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Puech
Puech is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Denys Puech (1854–1942), French sculptor *Émile Puech (born 1941), French biblical scholar *Henri-Charles Puech (1902–1986), French historian * Jean Puech (born 1942), French politician *Jean-Baptiste Puech, French actor *Louis Puech (1852–1947), French politician * Marie-Louise Puech-Milhau (1876-1966), French pacifist, feminist and journal editor *Nicolas Puech (born 1943), French billionaire See also * Le Puech, a French commune *Musée Denys-Puech The Musée Denys-Puech is an art gallery in Rodez, France. It was founded in 1910 by the sculptor Denys Puech (1854–1942), winner of the prix de Rome in 1884 and one of the official sculptors of the French Third Republic. The building was comple ..., a French art gallery {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Puech
Denys Puech (3 December 1854, Gavernac, Bozouls, Aveyron – December 1942, Rodez, Aveyron) was a French sculptor. Biography From a family of farmers (his brother was Louis Puech, Député for the Seine Department from 1898 to 1932, and Minister of Public Works from 3 November 1910 to 27 February 1911), he began as an apprentice in the marble workshop of François Mahoux in Rodez. In 1872, after two years training, he pursued an apprenticeship in Paris in the workshop of François Jouffroy then of Alexandre Falguière and Henri Chapu, at the same time following an evening course at the Beaux-Arts. 1881 and 1883 saw his first successes, when he twice won the second prize in the prix de Rome contest, for his ''Tyrtaeus singing the Messanians'' (''Tyrtée chantant les Messéniennes'') and '' Diagoras dying for joy on learning of his two victorious children's triumph at the Olympic Games'' (''Diagoras mourant de joie en apprenant le triomphe de ses deux enfants vainqueurs aux Jeu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Puech
Nicolas Puech (born 1943) is a French billionaire heir and businessman, a fifth-generation descendant of Thierry Hermès. He resigned from the company's supervisory board in 2014, but still owns 5% of Hermès. Nicolas Puech was born in 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the son of Francis Puech and Yvonne Hermès. He is the brother of Bertrand Puech and the cousin of Jean-Louis Dumas. Puech lives in Martigny, Switzerland. References 1943 births Living people French billionaires French businesspeople French expatriates in Switzerland Hermès-Dumas family {{France-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Denys-Puech
The Musée Denys-Puech is an art gallery in Rodez, France. It was founded in 1910 by the sculptor Denys Puech (1854–1942), winner of the prix de Rome in 1884 and one of the official sculptors of the French Third Republic. The building was completed in 1910 by the architect André Boyer, who designed a ground floor with large bays to enhance the sculpture collection. History After having offered the city of Rodez a large collection of sculptures and drawings, the sculptor Denys Puech (1854–1942) convinced his friends, the orientalist painter Maurice Bompard (1857–1935) and the engraver Eugène Viala (1858–1913), to donate some of their works to build the collections of the future museum. It was inaugurated on July 17, 1910. The building was designed by the architect André Boyer (1882–1953). A ground floor with large windows highlights the collection of sculptures. The museum was renovated and enlarged in the 1980s, opening up to contemporary art. In 1989, François ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Puech
Émile Puech (born 9 May 1941, at Cazelles de Sébrazac, Estaing, Aveyron, France) is a French Catholic priest, epigrapher and editor in chief of ''Manuscrits de la mer Morte.'' He is a government employed director of research at Paris' Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He has amended suggested readings and translations of some of the Dead Sea scrolls, for example 4Q521. He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal ''Antiguo Oriente'' and a frequent contributor of the academic journal ''Revue Biblique ''Revue Biblique'' is an academic journal published by the École Biblique, an institute of a French community of Dominicans based in Jerusalem. The journal was established in 1892 by Pierre Batiffol and Marie-Joseph Lagrange Marie-Joseph Lagr ...''. Publications * É. Puech, 'À propos de la Jérusalem Nouvelle d'après les manuscrits de la Mer Morte', Semitica 43-4 (1995) 87-102; References Living people 1941 births French biblical scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Puech
Louis Puech (1 May 1851, in Gavernac, Bozouls, Aveyron – 15 July 1947, in Aubignac, Aveyron) was a député of the French Third Republic and Minister of Public Works in the second government of Aristide Briand from 3 November 1910 to 24 February 1911. During his 30 years in office he was inscribed with the group of Républicains de gauche. He was the brother of the sculptor Denys Puech, director of the Villa Médicis (1921–33). Life A lawyer by profession, he was noted for pleading in several varied political affairs, notably those of the grévistes of Decazeville (also known as the Watrin affair) and the anarchists Monod and Lucas. Conseiller municipal for Paris between 1893 and 1898 and a député for the Seine ( 3rd arrondissement of Paris) from 1898 to 1932, he was known for having denounced the poor care and pitiable monitoring of the archives for France's colonial African administrations, revealing he was in possession of originals which should never have left Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri-Charles Puech
Henri-Charles Puech (; 20 July 1902, Montpellier – 11 January 1986, aged 83) was a French historian who long held the chair of History of religions at the Collège de France from 1952 to 1972. Biography A philosopher by training, he was interested in Greek philosophy, especially in hermeticism and neoplatonism, before turning to the study of Christian doctrines of the early centuries, a discipline he long taught in the École pratique des hautes études. His teaching had a great influence on the development of patristics studies in the second half of the twentieth in France. But it is primarily as a result of the discovery of new documents in the study of Manichaeism and the various systems of Gnostic thought that he gained international recognition. A long collaborator of the ' before he directed it, he presided the ''Association internationale pour l'étude de l'histoire des religions'' from 1950 to 1965. Honours * Officier of the Légion d'honneur (1963) * Commandeur o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Puech
Jean-Baptiste Puech is a French actor. He graduated from the Maison des Conservatoires in 1998 and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2000. Filmography * 2014 Les Gazelles * 2009 Panique * 2009 Quand vient la peur * 2009 Le Repenti * 2008 Entre deux eaux * 2008 Do elephants pray? * 2007 Two days in Paris * 2006 La grande peur dans la montagne * 2005 Les chevaliers du ciel ( Sky fighters ) * 2005 Les amants de la Dent Blanche * 2004 Le silence de la mer ''Le Silence de la mer'' (, ''The Silence of the Sea'') is a French novel written during the summer of 1941 and published in early 1942 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". Published secretly in German-occupied Paris, the book quick ... * 2003 Les passeurs * 2003 Double zero * 2002 Ce jour-la Court metrage films * 2007 La Metier qui rentre * 2005 L'auto * 2004 J'ai peur, j'ai mal, je meurs * 2003 Chacun son camp * 2002 2+1 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Louise Puech-Milhau
Marie-Louise Puech-Milhau (1876–1966) was a French pacifist Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaign ..., feminist and journal editor. In 1900, she went to Canada where she became a lecturer at McGill University until 1908 when she returned to France. In 1911, she subscribed to the newspaper ''La Française'', the source of her appetite for feminism. After the end of the First World War, she became Secretary of the '' Union pour le Suffrage des Femmes'' and President of the '' Union Féminine pour la Société des Nations''. She is also remembered for the extensive correspondence she maintained with family members, former students and war veterans. References 1876 births 1966 deaths French academics French editors French women editors French feminists French pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Puech
Le Puech is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Population Sights *Jardin botanique du Puech The Jardin botanique du Puech is a private botanical garden located in Le Puech, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, which contains a variety of fruit trees and Mediterranean plants. As of January 2009, it is unclear whether the garden is ... See also * Communes of the Hérault department References Communes of Hérault {{Hérault-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Puech
Jean Puech (born 22 February 1942, in Viviez) is a French politician. He was first a member of the Republican Party before joining the Union for a Popular Movement. Between 1980 and 1993 and again between 1996 and 2008, he was a Senator. Between 1993 and 1995, he was Minister of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f .... Then in 1995 for a few months, he was Minister of the Civil service. References * 1942 births Union for a Popular Movement politicians French Ministers of Agriculture French Ministers of Civil Service Living people French Senators of the Fifth Republic People from Aveyron 20th-century French politicians Senators of Aveyron {{France-politician-UMP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
