French Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a French sculptor. His son, Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (1828-1893) was also sculptor.

Was a French sculptor. His son, Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (1828-1893) was also sculptor.

Was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. After the imperial university was founded, he was

Was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. After the imperial university was founded, he was appointed professor of Greek literature (1809) with Boissonade as his assistant.

Was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète.Schaeffer was born in Nancy. His p

Was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète.Schaeffer was born in Nancy. His parents were both musicians, and at first it seemed that Pierre would also take this as a career. He studied at the École Polytechnique and after a stint as a telecommunications engineer in Strasbourg from 1934, he is posted in 1936 at Radiodiffusion Française in Paris. It was there that he began to experiment, in 1948, with records because he has many questions about modern musical expression. He tried playing sounds backwards, slowing them down, speeding them up and juxtaposing them with other sounds, all techniques which were virtually unknown at that time. His first completed piece as a result of these experiments was the Étude aux chemins de fer (1948) which was made from recordings of trains.

Was a French astronomer.He worked on the aberration of light, asteroids, lunar dynamics and, in coll

Was a French astronomer.He worked on the aberration of light, asteroids, lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project. Puiseux created a photographic atlas of the Moon based on 6000 photographs taken by him and Loewy.The Puiseux crater on the Moon is named after him.

Is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.Betwee

Is a French composer, considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music.Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d'Essai studio at RTF, founded by Pierre Schaeffer. During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer; he also composed the first musique concrète to appear in a commercial film, the 1952 short film Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie. Henry has scored numerous additional films and ballets. Among Henry's best known works is the experimental 1967 album Messe pour le temps présent, one of several cooperations with choreographer Maurice Béjart featuring the popular track "Psyché Rock."

Was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is the author of Cursus mathematicus, nova, brevi, et

Was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is the author of Cursus mathematicus, nova, brevi, et clara methodo demonstratus, per notas reales et universales, citra usum cujuscunque idiomatis intellectu faciles (published in Paris in six volumes from 1634 to 1637; second edition 1644), a compendium of elementary mathematics written in French and Latin. The work introduced a system of mathematical and logical notation. It has been said that "Hérigone introduced so many new symbols in this six-volume work that some suggest that the introduction of these symbols, rather than an effective mathematics text, was his goal.

Is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Savoie departme

Is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. He represents the Haute-Savoie department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Was a French architect. Humbert built many buildings and "hôtels particuliers" (private homes) in P

Was a French architect. Humbert built many buildings and "hôtels particuliers" (private homes) in Paris and other European cities, such as Brussels for the aristocracy and the upper class of the time, such a the prince of Caraman-Chimay, the duke des Cars or the Schneider familly.

Is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions.Huygh

Is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions.Huyghe was born in 1962 and trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. In 2001 Huyghe represented France at the Venice Biennale, where his pavilion, entitled Le Château de Turing, won a special prize from the jury.

Was a French philosopher. He was born at Soreze and died at Paris. He spent his early years as a tea

Was a French philosopher. He was born at Soreze and died at Paris. He spent his early years as a teacher and a village organist. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he viewed it with favor, but was soon disgusted at the violence of its methods. A critical pamphlet drew upon him the hatred of the revolutionists, and it was not until 1806 that he was able to settle in Paris. In 1809 he published his great work, Des Compensations dans les destines humaines (5th ed. 1846),

Is a French midfielder currently playing for French Ligue 2 side Chamois Niortais.He made his debut

Is a French midfielder currently playing for French Ligue 2 side Chamois Niortais.He made his debut for the club on May 11, 2007, coming on as a substitute in the 2-1 win over US Créteil-Lusitanos.

Was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who as

Was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) for about twenty years. Their working relationship ended when he joined the French Resistance and Le Corbusier did not.

Was a French statesman. After the victory of Fontaine-Française (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his

Was a French statesman. After the victory of Fontaine-Française (1595), Henry took Jeannin into his council and in 1602 named him intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the reign, negotiated the Treaty of Lyon with Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and the defensive alliance between France and the United Netherlands in 1608. As Superintendent of Finances under King Louis XIII, be tried to establish harmony between the king and the Queen Mother, Marie de' Medici.

Is a French author, dramaturge and journalist who writes for Paris Match, Libération and L'Express.

Is a French author, dramaturge and journalist who writes for Paris Match, Libération and L'Express. At present he lives in Paris. For a period of 30 years he worked on a biography of Kurt Gerstein before he finally released the book A Spy for God, which deals with Kurt Gerstein's story and the decades of the author's research.

Is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain R

Is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[1] His brother is Marc Jolivet, the actor, script-writer, director and humourist. They are the sons of Jacques Jolivet (author), and Arlette Thomas, the French voice of the cartoon characters Calimero and Titi (Tweety).

Is a French equestrian, who competed in the sport of show jumping.

Is a French equestrian, who competed in the sport of show jumping.

Was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,

Was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron.

Was an influential French chemist.He is known for his Dictionnaire de chymie (1766). He was also inv

Was an influential French chemist.He is known for his Dictionnaire de chymie (1766). He was also involved in practical applications, to medicine and industry, such as the French development of porcelain. He was an opponent of Lavoisier's theories. The scholar Phillipe Macquer was his brother.In his 1749 Elemens de Chymie Theorique, Macquer builds on Geoffroy’s 1718 affinity table, by devoting a whole chapter to the topic of chemical affinity:[1]

Is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of Franc

Is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of France since 2001. In 1981, when Mitterrand was elected President of France, Joxe became Minister of Industry for only one month, before he became leader of the

Was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Mini

Was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Minister of the Interior from 15 March 1850 to 24 January 1851, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 1851 to 26 October 1851, President of the Conseil d'État from 30 December 1852, briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 4 January 1860 to 24 January 1860, Minister without portfolio from 3 December 1860, and Minister of Justice (and of Public Worship) from 23 June 1863 to 17 July 1869.

Was a French Sculptor and animalière. He is considered the pioneer of animal sculpture in the ninet

Was a French Sculptor and animalière. He is considered the pioneer of animal sculpture in the nineteenth-century. Mêne produced a number of animal sculptures, mainly of domestic animals including horses, cows and bulls, sheep and goats which were in vogue during the Second Empire. He was one of a school of French animalières which also included Rosa Bonheur, Pierre Louis Rouillard, Antoine-Louis Barye, Auguste Caïn, and François Pompon.

Was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.He served an earl

Was a French sculptor who worked in a full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.He served an early apprenticeship at Le Puy, near his natal village of Saint-Paulien, then at the École de dessin of Lyon, then entered the Parisian atelier of Guillaume Co

Was a French screenwriter and film and television director. Kast died from a heart attack onboard an

Was a French screenwriter and film and television director. Kast died from a heart attack onboard an aircraft on 20 October 1984, aged 64.[1]

Was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski an

Was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus. Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Nietzsche, and Walter Benjamin) into French, worked on films and was also an artist, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of George Bataille's review, Acéphale, in the late 1930s.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1967 film Anna, which starred Anna Karin

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1967 film Anna, which starred Anna Karina.[1]