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Épieds
Épieds is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Épieds, in the Aisne départementÉpieds, in the Eure départementÉpieds, in the Maine-et-Loire département Épieds-en-Beauce, in the Loiret département This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of arti..
Pie
This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). A slice cut from an apple pie A pie is a baked dish, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards..
Pie-IX (Montreal Metro)
Pie-IX Inaugurated 6 June 1976 Line Green Line Architect Marcel Raby Platform Depth 10.1 metres Rank 53rd deepest Traffic 4,974,375 entrances in 2002 Rank 12th busiest Interstation Distance 766.88 metres to Joliette621.85 metres to Viau Pie-IX is a st..
Pie-O-My (The Sopranos episode)
"Pie-O-My" is the 44th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. It was the fifth episode for the show's fourth season. The episode was written by Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess and directed by Henry J. Bronchtein. It originally aired on Sunday October 13, 2002. Contents 1 Guest st..
Piebald
For the musical group, see Piebald (band). A piebald horse A piebald is an animal, especially a horse, that has large white and black patches. The colour of the horse's skin underneath its coat may vary between black (under the black patches of hair) and pink (under the white patches). It ..
Piebaldism
Piebaldism is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of melanocyte development. ..
Piebald (band)
Piebald is an Alternative rock band. Piebald started as a hardcore band in Andover, Massachusetts, out of the same scene that produced legends Converge. They later moved to the Boston suburb of Somerville and became a staple of the Greater Boston indie rock scene. Two members still live in the Bost..
Piebald Shrew
The Piebald shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellum) is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to 2-2 3/4 inches in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. References Animal, Smithsonian Institution, 2005. ..
Piece
A Piece may be: A Musical piece - a work of music.A visual piece - a work of visual art, often used in the context of Graffiti it can also refer to a portion, for example a piece of pie. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If ..
Piecemeal (comics)
Piecemeal (Gilbert Benson) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in "New Mutants Annual" #7. Young Gilbert Benson was a mutant with the ability to absorb different energy frequencies and store them within his body. His mother, the armored mutant mer..
Piecepack
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. --> The piecepack is a set of game pieces used to design and play a wide variety of games. History It was invented by James Kyle and release..
Pieces
"Pieces" is the second single from Sum 41's 2004 album, Chuck. The song received massive airplay upon release as a single and went on to become one of the band's most successful hits. It has recently come under scrutiny of Internet weblogs and radio stations which have claimed the song is a copy..
Pieces in a Modern Style
Pieces in a Modern Style is the sixth album by electronic instrumentalist William Orbit. Released in 2000, it was responsible for introducing the piece Adagio for Strings to a new generation. This was the first single from the album, however the version played on radio and television was a remix..
Pieces of April
Pieces of April is a 2003 movie written and directed by Peter Hedges. It stars Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, Derek Luke and Sean Hayes. Holmes plays a girl living in New York City who — although she is estranged from her dysfunctional family and doesn't know mu..
Pieces of a Dream
"Pieces of a Dream" is a song from American pop singer Anastacia, featured on her 2005 greatest hits album [[Pieces of a Dream: Best Of]]. It is a tribute to her fans. The single was released on November 14, 2005 (see 2005 in music) in Europe, UK excluded. The music video for "Pieces of a Dream..
Pieces of a Dream: Best Of
Pieces of a Dream: Best Of is singer Anastacia's 2005 greatest hits album, covering singles from her first three albums Not That Kind, Freak of Nature and Anastacia. Contents 1 Track listings2 Charts3 Singles4 Certifications5 External links Track listings Normal versi..
Pieces Of A Man
Pieces of a Man is AZ's sophomore effort. The album is vastly different from his debut, Doe or Die. It contained fun, party tracks as opposed to Doe or Die's grimey, street oriented lyrics and production. Because of this, many fans were upset and quickly branded it a "sophomore slump". However, a..
Pieces of Eight
Pieces of eight are also a form of currency. See Spanish dollar. Pieces of Eight is the eighth album by Styx, released in September of 1978 (see 1978 in music). The album was the band's follow-up to their Triple Platinum selling The Grand Illusion album. The band members produced the album and ..
Pieces of Me
"Pieces of Me" is a song by American pop/rock singer Ashlee Simpson and the first single from her début album, Autobiography. The song, which was co-written by Simpson, Kara DioGuardi and John Shanks (and produced by Shanks),Autobiography liner notes. is a blend of pop and rock with lyrics about f..
Pieces of Modesty
Pieces of Modesty is a short story collection by Peter O'Donnell featuring his secret agent heroine, Modesty Blaise, first published in 1972. It was O'Donnell's first such collection of stories (he would publish a second, Cobra Trap decades later). The stories featured in this collection are: "A..
Pieces of the People We Love
Pieces of the People We Love is the second full album by dance-punk band The Rapture. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 12, 2006. Track listing "Pieces of the People We Love""Done Gone Do It""Get Myself Into It""Whoo! Alright-Yeah Uh Huh (W.A.Y.U.H.)""The Sound""Call..
Pieces of the Sky
Although she had released the obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five years earlier, Pieces of the Sky was the album that really launched the career of Emmylou Harris, and widely considered to be her début. In those intervening years she had forged a musical relationship with the late Gram Parsons t..
Pieces of You
Pieces of You is the debut album by singer/songwriter Jewel, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). Though it made little impact initially, "Who Will Save Your Soul" eventually received airplay and the album sold over 12 million copies in the USA, making it one of the best selling debut albums ever..
Piecewise
In mathematics, a function f(x) of a real number variable x is defined piecewise, if f(x) is given by different expressions on various intervals. An example is given by the Heaviside step function. The term piecewise is also used as an adverb to describe a property of a piecewise function that holds..
Piecewise linear
A function (blue) and a piecewise linear approximation to it (red). A piecewise linear function in two dimensions (top) and the convex polytopes on which it is linear (bottom). In mathematics, a piecewise linear function [f: \Omega \to V], where V is a vector space and ..
Piecewise syndetic set
In mathematics, piecewise syndeticity is a notion of largeness of subsets of the natural numbers. Let [\mathcal_f(\mathbb)] denote the set of finite subsets of [\mathbb]. Then a set [S \sub \mathbb] is called piecewise syndetic if there exists [G \in \mathcal_f(\..
Piece by Piece
Piece by Piece can refer to: Piece by Piece (band), a Hardcore punk band fronted by Nick JettPiece by Piece (book), an autobiography by Tori AmosPiece by Piece (album), an album by Katie MeluaPiece By Piece (documentary), an documentary film by Underdog Pictures This is a [disambiguationdisambi..
Piece by Piece (album)
Piece by Piece is the second album by UK jazz and blues singer Katie Melua, released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). Contents 1 Track listing1.1 Album2 Personnel3 Production4 External links Track listing "Shy Boy" (Mike Batt) - 3:22"Nine Million Bicycles" (Batt) - 3:15"Pi..
Piece By Piece (band)
Piece By Piece is a Hardcore punk band fronted by Nick Jett of Terror and Carry On fame. ..
Piece by Piece (book)
Piece by Piece is an autobiographical book by singer/songwriter Tori Amos and co-authored by rock music journalist Ann Powers. The book is told in a conversational style with questions posed by Ann and responded to by Tori. They compiled the material for the book through phone conversations and in..
Piece By Piece (documentary)
Piece by Piece Theatrical PosterDirected by[Nic Hill]Edited by[Nic Hill][John Murillo]Associate ProducersEd WalkerTom Quickel[Noah Tsutsui]Art Direction by[Adam Hazard][Brishen Mahoney][Mike Tran]Visual Effects by[Adam Hazar..
Piece by Piece (song)
"Piece by Piece" is a single by UK rock band Feeder, and the 3rd to be lifted from the Echo Park album. It has the unique distinction that it was only released in mainland Europe, and was available in the UK on import. The tracklisting is mainly designed for the Mainland Europe fanbase, due to t..
Piece Dogs
The Piece Dogs were an Atlanta-based heavy metal band. The band's name came from a re-spelling of a Cult song. Greg, Kyle and Mike produced one successful record for Energy records, Exes for Eyes. The first drummer, John Connaly, left afterwards and joined Sevendust as a guitarist. The record compan..
Piece of Cake
In general usage the phrase piece of cake denotes a task that can be done easily, without much or any effort. See [[Wiktionary:Piece of cake]] Piece of Cake (album) is the 3rd album by Seattle band Mudhoney.Piece of Cake (book) is a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson about a Royal Air Force fighter squa..
Piece of Cake (album)
Piece of Cake is the third full-length album (fourth if you count the "Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles" release as a full-length album) by the grunge band, Mudhoney. It was released in 1992 and was their first album released through Reprise Records. It features several songs, "Suck You Dry", "Bl..
Piece of Cake (book)
Piece of Cake is a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson which follows a fictional Royal Air Force fighter squadron through the first year of World War II. It was made into a television series. ..
Piece of Cake (TV serial)
Piece of Cake was a 1988 television mini-series, based on the novel of the same name, depicting the life of a Royal Air Force fighter squadron from the day of the British entry into World War II through to one of the toughest days in the Battle of Britain (7 September, 1940). The squadron depeicted..
Piece of Mind (album)
Piece of Mind is the name of several albums, including: 1983 Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden1996 Piece of Mind by Tela1999 Piece of Mind by David McMurray2003 Piece of Mind by Robin Lane This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ..
Piece of Mind (Iron Maiden album)
Piece of Mind is the fourth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden released in 1983 (see 1983 in music) originally on Capitol in the US and re-issued on Sanctuary/Columbia in the US whilst released on EMI elsewhere. It was the first album to feature drummer Nicko McBrain. The album..
Piece of My Heart
Piece of My Heart is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns. It was recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967, but became more popular when recorded by Big Brother and The Holding Company in 1968, with lead vocals from Janis Joplin. Other popular versions include the 1982 remake by Sammy Hagar..
Piece of Time
Piece Of Time is the first album of the death metal band Atheist which was released in 1989. The album cover is drawn by Ed Repka. Track listing "Piece of Time" – 4:30"Unholy War" – 2:19"Room With a View" – 4:06"On They Slay" – 3:39"Beyond" – 3:00"I Deny" – 4:01"Why Bother?" – 2:55..
Piece of Wood Award
Founded by Mr Greg Fleet Esq., the Piece of Wood Award is awarded during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to the best show as voted by past winners of the award. Past winners have included: 1997 - Miss Itchy for "I Cant Stop Burrowing"1998 - Lost due to war1999 - Simon Munnery2000 - Ste..
Piece rate
Piece rate is a form of compensation or payment in which a person is paid a given rate per item made. For example, for every widget made, a person will receive $1. If person A makes 100 widgets per day and person B makes 50 widgets per day, person A will make twice as much money. If quality i..
Piece work
Piece work or piecework describes types of employment in which a worker is paid a fixed piece rate for each unit produced or action performed. Piece work is also a form of Performance-Related Pay (PRP) and is the oldest form of performance pay. In a manufacturing setting, the output of piece work..
Piecki-Migowo
Piecki-Migowo Piecki-Migowo is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland that consists of two parts: Piecki and Migowo. Populated by 23,593 inhabitants in an area of 3.8 km² (population density 6,224), Piecki-Migowo together are popularly called The Morena. It is located on top of a..
Pieckowo
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Pieckowo is a small village ..
Pieczarki
Pieczarki is small village in Poland near Lake Dargin. ..
Pied-billed Grebe
The Pied-billed Grebe, (Podilymbus podiceps)Podilymbus: a combination from Latin podicipes (rump foot) and Greek kolymbos (diver); podiceps: Latin for podicis (rump) and pedis (foot), referring to the placement of the legs on its body., is a member of the grebe family of water birds. Since the Ati..
Pied-noir
--> Pied-noir (plural: pieds-noirs) is a term for the former population of European descent of North Africa, especially Algeria, which was divided into three French departments until its 1962 independence. It also includes the Algerian Jewish population, some of whose ancestors had fled Spain afte..
Piedade
There are parishes that have the name Piedade in Portugal: In the Azores Piedade, a parish in the district of Lajes do Pico In Brazil Piedade, São Paulo - cityPiedade, Rio de Janeiro - quarter This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same t..
Piedade, São Paulo
Piedade is a municipality/county in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [23°42′43″S, 47°25′40″W]. The population in 2004 is 53,492, the area is 747.22 km² The elevation is 781 m. ..
Piedade (Lajes do Pico)
Piedade is a parish in the district of Lajes do Pico in the Azores. The population in 2001 was 902, giving it a population density of 69.7 persons/km² as its area is 12.94km². It is the densest parish in Lajes do Pico. ..
Piedad Bonnet
Piedad Bonnett (b. Amalfi (Antioquía), 1951) is a Colombian poet and playwright. She moved to Bogotá when she was 8. She received her Bachelor degree in Philosophy and Literature in the Universidad de los Andes, where she is a professor since 1981. Nunca fue tan hermosa la mentira como en tu boca,..
Piedigrotta
Piedigrotta Literally, "at the foot of the grotto". A section of the Mergellina quarter of Naples, Italy, so-called for the presence of the Church of the Madonna of Piedigrotta near the entrance to an ancient Roman tunnel. The area was also well-known for a yearly festival, which gave rise to a son..
Piedmon
Piedmon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Majin Digimon modeled after a pierrot. Piedmon is a master of deception. Contents 1 Evolutions1.1 Special evolution2 Abilities2.1 Attacks3 Appearances3.1 Digimon Adventure3.2 V-Tamer Evolutions Ult..
Piedmont
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Regione Piemonte Capital Turin President Mercedes Bresso(The Union) Provinces AlessandriaAstiBiellaCuneoNovaraTurinVerbano-Cusio-OssolaVercelli Municipalities 1,206 Area km² Ranked 2nd (8.4 %) Population (2003 est.) -..
Piedmont, Alabama
Piedmont is a small, rural town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 5,120. Many surrounding communities utilize the 36272 ZIP code as part of or the entirety of their postal routes, including Spring Garden, Rock Run, Knighten's Crossroads and Nance's Cree..
Piedmont, California
The city of Piedmont highlighted within Alameda County Piedmont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is completely surrounded by the city of Oakland. The population was 10,952 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 About Piedmont2 Geography3 Demographics4&nb..
Piedmont, Missouri
Piedmont is a city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,992 at the 2000 census. Geography Piedmont is located at [37°9′14″N, 90°41′45″W] (37.153868, -90.695766)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the ..
Piedmont, Oklahoma
Piedmont is a growing suburb in Canadian County, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2003 census report, the city population was 4,088. Geography Piedmont is located at [35°40′15″N, 97°45′7″W] (35.670849, -97.751903)[Geographic references..
Piedmont, Quebec
Piedmont, Quebec is a small municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec and the administrative region of Laurentides in the Laurentian mountains about 40 minutes north of Montreal. Its population in 2001 was 2,122. Its latitude and longitude are 45° 52' N, 74° ..
Piedmont, South Carolina
Piedmont is a census-designated place located along the Saluda River in South Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 4,684. Geography Piedmont is located at [34°42′15″N, 82°27′41″W] (34.704140, -82.461427)[Geographic references#1GR1&#..
Piedmont, South Dakota
Piedmont is an unincorporated community located in Meade County, South Dakota. Although not tracked by the Census Bureau, Piedmont has been assigned the ZIP Code of 57769. External links ..
Piedmont, Virginia
Piedmont, Virginia is an area encompassing several counties in Virginia. The Piedmont Environmental Council favors controlled growth in this area. ..
Piedmont, Washington
Joyce is a small community in Clallam County, Washington. It is located on Lake Crescent in the northwestern corner of the Olympic National Park. Because of its convenient location near Port Angeles, Joyce has become an important recreational area. Although its population is estimated to be below..
Piedmont, West Virginia
Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856. The town is the subject of Colored People: A Memoir by Piedmont native, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographi..
Piedmont, Wyoming
Piedmont is a ghost town located in Uinta County, Wyoming. It was once a thriving small railroad and timber town, but started to decline when the trains stopped coming through. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Piedmont and the The logging industry, as a commercial venture, became w..
Piedmontese language
Piedmontese (also known as Piemontèis, and Piemontese in Italian) is spoken by over 2 million people in Piedmont, northwest Italy. It is part of the western group of Romance languages, like French, Provençal and Catalan, and it is geographically and linguistically close to the northern Italian r..
Piedmont (disambiguation)
A piedmont is a foothill, and "piedmont" has become a generic designation for foothill regions in geography. Places and things known as Piedmont include: Piedmont (Italy), a region of northwestern Italy* The historical Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, ruled by the House of Savoy and instrumental in I..
Piedmont (United States)
The James River winds its way among piedmont hills in central Virginia. Most of the hills in the piedmont region are smaller than these. Piedmont is the plateau region of the eastern United States which lies between the Atlantic Coastal Plain, from which it is divided by the fall line, and..
Piedmont Airlines
Piedmont Airlines is a regional airline operating under the name US Airways Express for US Airways. Headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, it conducts flight operations along the East Coast of the United States, with concentrated operations at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport hub in Char..
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Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, California
"Piedmont Avenue" redirects here. For , see . Location of Piedmont Avenue in the City of Oakland. Piedmont Avenue is a street in North Oakland, California. It is also the name of the neighborhood which surrounds the street. Piedmont Avenue the street stretches diagonally from Broadway to Ram..
Piedmont Avenue (Berkeley)
Piedmont Avenue is a street in the city of Berkeley, California. It is the major street through the University of California, Berkeley's fraternity and sorority area. Piedmont Way was conceived in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect. As the centerpiece of a graciou..
Piedmont blues
The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. The Piedmont blues typically refers to a greater area than Piedmont, which refers to the East Coast of ..
Piedmont Castle
Piedmont Castle is a two story house built in the city of Berkeley, California. It is currently one of the oldest houses in southern Berkeley with many interesting architectural design features. Contents 1 History2 Architecture3 Famous Residents4 Wildlife5 Current Res..
Piedmont College
Piedmont College is a private, church-affiliated liberal arts institution in the historic northeast Georgia town of Demorest. The school was founded in 1897 as the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute, and soon afterwards became affiliated with the Congregationalist Church due to a need for additional fi..
Piedmont Community College
Piedmont Community College is a two-year institution in Caswell and Person counties in North Carolina. Contents 1 History2 Administraton3 Board of Trustees4 Programs of Study5 External Links History Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of north central North Carolina,..
Piedmont Driving Club
The Piedmont Driving Club is a prestigious private country club located at 1215 Piedmont Avenue, Ne., Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1887, the club's facilities include dining, golf, swimming, tennis, and squash — including the only North American doubles squash court in the Southern United States...
Piedmont Environmental Council
Piedmont Environmental Council is a Virginia organization devoted to promoting and protecting the Piedmont area's rural economy, natural resources, history, and beauty. External link [Piedmont Environmental Council] ..
Piedmont Geriatric Hospital
Piedmont Geriatric Hospital is Virginia's only state facility solely dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of persons over the age of 65[link]. The 135-bed geriatric hospital is located in Burkeville, Virginia on the 300 acre (1.2 km²) site of the former Piedmont Sanatorium. ..
Piedmont Heights (Duluth)
Piedmont Heights is a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota. Piedmont Avenue, Chambersburg Avenue, and Morris Thomas Road are three well known streets that call this neighborhood home. A small, healthy business district is centrally located in the neighborhood. Businesses include the Piedmont Milk Ho..
Piedmont High School
Piedmont High School should not be confused with Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose, California. Piedmont High School is a high school located in Piedmont, California, United States. Piedmont High School is part of the Piedmont Unified School District. Contents 1 Background Informatio..
Piedmont High School, North Carolina
Piedmont High School is a public high school in Unionville, North Carolina. The nickname of the school is the Panthers, and the current principal is Mrs. Wanda Little. History Piedmont was founded in 1960 as the second high school in Union County. It was generally stereotyped as a school that was ..
Piedmont Hills High School
Piedmont Hills High School is a comprehensive public four-year high school located in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose, California, USA. It is part of the East Side Union High School District and is the second highest performing school in the district, based on California's Academic Performan..
Piedmont Hospital
Piedmont Hospital is a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1905. External link [Official site] ..
Piedmont League
The Piedmont League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1920 through 1955. It began as a Class D league, and by the time of its closure, it was at Class B level. As its name implies, many of its clubs were in cities in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vir..
Piedmont Park
Piedmont Park is the "Central Park" of Atlanta, Georgia, located in Midtown, north of the city center. Originally the land was owned by a Dr. Benjamin Franklin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence. He sold it in 1887 for use as the site of the Piedmont Expositio..
Piedmont Sanatorium
Piedmont Sanatorium was a rest home for tubercular blacks in Burkeville, Virginia from 1917 to 1965. It was the first facility of its kind ever to be established in the United States. The Sanatorium later became the site of Piedmont Geriatric Hospital. Contents 1 A hacking killer2 The ..
Piedmont Technical College
Piedmont Technical College of South Carolina is a two-year degree granting tertiary educational institution based in Greenwood, South Carolina, and founded in 1966. It serves Abbeville County, Edgefield County, Greenwood County, Laurens County, McCormick County, Newberry County, and Saluda County. ..
Piedmont Triad
The Piedmont Triad is a region of North Carolina (locally known simply as "The Triad") in the Piedmont that consists of the area surrounding the cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. The area is connected by Interstates 40, 85, 73, & 74 and is served by the Piedmont Triad Internati..
Piedmont Triad Council of Governments
The Piedmont Triad Council of Governments is one of the 17 regional North Carolina Councils of Governments (Region G) established by the North Carolina General Assembly for the purpose of regional planning and administration. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, it serves Davidson, Montgom..
Piedmont Triad International Airport
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Piedmont Triad Research Park
Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP), located in downtown Winston Salem is a highly interactive, master-planned innovation community developed to support life science and information technology research and development. The PTRP is the third largest research park in the state behind Research Triangle..
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Piedmont Virginia Community College is a two-year, post-secondary educational institution located in Albemarle County, Virginia immediately south of Charlottesville. As part of the statewide Virginia Community College System, PVCC serves the residents of five counties surrounding Charlottesville an..
Piedmont Virtual Airlines
Contents 1 History2 Overview2.1 Operations2.2 Fleet2.2.1  --> Overview Operations The VA is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with hubs in Baltimore, Maryland (temporarily managed by Aaron Freedman) and in Charlotte, North Carolina (managed by Brian Ice). The VA ..
Piedramillera
Piedramillera is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. External link [PIEDRAMILLERA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] () ..
Piedras
Piedras is a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was 4,421 as of the 1993 census. ..
Piedras Blancas National Park
Piedras Blancas National Park ..
Piedras Negras
Piedras Negras is the name for more than one place. Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in northern Mexico.Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a ruined Pre-Columbian Maya city in Petén department. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If ..
Piedras Negras, Coahuila
Piedras Negras is a city in Coahuila, Mexico, located at [28.71° N 100.53° W]. It stands on the U.S.-Mexico border, across the Río Bravo (Rio Grande) from Eagle Pass in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2003 Piedras Negras had an estimated population of 132,900 people. The city ..
Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Piedras Negras is the modern name for a ruined city of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization located on the north bank of the Usumacinta River in the Petén department of Guatemala. The name Piedras Negras means "black stones" in the Spanish language. Its name in the language of the Classic Maya has b..
Piedras Negras International Airport
Piedras Negras International Airport is an international airport located at Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, near the border with the United States. It handles national air traffic for the city of Piedras Negras. Airlines and destinations Aeroméxico*Aerolitoral (Monterrey, Torreón) ..
Piedra Volada
The Piedra Volada falls (Spanish: Cascada de Piedra Volada) is located in Cañon Candameña of the Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre) in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. At the height of 1,486-feet (453-meters) they are the tallest waterfall in Mexico. Piedra Volada are known to flow only during the ..
Piedro/Pedro
Pedro (also known as Piedro) ["peedro"] is a trick-taking game played with a standard deck of cards plus a joker. The game is played with four players, divided into two partnerships. The game is played to or through 100 points. Each hand consists of four phases: The dealThe bidThe wash a..
Pied Avocet
The Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae. Adults have white plumage except for a black cap and black patches in the wings and on the back. They have long, upturned bills and long, bluish legs. Juvenile birds are brown where the adu..
Pied a terre
A pied à terre is a small second home in the city (typically an apartment or a condominium). It has connotations of a jet set lifestyle. Pieds à terre are usually decorated very well to make up for the space constraints. This gives rise to that oft-used phrase (almost a cliché) of the "chic Manha..
Pied Bushchat
The Pied Bushchat, Saxicola caprata, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small species in the family, are often called chats. It is a reside..
Pied Butcherbird
The Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) is a medium-sized songbird native to Australia. It grows about 35 centimetres long and the colour of juvenile birds, which are accompanied by their parents, is brown and white as seen in the picture. As they mature their brown feathers are replaced by ..
Pied Cormorant
The Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)- although in New Zealand birds of this family are generally known as "Shags"- is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. It is found around the coasts of Australasia. It was previously known as the Pied Shag or Yellow-faced Cormorant and its Maori n..
Pied Crow
The Pied Crow (Corvus albus) is approximately the size of the European Carrion Crow or a little larger (46-50 cm in length) but has a proportionately larger bill and slightly longer tail, wings and longer legs. As its name suggests, its glossy black head and neck are interrupted by a large area of ..
Pied Cuckoo
The Pied Cuckoo, Pied Crested Cuckoo, or Jacobin Cuckoo, Clamator jacobinus, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara Desert eastwards to India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. It is ..
Pied Harrier
The Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos) is a species of harrier found in south and south-east Asia. References BirdLife International (2004). [Circus melanoleucos]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for wh..
Pied Imperial-Pigeon
The Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird on mainly small islands adjoining the Indian Ocean from the Nicobars in an arc to New Guinea. It is also found in northern Australia in coastal areas from the Kimberlies (in Western Australia) to ..
Pied Kingfisher
The Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) is a kingfisher in the near passerine bird family Cerylidae, the water kingfishers. It is the only member of the genus Ceryle. It is common throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia from Turkey to China. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate, other..
Pied Oystercatcher
The Pied Oystercatcher, Haematopus longirostris, is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird native to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. Contents 1 Description2 Habits3 References4 External links Description The name "oystercatcher" is something of a mis..
Pied Pipers House
The Pied Piper's House [Pied Piper's House ca. 1898] Although the stone facade dates from 1602, The half-timbered building known colloquially as the Pied Piper’s House is actually much older. The facade was built for Mayor Hermann Arendes by the architects Johann Hundertossen and/or Eb..
Pied Piper (1942 novel)
Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story concerns an elderly Englishman, John Sidney Howard, wh..
Pied Piper (album)
Pied Piper is the twentieth studio album, and twenty-fifth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It marks the third album of Donovan's children's music, after the For Little Ones portion of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden and H.M.S. Donovan. Pied Piper was released in both the UK..
Pied Piper (comics)
This page is about the comic book character; for other definitions of The Pied Piper, see Pied Piper (disambiguation). Pied Piper is a fictional former supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He was first featured in the pages of The Flash in 1959. Contents 1 Character history2 Powers..
Pied Piper (disambiguation)
Pied Piper may refer to: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", a traditional German folk tale, circa 1300.The Pied Pipers, a singing group in the 1930s through the 1950s."The Pied Piper", a Disney Silly Symphony, released in 1933.Pied Piper, a novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1942."The Pied Piper", a film ..
Pied Piper Comics
Pied Piper Comics was a short lived comic book publishing company that existed from 1986 to 1988. Most titles were picked up from other publishers, and most of their titles then moved to Innovation Comics Titles Ex-Mutants about 4 issues (moved to Eternity Comics)Hero Alliance Graphic novel (conti..
Pied Raven
The Pied Raven (Corvus corax varius morpha leucophaeus) was a color morph of the North Atlantic subspecies of the Common Raven which was only found on the Faroe Islands and has disappeared since the mid-20th century. In Faroese, the bird was called hvítravnur ("White Raven"). Normal individuals ..
Pied Tamarin
The Pied Tamarin is a critically endangered primate species found in a restricted area in the Brazilian Amazon Forest. References Rylands et al (2003). [Saguinus bicolor]. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 10 May 2006. Database entry includes justificati..
Pied Thrush
The Pied Thrush (Zoothera wardii) is an Asian thrush, a genus within the large thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in the Himalayas. The Pied Thrush is entirely migratory, wintering mainly in Sri Lanka, with smaller numbers in south India. This uncommon species breeds in the Himalayas between 1500 ..
Pied Water Tyrant
The Pied Water Tyrant, Fluvicola pica, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in tropical South America from Panama and Trinidad south to Bolivia and Argentina. This species is found in marshy savannahs and the edges of mangrove swamps. The nest is a feather-lined ..
Pied Wheatear
The Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka, is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. This migratory central Asiatic wheatear occurs from the e..
Pieface
In the Green Lantern comics, Pieface is a nickname previously given to Lantern's "sidekick" Thomas Kalmaku. Another character called Pieface is in The Beano comic, a friend of Dennis the Menace, who could not eat a food that was not inside a pie crust. It could also be used as an insult for an overw..
Pieg
Pieg is a 15th century litery term which is commonly used to identify naturalistic notions from prominent works of art. Pieg is a term also glorified by the late William Shakespeare when describing the gaudy appearance of ariel in 'The Tempest''. ..
Piehl, Wisconsin
Piehl is a town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 93 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 98.4 km² (38.0 mi²). 96.8 km² (37.4 mi²) of it is land and 1.5 km² (0.6 mi²) of it (1.55%) is water. Demo..
Pieing
Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at someone. In recent years, the term has also acquired a political dimension and has come to mean throwing a pie at an authority figure, politician, or celebrity as a means of protesting the target's political beliefs or a perceived flaw — arrogance, hubris �..
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Piekary Śląskie
Piekary Śląskie (German: Deutsch Piekar) is a town in south Poland with 67,200 inhabitants as of 1995, situated in the Silesian Voivodship since 1999 (previously in the Katowice Voivodship from 1975). External links [Piekary, Silesia] Districts of Metropolian Katowice Będzin �..
Pieksämäen maalaiskunta
Pieksämäen maalaiskunta is a former municipality of Finland. On January 1, 2004 it was joined to new municipality of Pieksänmaa with Jäppilä and Virtasalmi. ..
Pieksämäki
Pieksämäki is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 12,510 (2003) and covers an area of 46.49 km² of which 10.49 km² is water. The population density is 347.5 inhabi..
Pieksänmaa
Pieksänmaa is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 8,754 (2003) and covers an area of 1,788.17 km² of which 249.40 km² is water. The population density is 5.7 inhabitants per..
Piekło Kobiet
Piekło Kobiet is an anarcha-feminist Polish rock band belonging to a collective "Wiedźma" ('Witch'). Their message protests against the official anti-abortion stand of the establishment. ..
Pielavesi
Pielavesi is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Northern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of 5,633 (2003) and covers an area of 1,406.29 km² of which 256.53 km² is water. The population density is 4.9 inhabitants per km�..
PIELC
PIELC stands for the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, held annually in early March at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene, Oregon. The conference is a gathering of environmental activists, advocates, and students from across the United States and world. ..
Pielinen
The Pielinen is the fourth-largest lake of Finland. It covers an area of 894,21 km² in the North Karelia region at an altitude of 93.7 m above sea level. The lake has a length of 100 km and a breadth of 10 km. At the northern tip of the lake is the town Nurmes. The Koli National Park is located ..
Pieljekaise
Pieljekaise is a Swedish National Park. It lies about 10 km south of Jäkkvik in Lappland. The park consists to a large part of a large birch woods. The park is traversed by the Kungsleden trail. External links [Swedish National Parks] ---Sidenote START--- [edit this box&..
Piels beer
A lager beer originally brewed in Brooklyn, New York. Piels was located in the East New York section of Brooklyn at 315 Liberty Avenue . It was founded in 1883 by the Piel brothers: Gottfried, Michael and Wilhelm Piel. The soft water from Long Island was preferred by German brewers and Breweries in ..
Piel (disambiguation)
Piel may refer to: Piel Island, one of the Islands of Furness in northern EnglandDr. Gerard Piel (1915-2004), a pioneer in scientific journalism and once owner of Scientific American This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ..
Piel de otoño
Piel de otoño Directed by Lili Garza (interior scenes) Mauricio Rodríguez (exterior scenes) Written by Liliana Abud Lindy Giacoman Script by Martha Olaíz Cinematography by Oscar Morales Produced by Marco Vinicio Starring Laura Flores René Strickler Sergio Goyri ..
Piel Island
Piel Island lies half a mile (1 km) off the southern tip of the Furness Peninsula in the administrative county of Cumbria, though formerly in the area of Lancashire north of the sands. It is located at [54°4′N 3°10′W] (OS grid ref. SD 233637). It is one of the Islands of Furness in n..
Pieman River
The Pieman River is a river on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. The river was named after a convict Alexander 'The Pieman' Pearce who was responsible for one of the few recorded instances of cannibalism in Australia. The river also had a significant timber, mining and industrial heritage alo..
Piemont-Liguria Ocean
The Piemont-Liguria basin or the Piemont-Liguria Ocean (sometimes only one of the two names is used, for example: Piemonte Ocean) was a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basins that existed between the continents Europe and Afric..
Pien-fu
The Pien-fu is an article of traditional Chinese clothing consisting of a knee-length tunic over a skirt or a pair of pants. External links [Culture of China: Clothing][Pien-fu] ..
Piendamó, Cauca
Piendamó is a town in the Cauca Department, Colombia. The town has a temperate climate and the economy is based on the agriculture. ..
Pieniężno
Pieniężno (German: ([pronunciation] ([Media helphelp]·[info]))) is a small town on the Wałsza River with 2,975 inhabitants (2004) in Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodship, Poland. History Pieniężno was originally an Old Prussian fort called Malcekuke, lo..
Pieniny
Pieniny is a town in Malopolskie, Poland. Pieniny is also a mountain system in Slovakia and Poland (see Pieniny National Park). ..
Pieniny National Park
Pieniny National Park is the name of two national parks in the Pieniny Mountains: Pieniński Park Narodowy in PolandPieninský národný park in Slovakia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you..
Pieniny National Park (Poland)
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Pieniny National Park (Slovakia)
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Pieńsk
Pieńsk (German: ) is a town in Poland, in Zgorzelec County, in Lower Silesian Voivodship. It is located on the east bank of the Lusatian Neisse, which forms the border between Poland and Germany. Its population is 5,925 (2004). External links [Official town webpage][Map from map..
Pienza
Pienza is town and commune in the province of Siena, in the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany (central Italy), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino. A sight of the main piazza of Pienza with the Palazzo Pubblico (Communal Palace). In 1996 UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site, an..
Pien Ch'iao
Pien Chi'ao [Bian Que] - The most ancient of the physicians from the historical period (ca. 500 B.C.). He was reputed to be an excellent diagnostician, excelling in pulse taking and acupuncture therapy. He is ascribed the authorship of Bian Que Neijing (Internal Classic of Bian Que). Han Dy..
Pier
For architectural piers, see Pier (architecture). A pier in Lillebælt, Denmark illustrates the simplest form of pier Southend Pier in England is one of the longest piers, at 1.34 miles (2158 meters) A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or pillars. The ..
Piera
(Bandera) Anoia Demonym Pierenc, pierenca Population (2005) 12230 Area 57.11 km2 Elevation 324 m The municipality of Piera covers a lage portion of the southeastern corner of the comarca of Anoia in Catalonia, on the left bank of the Anoia river. The agricultural land, mostly..
Pierangelo Garegnani
Pierangelo Garegnani (b. [Milan, August 1930]), Italian economist and current professor at the Terza Universitá di Roma, Italy. Professor Garegnani is the Director of the Fondazione Centro Piero Sraffa di Studi e Documenti, at the Terza Universitá di Roma - Facoltá di Economia e Commerci..
Pierangelo Ghezzi
Pierangelo Ghezzi is an Italian astronomer. He has discovered numerous asteroids. ..
Piera Coppola
Piera Coppola is a voice actor. After training in New York and London, she moved to Los Angeles, and began to provide voices for various areas. Contents 1 Voice Credits1.1 Television1.2 Computer games1.3 Movies & Video2 External link Voice Credits Television The Batman ..
Piera Observatory
Piera Observatory is an astronomical observatory. It is located in Barcelona, Spain. External links [Piera Observatory] (Spanish) ..
Piercarlo Ghinzani
Piercarlo Ghinzani ..
Pierce
Not to be confused with Peirce. Pierce is primarily a personal name but has several additional uses aside: as a personal name John Stanton Pierce IV, (born 1985) widely controversial among religious and scientific communities; has been recognized as a subject of evolution at work. possesses one-of..
Pierce, Colorado
Grocery store on Main Street in Pierce, Colorado Pierce is a town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 884 at the 2000 census. The town is a rural agricultural community located on the Colorado Eastern Plains along U.S. Highway 85 north of Greeley. It was founded in 18..
Pierce, Idaho
Pierce is a city in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States. Elias D. Pierce and Wilbur F. Bassett made the first discovery of gold in Idaho, on Orofino Creek (Canal Gulch) in 1860, just one-mile north of the town that is now Pierce [link]. The population was 617 at the 2000 census. Geog..
Pierce, Nebraska
Pierce is a city in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,774 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pierce County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Points of interest4 External links Geography Pierce is lo..
Pierce, Wisconsin
Pierce is a town in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 897 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 56.4 km² (21.8 mi²). 48.1 km² (18.6 mi²) of it is land and 8.2 km² (3.2 mi²) of it (14.61%) is water...
Pierce-Arrow
Pierce-Arrow was an American automobile manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York, which was active between 1901 and 1938. Best known for its expensive luxury cars, Pierce-Arrow also manufactured commercial trucks, fire trucks, camp trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles. 1919 Pierce-Arrow advertisem..
Pierce-Hichborn House
The Pierce-Hichborn House (circa 1711) is a handsome early Georgian house located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, immediately adjacent to the Paul Revere House, and now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association; an admission fee is charged. The house is ..
Piercebridge
Piercebridge is an attractive village in borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles west of Darlington. It is built on the site of Roman fort of AD 260-270, which was built at the point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. The settlemen..
Pierced from Within
Pierced from Within is an album released in 1995 by the death metal band, Suffocation. Track listing Pierced from Within (4.26)Thrones of Blood (5.14)Depths of Depravity (5.33)Suspended in Tribulation (6.31)Torn into Enthrallment (5.25)The Invoking (4.36)Synthetically Revived (3.53)Brood of Hatr..
Piercefield, New York
Piercefield is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 305 at the 2000 census. The Town of Piercefield is in the southeast corner of the county. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Communities and locations in Piercefield5 Ex..
Piercefield House
Piercefield House near Chepstow in Monmouthshire, Wales, resulted from a 1785 commission by George Smith to remodel his existing house in the neo-classical style. The task was given to a young architect, famous today as the benefactor of the London institution which bears his name - Sir John Soane. ..
Pierces Creek
There are at least two places in Australia known by the name of Pierces Creek: Pierces Creek, Queensland, a town in QueenslandPierces Creek, Australian Capital Territory, a former forestry settlement on the outskirts of Canberra This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of art..
Pierces Creek, Australian Capital Territory
Pierces Creek, a forestry settlement in the Australian Capital Territory. The ACT government agreed to redevelop this rural settlement in 2003. In 1991, a bushfire destroyed $1.5 million worth of pine trees at Pierces Creek. [link] 12 of the original 13 homes at the settlement were destr..
Pierceton, Indiana
Pierceton downtown. Pierceton is a town in Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States. The population was 695 at the 2000 census. Geography Pierceton is located at [41°11′59″N, 85°42′24″W] (41.199617, -85.706733)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the Unit..
Pierce Askegren
Pierce Askegren, of the Louisiana Askegrens, is an American author best known for his work in adaptations of licensed properties and is a lifelong comic book fan. His life began in the circus where his parents performed as high wire walkers. After a tragic fall at the age of 11, Askegren broke his..
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan (Honorary) OBE (born May 16, 1951) is an Irish film actor and producer. He is best known for portraying James Bond in four films: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. His fans credit him with reviving the James Bond film series after..
Pierce Bush
Pierce Mallon Bush (born March 15, 1986) is the nephew of President George W. Bush, son of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush, brother of Lauren and Ashley. Bush gained national attention[link] after writing a letter to the Houston Chronicle regarding the Dubai Ports World controversy: What kind ..
Pierce Butler
This is an article about the Founding Father. For Pierce Butler the Supreme Court Justice, see Pierce Butler (justice). Pierce Butler Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744 - February 15, 1822) was a soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented So..
Pierce Butler (disambiguation)
Pierce Butler has been the name of several notable men: Pierce Butler, (1744-1822), U.S. Senator and Founding Father from South CarlinaPierce Butler, (1866-1939), U.S. Supreme Court JusticePierce M. Butler, (1798-1847), U.S. statesman, Governor of South Carolina ..
Pierce Butler (justice)
Pierce Butler (March 17, 1866 – November 16, 1939) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1923 until his death in 1939. Butler was born to Irish Catholic immigrants on St. Patrick's Day of 1866 in Pine Bend, Minnesota, and grew up o..
Pierce City, Missouri
Pierce City is a city in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,385 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 News and History4 External links Geography Pierce City is located at [36°56′49″N, 94°0′9″W] (36.946996, -9..
Pierce College
For the college of the same name in Los Angeles, California, see Los Angeles Pierce College. Pierce College is a community college district operating in and serving Pierce County in the U.S. state of Washington. The district consists of two colleges, Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Lakewood an..
Pierce College (LACMTA Station)
Pierce College is a station on the Los Angeles LACMTA Orange Line. It is named after Los Angeles Pierce College, which is located immediately across Victory Boulevard from the station, which lies on the border between the Los Angeles districts of Winnetka, and Woodland Hills. Connections Metro Bu..
Pierce County
Pierce County is the name of five counties in the United States: Pierce County, GeorgiaPierce County, NebraskaPierce County, North DakotaPierce County, WashingtonPierce County, Wisconsin This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If..
Pierce County, Georgia
Pierce County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population is 15,636. The county seat is Blackshear, Georgia6. Contents 1 History2 Geography2.1 Adjacent Counties3 Demographics4 Local Media Outlets5 Cities and Towns5.1 Smaller C..
Pierce County, Nebraska
Pierce County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of 2000, the population is 7,857. Its county seat is Pierce6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent Counties2 Demographics3 Cities and villages Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a to..
Pierce County, North Dakota
Pierce County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 4,675. Its county seat is Rugby6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent Counties2 Demographics3 Cities and towns Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a t..
Pierce County, Washington
Pierce County is the second most populous county in the U.S. state of Washington. Formed out of Thurston County on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory[link][link], it was named for U.S. President Franklin Pierce. As of 2004, the population was 744,000. The..
Pierce County, Wisconsin
Pierce County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2000, the population was 36,804. Its county seat is Ellsworth6. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Cities and towns4 Unincorporated communities5 External links Geography According to the U.S. Cen..
Pierce Dod
Pierce Dod (1683 - 1754) was a British physician and opponent of smallpox inoculation. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1701, received his MA in 1705, MD in 1714 and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1720. He was made a physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital..
Pierce Egan
Pierce Egan (1772-1849), early journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism (1813-1828), in which he originated the description of boxing as "the sweet science". In 1820, he beg..
Pierce Holt
Pierce Holt is a former National Football League defensive lineman, who in a career lasting eight years, played for the San Francisco 49ers, and the Atlanta Falcons. He went to Angelo State University. ..
Pierce Lake
Pierce Lake may refer to: Pierce Lake, a lake in Martin County, MinnesotaPierce Lake, a lake in McLeod County, MinnesotaPierce Lake, a man-made lake in Rock Cut State ParkThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you ..
Pierce M. B. Young
Pierce Manning Butler Young (November 15, 1839 – July 6, 1896) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a post-war politician, diplomat, and four-term United States Congressman from Georgia. Contents 1 Early life and career2 Civil War3&n..
Pierce M. Butler
Pierce Mason Butler (April 11, 1798)–(August 20, 1847) was an American statesman who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838. ..
Pierce Manufacturing
1999 Pierce Quantum Engine of Greenfields, PA. Pierce Manufacturing is an Appleton, Wisconsin based manufacturer of fire apparatus. The company was originally founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley, as the Auto Body Works Inc., and concentrated on building custom truck bodies f..
Pierce oscillator
The pierce oscillator is a Quartz oscillator. It is named after its inventor George W. Pierce. The oscillation is produced with a quartz crystal, which acts as the resonant circuit. Because of the high quality factor of quartz, the oscillation occurs slowly. Applications HF-Technic ..
Pierce Pettis
Pierce Pettis is an American singer/songwriter from Alabama. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography2.1 Compilations3 External links Biography A former staff writer for PolyGram Publishing in Nashville, Pettis' musical career was started in 1979 when Joan Baez covered one of his s..
Pierce Rafferty
Filmmaker Pierce Rafferty has spent his entire life living in or near New York City. Pierce comes from a rather influential New York family. His grandfather was Marvin Pierce, president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines Redbook and McCall's. And..
Pierce Silver Arrow
The Pierce Silver Arrow was a concept car of which five were built in a record three months, and introduced at the 1933 New York Auto Show. The car caused an absolute sensation, with a futuristic design, spare wheels hidden behind the front wheels, a wide-degree angle V-12 and a top speed of 115 mph..
Pierce the Ploughman's Crede
Contents 1 Textual History2 Authorship3 Significant Contents4 See also5 References and further reading6 External links Textual History The frontispiece of Reyner Wolfe's edition of Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, printed in 1553 Pierce the Ploughman's Crede is a..
Pierce Transit
Pierce Transit, in full the Pierce County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation, is the public transit authority of Pierce County, Washington. Based in Lakewood, Washington, it was founded in 1979. As of 2004, it operated 227 buses on 61 routes. Its annual ridership in 1999 was 13 million...
Pierce v. Society of Sisters
Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, [268 U.S. 510] (1925), was an important early 20th century United States Supreme Court decision which significantly expanded legal understanding of the sorts of "liberty" and "property" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment ..
Piercing migration
Piercing migration is the process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location. This process can be painful or go unnoticed, until it has progressed. Given enough time, an object may migrate entirely outside of the skin, although it may only migrate a small amount and come to ..
Piercing the corporate veil
Business Law of Australia, eighth edition, 1995, ISBN 0-409-30675-4 The often cited case Macaura v Northern Assurance Co Ltd [1925] AC 619 is an example of that. Mr Macaura was the sole owner of a company he had set up to grow timber. The trees were destroyed by fire but the insurer refus..
Piercing the Darkness
Front cover of Piercing the Darkness Piercing the Darkness, published in 1988, is a sequel to Frank E. Peretti's novel This Present Darkness. It shows contemporary views on angels, demons, prayer and the spiritual realm. Piercing the Darkness won the ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award for best ..
Pierement Waltz
The "Pierement Waltz" is a piece of music composed by Philip Green for the 1959 film Operation Amsterdam, in which it was played on a Dutch street organ. The piece of music was later released on record to the general public. ..
Pieres
The Pieres are a Thracian people, occupying the narrow strip of plain land, or low hill, between the mouths of the Peneius and the Haliacmon rivers, at the foot of the great woody steeps of mount Olympus.1 This district, which, under the name of Pieria or Pieris, is mentioned in the Homeric poems2, ..
Pierfrancesco Pavoni
Pierfrancesco Pavoni (born February 21, 1963) is a retired sprinter from Italy. His greatest achievements were the 1982 European Championships silver medal as well as thwo World Indoor bronze medals. His personal times were both achieved in 1987: 10.22 over 100 metres and 20.38 over 200 metres. At 1..
Pierfrancesco Scarampi
Pierfrancesco Scarampi (1596 - October 14, 1656) was a Roman Catholic oratorian and Papal envoy. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life and ordination1.2 Envoy to Ireland1.3 Return to Rome1.4 Service in Rome, and death Biography Early life and ordination Scarampi was born ..
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13 1950), is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist. By many, he is considered something of a Steven Jay Gould of Italian science writing. Born in Cuneo (Pied..
Pieria
Pieria (Greek: Πιερία) is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Greek Macedonia (Central Macedonia) . Its capital is the town of Katerini. Pieria is the smallest prefecture within Greek Macedonia. The name Pieria originates from the ancient tribe and the anc..
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies. They are characterised by mainly white or yellow coloration, often with black spots. The sexes usually differ, often in the pattern or number of the black markings. The larvae (caterpillars) of some of these species feed on brassicas, and are agricu..
Pierinae
Pierinae is a large subfamily of Pierid butterflies also known as the Whites, which includes the following species: Arctic WhiteCatalina OrangetipDesert OrangetipEastern Orange TipFalcate OrangetipGray MarbleGreen-striped WhiteGreenish Black-tipGrüner's Orange TipLarge WhiteMargined WhiteMexican..
Pierina da Silva
Sister Pierina da Silva, F.d.C.C., nee Meenakshi Aiyer (June 12, 1900- September 10, 1977) was a Tamil Brahmin girl born to parents settled in the Kingdom of Travancore in 1900, the daughter of Krishnaswami Aiyer, an advocate, and Gomathi Ammal, a housewife. At the age of 18, she converted to Cathol..
Pierina Legnani
Pierina Legnani as the Tsar Maiden in Petipa's revival of The Little Humpbacked Horse, St. Petersburg, 1895 Pierina Legnani (1863-1923) was an Italian ballerina. From 1893 until 1901 she was Prima Ballerina Assoluta with the Tsars Imperial Ballet. Legnani trained at La Scala where she develope..
Pierino Belli
Pierino Belli (March 20, 1502, Alba - December 31, 1575, Turin) was a soldier and jurist. Belli served the Holy Roman Empire as the commander of Imperial forces in Piedmont. In 1560, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, named him a councillor of state. He is most notable for his book, De re militari ..
Pieris
Pieris is two different genera: Pieris is a plant genus in the Ericaceae family.Pieris is a butterfly genus in the Pieridae family.Pieris is also an ancient name of Kondariotissa and an ancient tribe where the name Pieria originatesAnother Pieris existed near what is now the southwestern portion of ..
Pieris (plant)
Pieris is a genus of seven species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae, native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and the West Indies. They are broad-leaved evergreen shrubs growing to 1-6 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, often appearing to be in whorls ..
Pieris canidia
The Indian Cabbage White or Small White (Pieris canidia) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (includin..
Pieris deota
Kashmir White , Pieris deota is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies..
Pieris dubernardi chumbiensis
Chumbi White , Pieris dubernardi is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterfl..
Pieris kreuperi devta
Green Banded White , Pieris kreuperi ,subspecies devta is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGaonkar, H..
Pieris naganum
Naga White , Pieris naganum is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in India. References Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, IndiaGaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies o..
Pierle
The Castle of Pierle, positioned south of Cortona and near Lake Trasimeno existed already in X the century and was property of the marquises of the Saint Mount Maria Tiberina. In 1428 there is a contract of sale by the Republic of Florence and payment of 1200 fiorini of gold when it became free of C..
Pierleoni family
The family of the Pierleoni, meaning "sons of Peter Leo," was a great Roman patrician clan of the Middle Ages, headquartered in a tower house in the Jewish quarter, Trastevere. The heads of the family often bore the title consul Romanorum, or "Consul of the Romans," in the early days. The family's..
Pierlucio Tinazzi
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Pierluigi Casiraghi
Pierluigi Casiraghi (born 4 March 1969 in Monza, Italy) is a former footballer who played as a striker. Casiraghi began his career with his home-town side, Monza, in 1985. The side were relegated to Serie C in his first season, but he helped them achieve promotion back to Serie B in 1988. He moved..
Pierluigi Collina
Pierluigi Collina (born 13 February 1960) is an Italian former football referee, who is widely regarded as one of the world's best referees. After his retirement in August 2005 he became a financial advisor. Contents 1 Career2 Trivia3 References4 External links Career Coll..
Pierluigi Martini
Pierluigi Martini (born April 23, 1961, in Lugo di Romagna, Italy) is an Italian Formula One driver. He participated in 124 grands prix, debuting on September 9, 1984. He scored a total of 18 championship points. He was synonymous with the Minardi team - he had 3 spells with them, drove for them o..
Pierluigi Marzorati
Silver medal 1980Moscow Basketball Men's Team Competition Pierluigi Marzorati (born September 12, 1952) is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Yugoslavia turned out to be too strong for Italy in th..
Pierluigi Pairetto
Pierluigi Pairetto, is the Italian vice chairman of the UEFA Referees Committee. As a result of the 2006 Serie A scandal, he received a ban of 2 years and 6 months from football. ..
Pierluigi Zappacosta
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Pierluigi Zappacosta is a Venture Partner with Cypress Ventures and CEO and Acting President of Sierra Sciences..
Piermaria Oddone
Piermaria J Oddone is a Peruvian-American particle physicist. Born in Peru, Oddone earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1970. From 1972 Oddone worked at the US Department of Energy’s Law..
Piermont
Piermont is the name of several places in the United States of America: Piermont, New HampshirePiermont, New York This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you here..
Piermont, New Hampshire
Piermont is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 709 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links History Piermont, incorporated in 1764, takes its name from Italy's Piemonte. Piermont had 426 residents in 1790, t..
Piermont, New York
Piermont is a village in Rockland County, New York, United States. The population was 2,607 at the 2000 census. The name is derived by combining a natural feature and man-made feature of the village. The Village of Piermont is in the Town of Orangetown. Located in southeast New York near the New ..
Piermont Rowing Club
Piermont Rowing Club is a rowing club located in Piermont, New York. The club was founded in 1998 for the purpose of promoting amateur competitive and non-competitive sculling and sweep rowing. The club has approximately 60 members most of whom are Masters rowers that row for pleasure and exercise...
Pierogi
Pierogi frying A plateful of Polish Pierogi Ruskie Pierogi are a kind of dumpling also known as perogi, perogy, piroghi, pirogi, or pyrohy. Most English-speakers treat these forms as singular and form the plural by adding -s, but a few consider them plural and form the singular by rem..
Pierogie Race
The Pierogie Race is a promotion between innings during a Pittsburgh Pirates game that uses pierogies and features four contestants - Jalapeño Hannah (green hat), Cheese Chester (yellow), Sauerkraut Saul (red) and Oliver Onion (purple), whose names has been provided by Mrs. T's Pierogies, the spons..
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is the name of a species of primate which lived about 13 million years ago during the Miocene in what is now Spain. It is believed by some to be a common ancestor of both modern humans and the other great apes, or at least a species that brings us closer to a common an..
Piero Camporesi
Piero Camporesi is an Italian historian of literature. He was a Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. ..
Piero Capponi
Piero Capponi (1447 - September 25, 1496), Florentine statesman and warrior. He was at first intended for a business career, but Lorenzo de' Medici, appreciating his ability, sent him as ambassador to various courts, where he acquitted himself with distinction. On the death of Lorenzo (1492), who w..
Piero Cappuccilli
Piero Cappuccilli in the title role of Simon Boccanegra The Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli (1929 - 12 July 2005) was a famous opera singer, best know for his Verdi roles, particularly Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. He was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato. Op..
Piero Carini
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Piero de' Medici
Piero may refer to one of the following people. There were two Medici known as Piero de' Medici:*Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416-1469) (the Gouty, also Piero I de' Medici), father of Lorenzo the Magnificent*Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (1471-1503) (the Unfortunate, also Piero II de' Medici), son ..
Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ, 1442 (National Gallery, London) Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though he now chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by it..
Piero del Pollaiuolo
Piero del Pollaiuolo (1443 - 1496) was an Italian painter. His principal works were his "Coronation of the Virgin," an altar-piece painted in 1483, in the choir of the cathedral at San Gimignano; his "Three Saints," an altar-piece, and "Prudence" are both at the Uffizi Gallery. References ..
Piero di Cosimo
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c.1480) Oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly Piero di Cosimo (also known as Piero di Lorenzo) (1462–1521) was an Italian painter. Biography The son of a Florentine goldsmith, Piero was born in Florence and apprenticed under the artist Co..
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
Piero de' Medici (the Gouty), Italian Piero "il Gottoso" (1416 – December 2, 1469), was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance. He was also the father of Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici. During the lifetime of his father, Cosimo de' Medici, Piero did..
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici
Piero de' Medici (the Unfortunate) (February 15, 1471 – December 28, 1503), the untalented, arrogant and undisciplined oldest son of Lorenzo de' Medici (the Magnificent), and brother of Pope Leo X. Shortly after he took over as leader of Florence in 1492, Charles VIII of France entered Ita..
Piero Drogo
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Piero Dusio
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Piero Fassino
Piero Fassino (born October 7, 1949) is an Italian politician, the national secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS). Biography Fassino was born in Avigliana (province of Turin), in a traditional socialist family. He graduated in Political Sciences and later registered with the Youth Communi..
Piero Ferrari
Piero Ferrari (b. 1945) is the son of Enzo Ferrari and 10% owner of the Ferrari automotive company. ..
Piero Gemelli
Born in Rome in 1952, Piero Gemelli studied architecture and taught photography and advertising at the European Institut of Design until 1982. As a photographer, he started out creating advertising images and programs in multivision. In 1982, Gemelli moved to Milan where he worked for Italian Vogue ..
Piero Gobetti
Piero Gobetti (June 19, 1901 – February 15, 1926) was an Italian journalist, intellectual and radical liberal. He was an exceptionally active campaigner and critic in the crisis years in Italy after the First World War and into the early years of Fascist rule. Biography Gobetti was born in Turin..
Piero Gros
Piero Gros (born October 30, 1954) is an Italian former Alpine Skiing champion who won one gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, as well as one Alpine Skiing World Cup in 1974. Biography Gros was born at Sauze d'Oulx, in the province of Turin. He started very early to ski, thanks t..
Piero Kenroll
Journalist from Belgium. Work Magazines* Télémoustique Book(s)* ... See also Punk rock in Belgium ..
Piero Malvestiti
Piero (Peter) Malvestiti (1899 - 1964) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who was a minister in successive governments in the 1940s and 1950s, a European Commissioner and President of the European Coal and Steel Community. He was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic party in ..
Piero Manzoni
Piero Manzoni (Soncino, Cremona july 13 1933 - Milan February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist. When Manzoni did paintings, he experimented with various pigments and materials. In one case he used phosphorescent paint and cobalt chloride so the colors would change over time. However, he had some les..
Piero Marini
Piero Marini (born 13 Jan 1942) is the current Papal Master of Ceremonies to Pope Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II, a post he has held since 1982. He was born in Valverde, Italy and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church on 27 June 1965. Marini began as the personal secret..
Piero Piccioni
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Piero Pierantoni Cámpora
Piero Pierantoni Cámpora was a Peruvian politician in the early 1980's. He was the mayor of Lima from 1980 to 1981. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Piero Pisenti
Piero Pisenti (March 20 1887, Perugia—September 29 1980, Pordenone) was an Italian Fascist journalist and politician. Pisenti was born in Perugia, Umbria, to a family of university professors. In 1912 he graduated in jurisprudence at the University of Bologna. The following year he moved to P..
Piero Pollaiuolo
Portrait of a Girl by Piero Pollaiuolo, at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan Piero Pollaiuolo (c.1441-1496), also known as Piero Benci, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. His brother was the artist Antonio Pollaiuolo and the two frequently worked together. Their work shows both classi..
Piero Rodarte
Piero Rodarte is a race car driver born in Mexico on November 30, 1983. Rodarte competed in the 2002 Barber Dodge Pro Series, finishing 12th in the final standings, and in 2005 returned to motorsport with the Spanish Formula Three team ECA. ..
Piero Scaruffi
Piero Scaruffi (born in Trivero, Italy, in 1955, but based in California since 1983) is an Italian-American poet, historian and scientist. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, but never actually did research in either. Contents 1 Poet2 Historian3 Scientist4 Notabl..
Piero Scotti
Piero Scotti (November 11, 1909 - February 14, 1976) was a Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 1 grand prix, debuting on June 3, 1956. He scored 0 championship points. Complete Formula One results Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Team 1956 Conn ARG MON IND BEL FRA GBR D..
Piero Sicoli
Piero Sicoli is an Italian astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. ..
Piero Simondo
Piero Simondo (born August 25 1928) is an Italian artist. Piero was born in Cosio d' Arroscia, Liguria, Italy. In Alba, Piedmont, Italy, with Asger Jorn and Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio he founded the Laboratory of immaginiste experiences as part of the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus (..
Piero Soderini
Piero di Tommaso Soderini, also known as Pier Soderini, (May 18, 1450 - June 13, 1513), was a Florentine statesman. Biography Soderini was born at Florence to an old family who had become famous in medicine. In 1481 he was Prior of the city, and later became a favourite of Piero di Lorenzo de' Me..
Piero Sraffa
Piero Sraffa. Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) was an influential Italian economist. Biography He was born in Turin, Italy, the son of Angelo Sraffa, a Professor in commercial law, and Irma. He studied in his town and graduated at the local university with a work on inflation in Italy during and aft..
Piero Taruffi
Piero Taruffi (born in Rome, October 12, 1906 - died January 12, 1988), was a Formula One driver from Italy, father of lady racer Prisca Taruffi. He participated in 18 grands prix, debuting on September 3, 1950. He won 1 race, and scored a total of 41 championship points. He won the 1957 Mille Migli..
Piero Umiliani
Piero Umiliani (born July 17 1926 in Florence, Italy –- died February 14 2001 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer, most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" of 1968, that was originally used for a Swedish soft porn documentary –- Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso ("Sweden, Heaven or Hell") –..
Pierpont
Pierpont can refer to: People Francis Harrison Pierpont, Governor of Virginia, 1865–1868Harry Pierpont, gangsterJames Pierpont (Yale founder)James Pierpont (musician)James Pierpont (mathematician)John Pierpont, poetPlaces Pierpont, South DakotaThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] pag..
Pierpont, South Dakota
Pierpont is a town in Day County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 122 at the 2000 census. Geography Pierpont is located at [45°29′41″N, 97°49′54″W] (45.494826, -97.831530)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the ..
Pierpont Edwards
Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750-April 5,1826) was a delegate to the American Continental Congress. He has been described as "a brilliant but erratic member of the Connecticut bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by stern Calvinists, a man whose personal morality resembled greatly th..
Pierpont prime
A Pierpont prime is a prime number greater than 3 having the form [2^u 3^v + 1\,] for some integers u,v ≥ 0. It is possible to prove that if v is zero, then u must be a power of 2, making p a Fermat prime. The first few Pierpont primes are: 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 37, 73, 97, 109, 1..
Pierre
Pierre is a French language form of the name Peter. Pierre, South Dakota is the capital of South Dakota[[Pierre: or, The Ambiguities]] is a novel by Herman MelvillePierre (slave) was a Comanche slave in New FranceCarl Ouellet was a Canadian professional wrestler - his ring names included PierreLis..
Pierre's costumes
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Pierre's Costumes is a costume company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States of America.Formerly known as Costumes by Pierre or Pierre of Philadelphia. Also went by Pierre Uniforms. On occasion it is simply called Pierre Costumes. They make the Frui..
Pierre, South Dakota
Pierre is the capital of South Dakota, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, it has a population of 13,876. Pierre is the second smallest state capital. Only Montpelier in Vermont is smaller. Pierre (pronounced "peer") is the county seat of Hughes County. Founded in 1880 ..
Pierre-Alain Clavien
Pierre-Alain Clavien Name: Pierre-Alain Clavien Degrees: MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS Date of birth: November 23, 1957 |- | colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;" | } |} Pierre-Alain Clavien is a Swiss surgeon, who is currently the chairman of the [Department of Visceral and Transplanta..
Pierre-Alain Frau
Pierre-Alain Frau is a young French forward who is currently playing for RC Lens on loan from Olympique Lyonnais. He was born on April 15, 1980 in Montbeliard, France, where he became a young finding of his home town club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, and it was there he got his first oppertunity to pla..
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (October 17 1729 - January 14 1817) was a French composer, a contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts (1813). He is considered alongside André Grétry and François-André Danican to have been the founder of a new music..
Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
Pierre-Alexis ("Pitre") Tremblay (December 27 1827-January 4 1879) was a surveyor and Quebec political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1875 and 1878 to 1879. He was born at La Malbaie, Lower Canada in 1827 and studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec. ..
Pierre-André Taguieff
Pierre-André Taguieff, born at 1946 in Paris is a philosopher and political economist, director of research at CNRS (in a Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) laboratory, the CEVIPOF). He is the author of many sociologic essays, mainly concerning the questions of racism, racialism (o..
Pierre-Antoine Bellange
Pierre-Antoine Bellange (1760 - 1844) was an "eboniste" furniture maker in Paris. He held an eminent position among the representatives of the industrial arts at the beginning of the 19th century. He gained his master craftsman title on October 24, 1788. Among his work from this time were four chai..
Pierre-Antoine Lebrun
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Pierre-Antoine Tabeau
Pierre-Antoine Tabeau (11 October 1782 – May 18, 1835) was a Roman Catholic priest and vicar general. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Tabeau, a trader and militia man who was involved in the fur trade out of New France. He was a protégé of Joseph-Octave Plessis. External links [Biogra..
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading figure in the development of the Impressionist style. Contents 1 The art of Renoir2 Biography3 Selected works4 Related link5 External links ..
Pierre-Basile Mignault
The Honourable Pierre-Basile Mignault (September 30, 1854 – October 15, 1945) was a Canadian lawyer and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Pierre-Basile Mignault and Catherine O'Callaghan, he received a Bachelor of Civil Law dgree from ..
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema
Pierre-Célestin Rwigema (born 1953 or 1954) is a Rwandan politician. Rwigema, an ethnic Hutu, was a manager of a government-controlled company when the Rwandan Genocide occurred in 1994. He was accused later of supporting the genocide, but he supported the Rwandese Patriotic Front when it overthre..
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur
Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c.1657 – 17 July 1704) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America. In 1700, he was with the group that ascended the Great Lakes and struck the Mississippi River in Minnesota. He went upstream as far as the Falls of St. Anthony. The next year he went south al..
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He was in command of the French and Spanish fleets defeated by Nelson at the Battle of Trafa..
Pierre-Chéri Lafont
Pierre-Chéri Lafont (May 15, 1797-April 19, 1873), French actor, was born at Bordeaux. Abandoning his profession as assistant ship's doctor in the navy, he went to Paris to study singing and acting. He had some experience at a small theater, and was preparing to appear at the Opera Comique when th..
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste (1765-24 April 1824) was a French lexicographer born in Paris. He is most famous as the editor of the Dictionnaire universel de la langue française, first published in 1800. Originally trained at the Dammartin-Juilly Royal Academy at Goële (now Dammartin-en-Goële, Se..
Pierre-Claude Drouin
Pierre-Claude Drouin (born April 22, 1974 in St. Lambert, Quebec) is a Canadian ice hockey forward. Drouin played for Cornell University in the NCAA, and has represented a number of professional hockey teams. He has played 3 NHL games for the Boston Bruins in the 1996-97 NHL season, and has also pl..
Pierre-Claude Foucquet
Pierre-Claude Foucquet (Paris, 1694 – February 13, 1772) was a French organist and harpsichordist. Pierre-Claude Foucquet was from a family of musicians, the son of Pierre Foucquet and his wife, Anna-Barbe Domballe. He was married to Cécile Télinge and had six children. At 18 Pierre Claude wa..
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée (February 14, 1692 - May 14, 1754), French dramatist, was born in Paris. In 1731 he published an Epître a Clio, a didactic poem in defence of Leriget de la Faye in his dispute with Antoine Houdar de la Motte, who had maintained that verse was useless in traged..
Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin
Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin (born 15 February, 1977) is a French Alpine skier. Dalcin was French Champion in Downhill 2000. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dalcin was leading the Super-G competition before it was stopped. In the 2nd run, he was disqualified. External links http://www.pe-dalcin.com[FI..
Pierre-Emmanuel Debergh
French blowgun sportman Blowgun History 2005 French Federation co-founder (President, Chairman) (FSBA)2005 1st National Competition Vice-Champion2006 Sport Blowgun National Open organizator2007 Sport Blowgun World Cup organizator Links See french Wikipedia for more informations http://fr.wikipedia...
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c. 1640 – 1710) was a French-born explorer and fur trader. He came to New France as a teenager and was captured in an Iroquois raid circa 1652, but was adopted by his captors and became accustomed to their way of life. After two years living with the Iroquois he retur..
Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert
Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert (1828 - 1893) was a French sculptor. External links [Hébert search results] - Art and Architecture website[Amazon Preparing for Battle] - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ..
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc
Sir Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (August 10, 1853 – October 18, 1918) was born in Saint-Martin (today part of Laval, Quebec). He was a Quebec Conservative Party leader but never premier. First elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election in 1882, he served as leader of the Opposition fro..
Pierre-Francisque Caroubel
Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (died 1611) was a French violinist and composer who collaborated with Michael Praetorius and is known for his dance music, bransles and gaillards, some of which were published after his death in the anthology Secret des muses (Amsterdam, 1615). Some of the music arranged b..
Pierre-François, Marquis de Rougé
Pierre-François, Marquis de Rougé (1702 - 1761) was a French nobleman and General. The son of Pierre III, Marquis de Rougé and of Jeanne Prézeau de la Guilletière, he held the hereditary titles Marquis de Rougé, Baron de Coetmen, Lord of Le Tremblay and La Belliere. Later in life he became Gov..
Pierre-François Bouchard
Pierre-François Bouchard (1772 - 1832) was a French captain best known for discovering the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian port city of Rosetta (present-day Rashid) on July 15, 1799. The [Bouchard Translator] is named after Pierre-François. ..
Pierre-François Casgrain
Pierre-François Casgrain (August 4, 1886 – August 2, 1950) was a Canadian politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons from 1936 to 1940. His father was a Montreal physician. Following the death of his mother when he was three years old, he was raised by his grandmother. Casgrain..
Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville
Pierre-François Hugues D'Hancarville is a Pseudo French pseudo-aristocrat, 1719-1805, produced Les Antiquités d´Hancarville, a collection of vases and other antiquities from the excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and one of the most beautiful books of the 18th century. ..
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1690-1768) was a French flutist and composer in the late Baroque period. Born in Provence, Buffardin was a flute solist at the Court of the Elector of Saxe in Dresden from 1715 to 1749. He was the teacher of Johann Joachim Quantz as well as of Johann Sebastian Bach's brot..
Pierre-Gabriel Huot
Pierre-Gabriel Huot (September 20 1825-September 1 1913) was a Quebec journalist and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Quebec East from 1867 to 1870. He was born in Quebec City in 1825. He qualified as a notary in 1850, but never practiced this ..
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in Paris, France and was home-schooled to the age of 12. Later, Gennes studied at the École Normale Supérieure. After leaving the École in 1955, he became a research engineer at the Saclay cente..
Pierre-Henri Teitgen
Pierre-Henri Teitgen (May 29, 1908 in Rennes - April 6, 1997 in Paris) was a French lawyer, professor and politician. Made prisoner of war in 1940, he played a major role in the French Resistance. Member of French Parliament from 1945 to 1958 for Ille-et-Vilaine, he presided the Mouvement Républi..
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (August 19, 1780 - July 16, 1857), was a French songwriter. He was born in Paris, and was not aristocratic, despite the use of "de" in the family name by his father, who had assumed the name of Béranger de Mersix. He was in fact descended from a country innkeeper on the on..
Pierre-Jean De Smet
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, (30 January 1801 at Dendermonde, Belgium – 23 May 1873 at St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.), also known as Pierre De Smet and Peter De Smet, a Roman Catholic priest, was a native Belgian who had escaped from European persecution and became the most trusted of the white men a..
Pierre-Jean Garat
Pierre-Jean Garat (April 25, 1764 - March 1, 1823), French singer, nephew of Dominique Joseph Garat, was born in Bordeaux. Gifted with a voice of exceptional timbre and compass he devoted himself, from an early age, to the cultivation of his musical talents. On account of his manifesting a distaste..
Pierre-Jean Mariette
Pierre-Jean Mariette (Paris 1694–Paris 1774) was a print collector, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists. He was a central figure in the artistic culture of Paris for decades. Mariette was born to a lo..
Pierre-Jean Rémy
Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy, a French diplomat, novelist and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on June 16, 1988. Contents 1 Early life2 Career3 Bibliography4 External links Early life Rémy was born March 21, 1937, in Angoulêm..
Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot
Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot (b. March 9, 1611 – d. February 21, 1693) was from France and from a poor family. A variety of circumstances led to his pursuing a religious path. He completed his studies at the Jesuits’ noviciate in Florence and, after three more years of training, came to Can..
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890), born in Quebec City, was the first premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following Canadian Confederation in 1867. He led a Conservative Party government. He was also the Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary. Also ..
Pierre-Joseph Desault
Pierre-Joseph Desault (Magny-Vernois (Haute-Saône), February 6, 1744, – June 1 1795, Paris) was a French anatomist and surgeon. He was destined for the church, but his own inclination was towards the study of medicine; and, after learning something from the barber-surgeon of his native vi..
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in BrE, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (15 January, 1809 – 19 January, 1865) was a French economist and socialist philosopher who was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered amo..
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon/Temp
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in BrE, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (15 January, 1809 – 19 January, 1865) was a French economist and socialist philosopher who was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist think..
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (July 10, 1759 - June 20, 1840), was a French painter, best known for his paintings of the flowers at Malmaison. Redouté was born in present-day Belgium. He was the official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution an..
Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Pierre-Jules Hetzel. A typical Jules Verne book cover as published by Hetzel. The edition is Les Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras au Pôle Nord, type "Aux deux éléphants". Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known ..
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Pierre-Laurent Aimard (born 9 september 1957) is a French pianist. Life Pierre-Laurent Aimard was born in Lyon, where he entered the conservatory. Later he studied with Yvonne Loriod. In 1973 he was awarded the chamber music prize of the Paris Conservatoire. In the sam..
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy
Belloy Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy or Dormont De Belloy (November 17, 1727, Saint-Flour, Auvergne - March 5, 1775) was a French dramatist and actor. He was educated by his uncle, a distinguished advocate in Paris, for the bar. To escape from a profession he disliked he joined a troupe ..
Pierre-Louis Ginguené
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Pierre-Louis Lions
Pierre-Louis Lions (born August 11 1956) is a French mathematician. His parents were Jacques-Louis Lions, a mathematician and professor at the University of Nancy, and Andrée Olivier, his wife. He received his doctorate from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in 1979. He studies the theory o..
Pierre-Luc Gagnon
Pierre-Luc Gagnon, also known as "PL" or "PLG" (Born May 2, 1980 in Boucherville), is a professional skateboarder. Gagnon began skating in 1987, and entered his first competition in 1992. A frequent participant in the X-Games, he has won ten medals (three gold) in the Vert, Vert Doubled, Big Air,..
Pierre-Marc Bouchard
Pierre-Marc Bouchard (born on April 27, 1984, at Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a French Canadian professional hockey forward. He currently plays for the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild. He was drafted by the Minnesota Wild in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, First Round, Eighth Overall. His jersey numbe..
Pierre-Marc Johnson
Pierre-Marc Johnson (born July 5, 1946) is a Quebec lawyer, physician and politician. He was the Parti Québécois Premier of Quebec, Canada from October 3 to December 12, 1985. Born in Montreal, Quebec, his father, Daniel Johnson, Sr, served as premier of Quebec from 1966 to 1968. His brother, D..
Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette
Pierre-Marie-Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette, better known simply as Charles de Bernard, (February 24, 1804–March 6, 1850) was a French writer. Contents 1 Biography2 Writing3 Assessment by other writers4 Reference5 External links Biography He was born in Bes..
Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet
Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet (1716–1796) was a French engineer. He is widely credited with establishing the first scientific approach to road building about the year 1764. Among his innovations was the use of a base layer of large stone covered with a thin layer of smaller stone. The advan..
Pierre-Marie Termier
Pierre-Marie Termier (July 3, 1859–October 23, 1930) was a French geologist. He was born in Lyon, in Rhône, France, the son of Joseph François Termier and Jeanne Mollard. At the age of 18 he entered the Polytechnic School, then the Paris School of Mines in 1880. After graduation he became p..
Pierre-Médard Diard
Pierre-Médard Diard (1794 - 1863) was a French naturalist and explorer. Diard travelled in the East Indies between 1827 and 1848. He collected a number of natural history specimens, some of which were sent back the Coenraad Jacob Temminck at Leiden. He was an early explorer and also helped contrib..
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Pierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin (May 13, 1774 - July 6, 1833), French painter, was born in Paris. Becoming a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793. The pension was not indeed..
Pierre-Paul Riquet
Pierre-Paul Riquet (June 29, 1609 (some sources say 1604) - October 4, 1680) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi during the second half of the 17th century. Background Born in Béziers, Hérault, France, Riquet was the man behind the huge task o..
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (May 29, 1912 - January 2, 1994) was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from September 1, 1963 to August 31, 1973. He is the father of Louis Schweitzer, CEO of Renault. ..
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 16, 2001 to become the second United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. After being confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he was sworn in on July 13, 2001. Born in Denver, Colorado in 1963, the son of two physicians wh..
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776-1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that possessed considerable influence in French literary circles in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Born in Lyon, Ballanche was seventeen when his imagination ..
Pierre-Simon Laplace
For the city in Louisiana, see Laplace, Louisiana. Pierre-Simon Laplace. Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy – March 5 1827, Paris) was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and e..
Pierre-Yves Gerbeau
Pierre-Yves Gerbeau (almost always shortened to P-Y) is a French management consultant. He is married to Kate Gerbeau (née Sanderson), a British television presenter. Gerbeau started out in 1984 as a professional ice hockey player, playing in several championships, before injury curtailed his spor..
Pierre-Yves Pelletier
Pierre-Yves Pelletier is a graphic designer, who has designed 110 stamps for Canada Post. He lives in Belœil, Quebec. ..
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel written by Herman Melville, and published in 1852 by Harper & Brothers. It is the only novel by Melville that takes place on land in the United States. The publication of Pierre was a critical and financial disaster for Melville. It was universally condemned ..
Pierrebraunia
Pierrebraunia is newly discovered genus of cactus from Bahia, Brazil. Some include it in the genus Arrojadoa. ..
Pierrefitte
Pierrefitte is the name of several communes in France: Pierrefitte, in the Corrèze départementPierrefitte, in the Creuse départementPierrefitte, in the Deux-Sèvres départementPierrefitte, in the Vosges département It is also part of the name of several communes: Pierrefitte-en-Auge, in the C..
Pierrefitte-en-Auge
Pierrefitte-en-Auge is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14130. The INSEE code is 14500. ..
Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais
Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais is a commune of the département of Calvados, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14690. The INSEE code is 14501. ..
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Country      France Région Île-de-France Départment Seine-Saint-Denis Arrondissement Saint-Denis Canton Pierrefitte-sur-Seine INSEE 93 059 Postal Code 93 380 MayorCurrent Term Catherine Hanriot (PCF)2001-2006 In..
Pierrefonds
Pierrefonds may refer to: Pierrefonds is a commune of the Oise département, in France. Its main attraction is the castle restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Pierrefonds, Quebec is a borough of the city of Montreal. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associa..
Pierrefonds, Quebec
Pierrefonds is a former city on the Island of Montreal. It was amalgamated into the City of Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2002. Located along the Rivière des Prairies, it is part of the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Population (2001): 54,963 Contents 1 History2 Origin of the name Pierr..
Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Pierrefonds-Roxboro is a borough of the city of Montreal. Geography The borough is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern part of the West Island. Besides its land borders with the borough of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, as well as the borough..
Pierrefonds-Senneville
Pierrefonds-Senneville is a former Montreal borough in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec. After Senneville voted to demerge from Montreal and returned to being an independent municipality on January 1, 2006, the Pierrefonds sector was merged with Roxboro to create the borough of Pierrefonds-R..
Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School
Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School Also known as PCHS Location Montreal, QC, Canada School type Public middle and high school Established 1971 Language English Affiliation Non-denominational School board Lester B. Pearson Principal Cecil Humphries Enrollment 1189 Grades S..
Pierrefonds—Dollard
Pierrefonds—Dollard in relation to the other Montreal area ridings Pierrefonds—Dollard is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. Its population in 2001 was 102,542. This riding occupies the northwest part of ..
Pierrelatte
Pierrelatte is a commune of the Drôme département in southern France. ..
Pierrelaye (SNCF)
See also List of stations of the Paris RERList of stations of the Paris Métro ..
Pierrepoint
Pierrepoint can refer to: Albert Pierrepoint, a prolific British executioner and part of a family of hangmen including his father and uncle.Pierrepoint, a British movie about Albert Pierrepoint. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same t..
Pierrepoint (film)
:This article is about the film "Pierrepoint". For the article on the executioner himself, see Albert Pierrepoint. Pierrepoint Directed by Adrian Shergold Written by Jeff Pope & Bob Mills Starring Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan Produced by Chri..
Pierrepont
Pierrepont is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Pierrepont, in the Aisne départementPierrepont, in the Calvados départementPierrepont, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département Pierrepont-sur-Avre, in the Somme départementPierrepont-sur-l'Arentèle, in the Vosges départem..
Pierrepont, Calvados
Pierrepont is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. Its postal code is 14690. The INSEE code is 14502. External link [History of the house of Pierrepont and its members] ..
Pierrepont, New York
Pierrepont is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,674. The name is derived from Hezekiah Pierrepont, the early owner of much of the town's territory. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Com..
Pierrepont school
The Pierrepont school is an independent school in Westport, Connecticut. The school was founded in 2003 by Eleanor Chai Beer. It is associated with Saint Anne's School in Brooklyn, New York. ..
Pierres
There are works that are named Pierres, pronounced like Pierre: Pierres, a novel of Victor HugoPierres, a collection of poems of Roger Caillois Pierres is the name of several communes in France: Pierres, in the Calvados départementPierres, in the Eure-et-Loir département See also Pierre This is..
Pierres, Calvados
Pierres is a commune of the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie région in France. Its postal code is 14410. The INSEE code is 14503. ..
Pierrette Alarie
Pierrette Alarie (born November 9, 1921, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian soprano. She married Léopold Simoneau, a tenor, in 1946. In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1995. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. External..
Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais
The Honourable Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais, BA, MBA (born December 31 1955) is a Canadian Senator. Ringuette-Maltais, a businesswoman and professor, was the first francophone woman to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. She sat in the body as a member of the New Brunswick Libe..
Pierrette Venne
Pierrette Venne (born 8 August 1945 in Beauharnois, Quebec) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003. By career, she worked in law. Venne was elected in the Saint-Hubert electoral district under the Progressive Conservative party in the 1988 general election. The riding was r..
Pierre Adet
The chemist Pierre Auguste Adet was born on 1763-05-18 in Nevers in France. He worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation system, and was secretary to the chemical magazine Annales de chimie, founded in 1789. Later he became French ambassador to the United States, and prefect in Nevers. He die..
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (January 17, 1809 - May 1, 1891), was a French historian. He was born at Rouen and educated at the École Normale Supérieure, becoming a fellow (agregé) in 1830. His early studies were concerned with local history. His Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au XViem..
Pierre Adolphe Cheruel
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (1809–1891) was French historian, the author of History of France during the Minority of Louis XIV and has published the Memoirs of Saint-Simon. External link [Biography at Absolute Astronomy] This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 editio..
Pierre Adolphe Piorry
Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879) was a French physician. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of internal organs using percussion) and was the creator of medical terms toxin, toxemia and septicemia. References Sakula, A. [Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percu..
Pierre Adolphe Valette
Pierre Adolphe Valette (1876 – 1942) was a French Impressionist painter whose pupils included L. S. Lowry. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester. Born in St Etienne in 1876, he trained in Paris, at the Birkbeck Institute, London, and in Japan. In 1905 he began desig..
Pierre Akendengué
Pierre-Claver Akendengué (born April 25, 1943) is a musician and composer of Gabon. In 1997, he received his country's "Prix d'excellence" at the Africa Music awards in Libreville, honoring his body of work. He also serves as a cultural advisor for the government of Gabon. Born on the island of ..
Pierre Alamire
Pierre Alamire (also Petrus Alamire) (c.1470 – June 26, 1536) was a German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy of the Renaissance. He was one of the most skilled music scribes of his time, and many now-famous works of Franco-Flemish comp..
Pierre Albarran
Men's Tennis Bronze 1920 Doubles Pierre Albarran (born 1894 in West Indies, died 1960 in Paris) was French auction and contract bridge player and theoretist, and tennis player. As bridge player, he won the European Teams Championship in 1935, and represented the France in 1935 in the..
Pierre Albert-Birot
Pierre Albert-Birot (1876-1967) is a French avant-garde author. Born in Angoulôme, he moved to Paris in 1894. There he attended art school and befriended Gustave Moreau. He worked for five decades as a restorer for antique dealer Madame Lelong. He began writing after he met the musician Germaine..
Pierre Albuisson
Pierre Albuisson (born 6 September 1952 in Madagascar) is a French postage stamp engraver and designer. 1970's he studied in the École des Beaux-Arts in Mâcon. He was quickly awarded with the French title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the differents arts of engraving on cupper in 1979 and 1986..
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (October 19, 1927) is a Belgian artist. He was born in Brussels. In 1944 he attended the l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts décoratifs de La Cambre, Brussels where he studied illustration techniques, printing and photography. In 1945 he discovered the work ..
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (8 July 1829 - 20 January 1871, Bordeaux) was a French writer born in Montmaur (Hautes Alpes). He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy-three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of R..
Pierre Allain
Pierre Allain (1904 – 2000) was a French alpinist who began climbing in the 1920s. In the 1930s he was joined by several others at Fontainebleau, where his group of "'Bleausards" developed a love of bouldering that went beyond simple training for the Alps. The famous Allain Angle (V2 - V3), done i..
Pierre Allix
Pierre Allix (1641–March 3, 1717), French Protestant pastor and author. Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London where, under ..
Pierre Alphonse Laurent
Pierre Alphonse Laurent (July 18, 1813 – September 2, 1854) was a French mathematician best known as the discoverer of the Laurent series, an expansion of a function into an infinite power series, generalizing the Taylor series expansion. He was born in Paris, France. His result was contained in a..
Pierre Amédée Jaubert
Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert (3 June 1779 – 28 January 1847) was a French Orientalist and traveller. He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was one of the most distinguished pupils of Silvestre de Sacy, whose funeral Discours he pronounced in 1838. Jaubert acted as interpreter to Napole..
Pierre Amiel
A French author, Pierre Amiel is a Jain convert who has written about the religion among his other writings. ..
Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez
Statue of Suffren - Museum of the Navy, Toulon. A sculpture depicting Admiral de Suffren that adorned a 19th century French naval vessel Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez (July 17 1729 - December 8 1788) - French admiral; was the third son of the marquis de Saint Tropez, head of a..
Pierre Antoine Delalande
Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787 - 1823) was a French naturalist and explorer. Delalande was employed by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to collect natural history specimens. He travelled to Brazil in 1816 and South Africa in 1818, where he collected with his nephew Jules Verreaux. ..
Pierre Antoine Motteux
Pierre Antoine Motteux (or Peter Motteux, February 25, 1663 - February 18, 1718), English translator and dramatist, of French parentage, was born at Rouen. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he settled in London with his kinsman and godfather, Paul Dominique Motteux. He acted as an auction..
Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, comte Daru
Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, comte Daru (January 12, 1767 - September 5, 1829) was a French soldier and statesman. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early career1.2 Consulate and early Empire1.3 Prominence2 Assesement3 Works4 References Biography Early career Born in Mont..
Pierre Antonini
Asteroids discovered: 34 10925 Ventoux January 28, 1998 11147 Delmas December 6, 1997 11675 Billboyle February 15, 1998 13411 OLRAP October 31, 1999 14533 Roy August 24, 1997 15899 Silvain September 3, 1997 16892 Vaissière February 17, 1998 20242 Sagot February 27,..
Pierre Arditi
Pierre Arditi (born 1 December 1944) is a popular, award-winning French movie and theatrical actor. He often played romantic, womanizing roles, similar to those played by Marcello Mastroianni. In 1994, he received a César Award for Best Actor for his role in Smoking/No smoking. External links ..
Pierre Arnoul de Marneffe
Pierre-Arnoul de Marneffe is a Computer scientist currently working at Liège university, Belgium. His ideas expressed in Holon Programming have inspired Donald Knuth in creating WEB, the first published literate programming environment. References P. A. de Marneffe, Holon Programming, Univ. de ..
Pierre Attaingnant
Pierre Attaingnant (c.1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music printer, active in Paris. Life Attaingnant is considered to be the first to use movable type for music-printing, thus making it possible to print fast and cheap. He published over 1500 chansons by many different composers. In thi..
Pierre Aubert
Pierre Aubert (born March 3, 1927) is a Swiss politician, lawyer and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978-1987). He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 7, 1977 as member of the Social Democratic Party from the canton of Neuchâtel. He handed over office on December 31, ..
Pierre Audette
Pierre Audette is a Canadian politician, former leader of the Bloc Pot party. He ran as Marijuana Party candidate in the 2000 federal election. ..
Pierre Auger Observatory
Pierre Auger Observatory is an international cosmic ray observatory designed to detect ultra high energy cosmic rays -- Oh-My-God particles. These are sub-atomic particles (protons or other nuclei) with energies beyond [10^] electron-volts, the energy of a tennis ball traveling at 340 mile..
Pierre Auguste Cot
Pierre Auguste Cot (1837-1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school who created several works of lasting popularity, including Les Printemps, featuring two young lovers sitting upon a swing, and The Storm. Both these paintings were until recently on display at the Metropolitan Muse..
Pierre Bachelet
Pierre Bachelet (May 25, 1944 - February 15, 2005) was a French singer-songwriter with a gentle romantic voice. One of his hit songs was "Écris-moi". He sang for some movies, for example Emmanuelle. Japanese pop music dynamo Takako Minekawa is known to be a fan of Bachelet. Bachelet died at his h..
Pierre Baillot
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot (October 1 1771–September 15 1842) was a French violinist and composer. Baillot was born in Passy and studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti. He taught violin at the Paris Conservatoire and together with Pierre Rode (also a pupil of Viotti) a..
Pierre Ballester
Pierre Ballester (*1959) was a journalist for the French sports newspaper L'Équipe from 1989 to 2001. After 1998 he primarily wrote about doping, most notably the book L.A. Confidentiel, jointly written with David Walsh, about Lance Armstrong that according to critics contains circumstancial evid..
Pierre Balmain
Pierre Balmain and Ruth Ford, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain (May 18, 1914-June 29, 1982) was a French fashion designer. Known for sophistication and elegance, he said that "dressmaking is the architecture of movement." Balmain also manufactured perf..
Pierre Barbet
Pierre Barbet (May 16, 1925 - July 20, 1995) was the main pseudonym used by French science fiction writer Claude Avice. Claude Avice, a Doctor in Pharmacy, also used the pseudonyms of Olivier Sprigel and David Maine. Several of his novels were translated into English and published by Daw Books. Ove..
Pierre Barrière
Pierre Barrière (???? - 1593) was a would-be assassin of King Henry IV of France. Barriere attempted an assassination of Henry IV on 27 August, 1593. He was denounced by a Dominican priest to whom he had confessed. He was executed on 31 August, 1593 by breaking on the wheel and dismemberment. Thi..
Pierre Barthes
Pierre Barthes was a French professional tennis player. He was one of the Handsome Eight. ..
Pierre Basile
Pierre Basile (? - April 6, 1199) was a French knight famous for shooting King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Châlus-Charbrol on March 26, 1199. King Richard, who had removed some of his chainmail, was not mortally-wounded by Basile's bolt; however, the wound resulted in gangr..
Pierre Batcheff
Pierre Batcheff was a French actor, whose original name was Piotr Bacev (from Russia). His best-known film was Un chien andalou by Luis Buñuel. He married Denise Piazza. Both he and the main actress in Un chien andalou, Simone Mareuil, committed suicide. ..
Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle. French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: �..
Pierre Béarn
Pierre Béarn (15 June1902 - October 272004). was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania. He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine": Métro boulet bistrots mégots dodo zero (trans. "Subway work bars fags (cigarettes) sleep nothing") A persona..
Pierre Beaubien
Pierre Beaubien (August 13 1796 – January 9 1881) was a physician and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Baie-du-Febvre in 1796 and studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet and the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. He went to France, where he studied at the Académie de Paris and later ..
Pierre Beauchamp
Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, sometimes mistakenly called Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (1631–1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation. He was made director of the Académie Royale de Danse soon after it was founded in 1661 (..
Pierre Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 – May 17-18, 1799) was a watch-maker, inventor, musician, politician, invalid, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms-dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). He was best known, however, for his dramatic works, e..
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc
Pierre Bélain, Sieur d'Esnambuc (1585-1636) was a French trader in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint-Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher...
Pierre Bellocq
Pierre Bellocq is an artist who has worked as a cartoonist. His work includes a 36 foot long mural at Churchill Downs depicting the 96 jockeys who won there from 1875 to 2004. He has received the National Cartoonist Society Award for Newspaper Illustration for 1999 and their Sports Cartoon Award f..
Pierre Belon
Pierre Belon Pierre Belon (1517‑1564) was a French naturalist. Belon was born about 1517 near Le Mans (Sarthe). He studied medicine at Paris, where he took the degree of doctor, and then became a pupil of the botanist Valerius Cordus (1515-1544) at Wittenberg, with whom he travelled in ..
Pierre Benoit
Pierre Benoit may refer to: Pierre Benoit (1886-1962), a novelist and member of the Académie françaisePierre Basile Benoit (1824-1870), former member of the Canadian House of CommonsPierre Benoit, a former mayor of Ottawa This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles ..
Pierre Benoit (novelist)
Pierre Benoit (July 16 1886 - March 3 1962) was a novelist and member of the Académie française. Pierre Benoit, born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant. His first novel, K..
Pierre Benoit (Ontario politician)
Pierre Benoit was mayor of Ottawa from 1972 to 1975. Benoit studied law at the University of Ottawa and practiced in the Ottawa area. He was mayor during the opening of the Main Branch of the Ottawa Public Library in 1974. After his term as mayor, he was a columnist for the Ottawa Journal. He later..
Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan is a French- Algerian guitarist. His family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria. His CDs include Pres de Paris (released 1975), 2 (released 1977), Solilai (released 1982), Intuite (released 2000), An Evening With International Guitar Night (released 2004), and Altipla..
Pierre Berbizier
Pierre Berbizier (born 17 June, 1958 in Saint-Gaudens, France) is a former French rugby union footballer, and currently a coach. His usual position was at scrum-half. He played 56 times for France, and is the current head coach of Italy. Berbizier made his international debut for France as a 22 yea..
Pierre Bérégovoy
Pierre Eugène Bérégovoy (December 23, 1925 – May 1, 1993) was a French Socialist politician of Russian origin. He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1992 to 1993. Contents 1 Early career2 Death3 Bérégovoy's ministry, ..
Pierre Bernac
Pierre Bernac (born as Pierre Bertin on 12 January, 1899 in Paris - died 17 October, 1979 in Villeneuve-les-Avignon) was a French baritone. Although coming to music relatively late, he became the most renowned interpreter of the French art song, and was also famous as a teacher. He made a number o..
Pierre Bernard
Pierre Bernard, Jr. is a graphic designer and comedian for the NBC show Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He regularly appears in a sketch known as "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage", where he complains about issues that concern him. Presumably, he sits in a recliner during these segments simply for ..
Pierre Bersuire
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] �..
Pierre Berthier
Pierre Berthier (July 3, 1782 – August 24, 1861) was a French geologist who discovered the properties of Bauxite in 1821 in the village Les Baux de Provence in southern France. He also discovered the mineral Berthierite which was named after him. ..
Pierre Bertin
Pierre Bertin could be: Pierre Bertin (Lille, 24 October 1891 - Paris, 13 May 1984) - A French actor who appeared in the film Les Tontons flingueurs among other films and theatre pieces.Théodore-Pierre Bertin - An 18th and 19th century French author, who introduced shorthand to France. You may als..
Pierre Berton
For other people with the same name, see Pierre Berton (disambiguation).'' Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and jou..
Pierre Berton (disambiguation)
Several notable persons have been named Pierre Berton: Pierre Berton was a 19th century playwright, co-author of the play Zaza.Pierre Berton (1920–2004) was a Canadian author of non-fiction and a well-known television personality and journalist.Pierre Montan Berton (1727–1780) was a Fre..
Pierre Bertrand de Colombier
Pierre Bertrand de Colombier (1299-1361), French cardinal and diplomatist, was born at Colombier in Ardèche. He was nephew and namesake of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand of Annonay. After a careful juristic education he was successively advocate at the parlement of Paris, intendant of the council of the..
Pierre Bézier
Pierre Étienne Bézier (September 1, 1910 – November 25, 1999) (pronounced "bay zee ay") was a French engineer and creator of the Bézier curves and Bézier surfaces that are now the basis of most computer-aided design and computer graphics systems. Born in Paris, Bézier obtained a degree i..
Pierre Billon
Pierre Billon, born in Geneva in 1937, is a québécois writer. Contents 1 Bibliography1.1 Novels1.2 Screenplays (Film)1.3 Screenplays (TV)1.4 External links Bibliography Novels L'ogre de Barbarie (1972)La Chausse-Trappe (1980)L'enfant du Cinquième Nord (Mamatowee Awas..
Pierre Bismuth
Pierre Bismuth (b. 1963) is a french artist. In 2005 he won the best original screenplay at the 77th Academy Awards along to Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He uses his artistic practice as a tool to examine our perception of reality, especial..
Pierre Blais
Pierre Blais, PC (born December 30 1948) is a Canadian jurist and former politician and Cabinet minister. A lawyer by training, Blais entered the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bellechasse, Quebec through the 1984 election. In 1987, Prime ..
Pierre Blaise
Discovered by Louis Malle who gave him the leading role in his 1974 film Lacombe Lucien Pierre Blaise spurned a cinema career to return to wood cutting in rural France but, only a year after the film, he was tragically killed in a motor car accident. 'Pierre Blaise n'était pas fait pour la légend..
Pierre Boitard
Pierre Boitard (1789 – 1859) was a French botanist and geologist. As well as describing and classifying the Tasmanian Devil, he is notable for his fictional natural history Paris avant les hommes (Paris Before Man), published posthumously in 1861, which described a prehistoric ape-like human a..
Pierre Boivin
Pierre Boivin (born October 28, 1953) is a French Canadian businessman and current president of the Montreal Canadiens since September 2, 1999, succeeding Ronald Corey. Pierre is married to Lucie Nadeau and is the father of three children: Patrick, Catherine and Richard. He starred in a public serv..
Pierre bonhomme
PIERRE BONHOMME: CANADIAN FILM-MAKER DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION DESIGNER, ART DIRECTOR Pierre Bonhomme is a Toronto-based independent film-maker. He works closely with a talented group of producing partners including Kerry Young (Spruce Street Pictures) and Darren Portelli (Spiral Media). After work..
Pierre Bonnard
The Dining Room in the Country Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 – January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker. He was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses. He led a happy and careless youth as the son of a prominent official of the French Ministry of War. Bonnard began his career study..
Pierre Bordage
Pierre Bordage (born January 1955, La Réorthe, Vendée, France) is a French science fiction author. He won the Cosmos 2000 prize in 1996 for his novel La Citadelle Hyponéros. Contents 1 Bibliography1.1 Rohel le conquérant1.2 Les guerriers du silence1.3 Wang series1.4 ..
Pierre Bosquet
Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (1810-1861) was a Marshal of France. He entered the artillery in 1833, and a year later went to Algeria. Here he soon did good service, and made himself remarkable not only for technical skill but the moral qualities indispensable for high command. Becoming captain i..
Pierre Bouchard
Pierre Bouchard (born February 20, 1948 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a retired former professional ice hockey player who won five Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s. He also played for the Washington Capitals over the course of a 12-year NHL career. His father was Canadiens' defensema..
Pierre Bouguer
Pierre Bouguer (February 16, 1698 – August 15, 1758) was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture". His father, Jean Bouguer, one of the best hydrographers of his time, was regius professor of hydrography at Croisic in lower Brittany, and au..
Pierre Boulez
right Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlɛz/) (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. Contents 1 Life and music1.1 Early Years1.2 Serialism1.3 Experimentation1.4 1970s1.5 Recent Years2 Boulez as a conductor3 Boulez as a wr..
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle (20 February, 1912 – 30 January, 1994) was a French novelist largely known for his combination of psychology and adventure most famously in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963). Born Pierre-François-Marie-Louis Boulle in Avignon, France, he trained as a..
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work ranged widely from philosophy to sociology and anthropology. Best known in America for his book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, in which he connected aesthetic judgements ..
Pierre Bourgault
Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934 – June 16, 2003) was a politician and essayist in Quebec, Canada, and a public speaker who advocated sovereignty for Quebec from Canada. Profile He was born in East Angus in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of Quebec to parents. He is known to be an alb..
Pierre Bourque
Pierre Bourque is the name of two Canadian figures: Pierre Bourque (journalist), web page ownerPierre Bourque (mayor), former mayor of Montreal This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish..
Pierre Bourque (journalist)
Pierre Bourque, born Oct. 7, 1958, operates the online news aggragator site Bourque Newswatch. Bourque is also a part-time radio host at Ottawa news-talk station CFRA and has appeared on several other Canadian radio stations. In 1990, Bourque acquired an electronics repair company in partnership ..
Pierre Bourque (politician)
Pierre Bourque (born May 29 1942) was the mayor of Montreal, Quebec from 1994 to 2001. He subsequently attempted to enter provincial politics, running as an Action démocratique du Québec candidate in the 2003 Quebec election, but was defeated. He then returned to municipal politics, but was unable..
Pierre Boutroux
Pierre Boutroux 6 December 1880 to 15 August 1922 was a French mathematician and historian of science. He was born in Paris into a well connected family of the French Intelligencia. His father was the philosopher Émile Boutroux. His mother was Aline Catherine Eugénie Boutroux born Poincaré, siste..
Pierre Bouvier
Pierre Charles Bouvier (born May 9, 1979) is a Canadian musician, and the lead singer of the Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan. He was born in Montréal on 9th May, 1979. As a youth (before and partly during his musical career) Bouvier worked as a cook in a local barbecue restaurant, and aspired ..
Pierre Brasdor
Pierre Brasdor (1721-September 28, 1799), French surgeon, was born in the province of Maine. He took his degree in Paris as master of surgery in 1752, and was appointed regius professor of anatomy and director of the Academy of Surgery. He was a skillful operator, whose name was long attached to a l..
Pierre Brassard
Pierre Brassard (born April 24, 1966) is a Canadian radio broadcaster, associated with CKOI in Montreal, famous for his phone call hoaxes. He managed to arrange phone calls with Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II, pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. External links [A..
Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur, really Pierre-Albert Espinasse (born December 22, 1905 in Paris; died August 14, 1972 in Bruneck-Brunico, Italy) was a French actor. Both his father, Albert Brasseur, and his grandfather, Jules Brasseur, were actors as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was conti..
Pierre Brejoux
Pierre Brejoux served as an expert wine taster in the historic Paris Wine Tasting of 1976. He was Inspector General of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board, which controls the production of top French wines. In the blind tasting, conducted by the creme de la creme of French wine experts, Califo..
Pierre Bretoneau
"Pierre Bretonneau[pyer brutOnO´] Pronunciation Key, 1778–1862, French physician. He performed (1825) the first successful tracheotomy for laryngeal diphtheria, wrote a treatise (1826) distinguishing between scarlet fever and diphtheria (which he named), described typhoid fever, and stat..
Pierre Bretonneau
Pierre Bretonneau born (Saint-Georges-sur-Cher, 3 april 1778 - died Paris, 1862) was a French medical doctor of the early 19th Century. Contents 1 Biography2 Significance to medicine3 Trivia4 References Biography Born 3 April, 1778 at Saint-Georges-sur-Cher, in the Loir-et-C..
Pierre Brice
Pierre Brice (born 6 February 1929 in Brest, France), birth name Baron Pierre Louis de Bris, is a French actor, mainly known to the audience for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May movies. Life and films When he was 19, Brice enlisted as volunteer to the French army and ..
Pierre Brien
Pierre Brien (born 22 June 1970 in Ville-Marie, Quebec) was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2003. By career, he has worked in administration and economics. Brien was elected in the Témiscamingue electoral district under the Bloc Québécois party in the 1993, 1997 and 2000 e..
Pierre Brissaud
Pierre Brissaud (December 23, 1885- 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and engraver. He was born in Paris, France and trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris. His fellow Cormon students were André Marty, Charles Martin and Georges Lepape. S..
Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette (June 25, 1903 - March 22, 1944) was a French socialist, journalist and member of French Resistance. Pierre Brossolette was born in Paris, France. He graduated from l'École Normale Supérieure in 1925 and joined the French Socialist Party in 1929. He worked as a journalist for ..
Pierre Broué
Pierre Broué (1926 – July 26 2005) was a French historian and Trotskyist. His work covers various topics including the history of the Bolshevik Party, the Spanish Revolution and biographical works on Leon Trotsky. The recent republication of Trotsky's Autobiography, "My Life", has a forewo..
Pierre Broussel
Pierre Broussel (ca. 1575-1654) was a councillor in the Parlement of Paris under Louis XIII and Louis XIV, and was eventually its president. He was a popular politician, in part due to his opposition to tax plans proposed by Cardinal Mazarin and his support for other legal reforms. Mazarin arrest..
Pierre Browne
Pierre Browne (born January 14, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian sprinter. External link *IAAF profile for [Pierre Browne] ..
Pierre Brunet
Pierre Brunet (June 28, 1902 – July 27, 1991) was a figure skater who competed for France. He was born in Paris, France. Pierre and his partner Andrée Joly are considered among the first notable pairs figure skating teams. They were the French national champions from 1924 until 1935, and w..
Pierre bulliard
Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (also Pierre Bulliard, * around 1742 in Aubepierre EN Barrois, strike Marne, † 26 September 1793 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist. Bulliard studied in Langres, afterwards in Clairvaux and in Paris. There he also practiced as a physician. Bull..
Pierre Bussières
Pierre Bussières, PC (born July 8 1939) is a former Canadian politician. Bussières was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1974 federal election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portneuf. He was re-elected in the 1979 election, this time from Charlesbourg. He was chairman o..
Pierre Buyoya
Pierre Buyoya Major Pierre Buyoya (b. 24 November 1949) is a Burundi politician who has ruled Burundi twice, from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003. In September of 1987, Buyoya led a military coup against the Second Republic of Burundi, led by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, and installed himself as ..
Pierre Cadieux
The Honourable Pierre H. Cadieux (born April 6 1948) is a lawyer and former Canadian politician. Born in Hudson, Quebec, Cadieux was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil, Quebec in the 1984 federal election that brought B..
Pierre Camara
Pierre Camara (born 10 September 1965 in Castres) is a retired French triple jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 1993 World Indoor Championships. Achievements Year Tournament Venue Result Extra 1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 11th Triple jump 1993 World Indoor Championships Lisbo..
Pierre Capretz
Pierre Jean Capretz is an educator and writer, noted for his audio-visual methods for teaching French. A graduate of the University of Paris, he began teaching French in 1949 at the University of Florida and joined the faculty of Yale University in 1956, eventually becoming Director of the Language ..
Pierre Cardin
For the Canadian Minister of Transport from 1940 to 1942, see Pierre Cardin (politician). Pierre Cardin is a fashion designer. He was born on July 7, 1922, near Venice, Italy, to French parents. He moved to Paris in 1945. There he studied architecture and worked with Paquin after the war. Work with..
Pierre Carey le Pelley
Pierre Carey le Pelley was Seigneur of Sark from 1849 to 1852. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre Carles
Pierre Carles (April 2, 1962 - ) French documentarist often compared to Michael Moore. He has used his documentaries to denonce the mainstream media which he accuses of having conflicts of interest. Filmography Attention danger travailEnfin pris?La sociologie est un sport de combat. Pierre Bourdie..
Pierre Carniti
Pierre Carniti (born September 25, 1936) is an Italian politician and trade unionist. He was general secretary of CISL, a major trade union federation, between 1979 and 1985. Carniti was president of the Parliamentary Commission on Poverty from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of the European Parliam..
Pierre Caroli
Pierre Caroli, born in 1480 in Rosay-en-Brie, deceased probably after 1545, was a French refugee and religious man. Had a Doctor in theology from Paris, and was receptive to the ideas of the Protestant Reformation. However, he entered in confrontation opened in John Calvin, central figure of the Fre..
Pierre Carreau
Pierre Carreau is a modern rheologist, the author of the model of Carreau fluid. He is currently teaching at École Polytechnique, Montréal. ..
Pierre Carron
Pierre Carron (born December 16, 1932) is a French sculptor and painter. Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre. Because of the German occupation, he was at a time the only student at the school. He then attended the École..
Pierre Cartellier
Pierre Cartellier (December 2, 1757 – June 12, 1831) was a French sculptor. Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Royale. During the French Revolution Cartellier was part of a team of..
Pierre Cartier
Pierre Cartier. Pierre Cartier (born in Sedan, France in 1932) is a mathematician - more specifically, a category theorist. He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris under Henri Cartan. Since his 1958 thesis on algebraic geometry he has worked in a number of fields. He is known for..
Pierre Cartier (jeweler)
Pierre Cartier (Born in 1878, died October 27 ,1964) was a jeweler. He was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Jacques Cartier and Louis Cartier. Pierre's grandfather, Louis-Francois Cartier had taken over the jewelery workshop of his teacher Adolphe Picard, in 1847, thereby found..
Pierre Casiraghi
Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi is the youngest child of HSH Princess Caroline of Monaco (now Princess of Hanover) and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi. He was born on September 5, 1987 at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo. He is named for his maternal great-grandfather, Princ..
Pierre Cauchon
Manuscript portrait of Bishop Pierre Cauchon at the trial of Joan of Arc. Coat of arms of the Bishop Cauchon Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371 in Rheims, d. December 1442 in Rouen), bishop of Beauvais. A strong partisan of English interests in France during the latter years of the Hundred Years' W..
Pierre Cerésole
The Swiss Pierre Cerésole (1897-1945) founded the Service Civil International (SCI) in 1920, an organisation that helped in the reconstruction after the war with the goal of achieving an atmosphere of brotherhood. Being a pacifist, he had refused to pay taxes that were used for the acquisition of a..
Pierre Certon
Pierre Certon (c1510-1520 – February 23, 1572) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late development of the French chanson. Contents 1 Life2 Music and influence3 External link..
Pierre Ceyrac
Pierre Ceyrac was a longstanding friend of Jean Marie Le Pen who served the French Front National Party first as a Deputy (1986) to the National Assembly of France, and then (1988) as a Member of the European Parliament. Ceyrac was a nephew of the former president of the CNPF (National Centre of Fr..
Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon is currently a director of the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France. Specifically, his major contribution to science involved discovering nuclear hormone receptors, revealing their structure and showing how they contribute to human physiolog..
Pierre Charles
-->Pierre Charles (June 30, 1954 – January 6, 2004) was Prime Minister of Dominica from 2000 to 2004. He was born in Grand Bay in Saint Patrick parish. A member of the Dominica Labour Party, he served in several cabinet posts including communication and works. While serving as foreign min..
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872, was a French physician, known for introducing the use of statistics in the field of medicine. He also became known for his research on tuberculosis and typhoid fever. ..
Pierre Charles Chesnelong
Pierre Charles Chesnelong (April 4, 1820-1894), was a French politician, born at Orthez in the départment of the Basses-Pyrénées. In the Second Empire In 1848, during the French uprising, he proclaimed himself a Republican; but, after the establishment of the Second Empire, he changed his views..
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Charles L'Enfant Pierre Charles L'Enfant (2 August 1754; Paris, France – 14 June 1825; Prince George's County, Maryland) was a French-born American architect and urban planner. L'Enfant designed the street plan of the Federal City in the United States, now known as Washington, D...
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
Pierre Charles Le Monnier (November 23, 1715 – May 31, 1799) was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier. Biography Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675-1757), also an astronomer, was professor of philosophy at the college d'Harcourt. His first ..
Pierre Charles Tattinger
Pierre Charles Tattinger was mayor of Paris for a time when it was occupied by German forces during World War II. Tattinger was a collaborator with the Nazi occupiers. In 1924, Tattinger founded the Jeunesses Patriotes (Patriotic Youths), a right-wing and Fascist-inspired group, recruited mostly fr..
Pierre Charron
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Pierre Chassang
Pierre Chassang, born in 1918, is an aikidoka holding 8th dan Takemusu Aiki Intercontinental and 6th dan Aikikai. First taught aikido by Tadashi Abe in 1952. On return to Japan of Abe in 1960, he was instrumental in the creation of the Association Culturelle Europeene d'Aikido. Studies wit..
Pierre Chauveau Medal
The Pierre Chauveau Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for a distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities other than Canadian literature and Canadian history". It is named in honour of Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau and is awarded bi-annually. The award consists of a sil..
Pierre Cherbit
Pierre Cherbit is a French artist/painter. His creations were rewarded in 2003 at the French Senate. A famous contemporary artist, his oil paintings give a forceful meaning to creation and emotion. His oeuvre is the highest testimony of creativity, art as an extraordinary legacy of hope, love, poetr..
Pierre Chevalier
Pierre Chevalier (1905 – 2001) was a well-known caver and mountaineer from France, with many alpine ascents and cave explorations to his credit. Chevalier is principally known for the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system over a twelve year period (1936 – 1947), which became the deepest..
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature..
Pierre Christin
Pierre Christin is a French comics creator and scripter born July 27, 1938 in Saint Mandé France. Biography After graduating from the Sorbonne Christin pursued graduate studies in political science and became a professor of French literature at the University of Salt Lake City, Utah. His first co..
Pierre Clastres
Pierre Clastres, (1934-1977), was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. He is best known for his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and his theory on stateless societies. This has led him to be included in the vast anarchist family, although his views were strictly scientific. In his most..
Pierre Claude François Daunou
Pierre Claude François Daunou Pierre Claude François Daunou (August 18, 1761 – June 20, 1840) was a French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire. Contents 1 Early career2 Directory3 Napoleon and Restauration4 Legacy5 References Early c..
Pierre Claude Nolin
Pierre Claude Nolin, LLL (born October 30, 1950) is a Canadian politician and Senator. Life before politics Nolin was born in Montreal, Quebec, and attended the University of Ottawa. He received a Degree in Law in 1975. In 1976, Nolin married Camille Desjardins. He has three children—Simon..
Pierre Clément
Pierre Clément was an Algerian priest. He is credited with creating the clementine fruit. ..
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 28 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his mo..
Pierre Clergue
Pierre Clergue was a priest in the village of Montaillou, France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. He is the central figure in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's book Montaillou a pioneering work of microhistory. Since then he has appeared in a number of other histories as well as the v..
Pierre Clostermann
Pierre Clostermann, DFC and bar (February 28 1921 – March 22 2006) was a French pilot, flying ace, author, engineer, politician, and sport fisherman. Born in Brazil and a graduate of Ryan College in Los Angeles, California, Clostermann joined the [[Armée_de_l'Air_(Part_II:_Fighting_for_Free..
Pierre Cochereau
Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau (July 9, 1924–March 5, 1984), was a French organist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue. Contents 1 Biography2 Compositions2.1 Organ Solo2.2 Organ with Other Instruments2.3 Works for Choir2.4 Chamber Music3 Bibliography4&..
Pierre Contant d'Ivry
Pierre Contant d'Ivry (Ivry-sur-Seine, 11 May 1698–Paris 1 October 1777 was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo style and in the Goût Grec phase of early Neoclassicism. An Architecte du Roi from 1728, Pierre Contant d'Ivry spent his career working for the F..
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606–October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly 40 years. French literature Frenc..
Pierre Cossette
Pierre Cossette (b. Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada on December 15, 1923) is a TV executive producer and Broadway producer who worked on several of the Grammy Award shows. ..
Pierre Coupey
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Pierre Crozat
Pierre Crozat (1661-1740) was a French art collector and brother of Antoine Crozat. Crozat was born in Toulouse to a family of prominent French financiers and collectors. He became treasurer to the king in Paris, and gradually acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and objets d'art. Betw..
Pierre Cruzatte
--> Private Pierre Cruzatte was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He was of French and Omaha tribe Indian extraction. He enlisted with Lewis and Clark on May 16, 1804, at St. Charles, Missouri. Cruzatte had formerly been a trader on the Missouri River for the Chouteau fur interests. He c..
Pierre Cuillier-Perron
Pierre Cuillier-Perron (1755-1834), French military adventurer in India, whose name was originally Pierre Cuillier, was born at Château du Loire in France, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1780 he went out to India as a sailor on a French frigate, deserted on the Malabar coast, and made his way to ..
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859, Paris – April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist and a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. Together with his Polish-French wife, Marie, Pierre was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903:..
Pierre Cuypers
Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers (Roermond, The Netherlands; May 16 1827 – March 3, 1921) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Dutch central station (1881-1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876-1885), both in Amsterdam. More representative for his oeuvre, ho..
Pierre d'Ailly
Pierre d'Ailly (in Latin, Petrus Aliacensis, Petrus de Alliaco) (1350-1420) was a French theologian and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was born in Compiègne. He was chancellor of the University of Paris from 1385 to 1395. He was involved in the effort to end the Great Schism by means of an ec..
Pierre d'Aubusson
Pierre d'Aubusson (1423 - 1503) was a Grand Master of the order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller), and a zealous opponent of the Turks. He belonged to a noble French family, and early devoted himself to the career of a soldier in the service of the emperor Sigismund. Under the archd..
Pierre d'Hozier
Pierre d'Hozier, seigneur de la Garde (July 10, 1592 - December 1, 1660), French genealogist, was born at Marseille. In 1616 he entered upon some very extensive researches into the genealogy of the noble families of the kingdom, in which work he was aided by his prodigious memory for dates, names a..
Pierre Dac
Pierre Dac (August 15 1893-February 9 1975) was a French humorist and Resistance leader. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. During the German occupation of France in World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of Radio Londre. ..
Pierre Dagenais
Pierre Dagenais (Born March 4, 1978 in Blainville, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Position: Left / Right wingShoots: LeftHeight: 6 ft 3 inWeight: 209 lbs Contents 1 Career History1.1 QMJHL (1995-1998)1.2 AHL (1998-2000)1.3 New Jersey Devils (2000-2001)1..
Pierre Daniel Huet
Pierre Daniel Huet (February 8, 1630–January 26, 1721) was a French churchman and scholar, Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches. P.D. Huetius He was born at Caen in 1630, and educated at the Jesuit school there. He also received lessons from a Protestant pas..
Pierre Daninos
Pierre Daninos (May 26 1913 - January 7 2005) was a French writer and humorist. He wrote Les carnets du Major Thompson, which was published in 1954. Many sequels followed. Like the original, they pretended to be the observations of a retired British officer living in France. They were witty coll..
Pierre Danon
Pierre Danon (born 1956) is a French senior corporate executive director, presently as an advisor toJPMorgan and as Chairman of Eircom Danon undertook a degree in civil engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, a masters in law degree from the Faculte de Droit Paris II Assas, and..
Pierre Dansereau
Pierre Dansereau (born October 5, 1911) is a Canadian ecologist and is known as one of the "fathers of ecology". Born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal), he received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.A.) in 1936 and a PH.d. in Science in 1939 from the University of Geneva. From 19..
Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill (March 8, 1900 - January 14, 1975) was a French investment banker. Born Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill (1871-1952), Chairman of Lazard Frères. He followed in his father's footsteps and in 1927 b..
Pierre Degeyter
--> Pierre Chretien Degeyter (Ghent, 8 October 1848–1932) was a Belgian-born socialist, songwriter, and woodcarver. He wrote the music for the International Workingmen's Association anthem, The Internationale, poem written by Eugène Edine Pottier during the Paris Commune. The song is still..
Pierre Délèze
Pierre Délèze (born August 25, 1958 in Nendaz, Valais) is a former Swiss middle distance runner who set a national record of 3:31.75 min when he won the 1500 m race at the meeting in Zurich in 1985. He also set a national record over the Mile in 3:50.38 min in Koblenz in 1982. Délèze participat..
Pierre Deligne
Pierre Deligne, March 2005 Pierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is known for fundamental work on the Weil conjectures, leading finally to a complete proof in 1973. He was born in Brussels. After completing a doctorate, he worked with Alexander Grothendieck at ..
Pierre Deniker
Pierre Deniker (born 1917) was involved in the introduction of chlorpromazine (Thorazine) the first antipsychotic used in the treatment of schizophrenia, in the 1950's. Thorazine had been used in surgical procedures peri-operatively as an anti-nausea medication in France. Patients were noted to be l..
Pierre Denys de Montfort
Pierre Dénys de Montfort (1766 – 1820) was a French naturalist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the Giant Squid Archeteuthis, which was thought to be an old wives' tale, and for which he was long dismissed. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an ..
Pierre Desloges
Born in 1747 in the Touraine region of France, Pierre Desloges moved to Paris as a young man, where he became a bookbinder and upholsterer. He was deafened at age seven from smallpox, but did not learn to sign until he was twenty-seven, when he was taught by a deaf Italian. In 1779, he wrote what m..
Pierre Desmaiseaux
Pierre Desmaiseaux (born around 1673 in Saillat, France; died July 11, 1745) was a French writer. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Pierre Bayle gave him an introduction ..
Pierre Desproges
--> Pierre Desproges (May 9, 1939 - April 18, 1988) was a French humorist. He was famous for his elaborate, eloquent and above all, virulent diatribes criticizing anything and everything. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to himself, he made no significant achievements before th..
Pierre de Bané
The Honourable Pierre de Bané, PC, QC (born August 2 1938) is a Canadian Senator. He was the first person of Arab descent to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons in Matane and next Matapédia—Matane, and is a former member of the Canadian Cabinet. De Bané was born in Haifa, Palestine to..
Pierre de Bérulle
Pierre de Bérulle (February 4, 1575 - October 2, 1629) was a French cardinal and statesman, one of the most important mystics of the 17th century in France, and founder of the French school of spirituality, who could count among his friends and disciples St. Vincent de Paul and St. Francis de Sales..
Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard
Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard (1540 - 1562), French poet, was born in Datiphin, a scion of the house of Bayard, grandson of Chevalier de Bayard. His name is inseparably connected with Mary, Queen of Scots, for whom he conceived an insane passion. From the service of the Constable Montmorency, Ch..
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur (and abbé) de Brantôme (c. 1540 – July 15, 1614) was a French historian and biographer. He was born in Perigord, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and maternal grandmother were both attached to the court of Marguerite de Valois, on whose dea..
Pierre de Bréville
Pierre de Bréville (1861-1949) was a French composer. He studied with César Franck among others. He is perhaps best known for his songs, but he also wrote much chamber and vocal music, and an opera, Eros vainqueue. His music was influenced by Franck, Chausson, Magnard and Debussy. ..
Pierre de Castelnau
Pierre de Castelnau (d. January 15, 1208), French ecclesiastic, was born in the diocese of Montpellier. In 1199 he was archdeacon of Maguelonne, and was appointed by Pope Innocent III as one of the legates for the suppression of heresy in Languedoc. In 1202, when a monk in the Cistercian abbey of ..
Pierre de Caters
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Pierre de Coubertin
His statue at the Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta Pierre de Coubertin (January 1, 1863 – September 2, 1937), born as Pierre de Frédy, was a French pedagogue and historian, but is best known as the founder of the modern Olympic Games. Born in Paris into an aristocratic family, the thi..
Pierre de Coubertin medal
The Pierre de Coubertin medal (also known as the De Coubertin medal or the True Spirit of Sportsmanship medal) is a special medal given by the International Olympic Committee to those athletes that demonstrate the spirit of sportsmanship in Olympic events. The medal was named in honor of Pierre de C..
Pierre de Decker
Pierre Jacques François de Decker (Zele 1812 - 4 January 1891) was a Belgian statesman and author. He was educated at a Jesuit school, studied law at Paris, and became a journalist on the staff of the Revue de Bruxelles. In 1839 he was elected to the Belgian lower chamber, where he gained a great ..
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat (pronounced Fair-mah's) (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, southwestern France, and a mathematician who is given credit for his contribution towards the development of modern calculus. With his insight..
Pierre de Jarric
Pierre de Jarric (1566-March 2, 1617) was a French Catholic missionary writer from Toulouse. Jarric entered the Society of Jesus on December 8, 1582, and taught philosophy and moral theology at Bordeaux for many years. Although he desired to join the missionaries of his order, his wish was not fulf..
Pierre de Jaumont
The Pierre de Jaumont (lit. "stone of Jaumont") is a limestone found in Malancourt-la-Montagne, part of the commune of Montois-la-Montagne, in Lorraine, France. Jaumont is the shorthand for "Jaune-Montagne" i.e. the "Yellow Mountain". The stone is lovingly called "sunny stone" by locals who enjoy t..
Pierre de Larivey
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Pierre de la Broce
Pierre de la Broce (Sometimes spelled as Pierre de Brosse) (d. June 30, 1278) was a royal favorite and councilor during the early part of the reign of Philip III of France. De la Broce was from a family of petty nobility in Touraine, and was a minor household official for Louis IX. After Louis' dea..
Pierre de La Rue
Pierre de La Rue (c.1452 – November 20, 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential exponents of the Netherlands po..
Pierre de Manchicourt
Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510 – October 5, 1564) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was born in Béthune and died in Madrid. Little is known of his early life other than that he was a choirboy at Arras in 1525; later in life he had a succession of posts in Arras, Tou..
Pierre de Marca
Pierre de Marca (January 24, 1594–June 29, 1662) was a French prelate, bishop and historian born at Gan in Béarn of a family distinguished in the magistracy. His family was known among judicial circles in the 16th century, and maintained the Roman Catholic faith after the official introduct..
Pierre de Marivaux
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Pierre de Monte
Fra Pietro del Monte was an Italian Grandmaster who succeed La Valette. He continued the construction of Valletta. One of his contributions to the Military History of Malta was the building of Del Monte Gate which was eventually demolished and replaced by the Victoria Gate. ..
Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan
Pierre de Montesquiou, comte d'Artagnan and later comte de Montesquiou (1640 – 12 August 1725) was a French soldier and Marshal of France. He was the fourth son of Henri I de Montesquiou, seigneur d'Artagnan by his wife Jeanne, daughter of Jean de Gassion, and first cousin to Charles de Batz..
Pierre de Polignac
Prince Pierre Grimaldi, duc de Valentinois, comte de Polignac (born Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac) (24 October 1895 – 10 November 1964), was son of Count Maxence de Polignac (1857-1936) and his Mexican-born Spanish wife, Susana de la Torre y Mier (1858-1913). H..
Pierre De Reeder
Pierre de Reeder is the bassist for Rilo Kiley. He attended the same high school as Blake Sennett and joined the band in 1998. When not playing with Rilo Kiley, Pierre works on his solo project. He has a daughter named Sophia Skye de Reeder, who was born November 26, 2001. External links [Ri..
Pierre de Ronsard
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Pierre de Rostegny
Pierre de Rostegny, Lord of De Lancre, aka De Lancre (1553 - 1631) was a French jurist. In 1582 he was named judge in Bordeaux, and in 1608 King Henry IV of France commanded him to put an end to the practice of witchcraft in Labourd, in the French part of the Basque Country, where in three years he..
Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville
Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville (May 10, 1752 - April 23, 1821), was a French general. After service in the colonies, he married a wealthy Creole, and returning to France purchased the post of lieutenant of the Swiss guard of the count of Provence. During the Revolution he was named lieuten..
Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes
Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes (d. 1688), a captain in the French army arrived at Quebec in 1685 and the following year led a mission to chase the English from Hudson Bay.Among his officers were three Le Moyne brothers; Pierre, Jacques and Paul. They were divided into three groups and headed ..
Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson
Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson could refer to: Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson, 18th century French politician.Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson, Vicomte de Mouzay, Governor of New France (1658 – 1651). This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associat..
Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson (Governor)
Not to be confused with Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson, 18th Century French politician Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson, Vicomte de Mouzay (1625 – probably in 1709) was the French governor of New France from 1658 to 1661. External links [Biography at the Dictionary of Ca..
Pierre Dreyfus
Pierre Dreyfus (November 18, 1907 - 1994) is a French businessman. He was the vice-president of the Renault (1948-), and besides the CEO of Renault (1955-1975). External links http://www.humanite.fr/journal/1994-12-27/1994-12-27-714952http://www.autonews.com/files/euroauto/inductees/2006dreyfus.ht..
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Pierre Dubois
Pierre Dubois (c. 1250-c. 1312), French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views. He was known to Jean du Tillet in the 16th, and to Pierre Dupuy in the 17th century, but remained practically forgotten until the..
Pierre Dubois Davaugour
Baron Pierre Dubois Davaugour (d. 24 July 1664) was the French governor of New France from 1661 to 1663. External links [Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online] ..
Pierre Dubuc
Pierre Dubuc (born May 25, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is the director and editor of L'aut'journal, a progressive monthly paper. He is one of the founders of SPQ Libre, a left-wing political club within the Parti Québécois. Contents 1 Biography2 Bibliography3 See also4 Exte..
Pierre Ducasse
Pierre Ducasse (born August 18, 1972), a Canadian politician, is a prominent New Democratic Party (NDP) activist. He grew up in Sept-Îles, Quebec, and studied at Université Laval. A party member since age 17, he was appointed interim vice-president of the federal party in 2000, and was elected to..
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts
Pierre Dugua, the Sieur de Mons, (c.1558 - 1628) was a merchant, explorer and colonizer. He was born in Royan, France and had a great influence over the first two decades of the 17th century. He travelled to northeastern North America for the first time in 1599 with Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit. In ..
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand
Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand (21 February 1675 – 7 June 1736) was a Canadian who commanded several areas in North America colonized by France in the early 18th Century, rising to become the fourth governor of the French colony of Louisiana. As a French military officer, Dugué held a successi..
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) French physicist and philosopher of science. At 11 he entered the College Stanislavs and in 1884 he published his first paper which was on electrochemical cells. Contents 1 Philosophy2 Other works3 Bibliography4&n..
Pierre Dumage
Pierre Dumage (or du Mage) (ca. 1674-1751) was a French organist of the Baroque period. His first music teacher was most likely his father, the cathedral organist of Beauvais. When he was 20 years old, Dumage settled in Paris and studied under Louis Marchand. There he also met Nicolas Lebègue. At..
Pierre DuMaine
Styles of Pierre DuMaine Reference style The Most Reverend Spoken style Your Excellency Religious style Monsignor Posthumous style not applicable Roland Pierre DuMaine (b. August 2, 1931) is an American Roman Catholic bishop. He was the Bishop of San Jose in California for the fir..
Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley
Vice-Admiral Count Pierre-Etienne-René-Marie Dumanoir Le Pelley (1770-1829) was a French Navy officer, best known for commanding the vanguard of the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. He was made contre-amiral on November 21, 1799, commanding a division of the squadron of Brest. In 1805, he..
Pierre Dupasquier
Pierre Dupasquier is the head of Michelin's Competition Department. Born in France, he spent his early life as a pilot with the French Air Force, but was hired by Michelin's research division in 1962. Five years later, he switched to a representative role in selling Michelin tires to road car compa..
Pierre Dupong
Pierre Dupong (1885-11-01 - 1953-12-23) was a Luxembourgian politician and statesman. He was the sixteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for sixteen years, from 1937-11-05 until his death, on 1953-12-23. Between 1940 and 1944, Dupong led the government in exile, after Luxembourg had been ..
Pierre DuPont
Pierre DuPont may refer to: Pierre Dupont (1821-1870), songwriterPierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), entrepreneurPierre S. du Pont, IV (born 1935), lawyer and Governor of Delaware This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ..
Pierre Dupont
Pierre Dupont (April 23, 1821 - July 24, 1870), French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born at Lyon. His parents both died before he was five years old, and he was brought up in the country by his godfather, a village priest. He was educated at the seminary of L'Argentire, and was afterwa..
Pierre Dupont de l'Étang
Pierre-Antoine, comte Dupont de l'Étang (1765-1840) was a French general of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as a political figure of the Bourbon Restoration. Contents 1 Life1.1 Revolutionary Wars1.2 Napoleonic Wars1.3 Disgrace and Bourbon Restoration2&nb..
Pierre Dupuy
Pierre Dupuy, otherwise known as Puteanus (November 27, 1582 - December 14, 1651) was a French scholar. He was born at Agen (Lot-et-Garonne). In 1615 he was commissioned by Mathieu Molé, first president of the parlement of Paris, to draw up an inventory of the documents which constituted what at ..
Pierre Dupuy (Canadian diplomat)
Pierre Dupuy CC (1896 — May 21, 1969) was a Canadian diplomat. Born in Montreal, he studied law and international law at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1922 he joined the department of External Affairs working in Paris. During World War II he reported back to th..
Pierre Dusart
Pierre Dusart is a French mathematician at the Université de Limoges who specializes in number theory. External links [Résumé and thesis: Autour de la fonction qui compte le nombre de nombres premiers] (French)["The kth prime is greater than k(ln k + ln ln k-1) for k>=2".] Ma..
Pierre du Calvet
Pierre Du Calvet, (1735 – March 1786), born of a French Huguenot family, was a wealthy merchant who lived in Quebec, Canada. He proposed legal and constitutional reforms, multiplied opened letters, memoirs and lawsuit, until he was thrown in prison by governor Haldimand, along with Fleury Mes..
Pierre du Ryer
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Pierre Edmond Boissier
Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885) was a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician. The standard botanical author abbreviation Boiss. is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear on this list. ..
Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort
Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (born September 17, 1814 at Châteauroux; died July 29, 1892 in Paris), was a French writer and politician. He entered the civil service after the completion of his education at the École Polytechnique. He was a railway expert, becoming secretary-general of the Rai..
Pierre Edouard Frere
Pierre Edouard Frere (1819-1886), French painter, studied under Hippolyte Delaroche, entered the école des Beaux-Arts in 1836 and exhibited first at the Salon in 1843. The marked sentimental tendency of his art makes us wonder at John Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frere's work the dep..
Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger
Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí (Paris, November 4, 1902; Salvador, Brazil, February 11, 1996) was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo (Yoruba priest) who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-..
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (disambiguation)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada. Pierre Elliott Trudeau may refer to: Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMount Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, CanadaTrudeau (film), a 2002 CBC television miniser..
Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School
Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School (commonly known as PETHS or PET) is a public, French-immersion secondary School in Markham, Ontario, Canada, named after former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It opened in September 2003. External links [Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School ..
Pierre Émile Levasseur
Pierre Émile Levasseur (December 8, 1828 - 1911), was a French economist. He was born and educated in Paris, France. He began teaching in the lycée at Alençon in 1852, and in 1857 became professor of rhetoric at Besançon. He returned to Paris to become professor at the lycée Saint Louis, and ..
Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
Pierre-Emmanuel-Albert, Baron du Casse (also Ducasse, 1813-1893) was a French soldier and military historian born at Bourges on the 16th of November 1813. He is best known for being the first editor of the correspondence of Napoleon I. In 1849 he became aide-de-camp to Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-k..
Pierre Etchebaster
Pierre Etchebaster (December 8, 1893 - March 24, 1980) is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis (in France jeu de paume), the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis (which has usurped the name "tennis"), is descended. Born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France,..
Pierre Étienne Flandin
Pierre Étienne Flandin, French politician Pierre Étienne Flandin (April 12, 1889 at Paris, France-June 13, 1958 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD), and Prime Minister of France from..
Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont
Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont (July 18, 1759 - September 29, 1829), French political writer, was born at Geneva, of which his family had been citizens of good repute from the days of Calvin. He was educated for the ministry at the college of Geneva, and in 1781 was chosen one of the pastors of the c..
Pierre et Gilles
Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, are gay French artistic and romantic partners. They produce highly stylized photographs, building their own sets and costumes as well as retouching the photographs. Their work often features images from popular culture, gay culture including porn..
Pierre Eugene du Simitiere
Pierre Eugene du Simitiere (1736? - October 1784) was a philosopher, member of the American Philosophical Society, naturalist, patriot, and portrait painter. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland and died in Philadelphia, the United States. He suggested adoption of the US motto E pluribus unum (Out o..
Pierre Even
Pierre Even (born 4th December 1946 in Wiesbaden) is a Luxembourgian composer. Descendant of the Even family from Beaufort (Luxembourg) and Metz (France). He studied 1959-65 piano and composition in Wiesbaden with Karl-Wilhelm Brühl, and 1969-73 religious music in Mainz with Diethard Hellmann. S..
Pierre F. Patricio
Pierre F. Patricio was born in the Philippines in February 20, 1960. He is a Filipino self-taught artist who already took an interest in art at the age of five. His teachers discovered his talent during the secondary grade where he won an on-the-spot art contest. Although his parents recognized his ..
Pierre Fageolle
Pierre Fageolle is a French journalist and songwriter. Internationally, he is perhaps most well-known for writing the book "Cosmos 1999: L'épopée de la blancheur" (DLM Editions, Paris: 1996), a highly-acclaimed socio-cultural analysis of Gerry Anderson's TV-series [[Space: 1999]]. He also co-wr..
Pierre Falardeau
Pierre Falardeau (born on December 12, 1946 in Montreal) is a Quebec film and documentary director, intellectual, pamphleteer and noted radical activist for Quebec independence. Contents 1 Profile2 Style3 Filmography4 Bibliography5 See also6 External link Profile Fa..
Pierre Fatou
Pierre Fatou was the first to define the Mandelbrot set. Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou (28 February 1878, Lorient - 10 August 1929, Pornichet) was a French mathematician working in the field of complex analytic dynamics. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1898 to study mathemati..
Pierre Fauchard
Pierre Fauchard (born 1678 in Brittany; died March 22 1761 in Paris) was a significant French dentist. Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon, is credited with being the "father of modem dentistry." His book, The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise on Teeth. describes the basic oral anatomy and function, signs..
Pierre Fédida
Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) was a French psychoanalyst. Biography He studied from Gilles Deleuze. ..
Pierre Fevrier
Pierre Février (1696 – 1760) was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. Février lived in Paris and served as titular organist of two churches in the Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church and the Saint Roch. Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was am..
Pierre Flotte
Pierre FLOTE (also written Flotte) (Languedoc, second half of the XIIIth century – Kortrijk, July 11, 1302) was a French legalist, Chancellor and keeper of the seals of Philip IV the Fair. He was taught Roman law at the University of Montpellier, and considered as one of the best lawyers and l..
Pierre Foldes
The French surgeon, of Hungarian origin, Pierre Foldes is the inventor, in collaboration with the urologist Jean-Antoine Robein, of a technique of repair of the excision, which solves the urologic problems and obstetrics related to this one, and also allows the women excized to have pleasure of sexu..
Pierre Fontaine
Pierre Fontaine may refer to any of the following people: Pierre Fontaine (c.1380 – c.1450); a French composer of the Burgundian schoolPierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853); neoclassical French architect This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associ..
Pierre Fouquier
Pierre Éloy Fouquier (born 26 July1776, Maissemy; died 1850, Paris) was a physician and professor of medicine. In addition to being doctor for Charles X of France and Louis-Philippe of France, Fouquier was also a member of the Académie de Médecine. The Fouquieria genus of plant life is named in..
Pierre Fourmanoir
Pierre Fourmanoir (1924- present) is a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia. He has described many new species of fish including several sharks. ..
Pierre Fournier
Pierre Fournier (June 24, 1906 – January 8, 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general. His mother taught him to play the piano, but he had a mild cas..
Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione
Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione (October 21, 1757 – June 12, 1816) was a French General, marshal of France and protagonist of both the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Biography Born in Paris to an..
Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal (22 November, 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born French colonial governor in the North-America. He was born November 22, 1698 to the governor of New France, Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil and his wife Louise-Élisabeth de Joybert d..
Pierre François Lacenaire
Pierre François Lacenaire (born 1800 in Lyon; died 1836) was a famous French poet and murderer. He is portrayed in the epic Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), a film by Marcel Carné. There is also a Hollywood film called Lacenaire, all about him. Dostoevsky read somewhere about La..
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days, from 1794 onwards, that it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities..
Pierre François le Courayer
Pierre François le Courayer (November 17, 1681 - October 17, 1776), was a French Catholic theological writer. Pierre François le Courayer was born at Rouen. While canon regular and librarian of the abbey of St Genevieve at Paris, he conducted a correspondence with Archbishop William Wake on the s..
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (August 10 1780 - March 17 1845), was a French entomologist. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General and aide de campe to Napoleon. He amassed vast collections of Coleoptera some even collected on the battlefi..
Pierre François Tissot
Pierre François Tissot (March 20, 1768 - April 7, 1854) was a French man of letters and politician. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early life1.2 Revolution1.3 Empire1.4 Restoration and July Monarchy2 References Biography Early life He was born in Versailles to a native of..
Pierre François Verhulst
Pierre Francois Verhulst Pierre François Verhulst (October 28, 1804 - February 15, 1849, Brussels, Belgium) was a mathematician and a doctor in number theory from the University of Ghent in 1825. Verhulst published in 1838 the logistic demographic model: [N'(t) = r N(t) \left(1 - \frac ..
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (29 October 1682 - 1 February 1761) was a French Jesuit traveller and historian distinguished as the first historian of New France. He was born at St Quentin. At the age of sixteen he entered the Society of Jesus; and at the age of twenty-three was sent to Cana..
Pierre François Xavier de Ram
Pierre François Xavier de Ram (September 2, 1804-May 14, 1865), Belgian churchman and historian, was born at Louvain. De Ram entered the seminary at Mechlin, where he was ordained in 1827. He was appointed professor of poetry at the seminary of Malines, and archiviste of the diocese. During the ..
Pierre Franey
Pierre Franey (1921-October 15, 1996) is known for his 60 Minute Gourmet column for the New York Times. Franey was grew up in Northern Burgandy France. He stayed in the United States at the outbreak of World War II when he was working at the French Pavillion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. ..
Pierre Frank
Pierre Frank (born 24 October 1905, Paris – died 18 April 1984, Paris) was a French Trotskyist leader. Frank was a member of the Communist League, the French Trotskyist organisation, in the 1930s. He was a part of the faction within the movement led by Raymond Molinier that remained inside the S..
Pierre Frédéric Sarrus
Pierre Frédéric Sarrus (10 March 1798, Saint-Affrique - 20 November 1861) was a French mathematician. Sarrus numbers are pseudoprimes to base 2. Sarrus' scheme provides an easy-to-remember method of working out the determinant of a 3-by-3 matrix (as illustrated in "cross product"). Professor at ..
Pierre Fresnay
Pierre Fresnay (April 4, 1897 - January 9, 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France, he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film. Fresnay performed on stage and became one of the most important f..
Pierre Frieden
Pierre Frieden (1892-10-28 - 1959-02-23) was a Luxembourgian politician and writer. He was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven months, from 1958-03-29 until his death, on 1959-02-23. |- style="text-align: center;" Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine • ..
Pierre Frogier
Pierre Frogier (born November 16 1950) is a French politician, who was President of the Government of New Caledonia from 2001 to 2004. He was born in Nouméa. He was elected President of that collectivity by the territorial Congress (Congrès du territoire) on April 5, 2001, reelected in November ..
Pierre Frolla
Pierre Frolla (born february 14, 1975) is a Monegasque free-diver. ..
Pierre Fulke
Pierre Fulke (born February 21, 1971 in Nyköping) is a Swedish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He turned professional in 1989. In 1991 and 1992 he played on the second tier Challenge Tour, winning twice in the latter year to qualify for membership of the main tour, which he has retained sin..
Pierre Gadonneix
Pierre Gadonneix (born in 1943) is a French businessman. He is the current CEO of EDF. ..
Pierre Gagnaire
Pierre Gagnaire is a well known French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris. The restaurant is considered one of the finest in France, specializing in 'Modern French' cuisine. Gagnaire is also Head Chef of Sketch in London. In 200..
Pierre Galle
Pierre Galle, born january 13rd, 1945, in Calais (France), was a basketball player and is a basketball coach. Called “the Brain” by the daily newspaper L'Équipe, he was a particularly skilful left-handed leader and a long distance shooter. Very lucid guard and of a great clearness, his reading ..
Pierre Gandon
Pierre Gandon was an French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born January 20 1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) and died July 23 1990. Youth His father Gustave Gandon was himself an engraver at the Institut de gravure of Paris and designed stamps for some countries and only o..
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Chamette (1763 - April 13, 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early activities1.2 Presidency of the Commune1.3 Downfall2 Legacy3 References Biography Early activities Born ..
Pierre Gassendi
Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. The Moon's Gassendi crater is named after him. Contents 1 Biography2 Writings3 References4..
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye (b December 26, 1714 – d September 13, 1755), an explorer and fur trader, was born at Sorel, New France. The second oldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye spent two years in the colonial regular troops as a cadet before he accompanied hi..
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, he was part of the Ancien Régime whose family of aristocrats came from the Anjou area of France. At 22 ..
Pierre Gauvreau
Pierre Gauvreau (born 23 August 1922 in Montreal) is a Québécois painter who has also worked in film and television productions. Contents 1 Biography2 Awards and recognition3 See also4 External link Biography He studied at l'École des beaux-arts de Montréal, which is tod..
Pierre Gaxotte
Pierre Gaxotte (january 29, 1895- november 21, 1982) was a French historian. Biography Gaxotte was born in Revigny-sur-Ornain, Lorraine. He is famous for his critical vision of the French Revolution, notably in The French Revolution (1928), and for his rehabilitation of the French 18th century (Lo..
Pierre Gemayel
Pierre Gemayel Sheikh Pierre Gemayel (last name also spelt Jumail or Jumayyil, Sheikh is an honorific title in Arab countries, Arabic الشيخ بيار الجميّل), was a Lebanese political leader. He is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party),..
Pierre Gendron
Pierre Raoul Gendron CC (1916 – February 16, 1984) was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962. In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. ..
Pierre Georges
Pierre Georges (1919-1944), better known as Colonel Fabien, was among the two members of the French Communist Party who committed the first assassinations on the brutal invading army in World War II (see Military history of France during World War II). Already by then many French communists had died..
Pierre Girard
Pierre Simon Girard (Caen, November 4, 1765 - Paris, November 30, 1836) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluids. Girard worked as an engineer at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He was in charge of planning and construction of the Amiens canal and the Ourcq canal...
Pierre Goldman
Pierre Goldman, (June 22 1944, Lyon, September 20 1979,Paris) was a French left-wing intellectual who engaged himself in illegalism and was assassinated mysteriously. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder. His half-brother J..
Pierre Goldschmidt
--> Mr. Pierre Goldschmidt retired June, 2005, as Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA), succeeded by Olli Heinonen. Mr. Goldschmidt is currently a researcher of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. IAEA is an..
Pierre Gouthière
Pierre Gouthière (1740 - 1806), French metal worker, was born at Troyes and went to Paris at an early age as the pupil of Martin Cour. During his brilliant career he executed a vast quantity of metal work of the utmost variety, the best of which was unsurpassed by any of his rivals in that great a..
Pierre Graber
Pierre Graber (December 6, 1908–July 19, 2003) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1970-1978). He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and after studying law in Neuchâtel and Vienna he became attorney-at-law in Lausanne. Active in the Social Democratic Party..
Pierre Granche
Système, at Namur metro station, Montreal Totem urbain / histoire en dentelles, McCord Museum (exterior), Montreal' Pierre Granche (1948-1997) was a French-Canadian sculptor. Having studied at the École de Beaux-Arts de Montréal and the Université de Vincen..
Pierre Grignard
Pierre Grignard was Mayor of Moresnet from December 7, 1918 – January 10, 1920. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre Gringore
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • &..
Pierre Grondin
Dr. Pierre Grondin was the first cardiac surgeon to perform a successful heart transplant in Canada, in May 1968 at the Montreal Heart Institute. After obtaining his doctor of medicine degree from the Université Laval in 1951, Dr. Pierre Grondin went on to obtain a specialist’s certificate in ca..
Pierre Gros
Pierre Gros (born May 7, 1939, Incheville, France) is a contemporary scholar of ancient Roman architecture and the Latin language, particularly the texts of the writer Vitruvius. He presently holds the post of Professor of Latin language and civilization at the Université de Provence. He is the a..
Pierre Guédron
Pierre Guédron, (c.1570 – c.1620), was the composer of one of the finest Air de cour Cessés mortels de soupirer, which is relatively unknown because it is not yet published in a modern practical edition for performance. Guédron's Est-ce Mars (1613) was especially popular and is known in vers..
Pierre Guérin de Tencin
Pierre Guérin de Tencin (22 August 1679 - 2 March 1758), French ecclesiastic, was archbishop of Embrun and Lyons, and a cardinal. His sister Claudine was a spur to his career. He was born at Grenoble. After studying with the Oratorians there he entered the Sorbonne, where he became prior in 1702,..
Pierre Guillaume
Pierre Guillaume was the founder of the book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the negationist publishing house of the same name. A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and P. Souyiri. ..
Pierre Guillaume Frederic le Play
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (April 11, 1806 - April 5, 1882 in Paris), was a French engineer, sociologist and economist, born at La Rivière-Saint Sauveur, a village near Honfleur (Calvados), the son of a custom-house official. He was educated at the École Polytechnique, and from there pa..
Pierre Guyaut
Pierre Gauyaut is a rock journalist from Belgium. External links [Personal page on RTBF's website] See also Punk rock in Belgium ..
Pierre Guyotat
Pierre Guyotat is a French writer. He was born in 1940 at Bourg-Argental. Contents 1 Biography2 Bibliography2.1 Biography2.2 Theatre2.3 Novels Biography In 1960, Guyotat wrote his first novel, Sur un cheval. He was called to Algeria in the same year. In 1962 he was found..
Pierre Gy
Pierre Maurice Gy (born July 25, 1924) is a chemist and statistician. Born Paris, France, to Felix and Clemence, Gy graduated in chemical engineering from the Paris School of Physics and Chemistry in 1946. On graduation, Gy worked as a chemical engineer for CMCF, Congo, before returning to Paris in..
Pierre H. Vincent
Pierre H. Vincent, PC (born April 2, 1955) is a tax lawyer and former Canadian politician. Vincent was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 electoral landslide that brought Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party to power. Vincent, the PC Member of Parliament for..
Pierre Hadot
Pierre Hadot (Paris, 1922) is a French philosopher, specialized in Ancient philosophy (in particular neo-platonism). He was director at the EHESS from 1964 to 1986, and has been named professor at the Collège de France in 1982. He has been one of the first author to introduce Wittgenstein's thought..
Pierre Hanon
Pierre Hanon was a footballer who played mainly for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the national team. He played in the match Belgium-Netherlands in 1964 with 10 fellows from the Anderlecht team after the substitution of goalkeeper Delhasse by Jean Trappeniers. Hanon signed to Anderlecht in 1945 as a young ..
Pierre Harmel
Pierre Charles José Marie Harmel (born March 16, 1911) was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat. Born in Uccle, he studied law at the University of Liège, where he obtained the title of Doctor in Law and Master in Social Sciences in 1933. During his studies, he was activ..
Pierre Harvey
Pierre Harvey (born March 24, 1957) is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing). Born in Rimouski, Quebec, he won three gold medals in cross country skiing in the 1979 Cana..
Pierre Haski
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Pierre Haski is a French journalist who, upon receiving the diary of Chinese schoolgirl Ma Yan by chance, broug..
Pierre Helyot
Pierre Helyot (1660-1716), Franciscan friar and historian, was born at Paris in January 1660, of supposed English ancestry. After spending his youth in study, he entered in his twenty-fourth year the convent of the third, order of St Francis, founded at Picpus, near Paris, by his uncle Jérhme, Hel..
Pierre Henri Hugoniot
Pierre Henri Hugoniot (1851–1887) was a French engineer, who formulated the Rankine-Hugoniot equation. ..
Pierre Henri Larcher
Pierre Henri Larcher (October 12, 1726–December 22, 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics. His (anonymous) translation of Chariton's Callirhoe (1763) marked him as an excellent Greek scholar..
Pierre Henri Raphanel
Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born May 27, 1961) is a former Formula One driver, who as of 2006 works as a driver and product specialist for Bugattihttp://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060204/news_lz1dd4bugatti.html. He participated in 17 Grands Prix, debuting on November 13, 1988, for Larrousse, Co..
Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry (born December 9, 1927 in Paris, France) is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music. Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, founded by Pierre Schaeffer. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symp..
Pierre Hérigone
Pierre Hérigone (Latinized as Petrus Herigonius) (1580-1643) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Of Basque origin, Hérigone taught in Paris for most of his life. He is the author of Cursus mathematicus, nova, brevi, et clara methodo demonstratus, per notas reales et universales, citra ..
Pierre Hermans
Lambertus Maria Petrus ("Pierre") Hermans (born May 16, 1953 in Vught, Noord-Brabant) is a former field hockey goalkeeper from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Hermans earned a total number of 86 ..
Pierre Howard
Pierre Howard (February 3 1943- ) was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia and was elected to two terms (1990 and 1994). Howard focused on critical issues concerning Georgia families throughout his political career (i.e. graduated licenses and zero tolerance for drinking and dr..
Pierre Huet
In 1972, Pierre Huet formed, along with Michel Hinton and Michel Leger, the popular group from Quebec, Beau Dommage. Pierre Huet was a songwriter. ..
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) is an acclaimed French artist who works in a variety of media, from film and video to public interventions. He trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and started his artistic career with the painters group Les Frères Ripoulin along with other Fren..
Pierre Hyacinthe Azais
Pierre Hyacinthe Azais (1766-1845) was a French philosopher. He was born at Sorze and died at Paris. He spent his early years as a teacher and a village organist. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he viewed it with favor, but was soon disgusted at the violence of its methods. A critical pamph..
Pierre Isabelle
Pierre Isabelle is a member of the Xerox Centre Europe in Grenoble. Isabelle was formerly the director of Université de Montréal-based RALI (Recherche appliquée en linguistique informatique). He is known for his position on bitexts, as he considers that existing translations contain more solutio..
Pierre Issa
Pierre Issa (born September 11, 1975, Germiston, South Africa) is a South African footballer. He played 43 times for South Africa since making his debut in November 15, 1997 against Germany. He is best known domestically for his spell with Watford in 2001/02. Signed by new manager Gianluca Vialli f..
Pierre J. Huss
Pierre John Huss (1903-?) was a journalist and author, best known as a war correspondent during World War II. Huss was for many years chief International News Service (INS) correspondent in Berlin. He was part of an overseas reporting staff assembled by Edward R. Murrow in March 1938 for what wa..
Pierre J. Thuot
Commander Pierre Joseph Thuot (pronounced THOO-it) was a NASA astronaut (1985-1995). He is currently the Associate Chairman in the Aerospace Engineering Department, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Contents 1 Personal2 Education3 Professional membership4 Hon..
Pierre Jaïs
Pierre Jaïs (born 1913, died 1988) was a famous French bridge player. With his regular partner Roger Trezel he was the winner of World team Olympiad in Turin 1960, Bermuda Bowl in Paris 1956, and World Open pairs Championship in Cannes 1962. He is one of 10 players who collected the Triple Crown of..
Pierre Janet
Pierre Marie Félix Janet, (May 30 1859 - February 24 1947) was a pioneering French psychiatrist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He studied under Jean-Martin Charcot. Sources [a short biography][bibliographic site][reading guide] Works of Pierre J..
Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls, or automata, to help his firm sell watches and mechanical birds. Constructed between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, hi..
Pierre Jay
Pierre Jay was the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York He graduated from Yale University in 1892, and was a member of Skull and Bones, one of the most well known of the secret societies based at Yale University. ..
Pierre Jeanneret
Contents 1 Brief Biography2 Pierre Jeanneret and Chandigarh3 Architecture4 See also Brief Biography Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) for about twe..
Pierre Jeannin
Pierre Jeannin (1540 - 1622) was a French statesman. He was born at Autun. A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bourges, he was an advocate at Dijon by 1569 and became councillor and then president of the parlement of Burgundy. He unsuccessfully opposed the massacre of St Bartholomew in hi..
Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges
Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Choudard-Desforges (1746-1806), French dramatist and man of letters, natural son of Dr. Antoine Petit, was born in Paris on the 15th of September 1746. He was educated at the College Mazarin and the College de Beauvais, and at his father's desire began the study of medicine. D..
Pierre Jean Beckx
Pierre Jean Beckx (February 8, 1795 - March 4, 1887), general of the Society of Jesus, was born at Sichem in Belgium, and entered the novitiate of the order at Hildesheim in 1819. His first important post was as procurator for the province of Austria, 1847; next year he became rector of the Jesui..
Pierre Jean David
Pierre-Jean David (March 12, 1788 -January 4, 1856), usually called David d'Angers, was a French sculptor. He was born at Angers. His father was a sculptor or a mason, but had gone into the army as a musketeer, fighting against the Chouans of La Vendée. He returned to his trade at the end of the ..
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor (1811 – 1882), Swiss geologist, was born at Friedrichsdorf, near Frankfurt, on the 13th of February 1811. He associated in early years with Louis Agassiz, studying palaeontology and glacial phenomena, and together with James David Forbes ascended the Jungfrau in 1841..
Pierre Jean George Cabanis
Pierre Jean George Cabanis (June 5, 1757 - May 5, 1808), was a French physiologist. He was born at Cosnac (Corrèze), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis (1723-1786), a lawyer and agronomist. At the age of ten, he attended the college of Brives, where he showed great aptitude for study, but his indep..
Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834-1895) was a French missionary, explorer and botanist. He was sent to China in 1867, serving first in Guangdong, then moving to Kunming, Yunnan, where he remained until his death. He was an avid plant collector, sending over 200,000 herbarium specimens back to Franc..
Pierre Jonckheer
Pierre Jonckheer is a Belgian politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium. He is a member of Ecolo, part of the European Greens. External link [Official website] (in French) ..
Pierre Joris
Pierre Joris, born in Ettelbrück, Luxembourg in 1946, is a poet and translator. He left Luxembourg at eighteen and since then has lived in the US, Great Britain, North Africa and France. In 1992 he returned to the Mid-Hudson valley and teaches in the Department of English at University at Albany. ..
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752 – September 20, 1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on birds and fish to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron. Bonnaterre is credited with identi..
Pierre Joseph Cambon
Pierre Joseph Cambon. Pierre Joseph Cambon (June 10, 1756 - February 15, 1820) was a French statesman. Biography Cambon was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant at Montpellier. In 1785, his father retired, leaving Pierre and his two brothers to run the business, but in 1788 Pierre entered pol..
Pierre Joseph Pelletier
Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788 – 1842) was a French chemist who did notable research work on vegetable alkaloids, and was the co-discoverer of quinine and strychnine. See also Joseph Bienaimé Caventou References [1910 New Catholic Dictionary] ..
Pierre Joubert
redirect[[Template:Portal]] Pierre Joubert (June 27, 1910 - January 13, 2002) was a French illustrator. He was closely associated with the creation of Scouting and the popular look of Boy Scouts in France and Belgium, comparable to the American artist Norman Rockwell. Pierre Joubert was born in Par..
Pierre Joxe
Pierre Joxe is a member of the Constitutional Council of France since 2001. He has been Defense Minister and Interior Minister of François Mitterrand. Current members of the Constitutional Council of France ..
Pierre Jules César Janssen
Jules Janssen took this photo of the French officers' Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs La France dirigible from his Meudon (France) astrophysic observatory in 1885. Pierre Jules César Janssen (February 22, 1824–December 23, 1907) was a French astronomer who in 1868 discovered how to obse..
Pierre Juneau
Pierre Juneau, PC , OC (born October 17, 1922) is a retired film and broadcast executive and one-time member of the Canadian Cabinet. He was born in Verdun, now part of Montreal, to a working class family. After graduating from the Université de Montréal, he studied at the University of Paris wh..
Pierre Juquin
Pierre Juquin (born February 22, 1930, in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French communist politician and trade unionist. Early life and PCF politics The son of an SNCF employee, he is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, and was a teacher of German at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux between 1959 and ..
Pierre Jurieu
Pierre Jurieu (1637 - January 11, 1713) was a French Protestant leader. He was born at Mer, in Orléanais, where his father was a Protestant pastor. He studied at Saumur and Sedan under his grandfather, Pierre Dumoulin, and under Leblanc de Beaulieu. After completing his studies in the Netherlands..
Pierre Kaffer
Pierre Kaffer (born November 7, 1976 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler) is a race driver from Germany, currently living in Switzerland. Career In, 1990 Kaffer started in Karting, moving in 1994 to Formula Ford, later Formula Opel and then from 1997 to 2001 in the German Formula 3 Championship. His bigge..
Pierre Karl Péladeau
Pierre Karl Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Media Inc. and the principal shareholder of parent company Quebecor Inc. He was educated in Montreal and Paris. He holds a degree in philosophy from Université du Québec à Montréal and a law degree from Université de Montréal. He was c..
Pierre Kartner
Pierre Kartner aka. Father Abraham Pierre Kartner is a Dutch musician who sings children's music under the alias Father Abraham. He was born on April 11, 1935 in Elst. Biography Pierre started his singing career at the age of eight, by winning a local festival. Together with the band Conny..
Pierre Klossowski
Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a French writer, translator and artist. Born in Paris in 1905, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on Marquis de Sade and Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by V..
Pierre Koenig
For the French general see Marie Pierre Koenig. Pierre Koenig (October 17, 1925 - April 4, 2004) was an American architect. Born in San Francisco, apprenticed under Raphael Soriano among others, and in private practice beginning in 1952, Koenig practiced mainly on the west coast and was most notab..
Pierre Kraehenbuehl
Pierre Kraehenbuehl has been the Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1 July 2002 and personal adviser to President Jakob Kellenberger since 2000. Born in 1966, he received a B.A. in political science and international relations. He joined the ICRC in 1991 and..
Pierre L. J. Vincent
Pierre Vincent is a co-founder and current Associate Director of Toronto, Ontario based Citizens for a Canadian Republic, a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the Canadian republican movement. The organization, founded in 2002, is the main group promoting Canadian republicanism. Bor..
Pierre Labric
Pierre Labric (born 1921) is a French organist and composer. Pierre Labric studied at the Paris Conservatory with Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé. Later, he studied organ with Jeanne Demessieux, whose complete organ works he recorded on LP. During Jeanne Demessieux's tenure as titular organist ..
Pierre Laclède
Pierre Laclède or Pierre Laclède Liguest (c.1724-1778) was a French fur trader, who, with his young assistant and "stepson" Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764. Laclède was sponsored by the New Orleans merchant Gilbert Antoine Maxent in 1763 to construct a trading post near the confluenc..
Pierre Laclede Honors College
The Pierre Laclede Honors College is the honors program for the University of Missouri-St. Louis. It was named in honor of the founder of the city of St. Louis. Located in a former convent on the university's South Campus, the program offers classes that typically focus on specific subjects in the H..
Pierre Lacroix
For the former Quebec Nordique and Hartford Whaler, see Pierre Lacroix (hockey player). Pierre Lacroix (born August 3, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is the former General Manager of the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League and who led them to two Stanley Cups during his tenure. He i..
Pierre Lacroix (hockey player)
For the General Manager of the Colorado Avalanche, see Pierre Lacroix. Pierre Lacroix (born April 11, 1959 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec) was a former professional ice hockey player who played 274 NHL games for the Quebec Nordiques and the Hartford Whalers. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre Laffitte
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Beguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed C..
Pierre Lagaillarde
Pierre Lagaillarde (Courbevoie, May 15, 1931) was a founder of the Organisation de l'Armée Secrète (OAS) French terrorist group, opposed to Algerian independence. A lawyer at Blida in Algeria, he was a reserve officer of the skydivers and was elected deputy of Alger. He took the presidency of the ..
Pierre Lallement
Pierre Lallement (born between August 30, 1843 and August 29, 1844; died August 29, 1891) was the inventor of the bicycle. As a 19-year-old maker of baby carriages in Nancy, France in 1862, Lallement saw someone ride by on a dandy horse, and was inspired to build one of his own, but with the add..
Pierre Lalonde
Pierre Lalonde is a singer and television host from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. English language shows include, "Music Hop", The Mad Dash and "Circus". He's sold out concerts for over three decades and sold countless records. External links [Pierre Lalonde] page at the Internet Movie Data..
Pierre Lambert
Pierre Lambert (born June 9, 1920) (real name Pierre Boussel) is a French Trotskyist leader. He is the central leader of the French Courant Communiste Internationaliste (CCI) which founded the Parti des Travailleurs. Lambert began his activity as a Trotskyist militant before the Second World War wh..
Pierre Lanfrey
Pierre Lanfrey (October 26, 1828 - 1877), French historian and politician, was born at Chambry (Savoie). His father had been one of Napoleon's officers. The son studied philosophy and history in Paris and wrote historical works of an anti-clerical and rationalizing tendency. These included: L'Eglis..
Pierre Langois
Pierre Langois is the drummer for Detroit Death Metal band The Black Dahlia Murder. After touring with the band on their co-headlining run with Throwdown and their European dates with Liar, The Black Dahlia Murder decided that he is the guy they want to join their group fulltime. The Black Dahlia..
Pierre Lapointe
Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian singer born in Lac St-Jean, Quebec. He won many prizes since his debut, featuring six Félix in 2005. Discography Pierre Lapointe (May 2004)La forêt des mal-aimés (March 2006) External links [http://www.pierrelapointe.com/] (official website) ..
Pierre Laporte
Pierre Laporte (February 25, 1921 - October 1970), was a Canadian politician who was assassinated by members of the terrorist group, the Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front). Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec. He was a journalist with Le Devoir newspaper from 1945 to..
Pierre Laporte Bridge
The Pierre Laporte Bridge was originally named the New Quebec Bridge and was supposed to be called Pont Frontenac until it was renamed in honour of Quebec Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte who was kidnapped and murdered during the October Crisis of 1970. The Pierre Laporte bridge is the longest main sp..
Pierre Lardinois
Pierre Lardinois (13 August 1924 - 16 July 1987) was a Dutch politician. In 1963 he was first elected member of Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, as representative of Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP). From 1963 to 1967 he was member of the European Parliament. He served as Ministe..
Pierre Laromiguière
Pierre Laromiguière (November 3, 1756–August 12, 1837) was a French philosopher. He was born at Livignac, and died in Paris. As professor of philosophy at the University of Toulouse, he was unsuccessful and incurred the displeasure of the French parliament by his thesis on the rights of pro..
Pierre Larouche
Pierre Larouche (born 16 November, 1955 in Taschereau, Quebec, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey forward who played in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens, Hartford Whalers, and New York Rangers. Larouche was drafted 8th overall by the Penguins in the 1974 NHL Amateur..
Pierre Larousse
The cover of the first Larousse French dictionary in 1856 Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817-January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Tou..
Pierre Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (November 20, 1762 - February 6, 1833) was a French entomologist. His works describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today. Latreille was born into a humble family of Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, and in 1778 entered the college Lemoine in Paris. He..
Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval, prime minister of Vichy France Pierre Laval (June 28, 1883 – October 15, 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government. For his role in Vichy France during World War II, he was found guilty of high tr..
Pierre La Mure
Pierre La Mure was a French author. He wrote the 1950 novel Moulin Rouge about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also wrote the book Beyond Desire about the life of Cecile and Felix Mendelssohn. ..
Pierre Lecomte du Noüy
Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (1883-1947). French Philosopher, descendant of the French dramatist Pierre Corneille & son of an authoress of many novels, one of which Amitié Amoureuse was translated into sixteen languages and ran for six hundred editions in France. Du Noüy believed that mankind should ha..
Pierre Lemieux
Pierre Lemieux Riding Glengarry—Prescott—Russell Political party: Conservative First elected: 2006 election Profession(s): Consultant, mechanical engineer Pierre Lemieux is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is the MP for the riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell in Canada's ..
Pierre Léonard Vander Linden
Pièrre Léonard Vander Linden (December 12, 1797 - April 5, 1831) was a Belgian entomologist. He was the author of Observations sur les Hyménoptères d’Europe de la famille des Fouisseurs (1827-29). ..
Pierre Leroux
Pierre Leroux (April 7, 1798 - April, 1871), French philosopher and political economist, was born at Bercy near Paris, the son of an artisan. His education was interrupted by the death of his father, which compelled him to support his mother and family. Having worked first as a mason and then as a ..
Pierre Lescot
Pierre Lescot (Paris c.1510 – Paris 1578) was a French architect active during the French Renaissance. Francois I took him into his service, and appointed him architect in charge of the building projects at the Louvre, which transformed the old château into the palace that we know. A project ..
Pierre Levegh
Pierre 'Levegh' (December 22, 1905 – June 11, 1955) was a French sportsman, mainly remembered for a disaster that killed him and around 80 spectators during the Le Mans 24 hours automobile race in 1955. Born Pierre Bouillon in Paris, he took the racing name Levegh in memory of his uncle, a pi..
Pierre Le Gloan
Pierre Le Gloan (January 6, 1913 - September 11,1943), French pilot (flying ace) of World War II. He was born in Brittany, France. At the age of eighteen he joined the French Air Force. At the outbreak of the war he served in the GC III/6 fighter squadron, flying the Morane-Saulnier MS.406. Along..
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, (b. 20 July 1661 – d.(probably) 9 July 1706), founder of the colony of Louisiana, was born at Ville-Marie, Montreal, Quebec on 16 July 1661. He died at Havana, Cuba on 9 July 1706. He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, a nativ..
Pierre le Pelley I
Pierre le Pelley I, 13th Seigneur of Sark (1736 - 1778) was Seigneur of Sark from 1752 to 1778. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre le Pelley II
Pierre le Pelley II, 14th Seigneur of Sark from 1778 to 1820. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre le Pelley III
Pierre le Pelley III, 16th Seigneur of Sark (-1839) was Seigneur of Sark from 1820 to 1839. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert or Boisguillebert (17 February 1646 - 10 October 1714) was a French economist. He was born at Rouen of an ancient noble family of Normandy, allied to that of Corneille. He received his classical education in Rouen, entered the magistracy and became judge at M..
Pierre Littbarski
Pierre Littbarski (born April 16, 1960) is a German football manager and former player, and was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was also runner up twice in 1982 and 1986 with West Germany. He was born in Berlin. Littbarski spent most of his playing career at 1. FC Köln, winni..
Pierre Lorillard IV
Pierre Lorillard IV (October 13, 1833 – July 7, 1901) was an American tobacco manufacturer and thoroughbred race horse owner. Born in Westchester, New York, he was the son of Peter (Pierre) Lorillard (1796-1867) and Catherine Griswold. In 1760, his great-grandfather, and namesake, founded P. Lo..
Pierre Loti
''For other meanings of "Loti", see Loti (disambiguation). French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Lit..
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly (1810-1892), French general, was born at Rozoy-sur-Serre (Aisne) on the 21st of January 1810, and entered the army from Saint-Cyr in 1828. In 1851 he had risen to the rank of colonel, and Napoleon III, with whom he was a favorite, made him general of brigade in 1854 ..
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle
Pierre Louis de Lacretelle (October 9, 1751 - 1824), was a French politician and writer. He was born in Metz, the elder brother of Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle. He practised as a barrister in Paris; and under the French Revolution was elected as a depute suppleant in the Constituent Assembl..
Pierre Louis de Saffon
Pierre Louis de Saffon was born in France in 1724 and died in Demerara in August 1784. de Saffon was a by-product of the Absolute Monarchy of France of that period. He had fought his brother in a duel and killed him. He fled to Demerara where he became a penitent exile and later developed into a w..
Pierre Louis Dulong
Pierre Louis Dulong (February 12, 1785 – July 19, 1838) was a French physicist and chemist. Dulong was born in Rouen, France. He is best known for the Dulong-Petit law, linking the specific heat capacity of metals to their molar mass. Dulong died in Paris, France. ..
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Maupertuis, here wearing "lapmudes" or a fur coat from his Lapland expedition. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (July 17, 1698 – July 27, 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He is often credited with having invented the principle of least actio..
Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari
Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari (1841--1879), British military administrator, the son of a French general by his marriage with an Irish lady, was born at Stenay, in the département of the Meuse, on the July 4th, 1841. He nevertheless obtained naturalization as an Englishman, and entered the m..
Pierre Louis Prieur
Pierre Louis Prieur (Prieur de la Marne) (August 1, 1756 – May 31, 1827) was a French politician. Biography Born in Sommesous (Marne), he practised as a lawyer at Châlons-sur-Marne until 1789, when he was elected to the States-General. He became secretary to the National Constituent Assembly..
Pierre Louis Roederer
Pierre Louis Roederer Comte Pierre Louis Roederer (February 15, 1754 – December 17, 1835) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French Republic. Roederer's son, Baron Antoine Marie Roederer (1782-1865), also be..
Pierre Louÿs
French literature French literary history Medieval 16th century - 17th century 18th century -19th century 20th century - Contemporary French Writers Chronological list - - [[Portal:France|France Portal]] [[Portal:Literature|Literature Portal]]This box: [ view] • ..
Pierre Lueders
Pierre Lueders (born 26th September 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a top-level bobsledder. He pilots both two-man and four-man bobsleigh. A three-time olympian, Lueders is the most decorated slider in Canadian history and the only man to ever win 5 overall world cup titles in two-man bobsleigh. In..
Pierre Macherey
Pierre Macherey (b. 1938) is a French Marxist literary critic. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism and Marxism. His work is influential in literary theory and ..
Pierre Magnol
Pierre Magnol. Pierre Magnol (June 8, 1638 - May 21, 1715)Gregorian calendar date, which had been in use in France since 1582 was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for the biggest part of his life. He eventually became Professor of Botany and ..
Pierre Mailloux
Dr. Pierre Mailloux (better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux) is a psychiatrist hosting a long-running French-language talk show with Janine Ross on CKAC radio in Montreal, with a large audience. He was born in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He studied medicine at Universi..
Pierre Mamboundou
Pierre Mamboundou (born 6 November 1946) is a Gabonese politician and president of the Union of the Gabonese People (UPG). In 1998, he ran in the country's presidential election representing the UPG. He placed second behind incumbent Omar Bongo, receiving 16.5% of the vote. Mamboundou ran again ..
Pierre Marchand
Pierre Marchand (born 1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He is best known for his work with Sarah McLachlan, having produced all of her albums since 1991's Solace. He has also worked with many other notable singer-songwriters, including Kate and Anna McGar..
Pierre Marie (de Saint-Georges)
Pierre Marie (de Saint-Georges) or Alexandre-Pierre-Thomas-Amable Marie de Saint Georges was a French politician, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July. Marie was bonr in Yonne on February 15, 1795 and entered public life as a lawyer under the Restoration. He was elected to the Cha..
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (August 26, 1809 - October 9, 1892) was a French naturalist, born in Lays, Doubs. Morelet was a member of the commission to Algeria, mainly as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings, he took particular interest in mollusks, which he published many works on, parti..
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (February 28, 1761 - January 17, 1807), French naturalist, was born at Montpellier, and was educated for the medical profession. Visiting England, he was admitted in 1872 an honorary member of the Royal Society, and in the same year published at London the first part ..
Pierre Marie Heude
Pierre Marie Heude (1836 - 1902) was a French Jesuit missionary and conchologist. Heude collected and described specimens whilst living in China in the late 1800s. He wrote Conchyliologie fluviatile de la province de Nanking (et la Chine Centrale). ..
Pierre Marini Bodho
Monsignor Pierre Marini Bodho, born 30 March, 1938, in Zeu, Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is the Bishop-President of the Church of Christ in Congo, known in that country as The Protestant Church as it is an umbrella church that regroups the vast majority (62) of the Protestant denominatio..
Pierre Marteau
Pierre Marteau (French for Peter Hammer), was the imprint of a supposed publishing house. Allegedly located in Cologne from the 17th century onward, contemporaries were well aware that such a publishing house never actually existed. Instead, the imprint was a fiction under which publishers and pr..
Pierre Martinet
Pierre Martinet is an ex-agent of DGSE, the French external intelligence agency. In 2005 he published the book La DGSE : service action, un agent sort de l'ombre (The DGSE, Action Service, An Agent Comes Out of the Shadow). In an interview published in Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on April 30, 200..
Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục
Archbishop Ngô Đình Thuc Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục (chữ nôm: 吴廷俶) (approximately pronounced "Ngoh Din Took" ) (October 6, 1897–December 13, 1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, was born in Huế, on October 6, 1897, of affluent Catholic parents. His youn..
Pierre Mauroy
Lionel Jospin and Pierre Mauroy, October 17, 2000. Pierre Mauroy (born July 5, 1928) is a French Socialist politician. He was mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001 and served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1984. He was born in Cartignies, Nord. Mauroy's First Governm..
Pierre Maury
Pierre Maury (born 1282 or 1283) was a shepherd in the Comté de Foix. He life is known through his deposition, and the depositions of his friends and associates, to Bishop Jacques Fournier who was hunting for Cathar heretics. He plays a prominent role in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou and i..
Pierre Max Dubois
Pierre Max Dubois (March 1, 1930 - 1995) is a French composer of classical music. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1955. Most of his works are for woodwinds, especially for saxophone. His Quartet for Saxophones in F premiered in 1962. ..
Pierre Mazeaud
Pierre Mazeaud. Pierre Mazeaud (born August 24, 1929 in Lyon) is a French jurist, politician and alpinist. As of 2006, he is the president of the Constitutional Council of France. Pierre Mazeaud has a doctorate in law from the University of Paris (on marriage and the condition of the married w..
Pierre McGuire
Pierre McGuire (born August 8, 1961 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an ice hockey analyst and provides color commentary for hockey programs on TSN and OLN. He is also a former National Hockey League head coach, leading the Hartford Whalers to a 23-37-7 record in 1993-1994 before being replaced by Paul..
Pierre Méchain
Pierre Méchain Pierre François André Méchain (August 16, 1744 – September 20, 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets. Contents 1 Life2 Discoveries3 Legacy4 ..
Pierre Menard
Pierre Menard (1766-1844) was a U.S. political figure. Menard was a member of the Indiana territorial legislature, 1803-1809, and a member of the Illinois territorial legislature in 1812. Upon the admission of Illinois as a state in 1818, Menard became state's first lieutenant governor, serving fr..
Pierre Menard (disambiguation)
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Pierre Menard is the name of: Pierre Menard (1766-1844), the first Lieutenant..
Pierre Menard (fictional character)
:For other uses of "", see {{{1. Pierre Menard is a fictional 20th century writer, created by Jorge Luis Borges. Borges's story "Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote" ("Pierre Menard, autor del Quixote") originally appeared in Spanish in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1939. The Spanish-language o..
Pierre Mendès-France
Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin (Mendès de França). Contents 1 Third Republic and World War II2 Fourth Republic3 Fifth Republic4 ..
Pierre Menet
Chairman emeritus of the French Lancôme Company. He is credited, along with Gaëtan Mourgue D'Algue and Dominque Motte, with bringing the Canada Cup golf tournament to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche in 1963 and helping popularize the then little known sport of Golf in France. The tournament was renamed in ..
Pierre Mercure
Pierre Mercure, (born in Montreal 21 Feb 1927; died in an accident near Avallon, France 29 Jan 1966), Canadian composer, TV producer, bassoonist, administrator. Premier prix Harmony, Counterpoint, Deuxième prix bassoon (Conservatoire de musique de Montreal) 1949. External Link [Pierre Merc..
Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens (born October 9, 1939) is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir. Influenced by Franz Kafka, Merten..
Pierre Messmer
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Pierre Michaud
Pierre A. Michaud (born 1936) is a Canadian lawyer, lately Chief Justice of Quebec until his retirement, and currently counsel with a law firm. Born in Port-Alfred, Quebec, he received a law degree from the University of Montreal in 1960. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1961, and appointed Queen..
Pierre Michaux
Pierre Michaux (June 26, 1813 - 1883) was a blacksmith who furnished parts for the carriage trade in Paris during the 1850s and 1860s. In 1864 he formed a partnership with the Olivier brothers under his own name, Michaux et Cie ("Michaux and company"), which was the first company to construct bicycl..
Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot (March 3 1928–July 2 2005) was a French jazz double bass player. Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen. Through his career he played with Rex Stewart (1948), Coleman Hawkin..
Pierre Mignard
La vierge aux raisins, 1640 Pierre Mignard (1610—1695), called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas, was a French painter. He was born at Troyes, and came of a family of artists. In 1630 he left the studio of Simon Vouet for Italy, where he spent twenty-two years, and..
Pierre Mignoni
Pierre Mignoni (born 28 February, 1977 in Toulon, France) is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for ASM Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14 club competition in France. Mignoni has played for France. Mignoni's first club was RC Toulon, playing with them from 1996-1997. He then moved to A..
Pierre Millière
Pierre Millière was a French entomologist chiefly interested in Lepidoptera. Born 1 December 1811 in Saint-Jean-de-Losne on the Côte d'Or and died 29 May 1887 in Cannes Millière was a pharmacist and dealer who studied Lepidoptera as a hobby, though in a very professional manner. He was the a..
Pierre Milman
Dr. Pierre Milman graduated with a B.A. from the University of Moscow in 1967 and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tel- Aviv in 1975, after an interlude of several years as Researcher at the Institute of Chemical Physics and then Solid State Physics in Moscow. In 1975, he came to the Univ..
Pierre Moerlen's Gong
Pierre Moerlen's Gong is a progressive jazz-rock outfit which is very different from the first incarnation of Gong, the psychedelic space-rock act led by Daevid Allen. It is notable for the prominent use of mallet percussion, such as marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone featured in a rock/jazz context..
Pierre Moinot
Pierre Moinot (born March 29, 1920 in Poitou) is a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française January 21, 1982. Bibliography 1952 Armes et Bagages, roman (Gallimard)1954 La Chasse royale, roman (Gallimard)1957 La Blessure, nouvelles (Gallimard)1960 Le Voleur, court métrage ..
Pierre Molinier
Pierre Molinier: "Mêlée Erotique" (circa 1968). Courtesy Patricia Laligant Gallery, New York, NY Pierre Molinier (April 13, 1900 - March 3, 1976) was a painter, photographer and 'maker of objects'. He was born and lived his life in Bordeaux, France. He began his career by painting landscap..
Pierre Mondou
Pierre Mondou (born November 27, 1955 in Sorel, Quebec) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. Pierre played in the National Hockey League from 1977 to 1985. During this time, he played for the Montreal Canadiens his entire career. Pierre would win three Stanley Cups while with the Habs. ..
Pierre Montan Berton
Pierre Montan Berton (January 7, 1727–May 14, 1780) was a French composer and conductor. He resided primarily in Paris and was an opera director. Pierre's son Henri Montan Berton (1767–1844) was also a composer, more famous than Pierre himself. ..
Pierre Montet
Pierre Montet (1885 — 1966) was a French Egyptologist. He studied under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon. He excavated at Byblos (modern Jubayl) in Lebanon between 1921 and 1924, excavating tombs of rulers from Middle Kingdom times. Between 1929 and 1939, he excavated at Tanis, Egypt, f..
Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor. Born in Paris, France, Monteux later became an American citizen. Monteux studied violin from an early age, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine. He became a proficient violinist, good enough to share the..
Pierre Morency
Pierre Morency (born 1942) is a French Canadian writer, poet and playwright. Born in Lauzon, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Collège de Lévis in 1963 and a teaching diploma from the Université Laval in 1966. In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and "is c..
Pierre Moscovici
Pierre Moscovici (born September 16, 1957) is a French politician, a member of the Departmental Council of Doubs and a Member of the European Parliament for the East of France. He is a member of the French Socialist Party (PS); part of the Party of European Socialists. He has been National Secretary..
Pierre Moulu
Pierre Moulu (?1484 – c.1550) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance who was active in France, probably in Paris. Little is known of his life, but internal evidence in his compositions indicates he was probably at the French royal chapel during the first two decades of the 16th cent..
Pierre Muller
Pierre Muller (born 1952) is a member of the government of the City of Geneva, Switzerland (conseil administratif) since 1995 and as such held the rotating function of mayor (maire) for the years 1999 and 2004. He is a member of the Parti Libéral Genevois. ..
Pierre N. Leval
Pierre Nelson Leval is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993, he was a United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York. Judge Leval received his B.A. degree from Harvard College ..
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (11 October 1815 - 7 April 1881) was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. He was a nephew of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon I of France, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonap..
Pierre Naville
Pierre Naville (Paris, 1904 — Paris, 1993) was a French writer and sociologist. He was a Surrealist, Communist then Trotskyist before joining the PSU and led a career as an occupational sociologist. Contents 1 Surrealist from its earliest times2 Extreme-left Politics3 Psycho-Soc..
Pierre Nepveu
Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. He is currently teaching French studies at the University of Montreal. Awards and recognition 1979: non-fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, Les mots à l'écoute1986: fiction finalist, Gove..
Pierre Ngendandumwe
Pierre Ngendandumwe (1930 - January 15, 1965) was a Burundian political figure. He was a member of the Union for National Progress and was an ethnic Hutu. On June 18 1963, about a year after Burundi gained independence and amidst efforts to bring about political cooperation between Hutus and the dom..
Pierre Nicole
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Pierre Njanka
Pierre Njanka Pierre Njanka Beaka (born March 15, 1975) is a Cameroonian football player who, as of 2004 was playing for CS Sedan Ardennes. Njanka played for Cameroon at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as the 2004 African Nations Cup. He has been capped over 50 times for his country. Nja..
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi, in Østfoldhallen, Fredrikstad, Norway at June 10th, 2006.Photo: Marit Nygård Pierre Nkurunziza (b. 18 December, 1963) is the President of Burundi and chairman of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense ..
Pierre Nora
Pierre Nora (b. November 17, 1931) is a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française June 7, 2001. Bibliography 1961 Les Français d'Algérie (Julliard)1970-1979 Vincent Auriol. Journal du Septennat 1947-1954 (Armand Colin)1973 Faire de l'histoire (Gallimard)1987 Essais d'eg..
Pierre Nord
Pierre Nord (real name was André Léon Brouillard - born on 15th of April, 1900 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, d. on 13th of December, 1985 in Monaco), was a French writer, spy and resistance member. Brouillard participated in the First World War as a resistance fighter and in 1916 was arrested by the Ge..
Pierre Nord Alexis
Pierre Nord Alexis (1820-May 1, 1910) was President of Haïti from December 21, 1902 to December 2, 1908. The son of a high-ranking official in the regime of Henri Christophe, Alexis joined the army in the 1830s, serving President [[Jean Louis Pierrot], his father-in-law as an aide-de-camp...
Pierre Oba
Pierre Oba is Minister of the Mines and Energy of the Republic of the Congo. He is a long-time disciple of the Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso. Pierre Oba is a general, and a former commander of the Republican Guard. External links [Profile Congo (Brazzaville)] at The Economist ..
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Omidyar (born 21 June, 1967) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist, and the founder and chairman of the eBay auction site. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to in..
Pierre Osho
Pierre Osho (born 1945) is a former defense minister of Benin. He held that position from May 1998 to January 2006, when he resigned. He was previously the foreign minister from April 1996 to May 1998. Osho was succeeded as defense minister by Martin Dohou Azonhiho. ..
Pierre Ossian Bonnet
Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June, 1892) French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, e.g. the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Contents 1 Biography1.1 Early years1.2 Middle years1.3 Later years, death, and afterwards..
Pierre Ouellette
Pierre Oullette (1945 –) is a science fiction author. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He runs an advertising and public relations business that focusses on high technology. He wrote the science fiction thrillers The Deus Machine (1994) and The Third Pandemic (1996), both published by Pocket Boo..
Pierre Palmade
Pierre Palmade (born March 23, 1968) is a French actor and comedian. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began his career in stand-up comedy, and featured in two shows with Michèle Laroque more recently. The shows were called "Ils s'aiment" and "Ils se sont aimés." He sometimes writes for other a..
Pierre Paquette
Pierre A. Paquette (born June 1, 1955 in Sorel, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. An economist and professor, Paquette was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Bloc Québécois in the Canadian federal election, 2000 in the riding of Joliette. He was re-elected in the ..
Pierre Parrant
Contents 1 Introduction2 History3 Pierre Parrant in Minnesota4 Life After St. Paul5 Conclusion6 References Introduction When studying the early history of the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, a person will undoubtedly come across names such as Zebulon Pike, Father Lucie..
Pierre Part, Louisiana
Pierre Part is a census-designated place (CDP) in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,239 at the 2000 census. Geography Pierre Part is located at [29°57′40″N, 91°12′24″W] (29.960975, -91.206612)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to..
Pierre Patricio
Pierre Patricio Farum was born in the Philippines in February 20, 1960. He is a Filipino self-taught artist who already took an interest in art at the age of five. His teachers discovered his talent during the secondary grade where he won an on-the-spot art contest. Although his parents recognized h..
Pierre Patte
Pierre Patte was a French architect who was the assistant of the great French teacher of architecture, Jacques-François Blondel, whose Cours d'architecture which ran to nine volumes by 1777, he saw through the press after Blondel's death in 1774. He has been credited for having been the first to ..
Pierre Paulus
Pierre Paulus (Châtelet, March 16 1881 - Brussels, August 17 1959) was a Walloon expressionist painter. He become well-known thanks to the Wallon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911. In the interwar period he made several expositions in Europe and the USA, but he's utmost knows as the designer ..
Pierre Paul Caffarel
Pierre Paul Caffarel (1801 Turin - 1871 Turin), Italian entrepreneur who created the chocolate company of Caffarel. In 1826 Caffarel purchased a revolutionary industrial machine, invented by Bozelli of Genoa, which was able to produce more than 300 kilos a day (a record then). Thanks to this machin..
Pierre Paul Cambon
Pierre Paul Cambon (1843-1924), French diplomatist, was born on the 20th of January 1843. He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to Jules Ferry in the prefecture of the Seine. After ten years of administrative work in France as secretary of prefecture, and then as prefect ..
Pierre Paul Émile Roux
--> Émile Roux Pierre Paul Emile Roux (b. December 17, 1853, Confolens (Charente), France, d. November 3, 1933, Paris) was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and di..