defeated by the Conservative candidate Joseph-Ambroise-Eusèbe Beaudoin in the 1923 election. He was re-elected in the 1927 and 1931 elections. He served as Deputy Speaker from 1930 to 1934. Cabinet Member Vautrin was appointed to the Cabinet and served as Deputy House Speaker from 1930 to 1934, Minister without Portfolio in 1934 and Minister of Colonization from 1934 until his defeat in the 1935 election by the Conservative candidate Henry Lemaître Auger. Soon after he left office, Vautrin appeared before the ''Standing Committee on Public Accounts'' and became one of the favourite targets of Conservative Leader Maurice Duplessis, who exposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée-Jules Bienaymé
Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (; 28 August 1796 – 19 October 1878) was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé–Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables. Biography With Irénée-Jules Bienaymé ends the line of great French probability thinkers that began with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, then continued with Pierre-Simon Laplace and Siméon Denis Poisson. After Bienaymé, progress in statistics took place in the United Kingdom and Russia. His personal life was marked by bad fortune. He studied at the Lycée de Bruges and then at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. After participating in the defense of Paris in 1814, he attended the École Polytechn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve
Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve (French: ''Réserve écologique Irénée-Marie'') is an ecological reserve in the unorganized territory of Rivière-de-la-Savane, in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It was established on October 31, 1985. The Ecological Reserve protects a forest of Eastern white pine, red pine and pine gray. Toponymy The name commemorates Joseph Caron (1889-1960), better known as Brother Irénée-Marie of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, one of the colleagues of brother Marie-Victorin. Geography The reserve is located approximately west of Saint-Joseph-de-Mékinac, in the Matawin River drainage basin, and surrounded by the ZEC Chapeau de Paille. It has an area of and is located north-east of Arcand lake and on either side of the des Aigles river. The elevation of the reserve varies between on the edge Arcand Lake up to . It is generally formed by rocky slopes and a flat zone. History In 1978, private clubs for hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
