Fran��ois Tombalbaye (June 15, 1918 ��� April 13, 1975), also called N'Garta Tombalbaye from 1973 until his death, was a teacher and a trade union activist who served as the first president of Chad. The head of Chad's colonial government and its ruling party, the Chadian Progressive Party, after 1959, Tombalbaye was appointed the nation's head of government after its independence on August 11, 1960.

Fran��ois Pain is a filmmaker based in Paris known for his specializing in films related to experiments in alternative psychiatry.

Fran��ois Sudre (1844-1912) was the inventor of the sudrophone, a brass instrument resembling an ophicleide in shape, and patented in 1892.Born in Carcassonne, he was a director of Comte et Cie., which in 1873 or 1875 had acquired Halary, the instrument-maker founded by Jean Hilaire Ast�� in 1804, and who had patented the ophicleide in 1821.

Fran��ois Ozenda (1923���1976) was a painter born in Marseille, France. He spent his childhood there, in a modest family. He left school at age 14 as a result of a motorcycle accident. He worked various trades, generally living off the barter of his art and support from his friends.He claimed to have learned painting in three months by attending the art school in Marseille, France. A painter and mystical poet, he painted in a surrealistic style filled with esotericism and spirituality.

Fran��ois Romain (Ghent 1646 ��� Paris 1737) was an engineer-architect who was professed as a lay brother Dominican friar. By commission of the States of Holland, in 1683 he reconstructed the ancient bridge at Maastricht, crossing the river and the Li��ge Canal in nine arches. Successful in this undertaking, for which dredging was required, he was requested to come to Paris, where he resided in the monastery of Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, and oversaw the completion of the Pont Royal, which had been designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, with a central arch having a span of 23.5 meters. Record of payments to him beginning 1 April 1685, three weeks after the contract was awarded, showed that, contrary to the traditional account that he was not brought in until trouble had been encountered, he was the specialist in the project from the beginning. Dredging the Seine's riverbed was required in order to establish sound footings, and caissons were employed for the deep foundations here for the first time, half a century before Charles Lab��lye's use of them at Westminster Bridge, London. Construction proceeded without incident and was completed and the bridge formally opened, 13���14 June 1689. This further success procured him the office of inspector of bridges and embankments in Paris.

Fran��ois Rom (8 April 1882 ��� 2 February 1942) was a Belgian fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team ��p��e event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Ravaillac (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa ��avajak]; 1578 ��� 27 May 1610) was a French factotum in the courts of Angoul��me and a regicide. An occasional tutor and Catholic zealot, he murdered King Henry IV of France in 1610.

Fran��ois Poupart (16??-1708) French physician, anatomist, entomologist.He described Poupart's ligament, which had been discovered by Gabriele Falloppio.

Fran��ois Pluchart (5 August 1937 ��� 8 November 1988) was a French art critic and a journalist. He was one of the theorists of Body art in France, with artists like Michel Journiac and Gina Pane and founded the art journal ArTitudes.

Fran��ois Pi��tri (8 August 1882 ��� 17 August 1966) was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime.Born in Bastia, Corsica to Antoine-Jourdan Pi��tri, a lawyer and pr��fecture councilman, and Clorinde Gavini, the daughter of a French National Assembly member.

Fran��ois Auguste P��ron (22 August 1775 ��� 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer.

Fran��ois Tracanelli (born 4 February 1951) is a retired pole vaulter from France, who was born in Italy.

Fran��ois Ravard (born April 26, 1957) is a French record and film producer.

Fran��ois Pils (1785 ��� 1867) was a French soldier and painter.Grenadier Pils served on the staff of Marshal Oudinot as his batman (1804-1814) during which time he made many sketches and drawings of the Napoleonic Wars, especially the War of the Fifth Coalition and the Russian campaign, which form one of the rare contemporary pictures of Napoleonic warfare. Pils��� work was later grouped and published in annotated bookform.Fran��ois Pils was the father of French painter Isidore Pils.

Fran��ois Marie Gabriel Andr�� Charles-Ferdinand Roelants du Vivier (born 5 November 1947) is a Belgian politician and a member of Ecolo and later the FDF (Francophone Democratic Federalists).He is part of the political family Nothomb; his grandfather is Pierre Nothomb and his ancestors include Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, who helped draft the Belgian Constitution and served as Prime Minister.Roelants du Vivier started his career in Ecolo, and was a Member of the European Parliament elected in 1984 and serving until 1989.In 1988 he started the Europe-R��gions-Environnement (ERE) movement.

Fran��ois Rousseau is a professional French painter and photographer.He started in painting for almost ten years, before turning to photography in 1995. The link started when he discovered Patrick Grainville's novel, L'Atelier du Peintre (The Painter���s Studio) when it came out in 1988 about the relationship of the painter to his models, of different backgrounds, who posed in the studio. It was as if the models had waited to be born and even chosen by the master.

Fran��ois S��verin Marceau-Desgraviers (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa sev�������� ma��so deg��avje]; 1 March 1769 ��� 21 September 1796) was a French general of the Revolutionary Wars.

Fran��ois Pilon (born August 25, 1958) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election as the member for Laval���Les ��les. Pilon is a member of the New Democratic Party.Pilon was born in 1958 in Laval and has a background in architectural design. He is active in the labour movement, having served as vice-president of the Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval from late 1998 to 2006.

Fran��ois Sybille (9 October 1906, Li��ge ��� 1968) was a Belgian boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the second round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Jean Ces.

Fran��ois P��russe (born October 8, 1960, in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) is a Qu��b��cois comedian and musician famous for his radio sketches featuring puns and absurd humour. His best-known sketches are from the series Les 2 minutes du peuple (The Peoples' 2 Minutes).

Fran��ois Schaller (1928���2006) was a Swiss economist.

Fran��ois "Franck" Pervis (born 16 October 1984) is a French track cyclist. He is a former junior world champion in the team sprint and twice European under 23 champion, as well as a six-time world champion and a holder of two world records. In 2014 he became the first track cyclist to win three individual world titles at one championship, in the keirin, 1 km and sprint.

Fran��ois Thomas Pillon (1830-1914) was a French philosopher.Pillon was associated with the neo-critical school. He collaborated with Charles Bernard Renouvier in publishing the Critique philosophique and Critique religieuse. He founded the journal L'Ann��e philosophique, and edited it from 1890 to 1913.Pillon was the dedicatee of William James's Principles of Psychology.

Fran��ois Perrochel (8 July 1602, Paris - 8 April 1682, Boulogne-Sur-Mer) was a French cleric.He was the son of Charles Perrochel, grand audiencier of France, and his wife Marie Gibercour. He was already abbot of Saint-Cr��pin et Crespinien de Soissons when he was made bishop of Boulogne in 1643. He founded a Minims convent there. He resigned from his bishopric in 1675 and was succeeded there by Nicolas Ladvocat-Billiard.

Fran��ois Trinh-Duc (born 11 November 1986) is a French rugby union player for Montpellier H��rault RC in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Trinh-Duc's regular position is at fly-half or inside centre.

Fran��ois Ombanzi (born 1 April 1947) is a former Congolese cyclist. He competed in the team time trial at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Rochebrune (Polish: Franciszek Rochebrune) (born 1 June or 1 January 1830, died 19 November 1870 (some sources state 1871)) was a French soldier. He was born to an impoverished family. He served in the French Zouaves during the Crimean War. He then lived in Poland for two years as a tutor. He returned to the French Zouaves for five years, serving as a sergeant in China. He then returned to live in Poland once again in 1862.

Fran��ois Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French businessman and art collector. He is the major shareholder and honorary chairman of the retail company Kering.

Fran��ois Roche (born 1961, Paris) is a French architect, co-founder of the architecture studio, New-Territories including LabM4, R&Sie(n), [eIf/b��t/c], Mindmachinemakingmyths, among others names.

Fran��ois Patriat (born 21 March 1943 in Semur-en-Auxois, C��te-d'Or) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the C��te-d'Or department. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

The Fran��ois Vase, a milestone in the development of Greek pottery, is a large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style which stands at 66 cm in height. Dated at circa 570/560 BCE it was found in 1844 in an Etruscan tomb in the necropolis of Fonte Rotella near Chiusi and named after its discoverer Alessandro Fran��ois; it is now in the Museo Archeologico at Florence.

Fran��ois Pallu, MEP (1626���1684) was a French bishop. He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.

The Fran��ois Tomb is an important painted Etruscan tomb from the Ponte Rotto Necropolis in the Etruscan city of Vulci, in central Italy. It was discovered in 1857 by Alessandro Fran��ois and Adolphe No��l des Vergers. It dates to the last quarter of the fourth century BC.

Fran��ois Pyrard de Laval (ca. 1578 ��� ca. 1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives Islands from 1602 to 1607, which was part of a ten-year sojourn (1601-1611) in South Asia, et al. He was a native of Laval, and was a cousin to theologian Pierre Pyrard (1581-1667).On July 2, 1602 Pyrard and a handful of sailors were shipwrecked on South Maalhosmadulu Atoll of the Maldives.

Fran��ois Scheffer (1 July 1766 ��� 9 September 1844) was a Luxembourgian politician. He served four stints as the Mayor of Luxembourg City, with a total tenure of twenty-one years.There is a street in Limpertsberg, Luxembourg City, named after Scheffer (All��e Scheffer).

Fran��ois Olenga is a army general of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since June 2012, he has held the post of chief of staff of the land forces. He was promoted to army general by 2014.

Fran��ois Rebello (born November 25, 1970) is a Canadian politician. Rebello is a former MNA in the province of Quebec. Rebello represented the riding of La Prairie in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election, after an unsuccessful run in 2007. He was elected as a member of the Parti Qu��b��cois, but then joined the Coalition Avenir Qu��bec.

Fran��ois Roberday (21 March 1624 ��� 13 October 1680) was a French Baroque organist and composer. One of the last exponents of the French polyphonic music tradition established by Jean Titelouze and Louis Couperin, Roberday is best remembered today for his Fugues et caprices, a collection of four-part contrapuntal organ pieces.

Fran��ois Perrier (25 July 1922 ��� 2 August 1990) was a French doctor, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.Perrier played a prominent role in Lacanian and in post-Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Fran��ois Rebello (born November 25, 1970) is a Canadian politician. Rebello is a former MNA in the province of Quebec. Rebello represented the riding of La Prairie in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election, after an unsuccessful run in 2007. He was elected as a member of the Parti Qu��b��cois, but then joined the Coalition Avenir Qu��bec. He was defeated in 2012.On January 9, 2012, he announced he was joining the Coalition Avenir Qu��bec, citing his admiration for its leader, Fran��ois Legault. He had stated his loyalty to the Parti Qu��b��cois' chief, Pauline Marois, a couple of weeks prior to his defection. He was the CAQ's fifth member of the National Assembly and the third to be a former member of the Parti Qu��b��cois. In the 2012 provincial election, Rebello ran for the CAQ in the new electoral district of Sanguinet, but was defeated by Alain Therrien of the Parti Qu��b��cois.

Fran��ois Regnard (or Regnart; Douai, fl. 1570s) was a French Renaissance composer. He studied, sang, and later was ma��tre de chapelle at Tournai Cathedral. He is mainly remembered for his settings of Ronsard's chansons.He was one of five composer brothers of whom the best known was Jacques or Jacob Regnart who spent most of his career in the service of Habsburg emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II and Archduke Ferdinand in Vienna, Prague and Innsbruck.

Fran��ois Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne (15 February 1905 in Berlin - 30 August 1981) was a French diplomat.Seydoux de Clausonne was born the son of a French diplomat. After studying philosophy and law in Paris in 1928, he joined the diplomatic service.From 1933 he served as secretary of the French Embassy in Berlin. From here he joined in 1936 in the French Foreign Ministry to take over the leadership of the Germany department.

Fran��ois Vatel (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa vat��l]) (1631 ��� April 24, 1671) was the majordomo (in French, ma��tre d'h��tel) of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Cond��.Vatel was born either in Switzerland or in Paris in 1625, 1631, or 1635. He is widely but incorrectly credited with creating cr��me Chantilly (Chantilly cream), a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, but there is no contemporary documentation for this claim, and whipped, flavored cream was known at least a century earlier.Vatel served Louis XIV's superintendent Nicolas Fouquet in the splendid inauguration f��te at the Ch��teau de Vaux-le-Vicomte that took place on 17 August 1661.Vatel was responsible for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by Louis, the great Cond�� in April 1671 at the Ch��teau de Chantilly, where he died. According to a letter by Madame de S��vign��, Vatel was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery and about other mishaps that he committed suicide by running himself through with his sword, and his body was discovered when someone came to tell him of the arrival of the fish.

Fran��ois Verger (November 29, 1911 ��� December 31, 2001) was a French field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the French field hockey team, which finish fourth in the 1936 Olympic tournament. He played four matches as halfback.

Fran��ois Ouimet (born August 20, 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and lawyer. He is the current Member of National Assembly for the riding of Marquette in Montreal. He represents the Quebec Liberal Party.Ouimet studied at the Universit�� de Montr��al and obtained a bachelor's degree in Canadian literature. He also received a bachelor's degree in civil law and common law at McGill University. In 1989 he was admitted to the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Bar and the Montreal Bar. He was a lawyer between 1990 and 1994 before jumping to provincial politics. He was a commissioner and president of the Catholic School Board of Montreal.Ouimet was first elected in Marquette in 1994 and re-elected in 1998. He served as opposition critic in primary and secondary education, justice and government services. Ouimet was re-elected in 2003 and was named the Chair of the Territorial Planning Commission. He was re-elected again in 2007 and named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport.

Fran��ois Paul Louis Pollen (1842���1886) was a Dutch naturalist and merchant. He made major contributions to the study of the Malagasy fauna.

Fran��ois-Rosaire Par�� BA, PhD (born 1949 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a Qu��b��cois author and academic specialising in the literature of cultural minorities, though He started his career as a professor of French Renaissance literature.Par�� lived in Montreal during his youth. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Universit�� de Montr��al, he pursued further studies in Buffalo, New York at SUNY. He would eventually settle in Ontario, first at St Catharines, then moving to the Kitchener-Waterloo region to teach at the University of Guelph. He was the Chair of the French Studies Department at the University of Waterloo from 2003-2010 and is now the Graduate officer for the department.

Fran��ois Pierrot (born November 2, 1961 in Mont Saint Martin) is Director of Research in the Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM).

Fran��ois Sasseville (born February 7, 1977) is a retired professional ice hockey player.

Fran��ois Renier Duminy (Lorient, 4 October 1747 ��� 26 May 1811) was a French mariner, navigator, cartographer and South African pioneer.

Fran��ois Robichon de La Gu��rini��re (1688���1751) was a French riding master who had a profound effect on accepted methods for training horses, and one of the most influential writers on the art of dressage.

Fran��ois Pillet (born 13 May 1950) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Cher department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Fran��ois Person (23 May 1922 ��� 24 March 1980) was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1948 and 1949 Tour de France.

Fran��ois Paradis is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a byelection on October 20, 2014. He represents the electoral district of L��vis as a member of the opposition Coalition Avenir Qu��bec.Prior to his election to the legislature, Paradis worked for TVA, where he was a host of Caf�� show, L'enfer ou le Paradis, Premi��re ligne and TVA en direct.com.

Fran��ois Rebsamen (born 25 June 1951, Dijon) is a French politician who was the Minister of Social Affairs from 2014 to 2015. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Fran��ois Petit (born November 8, 1951) is a martial artist and actor best known for his portrayal of the original Sub-Zero in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat and as head doctor of the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-1990s.He claims to be a former special operations officer. He claims to have an 8th-degree black belt in GOSHINDO ju-jitsu and a 7th-degree black belt in karate do. He claims to hold the title of KaiDen-Shihan, which is the highest title of Master in the world.

Fran��ois Pache (born 1 June 1932) is a Swiss figure skater. He is a six-time (1951���1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1962) Swiss national champion. He represented Switzerland at the 1952 Winter Olympics and at the 1956 Winter Olympics. He placed 9th in the men's event in 1952 and 11th in 1956.

Fran��ois Rabelais (/��r��b����le��/; French: [f������.swa ��a.bl��]; between 1483 and 1494 ��� 9 April 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics considered him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word Rabelaisian has been coined as a descriptive inspired by his work and life. Merriam-Webster defines the word as describing someone or something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism."

Fran��ois Sureau (born 1957) is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the ��cole nationale d'administration (ENA). He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics. He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver which assists refugees and displaced persons who have arrived in France. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Commentary.Sureau has won a number of prizes for his literary works. These include La Corruption du si��cle, winner of the Prix Colette in 1988; L'Infortune, winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Acad��mie fran��aise in 1990; Le Sphinx de Darwin, winner of the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle in 1997; and Les Alexandrins which won the Prix M��diterran��e in 2003.

Fran��ois Stoepel, also Dr. Franz Stoepel (1794 ��� 19 December 1836) was a French music critic, writer, journalist, pianist, and pedagogue. He was a classical music critic for Gazette Musicale de Paris from 1834, and was an expert in Beethoven, for whom he wrote many articles for the paper until his death in 1836. He was the author of numerous theoretical and works and instruction books, and authored a biography on George Onslow, George Onslow : esquisse biographique.As a music educator he didn't have much success, although he did translate Cherubini's Cours de contrepoint into German. Stoepel was also known to be a concert organizer, and often organized concerts at the Salle Pleyel known as matin��e musicale, featuring some of the top virtuoso pianists of the period. On 25 March 1834 he organized a concert there featuring Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt, one of only seven times they performed together.

Fran��ois Vall�� (1716���1783) was a French Canadian who immigrated to Upper Louisiana of New France sometime in the early 1740s. Beginning as a laborer of no means, he engaged in agriculture, lead mining, and trade with Indians and became the richest man in Upper Louisiana.

Fran��ois Rochebloine (born October 31, 1945 in Saint-Chamond, Loire) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Loire department, and is a member of the New Centre. The Azerbaijani government has blacklisted Rochebloine who visited Nagorno-Karabakh in June 2010 without Baku���s permission.

Fran��ois Tavenas, OQ (12 September 1942 ��� 13 February 2004) was a Canadian engineer and academic.Born in Bourg-de-P��age, Dr��me, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from Institut national des sciences appliqu��es de Lyon in 1963 and a Doctorate with specialization in soil mechanics in 1965 from the Universit�� de Grenoble. In 1968, he moved to Canada to become a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Universit�� Laval. A Canadian citizen since 15 July 1971, he became an assistant professor in 1970, an associate professor in 1973, and a professor in 1978. He was the Dean, Faculty of Science and Engineering from 1985 to 1989.From 1989 to 1990, he was the Vice-Principal (Planning and Computing) at McGill University. From 1990 to 1997, he was the Vice-Principal (Planning and Resources) at McGill University. From 1995 to 1997, he was the Acting Vice-Principal (Macdonald Campus). As well, he was a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In 1997, he was appointed the rector of Universit�� Laval and a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and in 2003 left to become the founding rector of the Universit�� du Luxembourg.

Fran��ois Poulletier de la Salle (September 30, 1719 in Lyon ��� March 20, 1788 in Paris) was a French doctor and chemist. In about 1758, he isolated for the first time the crystals from cholesterol. As his work was never published, attribution and the dating are known only roughly, but they were quoted by his collaborators, in particular Pierre-Joseph Macquer and Felix Vicq-d'Azyr.

Fran��ois Renaud (5 March 1923, ��� 3 July 1975) was a French judge whose murder in 1975 led to much speculation, but was never solved. He was the first judge in France to have been assassinated since World War II. His death inspired the French film Le Juge Fayard dit Le Sh��riff (1977), directed by Yves Boisset.

Fran��ois "Franc" T��taz (born December 22, 1970) is an Australian film composer, music producer and mixer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) / Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award for Wolf Creek (2005).As a producer he has worked with Gotye, Kimbra, Architecture in Helsinki, Sally Seltmann, Lior and Bertie Blackman. He won an ARIA for his work on Gotye���s Making Mirrors album in 2011. He wrote, produced or mixed 7 songs in the triple j Hottest 100 for 2011.Franc won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the 55th annual Grammy Awards for "Somebody That I Used to Know" (Gotye, featuring Kimbra) in 2013. The record was produced by Wally De Backer (Gotye) and engineered and mixed by Wally and Franc. The song also won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance as performed by Gotye and Kimbra, and the Making Mirrors album took home the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.

Fran��ois Pr��lat was a French gunsmith and inventor. He is thought to have invented the first fully contained cartridge in 1808, as well as the percussion cap in 1818.In association with the Swiss gunsmith Jean Samuel Pauly, Fran��ois Pr��lat invented from 1808 to 1812 the first totally contained cartridge, incorporating in one package a fulminate primer, black powder and a round bullet. A percussion pin would provoke ignition. This was a marked improvement over the invention of Jean Lepage, in which the fulminate was simply poured into a pan near the breech. The new cartridge was particularly considered useful for cavalry firearms, as the motion of the horse and the difficulty of movement rendered conventional loading extremely difficult. This center-fire design is today the most commonly used. The two men had set up a gunsmith shop together 4, rue des Trois-Fr��res, in Paris.In 1818, Pr��lat took a patent, or Certificat d'addition, for the invention of the percussion cap (ignition copper cap) to be used in cartridges, thus replacing the magazine lock mechanism.Pr��lat showed some firearms of his conception at the 1855 Paris Universal Exposition.

Fran��ois Vavasseur (English: Francois Vavasseur; 8 December 1605, at Paray-le-Monial ��� 16 December 1681 at Paris, France) was a French Jesuit humanist and controversialist.He entered the Society of Jesus, 25 October 1621, taught humanities and rhetoric for seven years, then positive theology and Scripture at Bourges, and later at Paris. His first work was a paraphrase of the Book of Job in Latin hexameters (1637), resumed and accompanied by a commentary in 1679.He published also Theurgicon (1644), on the miracles of Christ, "Elegiarum liber" (1656), "De ludicra dictione" (1656); took an active part in the Jansenistic controversy ("Cornelius Jansenius Iprensis suspectus", Paris, 1650), and defended himself against the charge of having written pamphlets concerning the Calaghan affair (De libello supposititio dissertatio, 1653). In this last writing he defined accurately the style of the Port Royal writers before the Provinciales:, monotonous and burdened with complicated periods. He wrote a sharp and learned criticism of the "Epigrammatum delectus" of Port-Royal (1659), "De epigrammate liber et epigrammatum libri tres" (1669), showing knowledge of Catullus, Martial, and the Greek anthology.He was sensitive on this subject and took issue with his confere Ren�� Rapin, who had practically declared that no modern had written a good epigram (Remarques sur les nouvelles r��flexions du R.P. Rapin J��suite, touchant la po��tique, 1675). Guillaume de Lamoignon, Rapin's protector, had Vavasseur's pamphlet suppressed. "Pere Vavasseur was a learned man, one of those critical and severe minds which find something to bite even in good works, and which let nothing pass" (Sainte-Beuve, "Port-Royal", III, 528).His other works include sermons, a commentary on Osee, and a dissertation on the beauty of Christ. All his writings were collected by the theologian Jean Leclerc (Amsterdam, 1709). His Latin writings had appeared previously in Paris (1683).

Fran��ois R��mond (c. 1747 ��� 1812) was a French master metalworker and bronze gilder who achieved renown in his day, and whose work is still greatly valued. It included stand-alone works such as candelabras, the decorative casings for clocks and bronze ornamentation for the elaborate furniture made for the elite at the time.

Fran��ois Poullain de la Barre (French: [d�� la ba��]; born 1647 in Paris, France, died 1725 in Geneva, Republic of Geneva), was a writer, Cartesian and feminist philosopher.

Fran��ois Van der Elst (born 1 December 1954 in Opwijk) is a Belgian retired footballer who played as a right winger.His younger brother, Leo, was also a professional footballer. Both were Belgian internationals.

Fran��ois-Joseph Leduc (November 21, 1895 ��� February 8, 1985) was a Canadian politician. He was a Member of the provincial legislature and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

Fran��ois Vannson (born October 20, 1962 in ��pinal) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Vosges department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Fran��ois Jacques "Francesc" Souli�� (born March 22, 1978) is an Andorran cross country skier who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 47th in the 50 km event at Vancouver in 2010.Novoselski's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 51st in the team sprint at Sapporo in 2007.His best World Cup finish was 24th in the team sprint at the China in 2007.

The Fran��ois Truffaut Award (Italian: Premio Fran��ois Truffaut) is an Italian film award, named in memory of French director Fran��ois Truffaut, that has been awarded since 1988 at the Giffoni Film Festival.

Fran��ois Payard (born July 16, 1966) is the owner of Payard Patisserie & Bistro, FP Patisserie, and FP bakery in New York, and a former pastry chef at some of the world's finest restaurants, including Le Bernardin and DANIEL, also in New York City.

Fran��ois Robert, born in Paris, France the 26th of January, 1951, is a French researcher specializing in isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry. His work on the isotopes of hydrogen has enhanced the understanding of the origin of water and of organic matter in the solar system. He is famous for his work on lithium, beryllium and boron, light elements formed by the irradiation of interstellar matter.

Fran��ois Thomas Tr��houart (27 April 1798 ��� 8 November 1873) was a French admiral, notable as the last holder to date of the rank of Admiral of France, to which he was appointed on 20 February 1869. He was a recipient of the grand cross of the Order of Isabella II.He first saw action at Navarino in 1827, then at the blockade of the Rio de la Plata. He was made a contre-amiral on 15 February 1846, becoming a grand officer of the L��gion d'honneur on 18 July 1849. He rose to become a vice-admiral on 2 April 1851 before being sent to the Crimea to replace admiral Bruat. He was made pr��fet maritime of the 2nd maritime arrondissement maritime (Brest) from 1852 to 1855 and promoted to grand cross of the L��gion d'honneur on 16 June 1856. He was then a senator from 16 August 1859 until his death.

Fran��ois Riday Busseron (Bosseron, Beauceron) was a Canadien fur trader, general store operator, and militia captain in the American village of Vincennes. He supported the Americans during the American Revolution and funded the first American flag made in Indiana. As a U.S. citizen, he would serve as a judge in the court of general quarter sessions.Busseron was born in 1748, when the Northwest Territory was still part of New France.

Fran��ois Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt, Nord ��� 23 May 1921, Paris) was a French philosopher, translator and authority on Kant.He is now best known for an 1891 essay, Les id��ologues, on the history of ideas and of scientific theories, philosophy and religious and political ideas in France since 1789.

Fran��ois Rauber (19 January 1933 ��� 14 December 2003) was a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his works with chansonnier Jacques Brel. He served as the music director for the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.Rauber was born in Neufch��teau, Vosges and studied music at the Nancy Conservatoire and the Conservatoire de Paris.Rauber is also the composer of the Napoleonic March in the Colonel Chabert French movie by Yves Angelo.In 1979 Rauber was awarded the Grand Prize for Light Symphonic Music. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he worked extensively with Portuguese singer-songwriter Fernando Tordo and served as arranger and conductor in some of his records. In 2003, he was awarded the Chanson Fran��aise Grand Prize.

Fran��ois Ravaillac brandishing his dagger, in a 17th-century engraving

Fran��ois Olivennes was born on 4 January 1959 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is an obstetrician and gynaecologist, specialising in in Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and reproductive medicine.

Fran��ois Schubert (n�� Franz Anton Schubert (the Younger); 22 July 1808, Dresden ��� 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer.After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles Philippe Lafont in Paris and began working under the name Fran��ois Schubert. He played in the Staatskapelle in Dresden from 1823 to 1873.The son of church composer Franz Anton Schubert (the Elder, 1768���1824), Schubert was married to the singer and actress Maschinka Schubert (1815���1882) who was the daughter of horn player and composer Georg Abraham Schneider. Their daughter was the opera singer Georgina Schubert (1840���1878).Schubert composed concert pieces, ��tudes, and chamber music, but is largely known for the bagatelle The Bee, a perpetuum mobile for violin and piano ��� a piece that is often misattributed to Franz Schubert due to the similarity of the two men's names.

Fran��ois S��guin is a Canadian production designer, art director and set decorator.

Fran��ois Trucy (born 9 June 1931) is a former member of the Senate of France, who represened the Var department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Fran��ois Marie Tanguy Prigent (11 October 1909 ��� 20 January 1970) was a French Socialist politician who became a resistance fighter during World War II (1939���45). He was Minister of Agriculture from September 1944 to October 1947 and was Minister of Veterans and War Victims from February 1956 to June 1957.

Fran��ois Rollin (born 31 May 1953) is a French comedian, author, actor and screenwriter. He is known for his role as King Loth of Orkney in Kaamelott, and for writing the satirical news programme Les Guignols de l'info.

Fran��ois Prelati was an Italian priest and alchemist who took part in the murders committed by Gilles de Rais in the 15th century. He is thought by some to have been a possible sexual partner of Gilles. He claimed he could summon demons and involved Gilles in this practice.

Francesc Tosquelles (Reus, August 22, 1912 ��� Granges-sur-Lot, September 25, 1994) was a Catalan psychiatrist. He is credited as one of the creators of institutional psychotherapy, an influential movement in the second half of the 20th century.The Martinican doctor and later revolutionary activist Frantz Fanon was one of his students, who then used his techniques to some degree of success while living in Blida, Algeria, in the mid-1950s.

Fran��ois Pierre Rodier was born in 1854 in Vieille-Brioude of Haute Loire d��partement, France. He was Governor General for various colonies in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic.

Fran��ois Pitot was a French naval officer.He took part in the Battle of Groix commanding the frigate R��publicaine fran��aise. In 1796, his ship, renamed Renomm��e, was captured by the 74-gun HMS Alfred. Pitot was acquitted by the court-martial for the loss of his ship.In 1800, he captained Vengeance, fighting a battle against USS Constellation.

Fran��ois Paris is a French composer and professor born in 1961 in Valenciennes.He is known for being part of the young generation of composers using microtonal music in the continuation of the spirit of the pioneers of this music.

Fran��ois Simon (born October 28, 1968 at Troyes, France) is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1991 to 2002. He is the brother of R��gis, Pascal and J��r��me, all professional cyclists. In the 2001 Tour de France, Simon wore the maillot jaune for three days and finished as best French finisher in that Tour. Other career highlights include a stage win in the 1992 Giro d'Italia, two stage wins in the Tour de l'Avenir, stage wins in Circuit de la Sarthe, Crit��rium du Dauphin�� Lib��r�� and Paris���Nice as well as being road race champion of France in 1999.

Fran��ois Val��ry (real name : Jean-Louis Mougeot, born on 4 August 1954, in Oran, French Algeria) is a French singer-songwriter and composer.

Fran��ois Hubert Marie Perrodo (born 14 February 1977) is the President of the energy business Perenco, an independent Oil & Gas company with operations in 16 countries across the globe.

Fran��ois Tallement (1620, La Rochelle ��� 6 May 1693, Paris) was a French churchman and translator. He is often known as l'A��n�� (the Elder) to distinguish him from his cousin Paul Tallement le Jeune.

Fran��ois Picard (26 April 1921, Villefranche-sur-Sa��ne, Rh��ne ��� 29 April 1996, Nice ) was a racing driver from France. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, on 19 October 1958. He scored no championship points. This race was his last, as he crashed his Cooper into Olivier Gendebien's Ferrari, which had spun in front of him, and Picard suffered serious injuries. He eventually recovered, but never raced again.

Fran��ois-Paul Sainte de Wollant (20 September 1752 in Antwerp - 30 November 1818 in Saint Petersburg) was a Flemish engineer. He is best known for a number of fortifications in Russia which were built under his supervision.

Fran��ois Thijssen or Frans Thijsz (died 13 October 1638?) was a Dutch explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia.He was the captain of the ship 't Gulden Zeepaerdt (The Golden Seahorse) when sailing from Cape of Good Hope to Batavia. On this voyage, he ended up too far to the south and on 26 January 1627 he came upon the coast of Australia, near Cape Leeuwin.Thijssen continued to sail eastwards, mapping more than 1500 kilometres of Australia's coast.

Fran��ois Recanati (born 1952) is a French analytic philosopher and research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Fran��ois Roettiers (or Ro��ttiers, Roettier, Rottier, Rottiers) (1685-1742) was a Flemish Baroque painter, sculptor, medallist and engraver from the early 18th century, who worked mainly in Austria.He was born in London on 3 November 1685 in a family of medallists, engravers and goldsmiths.

Fran��ois Perrier (1590���1650), a French painter and etcher, is remembered for his two collections of prints after antique sculptures, the Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum quae temporis dentem invidium evasere (Paris, 1638), and Icones et segmenta...quae Romae adhuc extant (Paris, 1645); they provided visual repertories of classical models for generations of European artists and connoisseurs.

Fran��ois Simon (born 1953) is an author and a food critic, rumored in French press to have been the model for Anton Ego, the food critic in the 2007 animated film Ratatouille (though denied by the film's director, Brad Bird). He spent most of his career writing for French daily Le Figaro, that he left at the beginning of 2014.

Fran��ois Vatel (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa vat��l]) (1631 ��� April 24, 1671) was the majordomo (in French, ma��tre d'h��tel) of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Cond��.Vatel was born either in Switzerland or in Paris in 1625, 1631, or 1635.

Fran��ois Saint-Onge (March 9, 1781 ��� February 27, 1842) was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Richelieu in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1824. His surname also appears as Garau, Garault dit Saint-Onge and Gareau.He was born Fran��ois-��tienne Saint-Onge in Contrec��ur, the son of Fran��ois Gareau and ��lisabeth Dufaux, and settled in Saint-Ours. Saint-Onge also served as justice of the peace and commissioner for the summary trial of minor causes. In 1798, he married Marie-Ang��lique dite Labont��, a relative; her surname also appears as Laporte. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1824. Perrault died in Saint-Ours at the age of 60.

Fran��ois Pompon (9 May 1855 ��� 6 May 1933) was a French sculptor and animalier. Pompon made his Salon debut in 1879, exhibiting a statue of Victor Hugo's Cosette (from Les Mis��rables). He was a pioneer of modern stylized animalier sculpture. He was not fully recognized for his artistic accomplishments until the age of 67 at the Salon d'Automne of 1922 with the work "Ours blanc", also known as "the White Bear". Pompon died in Paris, France, on 6 May 1933.

Fran��ois Van Den Bosch (born 8 September 1934) is a former Belgian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Picquet (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa pik��]; 4 December 1708 ��� 15 July 1781) was a Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734. He spent the next few years studying Indian languages and customs and serving the local parish.From 1739 to 1749 he served at Lac des Deux Montagnes, where there was a Sulpician mission.

Fran��ois Quesnay (French: [f������swa k��n��]; June 4, 1694 ��� December 16, 1774) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau ��conomique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought. His Le Despotisme de la Chine, written in 1767, describes Chinese politics and society, and his own political support for constitutional Oriental despotism.

Fran��ois Reichenbach (3 July 1921 ��� 2 February 1993) was a French film director, cinematographer producer and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 1993.

Fran��ois Perroux (December 19, 1903 in Saint-Romain-en-Gal ��� June 2, 1987 in Stains) was a French economist. He was named Professor at the Coll��ge de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon (1928 - 1937) and the University of Paris (1935 - 1955). He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliqu��es in 1944.He was terribly critical of the leading financial and economic policies toward the Third World during the half-century of his career. He said that they took insufficient account of the originality, culture, and concrete situations of the countries concerned, and were too quantitative, too Western in concept, and too centered on the interests of the rich industrialised countries. He counselled the peoples of the Third World to build upon their cultures, their social organisations, and their resources, so as to better the internal coherence of their economies and reduce the effects of domination by the exterior.In the field of Regional Economics, one of his main contribution's was the concept of poles de croissance or 'growth poles'. It implied that Government policies aimed at the regeneration of a specific local region were critically dependent upon the Input-Output linkages associated with the industry. A 'pole de croissance' is an industry, or group of related industries, that have growth rates above the national average and the capacity to generate growth through the impact of strong input-output linkages.

Fran��ois Roy (1896���1970) was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the 12th Mayor of Shawinigan, Quebec from 1946 to 1954.Roy was born in 1896 in Rivi��re-des-Prairies, near Montreal. He successfully ran for mayor in 1946 and was re-elected in 1948 and 1951. The current Shawinigan City Hall (located in downtown Shawinigan at 550 Avenue de l���H��tel-de-Ville) was constructed in 1948 under his tenure.

Fran��ois Vendasi (born 24 June 1940) is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Haute-Corse department. He is a member of the Radical Party of the Left.

Fran��ois Stoepel, also Dr. Franz Stoepel (1794 ��� 19 December 1836) was a French music critic, writer, journalist, pianist, and pedagogue. He was a classical music critic for Gazette Musicale de Paris from 1834, and was an expert in Beethoven, for whom he wrote many articles for the paper until his death in 1836.

Fran��ois Ouimet (born October 14, 1951) is a Canadian-born former professional ice hockey defenceman.Ouimet played 25 games in the World Hockey Association with the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Cincinnati Stingers during the 1975���76 and 1976���77 seasons.

Fran��ois Rotger is a French independent film director.Former photographer and music video director, his first feature film The Passenger debuted at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival.From his early work, 74km avec elle (8 min, France, 35mm color) and Jan (21 min, France, HDcam color) author/director Fran��ois Rotger explores the themes of deception and betrayal within the family circle, often leading to sudden and extreme violence.

Fran��ois Pi��tri (8 August 1882 ��� 17 August 1966) was a minister in several governments in the later years of the French Third Republic and was French ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944 under the Vichy regime.Born in Bastia, Corsica to Antoine-Jourdan Pi��tri, a lawyer and pr��fecture councilman, and Clorinde Gavini, the daughter of a French National Assembly member. Pi��tri graduated from the elite Coll��ge Stanislas in 1899 and moved on to the ��cole libre des sciences politiques for his university education. He was selected for the French Civil Service in 1906 as an auditor (Inspecteur des finances) and progressed through the ranks to the post of Directeur g��n��ral des finances du Maroc - Director of Finances for Morocco - a role he filled from 1917 to 1924.In 1924, Pi��tri was elected to the National Assembly and remained in office there until 1942. During that time, he occupied a number of responsibilities, including:Undersecretary of State for Finance (Sous-secr��taire d'��tat aux finances) in 1926Minister for Colonial Affairs (Ministre des colonies) in 1929���1930 and again in 1933Minister of the Budget (Ministre du budget) in 1931���1932Defense Minister (Ministre de la d��fense nationale) in 1932Finance Minister (Ministre des finances) for just one week in early 1934Minister of Merchant Marine 1���7 June 1935Naval Minister (Ministre de la marine) in 1934���1936Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones briefly in 1940 after the German invasion.He remained involved in French politics during the Nazi occupation of France, becoming the Vichy ambassador to Spain from 1940 to 1944.Fran��ois Pi��tri died in 1966 in Ajaccio.

Fran��ois Verster (born 1969) is a South African film director and documentary maker.He has a wide background in writing, music, academia and film. After completing an MA degree with distinction under literature Nobel Prize laureate JM Coetzee at the University of Cape Town, he worked with Barenholtz Productions in New York and as crew member on various independent features.

Fran��ois Henry Spoerry (Mulhouse, Alsace, France, 28 December 1912 ��� Port Grimaud, Var, France, 11 January 1999) was a French architect, developer, and urban planner. He was an Officier of the L��gion d'honneur and an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Fran��ois Pyrard de Laval (ca. 1578 ��� ca. 1623) was a French navigator who is remembered for a personal written account of his adventures in the Maldives Islands from 1602 to 1607, which was part of a ten-year sojourn (1601-1611) in South Asia, et al. He was a native of Laval, and was a cousin to theologian Pierre Pyrard (1581-1667).On July 2, 1602 Pyrard and a handful of sailors were shipwrecked on South Maalhosmadulu Atoll of the Maldives. They were taken captive by the Maldivians and spent five years as "unwilling guests" on the islands, with most of the time spent on Mal��. The sailors endured malaria and sporadic cruel treatment during their captivity. Nevertheless, Pyrard took pains to learn the local Dhivehi language and by doing so was able to achieve an insight into Maldivian society never before experienced by a European. He took extensive notes regarding Dhivehi culture, customs and history.In February 1607, the Frenchmen escaped from Mal�� by boat in the midst of chaos during a Bengali raid. Shortly after his return to Laval in 1611, Pyrard published an account of his 1601-1611 sojourn.English Translation of Pyrard's Journal:"The Voyage of Fran��ois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil". Translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and Edited, with Notes, by Albert Gray, formerly of the Ceylon Civil Service, assisted by Harry Charles Purvis Bell, of the Ceylon Civil Service. Volume I. 1887. Pages lviii, 452 + 1 map, 11 illustrations.

A list of books and essays written by and about Fran��ois Truffaut:Baecque, Antoine de; Toubiana, Serge (1999). Truffaut. Knopf. ISBN 9780375400896. Dixon, Wheeler Winston (22 February 1993). Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11343-1. Gillain, Anne (7 June 2013). Fran��ois Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-00845-X. Insdorf, Annette (1994). Fran��ois Truffaut. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47808-3. Truffaut, Fran��ois (1 January 2008). Fran��ois Truffaut: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-934110-14-0. Truffaut, Francois (21 July 2009). The Films In My Life. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-7867-4972-5.

Fran��ois Roger de Gaigni��res (30 December 1642, Entrains-sur-Nohain ��� 1715, Paris), French genealogist, antiquary and collector.

Fran��ois Sakama is a Vanuatuan footballer who currently plays as a Midfielder for Amicale.

The Fran��ois Vase, a milestone in the development of Greek pottery, is a large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style which stands at 66 cm in height. Dated at circa 570/560 BCE it was found in 1844 in an Etruscan tomb in the necropolis of Fonte Rotella near Chiusi and named after its discoverer Alessandro Fran��ois; it is now in the Museo Archeologico at Florence. It bears the inscriptions "Ergotimos mepoiesen" and "Kleitias megraphsen", meaning "Ergotimos made me" and "Kleitias painted me". It depicts over 200 figures, many with identifying inscriptions, representing a number of mythological themes. It is a topic of scholarly debate whether an overarching programme was intended. In 1900 a museum guard threw a stool at the case that contained the vase and smashed it into 638 pieces. By 1902 it had been restored by Pietro Zei, with a second reconstruction in 1973 incorporating previously missing pieces.

Fran��ois Sauvadet (born 20 April 1953) in Dijon is a French centrist politician from Burgundy.Sauvadet is the president of the C��te-d'Or department in eastern France, former parliamentary leader of the New Centre, former Civil Service Minister of France under Nicolas Sarkozy, and currently vice-president of the Union of Democrats and Independents.He represents the 4th constituency of the C��te-d'Or in the French National Assembly.

Fran��ois Porch�� (born Cognac, November 21, 1877 - died Vichy, April 19, 1944) was a French dramatist, poet and literary critic. The French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix de Literature in 1923. Les Butors et la Finette, a "symbolical and allegorical drama" premiered in 1917, Sam Abramovitch in 1927 (in New York City) and Un roi, deux dames et un valet in 1934. He published a war poem L' Arret sur la Marne in 1916 and a poetry collection called Charles Baudelaire in memory of the poet.

Fran��ois Robineau (born April 2nd, 1962) is a French photographer. he has served occasionally as the official photographer of the Patrouille de France air acrobatic team between 1985 to 1990.He worked mainly with Dassault Aviation and made all the pictures of the Mirage 2000 and the Rafale since their development. The famous picture of the Rafale flying over the Great Pyramid of Giza was taken by Robineau.

Fran��ois Savary de Br��ves (1560���1627) was a French ambassador of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as an Orientalist.

Fran��ois Ruhlmann (born Brussels 11 January 1868, died 1948) was a French conductor.

Fran��ois Thijssen or Frans Thijsz (died 13 October 1638?) was a Dutch explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia.He was the captain of the ship 't Gulden Zeepaerdt (The Golden Seahorse) when sailing from Cape of Good Hope to Batavia. On this voyage, he ended up too far to the south and on 26 January 1627 he came upon the coast of Australia, near Cape Leeuwin.Thijssen continued to sail eastwards, mapping more than 1500 kilometres of Australia's coast. He called the land 't Land van Pieter Nuyts (The Land of Pieter Nuyts), referring to the highest VOC official aboard his ship. Part of Thijssen's map shows the islands St Francis and St Peter, now known collectively with their respective groups as the Nuyts Archipelago. The ship, which had been built in Middelburg and left Zeeland on 22 May 1626, finally arrived in Batavia on 10 April 1627. Thijssen's observations were included as soon as 1628 by the VOC cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in a chart of the Indies and New Holland.This voyage defined most of the southern coast of Australia and discouraged the notion that "New Holland", as it was then known, was linked to Antarctica. Much later, Thijssen's findings led Jean Pierre Purry to propose a Dutch colony on the mainland there in 1717-18. In his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift placed Lilliput and Blefuscu near the unimaginably remote Nuyts Archipelago a hundred years after their discovery. Indeed, present day South Australia would not be visited again by Europeans for 165 years, when in 1792 the French explorer Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux searched there for his lost compatriot La P��rouse.Thijssen took the "Gulden Zeepaerdt" back to Middelburg on a 1629-1630 voyage. He was captain on the ship "Valk" which sailed in 1636 from Zeeland to Batavia. Later, this ship perished near Pulicat in southeast India on 13 October 1638, though it is unclear if Fran��ois Thijssen was its captain at the time.

Fran��ois Deslaugiers (3 December 1934 at Algiers ��� 18 December 2009 at Marseille) was a French architect.

Fran��ois P��rol (born on the 6 November 1963) is a French banker and high-ranking official and is the current chairman of Natixis.

Fran��ois Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872, Paris ��� 24 January 1944, Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages.He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the Louvre, where in 1908, he was appointed assistant curator of the Oriental Antiquities department. On behalf of the museum, he conducted excavations at Arslan Tash (1927) and at Til Barsip (1929���1931).He was a leading expert on Babylonian cuneiform texts, and worked on a theory concerning the origins of cuneiform writing, publishing the treatise Recherches sur l'origine de l'��criture cun��iforme (1898) as a result.Along with Georges Dossin, he founded the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, an association of orientalists, which hosts international events. He was a member of the Acad��mie des inscriptions et belles lettres and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

Fran��ois Ozon (French: [f������.swa o.z����]; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality.He has achieved international acclaim for his films 8 femmes (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003). Ozon is considered to be one of the most important French film directors in the new ���New Wave��� in French cinema such as Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos, and Yves Caumon, as well as a group of French filmmakers associated with a "cinema du corps/cinema of the body".

Fran��ois Quesnay (French: [f������swa k��n��]; June 4, 1694 ��� December 16, 1774) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau ��conomique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought.

Fran��ois Sureau (born 1957) is a French writer, lawyer and technocrat. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and educated at the ��cole nationale d'administration (ENA). He is a co-founder and co-director of the French Review of Economics. He is also the founding president of the Association Pierre Claver which assists refugees and displaced persons who have arrived in France.

Fran��ois Verster (born 1969) is a South African film director and documentary maker.He has a wide background in writing, music, academia and film. After completing an MA degree with distinction under literature Nobel Prize laureate JM Coetzee at the University of Cape Town, he worked with Barenholtz Productions in New York and as crew member on various independent features. Verster���s acclaimed debut as documentary director/producer was Pavement Aristocrats: The Bergies of Cape Town.In 1998, Verster formed Undercurrent Film & Television, a Cape Town-based company that aims to produce quality documentary programmes for local as well as international markets.

Fran��ois Scellier (born May 7, 1936 in Amiens, Somme) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Val-d'Oise department, and is a member of the Radical Party.

Jean-Fran��ois Sudre (15 August 1787 ��� 3 October 1862) was a violinist, composer and music teacher who invented a musical language called la Langue musicale universelle or Solr��sol.Sudre was born in Albi in southern France on August 15, 1787. He studied music as a child and, at the age of eighteen, was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris on May 12, 1806, where he studied violin under Fran��ois Habeneck and harmony under Charles Simon Catel.

Fran��ois Paul de Neufville de Villeroy (1677���1731) was archbishop of Lyon from 15 August 1714 to 6 February 1731. He was a member of the Neufville de Villeroy family.

Fran��ais fondamental ("Fundamental French") is a simplified version of the French language used for teaching the language to non-native speakers.

Born on 11 August 1963, Mr. Fran��ois Richier graduated from Sciences Po Paris and holds a degree in Law. He is an alumnus of the French National School of Administration (ENA, 1989-1991).

Fran��ois Parisien (born 27 April 1982) is a former professional cyclist born in Repentigny, Quebec, Canada. He competed as a professional between 2006 and 2013.

Fran��ois Stella (1563, Mechelen ��� 1605, Lyon), was a French Baroque painter.

Fran��ois Robert, born in Paris, France the 26th of January, 1951, is a French researcher specializing in isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry. His work on the isotopes of hydrogen has enhanced the understanding of the origin of water and of organic matter in the solar system. He is famous for his work on lithium, beryllium and boron, light elements formed by the irradiation of interstellar matter. He received a Leonard Medal from the Meteoritical Society in 2011 for his work on the isotopic composition of stable nuclei.

Fran��ois Sonkin (born 14 July 1922) is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1978, for Un amour de p��re.

Fran��ois Simon (16 August 1917 ��� 5 October 1982) was a Swiss film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1936 and 1982. He was the son of actor Michel Simon.

Fran��ois Thurot (22 July 1727 at Nuits-Saint-Georges near Dijon in eastern France ��� 28 February 1760 off the Isle of Man) was a French privateer, merchant naval captain and smuggler who terrorised British shipping in the early part of the Seven Years' War.

Fran��ois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (French: Fran��ois Truffaut: Portraits vol��s) is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Michel Pascal and Serge Toubiana, about the film director Fran��ois Truffaut. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

Fran��ois Peccatte (born Mirecourt, 10 March 1821; died Paris, 30 October 1855) was a very talented archetier. He is said to have been destined for greatness, but died at the age of 34 before reaching the height of his craft. He was the brother of Dominique Peccatte and father to Charles Peccatte.Peccatte went to Paris for a short period early in his working life, then returned to Mirecourt and opened a shop in 1842, employing several workers to assist in his commercial production. Fran��ois had some association with his brother Dominique, presumably during his stay in Paris and again when Dominique returned to Mirecourt."Indeed, much of Fran��ois��� best work shows the strong influence of Dominique"."Fran��ois Peccatte, was also a fine bow maker who worked in Mirecourt. He returned to Paris not long before his premature death."

Fran��ois Pidou de Saint Olon (1640, Touraine - 1720, Paris) was a French diplomat under Louis XIV.

Fran��ois Valentijn (17 April 1666 ��� 6 August 1727) was a Dutch minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indi��n ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the Dutch East India Company and the countries of the Far East.Fran��ois Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, where he lived most his life; however, he is known for his activities in the tropics, notably in Ambon, in the Maluku Archipelago.

Fran��ois Ruffin (born 18 October 1975) is a French journalist. He is the founder and editor of the satirical quarterly Fakir and the director of the film Merci patron!. He played an instrumental role in the formation of the Nuit debout movement in France.

Fran��ois Tavenas, OQ (12 September 1942 ��� 13 February 2004) was a Canadian engineer and academic.Born in Bourg-de-P��age, Dr��me, France, he received an engineering degree in civil engineering from Institut national des sciences appliqu��es de Lyon in 1963 and a Doctorate with specialization in soil mechanics in 1965 from the Universit�� de Grenoble. In 1968, he moved to Canada to become a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Universit�� Laval.

Fran��ois Rochebrune (Polish: Franciszek Rochebrune) (born 1 June or 1 January 1830, died 19 November 1870 (some sources state 1871)) was a French soldier. He was born to an impoverished family. He served in the French Zouaves during the Crimean War. He then lived in Poland for two years as a tutor. He returned to the French Zouaves for five years, serving as a sergeant in China. He then returned to live in Poland once again in 1862. When the Polish rebellion against Russian rule began in January 1863, he formed and led a Polish rebel unit called the Zouaves of Death. Within months, he had been promoted to general. After the collapse of the uprising, he returned to France, where his exploits in Poland earned him the rank of captain in the French army. He was promoted to colonel for the Franco-Prussian War, and was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Montretout at the age of forty.

Fran��ois Richard de Tussac aka Chevalier de Tussac (1751 Poitou - 1837), was a French botanist and naturalist from a wealthy family with colonial holdings, and is noted for his four-volume Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire g��n��rale botanique, rurale et ��conomique des v��g��taux indig��nes des Antilles, published in Paris by F. Schoell et Hautel, and one of the earliest floras of the West Indies. He became senator for Guadeloupe in the Antilles and traveled widely through St. Domingue, Jamaica and Cuba. In his book Cri des Colons (Cry of the Colonies) he opposed giving Blacks more legal rights.de Tussac moved to Martinique in 1786 and spent some years collecting plants on the island, later becoming curator of a botanic garden in Haiti. He left Haiti in 1802, visited Jamaica and then returned to France, becoming in 1816 director of the Jardin Botanique d'Angers in Paris, a post that he filled until 1826. Flore des Antilles appeared from 1808 to 1827. Some 2000 of Tussac's drawings made in Martinique were destroyed by fire in 1802 with the Haitian Revolution. De Tussac's herbarium was saved as were his manuscripts, although their whereabouts is unknown.De Tussac is denoted by the author abbreviation Tussac when citing a botanical name., and is commemorated by the tree fern Alsophila tussacii (Desv.) D.S. Conant.

Fran��ois Quesnel (c. 1543���1619) was a French painter of Scottish extraction.

Fran��ois Thierry (1677-1749) was the last representative, in the third generation, of an important family of French organ builders based in Paris. He was the grandson of Pierre Thierry and the nephew of Alexandre Thierry.

Fran��ois Richard de Tussac aka Chevalier de Tussac (1751 Poitou - 1837), was a French botanist and naturalist from a wealthy family with colonial holdings, and is noted for his four-volume Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire g��n��rale botanique, rurale et ��conomique des v��g��taux indig��nes des Antilles, published in Paris by F. Schoell et Hautel, and one of the earliest floras of the West Indies. He became senator for Guadeloupe in the Antilles and traveled widely through St.

Fran��ois Sevez (October 22, 1891 ��� February 29, 1948) was a French general during World War II. Sevez was present at the German surrender in Reims, and signed the German Instrument of Surrender as the official witness.

Fran��ois Pourfour du Petit (June 24, 1664 ��� June 18, 1741) was a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who was a native of Paris.He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, and afterwards studied surgery at the H��pital de la Charit�� in Paris. During this period of time he also attended lectures by Guichard Joseph Duverney (1648���1730) in anatomy and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656���1708) in botany. Between 1693 and 1713 he was a military physician in the armies of Louis XIV, and after the Peace of Utrecht (1713), he returned to Paris as an eye specialist. From 1722 to 1741 he was a member of the Acad��mie Royale des Sciences.Petit is remembered for his anatomical studies of the eye, as well as physiological research of the sympathetic nervous system. As a military physician, Petit noticed that there was a striking correlation between soldiers' head wounds and contralateral motor effects, which he documented in a 1710 treatise called Lettres d���un medecin des hopitaux du roi a un autre medecin de ses amis. He performed pioneer investigations on the internal structure of the spinal cord, and gave an early, detailed description of the decussation of the pyramids. He also provided the first clinical description of symptoms of what would later be known as Horner's syndrome.,

Sous-Lieutenant Fran��ois Portron was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

Fran��ois Partant (1926 - 1987) was a French economist. He was one of the very first theoretician of degrowth. He is known for one of his books, The End of Development, published in 1982.

Fran��ois Van Hoorenbeek was a Belgian tug of war competitor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he won the bronze medal as member of the Belgian tug of war team.

Fran��ois Proth (1852 ��� 1879) was a French self-taught mathematician farmer who lived in Vaux-devant-Damloup near Verdun, France.He stated four primality-related theorems. The most famous of these, Proth's theorem, can be used to test whether a Proth number (a number of the form k2n + 1 with k odd and k < 2n) is prime. The numbers passing this test are called Proth primes; they continue to be of importance in the computational search for large prime numbers.Proth also formulated Gilbreath's conjecture on successive differences of primes, 80 years prior to Gilbreath, but his proof of the conjecture turned out to be erroneous.The cause of Proth's death is not known.

For Rebel's father, also a composer, see Jean-F��ry RebelFran��ois Rebel (19 June 1701 ��� 7 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris, the son of the leading composer Jean-F��ry Rebel, he was a child prodigy who became a violinist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera at the age of 13. As a composer he is best known for his close collaboration with Fran��ois Francoeur (see that page for further details of their works).

Fran��ois Vergult was a Belgian ice hockey player. He won the 1913 European title, and finished third at the 1914 European Championships and fifth at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Suchanecki (born 23 December 1949) is a Swiss fencer. He won a silver medal in the team ��p��e event at the 1972 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Rude (4 January 1784 ��� 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from Fran��ois Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts. In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812. After the second restoration of the Bourbons he retired to Brussels, where, probably owing to the intervention of the exiled Jacques-Louis David he got some work under the architect Charles Vander Straeten, who employed him to execute nine bas-reliefs in the palace of Tervuren, now destroyed.At Brussels Rude married the painter Sophie Fremiet, daughter of a Bonapartist compatriot to whom he had many obligations, but gladly availed himself of an opportunity to return to Paris, where in 1827 a statue of the Virgin for St Gervais and a Mercury fastening his Sandals (now in the Mus��e du Louvre) obtained much attention.His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise (now in the Louvre), which also procured for him the important commission for all the sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. This group, D��part des volontaires de 1792 (Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), also known as La Marseillaise, a work full of energy and fire, immortalizes the name of Rude.Among other productions are Napoleon Awakening to Immortality (Mus��e d'Orsay, Paris), the statue of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (1848), Jeanne d'Arc, in the gardens of the Luxembourg (1852), a Calvary in bronze for the high altar of St Vincent de Paul (1855), as well as Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter (Mus��e des Beaux Arts, Dijon), Love Triumphant and Christ on the Cross, all of which appeared at the Paris Salon of 1857 after his death.An important pupil of Rude was Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who subsequently executed his own interpretation of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy, a popular subject at the time.The Mus��e Rude, Dijon, inaugurated in 1947, is devoted to plaster casts of his works that were acquired by the city of Dijon, between 1887 and 1910; it is housed in the transept of the 11th-century church of Saint-Etienne in rue Vaillant.

Fran��ois Auguste Perrinon (August 28, 1812 ��� January 1, 1861) was an Afro-Caribbean French military officer, politician and abolitionist.Perrinon was born at Saint-Pierre, Martinique from a free black mother and a white father, who married in 1826. In 1832, he enrolled at the ��cole polytechnique, the first Afro-descendent student to do so. Perrinon graduated in 1834 and chose to become a Marine Artillery Officer. He was promoted Captain in 1840, the same year he married Marguerite-Louise-Charlotte T��l��phe, another Martiniquaise of mixed descent. In 1842, he was sent to the Caribbean as officer in the French garrison on the isle of Guadeloupe. Perrinon was promoted Major and awarded the Legion of Honour in 1847.He was of anti-slavery sympathy, and in 1847, in a pamphlet he authored entitled "R��sultats d'exp��rience sur le travail des esclaves" ("The Slave-Labor Experience") describing events on the isle of Saint Martin, he argued that the work being performed by slaves at the time could just as well be performed by free people and at equal cost. A year later, he was appointed to the Commission for the Abolition of Slavery by Victor Schoelcher, Under-secretary of State of the Colonies in the new Republican Government, and was sent to Martinique as "Commissioner of Abolition", later becoming General Commissioner and holding that post from June to November 1848. In 1849, he was elected, along with Victor Schoelcher, deputy to the French National Assembly.The National Assembly was dissolved in the wake of Napol��on III's coup d'��tat of 2 December 1851. Perrinon then returned to the Caribbean to live on Saint Martin, where he was involved in operations in salt marshes. His refusal, in a letter of 18 April 1853, to take an oath of allegiance to Napol��on III resulted in his expulsion from the military. Perrinon died in 1861 in Saint Martin.

Fran��ois-Ren��-Auguste Mallarm�� (25 February 1755 ��� 25 July 1835) was a French statesman of the French Revolution and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Empire. His career is of particular interest because he was among political figures such as Joseph Fouch�� who at first aggressively supported the Terror, only to betray its leaders (including Maximilien Robespierre) and support the various conservative reactionary r��gimes that followed. His was a chevalier de l'Empire from 22 November 1808 and a baron de l'Empire from 31 January 1810.

Fran��ois P��rier, (10 November 1919 ��� 29 June 2002), born Fran��ois Pillu in Paris, was a French actor.He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.

Fran��ois Sulpice Beudant (5 September 1787 ��� 10 December 1850), French mineralogist and geologist.

Fran��ois Stahly (March 8, 1911 Konstanz ��� July 2, 2006 Paris) was a German-French sculptor.

Fran��ois Perron is a French-born ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, who now works and resides in the United States. Perron, is a graduate of the Paris Opera Ballet School where he studied under the direction of Claude Bessy.In 2011, Perron founded the French Academie of Ballet, based in New York City.

Fran��ois Timoth��e Benjamin Pestel (13 December 1763 in Honfleur ��� 1828) was a French naval engineer of the Age of Sail.

Fran��ois-Joseph-Michel No��l (12 January 1756, Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 29 January 1841, Paris) was a French humanist and diplomat.

Fran��ois Souchon (1787 ��� 5 April 1857) was a French painter.

Fran��ois Vaillant de Gueslis (20 July 1646 ��� 24 September 1718) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Orl��ans. He entered the Society of Jesus, on 10 November 1665, and went to Canada in 1670; and was ordained priest at Quebec, on 1 December 1675.He attempted to convert the Mohawks to Christianity between 1679 and 1684. In the beginning of 1688 he was chosen by the Canadian authorities as ambassador to Thomas Dongan, the Governor of New York. He was also the first missionary to work among the Native Americans in Detroit; but he remained only a few months, not entering into the plans of Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. After the conclusion of peace between the French and the Iroquois he attempted to convert the Senecas from 1702-1707. There he contributed not a little to defeat the efforts of Colonel Schuyler at Onondaga who was trying to induce the Five Nations to drive out the French missionaries. The two principal scenes of his missionary zeal in Canada were Quebec and Montreal. At Quebec (1685���91; 1697���1702), he filled the important posts of minister; procurator of the mission, and preacher, and at Montreal (1692���96; 1709���15), he was the first superior of the residence established by the Jesuits in 1692. He founded the Men's Congregation of Villemarie which exists to the present day. He returned to France in 1715.He died in Moulins in 1718.

Fran��ois Remetter (born August 8, 1928, in Strasbourg) is a French former football goalkeeper.

Fran��ois Schubert (n�� Franz Anton Schubert (the Younger); 22 July 1808, Dresden ��� 12 April 1878, Dresden) was a violinist and composer.After training with concertmaster Antonio Rolla in Dresden, Schubert studied violin with Charles Philippe Lafont in Paris and began working under the name Fran��ois Schubert.

Fran��ois Purcell is an elected official from Montreal. He was head of the municipal Vision Montr��al Party between May 2006 and 2008. He was city councillor of the district of Saint-��douard, in the arrondissement of Rosemont���La Petite-Patrie, from his entry into municipal politics, in 1998. He has also been president of the elected caucus of Vision Montr��al. He has sat on the Commissions for finance, administrative services and human resources for the city of Montreal.As part of the official opposition of Montreal, he was responsible for finances, strategic planning, fiscal planning, administrative services, the three year building plan, corporate affairs, human resources, and the para-municipal societies.

Fran��ois Sagat (born 5 June 1979) is a French male bisexual pornographic film actor, model and director who has also appeared in mainstream media. He is best known for his rugged looks and scalp tattoo. He has appeared at times as a fashion model and starting 2009, he appeared in cinematic roles in films for the general public including Saw VI (2009) and lead roles in L.A. Zombie (2010) and Man at Bath (2010).

Fran��ois Rabbath (born 1931 in Aleppo, Syria) is a contemporary French double-bass player, soloist, and composer.

Fran��ois S��bastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt (14 October 1733 ��� 21 July 1798), a Walloon, joined the army of the Habsburg Monarchy and soon fought in the Seven Years' War. Later in his military career, he led Austrian troops in the war against Ottoman Turkey. During the French Revolutionary Wars he saw extensive fighting and rose to the rank of Field Marshal.

Fran��ois Spirito was an Italian-French gangster, member of the Marseille underworld. He was an associate of Paul Carbone. During the Second World War, he worked in the Carlingue, an organisation that collaborated with the Gestapo.After the French Liberation, Spirito fled to Spain and thence to South America, where he took part in the French Connection heroin trade. He was put on trial in 1952 for collaborationism and died on October 9, 1967.

Fran��ois Para du Phanjas was a French Jesuit writer.

Fran��ois Pilon (born August 25, 1958) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 federal election as the member for Laval���Les ��les. Pilon is a member of the New Democratic Party.Pilon was born in 1958 in Laval and has a background in architectural design. He is active in the labour movement, having served as vice-president of the Syndicat des Cols Bleus de la Ville de Laval from late 1998 to 2006. In 1999, he helped lead his union into the Canadian Union of Public Employees.He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons on his fourth attempt, previously running in the riding of Honor��-Mercier, which the NDP also took in 2011.He is not to be confused with another Fran��ois Pilon who has run for the Green Party in Montreal.

Fran��ois Ponsard (1 June 1814 ��� 7 July 1867), was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Acad��mie fran��aise.

Fran��ois Stuyck was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual ��p��e event at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Rude (4 January 1784 ��� 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from Fran��ois Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts. In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of Pierre Cartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812.

Fran��ois Vaillant de Gueslis (20 July 1646 ��� 24 September 1718) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Orl��ans. He entered the Society of Jesus, on 10 November 1665, and went to Canada in 1670; and was ordained priest at Quebec, on 1 December 1675.He attempted to convert the Mohawks to Christianity between 1679 and 1684. In the beginning of 1688 he was chosen by the Canadian authorities as ambassador to Thomas Dongan, the Governor of New York.

J. (Jean) Fran��ois Tr��ves (born April 23, 1930 in Brussels) is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations.Tr��ves earned his Ph.D. in 1958 from Sorbonne under the supervision of Laurent Schwartz. He then went to the USA where from 1958 to 1960 he was assistant professor at Berkeley. From 1961 to 1964 he was an associate professor at Yeshiva University, and from 1964 to 1970 professor at Purdue University.

Fran��ois Hubert Prume (3 June 1816, Stavelot ��� 14 July 1849, Li��ge) was a Belgian violinist and composer.Prume was Professor of Violin at the Conservatories of Li��ge at the age of seventeen years, where his pupils included Hubert L��onard, and his own nephew, Frantz Jehin-Prume. His many concert tours brought him to capitals throughout Europe, during which he performed occasionally with Franz Liszt.He received the honorary title of "Virtuoso of the Duke of Gotha".

A list of books and essays written by and about Fran��ois Truffaut:Baecque, Antoine de; Toubiana, Serge (1999). Truffaut. Knopf. ISBN 9780375400896. Dixon, Wheeler Winston (22 February 1993). Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11343-1. Gillain, Anne (7 June 2013). Fran��ois Truffaut: The Lost Secret. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-00845-X. Insdorf, Annette (1994). Fran��ois Truffaut. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47808-3.

Fran��ois Sagat (born 5 June 1979) is a French male bisexual pornographic film actor, model and director who has also appeared in mainstream media. He is best known for his rugged looks and scalp tattoo. He has appeared at times as a fashion model and starting 2009, he appeared in cinematic roles in films for the general public including Saw VI (2009) and lead roles in L.A. Zombie (2010) and Man at Bath (2010). In 2011, he started directing and producing with the Fran��ois Sagat's Incubus adult film series. That same year, Sagat was highlighted in the cinema series Fran��ois Sagat: The New Leading Man presented at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In addition to screening his pornographic and non-pornographic roles, the series included a master class by Sagat on his approach to performance. In 2013, he launched his fashion line KICKSAGAT and announced his retirement from porn.

Fran��ois Rousseau is a Quebec Canada medical doctor and researcher. His publications include studies about Quebec health history. His book L'oeuvre de ch��re en Nouvelle-France: Le r��gime des malades �� l'H��tel-Dieu de Qu��bec was a finalist for the 1983 Governor General's Awards in "French Language - Non-fiction" category. In 1994, he published La croix et le scalpel: Histoire des Augustines et de l'H��tel-Dieu de Qu��bec (1639-1989).

Fran��ois l'Hermite (c. 1601 ��� 7 September 1655) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite. He was born at the Ch��teau de Soliers in the Haute Marche.

Fran��ois Sabouric was a French fencer. He competed in the individual masters foil and ��p��e events at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Fran��ois Varillon (1905 - 1978) was a French Jesuit and theologian. He was also a writer of some significance. He entered the Society of Jesus, as a novitiate, at 22 and was ordained in 1937. He won the fr:Grand prix catholique de litt��rature in 1974 for L���humilit�� de Dieu.

Fran��ois Pourfour du Petit (June 24, 1664 ��� June 18, 1741) was a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who was a native of Paris.He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, and afterwards studied surgery at the H��pital de la Charit�� in Paris. During this period of time he also attended lectures by Guichard Joseph Duverney (1648���1730) in anatomy and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656���1708) in botany.

Fran��ois Fid��le Ripaud de Montaudevert (1755���1814) was a French privateer, notable for bringing a group of volunteers from Isle de France (Mauritius) to aid Tipu Sultan in his resistance against the British.

Fran��ois Roy (1896���1970) was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the 12th Mayor of Shawinigan, Quebec from 1946 to 1954.Roy was born in 1896 in Rivi��re-des-Prairies, near Montreal. He successfully ran for mayor in 1946 and was re-elected in 1948 and 1951. The current Shawinigan City Hall (located in downtown Shawinigan at 550 Avenue de l���H��tel-de-Ville) was constructed in 1948 under his tenure. The structure has an Art Deco architectural style and is similar to the Vancouver City Hall. Roy also unveiled the Monument des Braves. He ran for mayor again in 1963 but lost to G��rard Dufresne.Roy died in Shawinigan in 1970.Union des artistes president and actor Raymond Legault performed the role of Fran��ois Roy for one of La Cit�� de l'��nergie multimedia shows.

Fran��ois Vaillancourt (born 1967) is a Montreal-based Canadian painter.Fran��ois Vaillancourt has a formal training in fine arts and graphic design. After 15 years working as an art director in various advertising agencies, he started painting again. His work plays upon the contrast between very fluid backgrounds and central images which are hyper-realistic using a technique that deliberately mixes raw and refined.

Fran��ois Parfaict, (10 May 1698 in Paris ��� 25 October 1753) was an 18th-century French theatre historian. His brother was Claude Parfaict (1701���1777), also a theatre historian.

Fran��ois Quirouet (February 28, 1776 ��� September 27, 1844) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Pierre-Fran��ois Quirouet in the town of Quebec in 1776. He served in the militia, later becoming lieutenant-colonel. He was a merchant and was also licensed as an auctioneer. With his brother Olivier and Martin Chinic, he operated an importing business. Quirouet was also a member of the Quebec Benevolent Society, serving as its president for several years.

Fran��ois Stanislas Cloez (24 June 1817 ��� 12 October 1883) was a French chemist, who authored both as "F. S. Cloez" and "S. Cloez", and is known for his pioneering role in analytical chemistry during the 19th century.

Fran��ois Vachon de Belmont (3 April 1645 ��� 22 May 1732) was the fifth superior of the Montreal Sulpicians from 1700 to 1731. Vachon de Belmont was born in Burgundy, France to a wealthy family. He moved to Canada and personally funded the construction of La Montagne mission near Montreal.He authored the Histoire du Canada, which was first published by the Quebec Literary and Historical Society Collections in 1840.

Francois (Frans) Verwilt (c.1623 in Rotterdam - 8 August 1691 in Rotterdam) was as a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

Fran��ois Rauber (19 January 1933 ��� 14 December 2003) was a French pianist, composer, arranger and conductor known for his works with chansonnier Jacques Brel.

Fran��ois Vergucht was a Belgian rower who won a Silver medal in eights at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Jean Fran��ois Xavier Roffiaen (9 August 1820, Ypres, West Flanders ��� 25 January 1898, Ixelles) was a Belgian landscape painter who specialised in painting Alpine landscapes.

Fran��ois Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris since 2014. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.

Fran��ois Salle (1839���1899) was a 19th-century French realist painter. He is best known for the painting The Anatomy Class at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1888)

Fran��ois Sublet de Noyers (1589 ��� 20 October, 1645), one of Cardinal de Richelieu's political creatures, who derived his position and political weight from the Cardinal's consistent patronage, was a secretary of state to Louis XIII, and a member of his Conseil du Roi. He was a knowledgeable patron of arts.Sublet de Noyers held the posts of intendant des finances, then of Secretary of war, reorganizing the army in Picardie and Champagne, an example of the developing tradition of professional administrators in the kingdom. He was superintendent of the B��timents du Roi, charged with overseeing all constructions undertaken on the part of the Crown, and a patron consequently of public art, but also a private patron.

Fran��ois Quirouet (February 28, 1776 ��� September 27, 1844) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Pierre-Fran��ois Quirouet in the town of Quebec in 1776. He served in the militia, later becoming lieutenant-colonel. He was a merchant and was also licensed as an auctioneer. With his brother Olivier and Martin Chinic, he operated an importing business. Quirouet was also a member of the Quebec Benevolent Society, serving as its president for several years. He served as a director for the Bank of Montreal at Quebec and was later vice-president of the Quebec Savings Bank. He was a justice of the peace and served as president of the Quebec Fire Society. Quirouet was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Orl��ans in April 1820 and served until 1833, when he was named to the Legislative Council. He opposed the proposed union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1822. He supported Louis-Joseph Papineau in the assembly but opposed motions introduced which criticized the usefulness of the legislative council and did not support the armed rebellion which followed. His niece married Charles Drolet in 1830; in 1838, he had Drolet arrested by the militia when Drolet stopped at the Quirouet home on his way to the United States.Quirouet died at Saint-Gervais in 1844.

Fran��ois Tass�� (August 11, 1774 ��� August 6, 1832) was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Effingham in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1824.He was born Fran��ois-Amable Tass�� in Saint-Martin, Quebec, the son of Charles Tass�� and ��lisabeth Bisson. He was a merchant on ��le J��sus. In 1792, he married ��lisabeth Leblanc.

Fran��ois Rabelais University (French: Universit�� Fran��ois-Rabelais) or University of Tours (Universit�� de Tours), is a public university in Tours, France. The university is named after the French writer Fran��ois Rabelais, and was founded in 1969. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.

Fran��ois Tass�� (August 11, 1774 ��� August 6, 1832) was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Effingham in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1824.He was born Fran��ois-Amable Tass�� in Saint-Martin, Quebec, the son of Charles Tass�� and ��lisabeth Bisson. He was a merchant on ��le J��sus. In 1792, he married ��lisabeth Leblanc. Tass�� died in Saint-Martin at the age of 57.His grandson Fran��ois-Z��phirin Tass�� served in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada.

Fran��ois Ovide (born in Rouen, October 1952; died in Rouen, 29 May 2002) was a French guitarist, best known for his longstanding collaborations with Albert Marcoeur and with John Greaves.Ovide grew up around Rouen. His first two band projects in the 1970s were rock band So & Co and Plat du Jour. In 1976, he started working with Marcoeur.He went on to join Weidorje for the band's last year of existence and then started doing session work. He also joined folk-rock band Gwendal in 1981. In 1984, he joined Greaves' backing band, working alongside Mireille Bauer (previously of Gong). They later married and had two children.Ovide went on to play on Greaves' albums La Petite Bouteille de Linge (1991), Songs and The Caretaker. He also played on Pip Pyle's 1998 7 Year Itch. In the mid-1980s, he also recorded a solo album with Bauer, Pierre Vermeire, Andy Emler and others, but the project was never released.Other session work was with Renaud, Patricia Kaas, Johnny Hallyday and Maxime Le Forestier.

Fran��ois Sarhan (born 30 September 1972) is a French composer, installation artist, visual artist and writer.

Fran��ois Regnault (French: [������o]; born 1938) is a French philosopher, playwright and dramaturg. Also a university instructor and teacher, Regnault was ma��tre de conf��rences at Paris VIII before his retirement. Among his various writings he is the author, with Jean-Claude Milner, of the seminal Dire le vers and of Conf��rences d'esth��tique lacanienne.

Fran��ois Thibault is a French Ma��tre de Chai (Cellar Master) from Cognac. He is best known for developing the recipe for Grey Goose vodka as well as several other brands of liquor.

Fran��ois P��tis de la Croix (1653���1713) was a French orientalist.He was born in Paris, the son of the Arabic interpreter of the French court, and inherited this office at his father's death in 1695, afterwards transmitting it to his own son, Alexandre Louis Marie, who also became a notable orientalist.

Fran��ois Pierre Joseph Amey (2 October 1768 ��� 16 November 1850) became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars. He enlisted in the French Royal Army in 1783 and joined a volunteer battalion in 1792. He won promotion to general of brigade in 1793 during the War in the Vend��e. He held a command during the period of the infernal columns and his career became obscure until 1799 when he supported Napoleon's coup. He went on the Saint-Domingue expedition in 1802���1803 and later filled posts in the interior. In 1806���1807 he led a brigade at Jena, Golymin and Eylau where he was wounded.Sent to Spain in 1808 in command of German troops, Amey fought at the Third Siege of Gerona the following year. In 1812 he participated in the French invasion of Russia and led his troops at the First and Second Battles of Polotsk. He was promoted to general of division and fought at the Berezina. He fought at Arnhem in fall 1813. While leading a division of recruits, he was wounded and captured after a heroic defense in the Battle of F��re-Champenoise in 1814. After rallying to Napoleon during the Hundred Days he was retired in 1815. He served as mayor of S��lestat for ten years then returned to military service in 1830���1833. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 1.

Fran��ois Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne (15 February 1905 in Berlin - 30 August 1981) was a French diplomat.Seydoux de Clausonne was born the son of a French diplomat. After studying philosophy and law in Paris in 1928, he joined the diplomatic service.From 1933 he served as secretary of the French Embassy in Berlin. From here he joined in 1936 in the French Foreign Ministry to take over the leadership of the Germany department. In 1942, after the occupation of France by German troops during World War II, Seydoux joined the French Resistance.After the war, he headed the French Foreign Ministry's European Department from 1949 to 1955. He then served as a French ambassador, first in Vienna, from 1958 to 1962, and then in Bonn, from 1965 to 1970.Seydoux de Clausonne was instrumental in bringing about the ��lys��e Treaty. For his contributions to European integration, he was honored in 1970 with the Charlemagne Prize by the city of Aachen.

Fran��ois Stroobant (14 June 1819 Brussels ��� 1 June 1916 Elsene) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, and brother of the lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814���1872) noted for his part in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe.He attended the Brussels Acad��mie des Beaux-Arts between 1832 and 1847, studying under Fran��ois-Joseph Navez, Paul Lauters and Fran��ois-Antoine Bossuet (1798���1889).

Fran��ois Vavasseur (English: Francois Vavasseur; 8 December 1605, at Paray-le-Monial ��� 16 December 1681 at Paris, France) was a French Jesuit humanist and controversialist.He entered the Society of Jesus, 25 October 1621, taught humanities and rhetoric for seven years, then positive theology and Scripture at Bourges, and later at Paris.

Fran��ois Toussaint Gros (in classical Occitan Franc��s Totsant Gr��s) was an Occitan-language writer from Provence.

Fran��ois Valentiny (born 1953 in Remerschen-Schengen, Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish architect.

Fran��ois Provost (1638 ��� 1 June 1702) was a career soldier from France who served in the Carignan-Sali��res regiment which was stationed to New France in 1665.Provost was held in high esteem by Buade de Frontenac from early in his residency in Canada. He served as governor of Trois-Rivi��res, temporary governor of Montreal and temporary governor of the country after the recall of Joseph-Antoine de LaBarre.

Fran��ois Pagi (7 September 1654 ��� 21 January 1721) was a French Franciscan historian of the Catholic Church.

Fran��ois Purcell is an elected official from Montreal. He was head of the municipal Vision Montr��al Party between May 2006 and 2008. He was city councillor of the district of Saint-��douard, in the arrondissement of Rosemont���La Petite-Patrie, from his entry into municipal politics, in 1998. He has also been president of the elected caucus of Vision Montr��al.

Fran��ois Roland Truffaut (French: [f������.swa ����.l���� t��yfo]; 6 February 1932 ��� 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. He also directed such classics as Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules et Jim (1961), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), Day for Night (1973) and The Woman Next Door (1981).

Fran��ois Jean-Baptiste Topino-Lebrun (11 April 1764, in Marseille ��� 30 January 1801, in Paris) was a French painter and revolutionary. He worked in the Neo-Classical style and was said to be the favorite student of Jacques-Louis David.

Fran��ois Taillandier (born in 1955, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French writer portraying the French contemporary society.

Fran��ois Ponchaud (born 1939) is a French Catholic priest and missionary to Cambodia. He is best known for his documentation of the genocide which occurred under the Khmer Rouge (KR), and for being one of the first people to expose the human rights abuses being carried out at the time.

Fran��ois Auguste Perrinon (August 28, 1812 ��� January 1, 1861) was an Afro-Caribbean French military officer, politician and abolitionist.Perrinon was born at Saint-Pierre, Martinique from a free black mother and a white father, who married in 1826. In 1832, he enrolled at the ��cole polytechnique, the first Afro-descendent student to do so. Perrinon graduated in 1834 and chose to become a Marine Artillery Officer.

Fran��ois Pr��v��t-Leygonie (born July 1967) is a French film director, dramatist, screenwriter and actor who works essentially with St��phan Archinard.

Fran��ois Schuiten (born 26 April 1956) is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series Les Cit��s Obscures.

Fran��ois Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec. He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.

Fran��ois Simons (born 25 October 1946) is a retired Belgian swimmer. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle but failed to reach the finals.

Fran��ois Stroobant (14 June 1819 Brussels ��� 1 June 1916 Elsene) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, and brother of the lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814���1872) noted for his part in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe.He attended the Brussels Acad��mie des Beaux-Arts between 1832 and 1847, studying under Fran��ois-Joseph Navez, Paul Lauters and Fran��ois-Antoine Bossuet (1798���1889). In 1835 he worked in the studio of the lithographer Antoine Dewasme-Pl��tinckx (1797-1851) in Brussels.Stroobant's subjects were mainly landscapes and architecture. He travelled extensively through the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Hungary, exhibiting in the galleries of the Belgian towns Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. His romantic painting style stayed constant throughout his career. He was founder and first director in 1865 of the Acad��mie des Beaux-Arts at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels.In 1878 he was made an Officier of the Order of Leopold.

Fran��ois Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872, Paris ��� 24 January 1944, Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher. He played a major role in the deciphering of Sumerian and Akkadian languages.He studied under Julius Oppert in Paris, and from 1895, was associated with duties performed at the Louvre, where in 1908, he was appointed assistant curator of the Oriental Antiquities department.

Fran��ois Joseph Charles Simiand (18 April 1873 ��� 13 April 1935) was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Ann��e Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies. His contribution to French social science was recognized in 1931 when, at the age of 58, he was elected to the faculty of the Coll��ge de France and accepted the chair in labor history.Simiand's career was unusual. Like many destined to become influential academics in France, he entered the ��cole Normale Sup��rieure and graduated in philosophy at the top of his class in 1896. However, he quickly became interested in law and economics and submitted a thesis on the wages of coal miners in France (1904) to the faculty of law rather than becoming an academic. As a result, he foreclosed forever the possibility of a prominent university appointment. Thus in 1901 he became the librarian for the French Ministries of Commerce and Labor, a post he held until the outbreak of World War I. From 1910 on he also taught Economic History at the ��cole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, an institution which did not require a doctorate from its lecturers.Toward the end of the nineteenth century Simiand joined the editorial board of the Ann��e Sociologique. He became a central member of the group as editor of the economic sociology section and served as its expert on statistics. At the same time, as someone removed from the politics of French academics, he was at an institutional remove from ��mile Durkheim's ambitions for transforming the French university.Simiand moved further into the administrative apparatus of the French state during World War I when he left his position as a librarian for work in the Ministry of Armaments where he played a prominent role in making policy. After the war, he served for a year as the Director of Labor for the province of Alsace-Lorraine. In addition, he took up a more permanent position as a teacher at the Conservatoire National des Arts et M��tiers.A student of Henri Bergson and ��mile Durkheim, Simiand advanced a view of economics as a social science grounded in observable phenomena rather than convenient assumptions. This would imply a large program of historical and statistical research. Joseph Schumpeter, who denied the existence of a French or an Italian Historical School despite the historical current evident in their economics, acknowledged the significance of Simiand's contributions. In Schumpeter's view, Simiand should be considered a French Institutionalist.Simiand's views on scope and method, which appear in La M��thode positive en science ��conomique (1911), were applied in his studies of real wages, money and long economic cycles. They were applied in criticism of the work of contemporary economists, as well.

Fran��ois Thomas Tr��houart (27 April 1798 ��� 8 November 1873) was a French admiral, notable as the last holder to date of the rank of Admiral of France, to which he was appointed on 20 February 1869. He was a recipient of the grand cross of the Order of Isabella II.He first saw action at Navarino in 1827, then at the blockade of the Rio de la Plata. He was made a contre-amiral on 15 February 1846, becoming a grand officer of the L��gion d'honneur on 18 July 1849.

Fran��ois B. Vernadat (born 1954) is a French and Canadian computer scientist, who has contributed to Enterprise Modelling, Integration and Networking over the last 25 years specialising in enterprise architectures, business process modelling, information systems design and analysis, systems integration and interoperability and systems analysis using Petri nets.

Full name: Fran��ois Simond.Gender: Male.Height: 183 cm (6 ft 0 in).Weight: 87 kg (192 lb).Born: 27 September 1969 in Grenoble, Is��re, France.Affiliations: Skiclub Douanes, Haute Savoie.Country: FRA France.Sport: Alpine Skiing .Fran��ois Simond (born 27 September 1969) is a French former alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics.

Fran��ois S��bastien Letourneux (1752���1814) was a French lawyer and politician who was Minister of the Interior under the Directory.

Fran��ois Pierre de la Varenne (1615���78 in Dijon), Burgundian by birth, was the author of Le Cuisinier fran��ois (1651), one of the most influential cookbooks in early modern French cuisine. La Varenne broke with the Italian traditions that had revolutionized medieval and Renaissance French cookery in the 16th century and early 17th century.

Fran��ois Octave Dugas, KC (April 12, 1852 ��� June 22, 1918) was a Canadian politician.Born in St-Jacques de l'Achigan, Montcalm County, Canada East, the son of Aim�� Dugas and Sophie Poirier, Dugas was educated at St. Mary's College in Montreal and McGill University. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1880 and set up practice as a lawyer in Joliette. Dugas was Crown Prosecutor for the District of Joliette from 1887 to 1892 and again from 1897 to 1909. He also served as solicitor for the town of Joliette from 1890 to 1900. Dugas was created a King's Counsel in 1899. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Montcalm in the general elections of 1900. A Liberal, He was re-elected in 1904 and 1908.In 1909, he was named judge in the Quebec Superior Court for Joliette district. He died at Joliette at the age of 66.His son Lucien served as a member of the Quebec assembly.

FLE is the acronym for the French Fran��ais langue ��trang��re or "French as a foreign language," similar to EFL. There is no single test like the TOEFL, but instead a variety of possible tests used to measure language proficiency of non-francophones in non-francophone countries. It is specifically different from Fran��ais langue seconde (FLS) which is used when referring to prospective immigrants to francophone countries.

Fran��ois Stanislas Cloez (24 June 1817 ��� 12 October 1883) was a French chemist, who authored both as "F. S. Cloez" and "S. Cloez", and is known for his pioneering role in analytical chemistry during the 19th century. He was a founder and later president of the Chemistry Society of France.In 1851, Cloez and Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro, working on collaborative research, prepared cyanamide by the action of ammonia on cyanogen chloride in ethereal solution.In the 1870s, he commenced the identification of the constituents of individual essential oils and their classification into groups according to their suitability for medicinal, industrial and perfumery purposes. He identified the major constituent of eucalyptus oil, which he called "eucalyptol" (now generally known as cineole). In honour of his work on eucalyptus oil Eucalyptus cloeziana (Gympie messmate) is named after him.Cloez also played a role in developing a theory on the origin of life elsewhere in the Solar system.In 1864, Cloez was the first scientist to examine a carbonaceous chondrite, the Orgueil meteorite, after it had fallen in France. Cloez said that its content "would seem to indicate the existence of organized substances in celestial bodies."The Orgueil meteorite was subject to a hoax, when a sample of the meteorite was contaminated with a rush seed. The hoax was discovered in the 1960s when the meteorite was being examined for evidence of extraterrestrial biological material. There is no suggestion in literature that Cloez was party to this hoax.

Fran��ois S��rvanin (born 20 September 1941) is a French former racing driver.

Fran��ois Tombalbaye (June 15, 1918 ��� April 13, 1975), also called N'Garta Tombalbaye from 1973 until his death, was a teacher and a trade union activist who served as the first president of Chad. The head of Chad's colonial government and its ruling party, the Chadian Progressive Party, after 1959, Tombalbaye was appointed the nation's head of government after its independence on August 11, 1960. He ruled as a dictator until his deposition and assassination by members of the Chadian military in 1975.

Fran��ois Petit (born November 8, 1951) is a martial artist and actor best known for his portrayal of the original Sub-Zero in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat and as head doctor of the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-1990s.He claims to be a former special operations officer. He claims to have an 8th-degree black belt in GOSHINDO ju-jitsu and a 7th-degree black belt in karate do. He claims to hold the title of KaiDen-Shihan, which is the highest title of Master in the world. He has not gained these titles in Japan, nor has he officially won any world titles. He carries a third-degree judo black belt. He is also a cryomancer and a five guap.Petit was in Beyond the Mat, a pro-wrestling documentary, attending to wrestling performer Mick Foley, after a particularly dangerous stunt in a match. He was also mentioned in Foley's autobiography, Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, given credit as a shiatsu massage therapist.He worked as a doctor for the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), previously named WWF.

Fran��ois Vatable (late 15th century ��� 16 March 1547) was a French humanist scholar, a Hellenist and Hebraist.

Fran��ois Xavier Tourte (1747 ��� 25 April 1835) was a Frenchman who, though trained as a watchmaker, soon changed to making bows for playing classical string instruments such as the violin.He made a number of significant contributions to the development of the bow, and is considered to be the most important figure in the development of the modern bow.

Fran��ois Romain (Ghent 1646 ��� Paris 1737) was an engineer-architect who was professed as a lay brother Dominican friar. By commission of the States of Holland, in 1683 he reconstructed the ancient bridge at Maastricht, crossing the river and the Li��ge Canal in nine arches.

Fran��ois Perrier (18 April 1835 ��� 20 February 1888) was a French soldier and geodesist.Perrier was born at Valleraugue (Gard), descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St. Barbe College, he was admitted to the Polytechnic School in 1853, leaving in 1857 as a staff officer.He was promoted to lieutenant in 1857, captain in 1860, major of cavalry in 1874, lieutenant-colonel in 1879, and he received his brigadier-general's star the year before his death. He was commander of the L��gion d'honneur and president of the council-general of his department.General Perrier long ago made a name for himself in science. After some noteworthy publications on the trigonometrical junction of France and England (1861) and on the triangulation and leveling of Corsica (1865), he was put at the head of the Geodesic Service of the French Army in 1879. In 1880, he was sent as a delegate to the conference of Berlin for the settling of the boundaries of the new Greco-Turkish frontiers. In January of the same year, he was elected a member of the Acad��mie des Sciences, as successor to Urbain Dortet de Tessan. He was a member of the Bureau des Longitudes from 1875.In 1882, Perrier was sent to Florida to observe the transit of Venus, where his observations were reported to be complete success. His celebrity continued to increase through his last triangulating operations in Algeria.General Perrier's merits led to his being appointed Head of the Geographical Service of the Army.General Perrier died at Montpellier on the 20th of February, 1888. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.

Fran��ois Perrot (born 26 February 1924) is a French film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1954.

Fran��ois Peccatte (born Mirecourt, 10 March 1821; died Paris, 30 October 1855) was a very talented archetier. He is said to have been destined for greatness, but died at the age of 34 before reaching the height of his craft. He was the brother of Dominique Peccatte and father to Charles Peccatte.Peccatte went to Paris for a short period early in his working life, then returned to Mirecourt and opened a shop in 1842, employing several workers to assist in his commercial production.

Fran��ois Sengat-Kuo (born August 4, 1931 in Douala, Cameroon) is a Camaroonian politician, diplomat and poet.Fran��ois Sengat-Kuo completed elementary education at the Ecole Principale D���Akwa (Douala). He attended secondary school at the Lyc��e Leclerc (Yaound��) and the Lyc.��e Pierre d���Ailly (Compiegne - France). An eminence grise of the late Cameroon National Union (UNC), his political engagement can be felt in his poetry.

Fran��ois Perez (died September 20, 1728) served as the Apostolic Vicar of Cochin (1687-1728).

Fran��ois Richardot (Franciscus) (1507-1574), was a celebrated Burgundian-French Catholic preacher, and confessor to Margaret of Parma. He was Bishop of Arras from 1561-1574.He was an Augustinian Hermit, and became titular bishop of Nicopolis in 1554.He preached the sermon at the funeral of the Emperor Charles V, and at the inauguration in 1562 of the University of Douai he was one of the preachers

Fran��ois Passerat was an 17th-century French poet, playwright and actor.

Fran��ois Pelletier was a French illusionist, famed in his time for his use of magnets as an entertainment basis for his act. His reputation was such that he was invited to perform at the court of Maria Theresa of Austria at Sch��nbrunn Palace in 1769. His act inspired the construction of the purported chess-playing automaton The Turk, following observation of the performance by the Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen.

Fran��ois Philippus Lodewyk Steyn (born 14 May 1987) is a South African rugby union player, who plays for the Montpellier H��rault Rugby in Top 14. He usually plays at fullback or inside centre.He was a key member of the South African team that won the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He is known for his long distance kicking ability and strong tackling.

Fran��ois Poncher (1480���1532) was the Bishop of Paris from 1519 to 1532.

Anna Maria Ferrero and P��rier in It Happened in the Park

Fran��ois Picquet (French pronunciation: ���[f������swa pik��]; 4 December 1708 ��� 15 July 1781) was a Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734. He spent the next few years studying Indian languages and customs and serving the local parish.From 1739 to 1749 he served at Lac des Deux Montagnes, where there was a Sulpician mission. It was during that period that Picquet made the decision to work with the Indians south of the Great Lakes for conversion and to ensure their loyalty to France. In 1748 a commitment was made by Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissoni��re, the Governor General of New France, to send Abb�� Picquet to the Thousand Islands area for the above purpose.In 1749, Abb�� Picquet built a mission fort named Fort de La Pr��sentation near the junction of the Oswegatchie River and the St Lawrence River. By 1755 it had a large population of Iroquois loyal to France. In 1758, with the Seven Years' War intensifying, a military commander was put in charge of that new aspect of the fort. The Abb�� was displeased with this dilution of his authority and left the fort for a period. He was back in July, 1758, to lead his Indian troops in the battle of Carillon. He also was part of Louis de la Corne's excursion to the Oswego area the following year.In 1759, the mission fort was abandoned in favour of Fort L��vis and Picquet fled to Montreal with his Indian troops. He left there for New Orleans where he stayed for a time, returning to France in 1772. He took up a ministry at Verjon and then as a chaplain to the nuns of the Visitation. A private audience with Pope Pius VI occurred in 1777 and he retired in 1779.

Fran��ois-Ren�� Gebauer (15 March 1773, Versailles, France ��� 28 July 1845, Paris) was a French composer, professor, and bassoonist and the son of a German military musician. He had four brothers, Michel-Joseph Gebauer (1763���1812), Pierre-Paul Gebauer, Jean-Luc Gebauer, and Etienne-Fran��ois Gebauer, all of whom were also musicians and composers.

Fran��ois Ouimet (born August 20, 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and lawyer. He is the current Member of National Assembly for the riding of Marquette in Montreal. He represents the Quebec Liberal Party.Ouimet studied at the Universit�� de Montr��al and obtained a bachelor's degree in Canadian literature. He also received a bachelor's degree in civil law and common law at McGill University. In 1989 he was admitted to the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Bar and the Montreal Bar.

Fran��ois "Franc" T��taz (born December 22, 1970) is an Australian film composer, music producer and mixer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) / Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) 2006 'Feature Film Score of the Year' Award for Wolf Creek (2005).As a producer he has worked with Gotye, Kimbra, Architecture in Helsinki, Sally Seltmann, Lior and Bertie Blackman. He won an ARIA for his work on Gotye���s Making Mirrors album in 2011.

Fran��ois Peraldi (May 2, 1938 ��� March 21, 1993) was a Canadian psychoanalyst and linguist. Peraldi introduced Jacques Lacan's clinical work into North America. He rejected the label Lacanian for himself and preferred to say he was engaged in "Lacanizing." Peraldi established a biweekly Peraldi Seminar for 15 years and established the R��seau des Cartels to help disseminate Lacan's and his group's ideas. He died of AIDS in 1993.

Fran��ois Sermon (31 March 1923 ��� 17 March 2013) was a Belgian footballer who played as a midfielder for Anderlecht and the Belgian national team. He died on 17 March 2013, at the age of 89.

Fran��ois Joseph Charles Simiand (18 April 1873 ��� 13 April 1935) was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Ann��e Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies.

Fran��ois Omam-Biyik (born 21 May 1966 in Sackbayene) is a former football player from Cameroon. He also has French nationality. He was one of the most important players of the Cameroonian national team in the nineties, playing at the three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998.

Fran��ois Thibaut (born January 3, 1948) is an educator known for developing the Thibaut Technique second language acquisition method for children and is the Founder/Director of The Language Workshop for Children (���LWFC���) nationwide educational centers based in New York City. Thibaut���s technique is the basis of the curriculum offered at LWFC programs and in the Professor Toto children���s language education animation. The LWFC begins teaching languages to children at the age of six months, when they���re preverbal.

Fran��ois Perrier (18 April 1835 ��� 20 February 1888) was a French soldier and geodesist.Perrier was born at Valleraugue (Gard), descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St.

Fran��ois Robineau (born April 2nd, 1962) is a French photographer. he has served occasionally as the official photographer of the Patrouille de France air acrobatic team between 1985 to 1990.He worked mainly with Dassault Aviation and made all the pictures of the Mirage 2000 and the Rafale since their development. The famous picture of the Rafale flying over the Great Pyramid of Giza was taken by Robineau. Also the ride "Riding The Rafale" is based on his original idea and directed by Nemo Sandman. The music is "Brother", a song from Justin Sullivan New Model Army.

Fran��ois Rozet, OC (25 March 1899 ��� 8 April 1994) was a French-born Canadian actor.Rozet was born March 25, 1899 in Villars-les-Dombes, Ain, Rh��ne-Alpes, France and died in Montr��al, Qu��bec, Canada.In 1971, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contribution to French theatre".

Fran��ois Vaillancourt (born 1967) is a Montreal-based Canadian painter.Fran��ois Vaillancourt has a formal training in fine arts and graphic design. After 15 years working as an art director in various advertising agencies, he started painting again. His work plays upon the contrast between very fluid backgrounds and central images which are hyper-realistic using a technique that deliberately mixes raw and refined. Each painting bears witness to the fact that time leaves its mark on objects with patina and deformity indelibly defining an ephemeral moment. His approach cannot be defined or confined by material. Instead it has been chosen solely as the best means to a beautiful end. His work, mostly acrylic and ink on canvas, has been featured on book covers and was the subject of two shows, one in Montreal and the other in Quebec city.

Fran��ois Simon (born October 28, 1968 at Troyes, France) is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1991 to 2002. He is the brother of R��gis, Pascal and J��r��me, all professional cyclists. In the 2001 Tour de France, Simon wore the maillot jaune for three days and finished as best French finisher in that Tour.

Fran��ois Thibaut (born January 3, 1948) is an educator known for developing the Thibaut Technique second language acquisition method for children and is the Founder/Director of The Language Workshop for Children (���LWFC���) nationwide educational centers based in New York City. Thibaut���s technique is the basis of the curriculum offered at LWFC programs and in the Professor Toto children���s language education animation.

Fran��ois Patrice is a French film and television actor.

Fran��ois-Rosaire Par�� BA, PhD (born 1949 in Longueuil, Quebec) is a Qu��b��cois author and academic specialising in the literature of cultural minorities, though He started his career as a professor of French Renaissance literature.Par�� lived in Montreal during his youth. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Universit�� de Montr��al, he pursued further studies in Buffalo, New York at SUNY.

Fran��ois Richard (ca. 1585 ��� 1650) was a French composer of airs de cour. His Airs de cour a quatre parties (1637) mentions the pleasure Louis XIII found in the music of his Chamber.

Fran��ois Hubert Prume (3 June 1816, Stavelot ��� 14 July 1849, Li��ge) was a Belgian violinist and composer.Prume was Professor of Violin at the Conservatories of Li��ge at the age of seventeen years, where his pupils included Hubert L��onard, and his own nephew, Frantz Jehin-Prume. His many concert tours brought him to capitals throughout Europe, during which he performed occasionally with Franz Liszt.He received the honorary title of "Virtuoso of the Duke of Gotha". However, his career ended prematurely with his death from cholera at the age of 33. He was buried in Li��ge at the Cimeti��re de Robermont. The great hall of the former Abbey of Stavelot in his hometown was named in his memory.

Fran��ois Omam-Biyik (born 21 May 1966 in Sackbayene) is a former football player from Cameroon. He also has French nationality. He was one of the most important players of the Cameroonian national team in the nineties, playing at the three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998. He played 63 international matches in total.Omam-Biyik's greatest moment came when he scored the downward header that gave Cameroon an historic 1���0 win over defending world champions Argentina in the San Siro in the opening match of the 1990 World Cup. He also scored against Sweden in the first round of the 1994 World Cup.He had success with different French clubs before moving to Marseille in the summer of 1992. He only played one match, and was transferred to Lens in October 1992. After a few years he continued his career in Mexico with Club Am��rica and Puebla F.C., with short stops in European clubs towards the late nineties. Omam-Biyik retired after the 1999/2000 season.His aerial ability led to the term "Omam-Biyik" being used as a nickname for a headed goal.In 1987 and 1991 he finished third in a run for an African Footballer of the Year award.In 2003 he played in the Adecmac amateur soccer league in Mexico City with the team Club Deportivo Sahara, where he scored 10 goals in the season.He once lived in Colima, Mexico, where he was the head coach of the city's Second Division professional soccer team.

Fran��ois Perucel, also known as de la Rivi��re was an influential 16th-century French Protestant.Having spent some time at the pastor of the French Church, London, aided by Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, Perucel started a colony of Protestants in Wesel, which took in many of the Marian exiles, including in time, the Duchess and her husband, Richard Bertie.

Fran��ois Valentijn (17 April 1666 ��� 6 August 1727) was a Dutch minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indi��n ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the Dutch East India Company and the countries of the Far East.Fran��ois Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, where he lived most his life; however, he is known for his activities in the tropics, notably in Ambon, in the Maluku Archipelago. Valentijn read theology and philosophy at the University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht before leaving for a career as a preacher in the Indies.In total, Valentijn lived in the East Indies 16 years. Valentijn was first employed by the V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at the age of 19 as minister to the East Indies, where he became a friend of the German naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). He returned and lived in Holland for about ten years before returning to the Indies in 1705 where he was to serve as army chaplain on an expedition in eastern Java. He finally returned to Dordrecht where he found time to write his Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indi��n (1724���26) a massive work of five parts published in eight volumes and containing over one thousand engraved illustrations and some of the most accurate maps of the Indies of the time. He died in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1727.Valentijn probably had access to the V.O.C.'s archive of maps and geographic trade secrets, which they had always guarded jealously. Johannes van Keulen II (d. 1755) became Hydrographer to the V.O.C. at the time Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indi��n was published. It was in the younger van Keulen's time that many of the VOC charts were first published, one signal of the decline of Dutch dominance in the spice trade. One uncommon grace afforded Valentijn was that he lived to see his work published; the VOC (Dutch East India Company) strictly enforced a policy prohibiting former employees from publishing anything about the region or their colonial administration. And while, as Thomas Su��rez notes, by the mid-18th century the Dutch no longer feared sharing geographic secrets, E. M. Beekman notes how "the execution of this policy was erratic and based on personal motives".While Valentijn's maps and diagrams were prized possessions, his scholarship, judging by 21st-century standards was unscrupulous. Valentijn's use of the products of other scientists' and writers' intellectual labour, passing it off as his own, reveals a penchant for self-aggrandisement. Beekman nevertheless cites him as an important figure and, given his writing style, diction and aptitude for narrative, one of the greatest Dutch prose writers of the time.

Fran��ois Roland Truffaut (French: [f������.swa ����.l���� t��yfo]; 6 February 1932 ��� 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement.

Fran��ois Pr��lat was a French gunsmith and inventor. He is thought to have invented the first fully contained cartridge in 1808, as well as the percussion cap in 1818.In association with the Swiss gunsmith Jean Samuel Pauly, Fran��ois Pr��lat invented from 1808 to 1812 the first totally contained cartridge, incorporating in one package a fulminate primer, black powder and a round bullet. A percussion pin would provoke ignition.

Jean-Baptiste Fran��ois Rozier (23 January 1734 in Saint-Nizier parish, Lyon ��� 28/29 September 1793 in Lyon) was a French botanist and agronomist.

Note: The "Fran��ois Sully" credited in The Foreman Went to France (1942) was British character actor Francis L. Sullivan.Fran��ois Sully (1927-1971) was a French journalist and photographer best known for his work during the Vietnam War. Sully was one of the earliest journalists to cover the Vietnam War and spent 24 years in Indochina. At the time of his death in a command helicopter crash near the Cambodian border, he was viewed as the dean of the Saigon press corps.Sully was born in 1927 or 1928 in France and fought against the Nazis in the French Resistance as a teenager and was wounded on his seventeenth birthday in Paris. After the liberation of Paris he enlisted in the French Army, fought the Nazis in Germany and then volunteered for the French Expeditionary Forces, arriving in Saigon when the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Discharged in Saigon, Sully tried his hand as a tea planter and rancher before turning to journalism. In 1947 he joined Sud-Est Asiatique, a now defunct French magazine, working for them until 1953. He was assigned to cover the battle of Dien Bien Phu by Time-Life. He escaped from behind the Viet Minh lines. In 1959 he joined United Press International (UPI). He wrote articles for Time magazine and his photographs were carried by Black Star until he joined Newsweek in early 1961.In March 1962, Sully was to be expelled from South Vietnam by President Ngo Dinh Diem, egged on by Madame Nhu, as his reporting was deemed "helpful to the enemy". Unofficially, Diem intended the expulsion to serve as a warning to all journalists reporting the failings of his U.S.-assisted war against the Viet Cong. The other journalist on the expulsion list was Homer Bigart of the New York Times. Diem backed down after the U.S. Mission explained that expulsion would only worsen an already bad relationship with the press. Five months later, however, in August 1962, Sully was sent packing after some seventeen years in Indochina. The Newsweek issue of August 20, 1962 carried a long article by Sully "Viet Nam: The Unpleasant Truth". His expulsion became a major political affair between Saigon and Washington. Sully departed Saigon on September 9, with most of the press corps at the airfield in a show of solidarity. After his expulsion Sully proceeded to Harvard where he put in a year at the Nieman Foundation and worked in bordering countries to Vietnam. He returned to the Newsweek bureau in Saigon after the November 1963 Coup and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem.During his work as Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief, Sully also wrote for a number of other newsmagazines including The Nation and The New Republic. In 1967 and 1968, Sully wrote articles for McGraw-Hill's business-reporting service World News which distributed them to Business Week, Medical World News, Engineering News Record, and other publications. In addition to writing news stories and taking photographs, Sully wrote Age of the Guerrilla: The New Warfare (New York: Parent's Magazine Press, 1968; reprinted by Avon, 1970) and compiled and edited We the Vietnamese: Voices from Vietnam (New York: Praeger, 1971).Sully was the insider's insider amongst the press corps in Vietnam. His sources were numerous inside the Viet Minh and Viet Cong, inside the Palace in Saigon and at grassroots levels in every province in the North and South. He spoke several languages and was fluent in French, English, Vietnamese and Lao.Sully died in February 1971. He was aboard a command helicopter as it turned west towards Cambodia. The helicopter of General Do Cao Tri ('Patton of the Parrots Beak') had lifted off from Tay Ninh airstrip and was heading towards a firebase just across the Vietnam-Cambodia border. As the helicopter was nearing its destination it burst in flames. Sully alone leaped from the burning craft and plunged seventy five feet to the ground. All others died in the crash. Sully died from injuries suffered in the fall at Long Binh hospital. Sully was buried in Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery in Saigon. He left his insurance policy of 18 million piasters to Vietnamese orphans.

Fran��ois Ovide (born in Rouen, October 1952; died in Rouen, 29 May 2002) was a French guitarist, best known for his longstanding collaborations with Albert Marcoeur and with John Greaves.Ovide grew up around Rouen. His first two band projects in the 1970s were rock band So & Co and Plat du Jour. In 1976, he started working with Marcoeur.He went on to join Weidorje for the band's last year of existence and then started doing session work. He also joined folk-rock band Gwendal in 1981.

Fran��ois-Ren�� Gebauer (15 March 1773, Versailles, France ��� 28 July 1845, Paris) was a French composer, professor, and bassoonist and the son of a German military musician. He had four brothers, Michel-Joseph Gebauer (1763���1812), Pierre-Paul Gebauer, Jean-Luc Gebauer, and Etienne-Fran��ois Gebauer, all of whom were also musicians and composers. The brothers played together in a quintet that was modeled on woodwind quintet instrumentation but modified by removing the flute parts to include their brother Jean-Luc, who was a percussionist. The quintet received favorable reviews from critics, who found the music to be "unusually lively for a wind quintet" and "full of earthly elegance".He took music lessons first with his brother Michel-Joseph Gebauer, which ended soon due to artistic differences between the two. He then took lessons with Fran��ois Devienne, which proved to be more successful. In 1788 he joined the Swiss Guard in Versailles as a bassoonist. In 1790 he joined the orchestra of the Musique de la garde nationale de Paris. From 1801 to 1826 he was a bassoonist in the orchestra of the Paris Opera. In 1795 he was appointed professor of bassoon at the Conservatoire de Paris, a post he held until 1802 and then from 1824 to 1838.His most famous work was Duos Concertants, Op. 48, for horn and bassoon, which featured repetitive rhythmic motifs in phase shifting patterns and strikingly modern asymmetrical melodies. The most memorable effect he achieved with this piece was the portrayal of schadenfreude through jarring note patterns in the bassoon line.

Fran��ois Regnard (or Regnart; Douai, fl. 1570s) was a French Renaissance composer. He studied, sang, and later was ma��tre de chapelle at Tournai Cathedral. He is mainly remembered for his settings of Ronsard's chansons.He was one of five composer brothers of whom the best known was Jacques or Jacob Regnart who spent most of his career in the service of Habsburg emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II and Archduke Ferdinand in Vienna, Prague and Innsbruck. Two more, Charles and Pascal, were in the chapel of Philip II of Spain. Another brother, Augustin, was canon at Lille. It was Augustin who in 1590 published works of the four other brothers; Fran��ois as "Franciscus Regnart", Jacobus Regnart, Pascasius Regnart, Carolus Regnart in Novae cantiones sacrae, quator, quinque et sex vocum.

Fran��ois-Ren��-Auguste Mallarm�� (25 February 1755 ��� 25 July 1835) was a French statesman of the French Revolution and a supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Empire. His career is of particular interest because he was among political figures such as Joseph Fouch�� who at first aggressively supported the Terror, only to betray its leaders (including Maximilien Robespierre) and support the various conservative reactionary r��gimes that followed.

Fran��ois Roettiers (or Ro��ttiers, Roettier, Rottier, Rottiers) (1685-1742) was a Flemish Baroque painter, sculptor, medallist and engraver from the early 18th century, who worked mainly in Austria.He was born in London on 3 November 1685 in a family of medallists, engravers and goldsmiths. His grandfather Philip Roetters (Antwerp 1596 - Antwerp 1669) had three sons :Jan Roettiers (Antwerp 4 July 1631 - London, 1703)Joseph Roettiers (Antwerp 1 August 1635 - Paris, 12 September 1703)Philip Roettiers (Antwerp 13 September 1640 - Antwerp, 1718) (father of Fran��ois Roettiers)Each one of them and their sons continued the family tradition. Some worked in Paris, others at the Royal Mint in London or at the Antwerp Mint.He became painter at the court of Maximilian II of Bavaria. He followed the prince to Munich and from there to Vienna. While staying in Munich he was influenced by Cosmas Damian Asam. He later became director of the Academy of Vienna (Akademie der Maler,Bildhauer und Baukunstler) in 1718. He died in Vienna on 10 June 1742.Several of his works can be seen in different musea, churches and palaces :The painting The return from exile of Maximilian Emmanuel at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany.Several paintings at the Dominican church in Vienna, such as the altarpiece and the paintings on the side walls of the chapel of St. Catherine of Siena and the Vincent Ferrer chapel.The painting Christ and Peter at the lake of Genasaret (1727) in the Botlzmanngasse church, Alsergrund, district of Vienna, AustriaThe ceiling fresco Falconry and the frescoes in the chapel of the castle of Eckartsau, Austriaseveral drawings in the museum Antoine-L��cuyer, Saint-Quentin, Francedrawings : The martyrdom of a saint and Study of sitting figureHe is not to be confused with his namesake and member of the family Fran��ois Ro��ttiers the Younger (1702-1770)

Fran��ois Nicolas Henri Racine de Monville (October 4, 1734, Paris ��� March 9, 1797) was a French aristocrat, musician, architect and landscape designer, best known for his French landscape garden, Le D��sert de Retz, which influenced Thomas Jefferson and other later architects.

Fran��ois Riday Busseron (Bosseron, Beauceron) was a Canadien fur trader, general store operator, and militia captain in the American village of Vincennes. He supported the Americans during the American Revolution and funded the first American flag made in Indiana. As a U.S. citizen, he would serve as a judge in the court of general quarter sessions.Busseron was born in 1748, when the Northwest Territory was still part of New France. The territory became the domain of the British Empire following the French and Indian War, but Busseron elected to stay. On hearing the news of the American Revolution and the French alliance from Father Gibault, however, Busseron sided for the Americans.When Lt-Governor Henry Hamilton retook control of Fort Sackville and confiscated local supplies of ammunition, Busseron, along with Colonel Legras, "buried the greater part of their powder and ball." George Rogers Clark and his American forces arrived on 23 February 1779, his black powder ruined while wading across the Wabash River. Clark wrote of Legras and Busseron, "We found ourselves well supplied by those gentlemen." Hamilton noted not only that Busseron supplied Clark with powder, but that he also offered the services of himself and 75 men of the Vincennes militia, which greatly discouraged the Canadians inside Fort Sackville.Busseron was involved in many of the Vincennes militia actions, including a mission led by Captain Leonard Helm that captured Hamilton's reinforcements on the Wabash River. When Clark withdrew his Virginia troops in Spring 1780, he left Busseron in charge of the fort- now renamed Fort Patrick Henry.By 1781, the Canadian residents of Vincennes had become frustrated with the Virginia government, depreciated US currency, and the Virginia militias that used or took their property without proper compensation. The leading citizens of Vincennes, including Fran��ois Busseron, signed a letter of grievances to the governor of Virginia. Over the course of the American Revolution, Busseron extended up to $12,000 credit to Clark. None of this was ever repaid to him. He and all but one of his children died in poverty.Busseron died in 1791 at age 43. Joseph Somes says he died "a broken and much disillusioned man." He is buried near the Old French Cathedral in Vincennes, next to the George Rogers Clark National Historic Park.Busseron Street, in Vincennes, is named in honor of Fran��ois Busseron. Busseron Creek and Busseron Township, both in Knox County, Indiana, are also named for him.

Fran��ois Poeydebasque was a rugby union player, who represented France. He was killed in the First World War.

Fran��ois Ozon (French: [f������.swa o.z����]; born 15 November 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality.He has achieved international acclaim for his films 8 femmes (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003).

Fran��ois P��tis de la Croix (1653���1713) was a French orientalist.He was born in Paris, the son of the Arabic interpreter of the French court, and inherited this office at his father's death in 1695, afterwards transmitting it to his own son, Alexandre Louis Marie, who also became a notable orientalist. At an early age, Fran��ois was sent by Colbert to the East; during the ten years he spent in Syria, Persia and Turkey he learned Arabic, Persian and Turkish and collected materials which he would use in future writings.

Fran��ois Poulin de Francheville, Seigneur de Saint-Maurice (7 October 1692 ��� November 1733) was a Montreal merchant who was granted permission by the King of France to mine the iron ore deposits on his seigneury in 1730. In 1733, Francheville founded the Compagnie des Forges de Saint-Maurice, but he died that same year.The ironworks ��� Forges du St-Maurice ��� built near the town of Trois-Rivi��res (in present-day Quebec), were the only iron industry enterprise in New France.

Fran��ois Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (French: [pukvil]; 4 November 1770 ��� 20 December 1838) was a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, member of the Institut de France.First as the Turkish Sultan's hostage, then as Napoleon Bonaparte's general consul at the court of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, he travelled extensively throughout Ottoman occupied Greece from 1798 to 1820.With his far reaching diplomacy and with his writings, he became a prominent architect of the Philhellenism movement throughout Europe, and contributed eminently to the liberation of the Greeks, and to the rebirth of the Greek Nation.

Fran��ois Proth (1852 ��� 1879) was a French self-taught mathematician farmer who lived in Vaux-devant-Damloup near Verdun, France.He stated four primality-related theorems. The most famous of these, Proth's theorem, can be used to test whether a Proth number (a number of the form k2n + 1 with k odd and k < 2n) is prime.

Fran��ois Octave Dugas, KC (April 12, 1852 ��� June 22, 1918) was a Canadian politician.Born in St-Jacques de l'Achigan, Montcalm County, Canada East, the son of Aim�� Dugas and Sophie Poirier, Dugas was educated at St. Mary's College in Montreal and McGill University. He was admitted to the Quebec bar in 1880 and set up practice as a lawyer in Joliette. Dugas was Crown Prosecutor for the District of Joliette from 1887 to 1892 and again from 1897 to 1909.

Fran��ois Sterchele (14 March 1982 ��� 8 May 2008) was a Belgian footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006-07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on 8 May 2008.

Fran��ois Picard-Destelan (born 20 April 1909, Hong-Kong - 12 January 1983, Criquetot-l'Esneval) was a French admiral of the French Navy.

Fran��ois Pierre Joseph Amey (2 October 1768 ��� 16 November 1850) became a French division commander during the Napoleonic Wars. He enlisted in the French Royal Army in 1783 and joined a volunteer battalion in 1792. He won promotion to general of brigade in 1793 during the War in the Vend��e. He held a command during the period of the infernal columns and his career became obscure until 1799 when he supported Napoleon's coup.

Fran��ois Saint-Onge (March 9, 1781 ��� February 27, 1842) was a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Richelieu in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1820 to 1824. His surname also appears as Garau, Garault dit Saint-Onge and Gareau.He was born Fran��ois-��tienne Saint-Onge in Contrec��ur, the son of Fran��ois Gareau and ��lisabeth Dufaux, and settled in Saint-Ours. Saint-Onge also served as justice of the peace and commissioner for the summary trial of minor causes.

Fran��ois Perroux (December 19, 1903 in Saint-Romain-en-Gal ��� June 2, 1987 in Stains) was a French economist. He was named Professor at the Coll��ge de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon (1928 - 1937) and the University of Paris (1935 - 1955). He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliqu��es in 1944.He was terribly critical of the leading financial and economic policies toward the Third World during the half-century of his career.

Fran��ois Rabelais (/��r��b����le��/; French: [f������.swa ��a.bl��]; between 1483 and 1494 ��� 9 April 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Fran��ois Marie Gabriel Andr�� Charles-Ferdinand Roelants du Vivier (born 5 November 1947) is a Belgian politician and a member of Ecolo and later the FDF (Francophone Democratic Federalists).He is part of the political family Nothomb; his grandfather is Pierre Nothomb and his ancestors include Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, who helped draft the Belgian Constitution and served as Prime Minister.Roelants du Vivier started his career in Ecolo, and was a Member of the European Parliament elected in 1984 and serving until 1989.In 1988 he started the Europe-R��gions-Environnement (ERE) movement. Under the electoral alliance FDF-ERE, he was elected to the Brussels Parliament in the 1989 elections. He was re-elected 1995, 1999 and 2004. From 2000 until 2009 he also served in the Parliament of the French Community and the Senate as community senator.From 1994 until 2000 he was also municipal councillor in Uccle.

Fran��ois Sengat-Kuo (born August 4, 1931 in Douala, Cameroon) is a Camaroonian politician, diplomat and poet.Fran��ois Sengat-Kuo completed elementary education at the Ecole Principale D���Akwa (Douala). He attended secondary school at the Lyc��e Leclerc (Yaound��) and the Lyc.��e Pierre d���Ailly (Compiegne - France). An eminence grise of the late Cameroon National Union (UNC), his political engagement can be felt in his poetry. A militant of the Association of Students of Black Africa in France (FEANF), his work is laced with observations of the political landscape of Cameroon at the time. Editor of the journal Presence Africaine, he published numerous articles under the pseudonym Nditsouna Francisco.

Fran��ois Rozenthal (born June 20, 1975 in Dunkirk, France) is a French ice hockey player.

Note: The "Fran��ois Sully" credited in The Foreman Went to France (1942) was British character actor Francis L. Sullivan.Fran��ois Sully (1927-1971) was a French journalist and photographer best known for his work during the Vietnam War. Sully was one of the earliest journalists to cover the Vietnam War and spent 24 years in Indochina.

The Fran��ois Tomb is an important painted Etruscan tomb from the Ponte Rotto Necropolis in the Etruscan city of Vulci, in central Italy. It was discovered in 1857 by Alessandro Fran��ois and Adolphe No��l des Vergers. It dates to the last quarter of the fourth century BC. The tomb seems to belong to the Etruscan family of the Saties (or Seties) and one of its chief occupants is Vel Saties, who appears with his dwarf, Arnza.Its outstanding frescoes are significant both iconographically and also in terms of their comments on Etruscan history and identity.The tomb contains a fresco depicting Caelius Vibenna (whom the Romans believed the Caelian Hill was named after) and Mastarna (a legendary figure whom the Emperor Claudius identified with Servius Tullius).The frescos were removed by Prince Torlonia soon after their discovery and were kept in the Torlonia Museum (Rome). Since 1946, they have been stored at the private Villa Albani in Rome as part of the Torlonia collection.Some pottery vessels from the tomb are now in the British Museum.

Fran��ois Poulin de Francheville, Seigneur de Saint-Maurice (7 October 1692 ��� November 1733) was a Montreal merchant who was granted permission by the King of France to mine the iron ore deposits on his seigneury in 1730. In 1733, Francheville founded the Compagnie des Forges de Saint-Maurice, but he died that same year.The ironworks ��� Forges du St-Maurice ��� built near the town of Trois-Rivi��res (in present-day Quebec), were the only iron industry enterprise in New France. In 1736, the ironworks were taken over by a company that went bankrupt in 1741. The ironworks then became the property of the Crown, and began producing artillery pieces and objects of everyday use, such as pots and stoves.Francheville was also the owner of the slave Marie-Joseph Ang��lique, who was convicted for starting the 1734 fire of Montreal.

Fran��ois Rousseau is a professional French painter and photographer.He started in painting for almost ten years, before turning to photography in 1995. The link started when he discovered Patrick Grainville's novel, L'Atelier du Peintre (The Painter���s Studio) when it came out in 1988 about the relationship of the painter to his models, of different backgrounds, who posed in the studio. It was as if the models had waited to be born and even chosen by the master. This resulted in Rousseau's work Atelier. Mikael Karlsson composed Life Class, a 25-minute musical work accompanying Atelier that became a vital part of the project. Photos from Atelier became a part of an exhibition at the Maison europ��enne de la photographie in Paris until April 2009.He has photographed the 2004, 2011 and 2012 annual issues of Dieux du Stade, a popular series of nude and semi-nude calendars based on members of Stade Fran��ais, a Paris-based French rugby team. His work was also documented in famous Dieux du Stade book Locker Room Nudes.He has photographed other athletes, most notably Olympic athletes Steeve and Christophe Guenot in 2004, many models and a number of Out magazine covers (like John Barrowman) and Vampires in L.A feature and major articles features like Chad White in the magazine. ORA was a successful photo book project in 2008 and the Wet Men book project.Fran��ois Rousseau's photos were used for the promotional launching poster of French gay Pink TV channel. His Habibi NYC and Amor Causa Brazilian shoots of individuals picked from the street gave him an independent profile.On October 5, 2012 L'Express.FR and a top Parisian writer Isabelle Aithnard compared T��tu 2013 Calendar by Lope Navo to the longest running Les Dieux du Stade by the veteran French photographer Fran��ois Rousseau's 2013 Calendar. Aithnard concluded she prefers T��tu Lope Navo 2013 Calendar for casting an exotic variety of exquisite Brazilian men who don't only appeal to gay men but also to straight women.

Fran��ois Sublet de Noyers (1589 ��� 20 October, 1645), one of Cardinal de Richelieu's political creatures, who derived his position and political weight from the Cardinal's consistent patronage, was a secretary of state to Louis XIII, and a member of his Conseil du Roi.

Fran��ois Ozenda (1923���1976) was a painter born in Marseille, France. He spent his childhood there, in a modest family. He left school at age 14 as a result of a motorcycle accident. He worked various trades, generally living off the barter of his art and support from his friends.He claimed to have learned painting in three months by attending the art school in Marseille, France. A painter and mystical poet, he painted in a surrealistic style filled with esotericism and spirituality. Between 1950 and 1976, he mixed the artistic life with living on the Mediterranean coast. He had several exhibitions, especially in the South of France in particular in Vence and the Galerie Alphonse Chave.In 1973, he settled in Salernes, France and died of a heart attack in 1976.After his death, retrospectives were devoted to him, in Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, and Trans-en-Provence.

J. (Jean) Fran��ois Tr��ves (born April 23, 1930 in Brussels) is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations.Tr��ves earned his Ph.D. in 1958 from Sorbonne under the supervision of Laurent Schwartz. He then went to the USA where from 1958 to 1960 he was assistant professor at Berkeley. From 1961 to 1964 he was an associate professor at Yeshiva University, and from 1964 to 1970 professor at Purdue University. In 1970 he became a professor at Rutgers University, where he was in 1984 Robert-Adrian professor emeritus and 2005.In 1972 he received the Chauvenet Prize for "On local solvability of linear partial differential equations" in the Bulletin of the AMS (Volume 76, 1970, pp. 552���571). It was about the problem he worked in 1962 with Louis Nirenberg with whom he found necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of equations with analytic coefficients, 1969 (Comptes rendus de l'Acad��mie des Sciences Paris Bd.269). The question was first presented to him in 1955 by Schwartz as a thesis problem.In 1977 he was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1991 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his book on pseudo-differential operators and Fourier integral operators. In 2003 he became a foreign member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. In 1970 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Hamiltonian fields, bicharacteristic strips in relation with existence and regularity of solutions of linear partial differential equations). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.