Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French politician and épée fencer who served as Minister of Sports from 2017 to 2018. Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, she has won the most Olympic medals of any French sportswoman, with five. Before 2007, she was a member of the Levallois Sporting Club Escrime, and now works with Lagardère Paris Racing. She is married and has one daughter.
The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges (lycées) in France.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is a French political historian of Georgian origin, specializing in Russian history. Since 1999, she has served as the Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française, to which she was first elected in 1990.
Authie is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been serving as the president of France since 14 May 2017. Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, later completing a master's degree in public affairs at Sciences Po and graduating from the École nationale d'administration in 2004. He worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co.
The Republicans is a liberal-conservative political party in France, belonging to the Gaullist tradition. The party was formed on 30 May 2015 from the renaming and refoundation of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which had been founded in 2002 under the leadership of former President of France Jacques Chirac.
Audrey Azoulay is a French civil servant and politician who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since 2017, becoming the second female leader of the organization. She previously served as France's Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2016 to 2017.
Leïla Slimani is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In 2016 she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce.
La République En Marche !, sometimes called simply En Marche ! as its original name, is a centrist and liberal political party in France.
Sophie Gagnant-Ferracci is a business lawyer. During the French presidential election of 2017, she headed Emmanuel Macron's staff. She is also the wife of French economist Marc Ferracci.
Alexandre Holroyd is a Swiss-born French-British politician.
Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 4th constituency for French residents overseas since 2017. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), his constituency covers Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Vésuve de Brekka is a French horse, specifically a bay gelding from the Selle Français stud-book. He was first a service horse in the French Republican Guard, then offered as a diplomatic gift from French President Emmanuel Macron to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in January 2018.
Opinion polling on the presidency of Emmanuel Macron has been regularly conducted by French pollsters since the start of his five-year term. Public opinion on various issues has also been tracked.
The Paris Peace Forum is a French non-profit organization created in March 2018. Annually, from 11 to 13 November, the organization hosts a gathering of world leaders and heads of international organizations, as well as leaders from the civil society and the private sector and as well as thousands of individuals from around the globe, on creating forms of collective action. The Paris Peace Forum completes the existing world agenda of multilateral gatherings by creating a specific event for global governance issues, as economic and financial issues are dealt at the World Economic Forum of Davos, and security issues at the Munich Security Conference.
Geneanet is a genealogy website with 4 million members. The database consists of data added by participants and is intended for all genealogists. The website is collaborative and the data added by the members are available for free to any interested people. An optional annual subscription provides additional search options and additional records.
Hadja Idrissa Bah, also Hadja Idy is a child's rights and women's rights activist from Guinea, who was elected President of the Guinean Children's Parliament in 2016. She has advised President Emmanuel Macron on women's issues.
Sophie Pétronin is a French-Swiss humanitarian aid worker and nutritionist. She is the founder and director of Aide a Gao, a Swiss non-governmental relief organization that assists children suffering from malnutrition. While working in Gao in 2016, she was abducted by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali. Following her disappearance, the Ministère Public and the General Directorate for Internal Security opened an investigation. She appeared in multiple videos released by her captors, pleading for help from her son and from the French government. During her captivity, Pétronin converted to Islam and took the name Mariam. She was released in October 2020, alongside Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse and two Italian citizens, after being held hostage for 1,381 days. Pétronin revealed that Béatrice Stöckli, a Swiss Christian missionary who had been held hostage alongside her, was killed earlier that year by the terrorist organization. Prior to her release, Pétronin was the last French citizen to be held hostage in the world.
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