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1937 In France
Events from the year 1937 in France. Incumbents *President of France, President: Albert Lebrun *Prime Minister of France, President of the Council of Ministers: Léon Blum (until 22 June), Camille Chautemps (starting 22 June) Events *April – The arrival of a young male Kouprey and other animals from Indochina in the Paris Zoological Park, Vincennes Zoo. *1 May – General strike in Paris. *21 June – Coalition government of Léon Blum resigns. Sport *30 June – 1937 Tour de France, Tour de France begins. *25 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Lapébie. Births *21 January – François Boutin, Thoroughbred horse trainer (died 1995) *8 February – Françoise Claustre, Archaeology, archaeologist (died 2006) *13 February – Andrée Brunin, poet (died 1993) *4 March – Barney Wilen, saxophonist and jazz composer (died 1996) *8 March – André Aschieri, politician (died 2021) *21 March – François Bonlieu, Alpine skiing, Alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Claustre
Françoise Claustre (8 February 1937 – 3 September 2006), was a French archaeologist. Life and career Claustre was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an assistant of Claustre's husband, Pierre. Marc Combe managed to escape and Staewan was released on 11 June 1974, after a ransom had been paid by the West German government. Military officer Pierre Galopin was sent to negotiate with the rebels on behalf of the French and Chadian Governments, but he was captured by them in August 1974, and executed in April 1975 after the French government refused to exchange him for arms. Claustre's husband, a senior French development worker, was away on business when the attack on Bardaï took place. He lobbied strongly to get his wife released, and also attempted to intervene h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Est Républicain
''L'Est Républicain'' (; ) is a daily regional French newspaper based in Nancy, France. ''L'Est Républicain'' was established in 1889 by Léon Goulette, a French Republican. The newspaper was founded on the grounds of ''anti- Boulangisme''. It was closed down in 1941 when France was under German occupation during World War II. In 1946 it was restarted. The paper is headquartered in Nancy and has its primary market in the regions of Lorraine and Franche-Comté. ''L'Est Républicain'' has a conservative stance. The paper belongs to Société du Journal l'Est Republicain SA, who also owns the newspapers '' La Liberté de l'Est'' and '' Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace'' among others. The publisher of ''L'Est Républicain'' is Est Bourgogne Rhône Alpes. On 23 September 2006, ''L'Est Républicain'' published a report on the possible death of Osama bin Laden. The circulation of the daily was 180,000 copies in 2009. History 1889-1914: Foundation and development LEst Républi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilberte Marin-Moskovitz
Gilberte Céline Marin-Moskovitz (; 22 June 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French Socialist Party politician who served as deputy of Territoire de Belfort's 2nd constituency in the National Assembly from 1988 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2000. She was also elected a councillor to the Belfort Municipal City Council in 1977 and was a four-term General Councillor of the canton of Belfort-Sud between 1982 and 2008. Marin-Moskovitz was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1996. Biography Marin-Moskovitz was born to Louis Marin and Victoire Marin ( Bichler), in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort on 22 June 1937; she had a twin brother who died of meningitis at age seven. She was baptised at the église Saint-Joseph de Belfort. Marin-Moskovitz was trained at the Young Christian Workers, and joined the Socialist Party in 1972. She became a secretary at the manufacturing company Alstom on 8 May 1960 and her probationary period was left uncompleted due to a strike that she was dissu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Lebaube
Jean-Claude Lebaube (July 22, 1937 at Renneville, France – May 2, 1977 in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, France) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1961 to 1969 and won 8 victories. He rode in 7 editions of the Tour de France where he wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for one day in 1966. Other career highlights included a stage win in the Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour de Luxembourg. Palmarès ;1961 :Tour de Tunesie ;1963 :Gouesnou : Tour du Sud-Est :Tour de France: ::4th place overall classification ;1965 :Tour de France: ::5th place overall classification ;1966 :Boucles Pertuisiennes :Tour de France: ::Wearing yellow jersey The general classification of the Tour de France is the most important classification of the race and determines the winner of the race. Since 1919, the leader of the general classification has worn the yellow jersey ( ). History For the first t ... for one day External links *Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Jospin
Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was First Secretary of the French Socialist Party, First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in the 1995 French presidential election, 1995 and 2002 French presidential election, 2002 elections. In 1995, he was narrowly defeated in the second round by Jacques Chirac. In 2002, he was eliminated in the first round after finishing behind both Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen, prompting him to announce his retirement from politics. In 2015, he was appointed to the Constitutional Council (France), Constitutional Council by National Assembly President Claude Bartolone. Biography Early life Lionel Robert Jospin was born to a Protestant family in Meudon, Seine (department), Seine (nowadays Hauts-de-Seine), a suburb of Paris, and is the son of Mireille Dandieu Aliette and Robert Jospin. He attended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryvonne Dupureur
Maryvonne Samson Dupureur (24 May 1937 – 7 January 2008) was a French middle-distance runner. Competing in the 800 m event she won silver medals at the 1964 Olympics and 1967 European Indoor Games; she also took part in the 1960 and 1968 Olympics.Maryvonne Dupureur sports-reference.com Between 1959 and 1969 Dupureur won ten national titles: six in the 800 m, three in the 400 m and one in the 1500 m. She was an Olympic silver medalist in the 800 metres in Tokyo in 1964 after leading for most of the race but being overtaken in the final 100 metres by Great Britain’s Ann Packer, who set a new world record. Dupurer lived for many years in |
Dominique Chaboche
Dominique Chaboche (12 May 1937, Paris – 16 November 2005) was a French far-right wing politician and member of the European Parliament affiliated to the '' Front National''. He succeeded to Alain Robert as general secretary of the National Front (''Front national'') in October 1973. In 1976 he became vice-president of the FN, and was elected European deputy in 1984, and deputy at the National Assembly between 1986 and 1988. From 1986 to 2005, he was president of the National Front group at the regional council of Haute-Normandie. Chaboche was a specialist of international contact with foreign far-right movements, especially in Russia and the Balkans. He can be seen in the documentary ''White Terror'' encouraging Russian Nazi-Skinheads. Quotations * ''If we have to, we will be the first ones to press the trigger !'' (in 1998, in the context of the trial of Jean-Marie Le Pen Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (20 June 1928 – 7 January 2025), commonly known as Jean-Marie Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Allègre
Claude Allègre (; 31 March 1937 – 4 January 2025) was a French politician and scientist. His work in the field of isotope geochemistry was recognised with the award of many senior medals, including the Crafoord Prize for geosciences in 1986 and the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1995. His political service included a three-year term as Minister of Education in France, from 1997 to 2000. Early life Allègre was born in Paris on 31 March 1937, and was the eldest of four children. His father was a professor of natural sciences, and his mother was a school headteacher. Allègre's family was from the Hérault region of France. Background and scientific work Allègre's main area of research was in geochemistry. He started work in this field for his doctoral research, where he focussed on ways of dating rocks using isotope geochemistry; specifically radiometric dating. After realising that there was no laboratory in France where he could make measureme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel Ski binding, bindings, unlike other types of skiing (Cross-country skiing, cross-country, Telemark skiing, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for recreation or for sport, it is typically practiced at ski resorts, which provide such services as ski lifts, artificial snow making, snow grooming, restaurants, and ski patrol. "Piste, Off-piste" skiers—those skiing outside ski area boundaries—may employ snowmobiles, heliskiing, helicopters or Snowcat, snowcats to deliver them to the top of a slope. Back country skiing, Back-country skiers may use specialized equipment with a free-heel mode, including 'sticky' Ski skins, skins on the bottoms of the skis to stop them sliding backwards during an ascent, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent. Alpine ski racing has been held at the Alpine skiing at the Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Bonlieu
François Pierre Philippe Bonlieu (21 March 1937 – 18 August 1973) was a French alpine skier. Bonlieu debuted for the French alpine skiing national team when he was 15 years old. He was a four time French Champion (twice in the giant slalom, once in the slalom and Alpine Combined), and won the gold medal in the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria in the Giant slalom. He was killed in a fight in 1973. Early life François Pierre Philippe Bonlieu was born at Juvincourt-et-Damary, Aisne, on 21 March 1937. He experienced difficulty in childhood and was "virtually homeless". He never knew his father, and after the end of World War II his mother moved to Contamines in the Alps. He became interested in skiing at a young age while living in the Alps, teaching himself. Career Bonlieu debuted for the French alpine skiing national team when he was 15 years old, after winning a youth cup. At the age of 17 he placed second in the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1954. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Aschieri
André Aschieri (8 March 1937 – 6 December 2021) was a French politician. He served as mayor of Mouans-Sartoux from 1974 to 2015, was a member of the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002, and was Vice-President of Land and Housing of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2004 to 2015. He was the founder of the and was a member of the Grenelle Environnement. Biography Aschieri carried out his military service in the Algerian War from 1960 to 1962. Beginning his career as a math teacher, he was elected to the Municipal Council of Mouans-Sartoux in 1971. He became mayor in 1974 and was continuously re-elected in the first round of each election. As mayor, he became Vice-President of the upon its foundation in 2001. From the end of the 1980s until the project's abandonment in the late 1990s, Aschieri supported the expansion of the A8 autoroute through Grasse and the . In the 1990s, he opposed a large real estate project around the Siagne and largely contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
