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Jean de Labadie was a 17th-century French pietist. Originally a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, he became a member of the Reformed Church in 1650, before founding the community which became known as the Labadists in 1669. At its height the movement numbered around 600 with thousands of adherents further afield. It attracted some notable female converts such as the famed poet and scholar, Anna Maria van Schurman, and the entomological artist
Maria Merian.
Étampes is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located 48.1 km (29.9 mi) south-southwest from the center of Paris. Étampes is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department.
Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux, was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
For logistical reasons in 2008, the Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France and Belgium divided into two separate synods: the Evangelical Lutheran Church - Synod of France, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium,. Both are confessional Lutheran church bodies in France and in Belgium respectively. Over a dozen parishes belong to the two synods.
Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy was a French ecclesiastic and theologian. He was first bishop of Soissons, then a member of the Académie française, and finally archbishop of Sens.
Paul Tournon was a French architect. He was born in Marseille and died in Paris.
Henri-Irénée Marrou was a leading French historian of the mid-twentieth century. A Christian humanist in outlook, his work was primarily in the spheres of Late Antiquity and the history of education. He is best known for his work History of Education in Antiquity. He also edited the early Christian work Letter to Diognetus for Sources Chrétiennes, a text the only manuscript of which perished in a fire at the University of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War. Marrou edited the collection Patristica Sorbonensia published by Le Seuil. Marrou's work has been criticised by the philosopher Ilsetraut Hadot. Marrou also wrote under the pseudonym of Henri Davenson. His "Carnets manuscrits" were published by his daughter Françoise Flamant in 2006
Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
Any-Martin-Rieux is a commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
Théodore Ballu was a French architect who designed numerous public buildings in Paris. He is the father of the politician Roger Ballu and the grandfather of the industrialist and politician Guillaume Ballu.
Saint-Esprit is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Montcalm Regional County Municipality. It is located on both banks of the Saint-Esprit River, a tributary of the L'Assomption River.
Jean Gribomont (1920–1986) was a Benedictine scholar who professed as monk of the Abbey of Clervaux (Luxemburg) in 1939. He is noted for a vast range of publications in French covering the origins and history of ascetic currents and monasticism particularly, although not only, in the Syriac-speaking and eastern Asia Minor context of the fourth and fifth centuries of the common era. These include a major work and article on St. Basil, three encyclopaedia entries on Eustathius of Sebaste, studies of Messalianism, work in the Syriac domain and also of later Latin monasticism.
The Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas is a Roman Catholic church in Paris, France. The cathedral is located in the 5th Arrondissement at the corner of Rue Saint-Jacques and the Rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée. The church has been registered as a historical monument since 4 June 1957.
Jean-Esprit Isnard (1707–1781) was a French pipe organ builder.
The Chartres pilgrimage, also known in French as the pèlerinage de Chrétienté, is an annual pilgrimage from Notre-Dame de Paris to Notre-Dame de Chartres occurring around the Christian feast of Pentecost, organized by Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, a Catholic lay non-profit organization based in Versailles, France. Although the pilgrimage has existed since 1983, the organisation was not founded until 2000.
Daniel Moulinet is a French priest and historian, professor of contemporary history at the Catholic University of Lyon.
The French language has been spoken in modern-day Minnesota since the 17th century, being the first European language to be brought to the area.
