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2 unusual facts about French American


French American

French Camp, California was the terminus of the Oregon-California Trail used by French-Canadian fur traders (including Michel Laframboise)in the 1830s and 1840s, making it one of the oldest settlements in San Joaquin County.

Michel Loève

Michel Loève (January 22, 1907 – February 17, 1979) was a French American probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Palestinian Jewish origin.


Letters from an American Farmer

Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782.


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Circle of Friends of the Medallion

Circle of Friends of the Medallion was formed by Charles DeKay, Robert Hewitt, Jr., and the French-American trio of Jules Edouard Roiné with brothers Felix and Henri Weil, all living in New York City.

Denys Cazet

Denys Cazet (1938-) is the French-American author of 25 picture books, including the Minnie and Moo series.

Doriot Climatic Chambers

At a rededication ceremony on 24 August 1994, the facility was named for Brigadier General Georges F. Doriot (1899–1987), a French-American who, during World War II, worked with a large staff in the Quartermaster Corps to develop, test and quickly field improved clothing and equipment for the U.S. soldier.

Edward Tuck

Other members of the Tuck family include Edward Hallam Tuck (1927–2002) who was awarded the prestigious Legion of Honor, and was President of the French American Foundation, and the actress Jessica Tuck.

Eugène Secrétan

A French-American bidding war during the auction on L'Angelus, a work by the popular French painter Jean-François Millet of the Barbizon school, forced the price up to a record-breaking amount of 553,000 francs by Antonin Proust, who was bidding for the Louvre.

First constituency for French residents overseas

A resident of San Francisco, she is a former director of the city's French American Chamber of Commerce.

Henri George Doll

Henri George Doll (1902, Paris, France – 25 July 1991, Montfort-l'Amaury, France) was a French-American scientist.

John Newsom

However, Newsom’s oeuvre is not only inspired by the thoughts and musings of Charles Darwin, but also by the artwork of the early French-American watercolorist John James Audubon.

Laplanche

Renaud Laplanche (born 1970), French American entrepreneur and business executive

Paul Haviland

Paul Burty Haviland (17 June 1880 – 21 December 1950) was an early French-American 20th-century photographer, writer and arts critic who was closely associated with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession.

Pierre Hohenberg

Pierre C. Hohenberg (born 3 October 1934 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French-American theoretical physicist, who works primarily on statistical mechanics.

Placide Louis Chapelle

Archbishop Placide Louise Chapelle (August 28, 1842, Fraissinet-de-Lozère, Lozère, France – August 9, 1905, New Orleans, United States) was a French-American Roman Catholic archbishop.

Robert Hewitt, Jr.

He commissioned esteemed French-American sculptor and medallist Jules Edouard Roiné for the design, "which is described as the most beautiful representation of Lincoln's features that has as yet been

Roditi

Édouard Roditi (1910–1992), French-American poet, short-story writer and translator of Jewish-Turkish and Russian origin

William DuBois

William Pène du Bois (1916–1993), French American author and illustrator

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

On 1 September 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS Titanic which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912.

Yzeures-sur-Creuse

Paul Burty Haviland (17 June 1880 – 21 December 1950) was an early French-American 20th-century photographer.