Froment is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Antoine Froment
Antoine Froment (1508–1581) was a Calvinist Protestant reformer in Geneva. Froment is best remembered for his role in initiating and solidifying the Reformation in Geneva along with William Farel and John Calvin. His role in these events, how ...
, Protestant reformer in Geneva
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Jules Froment
Jules Froment (Lyon, 1878 – 1946) was a French neurologist. He earned his doctorate in 1906 with a thesis on heart diseases associated with thyrotoxicosis. For much of his career, he was a professor at Lyon.
Life
Froment is remembered for his ...
, French neurologist
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Louis de Froment
Louis de Froment (; 5 December 192119 August 1994) was a French conductor.
Froment was born into a French noble family in Toulouse, and started his musical studies at the city conservatory. He later attended the ''Conservatoire national supérieu ...
, French orchestral conductor
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Nicolas Froment
Nicolas Froment (c. 1435, Uzès, Gard – c. 1486 in Avignon) was a French painter of the Early Renaissance.
Nicolas Froment is one of the most notable representatives of the Second School of Avignon, (''École d'Avignon''), a group of arti ...
, fifteenth-century French painter
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Paul-Gustave Froment
Paul-Gustave Froment (born March 3, 1815 in Paris, died 1865) was a French mechanic, instrument maker and inventor.
Life
He was born in Paris and was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Having demonstrated fro ...
, early French electrical engineer
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Pierre de Froment, French member of the resistance during World War II and subsequently General
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Gilbert Froment, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Ghent University, Belgium
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French-language surnames