Pierre Dux

(1908/1990)

Acteur et metteur en scène français. Sociétaire de la Comédie-Française de 1935 à son départ en 1945, il en est nommé administrateur général en 1944-1945 et de 1970 à 1979

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Jean Dybowski

(1856 /1928)

Ingénieur agricole et explorateur français d’origine polonaise. Passionné d’ornithologie, il envoya au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de nombreux spécimens d’oiseaux qui furent décrites par Émile Oustalet.

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Alfred-Henri Dyé

(1874/1926)

Explorateur français, il participe à la mission Congo-Nil du colonel Marchand et le seconde également en Chine lors de la guerre des Boxers.

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Jean Echenoz

(born in 1947)

French writer and novelist. He was the recipient of numerous awards, notably the Prix Médicis in 1983 for his work Cherokee, and then the Prix Goncourt in 1999 for Je m'en vais.

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Jean Edeline

(1607/1672)

Vicar General of the Bishop of Chartres, canon and prior of Chartres Cathedral, chamberlain (1556-1672).

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Thomas Edison

(1847/1931)

American inventor, scientist and industrialist. Founder of General Electric, prolific inventor (more than 1,000 patents),pioneer of electricity and cinema.

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William Frederic Edwards

(1777/1842)

Ethnology, founder of the Ethnological Society of Paris (1839); remained famous for his study, On the Physiological Characteristics of Human Races, in which he established comparisons between the different races.

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Jean Effel

(1908/1982)

A cartoonist and illustrator, close to the Communist Party, he received the Lenin Peace Prize (1968). His real name was François Lejeune (hence FL).

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