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Séjour En Afrique
Séjour is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734–1794), French astronomer and mathematician * Victor Séjour (1817–1874), American expatriate writer who worked in France * Jean Dionis du Séjour (born 1956), French politician {{DEFAULTSORT:Sejour French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Pierre Dionis Du Séjour
Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (January 11, 1734 – August 22, 1794) was a French astronomer and mathematician. Electronic Enlightenment Project (2008) ''Achille Pierre Dionis Du Séjour correspondence.'' Dionis du Séjour was born in Paris and was a distant relative of surgeon and anatomist Pierre Dionis. He served as an advisor to parliament before he was appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1765. In 1775 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was appointed to the Paris group for the Estates-General of 1789 and was one of the 47 who joined the Estates of the Realm that year. Dionis du Séjour died in Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine. Publications * ''Traité des courbes algébriques'' (Treatise on Algebraic Curves), with Mathieu-Bernard Goudin (1756) * ''Recherches sur le gnomonique et les rétrogradations des planètes'' (Research on sundials and retrograde motions of Planets), (1761) * ''Traité des mouvements apparents des corps célestes'' (Treatise on ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Séjour
Juan Victor Séjour Marcou et Ferrand (June 2, 1817 – September 20, 1874) was an American Creole of color and writer. Born in New Orleans, he spent most of his career in Paris. Séjour's fiction and plays were written and published in French. Although he was mostly unknown to later American writers of the nineteenth century, his short story ''" Le Mulâtre"'' ("The Mulatto") is the earliest known work of fiction by a Black American author.Victor Séjour, Philip Barnard (translator). "The Mulatto." In Nellie Y. McKay and Henry Louis Gates (eds), ''The Norton Anthology of African American Literature'', Second edition, Norton, 2004. In France, however, he was known chiefly for his plays. His first work of fiction was an ode to French Emperor Napoleon in 1841. Biography Juan Victor Séjour was born on June 2, 1817, in New Orleans to François Marcou, a free man of color from Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti), and Eloisa Philippe Ferrand, a New Orleans-born quadroon. His parents wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dionis Du Séjour
Jean Dionis du Séjour (; born 21 September 1956), also known as Jean Dionis, is a French politician who has served as Mayor of Agen since 2008. A member of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), he is formerly a member of the Union for French Democracy (UDF) and The Centrists (LC). He represented the 1st constituency of the Lot-et-Garonne department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2012. Biography Dionis du Séjour was a Deputy Mayor of Agen from 1995 to 2001 under Mayor Paul Chollet. He retained a seat in the municipal council of Agen until his resignation in 2004. He served as the deputy in the National Assembly for the 1st constituency of the Lot-et-Garonne department from 2002 to 2012. He was elected to the mayorship of Agen following the 2008 municipal election. He lost his parliamentary seat at the 2012 legislative election, which he unsuccessfully tried to regain at the 2017 election under the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) banner with the support of The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
