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Pompée Valentin Vastey (1781 [1]-1820), or Pompée Valentin, Baron de Vastey, was a Haitian writer, educator, and politician. Vastey was what people at the time called a " mulatto ," because he was born to a white French father and a black Haitian mother.
The Colonial System Unveiled (French: Le système colonial dévoilé) is a book by Haitian writer and politician, Baron de Vastey, originally published in French in 1814.It is possibly 'the first systemic critique of colonialism ever written' [1] [2] and anticipates several themes and concepts of anticolonial writing, Négritude and Critical race theory, including the idea that colonialism is ...
Louis Valentin (10 September 1930 – 3 May 2010), born Louis Valentine, was a French journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes , and he lived in France until his death at Antibes .
Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) (son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo), painter Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), sculptor Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), painter
Jean-Marie Valentin (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi valɑ̃tɛ̃]; 17 October 1823 – 8 August 1896) was a French architect and sculptor specialising in religious furnishings such as pulpits, altars and statues. Born in Bourg-des-Comptes, Ille-et-Vilaine, he died in the 6th arrondissement of Paris at age 72. His father Antoine Louis Valentin (born 1784 ...
This is a list of notable French scientists. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. A José Achache (20th-21st centuries), geophysicist and ecologist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher Claude Allègre (born 1937 ...
Valentin was born in Coulommiers, France, where he was baptised in the parish of Saint-Denys on 3 January 1591, making 1590 his likely year of birth.The family name, also spelled Boullogne and Boulongne, appears to originate from Boulogne-sur-Mer, a city in northern France in the colony of Pas-de-Calais, though the family had dwelt at Coulommiers since at least 1489.
The family grew crops on their farm, including wheat, tobacco, and corn. Valentin worked as a trapper, gunsmith, and helped with the farming. In 1788, Spanish authorities gave Valentin permission to hunt in the territory of the Grand Osage Indians southwest of St. Louis. Valentin did not return from his trip, having died in 1789.