Luxembourg,officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,is a small landlocked country in Western Europe. It borders Belgium to the west and north,Germany to the east,and France to the south. Its capital and most populous city,Luxembourg,is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union and the seat of several EU institutions,notably the Court of Justice of the European Union,the highest judicial authority. Luxembourg's culture,people,and languages are highly intertwined with its French and German neighbors;while Luxembourgish is the only national language of the Luxembourgish people and of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,French is the only language for legislation,and all three –Luxembourgish,French and German –are used for administrative matters in the country.
Jean-Michel AndréJarre is a French composer,performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic,ambient and new-age genres,and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music,accompanied by vast laser displays,large projections and fireworks.
Michel François Platini is a French football administrator and former player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time,Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times in a row,in 1983,1984 and 1985,and came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. In recognition of his achievements,he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1985 and became an Officier in 1998. As the president of UEFA in 2015 he was banned from involvement in football under FIFA's organisation,over ethics violations. The ban will last until 2023.
The Reformist Movement is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party,but it also contains social-liberal factions.
Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy,France.
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli was a French actor,producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors,being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival.
The flying buttress is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass,in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards,which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs.
Michel Gauthier was a Canadian politician,who served as leader of the Bloc Québécois from 1996 to 1997. As the party was the Official Opposition in the Parliament of Canada,Gauthier was also the Leader of the Opposition during this time. He later recanted his sovereignist views when he joined the Conservative Party two years before his death.
Michel Barnier is a French politician who served as the European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as Chief Negotiator,Task Force for the Preparation and Conduct of the Negotiations with the United Kingdom under Article 50 TEU from October 2016 to November 2019.
The Académie des Beaux-Arts is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot,a French architect.
Louise Michel was a teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as an important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy." Her use of a black flag at a demonstration in Paris in March 1883 was also the earliest known of what would become known as the anarchy black flag.
Julien Michel Leiris was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Part of the Surrealist group in Paris,Leiris became a key member of the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and head of research in ethnography at the CNRS.
Michel Der Zakarian is an Armenian football manager and former professional player who played as a defender. He is currently manager of Ligue 1 club Montpellier.
Charles Michel is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019.
Saint-Michel is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is also unofficially called Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache.
Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It was the death place of 18th-century botanist Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène and Taos Amrouche,the French-speaking Algerian writer,singer of Kabyle music,and activist for women's causes.
Étienne Blanc is a French politician who has served as a Senator for Rhône since 2020. A member of The Republicans (LR),he previously served as Mayor of Divonne-les-Bains (1991–2019) and represented the 3rd constituency of Ain in the National Assembly (2002–2016). Blanc was also First Vice President of the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes from 2016 to 2020.
David Michel is an American politician who is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 146th district in Fairfield County. Michel Co-Chairs the CT Animal Advocacy Caucus with fellow State Representative Nicole Klarides-Ditria.
The 1985 Ballon d'Or,given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries,was awarded to Michel Platini on 24 December 1985.
