For me it's Talleyrand. I'm in awe of how he managed to keep his head. :lol:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Talleyra.asp
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Talleyra.asp
Name your favorite Frenchperson in history
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Colpy said:
Yep, good pick.
I've haven't read that book from beginning to end, Tocqueville babbles a bit too much for me - like Tolstoy.
RE: Name your favorite Fr
William "La batard" the conqueror (real name Guilliam Hocke) supposed frenchman from normandy......or that would be what the french will tell you.
He's actually a norman (meaning norseman) and is german, and translated Guilliam Hocke means "Darren Hockey"!!!!
William "La batard" the conqueror (real name Guilliam Hocke) supposed frenchman from normandy......or that would be what the french will tell you.
He's actually a norman (meaning norseman) and is german, and translated Guilliam Hocke means "Darren Hockey"!!!!
Re: RE: Name your favorite Fr
Why was he a bastard, didn't his father acknowledge him?
Daz_Hockey said:William "La batard" the conqueror (real name Guilliam Hocke) supposed frenchman from normandy......or that would be what the french will tell you.
He's actually a norman (meaning norseman) and is german, and translated Guilliam Hocke means "Darren Hockey"!!!!
Why was he a bastard, didn't his father acknowledge him?
Said1 dressed up like her avatar suggests is my favorite, and I don't care if she is French or not.
Re: RE: Name your favorite Fr
supposedly, thats what the french at the time called him, just bad press if you ask me
Said1 said:Daz_Hockey said:William "La batard" the conqueror (real name Guilliam Hocke) supposed frenchman from normandy......or that would be what the french will tell you.
He's actually a norman (meaning norseman) and is german, and translated Guilliam Hocke means "Darren Hockey"!!!!
Why was he a bastard, didn't his father acknowledge him?
supposedly, thats what the french at the time called him, just bad press if you ask me
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Jacobin leader during the French revolution and terror. He is a mark on any revolution gone wrong, a romantic figure with many flaws, one of his biggest, getting his head seperated from his neck.
Jacobin leader during the French revolution and terror. He is a mark on any revolution gone wrong, a romantic figure with many flaws, one of his biggest, getting his head seperated from his neck.
Said1, well thank you... I wouldn't say nut though, I don't think he was crazy.. He was a dreamer, a radical, a Utopianist and someone dreaming for a better world for the "common good". In a nut shell, the most dangerous kind of person.
Finder said:
What? You do know what happened to the people he accussed during the "terror", right?
Honestly, I think he started out ok, although an elitest at heart, I think he went mad from paranoia in the end.
Here's another I like - Charlotte Corday - she killed Marat, probably would have wacked Robispierre if given the chance.
InventorsLouis Pasteur
By Mary Bellis
Louis Pasteur Dec. 27, 1822- Sept. 28, 1895
Louis Pasteur was born in Dole France, married to Marie Laurent and had five children. Three of his children died of typhoid fever, maybe leading to Pasteur's drive to save people from disease. He graduated in 1842 from Besancon College Royal de la Franche with honors in physics, mathematics, Latin, and drawing. Louis Pasteur later attended Ecole Normale to study physics and chemistry, specializing in crystals. In his early research Pasteur worked with the wine growers of France, helping with the fermentation process to develop a way to pasteurize and kill germs. Pasteur then worked within the textile industry finding a cure for a disease affecting silk worms. Louis Pasteur also found cures for chicken cholera, anthrax and rabies.
The Pasteur Institute was opened in 1888. During Louis Pasteur's lifetime it was not easy for him to convince others of his ideas, controversial in their time but considered absolutely correct today. Pasteur fought to convince surgeons that germs existed and carried diseases, and dirty instruments and hands spread germs and therefore disease. Pasteur's pasteurization process, kills germs and prevents the spread of disease.
Louis Pasteur's main contributions to microbiology and medicine were; instituting changes in hospital/medical practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes or germs, discovering that weak forms of disease could be used as an immunization against stronger forms and that rabies was transmitted by viruses too small to be seen under the microscopes of the time, introducing the medical world to the concept of viruses.
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur's inventions were based on fermentation and improved brewing, Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization.
Louis Pasteur
His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," is one of the most important in medical history.
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
If one were to choose among the greatest benefactors of humanity, Louis Pasteur would certainly rank at the top. He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines.
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By Mary Bellis
Louis Pasteur Dec. 27, 1822- Sept. 28, 1895
Louis Pasteur was born in Dole France, married to Marie Laurent and had five children. Three of his children died of typhoid fever, maybe leading to Pasteur's drive to save people from disease. He graduated in 1842 from Besancon College Royal de la Franche with honors in physics, mathematics, Latin, and drawing. Louis Pasteur later attended Ecole Normale to study physics and chemistry, specializing in crystals. In his early research Pasteur worked with the wine growers of France, helping with the fermentation process to develop a way to pasteurize and kill germs. Pasteur then worked within the textile industry finding a cure for a disease affecting silk worms. Louis Pasteur also found cures for chicken cholera, anthrax and rabies.
The Pasteur Institute was opened in 1888. During Louis Pasteur's lifetime it was not easy for him to convince others of his ideas, controversial in their time but considered absolutely correct today. Pasteur fought to convince surgeons that germs existed and carried diseases, and dirty instruments and hands spread germs and therefore disease. Pasteur's pasteurization process, kills germs and prevents the spread of disease.
Louis Pasteur's main contributions to microbiology and medicine were; instituting changes in hospital/medical practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes or germs, discovering that weak forms of disease could be used as an immunization against stronger forms and that rabies was transmitted by viruses too small to be seen under the microscopes of the time, introducing the medical world to the concept of viruses.
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur's inventions were based on fermentation and improved brewing, Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization.
Louis Pasteur
His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," is one of the most important in medical history.
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
If one were to choose among the greatest benefactors of humanity, Louis Pasteur would certainly rank at the top. He solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines.
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Said1, of course I know what he did. He was as sane as the next person, though in insane times, I guess everyone was a little insane. But he was convinced of his doctine, that of rational thought. He was also convinced about the common good, he was not nuts, a murder yes in the sence the whole society had started to eat it's own, but he was far from nuts.
Hes my favorite because he shows the module of these Uptopian thinkers to come and what will happen as the belief in the "common good" becomes even stronger. All of our leaders in the world today have many of Robespierre's quilities in them, many of which are flaws.
Hes my favorite because he shows the module of these Uptopian thinkers to come and what will happen as the belief in the "common good" becomes even stronger. All of our leaders in the world today have many of Robespierre's quilities in them, many of which are flaws.
Finder said:
We can agree to disagree.
Talleyrand is still my favorite. Not for what he did for France, he was obviously and opportunist, I'm just impressed with his survival skills, given the times and all.