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Lafont
Lafont is a Southern French surname. It may refer to: *Alban Lafont (born 1999), Burkinabé-born French footballer *Bernadette Lafont (1938–2013), French actress and the mother of Pauline Lafont *Bruno Lafont (born 1956), French businessman * Charles Philippe Lafont (1781–1839), French violinist and composer *Cristina Lafont, American philosopher * Dominique Lafont (born 1961), French businessperson *Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 1945), Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana since 2004 *Ernest Lafont (1879–1946), French socialist politician *Eugène Lafont (1837–1908), Belgian Jesuit, Missionary in Bengal, scientist and founder of the first Scientific Society in India *Henri Lafont (1902–1944), the head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II * Jean-Philippe Lafont (born 1951), French baritone *Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont (1825–1908), French naval officer, Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 1879 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alban Lafont
Alban Marc Lafont (born 23 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for club Nantes, where he is the captain. Born in Burkina Faso, he represents France at international level. Having progressed through the academy of AS Lattoise, Lafont signed for Toulouse in 2014 where he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in Ligue 1 upon making his debut the following year. He went on to make over 100 appearances for the club across all competitions before joining Fiorentina in 2018. In 2019, he returned to France in a loan deal to Nantes; the deal was made permanent in 2021. Lafont has also represented France at various youth levels, and featured for the nation at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Early life Lafont was born in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to a French father and Burkinabe Dyula mother. His parents separated when he was nine years old and Lafont moved to France to live with his father in Herault. His mother remained in Burkina Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelle Lafont
Marcelle Lafont (23 November 1905 - 8 October 1982) was a chemist, chemical engineer, member of the French Resistance and later a politician. Born into the successful bourgeois Lafont family (owners of the Adolphe Lafont company) she broke with tradition and earned a degree in chemical engineering, became a truck driver, an aviator and spoke several languages. In 1935 she ran for election in Villeurbanne when women still did not have the right to vote in France. During the Second World War, her work in the French Resistance earned her the Resistance Medal. She later took up politics in Songieu. Early life and education Marcelle Lafont was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon on 23 November 1905, the only daughter of Pauline (née Falb) and Adolphe Lafont. Her father was an industrialist and founder of the company Adolphe Lafont, the first inventors of salopettes. Her mother used the family fortune and connections in her philanthropic work. The young Marcelle often accompani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont
Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont (24 April 1825 – 31 January 1908) was a French naval officer who was Governor of Cochinchina from 1877 to 1879. He joined the navy at the age of sixteen, rose steadily through the ranks, and served in Vietnam, the Philippines, West Africa, the Crimea, the Baltic, the Indian Ocean, China and East Africa. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 he was given command of land troops. After returning from Cochinchina he held various senior naval commands, including commander in chief of the training squadron from 1885 to 1886. Early years (1825–47) Louis Charles Georges Jules Lafont was born on 24 April 1825 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. His parents were Jacques Charles Lafont (1768–1839), a merchant, and Elisabeth Perriquet (1795–1871). He joined the navy when he was sixteen. He became an ''aspirant'' (midshipman) on 1 September 1843 in Toulon. He served on the ''Victorieuse'' during a long campaign in the Far East. He distinguished him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Lafont
Eugène Lafont, S.J. (26 March 1837 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium – 10 May 1908 in Darjeeling, British India), was a Belgian Jesuit priest, who became a missionary in India, where he became a noted scientist and the founder of the first Scientific Society in India. Formation and early years He was born in Mons, where his father, Pierre Lafont, a military officer, was stationed. After secondary studies in the Jesuit Collège de Sainte-Barbe in his town, in 1854 Lafont was received into the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, located in the former Norbertine Abbey of Tronchiennes in Ghent. He then went through the usual Jesuit formation, spending his period of Regency teaching in Jesuit schools in Ghent (1857–59) and Liège (1862–63), followed by his studying to obtain degrees in both philosophy in Tournai and the natural sciences in Namur (1863–65). In Namur he showed a particular aptitude for physical experimentation. Service in India St. Xavier's College In 1859 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Lafont
Bernadette Lafont (28 October 1938 – 25 July 2013) was a French actress who appeared in more than 120 feature films. She has been considered "the face of French New Wave". In 1999 she told ''The New York Times'' her work was "the motor of my existence". Career Bernadette Lafont had her debut in '' Les Mistons'' ("The Mischief Makers") in 1958 and became part of the Nouvelle Vague in the 1960s because of her films with François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. In 1986 Lafont was awarded a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ''An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée)''. In the following year, she was again nominated, this time for '' Masques''. For her long service to the French motion picture industry, she was awarded an Honorary César in 2003 . In May 2007, she chaired the jury for the fifth edition of the Award for Education presented at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor on 14 July 2009. Her complete filmography include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Lafont
Cristina Lafont is Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Biography Lafont graduated 'cum laude' with a Licenciatura in philosophy from the Universidad de Valencia in 1987. From there, she moved to Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Main), where she obtained her PhD in philosophy (Dr. phil.) 'summa cum laude' in 1992 under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas. At the same university, she was awarded the Habilitation in the year 2000. Cristina Lafont has held numerous positions as a distinguished lecturer or visiting professor in the English-speaking, Spanish-speaking and German-speaking academic world. Thus, she was Visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (Mexico), Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Lehrbeauftragte at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt. In 2008, she held a Secularity and Value Lecture at the London School of Economics, in 2009 the Garcí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Lafont
Louis-Ernest Lafont (26 July 1879 in Lyon – 7 May 1946 in Paris French National Assembly. Ernest, Louis LAFONT (1879 - 1946)'Gordon, David M. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880 - 1914'. Westport, Conn. .a. Greenwood Press, 1996. p. 113) was a French socialist politician. Lafont represented Loire in the French National Assembly between 1914 and 1928, and then Hautes-Alpes between 1928 and 1936. He served as Minister of Public Health 1935-1936. Politically, he was a disciple of Hubert Lagardelle.Wohl, Robert. French Communism in the Making, 1914-1924'. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1966. p. 31 A lawyer by profession from a bourgeois background, Lafont was a graduate of the ''Ecole des sciences politiques'' and a lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeals. He obtained a doctorate in Law. He served as the legal attorney of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). Inside French Section of the Workers International (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Lafont
Bruno Lafont (born 8 June 1956) is a French businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of Lafarge from 2006 to 2015, when it merged with Holcim to become LafargeHolcim. He served as the co-chairman of LafargeHolcim from 2015 to April 2017. Early life Lafont was born in 1956. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1977 as well as the École nationale d'administration in Paris. Career Lafont joined Lafarge as an auditor in the finance department in 1983, He subsequently worked in Germany and Turkey. He was appointed as its CEO on January 1, 2006. Under his tenure, he oversaw the international expansion of Lafarge to 70 countries, including the acquisition of minority shareholders in Lafarge North America. Additionally, he cut costs by 60% within the first year, notably by divesting from its roof-manufacturing subsidiary. By December 2008, he acquired Orascom Cement, a subsidiary of Orascom Construction Industries, for €8.8 billion, and he brought billionaires Albert Frère ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont
Emmanuel Marie Philippe Louis Lafont (born 26 October 1945) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Cayenne in French Guiana from 2004 to 2020. Lafont was born in Paris and studied in France and Rome; the Pontifical Gregorian University granted him a Licentiate in Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Tours on 2 August 1970. His posts have included: assistant parish priest, student ministry, youth ministry for Tours Diocese, and fourteen years of missionary work in Soweto, South Africa. While in Africa as part of the Fidei donum initiative, he also taught at Pretoria's major seminary. On returning to France, he was National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies for two consecutive terms and served as the Secretary of the French Bishops’ Commission for Missionary Cooperation. From 2002 until his elevation to the episcopacy in 2004, he served as a parish priest in his home archdiocese. Concerning Lafont's work as a prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Lafont
Dominique Lafont (born March 29, 1961), is a French corporate leader. In 2006, he became Managing Director for Africa in the Bolloré Group. On January 1, 2012, he was named President oBolloré Africa Logistics, the Group subsidiary combining all of the Group's infrastructure and logistic activities both within Africa and outside the continent, across the major emerging countries trading with Africa. Education Dominique Lafont holds degrees from Paris' IEP Institute of Political Science, the ESSEC Business School and a University degree in business law. Career path Mr. Lafont began his professional career in 1987 with the Arthur Andersen audit firm. In 1995, he worked as the Director of Industrial Participations of the Rivaud Group, before joining the Bolloré Group following its friendly takeover of the Rivaud Group in 1997. By 1999, Dominique Lafont became the Group's Financial Director for Africa. He then became the Managing Director for the Group activities in English-sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Lafont
Pauline Lafont (6 April 196311 August 1988) was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, a Hungarian sculptor. Born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking accident in Barre-des-Cévennes, Lozère, France. Three months and ten days after she had set out, her body was found by a passing farmer at the foot of a cliff, four kilometres from her home. Investigators determined she had fallen more than ten metres and died instantly. Prior to the discovery of her body, her disappearance had triggered several rumours regarding her whereabouts. Filmography Film *1976: ''Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)'' (directed by Pierre Zucca) - Une petite fille *1983: '' Les Planqués du régiment'' (directed by Michel Caputo) - Christiane, l'infirmière *1983: '' Papy fait de la résistance'' (directed by Jean-Marie Poiré) - Colette Bourdelle *1983: '' Balade sanglante'' (Short, directed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robèrt Lafont
Robèrt Lafont (; March 16, 1923 in Nîmes – June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robert Lafont. Biography Robèrt Lafont was professor emeritus at the Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier. A professional linguist, he was a polyglot, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and a medievalist. A versatile writer, Lafont wrote nearly a hundred books in Occitan, French, Catalan and Italian. The wide scope of themes he explores includes the history of literature and of society, linguistics and sociolinguistics and the social-economic imbalance in France and Europe. In the essays he wrote in French, Robèrt Lafont tackles the problems encountered not only by the people of Occitania but also the various minorities struggling for official recognition under French rule, such as Bretons, Catalans, Basques, Corsica Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
