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Lagrange, la Grange or La Grange (French: topographic name for someone who lived by a granary) is a French surname that may refer to La Grange (actor) (1635–1692), French actor; Étienne de La Grange (died 1388), French politician; Georges Lagrange (1928–2004), translator to and writer in Esperanto; Georges Lagrange (bishop) (1929–2014 ...
Joseph-Louis Lagrange [a] (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia [5] [b] or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; [6] [c] 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange [7] or Lagrangia, [8] was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French.
Grange or Grangé is a French surname that may refer to the following people: Adenike Grange, Nigerian paediatrician; La Grange (disambiguation) – multiple people; Le Grange (disambiguation) – multiple people; David Grange (disambiguation) – multiple people; François-Cyrille Grange (born 1983), French alpine skier
Count Joseph Lagrange (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf laɡʁɑ̃ʒ]; 10 January 1763 – 16 January 1836) was a French soldier who rose through the ranks and gained promotion to the rank of general officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, subsequently pursuing a successful career during the Napoleonic Wars and winning promotion to the top military rank of General of Division.
On the death of the Regent he was able to return to France. He was part author of a Histoire de Périgord left unfinished, and made a further contribution to history, or perhaps, more exactly, to romance, in a letter to Élie Fréron on the identity of the Man with the Iron Mask. Lagrange's family life was embittered by a long lawsuit against ...
Étienne de La Grange (died 26 November 1388) was a French politician of the group of counselors of kings Charles V and Charles VI designated as the Marmousets by their detractors. He was the brother of Cardinal Jean de La Grange. Knighted in 1371, he was elected president of the parliament in 1373, [1] where he was a consultant from 1369.
The name of Barn Bluff, according to Warren Upham, "is translated from its early French name, La Grange, meaning the Barn, which refers to its prominence as a lone, high, and nearly level-crested bluff, quite separated from the side bluffs of the valley, and therefore conspicuously seen at a distance of many miles up the valley and yet more ...
Faison (Named for Henry Faison, local physician and cotton farmer of French Huguenot descent) Fremont; La Grange (Named for the Château de la Grange-Bléneau, the French estate of the Marquis de Lafayette) Lenoir (Named for William Lenoir, Revolutionary War officer of French Huguenot descent) Lenoir County; Peletier