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Coriolis

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843), French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist


Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre

Aimé-Marie-Gaspard, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (November 27, 1779, Paris – January 8, 1865, Glisolles) was a French general and statesman.

Caspar de Robles

Caspar de Robles or Gaspard di Robles (Madrid, 1527 – Antwerp, 1585) also known as Billy in Artois, was Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War (reign: 1568 to 1576).

Château Vaudreuil

Completed in 1726, it was built in the classical style of the French Hôtel Particulier by King Louis XV's chief engineer in New France, Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry.

Corrette

Michel Corrette (1707 – 1795), a French organist, composer and author of musical method books, the son of Gaspard

Donegana's Hotel, Montreal

Originally built as a private home, the main structure was started in 1821 for the American millionaire William Bingham (1800-1852), only son of Senator Bingham, in preparation for his marriage the following year to Marie-Charlotte Chartier de Lotbinière (1805-1866), daughter and co-heiress of the 2nd Marquis de Lotbinière.

Étienne Duchesnois

In 1797, he married Josette Massue, the daughter of the seigneur of Varennes, Gaspard Massue, and the sister of Aignan-Aimé Massue and Louis Massue.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

The Fleischaker Collection, a large collection of more than 350 pieces of Native American and southwestern paintings, sculpture and ceramics, including some of the most famous works by Russian Taos painters Leon Gaspard and Nicolai Fechin.

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813 – 13 January 1901) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist who was born in Isère, and died in Les Essarts-le-Roi.

Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny

Gaspard Augustin René Bernard de Marigny (2 November 1754, Luçon – 10 July 1794, Combrand) was a French officer and Vendéen general.

Gaspard III de Coligny

Henriette de Coligny (1618–1673), in 1643 married Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington, then in 1653 married Gaspard de Champagne, comte de la Suze (marriage annulled).

Gaspard III de Coligny, Maréchal de Châtillon, of the House of Coligny (26 July 1584, Montpellier-4 January 1646, Châtillon), comte de Coligny and seigneur de Châtillon-sur-Loing, then duc de Coligny, marquis d'Andelot, Peer of France, Marshal of France (1622), was a French Protestant general.

Gaspard Robert

The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille has an important collection of work by Gaspard Robert.

Gaspard Robert (1722-1799) was the founder of a factory that made faience, a type of pottery, in Marseille, France between 1750 and 1793.

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

The portage across Marblehead Peninsula is named DeLery Portage because of his documentation of it in his 1754 journal.

Gus Weill

One of the characters bears the name "Patoot Gaspard," supposedly a veteran member of the Louisiana State Senate.

Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière

His father, Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, was a pioneer of early photography (the first man to photograph the Acropolis, in 1839) who made a series of daguerreotypes while on a Grand Tour through Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land.

Henry Stanislas Harwood

Born at the Manor of Vaudreuil, Quebec, the eldest son of Robert Unwin Harwood and Marie-Louise-Josephte Chartier de Lotbiniere (1803–1869), Seigneuress of Vaudreuil, the eldest daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbiniere, de jure 2nd Marquis de Lotbiniere.

Jean Gaspard de Vence

Jean Gaspard de Vence (6 April 1747 – 12 March 1808) was a French privateer, admiral and Maritime Prefect of Toulon.

Leon Gaspard

Gaspard found artistic success in Taos, which became an international art center during his lifetime, due to the presence of contemporary painters such as Joseph Henry Sharp and E. Irving Couse, and the founding of the Taos Society of Artists.

Léopold Davout d'Auerstaedt

Marie-Mathilde (Motel, September 10, 1871-Bizy, May 31, 1955), married in Paris, June 27, 1895 Joseph Gaspard Comte de Berthier-Bizy (Bizy, July 14, 1866-Versailles, July 26, 1910)

Mario Piacenza

In 1913 he organized and led an exploration of the Ladakh, reaching the summits of the twin peaks of Nun and Kun (m 7.147 and 7.095) in the Indian Kashmir together with Borelli ed Gaspard, then the summit of the Z3 peak, naming it Cima Italia (Italia Peak, m 6189).

In 1911 with J.J. Carrel and J. Gaspard reached the summit of the Matterhorn from the Furggen ridge.

Ménerbes

Following early battles across France, Protestants decided to intentionally antagonize Pope Pius V by establishing a stonghold in Ménerbes, initially with 150 soldiers and followers led by Scipione de Valvoire, Gaspard Pape de Saint-Auban, and a baron from Germany.

Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière

In the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, Lotbinière was elected Speaker in the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada, having entered with his brother-in-law, Pierre-Amable de Bonne, for the riding of York which took in his seigneuries of Vaudreuil and Rigaud, Quebec.

The youngest, Georgina, married Count Raoul d'Eprémesnil, grandson of Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil.

In 1802, at Vaudreuil, he married Mary Charlotte Munro (1776-1834), the youngest daughter of Captain The Hon. John Munro of Fowlis and his wife Marie Talbot Gilbert Brouwer, of Albany, New York.

His grandsons, Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood and Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, both later became members of the legislative assembly for Canada East and then Quebec.

Born in the Quebec City in 1748, he was the son of Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière, and his wife Louise-Madeleine (1726-1809), daughter of Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (1682-1756), Engineer-in-Chief of New France.

Odet de Coligny

Odet de Coligny (10 July 1517 – 14 February 1571) was a French cardinal of Châtillon, bishop of Beauvais, son of Gaspard I de Coligny and Louise de Montmorency, and brother of Gaspard and François, Seigneur d'Andelot.

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay (14 December 1748 – 3 January 1809, Vienna), comte d'Orsay, was a collector of sculptures, paintings and drawings (which he left to the Louvre).

Raider Red

Jim Gaspard, a member of the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps student spirit organization, created the original design for the Raider Red costume based on a character created by Lubbock, Texas, cartoonist and former mayor Dirk West.


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