Pierre Vervloesem

Pierre sandrin

Pierre Sylvain Regis

Pierre-Ernest Weiss (25 March 1865, Mulhouse – 24 October 1940, Lyon) was a French physicist specialized in magnetism and developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that lead to the discovery of the Curie-Weiss law.

Pierre Rene Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard

Pierre de Lauzon

Pieterjan Monteyne

Pierre Thomas (scholar)

Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave (March 9, 1773 – October 5, 1840) was a fur trader, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1773, the son of Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave, and moved to Montreal with his family after the American Revolution. Like his father, he entered the fur trade and he worked for his father at Detroit. He helped found the XY Company in 1798 and looked after the Athabasca department as a wintering partner. He was put in charge of the Red River department after the company merged with the North West Company in 1804; he was later put in charge of the Athabasca and then Pic departments. In 1811, he was named manager for the new South West Fur Company. During the War of 1812, he was named captain of the Corps of Canadian Voyageurs and served as major in the militia after the war. He was involved in coordinating the transfer of assets when the North West Company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1820s and served as agent for the HBC until he retired from the fur trade in 1827.Rocheblave purchased land at Coteau-Saint-Louis on the island of Montreal and elsewhere in the province. He helped develop the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad. He was named a justice of the peace for Montreal district in 1821 and also served on various commissions. In 1827, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal West. He was named to the Legislative Council in 1832 and was named to the Special Council that administered the province after the Lower Canada Rebellion. He opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada and was president of an organization that opposed any such plan.He died at Coteau-Saint-Louis in 1840. His widow Elmire, died in 1886. Both were buried in the Church of Notre Dame, Montreal.

Pierre Ugeux (ca. 1914 – January 12, 2009) was a paratrooper during World War II and worked closely with British Intelligence as a Major in the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was handler of the famous Comet line Belgian Resistance member Micheline Dumon (code named "Lily" and "Michou") during WWII. They met in London after she had been extracted from Europe in 1944 and ended up marrying the following year.

Pierre de Nesson (born 1384, date of death unknown) was a French poet. He was born in Aigueperse, Puy-de-Dôme, France.His major work is the Vigiles des Morts, or Paraphrase des IX leçons de Job. It is commentary on the Biblical Book of Job, in outspoken verses. Other works are L'hommage à la Vierge, and the Lay de guerre, a lai written after the Battle of Agincourt, a riposte to the Lay de paix of his contemporary Alain Chartier.An extract from the Vigiles des Morts :Et lors, quand tu trépasseras,Dès le jour que mort tu seras,Ton orde chair commenceraÀ rendre pugnaise pueur.Que ne gouttes-tu de sueurQuand tu penses que ce sera ?

Pierre de Montaigut

Pierre Volla

Count Wolston Pierre Stuart de Beaumont (August 1, 1915 – December 4, 2010), aka Pete de Beaumont, was an American mechanical engineer who was a founder of Brookstone, a chain of specialty stores.

Architect

Pierre Trimouillat

Professor

Pierre (Petrus) Verbaeten is a Belgian professor emeritus in the Computer Science at the KU Leuven, and has more than 226 publications to its name. He managed the domain field .be from 1989 to 2000.

Pierre and Wright

Pierre Verendrye

Pietro Francesco Montorio (1556–1643) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany (1621–1624) and Bishop of Nicastro (1594–1620).

Pierre Rolland

Pietro Filippo Scarlatti

Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau

Pietro Francesco Orsini

Pierre d'Hozier, seigneur de la Garde (July 10, 1592 – December 1, 1660), was a French genealogist.He was born in Marseille. He belonged to the household of the Marshal de Créqui and gave him aid in his genealogical investigations.In 1616 he entered upon some extensive researches into the genealogy of the noble families of the kingdom, in which work he was aided by his prodigious memory for dates, names and family relationships, as well as by his profound knowledge of heraldry.

Pierre de Castelnau, Blessed

Pierre de Gondi

Pierre Wuilleumier (1 January 1904 – 20 November 1979) was a 20th-century French scholar, normalian, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne and archaeologist.

Pierre Van Der Vorst (died 1549) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Acqui (1535–1549). He was the son of Jean Van der Vorst, Seigneur of Loenbeke and Chancellor of Brabant for Charles V and Philip II, King of Castile. He served as a judge in the courts of the Roman Curia, and as ambassador of Pope Paul III to the German princes in negotiations for holding the Council of Trent.

Pierre de Saint-Cricq

Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are Le Triomphe de l'amour, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu.

Pierre d'Hozier

Pierre Rwigyema

Pierre René Deligne

Pierre Volla (born 16 July 1981) is a French Olympic dressage rider. Representing France, he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where he finished 31st in the individual and 8th in the team competition.Volla also competed at the 2015 European Dressage Championships where he placed 6th in the team and 18th in the individual competition.

Pierre Siniac (1928–2002) received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1981 for three of his works, including Aime le Maudit. Under the title Ferdinaud Céline, The Collaborators was published in French in 1997 to great acclaim.A story about the Paris Métro Line 8 inspired his novel Le Crime du dernier métro, published in 2001.

Pierre Veron (publicist)

Pietro Foresti (born June 29, 1977 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian music producer, engineer, and manager. His production and engineering credits include work in Los Angeles, California, with numerous major label artists, including Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns, Brides of Destruction, Contraband, Guns N' Roses), Scott Russo (Unwritten Law), and Marvin Etzioni (Lone Justice). His production and engineering colleagues on more than four dozen albums have included Sylvia Massy Shivy (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool), Michael C. Ross (Christina Aguilera, Pussycat Dolls), and Joe Gastwirt (Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Michael Jackson).Foresti is also producer, engineer, and manager for his wife, Italian pop superstar Valeria Rossi, whose hit “Tre Parole” climbed to number one in both the Italian and Spanish charts and was awarded a top prize at the 2002 Italian Music Awards. With Rossi, Foresti created the record label Tre Parole.As producer, Foresti was nominated for two music awards in 2010 from the Union Fonografica Independiente (UFI) for the album The Promise by the band Warrior Poet, featuring Scott Russo. The album was nominated for “Best Rock Album” and "Best Alternative Rock Album."He has been a judge on several Italian television talent shows, including “Diventerò Una Star - e Una Persona Migliore,” “La Spada d'Oro” (Acireale), Concorso Canoro's “Note Azzurre” (Cannobio), and "In…canto a Morciano.”Foresti holds a university degree in musicology from the University of Cremona, School of Musical Philology and Paleography, and master's degree in music therapy from the Art-Therapy School in Lecco.Foresti is also a recognized performance and mental coach, offering assistance to musicians and performers with mental preparation and enhanced focus.He currently lives in Tuscany.

Pierre Vigier

Pierre Saint-Sevin, dit l′Abbé l′ainé (1 May 1695 in Bordeaux – May 1768 in Paris) was a French cellist and composer.Along with his brother Philippe Saint-Sevin, he was a music-master of the parish church of Agen in Aquitaine early in the eighteenth century.

Pierre Roux

Pieter von Bleeker

Pierre and Djemila (French: Pierre et Djemila) is a 1987 French drama film directed by Gérard Blain. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Pietro Fontana (engraver)

Pierre de Bonzi

Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt

Pierre de Troyes, born at unknown date, died 1688, was a captain that led the French capture of Moose Factory, Rupert House, and Fort Albany in Hudson Bay 1686.

Pierre Selby

Pietro Francesco Cittadini

Pietro Frassi (before 1716–circa 1778) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in his native Cremona.

Pierre de Camboust, duc de Coislin (1664–1710) was a duke and peer of France, succeeding his father. He was admitted to the Académie française in his father's seat on 11 December 1702 by the abbé de Dangeau.

Pierre Saint-Sevin, dit l′Abbé l′ainé (1 May 1695 in Bordeaux – May 1768 in Paris) was a French cellist and composer.Along with his brother Philippe Saint-Sevin, he was a music-master of the parish church of Agen in Aquitaine early in the eighteenth century. It is doubtful that he was actually an ordained priest, or merely in consequence of his office had to wear the ecclesiastical dress, but he received the name l′Abbé l′ainé, or simply l′Abbé.Later, he and his brother gave up their connection with the church and went to Paris, where they obtained engagements at the Grand Opera. They were both excellent players, but Philippe seems to have been the more celebrated of the two.He is the uncle of the violinist Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin, dit L′Abbé le Fils.

Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave (March 9, 1773 – October 5, 1840) was a fur trader, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1773, the son of Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave, and moved to Montreal with his family after the American Revolution. Like his father, he entered the fur trade and he worked for his father at Detroit. He helped found the XY Company in 1798 and looked after the Athabasca department as a wintering partner.

Pierre de Foix

Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey (1532–1596?) was a French engraver, goldsmith, painter, sculptor and medallist.

Pierre Zaïdin

Pierre Thomas

Pierre Sicaud (1911–1998) was a French colonial administrator.During the Second World War, he joined the Free French Air Force as a parachutist and commanded a squadron of the SAS. He fought in Britanny and in the Netherlands (Operation Amherst).In 1949 he was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce the French sovereignty. He found a location where to build an airstrip and to settle a permanent station. He chose the name of Port-aux-Français and during the following years achieved its foundation.From 1955 to 1958 he was the governor of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and then from 1958 to 1961 of French Polynesia where he supervised the building of Tahiti's airport.He died in 1998. A postage stamp of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands edited in 1999 commemorates Pierre Sicaud.

Pierre Sansot (9 June 1928, Antibes – 6 May 2005, Grenoble) was a French anthropologist and sociologist.

Pierre Ugeux (ca. 1914 – January 12, 2009) was a paratrooper during World War II and worked closely with British Intelligence as a Major in the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was handler of the famous Comet line Belgian Resistance member Micheline Dumon (code named "Lily" and "Michou") during WWII. They met in London after she had been extracted from Europe in 1944 and ended up marrying the following year. After the war, Ugeux played a significant role in Belgium's gas and electricity industry as director of the Belgian Power Authority.A passionate motorsports enthusiast, Ugeux was President of the Commission Sportive Internationale (CSI) sports governing body from 1976–1978, which was renamed the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) after his tenure. His responsibilities at CSI included overseeing all the racing regulations of Formula One. Ugeux was also President of the Royal Automobile Club Belgium (RACB).

Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (French: [pjɛʁ valdɛk ʁuso]; 2 December 1846 – 10 August 1904) was a French Republican politician.

Pierre Seaway

Pierre Trimouillat (1858 – 5 January 1929) was a French songwriter, comedian and singer who was active in the cabarets of Paris in the 1890s.

Pierre Marcel de Wit (born 26 September 1987) is a German footballer.

Pierre St-Jean

Pierre Sicaud

Pietro Francesco Orsini de Gravina

Pietro Fontana

Pierre V. Cortlandt, Jr.

Pierre de Vaux

Pierre Widmer (1912–1999) was a French Mennonite pastor, editor of the journal Christ Seul.

Poet

Pierre Franqueville, generally called Pietro Francavilla (1548 — 25 August 1615), was a Franco-Flemish sculptor trained in Florence, who provided sculpture for Italian and French patrons in the elegant Late Mannerist tradition established by Giambologna.

Pierre Succar

Pierre Revoil

Pietro Frassi

Pietro Franco "Piero" Fassino

Pierre le Baud

Pietro Franco Fassino

Pietro Foresti (born June 29, 1977 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian music producer, engineer, and manager. His production and engineering credits include work in Los Angeles, California, with numerous major label artists, including Tracii Guns (L.A. Guns, Brides of Destruction, Contraband, Guns N' Roses), Scott Russo (Unwritten Law), and Marvin Etzioni (Lone Justice).

Pierre d'Artaguette

Pietro Foglia

Pierre Victor, baron Malouet

Pierre Wartel

Pierre Sevigny (hockey player)

The Pierre de Jaumont (lit. "stone of Jaumont") is an oolitic limestone of the Upper Jurassic, found in Malancourt-la-Montagne, part of the commune of Montois-la-Montagne, in Lorraine, France.Jaumont is the shorthand for "Jaune-Montagne" i.e. the "Yellow Mountain". The stone is lovingly called "sunny stone" by locals who enjoy the cheerful sight during gray winter weather.175 millions year old sand/lime stone. The yellow color comes from iron rust.

Pietro Francesco Galleffi (Galeffi) (1770–1837) was an Italian Cardinal.During the Napoleonic period, he was expelled from Rome, in 1798. He was created Cardinal in 1803. He was removed to France, in 1809.He became titular archbishop of Damasco in 1819, and was Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica from 1820. From 1824 to 1837 he was Camerlengo.In 1820 he became Bishop of Albano, and in 1830 Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina.

Pierre Tarin

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (31 May 1753 – 31 October 1793) was a French lawyer and statesman, a figure of the French Revolution. A deputy to the Assembly from Bordeaux, Vergniaud was an eloquent orator. He was a supporter of Jacques Pierre Brissot and the Girondist faction.

Pietro Francesco Carlone (Before 1607 – 1681–82), or Peter Franz Carlone, from the Leoben branch of the Carlone family, was an early Baroque architect who was best known for building abbeys.

Pierre de Montmort

Pierre Vervloesem is a Belgian avant-garde guitar player and producer, and has been described as Belgium's Frank Zappa.

Pierre Ugeux

Pierre Saint-Sevin

Pierre Thouvenot (9 March 1757 – 21 July 1817) was a French Army officer who served with distinction in the American Revolutionary War. He fled from France during the revolution but returned under an amnesty and went on to serve in Napoleonic Wars. Thouvenot is most famous for his defence of Bayonne in 1814 and the sortie he made when the war was all but over, which drew criticism from both sides, particularly from the Duke of Wellington, who branded him a "blackguard".

Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber

Pierre Widmer

Pierre chanut

Pierre de Bruys

Pierre Sabatier (20 March 1925 – 3 May 2003) was a French sculptor who throughout his career produced over 150 major and diverse works in France and internationally.

Pierre Sancan (24 October 1916 in Mazamet – 20 October 2008 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor.

Pietro Foglia (1913–1974) was an Italian sculptor born in Cremona.

Pietro Filargis

Pierre Van Maldere

Pierre Woeiriot

Pierre Vermetten

Pierre de la Baume

Pierre deleze

Lawyer

Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni

Pierre Yves Lenik

Pierre Augustin François Violet-Marty

Pierre de Troyes

Pierre Varignon (1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year.Varignon gained his first exposure to mathematics by reading Euclid and then Descartes' La Géométrie. He became professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in 1688 and was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year.

Pierre Yves Lenik (born 27 July 1958) is a French composer, known for his work in French documentaries.His work included the scores for TV series :Régis l'éventreur' by Georges Combe and TV documentaries : Le juste NON Documentary by Caroline Buffard (2000), La vie en question Documentary by Caroline Puig-Grenetier (2009), Entre désir et incertitude Documentary by Abdelkader Lagtaâ (2010).He is now working on English language films : Prediction Short film directed by John Jennissen (2010).He won two (Best musical awards) at (Le Creusot film festival) for his work on : (La formation en quatre actes) by Olivier Xueref (1992) and (L'esprit et la matiere)' by Arielle Mémery (2000).

Bishop Pietro Filippi (died 8 September 1640) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Boiano (1633–1640).

Pietro Fiorini (1539, Bologna - 1629, Bologna) was an Italian architect. In his youth he studied in Rome, Parma, Florence and Milan, but his most notable works are in his home city, such as the churches of San Mattia, San Nicolò di San Felice, Sant'Isaia and San Barbaziano and the Palazzo Dondini Ghiselli.

Pietro Floridia

Pierrefitte, Deux-Sevres

Pierre Roch Jurien de La Graviere

Pierre

Pierre Toussaint Marcel de Serres de Mesples

Pierre du Moëllé

Pierre Simon Marquis De Laplace

Pierre Sancan (24 October 1916 in Mazamet – 20 October 2008 in Paris) was a French composer, pianist, teacher and conductor. Along with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux, he was a major figure among French musicians in the mid-twentieth-century transition between modern and contemporary eras; but outside France his name is almost unknown.Born in Mazamet in the South of France, Sancan began in musical studies in Morocco and Toulouse before entering the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Jean Gallon, and where he took conducting with Charles Munch and Roger Désormière, piano with Yves Nat, and composition with Henri Busser.In 1943, he won the Conservatoire's Prix de Rome for composition, with his cantata La Légende de Icare, but did not assume a regular teaching post there until 1956 when his former master Yves Nat retired. Sancan held this job until his own retirement in 1985. He lived another 23 years, to the age of 92, but his later years were compromised by Alzheimer's Disease.As a pianist, Sancan was most prominently seen in his role as accompanist to the great cellist André Navarra. And his recordings of Ravel's two piano concertos with conductor Pierre Dervaux, and Mozart 4-hand Concertos with Jean-Bernard Pommier, were highly praised upon their release in the 1960s, but are now deleted.As a piano teacher, Sancan helped to train such luminaries as Olivier Cazal, Michel Béroff, Selman Ada, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Emile Naoumoff, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Daniel Varsano, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Jacques Rouvier, Eric Larsen, Jean-Marc Savelli, and Jean-Philippe Collard who has recorded Sancan's Piano Concerto. Sancan's Sonatine for flute and piano (1946) is his best-known work, and has been a popular staple for flute players since its publication, but little else of his oeuvre is well known. Sancan also composed a Violin Concerto, at least three ballets, a Symphony for Strings (1961), and an opera Ondine (1962). Some of his shorter piano pieces, such as Boîte à musique and the Toccata, have caught on as encore pieces.Sancan sought to reconcile contemporary performance techniques with the harmonic language of Debussy, a composer of whom Sancan was an expert interpreter.

Pierre van der Linden, born 19 February 1946 in the Netherlands, is a jazz drummer whose style was influenced by his childhood hero Buddy Rich.In the 1960s he drummed with noted guitarist Jan Akkerman in bands such as the Friendship Quartet, Johnny and the Cellar Rockers, the Hunters, and Brainbox, as well as in other Dutch groups such as After Tea, Tee Set, and ZZ and the Maskers. In late 1970 he rejoined Akkerman in Focus, the progressive rock band which brought them to international fame.

Pietro Filargo

Pierre Roger

Pierre de Bourdeille

Archbishop of Reggio Calabria

Pietro Francesco Galleffi

Pierre Remond de Montmort

AbbotofSt Willibrord's Abbey,Echternach

Pierre Robau

Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698) was a French scholar and author, and was the son of a master of accounts at Rouen. He was sent as a child to be educated to the Jansenists at Port-Royal des Champs. There he received his bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighborhood of Port-Royal des Champs.

Pierre Schoeman (born 7 May 1994 in Nelspruit, South Africa) is a South African rugby union player, currently playing with the Bulls in Super Rugby and the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup. His regular position is prop.

Pierre Seginaud was a French cyclist. He competed in three events at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Singer and comedian

Pierre de Camboust, duc de Coislin

Pierre de Langle

Pierre Robin (born 1 November 1982) is a French judoka.

Pierrecourt, Haute-Saone

Pierre Thomas, sieur du Fossé (1634–1698) was a French scholar and author, and was the son of a master of accounts at Rouen. He was sent as a child to be educated to the Jansenists at Port-Royal des Champs. There he received his bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighborhood of Port-Royal des Champs. There he associated with Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, Antoine Singlin, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Antoine Le Maistre.In 1661 he came to Paris, and in 1666 was arrested along with Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, and after a month in the Bastille was exiled to his estate of Fossé near Forges-les-Eaux. He later made yearly visits to Paris during the winter months. Apart from his collaboration with de Sacy on a French translation of the Bible, Thomas wrote some hagiographic works and left Mémoires (1697–1698 and again 1876–1879), which are highly praised by Sainte-Beuve as being a remarkable mirror of the life at Port-Royal.He also wrote under the pseudonymes Pierre Thomas Beaulieu and Pierre Thomas La Motte.

Pierre de Bousquet de Florian is the head of the French National Centre for Counter Terrorism, an agency charged with monitoring and preventing terrorism in France. Bousquet headed the Direction de la surveillance du territoire from 2002-2007.

Pierre van der Linden

Pierre Succar (born 15 June 1960) is a Lebanese alpine skier. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Pierre de la Chatre

Pierre d'Hozier, seigneur de la Garde (July 10, 1592 – December 1, 1660), was a French genealogist.He was born in Marseille. He belonged to the household of the Marshal de Créqui and gave him aid in his genealogical investigations.In 1616 he entered upon some extensive researches into the genealogy of the noble families of the kingdom, in which work he was aided by his prodigious memory for dates, names and family relationships, as well as by his profound knowledge of heraldry. In 1634 he was appointed historiographer and genealogist of France, and in 1641 juge d'armes of France, an officer corresponding nearly to the Garter king-of-arms in England. In 1643 he was employed to verify the claims to nobility of the pages and equerries of the king's household.He accumulated a large number of documents, but published comparatively little, his principal works being Recueil armorial des anciennes maisons de Bretagne (1638); Les noms, surnoms, qualitez, armes et blasons des chevaliers ct officiers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit (1634); and the genealogies of the houses of La Rochefoucauld (1654), Bournonville (1657) and Amanze (1659).He was renowned as much for his uprightness as for his knowledge, no slight praise in a profession exposed to so many temptations to fraud. He died in Paris on 1 December 1660. At his death his collections comprised more than 150 volumes or portfolios of documents and papers relating to the genealogy of the principal families in France.Of his six sons, only two survived him. His eldest son, Louis Roger d'Hozier (1634–1708), succeeded him as juge d'armes, but became blind in 1675, and was obliged to surrender his office to his brother, Charles René d'Hozier.

Pierre Varignon

Pietro Fontana (1762 – 18 September 1837) was an Italian engraver.Born in Bassano Romano, he worked in Rome and specialized in subjects dealing with the Vatican and the Papacy; he was a member of the Accademia di San Luca. He started his career as a student of Raffaello Morghen, and is best known for his complete series of engravings of the sculptures of Canova.He died in Rome in 1837.

Pierre Soderini

Pierre de La Gorce (19 June 1846, Vannes – 2 January 1934) was a French magistrate, lawyer and historian, as well as a member of the Académie française. He wrote books about the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire and the French Revolution, as well as other topics. He taught law of the Sorbonne.

Pietro Fontana was an early 19th-century engineer. He was Secretary of the Accademia degli Ottusi di Spoleto (known later as the Accademia Spoletina) and founded the Società Agraria Spoletina. In 1812 he discovered the veins of lignite near Ruscio that were later exploited as an important mine.

Pierre Shale Formation

Pierre du Ryer

Pierre michel grain

Pietro Francesco Francavilla

Pierre Vigny

Pietro Filomarini (died 1420) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1404–1420).

Pierre Sicaud (1911–1998) was a French colonial administrator.During the Second World War, he joined the Free French Air Force as a parachutist and commanded a squadron of the SAS. He fought in Britanny and in the Netherlands (Operation Amherst).In 1949 he was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce the French sovereignty. He found a location where to build an airstrip and to settle a permanent station.

Pietro Fossati (29 June 1905 – 13 March 1945) was an Italian racing cyclist. He won the 1929 edition of the Giro di Lombardia.

Pierre d' Aubusson

Pierre Rössinger

Helperus Andrias van Ryneveld

Pierre Torreilles (21 May 1921- 22 February 2005) was a French writer, poet and editor.

Pierre Richardot

Bishop of Boiano

Pierre van der Linden, born 19 February 1946 in the Netherlands, is a jazz drummer whose style was influenced by his childhood hero Buddy Rich.In the 1960s he drummed with noted guitarist Jan Akkerman in bands such as the Friendship Quartet, Johnny and the Cellar Rockers, the Hunters, and Brainbox, as well as in other Dutch groups such as After Tea, Tee Set, and ZZ and the Maskers. In late 1970 he rejoined Akkerman in Focus, the progressive rock band which brought them to international fame. His drum fills on the serio-comic, proto-metal opus "Hocus Pocus" single became, in the seventies, what those of "Wipe Out" were in the sixties, an FM radio staple in the United States. Dissatisfied with the band's change of direction to a more commercial, mainstream sound (which included less-syncopated, simpler time signatures) he left Focus in October, 1973 and was quickly enlisted to Trace, a Dutch supergroup led by classical keyboardist Rick van der Linden (his second cousin) and bassist Jaap van Eik.When his Focus replacement Colin Allen left the band, Pierre briefly rejoined the group in 1975 for live dates and an unreleased track, "Glider", subsequently on the "Ship of Memories" LP. He toured and recorded with Jan Akkerman on Jan's solo album "Eli" in 1976, and on "Floatin'" on Akkerman's eponymous 1977 release. He also recorded with jazz keyboardist Jasper van 't Hof and with the band Sweet'd Buster's "Out of the Blue" in 1980. In the 1990s he recorded and performed live with Advance Warning, a free jazz group, and in 2004 he rejoined keyboardist/flautist Thijs van Leer in Focus with whom he currently records and plays live in venues across the world.

Pierre Réal

Pierre Vigny was a French Master-at-arms (born in Paris in 1866) who was active during the late 19th century and early 20th century. He specialised in French savate and in the art of stick fighting known as la canne which he heavily modified to better suit his theories of effective self defense.In 1886 Vigny joined the Second Regiment of French Artillery at Grenoble.

Pierre de Nesson

Pierre Vladimirov

Pierre de Segur

Pierre attaingant

Pietro Francesco Cavalli

Pierre Tourgueneff

Pierre Schaeffer Bibliography

Pierre de Villars (diplomat)

Pierre de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol

Pierre de la Palude

Pietro Francesco Mazzuchelli

Pierre Sansot

Pierre Thouvenot

Pierre Rigoulot (born 1944) is a French historian and author. The author of L'antiaméricanisme, he contributed to Stéphane Courtois' The Black Book of Communism and helped Kang Chol-Hwan write The Aquariums of Pyongyang. In 2006, he prefaced France Intox, published by Editions Underbahn. He is also a political activist close to the extreme right.

Pierre Sancan

Pierre Victor, baron Malouet (11 February 1740 – 7 September 1814), was a French colonial administrator, planter, conservative publicist and monarchist politician, who signed as an "Émigré" the Whitehall Accord.

Pierre Terblanche

Pierre Roland (born Pierre Roland Christy; 14 April 1979 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is an Indonesian actor. He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his role as a super hero in a hit tv series "Gerhana" (RCTI,1999-2002). He has also appeared on films and other TV series as well as music videos, advertisements (magazines, television, billboards) and as TV presenter.

Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal

Pietro Fregoso (or Campofregoso; 1330 – 22 April 1404) was a statesman who became the 13th Doge of Genoa.

Pietro Francesco Galeffi

Pierre-Robert

Pierre de Sales Laterriere

Pietro Francesco Montorio

Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson (disambiguation)

Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy

Pierre de la rue

Pierre Vezina

Pierre Scheuer (9 November 1872, Schaerbeek – 6 February 1957, Louvain) was a Belgian Jesuit priest, metaphysician and mystic.

Pierre Seginaud

Pierre Tabart (also Thabart, Tharbart) (Chinon, baptized 8 January 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle. Said to have studied music under 'the best contrapuntist of his time', he served as maître de musique in Orléans until 1683, followed by Senlis from 1683-1689. He then succeeded Nicolas Goupillet as maître de musique of Meaux Cathedral. However, due to the fact that his nine-year contract was left unrenewed, he was succeeded by Sébastien de Brossard in 1699. He later aided his successor to the post in selecting the maître de musique for Évreux Cathedral.

Pietro Francesco Caccialupi

Pierre de La Ramée

Pierre d'Aigueblanche

Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave

Pierre Stebler

Pierre Weiss

Pierre Vigier (1760, Cassaniouze (Cantal)- 19 September 1817, Savigny-sur-Orge) was a French magistrate.

Pierre des Preaux

Pierre le Chef is Out to Lunch

Pietro Foscari

Pierre Van Der Worst

Pierre de Nesson (born 1384, date of death unknown) was a French poet. He was born in Aigueperse, Puy-de-Dôme, France.His major work is the Vigiles des Morts, or Paraphrase des IX leçons de Job. It is commentary on the Biblical Book of Job, in outspoken verses.

Pietro Francesco Prina

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

Pierre Richardot (c.1575–1628) was the 61st abbot of St Willibrord's Abbey, Echternach. He was the son of Jean Richardot, president of the Brussels Privy Council, and Anne Courcol de Baillencourt. Born in Arras, he studied Theology at the University of Leuven and entered the Abbey of St. Vaast in his native city.In 1607 he was named abbot of Echternach. His abbacy was overshadowed by the need to economise to pay off the debts run up to ransom his predecessor, Johannes Bertelius, who had been kidnapped by Dutch freebooters. He died on 24 February 1628 and was buried near the high altar in the abbey church.During his tenure as abbot he made a manuscript written by his medieval predecessor Thiofrid of Echternach available for publication, as Flores epitaphii sanctorum (Luxembourg, 1619).

Pierre johanns

Pierre de Langle (6 March 1643, Evreux- 12 April 1724, Boulogne-Sur-Mer) was a French bishop and Jansenist theologian.

Pietro Foresti

Pierre Scheuer

Pierre girard

Pietro Filomarini

Pierre labrie

Pierre le Pelley II, 14th Seigneur of Sark (1763–1820) was Seigneur of Sark from 1778 to 1820.

Writer

Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music.According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia's Symphony and other works), Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, Carlotta Clepier. He later destroyed the score of this work and entered further studies.

Pierre de Bousquet de Florian

Pierre Verbaeten

Pietro Freschi (6 August 1906 in Piacenza – 16 October 1973) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 he was part of the Italian boat, which won the bronze medal in the coxless fours event.

Pierre Roy de Loulay

Pierre de Marivaux

Customs administrator and politician

Pierre de Molaines

Pierre van Houdt

Pierre de Jaumont

Pietro Francesco Alberti

Pierre Stolze

Pierre Schoeman

Pierre de Foix († 1490)

Pietro Fossati

Pierre Siniac

Pierre moutouari

Pietro Fragiacomo

Pierre Vago (30 August 1910 in Budapest – 1 February 2002 in Noisy-sur-École) was a notable French architect. Vago was known internationally as the publisher of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui and General Secretary of the International Union of Architects, of which he remained the honorary president until his death.

Pierre Terblanche is a South African motorcycle designer born in 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He started his career in advertising but felt the need to move into the design world. After moving to Germany and working with Volkswagen design he worked at Cagiva's Research Center at San Marino under the direction of Massimo Tamburini. When Cagiva decided to sell Ducati to US-based Texas Pacific Group, Pierre Terblanche chose to follow Ducati.

Pierre de Gondi, cardinal de Retz (1533–1616) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Gondi family.

Pierre de Breville

Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil

Pierre Tabart (also Thabart, Tharbart) (Chinon, baptized 8 January 1645 – Meaux, 1716) was a French composer and maître de chapelle. Said to have studied music under 'the best contrapuntist of his time', he served as maître de musique in Orléans until 1683, followed by Senlis from 1683-1689. He then succeeded Nicolas Goupillet as maître de musique of Meaux Cathedral. However, due to the fact that his nine-year contract was left unrenewed, he was succeeded by Sébastien de Brossard in 1699.

Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (5 January 1679 – 22 February 1750) was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino. Three years later, in 1708, his father brought him to Naples, where he became an organist at court. In 1728 his only opera Clitarco was premiered at Naples' Teatro San Bartolomeo (the score has gone missing). Other main works include three cantatas and a multitude of keyboard toccatas (one of which has been recorded by Luciano Sgrizzi). He died in Naples in 1750.

Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Marie, duc d'Arenberg

Pierre Marcel de Wit

Archaeologist

Pierre biard

Pierre Roger (born 8 December 1983 in La Flèche, Sarthe) is a backstroke swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the men's individual 100 metres backstroke event at the 2002 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Pietro Freschi

Pietro Francesco Mola

Charles-Jean-François Hénault

Pierre et Marie Curie

Pierre herme

Pietro Fiorini

Pietro Filippi

Pierre Vallieres

Pierre Sabatier

Bishop Emeritus of Nicastro

Pierre Vigny was a French Master-at-arms (born in Paris in 1866) who was active during the late 19th century and early 20th century. He specialised in French savate and in the art of stick fighting known as la canne which he heavily modified to better suit his theories of effective self defense.In 1886 Vigny joined the Second Regiment of French Artillery at Grenoble. Leaving the army in 1898, he founded a school of arms and self defence in Geneva and then moved to London, where he became the chief instructor of the Bartitsu Club operated by Edward William Barton-Wright. Around this time, Vigny also established a tradition of annual exhibitions of combat sports and self defence skills.In 1903 Vigny opened his own self-defence academy in London, based at #18 Berner Street. During this period he also married a young woman named Miss Sanderson who became his assistant instructor. He continued to work as a hand-to-hand combat instructor, including an engagement training recruits at Aldershot Military School.In 1912, Vigny returned to Geneva and established another self-defence school there.

Pierre-Ernest Weiss (25 March 1865, Mulhouse – 24 October 1940, Lyon) was a French physicist specialized in magnetism and developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that lead to the discovery of the Curie-Weiss law. Alongside Auguste Picard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917.Pierre Weiss made several experimental discoveries that led to the development of the strongest electromagnets of the beginning of the 20th century. He worked at the universities of Rennes, Lyon, ETH Zurich where he was raised, and finally at Strasbourg. In these academic institutions he founded several renown laboratories.

Pierre Tabart

Pierre Stolze (born April 12, 1952 in Metz) He studied at École Normale Supérieure gaining a doctorate there with a thesis on science fiction. As a writer he began in 1979 and won the Prix Rosny-Aîné in 1991.

Pierre de Corbeil

Pierre de Beaumont

Pietro Francesco Caccialupi (Pizzighettone, 1735 – April 19, 1814) was an Italian painter.He moved to Cremona as a boy, and trained under Giacomo Guerrini. He worked as a restorer, including of the "Multiplication of the Loaves" by Francesco Boccaccino in the refectory of the church of Sant'Abbondio of the Theatines. The painting was then transferred to the presbytery of Sant'Agata in Cremona.

Pierre Ronarc'h

Pierre et Djemila

Bishop of Acqui

Pierre van Ryneveld

Pietro Francesco Carlone

President of theCommission Sportive Internationale(CSI)

Pierre the penguin

Pietro Francesco Alberti (1584–1638) was an Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods.He was born at Sansepolcro into a family of artists, the son of painter Durante Alberti from Sansepolcro. He painted historical subjects in the style of his father, and has left works in Rome and in his birthplace. He was the engraver of a plate called Accademia de' Pittori a large print lengthways. He died in Rome.

Pierre le Pesant de Boisguilbert

Pierre rinfret

Adjutant Pierre Augustin François Violet-Marty was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.Violet-Marty joined the artillery at the beginning of the war, but soon switched to aviation. In May 1915, he was posted to Escadrille 55, which was equipped with Maurice Farmans. He won the Médaille militaire on 17 September 1916, then requested transfer to fighters. He shifted to Nieuports with Escadrille 57 on 29 September 1916. Between 6 October and 17 December 1916, he downed three enemy airplanes. On 27 December, he downed two more German planes and was killed in the process.

Bookseller

Adjutant Pierre Augustin François Violet-Marty was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.Violet-Marty joined the artillery at the beginning of the war, but soon switched to aviation. In May 1915, he was posted to Escadrille 55, which was equipped with Maurice Farmans. He won the Médaille militaire on 17 September 1916, then requested transfer to fighters. He shifted to Nieuports with Escadrille 57 on 29 September 1916.

Pierre Rossinger

Pierre Terblanche is a South African motorcycle designer born in 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He started his career in advertising but felt the need to move into the design world. After moving to Germany and working with Volkswagen design he worked at Cagiva's Research Center at San Marino under the direction of Massimo Tamburini. When Cagiva decided to sell Ducati to US-based Texas Pacific Group, Pierre Terblanche chose to follow Ducati. In December 2007, he left Ducati to pursue other interests believing that he should be a designer, not a manager. He has designed boats for the South African shipyard Bobkat.Subsequently, Pierre Terblanche worked for Piaggio on the Moto Guzzi and other brands, along with former colleague Miguel Angel Galluzzi who designed the Ducati Monster. Terblanche left Piaggio to join Norton Motorcycle Company in January 2011.In early 2013, it was announced that Terblanche had joined Confederate Motors in Alabama, United States, as head of product development, and in August 2014 his first Confederate design, the X132 Hellcat Speedster, was shown.In late 2014, Terblanche left Confederate to join Royal Enfield in India. After working for 20 months at Royal Enfield (India), on August 2, 2016 Terblanche resigned from his post for reasons unknown

Pierre Zimmermann

Pierre and Djemila

Pierre de Wit

Pierre de Celle

Pierre Wuilleumier

Pierre Robin (judoka)

Pierre d'Auvergne

General Sir Hesperus Andrias van Ryneveld (2 May 1891 – 2 December 1972), known as Pierre van Ryneveld, was a South African military commander. He was the founding commander of the South African Air Force (SAAF).He began his military career in World War I, in which he served in the Royal Flying Corps (later Royal Air Force), where he distinguished himself as a fighter ace.After the war, Van Ryneveld was called back to South Africa by the Prime Minister Jan Smuts in order to set up the SAAF.

Pierre Rigoulot

Pierre Torreilles

Pierre Sterle

Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes

Pierre Roland (born Pierre Roland Christy; 14 April 1979 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is an Indonesian actor. He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his role as a super hero in a hit tv series "Gerhana" (RCTI,1999-2002). He has also appeared on films and other TV series as well as music videos, advertisements (magazines, television, billboards) and as TV presenter. His parents are of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry: father is English/Indonesian (Bengkulu) while his mother is Dutch/Indonesian (Javanese/Manadonese).He is also a film producer with his first filmed produced by his own production house, Pilot Project Production, about a Balinese girl who lost her mother in the first Bali Bombing, titled "Angel's Cry".Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in Indonesia, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous Indonesian Dangdut singers, Dewi Persik.He is known to be one of the artists that do not like media exposure on his private life.In the middle of July 2006, the public and media were shocked by the rumours that Pierre Roland was recently married. The wedding ceremony was a low profile one held at a church in Jakarta, attended only by family and friends. However, the information of the venue and time somehow leaked out on the day of the wedding day; causing the reporters to gather at the front of the church. At the end of event, the family and the guests managed to get the reporters mixed up (thinking that the bride and the groom had already left the venue). The wedding was said to be one of the very few unexposed weddings of Indonesian celebrities. A few days later, the couple finally made an official announcement in an interview by two Indonesian TV stations.Pierre Roland's Indonesian-born Macau resident wife, Bonita Adela, gave birth to their first-born son, Olivier DeAngello Christy, at the Hospital Kiang Wu in Macau in 2007. Another son, Ezekiel Kramer Christy, was also born at the same hospital in Macau in 2010.

Pietro Francesco Prina (active 18th century) was born in Naovara and was an Italian engraver, active in Milan. He trained with Marc Antonio Franceschini in Bologna. He engraved history and capricci.

Pietro Fregoso

Pierre Vago

Pierre Robert (disambiguation)

Pierre Tréhouart

Pierre Sabatier (artist)

Pietro Fragiacomo (14 August 1856 – 18 May 1922) was an Italian painter, depicting sea and land-scapes.

Pierre de Lauzon (known as Gannenrontié among the Iroquois) (bapt. September 13, 1687, Leignes-sur-Fontaine, Vienne, France—September 5, 1742, Quebec) was a noted eighteenth-century Jesuit missionary in New France. Though sometimes mentioned as Jean, in his official acts he invariably signed Pierre. From 1732 to 1739 he was superior of all the Jesuit missions in Canada.

Pierre Tarin (1735–1761) was a French doctor, writer, and translator, born in Courtenay. He is best known for his contributions to Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert.

Pierre Souvtchinsky

Pierre Roland

Pierre de Pardaillan d'Antin

Pierre du Ryer (1606 – 6 November 1658) was a French dramatist.

Pierre Robin Sequence

Pierre Richardot (c.1575–1628) was the 61st abbot of St Willibrord's Abbey, Echternach. He was the son of Jean Richardot, president of the Brussels Privy Council, and Anne Courcol de Baillencourt. Born in Arras, he studied Theology at the University of Leuven and entered the Abbey of St. Vaast in his native city.In 1607 he was named abbot of Echternach.

Pierre S. duPont

Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville et d'Ardillieres

Pierre Roger (swimmer)

Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music.According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia's Symphony and other works), Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, Carlotta Clepier. He later destroyed the score of this work and entered further studies. He wrote a symphony (his only one) in 1888, taught at the Palermo Conservatory of Music, and wrote operas Maruzza (produced in Venice in 1894) and La Colonia Libera (produced in Rome in 1899).Floridia moved to the United States in 1904. From this point he made a living by teaching at the Cincinnati College of Music for some years, and then moved to New York City. During this period Floridia wrote and produced several more operas - Paoletta in Cincinnati (1910), The Scarlet Letter at some time during the 1900s, and (written but unproduced) his last opera, Malia. He also wrote incidental music, including to Oscar Wilde's A Florentine Tragedy; his music to this got a hearing in New York in 1917.In 1914 while in New York City, he headed the Italian Symphony Orchestra.Floridia died in Harkness Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1932.

Pierre de La Gorce

Pierre Solomon Ségalas of Etchépare

Pierre Sprecher

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are Le Triomphe de l'amour, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences.

Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy (1645-1716) was a French general.He followed a military career and from 1670 in the Royal Corps of Artillery. Provincial Commissioner of Artillery in 1692, he is the author of Mémoires d'artillerie, published for the first time in 1697.He was named a lieutenant of the Grand maître de l'artillerie de France in 1703 and was a maréchal de camp.He married Marie-Madeleine Hénault, the aunt of Charles-Jean-François Hénault, in 1672.

Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson

Pierre de Chavannes

Pierre de Cros

Pietro Francavilla

Pietro Foscari (died 1485) (called the Cardinal of Venice) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Pierre Yves Bény

General Sir Hesperus Andrias van Ryneveld (2 May 1891 – 2 December 1972), known as Pierre van Ryneveld, was a South African military commander. He was the founding commander of the South African Air Force (SAAF).He began his military career in World War I, in which he served in the Royal Flying Corps (later Royal Air Force), where he distinguished himself as a fighter ace.After the war, Van Ryneveld was called back to South Africa by the Prime Minister Jan Smuts in order to set up the SAAF. He flew back home, across Africa, in a Vickers Vimy - a pioneering feat for which he and his co-pilot Quintin Brand were both knighted.Colonel van Ryneveld established the SAAF in 1920, and directed it until 1933, when he was promoted to Chief of the General Staff (CGS), in command of the Union Defence Forces. However, for the next four years the SAAF remained under Van Ryneveld's direct control as no one was appointed as the Air Force's director until 1937.He served as CGS for sixteen years, including the whole of World War II. He retired in 1949.

Pierre de Frédy

Pierre de La Brosse

Pierre Robin syndrome

Pierre Violet-Marty

Pierre Soul

Pierre Wome Nlend

Pierre le Pelley II

Pierre Van Der Vorst

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Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (5 January 1679 – 22 February 1750) was an Italian composer, organist and choirmaster.He was born in Rome, the eldest of Alessandro Scarlatti's children and a brother of composer Domenico Scarlatti - began his musical career in 1705 as choirmaster of the cathedral of Urbino. Three years later, in 1708, his father brought him to Naples, where he became an organist at court.

Pietro Frescobaldi

General and writer

Pierre Varignon (1654 – 23 December 1722) was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University of Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year.Varignon gained his first exposure to mathematics by reading Euclid and then Descartes' La Géométrie. He became professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris in 1688 and was elected to the Académie Royale des Sciences in the same year. In 1704 he held the departmental chair at Collège Mazarin and also became professor of mathematics at the Collège Royal. He was elected to the Berlin Academy in 1713 and to the Royal Society in 1718. Many of his works were published in Paris in 1725, three years after his death. His lectures at Mazarin were published in Elements de mathematique in 1731.Varignon was a friend of Newton, Leibniz, and the Bernoulli family. Varignon's principal contributions were to graphic statics and mechanics. Except for l'Hôpital, Varignon was the earliest and strongest French advocate of infinitesimal calculus, and exposed the errors in Michel Rolle's critique thereof. He recognized the importance of a test for the convergence of series, but analytical difficulties prevented his success. Nevertheless, he simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces in Projet d'une nouvelle mécanique in 1687. Among Varignon's other works was a 1699 publication concerning the application of differential calculus to fluid flow and to water clocks. In 1690 he created a mechanical explanation of gravitation. In 1702 he applied calculus to spring-driven clocks. In 1704, he invented the U-tube manometer, a device capable of measuring rarefaction in gases.

Pietro Fontana (engineer)

Pierre Texier

Pierre Vézina