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100 unusual facts about Paris


1984 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1984 French Open was held from 26 May until 10 June 1984 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

1989 French Open – Mixed Doubles

The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1989 French Open was held from 29 May until 11 June 1989 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

2000 Brazilian Grand Prix

On April 6, 2000, the World Motorsport Council handed out a $100,000 fine to the organisers, after being summoned to Paris due to a safety hoarding falling onto the main straight, narrowly missing Jean Alesi.

2003 Brazilian Grand Prix

Oral arguments and timing evidence were presented to an FIA court in Paris, which, on April 11, awarded victory to Fisichella.

Achille Urbain

Achille Joseph Urbain (May 9, 1884 – December 5, 1957) was a French biologist and director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1942 to 1949.

Administrative divisions of New Caledonia

Each of these provinces has its own flag and emblem and has considerable powers, including all powers that are not explicitly the prerogative of either the Territorial Congress in Nouméa or the French Republic in Paris.

Ain El Fouara Fountain

Two years later in 1896, the mayor of Sétif, M. Aubry, during a trip in Paris, asked the director of “Les Beaux-Arts” to donate a statue that will be used for the decoration of the fountain.

Albert J. Libchaber

Albert J. Libchaber (born 23 October 1934, Paris) is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University.

Algeciras Campaign

Troude had shown skill and bravery in the engagement, but his subsequent reputation was largely built on the strength of a report sent to Paris by Dumanoir le Pelley which was based on a letter written by Captain Troude.

Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado

Between 1726 and 1730, Santa Cruz de Marcenado wrote seven volumes of Military Reflections, published in Turin and Paris.

Anarchist symbolism

More recently, Parisian students carried black (and red) flags during the massive General Strike of May 1968.

Arrival of the Hungarians

In 1891, Árpád Feszty saw a panoramic painting by Detaille and Neuville in Paris.

Arrondissement of Paris

It has 20 cantons: the 20 municipal arrondissements of Paris.

Arthur Linton

From March until the Bordeaux–Paris race in May, Linton took part in a long distance race every week.

Asian French

The 13th arrondissement of Paris hosts Paris' Chinatown, a major community for the city's Asian population, as does the Belleville neighborhood.

Berdsk

In 1909, Gorokhov's mill won a minor gold medal at the World Fair in Paris.

Billy Gilmour

Gilmour married Merle Woods of Montreal and moved to Paris, France before returning to Canada in 1942 to reside in Mount Royal, Quebec, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship

The winner receives A$25,000 and a three-month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Calverstown

It was the first international motor race to be held in Great Britain, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

Camille-Marie Stamaty

Stamaty's father died in 1818, which forced the family to move back to France, first to Dijon, later on to Paris.

Charles Lutaud

In an interview with L'Écho de Paris after his appointment, he announced that the Algiers police would be reorganized on the Parisian model.

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

In 1712, two years after Mohun's Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton gained the post of special envoy to Paris.

Chicago Central Area Transit Plan

Another group, namely the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, went even further by trying to equate the elevated structure as one with the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Christopher Nesham

He was at Vernon, in Normandy, in October 1789, when a furious mob fell upon a corn merchant, Planter by name, who had been charitable to the poor, but who, having sent flour to Paris, was accused of wishing to starve the town.

Conn-Selmer

In the late 1800s, brothers Alexandre and Henri Selmer graduated from the Paris Conservatory as clarinetists.

Conservatism in South Korea

Some conservative citizen groups such as the Korean Council for Restoration National Identity and American and Korean Friendship National Council protested at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in May 2011 to prevent inscribing the records of the Gwangju Democratization Movement in the Memory of the World Register, and to petition for reconsidering identifying North Korean Special Forces as the perpetrators of the GDM.

Costa neoRomantica

Her decks are named for well-known European cities: Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Verona, Paris, London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Damascus Metro

Archaeological ruins found during the construction of the metro could be displayed in the new stations, as is the case for metro projects around the world such as in Athens, Paris and Moscow.

David Schoenbrun

After the war he worked for CBS from 1947 to 1964, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief in Paris, where he met and interviewed the President Charles de Gaulle a number of times.

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques

This immense and exhaustive work is currently edited by Luc Courtois and Eddy Louchez of Louvain and published by Letouzey et Ané of Paris.

Early Modern English Bible translations

They were taken in large part from the work of Stephanus (Robert Estienne of Paris), who had divided the Greek Testament into verses in 1551, during a journey which he was compelled to make between Paris and Lyon.

Edison-Lalande cell

In 1880, the manufacturer De Branville and Company of 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris exploited the patent of Lalande and Chaperon to build copper oxide batteries.

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers (1668, Lyon – 1741, Paris) was a French engraver best known for his miniature portraits of his contemporaries.

Fernand Leduc

He moved to Paris with his wife Thérèse Renaud in 1946 and slowly distanced himself from the group.

First Samurai

First Samurai stands at stud at the Hancock Family's Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Fort d'Aubervilliers

The Fort d'Aubervilliers is a former fortification of Paris built for 1842 to 1846 in Aubervilliers to control the "route de Flandre", now Route nationale 2, to the northeast of Paris.

Francis Thomé

Francis Thomé (October 18, 1850, Port Louis, Mauritius - November 16, 1909, Paris), was a French pianist and composer.

Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls

The treaty was signed on 17 May 1994 in Paris, and is drawn up in both a French and Dutch original.

Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band

In September 2007, the band was invited to perform at the "Briezh Touch" festival and parade in Paris, France.

Gare d'Enghien-les-Bains

Until 1935, it was the terminus for tramway lines to Montmorency and to la Trinité in Paris, 9th arr..

Giovanni's Room

She is from Minneapolis and moved to Paris to study painting, until she threw in the towel and met David by serendipity.

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford

Leonard died ca 1693, in Paris very likely, and Anne remarried in the Church of St Eustace, Paris, in 1693 with the knight Bertrand Chohan de Coetcandec, son of Francois and Xillone de Kermeno, originated from Brittany.

Hoàng Xuân Hãn

Hoàng Xuân Hãn (Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist.

Horace Günzburg

Baron Horace Günzburg (Baron Goratsii Evzelevich Gintsburg, Барон Гораций Евзелевич Гинцбург, (Naftali-Gerts Evzelevich Gintsburg) February 8, 1833 Zvenigorodka, government (guberniya) of Kiev, Russia – March 2, 1909, St. Petersburg, buried in Paris) was a Russian philanthropist.

Ivan Karizna

He had numerous performances in other countries of the world including Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and France where he played at such concert halls as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Parisian City of Music and Salle Pleyel as well as Brussels's Centre for Fine Arts where he performed together with a pianist Eliane Reyes.

Ivan Senin

As a member of USSR delegation, in 1945 Ivan Senin participated in the UN conference in San Francisco, in 1947 in Paris on behalf of USSR Government he signed peace treaties with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

James Herring

James Herring (born in London, 12 January 1794; died in Paris, October 1867) was a United States portrait painter.

Jean-Louis Duport

In 1812, Jean-Louis returned to Paris, where he encountered Napoleon, who insisted on trying out Duport's Stradivarius cello, exclaiming, "How the devil do you hold this thing, Monsieur Duport?"

Jeon Soo-il

He completed his master and doctorate degrees in Film Science at the Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.

Jim Kendrick

Kendrick also played for the 36th Division in the 1919 American Expeditionary Force championship game in Paris.

Johann Georg von Dillis

The next year, in Paris, he saw oil sketches by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, and with Ludwig, the crown prince visited the Musée Napoleon; he would later advise the prince on collecting and other matters artistic, remaining in this capacity for the rest of his life.

John Bower Lewis

He was born in Paris, France in 1817 and came to Canada with his family in 1820.

John Herrmann

He lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of its famous expatriate American writers' circle, when he met his first wife, Josephine Herbst in 1924.

Katinka Kendeffy

She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856, when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Kazimierz Waliszewski

Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history.

Kirti Sri Rajasinha of Kandy

A reason to call on the British for assistance by the Kandyan King in 1762 was that after the treaty of Paris, the Dutch poured troops into Sri Lanka.

Lars Kristian Brynildsen

He studied clarinet at the music conservatories in Oslo, Norway and Freiburg, Germany in addition to taking private lessons in Paris.

Le Méridien

The first Le Méridien property was a 1,000-room hotel in Paris — Le Méridien Etoile.

Lit de Justice

He made one more winless start in France before being sold on July 17, 1994, to Carol and Cornelius Ray's Evergreen Farm located near Paris, Kentucky.

Lothian and Border Horse

Moving around the south of Paris, the regiment engaged the German Army south of the River Somme near Abbeville.

Maria Jolas

Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of transition in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas.

Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis

Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746, Marcei – 29 March 1825, Paris) was a French composer, pianist, and salonnière.

Mauricio Buraglia

Mauricio Buraglia (born in 1954 in Bogotà) is a Colombian composer, recording-artist, musician-lutenist and theorbist of Italian descent, active in Paris, France.

Michail Melas

He studied law in Paris and became involved with commerce at an early age, importing Russian wheat to London and Marseilles.

Nikolai Novosjolov

Nikolai Novosjolov (born 9 June 1980) is an Estonian fencer, a two-time world champion in men's épée, winning gold at the 2010 World Championships in Paris and the 2013 World Championships in Budapest.

Niyazi

Niyazi conducted many of the major symphony orchestras in Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, New York, Paris, Istanbul, London, Tehran, Beijing and Ulan-Bator and played an important role in making the Azeri classical music known to the world.

Open city

Paris in 1940, from which the French Government fled after it became apparent that they could not defend it

Paghman

At that time, at the entrance of Paghman, they created a European style monumental gate similar to that of the Paris Arc de Triomphe.

Paris-Sorbonne University

Undergraduate students in their first and second years of study in French literature, French language, Latin, Ancient Greek and Musicology take their classes at the Malesherbes center.

Pierre Brasdor

He took his degree in Paris as master of surgery in 1752, and was appointed regius professor of anatomy and director of the Academy of Surgery.

Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

The academy was one of several Thomist foundations in places such as Bologna, Fribourg (Switzerland), Paris and Lowden.

Poulin JP-30

After several years agricultural service, the aircraft, F-WGIR, was retired and used as an advertising feature for the former Bar de l'Escadrille at Guyancourt airfield to the west of Paris, where it was last noted in June 1963.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Professional sports league organization

Famously, the French Ligue 1 lacked a team from Paris, France's capital and largest city, for some years.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

Getting home education in Tsarskoye Selo, under the direction of lyceum professors, Chikhachyov finished his education abroad, attending the lectures of famous geologists and mineralogists, and then worked in Paris.

Quai Voltaire

The Quai Voltaire begins at the Rue des Saints-Pères and ends at the Rue de Bac and the Pont Royal.

Rafael Barrett

In Madrid, he lived rebel boy, going from casino to casino and from woman to woman, alternating with visits to important literary gatherings in Paris and Madrid.

Roman Tokarczyk

He spent research stays as a Fulbright fellow inter alia at the International Research and Exchange Board in New York, at the University of Notre Dame, Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and under the NATO Foundation in Paris, Rome, Vienna, and Copenhagen.

Samothrace

It was discovered in pieces on the island in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, and is now—headless—in the Louvre in Paris.

Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet

He entered the British diplomatic service in 1906 and served in junior capacities in Constantinople, Tokyo, Paris and Tehran.

Solomon the Wise

Solomon Kaus, the title character, was an actual Jew who lived in Paris at that time, and believed he could build a machine that could run on water power; it is unclear whether he may have had an early idea along the lines of a steam engine or if he was simply pursuing an impossibility.

Sorbet

By the end of the 17th century, sorbet was served in the streets of Paris, and spread to England and the rest of Europe.

Spreadshirt

While maintaining its headquarters in Leipzig, Spreadshirt has opened up European branch offices in Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

SS Paris

A number of steamships have carried the name Paris, after the French capital city.

St Germans, Cornwall

John of Cornwall, in Latin Johannes Cornubiensis or Johannes de Sancto Germano was a Christian scholar and teacher, who was living in Paris about 1176.

Stein Metzger

They won in Belmar, then placed second in an FIVB Grand Slam event in Paris, logging the highest finish by an American team in 2005.

Suttukeni

Jewellery from Suttukeny, dated to the 2nd century BCE, is on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris.

The Adventure of the Second Stain

Four days after the murder, a newspaper report from Paris connects Madame Henri Fournaye to Lucas's death.

The Adventures of Blinky Bill

The animals he rescued were Ling Ling the Panda, Slippery the Seal, Yoyo the Monkey, Princess Penelope the Poodle, Leo the Lion and Tico Toucan (who originally works for the Circus Bros.) They went to Antarctica, the African Plains, China, the Amazon Rainforest, India and Paris.

The New Islander

Among some of the magazine's more personal pieces is a young man's recollection of the lessons learned while growing up in a Hispanic immigrant household, a young woman's reflection on an internship experience at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a young man's first-hand account of a Muslim protest in the streets of Paris, and an intoxicated student's unstable stream of consciousness.

The Pupil

He is summoned back to Paris, though, by a telegram from the Moreens that says Morgan has fallen ill.

Turbigo

The battle is commemorated in the name of rue de Turbigo, a Paris street.

Ukridge and the Home from Home

After a plot to imply the drainage in the house is faulty fails, Ukridge decides to claim the house is infected with Scarlet fever, but receiving a telegram from his aunt saying she will arrive in Paris the following week, and knowing a trip there always takes his aunt a few weeks, decides to delay shutting down his plan to grab a few more weeks rent.

Vijayanagara

In around 1500 Vijaynagar had 500,000 inhabitants, probably making it the second largest city in the world after Peking-Beijing and twice the size of Paris back then.

Ville de Paris

See French ship Ville de Paris

William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman

He died in Paris in December 1744 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his son, John.

Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna

To eliminate the problem, in cooperation with the French Military Mission to Poland and the Paris-based Ecole Superieure de Guerre, a Szkoła Wojenna Sztabu Generalnego (War School of the General Staff) was formed in mid-1919.

X-Corps

Together, they are able to free the minds of the villainous X-Corps members, as well as control several duplicates of Multiple Man, and use them in an assault on Paris.

Zbigniew Bieńkowski

Bieńkowski received a one year scholarship from the Sorbonne and moved to Paris in 1938.

Zografeion Lyceum

Christakis Zografos, who was living in Paris at the time, made the largest contribution, of 10,000 gold liras.


4P/Faye

4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris.

Adrien-François Servais

He is one of the founders of the Modern Cellistic Schools of Paris and Madrid, which began with his friend Auguste Franchomme and his disciple Víctor Mirecki Larramat.

Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Anatole Andrejew

Now retired, he divides his time between Paris and Honfleur in Normandy, where he paints Post-Impressionist art, mainly views of French cities and landscapes.

Antenor Patiño

Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James Goldsmith, by whom she had an only daughter.

Arvid Jacobson

Jacobson was arrested in October 1933, along with his wife, and he promptly confessed to his role as an agent and revealed the existence of another Soviet apparatus working in Paris which included Lydia Stahl and Robert Gordon Switz.

Château de Vincennes

The Château de Vincennes is a massive 14th and 17th century French royal castle in the town of Vincennes, to the east of Paris, now a suburb of the metropolis.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

Consulate of the Sea

The only known copy of this edition (as of 1911) is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Delphine LaLaurie

LaLaurie's house was subsequently sacked by an outraged mob of New Orleans citizens, and it is thought that she fled to Paris, where she is believed to have died.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Emily Coleman

The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.

Emma de Caunes

De Caunes was born in Paris, the daughter of the actor and director Antoine de Caunes and the director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer.

Francis Lai

While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene.

Gare de Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard

Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gare de Pierrelaye

Pierrelaye is a railway station in the town of Pierrelaye, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Harold Ambellan

After living several years in Montparnasse, one of the principal artistic communities of Paris, Ambellan decided to settle in the Greek-Roman enclave town of Antibes on the Côte d'Azur.

Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

Vane entered the foreign service and held posts in Paris and Stockholm before entering the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for South Durham.

Hôtel Drouot

In 2008 Hôtel Drouot was ranked fifth by sales amongst Paris auction houses, after Sotheby's, Christie's, Artcurial, and Tajan.

Ilya Bondarenko

He was associated with Savva Mamontov-sponsored group of artists and Abramtsevo Colony; these connections helped him secure his first major project - Russian Crafts pavilions at the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, in partnership with Konstantin Korovin.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Jacques Charles Brunet

He began his bibliographical career by the preparation of several auction catalogues, notable examples being that of the Count d'Ourches (Paris, 1811) and an 1802 supplement to the 1790 Dictionnaire bibliographique de livres rares of Duclos and Cailleau.

L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est...

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.

Leó Frankel

Leó Frankel (Léo Fränkel) (February 25, 1844, Újlak – March 29, 1896, Paris) was a Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin.

Léo Marjane

The couple moved to the village of Barbizon, outside Paris, where they devoted themselves to horse breeding.

Léon Germain Pelouse

He moved to Britanny, there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse realised landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years.

Leonaert Bramer

In 1614, at the age of 18, he left on a long trip eventually reaching Rome in 1616, via Atrecht, Amiens, Paris, Aix (February 1616), Marseille, Genoa, and Livorno.

Louis Ritman

He took a drawing class at Hull House, then attended the Art Institute’s school, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and briefly the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then in 1909 moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the advice of Parker to continue his studies.

Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse

The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France is a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing.

Marcel Gromaire

Marcel Gromaire, whose father was an educator in Paris, was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Morris Engines

The Hotchkiss company of France, who were makers of the famous machine gun, hurriedly transferred production to England during World War I when it looked as if their St. Denis factory near Paris was going to be overrun by the Germans.

Norman's Awesome Experience

The Parisian locale of the film is about to be annexed by the Roman Empire at the time the protagonists arrive (during the reign of the Emperor Nero).

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

Revaz Gabashvili

Briefly fleeing police persecution to Paris, he returned in 1907 and enrolled in the University of St. Petersburg, from where he was excluded on charges of being involved in students’ disorders in 1910.

Rick Lewis

The first of these were created by Marc Sautet in Paris, and by the late 1990s they numbered in the hundreds.

Robert Marteau

Robert Marteau (February 8, 1925 Virollet, Poitou – May 16, 2011 Paris) was a French poet, novelist, translator, essayist, diarist.

Romain Duris

Duris lives in Paris near La Bastille with his actress girlfriend Olivia Bonamy with whom he has a son, Luigi, born February 10, 2009.

Ron Mueck

An exhibit of his work was also on view at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa from 2 March to 6 May 2007, organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, the Brooklyn Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Terezka Drnzik

In 1982 Terezka performed with the renowned Egyptian Baladi singer Ahmed Adaweyah and the famed composer and piano accordion player Hussan Abou Seoud and his orchestra from Paris.

The Gay Parisienne

The piece toured internationally, playing in New York as The Girl from Paris, opening on 8 December 1896, at the Herald Square Theatre and running for 266 or 281 performances (sources differ) and then touring.

Thomas Zouch

The official verses on the accession of George III contained a Latin poem by him; to those on that king's marriage he contributed a Greek poem, and he supplied English verses for the sets on the birth of the Prince of Wales and the peace of Paris, which are quoted with praise in the Monthly Review (xxviii. 27–9, xxix. 43).