Ferdinand Berthoud, was a scientist and watchmaker. He became master watchmaker in Paris in 1753. Berthoud, who held the position of Horologist-Mechanic by appointment to the King and the Navy, left behind him an exceptionally broad body of work, in particular in the field of sea chronometers.
The arrondissement of Les Sables-d'Olonne is an arrondissement of France in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 71 communes. Its population is 235,082 (2016), and its area is 1,914.7 km2 (739.3 sq mi).
Jean Gwenaël Dutourd was a French novelist.
Philippe Victor Diolé was a French author and undersea explorer.
Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie is a commune in the Vendée department, region of Pays de la Loire, western France.
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.
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.
Coffee production is very important for the economy of Cameroon The crop is grown extensively in the country, with robusta more prevalent in the coastal areas and arabica more widespread in the western highlands. The two varieties of arabica cultivated are Java and Jamaïca of which only Java is resistant to pests such as coffee berry disease and rust. In 2014, Cameroon was ranked the 31st largest producer of coffee in world.
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 French geographer, documentarist and environmental activist known for his denunciation of the pollution of the Mediterranean by red sludge and his advocacy for an end to our dependency on fossil fuels deemed responsible for global warming. He is the founder of the citizens' movement Nation Océan and the society for the preservation of the marine environment ZEA.
Étienne Taillemite was a French historian and archivist.
Jean-Jacques Antier, is a French journalist. He worked in for various publications such as Paris Normandie and Cols bleus. He 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.
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 propellor driven.
