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Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé
Faure () is an Occitan family name meaning blacksmith, from Latin . It is pronounced in French (unlike Fauré which is pronounced ). People Politicians * Dominique Faure (born 1959), French politician * Edgar Faure (1908–1988), French politician * Félix Faure (1841–1899), French politician and President of France * Fernand Faure (1853–1929), French economist and politician * Jacques Faure (ambassador), French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group * Louis-Joseph Faure (1760-1837) French jurist and politician * Olivier Faure (born 1968), French politician * Martine Faure (born 1948), French politician * Maurice Faure (1922–2014), French Resistance leader and politician, last surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome * Sébastien Faure (1858–1942), French anarchist * Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo Writers, artists, and musicians * Amédée Faure or Victor-Amédée Faure (1801–1878), French painter * Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), French baritone and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occitan Language
Occitan (; ), also known by its native speakers as (; ), sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania. It is also spoken in Calabria (Southern Italy) in a linguistic enclave of Cosenza area (mostly Guardia Piemontese) named Gardiol language, Gardiol, which is also considered a separate Occitanic language. Some include Catalan language, Catalan as a dialect of Occitan, as the linguistic distance between this language and some Occitan dialects (such as the Gascon language) is similar to the distance between different Occitan dialects. Catalan was considered a dialect of Occitan until the end of the 19th century and still today remains its closest relative. Occitan is an official language of Catalonia, Spain, where a subdialect of Gascon known as Aranese dialect, Aranese is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée Faure
Amédée Faure or Victor-Amédée Faure (; 1801–1878) was a French painter and portraitist. His portrait subjects include the brothers Louis-Charles, Count of Beaujolais and Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, and he also specialised in historic scenes of the House of Orléans and the July Monarchy The July Monarchy (), officially the ''Kingdom of France'' (), was a liberalism, liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 9 August 1830, after the revolutionary victory of the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 26 Februar .... External linksAmédée Faureat culture.fr 1801 births 1878 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Faure
Luigi Faure (December 15, 1898 in Sauze d'Oulx – April 8, 1946) was an Italian cross-country skier, Nordic combined skier, and ski jumper who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (; ; (no longer in use)), more commonly known simply as Chamonix (), is a communes of France, commune in the departments of France, department in the regions of France, region in Southeastern France. It was the site of the f ..., where he finished 17th in the total ranking of the men's normal hill event. In the 1940s, he founded ''Faure sport'' in his home town. Further notable results Ski jumping * 1924: 1st, Italian ski jumping championships * 1925: 1st, Italian ski jumping championships * 1926: 1st, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Faure
Keith George Faure (born June, 1951), from Norlane, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He is currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings. Faure's criminal history includes further convictions for armed robbery and breaking and entering. Faure and Chopper Read continued a lengthy prison war while imprisoned in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison during the 1970s and 1980s and Faure features prominently in Read's first few books. Faure was also the basis for the character of Keithy George in the film '' Chopper'',Mokbel ordered hit on Lewis Moran '' News ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Military Mission To Japan (1918–1919)
The French Aeronautical Mission to Japan (1918-1919) was the first foreign military mission to Japan since the 1890s. In 1918, Japan invited the fourth French Military Mission, composed of 50 members and equipped with several of the newest types of airplanes, to establish the fundamentals of the Japanese airforce (the planes were several Salmson 2A2, Nieuport Nieuport, later Nieuport-Delage, was a French aeroplane company that primarily built racing aircraft before World War I and fighter aircraft during World War I and between the wars. History Beginnings Originally formed as Nieuport-Duplex in ..., Spad XIII, two Breguet XIV, as well as Caquot dirigeables). The mission, headed by Jacques-Paul Faure, an artillery Colonel, and composed of members of all arms, including about 20 members of the French air services. The success of the mission prompted the Japanese Navy to invite the Sempill Mission from Britain. References *"Sabre et pinceau", Christian Polak. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Faure (French Army Officer)
Jacques Marie Alfred Gaston Faure (2 March 1904 – 9 April 1988) was a French Army general and skier. He was the leader of the French national Olympic military patrol team in 1936 which placed sixth and in 1961 one of the masterminds of the Algiers putsch. Biography Jacques Faure was born on 2 March 1904 in Bordeaux, Gironde department. He was the son of colonel that was killed during World War I and grandson of a general. During his service in the army he was a chasseurs alpins soldier and a paratrooper. He passed the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM). In October 1927 he joined the 13th Chasseurs Alpins Battalion in Chambéry, where he became leader of a ski reconnaissance platoon from 1930 to 1931, and afterwards Captain. Meanwhile, he visited the high mountain school École de Haute Montagne (EHM) in Chamonix in 1930. From 1932 to 1938 he was commander of the French military ski team, and was French Champion in military skiing the same years. During this per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunter Faure
Gunter Faure is a geochemist who currently holds the position of professor emeritus in the school of earth science of Ohio State University. He obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ... in 1961. Books *''Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective'', Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing, Springer, 2007, 526 pp. *''Isotopes: Principles and Applications'', Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing, Wiley; 3rd edition, 2005. *''Origin of Igneous Rocks: The Isotopic Evidence'', Gunter Faure, Springer, 2000, 496 pp. (2010 reprint ) *''Principles and Applications of Geochemistry'', Gunter Faure, Prentice Hall, 1998, 2nd Ed., 625 pp. *''Principles and Applications of Inorganic Geochemistry'', Gunter Faure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Alphonse Faure
Camille Alphonse Faure (21 May 1840, Vizille – 14 September 1898) was a French chemical engineer who in 1881 significantly improved the design of the lead-acid battery, which had been invented by Gaston Planté in 1859. Faure's improvements greatly increased the capacity of such batteries and led directly to their manufacture on an industrial scale. The patents were assigned to the Société La Force et la Lumière. The right to use the patents in the British Isles were sold to the Faure Electric Accumulator Company on 29 March 1881. Faure was a consultant engineer with William Edward Ayrton for this company. Biography He was born at Vizille and trained at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers at Aix. From 1874 until about 1880, he worked as a chemist at the new factory of the Cotton Powder Company at Uplees, Faversham, Kent, England. While there, he and the factory manager, George Trench, took out patents for tonite, a new high explosive (1874), and an improved dynamit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Faure
Abraham Faure (29 August 1795 – 28 March 1875) was a clergyman and author from Cape Colony, part of what later became South Africa. Church career Born in Stellenbosch, Faure was educated in both England and the Netherlands and, with a strong Calvinist background, in 1818 he was inducted as a dominee (minister) in the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Dutch Reformed Church in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony. In 1822 he was called to the ''Groote Kerk, Cape Town, Groote Kerk in Cape Town'' (:af:NG gemeente Kaapstad, AF), where he played a significant role in the first synod there in 1824. He remained a member of the church executive for 43 years. He married Geertruida Isabella Caldwell. His family was heavily involved in the Church and his relative :af:Philip Eduard Faure, Philip Eduard Faure was also a Doctor of Divinities and a Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Synod. Political involvement Politically Faure remained loyal to the British Crown on grounds that the Crown was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Faure
Renée Faure (born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure; November 4, 1918 – May 2, 2005) was a French stage and film actress. Early life Renée Faure was born Reneé Paule Nanine Faure on November 4, 1918, in Paris, France. Her father was René Faure, director of the Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. A student of René Simon and André Brunot, Faure joined to the Comédie-Française, as a boarder on 1937, before being appointed member, on 1942. She then performed in major repertoire pieces, particularly excelling in the theater by Marivaux and Musset. Career In 1941, she made her film debut in '' L'Assassinat du père Noël '', the first film produced by Continental Films, in which she plays the daughter of Harry Baur. Her following performances confirmed her qualities as an interpreter, quickly passing from angelic roles '' Angels of Sin'' (1943) to those, otherwise more ambiguous, of passionate woman such as in ''François Villon'' (1945), ''Torrents'' (1947), and ''Bel Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Faure
Lucie Faure, ''née'' Meyer (6 July 1908 – 25 September 1977) was a French woman of letters, novelist and literary review director. Early life The daughter of a merchant of fabrics of Alsatian origin, she was the niece, on the maternal side, of Julien Cain, who was administrator general of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1930 to 1964. In 1931, she married Edgar Faure, then a young lawyer. Second World War A refugee with her husband and daughter in Tunisia in the autumn of 1942 and then in Algiers, after the Operation Torch, American landing of 8 November, she was attached to the French Committee of National Liberation and organised the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Algiers. It is also in Algiers that she created in 1943 with the writer Robert Aron the magazine ', which would be the first to be published in Paris the day after the Western Front (World War II)#Liberation of France, Libération of France and of which she assured the direction u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Faure (writer)
Gabriel Faure (; 15 May 1877 – 5 August 1962) was a French poet, novelist and essayist. He was the author of many books about Italy, and the editor of a book prefaced by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He won five prizes from the Académie française. Early life Gabriel Faure was born on 15 May 1877 in Tournon-sur-Rhône, in the department of Ardèche, France. Career Faure was the author of many poems, novels and essays. An Italophile, he wrote many books about Italy, including Venice, Ventimiglia and Rome. In 1929, he edited a book about Italy entitled ''Le Visage de l'Italie'' prefaced by Benito Mussolini. The book received a good review in ''The Journal of Roman Studies''. Additionally, Faure was the founder of the Comité France-Italie. Moreover, Faure wrote several books about French authors François-René de Chateaubriand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stendhal, Paul Valéry and Louis Le Cardonnel. He co-authored a book about Napoleon with Marcel Deléon. Faure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
