René Primevère Lesson was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.
Jean Gwenaël Dutourd was a French novelist.
Philippe Victor Diolé was a French author and undersea explorer.
Léopold de Folin was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the Musée de la mer in Biarritz, France
Opération Séisme Haiti 2010 is France's military relief operation for the 12 January 2010 earthquake.
Nassarius concinnus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
Talisman scrobilator is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.
Henri Émile Sauvage was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles.
Jean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist born in Tulle. He is known for his studies of invertebrates. He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861–1936).
Jean-Gilles Filhol de Camas was a French Navy officer and captain.
Jean Baptiste François René Koehler was a French zoologist best known for his research of echinoderms.
Michel Antoine was a French, modernist historian.
Tetracus is an extinct genus of gymnures. Species are from the Oligocene of Belgium and France. Fossils can also be found in the Bouldnor Formation in the Hampshire Basin of southern England.
Georges Lacour-Gayet was a French historian who taught at the École Navale and the École Polytechnique. His books on the French navy under Louis XV and Louis XVI are much-quoted and were considered references when published, although they betray his patriotic bias. His master work was a four-volume biography of Talleyrand.
Olivier Dubuquoy is a geographer, film director and environmental activist known for his fight against the pollution of the Mediterranean by red sludge and his fighting for an end to our dependency on fossil fuels responsible for global warming. He is the founder of the citizens' movement Nation Océan and the society for the preservation of climate and the marine environment ZEA.
Étienne Taillemite was a French historian and archivist.
Jean-Jacques Louis Antier was a French journalist. He worked in for various publications such as Paris Normandie and Cols bleus. Antier authored a number of books on naval and maritime History. He also published a number of biographies, novels and spirituality books under the pseudonym Jean-Jacques. Antier died in Tunisia on 1 January 2023, at the age of 94.
Le Talisman was a French Navy sloop built at Le Havre in 1862 which was used for geological, biological and hydrological exploration in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 19th century. It first served as a communications vessel ("aviso"), and was both sail and propeller driven.
Sylvie Brunel is a French economist and geographer, best known for her work for Action Against Hunger from 1989 to 2002, and her various publications in Que sais-je?. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 2002.
