Georges Guillet (1624 - 6 April 1705) was a French scholar, writer and actor, also known by his stage name Guillet de Saint-George, which he first took in 1661.
He was born in Thiers and was the first person to write a history of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He also wrote accounts of travels to the Levant under the pen-name "Sieur de La Guilletière". He died in Paris.
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Louise Charlin Perrin Labé,, also identified as La Belle Cordière, was a feminist French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.
Chambly is an off-island suburb of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Montérégie region, inland from the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.
René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, usually called René Duguay-Trouin, was a famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career and eventually became "Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King", and a Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis. Ten ships of the French Navy were named in his honour.
Louis Guillet was a Quebec notary and political figure.
Pernette Du Guillet was a female French poet of the Renaissance.
The House of Harcourt is a Norman family, descended from the Viking Bernard the Dane, the brother of Rollo of Normandy, and named after its seigneurie of Harcourt in Normandy. Its mottos were "Gesta verbis praeveniant", "Gesta verbis praevenient", and "Le bon temps viendra ... de France".
Saint-Python is a commune in the Nord department in northern France named after Piatus of Tournai. Its inhabitants are called Saint-Piatiens or Piatonnais.
Saint-Mesmin is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Roger Viry-Babel, saw himself as an entertainer, academic and French filmmaker. Pioneer of audiovisual teaching at the University of Nancy II and at its European film institute (IECA), he spent his life bringing together his love of teaching, cinema and the history of his region (Lorraine).
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Pierre-Louis-Adrien de Montgolfier-Verpilleux was a French engineer who became a representative of the Loire in the National Assembly, and then a senator. He was responsible for various hydraulic works in the Loire department. In the last half of his life he was responsible for a major iron and steel company, making heavy armaments and railway tracks.
The Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH) was a French industrial enterprise that made iron and steel products for the French navy, army and railroads. It is often known as Saint-Chamond from its main location in Saint-Chamond, Loire.
François Blouet de Camilly, Count de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, D.D.,, a French Catholic clergyman of the 17th and 18th Centuries, was the 88th Bishop of Toul from 1706 to 1721 and, briefly, the 117th Archbishop of Tours from 1721 to 1723.
François-Nicolas Alphonse Signol,(Saint-Mandé c. 1800 – Vincennes, 26 June 1830) was an early 19th-century French playwright and novelist.
Louis Testelin (1615-1655) was a French painter.
Georges Vésier was a French engineer who for many years headed the Compagnie française des métaux, a major metallurgy company in France specializing in copper and aluminum products.
Jean-Pierre Guillet is a French-Canadian writer born in Iberville, Quebec, in 1953.
Bonnaventure-François de Boisfermé was a French soldier and colonial administrator. He was commander or acting governor in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe and Martinique. He was appointed governor of Grenada but died before taking office.
Louis Licherie de Beurie was a French painter and engraver in the Baroque style. He specialized in Biblical and historical scenes.