Riquet hoped to build a city around the basin and also considered building a port.
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The Bassin de Naurouze is an octagonal holding tank, created during the building of the Canal du Midi as designed and built by Pierre-Paul Riquet.
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Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy and David Guez won this tournament, defeating their compatriots Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Renavand 5–7, 6–4, 10–5 in the final.
Since its inception many eminent scientists published there – apart from Leibniz, e.g., Jakob Bernoulli, Humphry Ditton, Leonhard Euler, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jérôme Lalande but also humanists and philosophers as Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, Stephan Bergler, Christian Thomasius and Christian Wolff.
Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.
Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838), French mathematician and military engineer
Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.
The Château de Montgobert in the midst of the Forest of Retz, near Soissons, in Montgobert, Aisne, Picardy, is a neoclassical French château that was built for Antoine Pierre Desplasses between 1768-1775 on the site of an ancient seigneurie.
Wanting to run a team, Vetter procured the services of English-born AMA Superbike Championship winner Reg Pridmore for the 1978 season to ride a team Vetter Kawasaki Z1000 prepared by (the late) Pierre Des Roches.
These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda; the Bahamas Princess (formerly the King's Inn) and the Xanadu Princess Tower (formerly the International) in Freeport; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.
1013: The Lordship of Francescas was given to the abbey of Saint-Pierre Condom by Hugues de Gascogne, Bishop of Agen in 1013, hereditary Dukes of Gascony.
The October 1882 show was attended by two thousand people, including Manet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Richard Wagner.
Jean Baptiste Pierre Eugène Elichagaray (September 3, 1886 – June 8, 1987) was a French rower who competed in the men's eights event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Jean-Jacques Pierre (born 23 January 1981 in Léogâne) is a Haitian footballer currently plays for French club SM Caen.
Jean-Pierre Isaac has written and/or produced music for many artists, notably the French Gilbert Montagné, Quebec’s Mitsou, Les BB, Celine Dion, Cindy Daniel, Marie Carmen, Mario Pelchat, Judith Berard, Scripture (his solo project featured on "Cafe del Mar", and released album No Word Needed), and many more.
At the conclusion of this assignment, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was then nominated by President Sarkozy on the 14 November 2008 to become Chairman of the French securities regulator, the AMF (l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers), to replace Michel Prada, at the end of his non-renewable 5 year mandate, on 15 December 2008.
Tim Palmer "Jean-Pierre Melville and 1970s French Film Style," Studies in French Cinema, 2:3, Spring 2003
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French radiochemist and Nobel laureate, daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie
Le Château de verre (English title: The Glass Castle) is a 1950 French language motion picture romantic drama directed by René Clément who co-wrote the screenplay with Gian Bistolfi and Pierre Bost, based on the novel Sait-on jamais by Vicki Baum.
Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.
Dreux Pierre Frédéric (born November 26, 1985), known as Lil' Fizz, is an American rapper and actor.
Following a year of research, French designer architect Pierre Rambach presented the sketches of the new Lovers' Park project in 2006 and received the approval of the Yerevan City Council.
In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, the Machines of the Isle is created by two artists, François Delarozière (La Machine) and Pierre Orefice (Manaus association), visualising a travel-through-time world at the crossroads of the "imaginary worlds" of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci.
He created and organized the Foundation for the Advancement of Art, which held a conference “Innovation, Substance, Vision: The Future of Art” at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan on October 6, 2003, featuring speakers: philosophers Stephen Hicks and David Kelley, vision scientist Jan Koenderick, and sculptor Martine Vaugel.
By 1770 she was back in France at Rouen, and her success as Euphmie in Belloy's Gaston et Bayard caused her to be called to the Comédie Française, where, in 1772, she made her debut as Dido.
The institutions which have founded PSL, recently joined by Mines ParisTech as well as the Conservatoire de Paris, the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique CNSAD, the École des Beaux-Arts, the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, La Fémis, the Lycée Henri-IV, the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation, the Louis-Bachelier Institute and the Rothschild Foundation (IBPC), enjoy a prestigious reputation.
Monk Boudreaux (born Joseph Pierre Boudreaux; 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is the Big Chief of the Golden Eagles, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe.
As a young man, Pierre's engineering studies at Zurich University were abruptly halted when he was struck in the eye by a tennis ball.
Since 1983, yachtsmen such as Philippe Jeantot, Florence Arthaud and Pierre Follenfant have been equipped with TBS anti-slip products, thus contributing to the promotion of the image of TBS anti-slip in the field of racing.
Saint Peter Nolasco (1189–1256), Pere Nolasc in Catalan, Pierre Nolasque in French and Pedro Nolasco in Spanish, is a Catholic saint, born at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, Languedoc, today's France, although some historians claim he was born in Barcelona (see Encyclopædia Britannica).
Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".
Major-General Pierre Bonnemains, Baron of Bonnemains (13 September 1773 in Tréauville – 9 November 1850 in Mesnil-Garnier, was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars and a member of the French Parliament.
Cartellier's statue, modeled from Josephine's kneeling image in the painting of the coronation of Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison.
In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.
Pierre also appeared in the feature-length documentary, "Chasing Legends" about the Tour de France.
Pierre Gadoys was married to Louise Mauger in the 1620s and they had three children who are known to historians.
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).
In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.
Pierre Richier, also Pierre Richer, dit de Lisle, (circa 1506-1580) was a French Calvinist theologian, who accompanied Philippe de Corguilleray on a French expedition to Brazil in 1556, to reinforce the colony of France Antarctique.
Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in Indonesia, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous Indonesian Dangdut singers, Dewi Persik.
Pierre Sancan (October 24, 1916 in Mazamet – October 20, 2008 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor.
Pierre Tabart (Chinon, 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle.
Pierre-Antoine Dossevi (born 17/01/52, Lomé, French Togoland) is a retired Togolese footballer.
After several years at the Nouveautis and the Vaudeville, on the burning of the latter in 1838 he went to England, and married, at Gretna Green, Jenny Colon, from whom he was soon divorced.
In July 2012, Aubameyang represented Gabon at the 2012 Olympic Games held in London.
Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire.
He died in 1936, when he was decapitated in a road accident in Debrecen, in Hungary.
Galland was responsible for the ceiling of the grand staircase at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London, England.
Mapalagama Liyanage Neville Kingsley Pierre De Silva ( Professor Kingsley De Silva) 'born on October 26, 1932 in Kandana, Sri Lanka, was one of the leading Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sri Lanka
Saint-Adelphe was formerly known as "Pierre-Paul" sector, the name of a tributary of the Batiscan.
After Trial By Fire broke up, Pierre Kezdy went on to play with Naked Raygun and Pegboy.
Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.
He was teaching at the Pierre-Paul-Riquet high school, in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, and at the École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile.