Danielle BleitrachDanielle Bleitrach (born 1938) is a French sociologist and journalist. From the 1970s through the end of the century, she was CNRS researcher and lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, focusing on the sociology of the working class and urbanization. From 1981 to 1996 she was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of France, then the National Committee of the Party. She was also assistant editor-in-chief of the party weekly Révolution. She has contributed to La Pensée, Les Temps Modernes and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Charles Saint-YvesCharles Saint-Yves, or Charles de Saint-Yves, (1667 – August 3, 1731) was a French ophthalmologist, famous for his treatment of the cataract and his treatise on ophthalmology. Saint-Yves was born in 1667 at Maubert-Fontaine (Ardennes, Northern France), out of a family affiliated to Marie de Guise, who called him and his elder brother (1660–1730) to Paris for becoming her pages. He subsequently took his vows at the Congregation of the Mission in 1686 and worked at the pharmacy, where he learned medicine and surgery.
Albert GleizesAlbert Gleizes (glɛz; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", 1912. Gleizes was a founding member of the Section d'Or group of artists. He was also a member of Der Sturm, and his many theoretical writings were originally most appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus his ideas were given thoughtful consideration.
Yvon ThébertYvon Thébert (20 February 1943 – 2 February 2002, aged 58) was a 20th-century French archaeologist and historian of marxist inspiration. Agrégé d'histoire, assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of Tunis (1969-1971), a member of the École française de Rome (1971), Yvon Thébert taught at the école normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud from 1973. His major excavation sites were Bulla Regia (from 1965 to 1985) and the fr on the Palatine Hill in Rome (from 1986 to 1997).
GuadeloupeGuadeloupe (ˌɡwɑːdəˈluːp; ɡwad(ə)lup; Gwadloup, ɡwadlup) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the two inhabited Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
Architecture of ParisThe city of Paris has notable examples of architecture of every period, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It was the birthplace of the Gothic style, and has important monuments of the French Renaissance, Classical revival, the Flamboyant style of the reign of Napoleon III, the Belle Époque, and the Art Nouveau style. The great Exposition Universelle (1889) and 1900 added Paris landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and Grand Palais.
Nacéra BenseddikNacéra Benseddik (نَصِيرة بِن صِدّيق, Naṣīrah Bin Ṣiddīq) is an Algerian historian, archaeologist and epigrapher. She was born in Bordj Bou Arreridj on 4 December 1949. Benseddik's focusses on the classical and late Antique history and archaeology of Algeria. She has published widely on the subject through books and articles, as well as conference papers and editing Wikipedia. She is interested in interactions between Roman migrants and people already living in North Africa, particularly in the late Antique period.
Philosophie zoologiquePhilosophie zoologique ("Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution, part of which is now known as Lamarckism. In the book, Lamarck named two supposed laws that would enable animal species to acquire characteristics under the influence of the environment. The first law stated that use or disuse would cause body structures to grow or shrink over the generations.
