Jean Fleury (or Florin) (died 1527) was a French naval officer and privateer. He is best known for the capture of two out of the three Spanish galleons...
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Jean-Fleury Baudrand (or Baudran), O.M.I. (9 March 1811 – 1 October 1853), was a French Roman Catholic priest and missionary who served in North America...
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Piracy in the Caribbean (section Jean Fleury)
Old attracted pirates and French privateers like François Leclerc or Jean Fleury, both in the Caribbean and across the Atlantic, all along the route from...
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Wallace "Theo" Fleury (born June 29, 1968) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, author and motivational speaker. Fleury played for the...
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Marc-André Fleury (born November 28, 1984) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL)...
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French painter Gordon A. Fleury, American politician Haydn Fleury (born 1996), Canadian National Hockey League player Jean Fleury (died 1527), French naval...
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Jean-Gérard Fleury (24 November 1905 – 2 June 2002) was a French businessman, aviator, journalist and writer. Coming from a northern farming family from...
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French corsairs (section Jean Bart)
Giovanni da Verrazzano (namesake of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge) and Jean Fleury were among the principals in this era. The 1517 travel journal of Antonio...
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Its rapid growth from the end of the 18th century was spoken of by Jean Fleury, in 1839, in that it "offers almost everywhere the appearance of a new...
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(1900–1972) of France, Jean-Baptist De Coster (1896–1968) of Belgium, Jean Fleury (1905–1982) of France, Emile Gessler (1891–1958) of Belgium, Jean-Baptiste Janssens...
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accounts suggest that Verrazzano was the same person as the corsair Jean Fleury, who was executed for piracy by the Spanish at Puerto del Pico, Spain...
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Tony Robert-Fleury (1 September 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French painter, known primarily for historical scenes. He was also a prominent art teacher...
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Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded in about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western...
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Jean-François Joly de Fleury (1718-1802) was a minor figure serving in the French government as finance minister within a decade of the French Revolution...
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treasure of the Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc was captured by the French corsair Jean Fleury. Silver arrived in large amounts, whereas gold was rarer to be found...
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address at Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas. In March 1796 he lived at rue Jean Fleury (near Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois). In 1799, when he was sick he lived...
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Charles de Gaulle Nancy Wake Georges Cadoudal Joseph Epstein Jean-Baptiste du Casse Jean Fleury Jean Ango Jeanne de Clisson Pier Gerlofs Donia Wijerd Jelckama...
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Fanny Fleury (1846 – 1923) was a French painter. Fleury was born in Paris, France, and trained with Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, Marie Durand and Jean-Jacques...
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under the supervision of the Superior of the community, the Rev. Father Jean-Fleury Baudrand, O.M.I. The architect was Victor Bourgeau [fr], who was a noted...
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Jean Margain (24 February 1931 - 15 February 2012) was a French Hebraist. He is known by his Semitic and Samaritan studies. Margain got his Doctor of Arts...
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tree's usefulness is the same. On the other hand, the French critic Jean Fleury points out that Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s fable of "The Oak Tree and...
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d’un thème antique", Revue de Littérature Comparée, n. 41, pp. 166–179, 1967. (in French) Jean Fleury, Marivaux et le marivaudage, Paris: Plon, 1881....
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hōle, houōle has the meaning of "hollow where fish hide", then for Jean Fleury in Patois de la Hague, it means "a hole, a cave, especially in rocks"...
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grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the...
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Louis Fleury (24 May 1878 – 10 June 1926) was a French flautist, a student and colleague of Paul Taffanel, a writer who advocated for the revival of Baroque...
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Fleury Mesplet (January 10, 1734 – January 24, 1794) was a French-born Canadian printer best known for founding the Montreal Gazette, Quebec's oldest daily...
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Vol. 1. Paris: Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke. 1819. Leçons de flore (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke. 1820. Flore médicale...
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Claude Fleury (6 December 1640, Paris – 14 July 1723, Paris), was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian. Destined for the bar, he was educated...
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Hubert-Jean-Baptiste Rohault de Fleury (26 December 1828 – 11 October 1910) was a French painter and philanthropist. He was one of the initiators of the...
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18th century. He married into the nobility. His son, Hubert Jean-Baptiste Rohault de Fleury, born in 1750, was an advocate of the Parliament of Paris and...
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