Pernes-les-Fontaines (; officially Pernes until 1936;
Occitan: ''Pèrnas dei Fònts'' or simply ''Pèrnas'') is a
commune in the southeastern French
department of
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (; oc, Vauclusa, label= Provençal or ) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It had a population of 561,469 as of 2019.[Esprit Fléchier
Esprit Fléchier (10 June 163216 February 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710.
Biography
Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in today's ''département'' of Vaucluse, in the then Comtat Venaissin, ...]
(1632–1710)
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Esprit Antoine Blanchard Esprit-Joseph-Antoine Blanchard (29 February 1696 – 19 April 1770) was a French baroque composer, a contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, and regarded as a representative composer of religious music in eighteenth-century France.Tai Wai Li ''Ma ...
(1696–1770)
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Charles Giraud
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He was twice Minister of Education during the French Second Republic.
Early years
Charles Joseph Barthélémy Giraud was born on 20 Februa ...
(1802–1885)
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Paul de Vivie
Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio
(1853–1930)
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Daniel Sorano
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(1920–1962)
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Ahmad Jamal
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Biography Early life
Jamal was born Fr ...
(born 1930)
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Jean Ragnotti (born 1945)
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Richard Descoings
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(1958–2012)
See also
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Communes of the Vaucluse department
References
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Communes of Vaucluse