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Lafont Harcourt
Lafont is a Southern French surname. It may refer to: * Alban Lafont (born 1999), Burkinabé-born French footballer *Bernadette Lafont (1938–2013), French actress and the mother of Pauline Lafont * Bruno Lafont (born 1956), French businessman *Charles Philippe Lafont (1781–1839), French violinist and composer *Cristina Lafont, American philosopher * Dominique Lafont (born 1961), French businessperson *Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 1945), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana since 2004 * Ernest Lafont (1879–1946), French socialist politician *Eugène Lafont (1837–1908), Belgian Jesuit, Missionary in Bengal, scientist and founder of the first Scientific Society in India *Henri Lafont (1902–1944), the head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II *Jean-Philippe Lafont (born 1951), French baritone * Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont (1825–1908), French naval officer, Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meridional French
Meridional French (french: français méridional), also referred to as Francitan, is a regional variant of the French language. It is widely spoken in Marseille, Avignon and Toulouse and is influenced by the Occitan language. There are speakers of Meridional French in all generations, but the accent is most marked among the elderly, who often speak Occitan as their first language. Characteristics The phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of Occitan have all influenced Meridional French, but the phonological effects are perhaps the most salient by producing the characteristic accent, which is used by speakers of Meridional French. Those effects include the following: * The loss of phonemic nasal vowels, which are replaced by an oral vowel followed by a nasal consonant * the frequent realisation of the final atonal vowels of Latin, which are lost by speakers of other varieties of French, as schwa * the presence of lexical stress on the penultimate syllable of many words, in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms. Chemists carefully measure substance proportions, chemical reaction rates, and other chemical properties. In Commonwealth English, pharmacists are often called chemists. Chemists use their knowledge to learn the composition and properties of unfamiliar substances, as well as to reproduce and synthesize large quantities of useful naturally occurring substances and create new artificial substances and useful processes. Chemists may specialize in any number of subdisciplines of chemistry. Materials scientists and metallurgists share much of the same education and skills with chemists. The work of chemists is often related to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontaine (other)
Fontaine is a French word meaning fountain or natural spring or an area of natural springs. Places France *Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, in the Oise ''département'' *Bierry-les-Belles-Fontaines, in the Yonne ''département'' *Cailloux-sur-Fontaines, in the Rhône ''département'' *Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines, in the Yonne ''département'' * Fontaine, Aube, in the Aube ''département'' *Fontaine, Isère, in the Isère ''département'' *Fontaine, Territoire de Belfort, in the Territoire de Belfort ''département'' * Fontaine-au-Bois, in the Nord ''département'' *Fontaine-au-Pire, in the Nord ''département'' *Fontaine-Bellenger, in the Eure ''département'' *Fontaine-Bonneleau, in the Oise ''département'' *Fontaine-Chaalis, in the Oise ''département'' *Fontaine-Chalendray, in the Charente-Maritime ''département'' * Fontaine-Couverte, in the Mayenne ''département'' *Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in the Vaucluse ''département'' *Fontaine de Vaucluse (spring), a spring in the Vauc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laffont (other)
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Laffont may refer to: People * Axelle Laffont (born 1970), French actress and comedienne * Eliane Laffont (born 1944), U.S. image consultant * Jean-Jacques Laffont (1947–2004), French economist * Jean-Pierre Laffont (born 1935), Algerian-French-American photojournalist * Patrice Laffont (1939-2024), French TV personality * Perrine Laffont (born 1998). French freestyle skier * Robert Laffont (1916–2010), founder of Éditions Robert Laffont Other uses * Éditions Robert Laffont (est. 1941, in France), a book publisher * Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation, a private economics research foundation of France See also * Lafont (surname) * Fontaine (other) * Font (other) Font may refer to: Typography * Typeface, a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size, weight, style, and so on. Each of these variations of the typefac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie De Lafont
Sophie de Lafont, née ''Dubuisson'', also called ''Sofia Ivanovna Lafont'' (August 1717 – August 1797) was a Russian pedagogue of French descent. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1764–1797. Life Lafont was the daughter of French Huguenot wine merchant Jean Dubuisson who founded the first hotel in the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg. She was their only daughter. She married Guillaume de Lafont, a French officer in Russian service, but her marriage was unhappy, as her spouse suffered from a mental illness which several times exposed her to abuse. She attempted to cure him by consulting doctors in Switzerland and France, but this did not result in anything but economic ruin. As a poor widow with two daughters, she applied for help from the Russian embassy i Paris to return to Saint Petersburg. She encountered Ivan Betskoy, who judged her to be suitable for the position of principal of the Smolny Institute The Smolny Institute (russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robèrt Lafont
Robèrt Lafont (; March 16, 1923 in Nîmes – June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robert Lafont. Biography Robèrt Lafont was professor emeritus at the Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier. A professional linguist, he was a polyglot, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and a medievalist. A versatile writer, Lafont wrote nearly a hundred books in Occitan, French, Catalan and Italian. The wide scope of themes he explores includes the history of literature and of society, linguistics and sociolinguistics and the social-economic imbalance in France and Europe. In the essays he wrote in French, Robèrt Lafont tackles the problems encountered not only by the people of Occitania but also the various minorities struggling for official recognition under French rule, such as Bretons, Catalans, Basques, Corsicans or Alsatia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Chéri Lafont
Pierre-Chéri Lafont (16 May 1797 – 19 April 1873) was a French actor, born at Bordeaux. Abandoning his profession as assistant ship's doctor in the navy, he went to Paris to study singing and acting. He had some experience at a small theater, and was preparing to appear at the Opéra Comique when the director of the Vaudeville offered him an engagement. Here he made his debut in 1821 in ''La Somnambule'', and his good looks and excellent voice soon brought him into public favor. After several years at the Nouveautés and the Vaudeville, on the burning of the latter in 1838 he went to England, and married, at Gretna Green, Jenny Colon, from whom he was soon divorced. On his return to Paris, he joined the Variétés, where he acted for fifteen years in such plays as ''Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges'', ''Le Lion empaillé'', ''Une dernière conquête'', etc. Another engagement at the Vaudeville followed, and one at the Gaîté, and he ended his brilliant career at the Gymnase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Lafont
Pauline Lafont (6 April 196311 August 1988) was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, a Hungarian sculptor. Born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking accident in Barre-des-Cévennes, Lozère, France. Three months and ten days after she had set out, her body was found by a passing farmer at the foot of a cliff, four kilometres from her home. Investigators determined she had fallen more than ten metres and died instantly. Prior to the discovery of her body, her disappearance had triggered several rumours regarding her whereabouts. Filmography Film *1976: '' Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)'' (directed by Pierre Zucca) - Une petite fille *1983: '' Les Planqués du régiment'' (directed by Michel Caputo) - Christiane, l'infirmière *1983: ''Papy fait de la résistance'' (directed by Jean-Marie Poiré) - Colette Bourdelle *1983: '' Balade sanglante'' (Short, directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Lafont
Maurice Lafont (13 September 1927 – 8 April 2005) was a French football defender. He was part of the France national team during the 1958 FIFA World Cup tournament and obtained four international caps, all of which came in that same year. Honours International France * FIFA World Cup Third Place: 1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ... External links Player statistics at the French Football Federation's official web site 1927 births 2005 deaths French men's footballers France men's international footballers Men's association football defenders 1958 FIFA World Cup players Nîmes Olympique players Grenoble Foot 38 players SC Toulon players Montpellier HSC players French football managers LB Châteauroux managers AS Cherbourg Football managers [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Zélia Lafont
Marie-Zélia Lafont (born 9 January 1987) is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2003. She won two medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, with a gold in 2018 and a bronze in 2015. She also won two golds and three bronzes at the European Championships. Lafont participated in two Olympic Games. She finished in 16th place in the K1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and 14th in the K1 event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 .... World Cup individual podiums References External links * * *Marie-Zelia LAFONTat CanoeSlalom.net French female canoeists Living people 1987 births Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Resistance
The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régime during the World War II, Second World War. Resistance Clandestine cell system, cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis (World War II), Maquis in rural areas) who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allies of World War II, Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The Resistance's men and women came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, Aristocratic family, aristocrats, conservative Catholic Church, Roman Catholics (including priests and Yvonne Beauvais, nuns), Protestantis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemical Engineer
In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is a professional, equipped with the knowledge of chemical engineering, who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment. In general, a chemical engineer is one who applies and uses principles of chemical engineering in any of its various practical applications; these often include # design, manufacture, and operation of plants and machinery in industrial chemical and related processes ("chemical process engineers"); # development of new or adapted substances for products ranging from foods and beverages to cosmetics to cleaners to pharmaceutical ingredients, among many other products ("chemical product engineers"); and # development of new technologies such as fuel cells, hydrogen power and nanotechnology, as well as working in fields wholly or partially derived from chemical engineering such as materials sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
