Jean-Christophe YoccozJean-Christophe Yoccoz (29 May 1957 – 3 September 2016) was a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems. Yoccoz died on 3 September 2016 at the age of 59. Yoccoz attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, during which time he was a silver medalist at the 1973 International Mathematical Olympiad and a gold medalist in 1974. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1975, and completed an agrégation in mathematics in 1977.
Jean-Christophe MaillotJean-Christophe Maillot (born 1960) is a French dancer and choreographer born in Tours. He studied at the dance conservatory in Tours before enrolling at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, where Rosella Hightower was his primary teacher. Maillot was invited by John Neumeier to join the Hamburg Ballet in 1978, where he became a soloist and stayed until 1983, when an accident ended his career as a dancer. In 1983, he became the choreographer and director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre in Tours.
Camille-Christophe GeronoCamille-Christophe Gerono (1799 in Paris, France – 1891 in Paris) was a French mathematician. He concerned himself above all with geometry. The Lemniscate of Gerono or figure-eight curve was named after him. With Olry Terquem, he was founding co-editor in 1842 of the scientific journal Nouvelles Annales de Mathématiques.
Christophe PlantinChristophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn; 1520 – 1 July 1589) was a French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher who resided and worked in Antwerp. Plantin was born in France, probably in Saint-Avertin, near the city of Tours, Touraine. He was not born to a wealthy family, and his mother died when Plantin was still quite young. As a youth he apprenticed as a bookbinder in Caen, Normandy, and also married there.
Dutch languageDutch (Nederlands ˈneːdərlɑnts), also known as Netherlandic or Netherlandish, is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. Afrikaans is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter language spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa.
Stéphane Christophe BridéStéphane Christophe Bridé (born 30 September 1971) was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 20 January 2016. He is a French citizen who has held dual Moldovan/French nationality since 26 December 2013. He has more than 20 years experience working as an accountant, auditor and consultant in management and fiscal policy. In 2005 he became the Moldovan motocross champion. In 2008 Bridé was part of Moldova's team at the European Motorcross Championship in Zărnești, Romania.
FranceFrance (fʁɑ̃s), officially the French Republic (République française ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz), is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean.
Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de FréminvilleChristophe-Paulin de La Poix, chevalier de Fréminville (24 January 1787 – 12 January 1848) was a French Navy Commander, naturalist, archeologist and pioneer of transvestism. La Poix de Fréminville was born to a family of naval engineers, and joined the Navy in 1801. He served as an aide to Rear-Admiral Latouche-Tréville and distinguished himself on the gunboat during Nelson's Raids on Boulogne. At the age of 15, Fréminville was appointed to the 74-gun as a midshipman and took part in the Saint-Domingue expedition, in which he witnessed and condemned the massacres perpetrated by General de Rochambeau.
Édouard-Christophe PynaertÉdouard-Christophe Pynaert (29 May 1835 – 28 October 1900) was a Belgian botanist and horticulturalist born in Ghent. He was a specialist in the field of pomology. He studied at a local gardening school, and from 1861 was a professor at the school of horticulture in Gentbrugge. He is said to have species of grass named after him, although many of the plant species from Africa named pynaertii actually honour Léon Auguste Edouard Joseph Pynaert (1876–1968), his son.
