Nancy Louise Huston,OC is a Canadian novelist and essayist,a longtime resident of France,who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
Jacques Lipchitz was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16,after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted,dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition,at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris where he was counted as part of the School of Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson. While in the US,he created a number of his best-known works,including the outdoor sculptures TheSong of the Vowels,Birth of the Muses,and Bellerophon Taming Pegasus,the last of which was completed after his death.
William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Hubert Reeves was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
William Michael Zabka is an American actor. He portrayed Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984),The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and the TV series Cobra Kai (2018–present).
AndréArmand Vingt-Trois is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 2005 to 2017,having previously served as Archbishop of Tours from 1999 to 2005. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007.
Adam Goldberg is an American actor. Known for his supporting roles in film and television,Goldberg has appeared in films such as Dazed and Confused,Saving Private Ryan,A Beautiful Mind and Zodiac. He has also played leading roles in independent films such as The Hebrew Hammer and 2 Days in Paris. His TV appearances include the shows Law &Order:Criminal Intent, My Name Is Earl,Friends,Entourage,The Jim Gaffigan Show,The Unusuals and his role as hitman Grady Numbers in the first season of Fargo. Since 2021 he has starred opposite Queen Latifah on CBS' The Equalizer.
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist,painter,and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986),the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations,including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal,and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene,and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.
Paul Joseph Jean Poupard is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a Cardinal since 1985. He held positions in the Roman Curia for more than 25 years,serving as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1988 to 2007 and briefly as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements,particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
Maurice Boitel was a French painter.
Sorbonne Paris North University is a public university based in Paris,France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris,in the municipalities of Villetaneuse,Saint-Denis,La Plaine Saint-Denis,Bobigny and Argenteuil.
François Daniel Roth is a French organist,composer,musicologist,and pedagogue. He was titular organist of the Church of Saint-Sulpice,Paris,from 1985 to 2023,and is currently the emeritus titular organist.
Jean-Pierre Thiollet is a French writer and journalist.
Gérard Garouste is a French contemporary artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain.
Daniel Guérin was a French libertarian-communist author,best known for his work Anarchism:From Theory to Practice,as well as his collection No Gods No Masters:An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired,from the first writings of Max Stirner in the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He is also known for his opposition to Nazism,fascism,capitalism,imperialism and colonialism,in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. His revolutionary defense of free love and homosexuality influenced the development of queer anarchism.
Suzanne Monnier Voilquin was a French feminist,journalist,midwife,traveler and author,best known as editor of Tribune des femmes,the first working-class feminist periodical,and her memoirs,Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple:ou,La saint-simonienne en Égypt.
Antoine-Joseph Duc,known as Duc-Quercy and sometimes called Albert Duc-Quercy,was a French journalist and militant socialist. He was involved in several strikes in the coal mining areas of Aveyron. He twice ran unsuccessfully for election to the legislature as socialist.
Eugène Baudin was a French porcelain worker and left-wing politician. He became an activist at an early age,and was forced into exile for his activities during the Paris Commune. After returning to France he was arrested twice for his activism before being elected to the legislature for two terms. At first enthusiastic,he became disillusioned and declined to run for reelection in 1898. He returned to porcelain making,and died in obscurity.
