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Irénée Bonnafous
Irénée is a French male given name, derived from Irenaeus. 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 Berge (1867–1926), French composer *Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878), French statistician *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 (1888–1974), Canadian politician *Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878), French statistician See also *Irénée-Marie Ecological Reserve, an ecological reserve in Quebec, Canada *Saint-Irénée, Quebec Saint-Irénée () is a municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...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] |
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 A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ..., and surrounded by the ZEC Chapeau de Paille. It has an area of ... [...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, Quebec, Napierville and became an architect. Member of Legislative Assembly Vautrin ran as a Liberal Party of Quebec, Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1919 Quebec general election, 1919 election for the district of Montréal–Saint-Jacques and won but was defeated by the Conservative Party of Quebec (historical), Conservative candidate Joseph-Ambroise-Eusèbe Beaudoin in the 1923 Quebec general election, 1923 election. He was re-elected in the 1927 Quebec general election, 1927 and 1931 Quebec general election, 1931 elections. He served as Deputy President of the National Assembly of Quebec, Speaker from 1930 to 1934. Cabinet Member Vautrin was appointed to the Executive Council of Quebec, Cabinet and served as Deputy House Speaker from 1930 to 1934, Minister without Portfolio in 1934 and Minister of Colonization from 1934 unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée Pelletier
Ir̩n̩e Pelletier (17 March 1939 Р11 February 1994) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Andr̩, 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; ) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower" ... [...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 and education 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 (MIT) 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 constructi ... [...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 Irénée-Jules Bienaymé continues the line of great French probability thinkers that began with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, then carried on with Pierre-Simon Laplace and Siméon Denis Poisson. 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 Polytechnique in 1815. Unfortunately that year's class was excluded in the following year by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irénée Berge
Irénée Bergé (February 1, 1867 – July 30, 1926) was a French composer, conductor and instructor who lived in the United States. In spite of confusions between his given name and "Irène", Bergé was male. Early life and career According to one source he was born in Toulouse although other sources say Paris.''Pierre Key's Music Year Book 1926–27'' (New York: Pierre Key Inc., 1926), p. 327."Irénée Bergé dead," ''Musical Observer'' vol. 25, no. 9 (Sept. 1926), p. 45."Irénée Berge," bituary/nowiki> ''Musical America'' (August 7, 1926), p. 23. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Jules Massenet and Théodore Dubois. While under Massenet's tutelage, he and other of the composers' students purchased a gift for the opera singer Sibyl Sanderson, who rewarded them by making a personal visit and sang an excerpt from the opera Esclarmonde with the composer at the piano. "The students were spellbound...never had they enjoyed their professor's opera so much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-Irénée Marrou
Henri-Irénée Marrou (; 12 November 1904 – 11 April 1977) 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. Biography Henri-Irénée Marrou was born on 12 November 1904 in Marseille. He died on 11 April 1977 in Bourg-la-Reine. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts ... [...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 the richest and most prominent American 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 education 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 hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québec
Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the French colony of ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was confederated with Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867. Until the early 1960s, the Catholic Church played a large role in the social and cultural institutions in Quebec. However, the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 1980s increased the role of the Government of Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-Irénée Castel De Saint-Pierre
Charles-Ir̩n̩e Castel, abb̩ de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 Р29 April 1743) was a French writer. Biography In 1718, Saint-Pierre published ''Discours sur la polysynodie'', where he proposed that appointed ministers be replaced by elected councils. As a consequence of his criticism of the policy of Louis XIV (died 1715) he was expelled from the Acad̩mie later the same year. In 1723, with Pierre-Joseph Alary he founded the Club de l'Entresol, an early modern think tank in Paris; the club was closed for political reasons in 1731. He died in Paris on 29 April 1743. Ideas Saint-Pierre's works are centered on an acute and visionary criticism of politics, law and social institutions. He had a great influence on Rousseau, who left elaborate examinations of some of them, and was a forerunner of Kant's 1795 essay on perpetual peace. His was published in 1713 in Utrecht, where he was acting as secretary to the French plenipotentiary, the Abb̩ de Polignac, and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
