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Michel Vergé-Franceschi
Michel Vergé-Franceschi (born 28 October 1951, Toulon) is a French naval historian. Biography Michel Vergé-Franceschi started teaching History in secondary education at Le Havre (1975-1986) at collège Viviani, at the Lycée polyvalent Claude Monet, at the Lycée régional François 1er and at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, Normandy, where he was also responsible for the academic plan for teaching History. He earned a PhD in History in 1980 with a dissertation ''l'École Royale de Marine du Havre'' ( School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS) and a second PhD in 1987 at Paris X Nanterre with ''Les officiers généraux de la marine royale''. He then went on to head the Maritime History Laboratory of CNRS- Paris IV-Sorbonne-Musée national de la Marine, and teach as a Modern History professor at Université Savoie Mont Blanc at Chambéry (1986-2000) From 2000, he taught at the University of Tours The University of Tours (), formerly François Rabelais Univer ...
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Toulon
Toulon (, , ; , , ) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var (department), Var department. The Commune of Toulon has a population of 176,198 people (2018), making it France's 13th-largest city. It is the centre of an urban unit with 580,281 inhabitants (2018), the ninth largest in France by population. Toulon is the second largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment. The military port of Toulon is the major navy, naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French aircraft carrier ''French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle'' and her battle group. The French Mediterranean Fleet is based in ...
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Cnrs
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engineers and technical staff, and 7,085 contractual workers. It is headquartered in Paris and has administrative offices in Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Bonn, Moscow, Tunis, Johannesburg, Santiago de Chile, Israel, and New Delhi. Organization The CNRS operates on the basis of research units, which are of two kinds: "proper units" (UPRs) are operated solely by the CNRS, and Joint Research Units (UMRs – ) are run in association with other institutions, such as universities or INSERM. Members of Joint Research Units may be either CNRS researchers or university employees ( ''maîtres de conférences'' or ''professeurs''). Each research unit has a numeric code attached and is typically headed by a university profe ...
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21st-century French Historians
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French Naval Historians
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Chambéry
Chambéry (, , ; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the southeastern Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The population of the Communes of France, commune of Chambéry was 60,251 as of 2022, while the population of the Chambéry metropolitan area was 263,919.Comparateur de territoire
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The city is located at the foot of the French Alps between Bauges Mountains, Bauges and Chartreuse Mountains, Chartreuse mountains, and is a railway and highway crossroads. It has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V, Count of Savoy, made the cit ...
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Musée National De La Marine
The Musée national de la Marine (; "National Navy Museum") is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort ( Musée National de la Marine de Rochefort), and Toulon. The permanent collection originates in a collection that dates back to Louis XV of France. History In 1748, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau offered a collection of models of ships and naval installations to Louis XV of France, with the request that the items be displayed at the Louvre and made available to students of the Naval engineers school, which Duhamel headed. The collection was put on display in 1752, in a room of the first floor, next to the Academy of Sciences; the room was called "''Salle de Marine''" (Navy room), and was used for teaching. With the French Revolution, the Salle de Marine closed in 1793. The collection was added to models owned by the King personally, to others owned by the ...
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Paris IV-Sorbonne
Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; ) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018, it merged with Pierre and Marie Curie University and some smaller entities to form a new university called Sorbonne University and became its Faculty of Arts and Humanities. History Paris-Sorbonne University was one of the inheritors of the Faculty of Humanities () of the University of Paris (also known as the ''Sorbonne''), which ceased to exist following student protests in May 1968. The Faculty of Humanities was the main focus of the University of Paris, and subsequently Paris-Sorbonne University was one of its main successors. It was a member of the Sorbonne University Group. Paris-Sorbonne University enrolled about 24,000 students in 20 departments specialising in arts, humanities and languages, divided in 12 campuses throughout Paris. Seven of the campu ...
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