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Arnaud (given Name)
Arnaud or Arnault is the French form of the German given name Arnold. It derives from the Germanic roots, ''arn'' (eagle), and ''wald'' (power). People named Arnaud include * Arnaud Amalric (died 1225), Cistercian monk involved with the Inquisition * Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret (1338–1401), French nobleman and Lord of Albret * Arnaud Anastassowa (born 1988), French-Bulgarian footballer * Arnaud Assoumani (born 1985), French long jumper * Arnaud Aubert (died 1371), French archbishop * Arnaud Baille/Sicre (c. 1250–c. 1350), French cobbler and informer for the Inquisition * Arnaud Balijon (born 1983), French football goalkeeper * Arnaud Bédat (1965–2023), Swiss journalist * Arnaud Beltrame (1973–2018), French gendarme lieutenant colonel murdered after swapping himself for a hostage * Arnaud Berquin (1747–1791), French author * Arnaud Bertheux (born 1977), French footballer * Arnaud Blin (born 1963), French historian and political scientist * Arnaud Boetsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Brocard
Arnaud Brocard (born 19 August 1986 in Dijon) is a French goalkeeper. He previously played in Ligue 2 with RC Lens and Troyes AC in the Championnat National. He made the jump into professional football from the RC Lens youth academy in 2007. Brocard also previously played for Paris FC and Gap. In August 2011, Brocard joined Ligue 1 side Valenciennes FC Valenciennes Football Club (; commonly known as Valenciennes, VA or VAFC) is a French professional football club based in Valenciennes. The club was founded in 1914 and currently play in Championnat National, the third tier of French footbal ... as a reserve goalkeeper but could not get chance to play any match. References 1986 births Living people French men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Ligue 2 players Paris FC players RC Lens players ES Troyes AC players Gap HAFC players Valenciennes FC players Footballers from Dijon Championnat National players 20th-century French sportsmen 21st- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Gérard
Arnaud Gérard (born 6 October 1984) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the and teams. The cousin of former professional cyclist Cédric Hervé, Gérard won the junior road race at the 2002 UCI Road World Championships, but competed largely as a domestique as a professional – taking two victories, at the 2008 Polynormande one-day race and a stage of the 2015 Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Tour du Poitou-Charentes. Following his retirement from racing, Gérard now works as a directeur sportif for the team. Major results Source: ;2002 : 1st Road race, 2002 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Junior Road World Championships : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2003 : 1st Stage 1 Bidasoa Itzulia ;2004 : 3rd La Roue Tourangelle ;2006 : 9th Polynormande ;2007 : 8th Overall Paris–Corrèze : 9th Grand Prix de la Somme : 10th 2007 GP Ouest-France, GP Ouest-France ;2008 : 1st Polynorm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Di Pasquale
Arnaud Di Pasquale (; born 11 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France. Tennis career Juniors Di Pasquale excelled as a junior, posting a 103–25 record in singles and reaching the No. 1 ranking in December 1997 (and No. 17 in doubles). He won the boys' singles competition at the 1997 US Open (and made the semifinals of the Australian and French Open). Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) Pro tour Di Pasquale is best known winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event. He beat Nicolas Kiefer, Vladimir Voltchkov, Juan Carlos Ferrero and rising Roger Federer in the bronze medal match, but more surprising was his straight-sets victory over the well established Magnus Norman of Sweden, in the tournament's third round. He also reached the fourth round of the French Open in both 1999 and 2002 and won one singles title (in Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Dos Santos
Arnaud Dos Santos (born 19 September 1945) is a French former footballer and coach. He played for US Boulogne, FC Rouen, AS Monaco FC, FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Troyes AC and Lille OSC. After his playing career, he became a coach with Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs, such as Lille OSC and RC Lens Racing Club de Lens (), commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply as Lens, is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the department of Pas-de-Calais. The club's nickname, ''Les Sang et Or'' (), comes from i .... References External linksSiterCLProfile 1945 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Desplechin
Arnaud Desplechin (; born 31 October 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2016, he won the César Award for Best Director for ''My Golden Days'' (2015). He has also written and directed the films ''The Sentinel (1992 film), The Sentinel'' (1992), ''My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument'' (1996), ''Esther Kahn'' (2000), ''Playing 'In the Company of Men''' (2003), ''Kings and Queen'' (2004), ''A Christmas Tale'' (2008), ''Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian'' (2013), ''Ismael's Ghosts'' (2017), ''Oh Mercy!'' (2019), ''Deception (2021 film), Deception'' (2021), ''Brother and Sister (2022 film), Brother and Sister'' (2022), and ''Filmlovers!'' (2024) Life and career Desplechin was born in Roubaix. He is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord (French department), Nord department. He has a brother named Fabrice who has acted in several of his films, and two sisters: novelist Marie Desplechin and screenwriter Raphaëlle Desplechin. Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Desjardins
Arnaud Desjardins (; June 18, 1925 in Paris – August 10, 2011 in Grenoble) was a French author. He was a producer at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française from 1952 to 1974, and was one of the first high-profile practitioners of Eastern religion in France. He worked on television documentaries about spiritual traditions not well known to many Europeans at the time, including Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, and Sufism from Afghanistan. Life and work Arnaud Desjardins was the son of Jacques Guérin-Desjardins. He was part of the George Gurdjieff group, his first contact with mysticism. Educated in a Protestant Christian environment, he was exposed to spiritual aspects of Christianity on a visit to a trappist Catholic monastery. He then became interested in yoga, and when asked to direct a film for French television, he chose to make a series of films on India, for which he gained attention for his first film, ''Ashrams''. He met a spiritual teacher, Swami Prajnanp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Denjoy
Arnaud Denjoy (; 5 January 1884 – 21 January 1974) was a French mathematician. Biography Denjoy was born in Auch, Gers. His contributions include work in harmonic analysis and differential equations. His integral was the first to be able to integrate all derivatives. Among his students is Gustave Choquet. He is also known for the more general broad Denjoy integral, or Khinchin integral. Denjoy was an Invited Speaker of the ICM with talk ''Sur une classe d'ensembles parfaits en relation avec les fonctions admettant une dérivée seconde généralisée'' in 1920 at Strasbourg and with talk ''Les equations differentielles periodiques'' in 1950 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1931 he was the president of the Société Mathématique de France. In 1942 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences and was its president in 1962. Denjoy married in 1923 and was the father of three sons. He died in Paris in 1974. He was an atheist with a strong interest in philosophy, psycho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Démare
Arnaud Démare (born 26 August 1991) is a French professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Having turned professional in 2012 and specialising as a sprinter, Démare has taken almost 100 wins as a professional, including 10 Grand Tour stage victories – 2 at the Tour de France and 8 at the Giro d'Italia (the most by any French rider) – and he won the points classification in the Giro d'Italia in 2020 and 2022. Démare is one of five riders to have won the French National Road Race Championships three times, having won the race in 2014, 2017 and 2020. He has also won the under-23 road race at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships, and the 2016 Milan–San Remo, a cycling monument. Career Junior and amateur career Born in Beauvais, Démare joined Team Wasquehal in 2008, and as a first-year junior rider, he won a stage at both the Tour de l'Abitibi and the Coupe des Nations Abitibi. During his second junior season in 2009, Démare won the bronze meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Cotture
Arnaud Cotture (born 9 August 1995) is a Swiss professional basketball player. He currently plays for Fribourg Olympic of the Swiss Basketball League. He represented Switzerland's national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2017 qualification This article describes the qualification procedure for EuroBasket 2017. Qualification format All teams which didn't qualify yet for EuroBasket 2017 were divided into six groups of four teams and one more of three. The winners of each group and the ..., where he was Switzerland's best shot blocker. FIBA.com, accessed 14 July 2017. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Costes
Arnaud Costes (born 16 June 1973) is a French former international rugby union footballer who also played for France national team. Career As flanker he played for several French clubs: he debuted in the French championship in 1993 with Montferrand, where he also won the 1998–99 European Challenge Cup; in 2000 he moved to Castres for which he played until 2002; he then played the 2002–03 season with Bourgoin-Jallieu then ended his professional career at Béziers (2003–2005). Finally he moved at 34 to the amateur club Gaillac in Fédérale 3 where he closed definitely his career as player in 2007, aged 36. As international he won 14 full caps for France and took part to two consecutive World Cups, in 1995 (1 match) and in 1999, where France were runners-up. His last international game was against Ireland during the 2000 Six Nations Championship. Since retirement he has managed the amateur club Rugby Olympique de Castelnaudary, (Fédérale 3). Honours Club * Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arnaud Clément
Arnaud Clément (; born 17 December 1977) is a French former professional tennis player and Davis Cup captain. Clément reached the final of the 2001 Australian Open and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 in April 2001. He also had a career-high doubles ranking of No. 8. He won four ATP singles titles (Lyon 2000, Metz 2003, Marseille 2006, Washington 2006), and twelve doubles titles including 2007 Wimbledon, partnering Michaël Llodra, and two Masters titles. He was the French Davis Cup captain from 2013 to 2015. Career He turned professional in 1996, and achieved his career highlight at the 2001 Australian Open, reaching the men's singles final, where he was defeated by Andre Agassi. En route, Clement defeated the then-unseeded future world No. 1, Roger Federer, and the former world No. 1, Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Throughout his career, he has beaten top players such as Andre Agassi, Pat Rafter, Carlos Moyá and more recently Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
