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Nobility from Paris (3 C, 191 P) P. People of Montmartre (89 P) U. University of Paris people (5 C, 28 P) Pages in category "People from Paris"
Personality Notability Nomination defended by Ref. 1 Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970) General and president. Leader of the French resistance movement during World War II. President of France between 1944 and 1946 and between 1958 and 1969. Admired for giving post-war France international prestige and independence in their foreign policy.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential candidate; Louis Lépine, Paris police chief, governor of Algiers, founder of the Concours Lépine; Émile Loubet, President of France who was elected in 1899, after the death of Félix Faure; Henri-Auguste Lozé, Paris police chief, senator of the ...
Reine Audu: Participant in The Women's March on Versailles and the 10 August (French Revolution).: Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione: Officer throughout the Revolutionary era and Empire; later a general and Marshal of France.
The engraving was painted over at the beginning of the 20th century and restored in 1986–87 by Société Nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, the company that the city of Paris contracts to operate the Tower. The repainting of 2010–11 restored the letters to their original gold colour.
Abimael Guzmán (born 1934), leader of the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso in Peru; Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), English surgeon, best known as an etcher; Pavel Hak (born 1962), playwright and author; Mahmoud Hessaby (1903–1992), Iranian scientist and politician; Ivica Hiršl (1905–1941), Croatian communist and Mayor of ...
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Served in numerous ministerial posts, 1993–1995 and 2002–2007. Easily elected to the leadership of the Union for a Popular Movement in 2004. Elected to the presidency in 2007, defeating Socialist Ségolène Royal. Soon after taking office, he introduced a new fiscal package and other laws to counter illegal immigration and recidivism.