The Adam RA-15 Major was a French sporting plane developed and produced in the decade after World War II.
134 medals were awarded in silver and 574 in bronze, most of them to Belgian and French citizens.
André Fraysse (1902-1984) was a French perfumer.
André-Charles Brottier (1751–1798), was a French royalist who sought the violent overthrow of the Directory.
Anthony Michel Taugourdeau (born 3 June 1989) is a French footballer who plays for Italian Serie B club AlbinoLeffe.
Divided and donated a portion of the batch, they were sold to Italian, French, German, and Spanish settlers them crowded.
Biréli Lagrène (born September 4, 1966) is a French guitarist and bassist.
Originally described as Agaricus carneus by the French mycologist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1792, this small pink mushroom has been through many taxonomical name changes over many years, and as a result has had many binomial names.
Camille Bazbaz is a French author-composer-interpreter with French-Lebanese roots.
Eventually, she befriends a young French girl named Paulette who becomes her constant companion throughout many adventures and misadventures.
This conflict happened as a result of the colonial authorities disregarding at-aMokrane, creating a French-populated commune of Bordj Bou Arréridj and appointing a French officer as its head.
Christophe Cuvillier (born December 5, 1962 in Etterbeek) is a French businessman and current chief executive officer of the European real-estate group Unibail-Rodamco.
Christophe Laudamiel (born 1969, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a contemporary French perfumer, osmocurator, writer and lecturer with a Master's Degree in Chemistry, Valedictorian.
Mr. Dickinson died when David was 12, and as his adoptive mother worked hard to keep the family together, David was in part brought up by his French adoptive grandmother Sarah Dickenson.
Didier Lavergne is a French make-up artist.
Dominique Hériard Dubreuil (born in 1946) is a French businesswoman.
Edouard Collin (born 28 February 1987), is a French actor.
Eugène Ernest Hillemacher (1818 — 1887) was a French painter.
Francis Albarède (born 1947) is a French geochemist.
François André Michaux (16 August 1770 – 23 October 1855) was a French botanist, son of André Michaux and the namesake of Michaux State Forest in Pennsylvania.
François-Joseph Gossec (17 January 1734 – 16 February 1829) was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.
Françoise de Veyrinas (4 September 1943 – 16 August 2008), born Gardey de Soos, was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament.
Francoise Morechand-Nagataki (born 1935) is a French TV personality active in Japan.
Georges Chaperot (born 21 April 1902, date of death unknown) was a French screenwriter who co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with René Wheeler, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947.
One theory is that the town's name derives from that of the original French settlement in the area, Narbonne, named in turn for the southern French city of that name.
Hector Charles Auguste Octave Constance Hanoteau (25 May 1823 – 7 April 1890) was a French landscape painter born at Decize in Nièvre.
Jacques Chastenet de Castaing (April 20, 1893, Paris – February 7, 1978) was a French journalist, historian and diplomat.
Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps (born 24 March 1774 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir — died 8 May 1849 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist.
Jean-Paul Denanot, born 24 April 1944, is a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party.
Jean-Pierre Eychenne is a French make-up artist.
Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (born June 3, 1937 in Caen, Calvados) is a French former racing driver, more famous for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980.
Jérôme Btesh, also known as Jay Btesh (1968) is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris, France.
La Grange was named for the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Léonard Aléa was a French polemical writer of the early years of the nineteenth century, b.
Louis Constant Wairy (1778–1845) was valet to the French emperor, Napoléon.
Berbrugger (May 11, 1801 – July 2, 1869) was a French archeologist and philologist.
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody (often simply referred by itself as Rhapsody or LT's Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band created and led by Luca Turilli after his split from Rhapsody of Fire, also including German, French and Finnish members.
Lucienne M'belu (born August 3, 1989 in Créteil) is a French athlete, who specializes in 100 meter and 200 meter competitions.
Marie de Miramion (also known as Marie Bonneau, or Marie Bonneau de Rubella Beauharnais de Miramion), 1629-1696, was a seventeenth century French woman known for her piety and the organizations she founded.
Marie-Hélène Sachet (born 1922 - died 1986) was a French botanist.
Olivier Couvreur (born May 23, 1970) is a French champion driver in the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup
Pascal Pierre Duprat (1815–1885) was a French journalist and politician with republican beliefs.
His father, a Catholic of Irish descent, worked as a patent attorney, while his mother, Paule Anglim, is of French and Jewish descent and is a San Francisco art dealer.
The name refers to a chain of forts built by the French in the Richelieu Valley during the 17th and 18th centuries to defend their colonial settlements from the Iroquois.
René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director.
With the advent of professionalism in 1995 the Scottish Rugby Union decided that existing club sides would be unable to compete with their wealthier English and French counterparts in new cross-border tournaments such as the European Cup and Celtic League.
Serge Bourguignon (born 3 September 1928) is a French film director and screenwriter.
He supported the French heritage movement and the Acadiana Regional Airport in New Iberia in Iberia Parish.
Other characters included Johnny Wallace (Jack Mullaney), a bellboy who had a crush on Katy, and Paul Monteney (Jacques Scott), a suave, French room clerk.
The project was inspired by excerpts from the 19th century French writer, Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror.
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Baptiste Amar (born 11 November 1979 in Gap, France) is a professional French ice hockey defenceman who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.
Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.
The first settler of proper record was Frederick DeMouth of French Huguenot extraction.
Cardinal François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris - 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.
Charles de Souancé (1823–1896) was a French ornithologist and a purser in the French Navy, more precisely "Commissaire de la Marine".
Chrétien Urhan (Baptised as Christian Urhan; 16 February 1790, Montjoie - 2 November 1845, Belleville) was a French violinist, organist, composer and player of the viola and the viola d'amore.
The clavecin électrique (or clavessin électrique) was a musical instrument invented in 1759 by Jean-Baptiste Thillaie Delaborde, a French Jesuit priest.
A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.
Éli Verges Napoles Kroupi Zahi (born 18 October 1979 in Sassandra) is a French-Ivorian football forward who currently plays for Ourouba Club Fujairah in UAE Second Division.
François de Troy (1645 – 21 November 1730) was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Grégory Levasseur (born 1979, Douarnenez, France) is a French filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for his work in the United States and his frequent collaborations with childhood friend Alexandre Aja.
Unlike many other hereditary royal office holders, the "Durward" family were not of Anglo-Norman or French origin, but of native Gaelic origin, being a sept of the native comital dynasty of Mar.
Jacques Esclassan (born September 3, 1948) is a French former road bicycle racer who won the green jersey in the 1977 Tour de France.
Jean Chrétien Fischer (German: Johann Christian Fischer; 17 January 1713 in Stuttgart – 1 July 1762 near Kassel) was a German-born soldier in the French service.
Father Jean-Louis Pierdait was a French priest born at Châtillon-en-Bazois on 27 January 1857 and who died at Fontenelle Abbey on 24 December 1942.
Jean-Noël Crocq (born 1948 in Rennes) is a French clarinetist.
The name of La Nouvelle-Beauce reminds the one given to the area along the Chaudière River by the French authorities until the end of the French Regime in North America.
Leontine was born in Battersea, Surrey to Frenchman Jean François (aka 'John Francis') Buisson and his English wife Dorothy.
Louis Michel Français Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers; died 1863 in Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.
Louis-Guillaume Otto, Comte de Mosloy (1753, Strasbourg or 1754, Kork, near Kehl, then in the duchy of Baden - 9 November 1817, Paris) was a French diplomat.
Michel Kitabdjian (born 7 May 1930 in Nice) was the French referee who officiated the infamous 1975 European Cup Final between Leeds United and Bayern Munich in which he had disallowed a goal by Leeds United's Peter Lorimer for offside and denied Leeds two penalty appeals as Franz Beckenbauer first handled the ball in the box and then brought down Allan Clarke in a tackle.
Michel Lescanne is a French food processing engineer jointly responsible for the invention of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) Plumpy'nut in 1996, and presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the French pharmaceutical manufacturer Nutriset.
There are many other smaller percentages of several ethnic groups, such as Arab, French, Scottish, Greek, Russian, and Bulgarian, among others.
Pierre Scerri is a French telecommunications engineer and model builder, who gained fame in 1998 after having his highly accurate 1:3 scale model of a Ferrari 312 PB featured on the BBC programme Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines.
In 2009, Slovak avant-garde drummer, Lucas Perny, remixed and recorded drums to Raymond Lefèvre's title song from the French 1981 movie comedy La Soupe Aux Choux (Cabbage soup).
He is the third of five children of the writer, politician, and former Minister of Culture for Spain Jorge Semprún and the French film-editor Colette Leloup.
He is mostly known for his song "Pretty Rave Girl", which uses the melody from the song "Daddy DJ" by the French dance act Daddy DJ.
Six Tears of Sorrow is the debut EP released by French metal band Scarve.
Stephanie Swift was born in Louisiana and has described herself as a "mutt" in terms of ethnicity: Cajun, Irish, English, French, Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian.
The Louvre Palace and the Orangerie being only a few blocks from her apartment, she quickly gleaned much of French culture from her songwriter father, leading her to musical influences that include Edith Piaf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Jacques Brel, among many others.
This is the account of two French journalists, Colette Gouvion and Philippe Jouvion, determined to conduct an objective and unbiased study of the Bahá'í Faith.
Titof (short for Christophe), born on October 5, 1973 in Lunéville, is the pseudonym of a French pornographic film actor who began performing in 1999.
Vincent Bachet (born 29 April 1978 in Saint-Maurice-le-Girard, France) is a professional French ice hockey defenceman who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.