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François Fournier (other)
François Fournier may refer to: * François Fournier (Lower Canada politician) (1776–1836), land surveyor and politician in Lower Canada * François Fournier (French politician) (1866–1941), French politician from Manduel, Gard * François Fournier (stamp forger) (1846–1917), Swiss-born stamp forger * François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773–1827), French general of the Napoleonic Wars * François Joseph Fournier François Joseph Fournier (6 December 1857 - 13 January 1935) was a Autodidacticism, self-taught Belgians, Belgian adventurer and entrepreneur who explored Mexico and the island of Porquerolles. He was born into a family of modest means, in Clabec ... (1857–1935), Belgian adventurer * Jean-François Fournier (born 1966), writer, poet and biographer from Saint-Maurice {{hndis, Fournier, Francois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Fournier (Lower Canada Politician)
Fran̤ois Fournier (1776 РOctober 18, 1836) was a land surveyor and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Devon in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada was the lower house of the bicameral structure of provincial government in Lower Canada until 1838. The legislative assembly was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791. The lower house consisted of e ... from 1814 to 1824. He was born in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, the son of Louis Fournier and Madeleine Jean, probably on June 2, 1776. He studied as a land surveyor and received his commission in 1799. Fournier was also a captain and later major in the militia and served as a justice of the peace. In 1804, he married Catherine Miville-Desch̻nes. He did not run for reelection in 1824. Fournier died in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli at the age of 60. His son Charles-Fran̤ois served in the assembly for the Province of Canada. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fournier, Francois ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Fournier (French Politician)
François Fournier (14 August 1866 in Manduel (Gard) – 27 May 1941 in Manduel Manduel (; ) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Nîmes-Pont-du-Gard station, with high speed connections to Paris and Perpignan and regional services to Avignon, Nîmes and Montpellier, is situated in the commune. Populat ...) was a French politician. Mandates * Member of Parliament for the Gard région in France from 1901 to 1919 External links His biographie on the site of the French parliament 1866 births 1941 deaths French Socialist Party (1902) politicians French Section of the Workers' International politicians category:Republican-Socialist Party politicians Members of the 7th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 8th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 9th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 10th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 11th Chamber of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Fournier (stamp Forger)
François Fournier (24 April 1846 – 12 July 1917) Tyler, Varro E. ''Philatelic Forgers: Their Lives and Works.'' London: Robson Lowe Ltd., 1976, pp. 14-15. was a stamp forger who thought of himself as a creator of "art objects" Ragatz, Lowell., ed. ''The Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries: A Photographic Composite for Reference Purposes''. Worthington, Ohio: Janet van den Berg, 1970, introduction. and a friend of the little man. Fournier was born in Croix-de-Rozon, Switzerland, but became a French citizen and served in the army during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71. Facsimile business Fournier did not become involved with the philatelic business until later life. In about 1903 he returned to Switzerland and settled in Geneva, where in May 1904 he bought the stock of Louis-Henri Mercier, real name ''Henri Goegg'', who had gone bankrupt. It is at about this time that Fournier began his business producing facsimile stamps. The business grew rapidly, and from 1910 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Fournier-Sarlovèze
François Louis Fournier-Sarlovèze (6 September 1773 – 18 January 1827) was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. Biography Born in Sarlat in 1773, his father owned a cabaret. In his youth, he received solid instruction by the monks of his hometown and became a clerk of the prosecutor. In 1791, he went to Paris and entered the army, and the following year became second lieutenant of the Ninth Dragoons. Posted to the Army of the Alps, he distinguished himself through his extreme Jacobinist political opinions so that, after Robespierre’s death, he was deprived of his rank and imprisoned in Lyon. He succeeded in escaping prison and was reinstated in the Army of the North, and afterwards in the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse. In ''The Encyclopedia of the Sword'', Nick Evangelista wrote: As a young officer in Napoleon's Army, Dupont was ordered to deliver a disagreeable message to a fellow officer, Fournier, a rabid duellist. Fournier, taking out his subsequent rage on the mess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Joseph Fournier
François Joseph Fournier (6 December 1857 - 13 January 1935) was a Autodidacticism, self-taught Belgians, Belgian adventurer and entrepreneur who explored Mexico and the island of Porquerolles. He was born into a family of modest means, in Clabecq, Belgium and died on Porquerolles. Fournier purchased the entire island of Porquerolles in 1912, apparently as a wedding present for his wife. He planted 200 hectares (about 500 acres) of vineyards which produced a wine that was among the first to be French_wine#Quality_levels_and_appellation_system, classed French_wine#Provence, des Côtes de Provence. On 22 February 1912, at an auction, he bought the island of Porquerolles for the sum of one million and one hundred francs. He obtained French nationality on 28 June 1914. François Joseph Fournier developed the island of Porquerolles with the model he had used in the Colonizadora: development of wine and fruit crops, creation of a cooperative, establishment of a flotilla of boats linkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
