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François Martin, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Christoph Le Noir, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Benoît Dumas, Governor for French territories in India; Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.
Marie Brémont (1886–2001) is the fifth-oldest Frenchwoman ever and was the world's oldest person from November 2000 to June 2001. [1] Pictured in 1910, aged 23–24. French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age.
The following is a list of French people known as explorers. Before 1500. Jean de Béthencourt (Canary Islands) Gadifer de la Salle (Canary Islands) 16th century
Media in category "Images of French people" The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. Abdelhamid Abaaoud.jpg 358 × 279; 21 KB.
Chevalier was born on 12 September 1888 in Paris to Victor Charles Chevalier (1854–1916), a French house painter, and Joséphine (née Van Den Bossche, 1852–1929) a lace-maker of Belgian (Flemish) descent. [4]
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun , which gave rise to West Francia , until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
Famous French commander of World War I who regrouped the retreating Allied forces to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. Philippe Pétain: 1856–1951 French Another great French commander of World War I, Pétain led the French to victory at Verdun and restored the army's morale after the mutinies ...
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