Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI. Born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, she was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She married Louis XVI, Dauphin of France, in May 1770 at age 14. She then became the Dauphine of France. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen.
Saint-Cloud is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, 9.6 kilometres from the centre of Paris. Like other communes of Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of France's wealthiest towns, with the second-highest average household income of communities with 10,000 to 50,000 households.
Anne Wiazemsky was a French actress and novelist. She made her cinema debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967), Week End (1967), and One Plus One (1968).
Isabelle Demongeot is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional on 1 May 1983. She lived in Saint-Tropez in the French Riviera in the early stages of her career and later settled nearby in Gassin.
Marie Dubois was a Parisian-born French actress.
Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu, better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in more than 40 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port, Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière.
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Le Masque de fer is a 1962 French film directed by Henri Decoin, based on the 1850 novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas and specifically part 3 of the novel, The Man in the Iron Mask; which in turn is based on the real-life story of the Man in the Iron Mask.
INSEP, the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance, is a French sport boarding school, training institute and center that trains elite athletes. It is located on the outskirts of Paris, in the Bois de Vincennes.
Anne Germaine Golding was a French tennis player who was mainly active during the interwar period and achieved most of her tournament wins on indoor courts.
Anne de Borman, née Christine Anne de Selliers de Moranville, was a Belgian female tennis player who represented Belgium at the Olympic Games. She competed in the singles event at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1920 she had a bye in the first round and was defeated by Kitty McKane in the second round while in 1924 she lost in the first round to Sigrid Fick. With compatriot Lucienne Tschaggeny she had a bye in the first round of the 1920 women's doubles event and lost in the quarterfinal to Winifred Beamish and Edith Holman. At the next Olympics in 1924 she teamed up with Marie Storms and lost in the second round to Phyllis Covell and Kitty McKane after a bye in the first. In the mixed she partnered Jean Washer in 1920 but lost in the second round after a bye in the first and in 1924 she won her first round match with Stéphane Halot and were defeated in the second.
Dorothée Sonia "Lally" Segard, also known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur, was a French amateur golfer.
Alsace de Bagnolet or Alsace Bagnolet is a French basketball club founded in 1924 and based in Bagnolet in the eastern suburbs of Paris. It is a part of the sports club of the same name founded in 1908. It belonged to the highest level championship of France in the 1960s, winning three league titles. In 2006, the club tried to restructure itself in order to regain entry to the Championship of France. It currently operates in National League Three.
Anne-Marie Colchen-Maillet was a French track and field athlete and women's basketball player. She became France's first high jump champion at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and held the French record for the event for ten years. She represented France in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In basketball she was the highest scorer at the 1953 FIBA World Championship for Women, helping France to third place. She was a member of the French national team for the European Women's Basketball Championship in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1956. She was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005.
Marie Batomene is a French badminton player. She started playing badminton at the age of eight, in her hometown Béthune. She was part of the national junior team that won the silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships. She clinched the women's singles national champion in 2019, where she before finished as the runners-up in 2013 and 2017. She competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and 2019 European Games.
Corinne Molesworth is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s and 70s.
Anne-Laure Heitz is a former professional tennis player from France.
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.
The Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) is the organising committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics which were held in Paris, France. Tony Estanguet serves as president of the committee. Étienne Thobois serves as director general. The committee was established on 18 January 2018.
Florence de la Courtie-Billat was a French tennis player.
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