French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:
Persons
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Charles XIV John of Sweden
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Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray
Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray (1787–1858) was a French painter.
Garneray was the third son of the painter Jean-François Garneray. He was active in history painting, marine painting, engraving, landscape art and watercolour. Garneray's works ...
, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste (songwriter)
Jean-Baptiste Kouame, also known by the stage name Free School, is an American songwriter and record producer. He was featured in "Spaceship" by Benny Benassi with Kelis and apl.de.ap from The Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known ...
, American music record producer, singer-songwriter
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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (24 November 1808 – 29 September 1890) was a French critic, journalist, and novelist.
Life
Karr was born in Paris to German pianist and composer Henri Karr (1784–1842), and after being educated at the Co ...
, French critic, journalist, and novelist
* Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987)
* Jean-Baptiste Baudry, son of Guillaume Baudry, Canadian gunsmith bevear goldsmith
* Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer, author and translator
* Jean-Baptiste Bessières, duke of Istria (1768–1813), was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era
* Jean-Baptiste Bethune, Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement
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Jean-Baptiste Billot
Jean-Baptiste Billot (15 August 1828, Chaumeil, Corrèze – 31 May 1907, Paris) was a French general and politician.
Life
Jean-Baptiste Billot entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1847, and on leaving it in 1849 joined the st ...
, French general and politician
* Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician
* Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, Canadian career man with the colonial regular troops, son of François Byssot de la Rivière
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Jean-Baptiste Boissière
Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806–1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the '' Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française'' (''Analogical dictionary of French''), published by Larouss ...
Jean-Baptiste Bottex
Jean-Baptiste Bottex (June 24, 1918 – May 28, 1979) was a Haitian painter. Hailing from Port Margot in northern Haiti, Bottex painted scenes from the Bible and daily Haitian life. His works were of the Naïve art, Naïve style and were displ ...
, Haitian painter
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Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault – an agric ...
, French chemist
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, is a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast ...
, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
* Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter
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Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau
Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau (1769–1832) was a French Navy sailor and an adventurer who played an important role in Vietnam in the 19th century. He served the Nguyễn dynasty from 1794 to 1819, and 1821 to 1826,Tran, p. 206. and took the Vietna ...
, French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in the Vietnam War
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Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was a Native American-French Canadian explorer, guide, fur trapper, trader, military scout during the Mexican–American War, ''alcalde'' (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Franc ...
, son of
Sacagawea
Sacagawea ( or ; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May – December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884)Sacagawea ...
Jean-Baptiste Cléry
Jean-Baptiste Cléry (1759–1809) was the personal valet to King Louis XVI.
Biography
Before the Revolution
First serving as secretary of the Victoire de Rohan, Princess of Guéménée, he was made valet of the dauphin (who would become Louis ...
, (1759–1809), the personal valet to King Louis XVI
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His lasting impact on the organization of the countr ...
Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis
Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis (August 24, 1814 – August 13, 1889) was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal. His surname was "Couill ...
Jean-Baptiste de Voglie
Jean-Baptiste de Voglie (1723/24 – October 1777), born Jean Bentivoglio was an eminent Italian road and bridge engineer.
Career
Descended from the Ferrara branch of the Bentivoglio, Jean de Voglie entered the Corps of Bridges and Roads in F ...
, eminent Italian road and bridge engineer
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Jean-Baptiste Denys
Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis ...
, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion
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Jean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca
Jean-Baptiste is a male French language, French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste (name), Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:
Persons
* Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Bapt ...
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 180010 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring v ...
, French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis
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Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau (23 December 1828 – 2 March 1906) was the French physician who first described narcolepsy.
Gélineau was born in Blaye, Gironde, and had a varied life. As a young student at the Rochefort Navy Medical School he ...
, French physician who first described narcolepsy
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Jean-Baptiste Ferré
Jean-Baptiste Ferré (February 12, 1767 – February 27, 1828) was a miller and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented York in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1815 to 1820. His name also appears as Jean-Baptiste Féré ...
, miller and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ...
Jean-Baptiste Girard (pedagogue)
Grégoire Girard nown as “Le Père Girard” or “Le Père Gregoire”(17 December 1765 at Fribourg – 6 March 1850 in Fribourg) was a Swiss Franciscan educator.
Life
He was the fifth child in a family of fourteen, and his gift for teac ...
(1765–1850), Swiss Franciscan educator
* Jean-Baptiste Girard (soldier) (1775–1815), French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars
* (1680–1733), a priest tried for witchcraft, abuse, and corruption of Catherine Cadière
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Jean-Baptiste Giraud
Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1752 – 14 February 1830) was a French sculptor.François Miel, Notice sur les deux Giraud, sculpteurs français, Paris, Société libre des beaux-arts, s.d. (1840; in French)
Biography
Giraud was born in Aix-en-Prove ...
, French sculptor
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Jean-Baptiste Guégan
Jean-Baptiste Guégan (born c. 1983 in Brittany, France) is a French singer known for his interpretations of Johnny Hallyday songs popularly known as "la voix de Johnny" (Johnny's voice).Jean-Baptiste Godart, French entomologist
* Jean-Baptiste Grange, French alpine skier
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' (german: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders ) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotion ...
, protagonist of the 1985 novel ''Perfume'' by German writer Patrick Süskind
* Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Guimet
Jean-Baptiste Guimet (20 July 17958 April 1871), French industrial chemist, and inventor of synthetic colors, was born at Voiron, Isère.
He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Sa ...
, French industrial chemist
* Jean-Baptiste Guth, French portrait artist
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Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes (1729 – 10 February 1765) was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.
Life
Deshays was born in Colleville, near Rouen. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen ...
, French painter of religious and mythological subjects
* Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist, and political activist
* Jean-Baptiste Janssens, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ...
, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series
* Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762–1833), Marshal of France
* Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars
* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist
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Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 – February 13, 1888), was a French-American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel ''Death Comes for the Archbishop'' is based on his life ...
, French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
* Jean-Baptiste Landé (died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet based in Saint Petersburg, Russia
* Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana
* Jean-Baptiste Lepère, French architect
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Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent Jean Baptiste Loeillet (6 July 1688 – c. 1720), who later styled himself Loeillet de Gant, was a Flemish composer, born in Ghent. He spent the largest part of his life in France in service to the archbishop of Lyon, Paul-François de Neufville de ...
, Belgian composer
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Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London (18 November 1680 – 19 July 1730), was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord. He is called the London Loeillet to distinguish him from another famous comp ...
, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord
* Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation
* Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem "Vert-Vert"
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...
Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Jean-Baptiste Maunier (, born 22 December 1990) is a French actor and singer. He is best known for his role in the 2004 French film '' Les Choristes''.
Early life
Jean-Baptiste Maunier was born to Thierry Maunier, a cameraman, and Muriel Maunier ...
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur
Jean-Baptiste Meilleur (May 8, 1796 – December 6, 1878) was a doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada, Canada East, and Quebec.
He was born at Petite-Côte in Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada on the Island of Montreal in 1796, the s ...
, doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada
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Jean-Baptiste Michonis
Jean-Baptiste Michonis (1735 – 17 June 1794) was a personality of the French Revolution. Originally a producer of lemonade, he became a member of the Commune de Paris, inspector of prisons and chief of police. He participated in the "complot de ...
Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)
Jean-Baptiste Morin (2 February 1677 – 27 April 1745) was a French composer and the ''Ordinaire de la Musique'' to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. From 1719 to 1731 Morin was ''Maître de musique'' of Louise A ...
Jean-Baptiste Pastré
Jean-Baptiste Pastré (10 October 1804 - 19 August 1877) was a French banker and arms-dealer from Marseille. A merchant banker in Egypt, he founded the Anglo-Egyptian Bank in 1862. He also served on the City Council of Marseille.
Early life
Jean- ...
(1804-1877), a French banker and arms-dealer.
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Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet
Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet (born 5 January 1984) is a French rugby union player. Peyras-Loustalet, who is a winger, plays his club rugby for Montpellier after signing from Bayonne. He made his debut for France against Australia on 5 July 2008. ...
, French rugby union player
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785) was a French sculptor.
Life
Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the ''Prix de Rome'', after a severe struggle he entered the ''Ac ...
Jean-Baptiste Raymond
Jean-Baptiste Raymond (December 6, 1757 – March 19, 1825) was a seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.
Life
He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies in New France in 1757 and entered the fur trade at an early age. He l ...
, seigneur, businessman, and political figure in Lower Canada
* Jean-Baptiste Régis, French Jesuit missionary in imperial China
* Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Renaud
Jean-Baptiste Renaud (June 22, 1816 – March 1, 1884) was a prominent businessman, merchant and land owner in Quebec. He served as a member of the Quebec Board of Trade and represented Saint-Pierre Ward on the municipal council for Quebec Cit ...
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville
Jean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville (3 March 1782, Abbeville – 22 January 1870, Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated ...
, French a man of letters and poet
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Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (; 5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business. He is best known for Say's law—also known as the law of ...
Jean-Baptiste Singelée
Jean-Baptiste Singelée (25 September 1812 in Brussels – 29 September 1875 in Oostende) was a Belgian classical composer of the romantic period.
Many believe that Jean-Baptiste Singelée was born in Brussels and studied at the Royal Cons ...
, Belgian classical composer and violinist
* Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India
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Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (15 September 1715 – 9 May 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionised the French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed for lighter, more uniform g ...
Jean Baptiste Wilkie Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803–1886) was a Métis warrior, buffalo hunter and chief from the area of Pembina, North Dakota.
Wilkie's father, Alexander, was of Scottish origin and his mother was a Chippewa named Mezhekamkijkok. In the mid-1820s, h ...
(1803-1886), former chief of the Métis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota
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Jean-Pierre-André Amar
Jean-Pierre-André Amar or Jean-Baptiste-André Amar (May 11, 1755 – December 21, 1816) was a French political figure of the Revolution and Freemason.
Life
Early activities
Born in a rich family of cloth merchants in Grenoble, Amar was the so ...
, also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution
* Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin, merchant and political figure in Quebec
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P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel
P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, a French draughtsman A draughtsman (British spelling) or draftsman (American spelling) may refer to:
* An architectural drafter, who produced architectural drawings until the late 20th century
* An artist who produces d ...
, French draughtsman and engraver
* Phạm Minh Mẫn, short for Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn), Catholic cardinal priest and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
* Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a character in the film '' The Fifth Element''
* Jean-Baptiste Augustine, a character in the videogame Overwatch
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Baptiste (disambiguation)
Baptiste may refer to:
*Baptiste (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
*Baptiste, Centre, a commune of Haiti
*Baptiste, Sud, a village in the Aquin commune of Haiti
* ''Baptiste'' (TV series), a BBC TV se ...
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Batiste (disambiguation) Batiste is a lightweight woven fabric.
Batiste may also refer to:
People
* Batiste (surname)
* Batiste Madalena (1902–1988), American commercial artist
See also
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* Baptiste (disambiguation)
*Baptist (disambiguation)
*Batista
Batista is a S ...
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João Batista (disambiguation) João Batista is Portuguese for John the Baptist. It may refer to:
* João Batista de Andrade (born 1939), Brazilian film director and screenwriter
* João Batista Queiroz ( 1950–1980s), Brazilian comics artist and illustrator
* João Batis ...
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Juan Bautista (disambiguation) Juan Bautista is Spanish for John the Baptist. It is a Spanish given name. It may refer to:
People
* Juan Bautista Pastene (1507–1580), Genoese maritime explorer
* Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515–1567), Spanish architect
* Juan Bautista Pomar (15 ...
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste (disambiguation) Saint-Jean-Baptiste may refer to:
* Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the National Holiday of Quebec celebrated on 24 June
* Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec City, a neighbourhood of Quebec City
* Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, a municipality in the Montérégie regio ...