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Jacques Cartier [a] (Breton: Jakez Karter; 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map [3] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" [citation needed] after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ...
Jean-Jacques Cartier (1920–2010), who married Lydia Baels (1920–1990), a daughter of Henri Baels. Lydia's sister, Lilian, Princess of Réthy was the wife of King Leopold III of Belgium. [3] Alfred Harjes Cartier (1922–1974), who married Elizabeth Conn (1911–1976) in 1945. [8] Cartier died on 10 September 1941 in Dax, Landes in Occupied ...
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), French photographer; Rouben Melik (1921–2007), French-Armenian poet; Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), later to become Prime minister of Iran during last days of Iranian Revolution; Roger Carcassonne (1911–1991) Donald Caskie (1902–1983) Neus Català (1915–2019), Spanish Holocaust survivor and ...
Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval, also named "l'élu de Poix" or the Sieur de Roberval, (c. 1495 – 1560) was a French officer who was appointed viceroy of Canada by Francis I.
Adolf Galland, German Luftwaffe general, World War II fighter ace; Paul de Gually (died 1737), French Huguenot soldier who became major-general in the British Army; Henri Guisan, Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II; Michel Hollard, French Resistance figure who told British Intelligence about the V-1. [461]
Jacques Cartier made three voyages to the land now called Canada, in 1534, 1535 and 1541. In late July 1534, in the course of his first voyage, he and his men encountered two hundred people fishing near Gaspé Bay. [3] Cartier's men erected a "thirty foot long" cross which provoked a reaction from the leader of this fishing party.
Charles de Gaulle, heroic World War II general, commander of the Free French Forces, French president; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; François Guizot, Prime Minister; Gisèle Halimi, lawyer and feminist activist; François Hollande, former PS (Socialist Party) leader, former French president (15 May 2012 – 14 May 2017) Jean Jaurès, politician ...
Pierre Camille Cartier (March 10, 1878 – October 27, 1964) [1] was a French jeweler. He was one of three sons of Alfred Cartier and the brother of Jacques Cartier and Louis Cartier . Pierre's grandfather, Louis-François Cartier had taken over the jewelry workshop of his teacher Adolphe Picard , in 1847, thereby founding the famous Cartier ...