Pierre Duval (other)
Pierre Duval is the name of: * Pierre Duval (geographer) (1618–1683), French geographer * Pierre Duval (singer) (born 1932), French-Canadian operatic tenor * Pierre Duval, a pseudonym used by Remy Chauvin (1913–2009), French entomologist and parapsychological writer * Pierre Duval Le Camus Pierre Duval Le Camus, known as Camus le père (13 February 1790, Lisieux - 29 July 1854, Saint-Cloud) was a French painter and lithographer who specialized in portraits and genre scenes. His son, Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus, also became a wel ...

Pierre Duval (geographer)
Pierre Duval (1618–1683) was a French geographer. Pierre Duval was born in Abbeville. He was the nephew and pupil of the geographer Nicolas Sanson. Encouraged by Louis XIV to move to Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ..., he later became Geographe Ordinaire du Roy. References People from Abbeville 1618 births 1683 deaths French geographers {{France-scientist-stub ...
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Pierre Duval (singer)
Pierre Duval (17 September 1932 – 31 May 2004) was a French-Canadian operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1960s and 1970s. Possessing a warm lyrical voice with a considerable amount of flexibility and stamina, Duval sang mostly roles from the standard French and Italian repertories. He particularly excelled in bel canto works, notably singing opposite such lauded bel canto interpreters as Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills, and Montserrat Caballé during his career. Biography Pierre Duval (stage name) was born Ovide Coutu, in Montreal, Quebec, where he took voice lessons with Frank Rowe. He then studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Dina Maria Narici. While there he began performing on Canadian radio and television. In 1960 he made his professional opera debut at the Opéra de Montréal in the title role of Charles Gounod's '' Faust''. In 1961 Duval left for Italy to study on a scholarship at the Accademia Nazionale di ...
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Remy Chauvin
Remy Chauvin (10 October 1913 – 8 December 2009) at Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, was a biologist and entomologist, and a French people, French Honorary Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, PhD, and a senior research fellow since 1946. Chauvin was also known for defending the rights of animals and for being interested in such topics as parapsychology, life after death, psychics, clairvoyance and the phenomenon of UFOs. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Duval. Evolution Chauvin, continuing a tradition defended by French scientists Pierre-Paul Grassé and Jean Piveteau, was very critical of Darwinism and sociobiology. He developed his own evolutionary theory which was described in three books (God of the ants, God of the stars; The Biology of the Spirit; Darwinism or the death of a myth) Chauvin's view of evolution can be seen as directed, goal driven and non-random. He has been described as a non-darwinian evolutionist. The following is a su ...
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