Darboux
Darboux is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917), French mathematician * Lauriane Doumbouya (née Darboux), the current First Lady of Guinea since 5 September 2021 * Paul Darboux (1919–1982), Beninese politician {{surname ...
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Jean Gaston Darboux
Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (14 August 1842 – 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. Life According to his birth certificate, he was born in Nîmes in France on 14 August 1842, at 1 am. However, probably due to the midnight birth, Darboux himself usually reported his own birthday as 13 August, ''e.g.'' in his filled form for Légion d'Honneur. His parents were François Darboux, businessman of mercery, and Alix Gourdoux. The father died when Gaston was 7. His mother undertook the mercery business with great courage, and insisted that her children receive good education. Gaston had a younger brother, Louis, who taught mathematics at the Lycée Nîmes for almost his entire life. He studied at the Nîmes Lycée and the Montpellier Lycée before being accepted as the top qualifier at the École normale supérieure in 1861, and received his PhD there in 1866. His thesis, written under the direction of Michel Chasles, was titled ''Sur les surfaces orthogonal ...
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Lauriane Doumbouya
Lauriane Doumbouya (née Darboux) is the current First Lady of Guinea since 5 September 2021. She is from France and is the wife of the interim President of Guinea, Mamady Doumbouya who took power in the 2021 Guinean coup d'état. She is an active duty member of the French National Gendarmerie. Personal life Darboux's family is from the south of France, and she worked as an active duty police officer in the French National Gendarmerie in the town of Valence, Drôme Drôme (; Occitan: ''Droma''; Arpitan: ''Drôma'') is the southernmost department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. Named after the river Drôme, it had a population of 516,762 as of 2019.