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Lucile Allorge
Lucile Allorge ( Boiteau; born 25 October 1937) is a Madagascar-born French botanist. Biography Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 25 October 1937. Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge holds a doctorate in botanical sciences. Allorge is a member of many learned societies, including the Société botanique de France where she won the 2011 . In 1968, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). An honorary attaché at the National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN), she has carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge has published more than 100 scientific articles. She has been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar. In 2007, she was elected to the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She is a member of the Société des ex ...
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Antananarivo
Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "Antananarivo-Capital"), is the capital of Analamanga region. The city sits at above sea level in the center of the island, making it the List of capital cities by elevation, highest national capital by elevation among the Island country, island countries. It has been the country's largest population center since at least the 18th century. The President of Madagascar, Presidency, National Assembly of Madagascar, National Assembly, Senate of Madagascar, Senate, and Supreme Court are located there, as are List of diplomatic missions in Madagascar, 21 diplomatic missions and the headquarters of many national and international businesses and Non-governmental organization, non-governme ...
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Plaissan
Plaissan () is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Exposed to a Mediterranean climate, Plaissan is drained by the Dardaillon, the Rouvièges stream, and two other rivers. The municipality has a remarkable natural heritage, which includes an area of ecological, fauna, and floristic interest. Geography Between the sea and the Cévennes, the village is surrounded by vineyards and scrubland. Montpellier is 35 km to the east, while Béziers is 40 km to the west. The sea is 30 km to the south. Climate In 2010, the municipality’s climate was classified as Mediterranean, based on a study using data from 1971 to 2001. According to Météo-France's 2020 climate typology for metropolitan France, the municipality falls within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Languedoc-Roussillon climate region. The region is characterized by low summer rainfall, abundant sunshine (2,600 hours per year), hot summers (average temperature of 21.5 °C), ...
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People From Antananarivo
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ...
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Nicolas Hulot
Nicolas Jacques André Hulot (; born 30 April 1955) is a French journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and honorary president of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, an environmental group established in 1990. Hulot ran as a candidate in the primary for the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) party in 2011, but lost to Eva Joly in the second round. He declined offers to be a government minister for Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, but in May 2017, he agreed to serve under Emmanuel Macron and was appointed Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the first government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe. In August 2018, he announced his resignation from the Second Philippe government, citing policy disagreements and leadership issues. Hulot is an officer in the Legion of Honour and a knight in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2021, he announced his retirement from public life in response to a documentary outlining a series of s ...
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Patrice Franceschi
Patrice Franceschi (born December 18, 1954, in Toulon) is a French adventurer. Franceschi is also a writer, a documentary & film maker, a sailor and a pilot. He has been awarded several medals and distinctions. Patrice Franceschi was also at the origins of many Humanitarian aid, humanitarian missions in war zones (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kurdistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc.). He is former chairman of the :fr:Société des explorateurs français, Société des Explorateurs Français, and former chairman and co-founder of :fr:Solidarités International, Solidarités International. Franceschi is the captain of the 3-masted schooner ''La Boudeuse'', aiming at scientific expeditions related to social evolutions and climate change matters. He is most famous for being the first man to carry a solo around-the-world flight in an Aviasud Sirocco ultralight aeroplane from September 26, 1984, to March 26, 1987. Following this tour of years (562 hours of flight, across 33 countries), he wrote a ...
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Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Jardin des Plantes on the left bank of the River Seine. It was formally founded in 1793, during the French Revolution, but was begun even earlier in 1635 as the royal garden of medicinal plants. The museum now has 14 sites throughout France. Since the 2014 reform, it has been headed by a chairman, assisted by deputy managing directors. The Museum has a staff of approximately 2,350 members, including six hundred researchers. It is a member of the national network of naturalist collections (RECOLNAT). History 17th–18th century File:Jardin du roi 1636.png, The Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants in 1636 File:Buffon statue dsc00979.jpg, Statue of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the formal garden File:Buffon, Georges Louis - Leclerc, ...
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with Naturalism (philosophy), natural laws. Lamarck fought in the Seven Years' War against Prussia, and was awarded a commission for bravery on the battlefield. Posted to Monaco, Lamarck became interested in natural history and resolved to study medicine.#Packard, Packard (1901), p. 15. He retired from the army after being injured in 1766, and returned to his medical studies. Lamarck developed a particular interest in botany, and later, after he published the three-volume work ''Flore françoise'' (1778), he gained membership of the French Academy of Sciences in 1779. Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in 1788. When the French Nationa ...
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éditions Karthala
Karthala is a French publishing house specializing in the history, sociology, religion, languages and geopolitics of developing countries. Its headquarters is at 22–24 boulevard Arago in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Karthala was founded in 1980 by Robert Ageneau, who was previously editor of the journal Spiritus (1969–1974), member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and co-director of another publishing house, Harmattan. Karthala was founded with the aim of publishing texts on international issues related to developing countries. Twenty years after the independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s, there was felt to be a need for new approaches to what was then known as the "Third World", and in particular Africa. In 2011, the Karthala catalogue contained some 2200 titles. It is mainly composed of human, political and social sciences. Early publications focused on Africa, the Maghreb, the Arab world, Islam, Latin America, and the countries of the Indian O ...
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JC Lattès
JC Lattès is a French publishing house. A division of Hachette Livre since 1981, JC Lattès' catalogue includes the works of Dan Brown, as well as '' Fifty Shades of Grey'' by E. L. James. Founder Jean-Claude Lattès died on 17 January 2018. Background JC Lattès was founded in 1968 as Edition Speciale by Jean-Claude Lattès and Jacques Lanzmann. Lattès took it over in 1972, renamed it Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, and ran it until 1981. JC Lattès currently has a catalog of more than 1000 titles. Its major successes include: *''Un Sac de billes'' ('' A Bag of Marbles'') by Joseph Joffo *''Le Vent du soir'' (''The Wind in the Evening'') by Jean d'Ormesson *''Le Nabab'' (''The Nabob'') by Irène Frain *''Léon l'Africain'' ( ''Leo Africanus'') by Amin Maalouf *'' Fifty Shades of Grey'' by E. L. James *''The Red Scarves'' *''The Officers'' *''Geisha'' Over the years, JC Lattès has published general-interest books by French and foreign authors, including both fiction a ...
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Éditions Karthala
Karthala is a French publishing house specializing in the history, sociology, religion, languages and geopolitics of developing countries. Its headquarters is at 22–24 boulevard Arago in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. Karthala was founded in 1980 by Robert Ageneau, who was previously editor of the journal Spiritus (1969–1974), member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and co-director of another publishing house, Harmattan. Karthala was founded with the aim of publishing texts on international issues related to developing countries. Twenty years after the independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s, there was felt to be a need for new approaches to what was then known as the "Third World", and in particular Africa. In 2011, the Karthala catalogue contained some 2200 titles. It is mainly composed of human, political and social sciences. Early publications focused on Africa, the Maghreb, the Arab world, Islam, Latin America, and the countries of the Indian O ...
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