Dr. Jean-Charles Gille-Maisani (22 May 1924 – 29 January 1995) was a French, later Canadian, engineer, psychiatrist and professor of medicine. Gille was born in

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(

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), where his father, originally from

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, was a superior officer in the French garrison. He learned German early in life and moved on to learn French, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Polish, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek. He entered the

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in 1943. After graduation, and a year of specialization at the École nationale supérieure de l'Aéronautique, he studied at Harvard where he received a Master of Arts degree in the newly created

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

discipline. Back in France in 1948, he entered the Services techniques aéronautiques and worked in the engines and special objects. He was also a certified pilot and colonel. In 1953, he started studying

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

, and received a Ph.D. in 1960, with a specialisation in psychiatry and psychology. At the same time, he was director of studies at the E.N.S. de l'Aéronautique (Paris) and created, in 1962, with Marc Pélegrin, the Centre d'études et de recherches en automatique (CERA) which expanded rapidly, having in 1965, 70 to 80 employees. In 1963, he was a defense witness at the trial of

Jean Bastien-Thiry Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (; 19 October 1927 – 11 March 1963) was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air-weaponry engineer. He was the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. He attempted to assassinate French President ...

, one of the perpetrators of an assassination attempt against President de Gaulle. In 1966, he left France to live in Quebec,

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, where he was already an established visiting professor. Until pancreatic cancer caused his death in 1995, he was titular professor in the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Département de Génie Électrique electrical engineering,

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in Quebec City. Beside engineering and medicine, his fields of interest also included graphology, classical music and

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. He was '' Honoris Causa'' Doctor of

Silesian University of Technology The Silesian University of Technology (Polish name: Politechnika Śląska; ) is a university located in the Polish province of Silesia, with most of its facilities in the city of Gliwice. It was founded in 1945 by Polish professors of the Lwow P ...

and a member of the

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Publications

* ''Dynamique de la Commande Linéaire'' (with Decaulne, Paul and Pelegrin, Marc), Paris : Dunod, 1967. * ''Psychologie de l'écriture : études de graphologie.'' Paris : Payot, 1969. * ''Écritures de poètes de Byron à Baudelaire / J.-Ch. Gille-Maisani.'' Dervy-Livres, 1977. * ''Types de Jung et tempéraments psychobiologiques : expression dans l'écriture, corrélation avec le groupe sanguin, utilisation en psychologie appliquée'' Paris : Maloine ; Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec : Edisem, 1978. * ''Calcul matriciel et introduction à l'analyse fonctionnelle : pour ingénieurs'' (with Marc Clique) Editions Lidec, 1979. * ''Ecritures de poètes : de Byron à Beaudelaire'' Dervy-Livres, 1977 * ''Écritures de compositeurs, de Beethoven a Debussy. Musique et graphologie.'', 1978 * ''Calcul matriciel et introduction à l'analyse fonctionnelle : pour ingénieurs'' (with Marc Clique) 2nd ed. Paris : Éditions Eyrolles ; Montréal : Éditions Lidec, 1981. * ''Calcul matriciel et introduction à l'analyse fonctionnelle''(with Marc Clique), 3rd ed. Lidec, 1984. * ''Calcul matriciel : exercices et problèmes avec solutions'' (with Marc Clique), 1st ed. Lidec, 1984. * ''

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, poète national de la Pologne : étude psychanalytique et caractérologique'' Bellarmin, 1987. * ''Calcul matriciel : exercices et problèmes avec solutions'' (with Marc Clique), 2nd ed. Lidec, 1988. * ''Calcul matriciel et introduction à l'analyse fonctionnelle'' (with Marc Clique), 4th ed. rev. and expanded. Lidec, 1989. * Węgrzyn, S. (Stefan). ''Developmental systems at the crossroads of system theory, computer science, and genetic engineering'' / S. Węgrzyn, J.-C. Gille, P. Vidal. Springer-Verlag, 1990. * Węgrzyn, Stefan. ''Developmental systems : at the crossroads of system theory, computer science, and genetic engineering'' / S. Węgrzyn, J.-C. Gille, P. Vidal. Springer-Verlag, 1990. * ''Dynamique de la commande linéaire'' / par Jean-Charles Gille, Paul Decaulne, Marc Pélegrin, 9th ed. * ''Systèmes linéaires : problèmes avec solutions'' Lidec, 1992. * ''Servosistemas : teoría y calculo'' (with P. Decaulne, M. Pelegrin; translated by Antonio Diez Moreno) 2nd ed. Dunod * ''The Psychology of Handwriting'', Scriptor Books, 1989. * S. Węgrzyn, J.-C. Gille, P. Vidal. ''Developmental Systems: At the Crossroads of System Theory, Computer Science and Genetic Engineering'' Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K 1990 * ''Poets' Handwritings'', (translated by Robert Laversuch) Scriptor Books, 1995.

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Biography of Gille

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gille, Jean-Charles French graphologists 1924 births 1995 deaths Harvard University alumni French psychologists People from Trier People from the Rhine Province French emigrants to Canada Université Laval faculty 20th-century psychologists