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Potier
Potier is a surname, meaning potter. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Potier (1840–1905), French polymath * Benoît Potier (born 1957), French businessman * Charles Potier (1806–1870), French actor and playwright * Dominique Potier (born 1954), French politician * Edgard Potier (1903–1944), Belgian military officer * Jérôme Potier (born 1962), French former tennis player. * Joseph Potier (1768—1830), French privateer * Pierre Potier (1934–2006), French pharmacist * Pierre-Philippe Potier (1708–1781), Belgian Jesuit priest and lexicographer. * Suki Potier (1947–1981), English model See also * Pottier * Potter (name) Potter is an English surname that originally referred to someone who made pottery. It is occasionally used as a given name. People with the name include: Surname * Albert Potter (1897–1942), English footballer * Alexandra Potter (born 1970), Brit ... * House of Potier Surnames Surnames of French origin French-language surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Potier
The House of Potier was a nobility, noble house in Ancien Régime France. Members of the Potier family were Nobles of the Robe who gained their prominence through serving the King of France. List of Members of the House of Potier *Simon Potier, seigneur de Groslay et de Blanc-Mesnil (fl 1395/1420) **Nicolas Potier, seigneur de Blancmesnil, Groslay, La Grange, Courberon et Courbevoie (d. 1501) ***Nicolas Potier, seigneur de Blancmesnil et de Groslay ****Jacques Potier, seigneur de Blancmesnil et Plessis-Gassot (d. 1555) *****Nicolas Potier, seigneur de l’arrière-fief du Petit-Coudray à Blanc-Mesnil (c1541-1645) ******René Potier (c1576-1616), Bishop of Beauvais ******Bernard Potier, seigneur de Silly (ca. 1578-1610) ******Nicolas Potier, seigneur d’Ocquerre (d. 1628) *******René Potier, seigneur de Blancmesnil (d. 1680) ********Marie-Renée Potier, dame de Blanc-Mesnil et du Bourget (1678-1700) *******Augustin Potier, seigneur d’Ocquerre (d. 1704) *******Jeanne Potier (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suki Potier
Melanie Susan Potier (14 November 1947 – 23 June 1981), better known as Suki Potier, was an English model. Early life Potier was born in Surrey, England. Her father was Gilbert Potier, and her mother was Mary (nee Moore) Potier. Potier had one sibling, Sarah Sally Rosemary Potier (born 12 February 1946). Modelling As a teenager, Potier was a model for many English designers and agencies, including English Boy, an agency on the King's Road in Chelsea, London, England. In 1967, she modelled for Ossie Clark's April 1967 collection. Potier had a small acting role in the 1968 psychedelic film '' Wonderwall'', and archive footage of her was also used in a 2011 music documentary '' George Harrison: Living in the Material World''. Personal life In 1966, Potier was dating Tara Browne, an heir to the Guinness fortune. On 18 December 1966, aged 19, Potier was a passenger in his turquoise Lotus Elan when he was driving through South Kensington. Browne collided with a parked tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Potier
Joseph Potier (5 May 1768, Saint-Malo — 10 November 1830Cunat, p.410) was a French privateer and slave trader. He was one of the lieutenants of Robert Surcouf. Early life Joseph Potier was born to a family of low nobility of Saint-Malo. His mother was a descendant of Robert Surcouf de Maisonneuve, a Breton privateer. and he was therefore a distant cousin to Robert Surcouf. Merchant navy captain Potier started sailing as a boy on the ships that his father equipped and sent out to Guinea and the Caribbean. He rose to become an officer in the merchant marine and eventually to Captain on 28 April 1792.Cunat, p.411 With this rank, he served as first officer on the ''Aimable-Rose'', under Captain de La Coudraie. French Navy in the Revolution Returning to France during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, he enlisted in the French Navy as an Ensign; he was appointed to a frigate bound for the Caribbean, which remained there for a few months before decommissioning in the USA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Philippe Potier
Pierre-Philippe Potier (also Pottié, Pottié, or Pothier; April 21, 1708 in Blandain, Hainaut, Belgium – July 16, 1781 in Windsor, Ontario Canada), was a Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary to the Hurons in New France, and lexicographer. Life Potier studied at the colleges of Tournai from 1721 to 1727, and Douai from 1727 to 1729). He then entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Tournai on September 30, 1729. After a year of study of Letters in Lille, he taught for six years (1732–1738) at the college of Béthune. Then he studied theology in Douai in 1741 in preparation for the priesthood. He completed his third year at Armentières and was ordained at Tournai on February 2, 1743. Shortly thereafter, Potier embarked at La Rochelle for New France on June 18, 1743, where he arrived on October 1 in Quebec. To learn the Huron language, he first spent eight months in the mission in Lorette, Manitoba, located in the Canadian prairies next to the Seine River. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Potier
Pierre Potier (22 August 1934 – 3 February 2006) was a French pharmacist as well as a chemist. He held the position of Director of the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (1974 to 2000), as well as a teaching position at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. He was a member of the Académie nationale de pharmacie, the Académie des sciences, the Académie des technologies and the Academia Europaea. Biography Potier attended the Faculté de pharmacie de Paris, and then the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in Gif-sur-Yvette. While working at this institution he collaborated with Edgar Lederer, Derek Barton and Guy Ourisson. In 1968, he lost his wife to breast cancer. This pushed him to work on cancer. For two years from July 1994, he was the director general of research and technology at the ministère français de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. In 1998, he received the CNRS gold medal. He was president of the Fondation de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît Potier
Benoît Potier (born 3 September 1957) is a French businessman who served as CEO of the France, French multinational industrial gas company Air Liquide between 2006 and 2022. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Air Liquide SA. Education BPotier graduated with an engineer's degree from École Centrale Paris in 1979. Potier also attended the executive training program of the Wharton International Forum and the INSEAD Advanced Management program. Professional career Benoît Potier joined Air Liquide in 1981 as a Research and Development engineer. After serving as a Project Manager in the Engineering and Construction Division, he was made Vice-President of Energy Development in the Large Industries business line. In 1993, he became Director of Strategy & Organization and, in 1994, was put in charge of the Chemicals, Metal & Steel, Oil and Energy Markets. He was made an Executive Vice-President of Air Liquide in 1995 with additional responsibilities over the En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgard Potier
Dominique Edgard Antoine Potier (2 November 1903 – 11 January 1944) was a Belgian airforce officer during World War II who organised an MI9 escape and evasion network, known as ''Mission Martin'' in Belgium and the ''Possum Line'' in France. Captured and tortured by the Germans, Potier committed suicide. World War II service In May 1940, Potier was Capitaine-Commandant in the Belgian airforce. With the outbreak of World War II, Potier travelled across France, Spain and Portugal and arrived in England in March 1942. At age 39, he was rejected by the RAF as too old for active flying duties. He then joined MI9 and in July 1943 was parachuted into southeast Belgium (Province of Luxembourg Luxembourg (french: Luxembourg ; nl, Luxemburg ; german: Luxemburg ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; wa, Lussimbork), also called Belgian Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. It borders on the country of Luxembourg to the ea ...) near Suxy, accompanied by a Canadian radio ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Potier
Alfred Potier (11 May 1840, in Paris – 8 May 1905, in Paris) was a French polymath who contributed to many theoretical and practical fields of science when this was rapidly expanding. His interests covered mainly mathematical physics, the nature of light and the ether, geology, electricity and magnetism and their practical applications in industry. His name’s claim to fame rests, however, on a little explored footnote inserted by Michelson and Morley in their famous paper " On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether". Biography Born in 1840, Potier entered the École Polytechnique at age 17, where in 1867 he became a physics teacher, and then in 1881 full Professor of Physics, succeeding Jamin and preceding Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel. At the same time, he was member of the State Mining Engineers Corps, occupying the chair of Physics in the École des Mines where he taught Henri Poincaré. Geological works included revisions of the geological map of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Potier
Dominique Potier (born 17 March 1954) is a French Socialist politician who has represented Meurthe-et-Moselle's 5th constituency in the National Assembly of France since 2012. Potier was re-elected in the 2022 French legislative election Legislative elections in France were held on 12 and 19 June 2022 to elect the 577 members of the 16th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. The elections took place following the 2022 French presidential election, which was held in A .... References External links Official websiteNational Assembly biography Living people 1964 births 21st-century French politicians Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Socialist Party (France) politicians People from Toul People from Meurthe-et-Moselle Deputies of the 16th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Meurthe-et-Moselle {{France-polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Potier
Charles Joseph Édouard Potier, called Charles (Bordeaux, 1806 – Asnières-sur-Seine, 28 April 1870) was a 19th-century French actor and playwright. A son of Charles-Gabriel Potier, an actor at the Théâtre des Variétés (1826), the Théâtre du Palais-Royal than at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre Déjazet. Works * ''Les 20000 francs'', drama in 1 act mingled with songs, with Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé, 1832 * ''La Fille du bourreau'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Boulé, 1833 * ''Le Peloton de fil'', moralité in 1 act, mingled with couplets, 1834 * ''Parce que, ou la Suite de ''Pourquoi ?'' '', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Boulé, 1835 * ''Fanchette, ou l'Amour d'une femme'', drama-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Boulé, 1836 * ''Le Facteur, ou la Justice des hommes'', drama in 5 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Potier
Jérôme Potier (born 18 July 1962) is a French former tennis player. He is currently Josselin Ouanna's coach and has coached Marc Gicquel and Thierry Ascione Thierry Ascione (born 17 January 1981) is a retired professional tour male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 2000 and retired in September 2010, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 81 in February 2004. He played Roger .... Career finals Singles (2 runner-ups) Doubles (1 runner-up) External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Potier, Jerome 1962 births Living people French male tennis players French tennis coaches Sportspeople from Rennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pottier is a surname, and may refer to; * Edmond Pottier (1855–1934), German-born French art historian and archaeologist * Édouard Pottier (1839–1903), French admiral * Eugène Edine Pottier (1816–1887), French revolutionary, anarchist, poet, freemason, and transport worker * Jean Pottier, French aircraft designer * Philippe Pottier (1938–1985), Swiss footballer * René Pottier (1879–1907), French racing cyclist * Richard Pottier (1906–1994), Austrian-born French film director See also * Potier * Potter (surname) Potter is an English surname that originally referred to someone who made pottery. It is occasionally used as a given name. People with the name include: Surname * Albert Potter (1897–1942), English footballer * Alexandra Potter (born 1970), Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
