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Jean-Pierre (given Name)
Jean-Pierre is a French male given name (in English "John-Peter"). It may refer to: * Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911–2001), a French actor * Jean-Pierre Bemba (b. 1962), a Congolese politician and rebel leader * Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753–1809), a French inventor and aviation pioneer * Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932–2007), a French actor * Jean-Pierre Changeux (b. 1936), a French neuroscientist * Jean-Pierre Chantin (born 1961), a French historian of religion * Jean-Pierre Chauveau (b. 1942), a French politician * Jean-Pierre Chevènement (b. 1939), a French politician * Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), a French poet and romance writer * Jean-Pierre Corteggiani (1942–2022), a French Egyptologist * Jean-Pierre Côté (1926–2002), a Canadian politician * Jean-Pierre Dardenne (b. 1951), one of the Dardenne brothers filmmaking duo * Jean-Pierre Demailly (1957–2022), a French mathematician * Jean-Pierre Elkabbach (1937—2023), a French journalist * Jean Pierre Flour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John (given Name)
John ( ) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew origin. The English form is from Middle English ''Ioon'', ''Ihon'', ''Iohn, Jan'' (mid-12c.), itself from Old French ''Jan'', ''Jean'', ''Jehan'' (Modern French ''Jean (male given name), Jean''), from Medieval Latin ''Johannes'', altered form of Late Latin ''Ioannes'', or the Middle English personal name is directly from Medieval Latin, which is from the Ancient Greek, Greek name Ioannis (Ιωάννης), originally borne by Hellenistic Judaism, Jews transliterating the Hebrew name ''Johanan (name), Yochanan'' (), the contracted form of the longer name (), meaning "YHWH is Gracious" or "YHWH is Merciful". There are numerous forms of the name in different languages; these were formerly often simply translated as "John" in English but are increasingly left in their native forms (see sidebar). The name Jonathan (name), Jonathan (or Jon) derives from a distinct Bible, Biblical name ''Yonatan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Foucault
Jean-Pierre Foucault (; born 23 November 1947) is a French television and radio host. He was the host of ''Qui veut gagner des millions ?'', the French version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', and of ''Zone Rouge'', the French version of ''The Chair (game show), The Chair''. He has been hosting the Miss France pageant since 1996 and hosted the Miss Europe pageant in Miss Europe 2003, 2003, Miss Europe 2005, 2005 and Miss Europe 2006, 2006. Foucault played himself in the 2006 film My Best Friend (2006 film), ''Mon Meilleur Ami'' directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Dany Boon as a taxi driver who wins the top prize in ''Qui veut gagner des millions ?'' Foucault was born in Marseille to a Jewish mother. He shares his life with Évelyne Jarre without being married. He has a daughter from a previous marriage, Virginie Foucault. Radio * 2006–2014: ''La Bonne Touche'' with Cyril Hanouna (2006–2011) on RTL (French radio), RTL * 2014–2016: ''Les pieds dans le plat'' on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Richard
Jean-Pierre Richard (15 July 1922 – 15 March 2019) was a French literary critic. Biography Jean-Pierre Richard began his advanced studies at the École normale supérieure, at the time a school of the University of Paris, in 1941, passed the "agrégation" in literature in 1945, and got his doctoral degree (doctorat ès lettres) in 1962 at the University of Paris. He taught literature first in foreign universities, and then in France, and finally became a professor at the University of Paris IV in 1978. Since the publication of ''Littérature et Sensation'' in 1954, which brought him critical attention, Jean-Pierre Richard has continually sought to explore – in the works of writers of the nineteenth and twentieth century – the links between their writings and their intimate experience of the world. In his first book, which studied Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert, Eugène Fromentin, Fromentin and the Goncourt brothers, he analyzed these authors' perceptions an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and spurring contemporary composers, such as Francis Poulenc, to create new works that have become modern standards in the flautist's repertoire. Early years Born in Marseille, the only child of Andrée (née Roggero) and flautist Joseph Rampal. His father Joseph was taught by Hennebains, who also taught Rene le Roy and Marcel Moyse. Dorgeuille, p. 26Joseph Rampal studied flute at the Paris Conservatoire where Adolphe Hennebains (1862–1914) had in 1909 succeeded Paul Taffanel as professor of flute. Joseph Rampal went on to win the First Prize in the Conservatoire's annual flute competition in 1919. Under the tutelage of his father, Rampal began playing the flute at the age of 12. He studied the Altès method at the Conservatoire, where he won first prize in the school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin (; born 3 August 1948) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005 under President Jacques Chirac. He resigned after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution. However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote. Opinion polls following his resignation suggested that Raffarin was one of France's least popular prime ministers since the Fifth Republic was established in 1958. However, according to the book ''France: 1815–2003'', written by Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin, Raffarin was "a remarkably popular Prime Minister" despite his ability "to state the obvious and to make empty statements". He was also Vice President of the Senate from 2011 to 2014. Early life Born 3 August 1948, Raffarin grew up in Poitiers, the son of a prominent national figure: his father Jean Raffarin was vice-minister of Agriculture in the gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Pury
Jean-Pierre Pury (1675 – 1736) was an explorer, geographer and colonist from the Principality of Neuchâtel, a Prussian principality in modern-day Switzerland. He served as mayor of Lignières and worked as a wine merchant before losing his wealth to a fire. He then worked as a corporal for the Dutch East India Company, which inspired him to found his own colony. After years of campaigning, he was granted permission by the British Crown to establish a settlement in the Province of Carolina. He established the Colony of Purrysburg (present day Purrysburg, South Carolina) and lived as a planter on 12,000 acres. His colony, made up of mostly Swiss Protestants, was relatively unsuccessful. Early life and family Pury was born in 1675 in Neuchâtel, Kingdom of Prussia (present day Switzerland) to Henry Pury and Marie Hersler. His father, who was a tradesman of tin pottery, died when he was an infant. His mother remarried to Louis Quinche, a patrician and member of the Grand Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Papin
Jean-Pierre Roger Guillaume Papin (; born 5 November 1963) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a forward. He is the head coach of Championnat National 3 club Marseille B. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1991. Papin was included in the FIFA 100, a list of the greatest living footballers, published in 2004 for the centenary of the FIFA, signed by Pelé. He was named one of the best European footballers on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the UEFA in 2004. He is famous in particular for his first-time strikes from distance, his overhead kicks, and his volleys, which are known as ''Papinades''. The nickname of JPP was given to him by supporters and journalists. Trained at Jeumont, Papin signed his first professional contract in 1984 at Valenciennes. Recruited by Brugge, he won the Belgian Cup and went on to be selected for the French team for the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Signed by Marseille, he experienced the pinnacle of his career as he won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas ''Bob le flambeur'' (1956), ''Le Doulos'' (1962), ''Le Samouraï'' (1967), and ''Le Cercle Rouge'' (1970), and the war films ''Le Silence de la mer (1949 film), Le Silence de la mer'' (1949) and ''Army of Shadows'' (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to film making was influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the ''nom de guerre'' (pseudonym) 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them Crime film, crime dramas, have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Mader
Jean-Pierre Mader is a French singer-songwriter and producer (born 21 June 1955 in Toulouse). He remains particularly known for his smash hit "Macumba", released in 1985. After his singing career during the 1980s, he became producer for many French artists, such as Michel Fugain, Philippe Léotard and Bernard Lavilliers. Early life and education The only son of Henri, a hotelier who also managed a golf course, and Simone, a psychiatric nurse, Mader was educated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Toulouse, an order following the pedagogical principles of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle. After studying computer science, he became the bassist for the Toulouse-based band Tangara. In the summer of 1974, he auditioned to replace Francis Cabrel in the southwestern France dance orchestra ''Les Gaulois''. Music career At around the age of 25, Mader released a few singles and a studio album between the late 1970s and early 1980s, but they failed to gain significant commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with '' The 400 Blows'' (1959). He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki. Early life Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in '' The 400 Blows''. To cast the two central characters, Antoine Doinel and his partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut published an announcement in '' France-Soir'' and auditioned several hundred children in September and October 1958. Jean Domarchi, a critic at '' Cahiers du cinéma'', had earlier r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter. His films combine fantasy, realism, and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations. Jeunet debuted as a director with the acclaimed 1991 black comedy ''Delicatessen (1991 film), Delicatessen,'' collaborating with Marc Caro. Jeunet then co-wrote and -directed with Caro again on ''The City of Lost Children'' (1995). His work with science fiction and horror led him to direct ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997), the fourth film in the Alien (franchise), ''Alien'' film series and his first and thus far only experience with an American film. In 2001, Jeunet achieved his biggest success with the release of ''Amélie'', which won him international acclaim; the film reached BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. Jeunet is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important directors in modern French cinema, and his critical and commercial succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jean-Pierre Houdin
Jean-Pierre Houdin (; born 1951) is a French architect. He developed a theory detailing how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Pyramid construction theory In 1999, Houdin's father, a retired civil engineer, started to develop the idea that the pyramids had been built from the inside. Jean-Pierre Houdin, using advanced 3D modelling technology, helped him identify a construction anomaly which they named "the spiral structure". It looked exactly like a ramp built inside the pyramid which they thought could have played a part in its construction. In 2003, his father created the Association of the Construction of the Great Pyramid (ACGP) in order to promote the project. This association enabled him to meet a number of experts. In 2005, Mehdi Tayoubi and Richard Breitner from Dassault Systèmes invited him to join a new sponsorship programme “Passion For Innovation”. Together, they decided to examine the theory in the light of Dassault Systèmes's industrial and scientific 3D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
