Pernes-les-Fontaines (; officially Pernes until 1936;
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
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: ''Pèrnas dei Fònts'' or simply ''Pèrnas'') is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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in the southeastern French
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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of
Vaucluse
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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 ''M ...
(1696–1770)
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Charles Giraud
Charles Joseph Barthélémy Giraud (20 February 1802 – 13 July 1881) was a French lawyer and politician.
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 (April 29, 1853
(1853–1930)
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Daniel Sorano
Daniel Sorano (1920–1962) was a French stage and film actor
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(1920–1962)
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Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.
Biography Early life
Jamal was born Fr ...
(born 1930)
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Jean Ragnotti
Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born 29 August 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse), is a French former rally driver for Renault in the World Rally Championship.
Ranking among his achievements are his conquering of the Monte Carlo Rally in 1981, w ...
(born 1945)
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Richard Descoings
Richard Descoings (; June 23, 1958 – April 3, 2012) was a French civil servant. He was serving as the Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (French: ''Institut d'études politiques de Paris'' or Sciences Po Paris), and as suc ...