Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (13 March 1753 – 23 June 1821), was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre...

football team Marseille, and during his tenure they re-emerged as a major European club. Robert Louis-Dreyfus was born in Paris, the son of Jean and Jeanne...

Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (born 20 June 1928), known as Jean-Marie Le Pen (French: [ʒɑ̃maʁi lə pɛn]), is a French far-right politician who served as president...

Old Port of Marseille (French: Vieux-Port de Marseille, [vjøpɔʁ də maʁsɛj]) is at the end of the Canebière, the major street of Marseille. It has been...

chapel of the Palace of Versailles. She was the daughter of his cousin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, one of the richest men in France. Since...

Aix-Marseille University (AMU; French: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as Université d'Aix-Marseille) is a public research university located...

Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey (2 August 1835, in Marseille – 1 June 1919, in Le Beausset) was a French entomologist and malacologist. Félix Ancey who lived...

Marseille or Marseilles (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and...

Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (17 August 1754 – 15 July 1802) was a French politician, journalist, representative to the National Assembly, and a representative...

second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as regent legally...

Jean-François-Marie d'Arquier de Barbegal (1761–1794), also known as de Baumelles, parliamentarian from Aix in the 18th century, was involved in the federalist...

portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological...

Mathématiques in Marseille. The proceedings of the conference were published as a festschrift in The Ramanujan Journal. De Koninck, Jean-Marie (2009), Those...

The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It occupies a wing...

Marie-Jeanne Meyer (born 1942) is a French billionaire and member of the Louis Dreyfus family. Born Marie-Jeanne Louis-Dreyfus, she was one of three children...

Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny (2 February 1889 – 11 January 1952) was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina...

1935, d. Marseille, 8 June 2011) - actor, singer, radio host Ginette Garcin (1928–2010) - actor Louis Jourdan (19 June 1921–2015) - actor Jean Le Poulain...

racehorse owner and breeder. Louis Jean Decazes was born in Paris. On October 2, 1912, he married at Savigné-l'Evêque Marie Catherine Germaine Couturié...

1791-1792 Marie Louis Descorches (Minister Plenipotentiary) 1794 Bonneau (chargé d'affaires) Main source: 1807-1809 Étienne Vincent 1809-1811 Jean-Charles...

Jacques Pierre Brissot and Jean Marie Roland de la Platiere and his wife Madame Roland. It was at his instigation that Marseille sent to Paris the battalion...

Delestraint, took the same train to Paris to meet Jean-Guy Bernard. Hardy and Multon, who met him once in Marseille, recognize him. Hardy still decides to take...

been disputed by Jean Grosjean. The best known of his plays are Le Partage de Midi ("The Break of Noon", 1906), L'Annonce faite à Marie ("The Tidings Brought...

was born out of wedlock in Marseille on 15 April 1797, during the rule of the Directorate. His father, Pierre-Louis-Marie Thiers, was a businessman and...

Jean Louis Barthou (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi baʁtu]; 25 August 1862 – 9 October 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as...

observations were conducted by the astronomer Louis Lagrange. In 1789 Jean-Louis Pons began work at Marseille Observatory as a doorkeeper, but he also received...

Joseph-Marie Fabre (29 Apr 1909 – 9 Jan 1923 ) Daniel Champavier (19 Jan 1923 – 2 Feb 1928 ) Maurice-Louis Dubourg (17 Dec 1928 – 9 Dec 1936 ) Jean Delay...

Jean-Baptiste Pastré (10 October 1804 - 19 August 1877) was a French banker and arms-dealer from Marseille. A merchant banker in Egypt, he founded the...

graveyard Saint-Pierre in Marseille to graveyard Saint-Véran after his execution. In February 2005 Jean-Baptiste Rambla, Marie-Dolorès' brother, was arrested...

Painting in Marseille under the tutelage of Jean-Joseph Kappeler, David de Marseille, and Jean-Baptiste Giry. Although born and bred in Marseille, he spent...

Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV and the third son of the Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), and his wife Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, who was the eldest...