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Bret (surname)
Bret is the surname of: * Antoine Bret (1717–1792), French writer and playwright * David Bret (born 1954), French-born British author of biographies * Jean Jacques Bret (1781–1819), French mathematician * Patrice Bret (ski mountaineer) (born 1971), French ski mountaineer * Patrice Bret (historian) Patrice Bret (born 1949) is a French historian of science and technology and a senior researcher at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré in Paris. His areas of expertise include the translation and circulation of scientific and technical knowledge through ... (born 1949), French historian of science and technology See also * Lebret (other) {{surname, Bret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Antoine Bret
Antoine Bret (9 July 1717, Dijon – 25 February 1792, Paris aged 74) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright. A prolific writer, he practiced almost all genres. He composed light poetry, comedies, novels, memoirs, parodic and licentious tales. A fairly pure style, ease of invention, reviews more ingenious than deep made him a reputation without rising above the fair. A good connoisseur of drama, he wrote plays sinning nevertheless by lack verve and comic force. We owe him an edition of the ''Oeuvres'' by Molière, whose comments were appreciated. ''La Belle Alsacienne, ou Telle mère telle fille'', a libertine novel first published in 1745 under the title ''La Belle Allemande, ou les Galanteries de Thérèse'', which tells the story of a girl walking in the footsteps of her mother and letting her drive by in the ways of gallantry, was assigned to him as well as to Claude Villaret. Antoine Bret was a member of the Académie de Stanislas in Nancy and Académie des Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Bret
David Bret (born 8 November 1954) is a British author of show business biographies. He chiefly writes on the private life of film stars and singers. Biographies Bret has written a number of biographies for several publishers. Many of these have focused on the private or intimate lives of entertainment celebrities. Lewis Jones, in the ''Telegraph'' wrote that Bret "for decades has churned out sensationalist biographies of such figures as Diana Dors, Barbra Streisand and Tallulah Bankhead." Clark Gable In ''Clark Gable: Tormented Star'' Bret deals at length with Gable's sex life and particularly his sex with other men. In the '' New York Times Sunday Book Review'', Ada Calhoun wrote "How does Bret, the author of numerous celebrity biographies, know so much about Hollywood stars’ sex lives? Judging by this new book's convoluted wording, he really doesn't." She also wrote: "For all its smut, the book is painfully unsexy. ... And yet Bret undermines his own arguments. ... 'Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean Jacques Bret
Jean Jacques Bret (25 September 1781 – 29 January 1819) was a French professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble. He worked on analytical geometry, polynomial roots, and the theory of conics and quadrics. Bret was born in Mercuriol, Drôme, where his father was a notary. He went to study civil engineering at the École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ... in 1800 but was unable to complete studies due to poor health. In 1804 he became a professor of mathematics at the lycée in Grenoble. In 1811 he became a professor at the faculty of science at the University of Grenoble and received a doctorate in 1812. Bret's work was in coordinate geometry, both on the plane and in 3-dimensions. He was among the first to use a parametric form for the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Patrice Bret (ski Mountaineer)
Patrice Bret (born 1971) is a French ski mountaineer. He was born in Lyon.''Patrice Bret'' i''Le ski-alpinisme''/ref> Selected results * 1997: ** 5th, French Championship ** 5th, French Cup * 1998: ** 2nd, French Championship ** 3rd, French Cup ** 4th, European Cup * 1999 : ** 1st, French Championship team (together with Stéphane Brosse) ** 6th, European Championship team race (together with Stéphane Brosse) * 2000: ** 1st, European Cup team (together with Stéphane Brosse) * 2001: ** 1st, ''Croix de Chamrousse'' ** 3rd, European Cup ** 5th, European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ... team race (together with Olivier Pasteur) Pierra Menta * 1997: 10th, together with Stéphane Brosse * 1998: 7th, together with Stéphane Brosse * 1999: 3rd, together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Patrice Bret (historian)
Patrice Bret (born 1949) is a French historian of science and technology and a senior researcher at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré in Paris. His areas of expertise include the translation and circulation of scientific and technical knowledge through communities in the 18th century, the technology and history of armaments in the 18th-20th centuries, and science and technology under colonisation (e.g. Napoleon's French campaign in Egypt and Syria, Egypt Expedition). Bret has served as director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), scientific head of the Centre des hautes études de l'Armement (CHEAr), scientific director of the L'Institut de recherche stratégique de l'École militaire (IRSEM), secretary general of the Comité National Francais d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences (CNFHPS), and secretary general of the Comité Lavoisier of the French Academy of Sciences. Education Patrice Bret attended the University of Provence, where he rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |