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Pierre Duval (1618–1683) was a French geographer.
Pierre Duval was born in Abbeville. He was the nephew and pupil of the geographer Nicolas Sanson. Encouraged by Louis XIV to move to Paris, he later became Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. [1] He was also a globe maker. [2]
Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados department, region of Normandy, France. Cabourg is on the coast of the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Dives. The back country is a plain, favourable to the culture of cereal. The town sits on the Côte Fleurie and its population increases by over 40,000 during the summer.
Nicolas Sanson was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father of French cartography."
André Mandouze, was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and an anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activist.
Edouard Duval-Carrié is a Haitian-born American contemporary painter and sculptor based in Miami, Florida.
The Parisii were a Gallic tribe that dwelt on the banks of the river Seine during the Iron Age and the Roman era. They lived on lands now occupied by the modern city of Paris, whose name is derived from the ethnonym.
The Twin is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert, starring Pierre Richard, Camilla More and Carey More. Based on Donald Westlake's novel Two Much, the story involves an indebted Frenchman who meets a pair of beautiful and rich American twin sisters. Inventing a twin brother, he manages to marry both and live their opulent lifestyle.
Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus was a French painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes.
Pierre Duval Le Camus, known as Camus le père was a French painter and lithographer who specialized in portraits and genre scenes. His son, Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus, also became a well-known artist.
Christopher Frank was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director. He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel La Nuit américaine that served the basis for Andrzej Zulawski's film That Most Important Thing: Love.
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Pierre Monbeig was a French geographer.
Noël Duval was a French archaeologist.
Anarchism in French Guiana has a short, and little recorded, history. The only continental territory in Latin America to remain under European control into the 21st century, Guiana has not seen the same political developments as most countries in the region. Still, anarchism has existed to some degree, mainly through the presence of political prisoners deported to the colony. In the modern era, anarchism has had a minor presence in the Guianan political milieu.
Pierre Petit was a French astronomer, physicist, mathematician and instrument maker.
Xavier Barsalou-Duval is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election.
Armand Gouffé was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, goguettier and vaudevillist.
Matroni and Me is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 1999.
Établissements Monopole was a French manufacturing company that produced parts for automobile engines. The company also built and raced a series of small displacement endurance racing cars. After a series of mergers and acquisitions the Monopole name was retired in Europe, but survives in Africa in the name of a former licensee.
Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (1780-1846) was a French illustrator and lithographer, also an archaeologist and curator at the Louvre museum.
Pierre-Marie-Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu was a French nobleman known for his works as a member of the Knights of Malta and later as an officer of the émigré unit, Régiment Royal Louis.
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