Pitot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mallarmé is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kellermann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Marmontel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Francis Turretin was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian.
Duvalier is a French and Haitian surname, and may refer to:
Diodati or Deodati is a family name. The Diodati were a patrician family from Lucca. In Lucca, in the sixteenth century, they commissioned the sculptor and architect Nicolao Civitalia to build the Palazzo Diodati now Palazzo Orsetti. They were forced to move to Geneva due to their adherence to the Protestant religion. The first to convert and to permanently reside in Geneva was Pompeo (1542-1602), son of Niccolò (1511-1544) and of his wife Zabetta Arnolfini. Pompeo became a disciple of Pier Martire Vermigli after having been exposed to reformist ideas during his travels to Piedmont and Lyon. In 1563 he was in Venice, in 1564 again in Lyons, in 1565 in Geneva; then in Montargis near Renata d'Este, when he returned to Lucca he was forced to abandon his city having been denounced to the Inquisition. He resided permanently in Geneva from 1572. Pompeo Diodati together with Francesco Turrettini, Orazio Micheli, Fabrizio Burlamacchi, Cesare Balbani, all fellow citizens of Lucca who were exiled for reasons of faith, created the cartel of Geneva silk merchants, called La Grande Boutique.
Harlay is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Blanchet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Le Tellier is the name of the French noble family, while Letellier is a surname, and may refer to:
Clerc is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Leleu is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lefrançois or LeFrançois is a surname of French origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Duret is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pietri or Piétri is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Le Tonnelier or Tonnellier literally means "cooper" in French.
Quemener, Quéméner, Quéméneur, Quémeneur or Kemener is a surname, and may refer to;
The surname Courvoisier or de Courvoisier is in origin a French word, meaning 'shoemaker'. The word comes from Old French courveis ('leather') which itself comes from the Latin word Cordubense meaning 'from Cordova', originally referring to a kind of leather associated with that city.
François Turrettini was a Swiss Sinologist and publisher, active in the City of Geneva in the late 19th century. The descendant of an elite family involved in politics since the Italian theologist François Turrettini's refuge to the city republic in the 17th century. François Turrettini, the sinologist, founded the publishing firm "L'Atsumegusa" in Geneva that, for the first time in Europe, printed East Asian texts in Chinese characters, starting in 1871. His research and publishing projects relied on the assistance of Tschin Ta-Ni, a Chinese typesetter, who was the first Chinese person to obtain citizenship in the City and Republic of Geneva.
François Turrettini may refer to:
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