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- Alain Decaux
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- Alcide De Gasperi
- Amin Maalouf
- Andrea Riccardi
- Angela Merkel
- Angelo Rinaldi
- Antonio Segni
- Assia Djebar
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
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- Bernard Kouchner
- Bill Clinton
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- Bronisław Geremek
- Bruno Kreisky
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Charlemagne Prize
- Claude Dagens
- College of Europe
- Contraception
- Cornelis Berkhouwer
- Danièle Sallenave
- Defamation
- Dominique Fernandez
- Donald Tusk
- Dries van Agt
- Edouard Balladur
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European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union.
The Commission operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "commissioners" ). There is one member per member state, though members are bound to represent the interests of the EU as a whole rather than their home state. One of the 27 is the Commission President (currently José Manuel Durão Barroso) proposed by the European Council and elected by the European Parliament. The Council then appoints the other 26 members of the Commission in agreement with the nominated President, and then the 27 members as a single body are subject to a vote of approval by the European Parliament. The first Barroso Commission took office in late 2004 and its successor, under the same President, took office in 2010.
The term "Commission" is used either in the narrow sense of the 27-member College of Commissioners (or College) or to also include the administrative body of about 23,000 European civil servants who are split into departments called Directorates-General and Services. The internal working languages of the Commission are English, French and German. The Members of the Commission and their "cabinets" (immediate teams) are based in the Berlaymont building of Brussels.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (abbreviated as Europarl or the EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world. The Parliament is currently composed of 754 Members of the European Parliament, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009).
It has been directly elected every five years by universal suffrage since 1979. However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50% since 1999. Turnout in 2009 stood at 43% of all European voters, ranging from 90% in Luxembourg and Belgium (where compulsory voting is used) to 20% in Slovakia. Turnout was under 50% in 18 out of 27 member states.
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Luxembourg
Luxembourg (
i/ˈlʌksəmbɜrɡ/ LUKS-əm-burg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg, French: Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg, Dutch: Groothertogdom Luxemburg), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland ("good country") in the south. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi). A representative democracy with a constitutional monarch, it is ruled by a grand duke. It is now the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. The country has a highly developed economy, with the world's highest GDP (nominal) per capita according to the IMF. Its historic and strategic importance dates back to its founding as a Roman era fortress site and Frankish count's castle site in the Early Middle Ages. It was an important bastion along the Spanish Road when Spain was the principal European power influencing the whole western hemisphere and beyond in the 16th–17th centuries.
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Nice
Coordinates: 43°42′12″N 7°15′59″E / 43.7034°N 7.2663°E / 43.7034; 7.2663
Nice (
/ˈniːs/, French pronunciation: [nis]; Niçard Occitan: Niça [classical norm] or Nissa [nonstandard], Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek: Νίκαια, Latin: Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of 71.92 km2 (28 sq mi). The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of about 1 million on an area of 721 km2 (278 sq mi). Located on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille.
The city is called Nice la Belle (Nissa La Bella in Niçard), which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912. Nice is the capital of the Alpes Maritimes département and the second biggest city of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille.
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Alain Decaux
Alain Decaux was born on 23 July 1925 in Lille, France. A historian by profession, he was elected to the Académie française on 15 February 1979.
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Alain Poher
Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (French: [alɛ̃ pɔɛʁ]; 17 April 1909 – 9 December 1996) was a French centrist politician, affiliated first with the Popular Republican Movement and later with the Democratic Centre. He served as a Senator for Val-de-Marne from 1946 to 1995. He was President of the Senate from 3 October 1968 to 1 October 1992 and, in that capacity, served twice as the country's interim president. Candidate in the 1969 presidential election, he was defeated by Georges Pompidou in the second round.
Poher was born in Ablon-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne.
He graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later studied law. On 19 August 1938 he married Henriette Tugler, with whom he had one daughter, Marie-Agnès.
His political career began in 1938, when he became a junior executive officer in the Ministry of Finance.
Later he served on several positions before entering Senate:
A longtime ally and political protege of Schumann, Poher was elected to the Senate in 1952, where he remained for over 40 years (until 1995). As Senator he continued to serve in some governments and his home town mayor. Like Schuman, he was known for strongly pro-European integration positions, having served as President of the European Parliament (1968–1969).
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Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi (Italian pronunciation: [alˈtʃiːde de ˈɡasperi]; April 3, 1881 – August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. A conservative Catholic, he was one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer.
De Gasperi was born in Pieve Tesino in Tyrol, which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary, now part of the Trentino in Italy. His father was a local police officer of limited financial means. From 1896 De Gasperi was active in the Social Christian movement. In 1900 he joined the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Vienna, where he played an important role in the inception of the Christian student movement. He was very much inspired by the Rerum Novarum encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. In 1904 he took an active part in the student demonstrations in favour of an Italian-language university. Imprisoned with other protesters during the inauguration of the Italian juridical faculty in Innsbruck, he was released after twenty days. In 1905, De Gasperi obtained a degree in philology.
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Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf (Arabic: أمين معلوف), born 25 February 1949 in Beirut, is a Lebanese-born French author. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into many languages. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios (English translation of, Le Rocher de Tanios). He has also been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in its 2010 edition. He was elected at the Académie française on 23 June 2011, on seat 29.
Maalouf is the second of four children. His parents' families were from the Lebanese mountain village of Ain el Kabou. His parents married in Cairo in 1945, where Odette, his mother, was born of a Maronite Christian father from the village, who had left to work in Egypt, and a mother born in Turkey. Amin's father, Ruchdi, was from the Melkite Greek Catholic community. One of his ancestors was a priest whose son converted to become a Presbyterian parson. The parson's son (Maalouf's grandfather) was a "rationalist, anticlerical, probably a freemason, and refused to baptise his children".[citation needed] While the Protestant branch of the family sent their children to British or American schools, Maalouf's mother was a staunch Catholic who insisted on sending him to Collège Notre Dame de Jamhour- a French Jesuit school. He studied sociology at the Francophone Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut.
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Andrea Riccardi
Andrea Riccardi (born 1950 in Rome) is the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio and Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Rome III in Rome, Italy. Since November 16, 2011, he serves as Minister for International Cooperation without portfolio in the Monti Cabinet.
Andrea Riccardi is also a member of the Fondation Chirac's honour committee, ever since the foundation was launched in 2008 by former French president Jacques Chirac in order to promote world peace. He also participated as jury member in 2009 for the Prize for Conflict Prevention awarded every year by this foundation.
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Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel, German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] (
listen); née Kasner (born 17 July 1954) is the Chancellor of Germany and Chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany.
A physical chemist by professional background, Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989 and briefly served as the deputy spokesperson for Lothar de Maizière's democratically elected East German government prior to the German reunification. Following reunification in 1990, she was elected to the Bundestag, where she has represented the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since. She served as Federal Minister for Women and Youth 1991–1994 and as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety 1994–1998 in Helmut Kohl's fourth and fifth cabinets. She was Secretary General of the CDU 1998–2000, and was elected chairperson in 2000. From 2002 to 2005, she was also chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary coalition.
After her election as Chancellor following the 2005 federal election, she led a grand coalition consisting of her own CDU party, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), until 2009. In the 2009 federal election, the CDU obtained the largest share of the votes, and formed a coalition government with the CSU and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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Angelo Rinaldi
Angelo Rinaldi (b. June 17, 1940 in Bastia, Haute-Corse) is a French writer and literary critic.
Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter and court correspondent for the newspapers Nice-Matin and Paris-Jour and soon acquired a reputation as a writer and a sharp-penned literary critic. As a critic, he worked for L'Express, Le Point and Le Nouvel Observateur before becoming literary editor of Le Figaro, which he remained until his retirement.
Rinaldi is Corsican, and his books often contain detailed observations of Corsica and of the town of Bastia where he grew up.
He has received the Prix Pierre de Monaco for his body of work.
He was elected to Seat 20 of the Académie française on June 21, 2001, succeeding José Cabanis.
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Antonio Segni
Antonio Segni (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈseɲɲi]; 2 February 1891 – 1 December 1972) was an Italian politician who was the 35th Prime Minister of Italy (1955–1957, 1959–1960), and the fourth President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964. Adhering to the centrist Christian Democratic party (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana – DC), he was the first Sardinian ever to become Prime Minister of Italy.
The son of a Sardinian landowning family, born in Sassari, Sardinia, he studied to become a lawyer with a degree in agricultural and commercial law. Segni joined the Italian People's Party (Italian: Partito Popolare Italiano) – the predecessor of the Christian Democratic Party – in 1919. In 1924 he was a member of the party’s national council, until all political organizations were dissolved by Benito Mussolini two years later in 1926. For the next 17 years Segni taught Agrarian Law for at the Universities of Pavia, Perugia, and Cagliari; he was also rector of Sassari University.
In 1943 Segni was one of the organizers of the new Christian Democratic Party in Sardinia. He held ministerial positions in many Christian Democrat governments from 1944 onward, despite his frail physique. Time Magazine once quoted a friend: "He is like the Colosseum; he looks like a ruin but he'll be around for a long time." In 1946, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly after World War II and then to parliament in 1948.
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Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born 30 June 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Djebar was born in Cherchell, a coastal town near Algiers from Berber descent. Her family lived in a little village nearby called Mouzaïaville. There, she attended the primary school where her father taught French. She later attended a boarding school in Blida. In 1955, Djebar became the first Algerian woman to be accepted at the École Normale Supérieure, an elite Parisian college.
In 1957, she published her first novel, La Soif ("The Thirst"). Fearing her father's disapproval, she had it published under the pen name Assia Djebar. Another book, Les Impatients, followed the next year. Also in 1958, she and Ahmed Ould-Rouïs began a marriage that would eventually end in divorce.
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Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. He is co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010 he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the right-wing Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments.
Kouchner was born in Avignon to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother, he began his political career as a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), from which he was expelled in 1966 for attempting to overthrow the leadership. On a visit to Cuba in 1964, Kouchner spent the night fishing and drinking with Fidel Castro. In the protests of May 1968, he ran the medical faculty strike committee at the Sorbonne. Kouchner has three children (Julie, Camille and Antoine) by his first wife, Évelyne Pisier, a professor of law, and one child, Alexandre, by his present wife Christine Ockrent, a television journalist. He worked as a physician for the Red Cross in Biafra in 1968 (during the Nigerian Civil War). He co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in 1971, and then, due to a conflict of opinion with MSF chairman Claude Malhuret, the Doctors of the World ('Médecins du Monde') in 1980. What made him co-found Médecins Sans Frontières was his experience as a physician for the Red Cross during the Nigerian Civil War that took place in Biafra, 1968. Kouchner worked as a humanitarian volunteer during the Siege of Naba’a refugee camp in Lebanon in East Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War taking risks that "other foreign aid workers weren’t, even worked closely with the Shia cleric Imam Musa al-Sadr."
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.
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Bronisław Geremek
Professor Bronisław Geremek [brɔˈɲiswaf ɡɛˈrɛmɛk] ( listen) (born Benjamin Lewertow on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, died July 13, 2008 in Lubień, Poland), was a Polish social historian and politician.
Geremek was born in Warsaw on March 6, 1932. His father, a fur merchant, was murdered in Auschwitz. His mother and he were smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 and were sheltered by Stefan Geremek. Geremek later married Bronisław's mother and Bronisław was further raised in a Roman Catholic tradition. In his adult life he considered himself neither a Jew nor a Catholic. His grandfather was a maggid, his brother Jerry, living in New York is a Jew and his sons living in Poland are Roman Catholics.
In 1954 Bronisław Geremek graduated from the Faculty of History at the Warsaw University, and in 1956–1958 he completed postgraduate studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He completed his PhD in 1960 and in 1972 he was granted a postdoctoral degree at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). In 1989 he was appointed associate professor.
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Bruno Kreisky
Bruno Kreisky (January 22, 1911 – July 29, 1990) was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after World War II.
Kreisky was born in Margareten, a district of Vienna, to a liberal Jewish family. His parents were Max Kreisky (1876-1944) and Irene Felix Kreisky (1884-1969). His father worked as a textile manufacturer. Shocked by the level of poverty and violence in Austria during the 1920s, he joined the youth wing of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) in 1925 at age 15. In 1927, he joined the Young Socialist Workers against the wishes of his parents. In 1929, he began studying law at the University of Vienna at the advice of Otto Bauer, who urged him to study law rather than medicine, as he had originally planned. He remained politically active during this period. In 1931, he left the Jewish religious community, becoming agnostic. In 1934, when the Socialist Party was banned by the Dollfuss dictatorship, he became active in underground political work. He was arrested in January 1935 and convicted of high treason, but was released in June 1936. In March 1938 the Austrian state was incorporated in Germany, and in September Kreisky escaped the Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews during Holocaust by emigrating to Sweden, where he remained until 1945. In 1942 he married Vera Fürth.
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo adˈdzɛʎʎo ˈtʃampi] ( listen); born 9 December 1920) is an Italian politician and banker. He was the 49th Prime Minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and was the tenth President of the Italian Republic from 1999 to 2006. He is currently a Senator for life in the Italian Senate.
Ciampi was born in Livorno (Province of Livorno).
After receiving a doctorate in literature in 1941 from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, one of the country's most prestigious universities, he was called to military duty in Albania as a lieutenant. On 8 September 1943, on the date of the armistice with the Allies, he refused to remain in the Fascist Italian Social Republic, and took refuge in Abruzzo, in Scanno. He subsequently managed to pass the lines and reach Bari, where he joined the Partito d'Azione (and thus the Italian resistance movement).
In 1946 he married Franca Pila. That same year, he obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Pisa and began working at the Banca d'Italia. He also joined the CGIL (Trade Union), which he left in 1980.
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Claude Dagens
Claude Jean Pierre Dagens (French pronunciation: [klod ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ daʒɑ̃]; born 20 May 1940 in Bordeaux, Gironde) is a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as bishop of Angoulême.
Previously the deputy bishop of the diocese of Poitiers from 1999 to 2005, he is a specialist in Catholic doctrine, and was elected the twentieth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française April 2008. He has written abundantly about the role of the Church in French society and its relationship with secularism.
Because of his dialogue with members of Freemasonry, he has provoked the irritation of some Traditionalist Catholics (see Catholicism and Freemasonry).
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Cornelis Berkhouwer
Cornelis Berkhouwer (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈbɛrkˌɦʌu̯ər], 19 March 1919, Alkmaar - 5 October 1992, Alkmaar) was a Dutch-European politician.
He was a Member of the European Parliament between 1964 and 1984, for the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, which sat as part of the Liberal Democrat group in the Parliament. Between 13 March 1973 and 10 March 1975, he served as President of the European Parliament.
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Danièle Sallenave
Danièle Sallenave (born October 28, 1940 Angers) is a French novellist and journalist. In April 2011, she became a member of the Académie française. In 1980 Sallenave received the Prix Renaudot for her novel Les Portes de Gubbio.
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Dominique Fernandez
Dominique Fernandez (born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine on August 25, 1929) is an openly homosexualFrench novelist and member of the Académie française. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1982.
Fernandez is the son of Ramon Fernandez, a literary critic whose reputation was tarnished when he served on the executive committee of the Parti Populaire Français, collaborating with France's Nazi occupiers. His son's inaugural speech in the Academy was a defense of his father. As the hilt of the ceremonial sword of his Academy uniform, Fernandez chose a representation of Ganymede.
In 1961 he married Diane Jacquin de Margerie; they had two children together before their divorce in 1971.
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Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk [ˈdɔnalt franˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ˈtusk] ( listen) (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2007. He was a co-founder and is chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) party.
Tusk was officially designated as Prime Minister on 9 November 2007 and took office on 16 November. His cabinet won a vote of confidence in the Sejm on 24 November 2007. He is currently the longest serving prime minister of the Third Republic of Poland. In October 2011, Tusk's Civic Platform won a plurality of seats in the Polish parliamentary election, meaning that Tusk became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of communism in Poland.
Tusk began his public career as an activist in his home town of Gdansk, supporting Solidarity and organizing his fellow university students. With the exception of one four-year stretch, Tusk has served in the Third Republic parliament almost continuously since its first elections in 1991. He was Vice Marshal (deputy speaker) of the Senate from 1997 to 2001 and Vice Marshal of the Sejm from 2001 to 2005. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2007.
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Dries van Agt
Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdris fɑn ˈɑxt]; born February 2, 1931) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from December 19, 1977, until November 4, 1982.
He previously served as Minister of Justice from July 6, 1971 until September 8, 1977 in the Cabinets Biesheuvel I, II and Den Uyl. And Deputy Prime Minister from May 11, 1973 until September 8, 1977 in the Cabinet Den Uyl. He resigned as Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister to become the first Christian Democratic Appeal Party leader and the first Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives which he served from May 26, 1977 until December 19, 1977 and a Member of the House of Representatives from June 8, 1977 until December 19, 1977. Van Agt became Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leading the Cabinets Van Agt I, II and III. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for his Third cabinet.
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Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–74) and as Leader of the Conservative Party (1965–75).
Born in Broadstairs, Kent, Heath studied at Oxford and served in the Second World War. He was first elected in the 1950 general election, for Bexley and was government Chief Whip during the 1950s. Entering the Cabinet as Minister of Labour in 1959, he was then Lord Privy Seal responsible for Macmillan's unsuccessful EEC entry negotiations, then President of the Board of Trade. In 1965 Heath won the leadership of the Conservative Party against Reginald Maudling and Enoch Powell. The general election of 1966 saw the Labour government of Harold Wilson achieve a large increase in seats, however Heath remained Conservative leader.
Heath became Prime Minister after winning the 1970 general election. In 1971, Heath oversaw the decimalisation of British coinage and in 1972, he implemented major reform to the UK's system of local government. In foreign policy, Heath took the UK into the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973. Heath's premiership oversaw the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the suspension of the Stormont parliament and the imposition of direct British rule. Unofficial talks with IRA delegates were unsuccessful, as was the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, which caused Ulster Unionists to withdraw from the Conservative whip.
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Egon Klepsch
Egon Alfred Klepsch (January 30, 1930 – September 17/18, 2010.) was a German politician (CDU).
In the years 1963–1969 Dr. Klepsch was Federal leader of the Junge Union. In 1965 he worked briefly as an election campaign manager for Ludwig Erhard. In the same year he was elected to the German Bundestag, to which he belonged until 1980.
Since 1964 Dr. Klepsch had been active at the European level. From 1973 he was a Member of the European Parliament in parallel to the Bundestag. After the first direct election of the parliament in 1979 Klepsch became chairman of the EPP parliamentary group. After he had stood in vain in 1982 for the office of President of the European Parliament, he was elected in 1992 with the support of the EPP and PES parliamentary groups. In 1994 he retired from the European Parliament and became an advisor to Deutschen Vermögensberatungs AG.
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Emilio Colombo
Emilio Colombo (born 11 April 1920) is an Italian politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972. In addition to having held top positions in Italian governments, he was also active in European politics and is currently an Italian senator-for-life.
Born in Potenza, Basilicata, Colombo entered politics as a member of the Christian Democratic Party. Having held several cabinet posts, he was Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 until his resignation in 1972. Later he became President of the European Parliament (occupying that office from 1977 until 1979) and Foreign Minister of Italy (from 1980 until 1983, and again from 1992 until 1993). A decade after he last held that position, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi bestowed Italy's highest political honour on him, by nominating him Senator for life.
Shortly after this, in November 2003, he admitted to have used cocaine (for "therapeutic purposes") over a 12- to 18-month period, and to be a homosexual.
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Enrique Barón Crespo
Enrique Barόn Crespo (born 27 March 1944 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and lawyer. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and sits with the Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament.
Enrique Barón graduated in law from the University of Madrid and in business at ESSEC in Paris, in 1965. As a practising lawyer, he specialised in labour law, and acted for defendants in political cases (1970–1977).
He was a Deputy in the Cortes (1977–1987) representing Madrid region and was Minister of Transport, Tourism and Communications (1982–1985).
After election to the European Parliament he was President of the European Parliament (1989–1992), and was PES Group chairman from 1999 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1992–1995) and is currently Chairman of the Committee on International Trade.
Barόn is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation and the Advisory Board of think tank Gold Mercury International, London, UK.
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Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (pronounced [ɔɡystin‿øʒɛn skʁib]; 24 December 1791 – 20 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" (pièce bien faite), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas.
Scribe was born in Paris and died there. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the law. However, he soon began to write for the stage. His first piece, Le Prétendu sans le savoir, was produced anonymously at the Variétés in 1810, and was a failure. Numerous other plays, written in collaboration with various authors, followed; but Scribe achieved no distinct success till 1815, when he wrote Une Nuit de la garde nationale (Night of the National Guard, 1815), a collaboration with Delestre Poirson. Much of his later work was also written in collaboration with others. His debut in serious comedy was made at the Théâtre Français in 1822 with Valérie. Among the actors he wrote starring roles for are Mlle Mars and Rachel. Scribe was elected to the Académie française in 1834.
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Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.
Felipe was born in Seville, son of a farmer who had a small dairy. He has a sister named Lola González y Márquez, married to Francisco Germán Palomino y Romera, by whom she has two sons, Felipe and Germán Palomino y González. He studied Law at Seville University and started his career as attorney specialising in labour. While at the University he met members of the socialist trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) that was clandestine at the time. He also contacted members of the PSOE and started taking part in the party's clandestine activity. During that time he adopted the nom de guerre Isidoro and moved to Madrid. He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France.
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Florence Delay
Florence Delay (born March 19, 1941 in Paris) is a French academician and actress.
The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne.
In 1962, she played the title role of Joan of Arc in a movie by Robert Bresson, Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (The Trial of Joan of Arc). At 30, she published her first novel, Minuit sur les jeux. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 1983 for her novel Riche et légère. With Jacques Roubaud of the Oulipo, she compiled, a series of 10 plays about the Arthurian legend, Graal Théâtre, from 1977 to 2005.
She has been an actress, narrator, or writer in movies by Chris Marker, Hugo Santiago, Benoît Jacquot and Michel Deville. She was elected to the Académie française on December 14, 2000.
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Franz Vranitzky
Franz Vranitzky (born 4 October 1937) is an Austrian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), he was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 to 1997.
As the son of a foundryman, Vranitzky was born into humble circumstances in Vienna's 17th disttrict. He attended the Realgymnasium Geblergasse and studied economics, graduating in 1960. He financed his studies teaching Latin and English and as a construction worker.
As a young man, Vranitzky played basket ball and was a member of Austria's national team, which in 1960 unsuccessfully tried to qualify for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
In 1962 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).
In 1962, Vranitzky married Christine Christen, with whom he fathered two children.
Vranitzky began his career in 1961 at Siemens-Schuckert, but within the year switched to the National Bank of Austria. In 1969, he received a doctorate in International business studies. The following year, Hannes Androsch, minister of finance under Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had appointed him economic and financial advisor. Vranitzky served as deputy director of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein (1976–1981), briefly as its director general and as director general of the Österreichische Länderbank (1981–1984).
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François Cheng
François Cheng (Traditional Chinese:程抱一;pinyin: Chéng Bàoyī) (born 30 August 1929 in Nanchang, Jiangxi) is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
Born in China and taking French citizenship in 1973, he was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of the Academy. He was the winner of the 1998 Prix Femina for Le Dit de Tianyi ("The Tale of Tianyi") (pub. Albin Michel, Paris, 1998).
When Cheng arrived in France in 1948, on a study grant, he did not speak a word of the language. He subsequently adapted quickly and profoundly. In his speech to the Académie française, he explained, "I became a Frenchman in law, mind and heart more than thirty years ago [...] especially from that moment when I resolutely went over to the French language, making it the weapon, or the soul, of my creative work. This language, how can I say everything that I owe to it? It is so intimately bound up with the way I live and my inner life that it has proved to be the emblem of my destiny."[citation needed] It took many years before he became a novelist. His first works were on Chinese poetry and painting. Later he began to write works of poetry himself, before finally turning to the writing of novels.
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François Jacob
François Jacob (born June 17, 1920 in Nancy) is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.
François Jacob is the only child of Simon and Thérèse Jacob. An inquisitive child, he learned to read at a young age. At seven he entered the Lycée Carnot, where he was schooled for the next ten years; in his autobiography he describes his impression of it: "a cage". He describes his father as a "conformist in religion", while his mother and other family members important in his childhood were secular Jews; shortly after his bar mitzvah he became an atheist.
Though interested (and talented) in physics and mathematics, Jacob was horrified at the prospect of spending two additional years in "an even more draconian regime" to prepare for higher study at the Polytechnique. Instead, after observing a surgical operation that cemented his "slight interest" in medicine, he entered medical school.
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François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (French: [fʁɑ̃swa mɔʁis mitɛˈʁɑ̃] ( listen); 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the first figure from the left elected President under the Fifth Republic.
Reflecting family influences, Mitterrand started political life on the Catholic nationalist right. He served under the Vichy Regime in its earlier years. Subsequently, however, he joined the Resistance, moved to the left, and held ministerial office repeatedly under the Fourth Republic. He opposed de Gaulle's establishment of the Fifth Republic. Although at times a politically isolated figure, Mitterrand outmanoeuvred rivals to become the left's standard bearer in every presidential election from 1965 to 1988, except 1969. Elected President in the May 1981 presidential election, he was re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995.
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François Weyergans
François Weyergans (born 2 August 1941 Etterbeek, Brussels) is a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the French Academy (Académie française) on 26 March 2009, taking the 32nd seat which became vacant with the death of Alain Robbe-Grillet in 2008.
He started film studies at the IDHEC (Hautes Études Cinématographiques), where he came to love the films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. He soon began to write for Cahiers du cinéma and directed his first film in 1961, on Maurice Béjart, which led to his expulsion from the school as students were banned from making professional films.
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Frère Roger
Frère Roger (Brother Roger) (Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 - Taizé, August 16, 2005), baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.
Roger was born the ninth and youngest child of Karl Ulrich Schütz, a Protestant pastor from Bachs in the Zürcher Unterland (Zürich Lowlands) in Switzerland, and his wife, Amélie Henriette Schütz-Marsauche, a French Protestant woman from Burgundy.
From 1937 to 1940, Roger studied Reformed theology in Strasbourg and Lausanne, where he was a leader in the Swiss Student Christian Movement, part of the World Student Christian Federation.
In 1940, he rode a bicycle from Geneva to Taizé, a small town near Mâcon, about 390 kilometres (240 mi) southeast of Paris. Taizé was then in unoccupied France, just beyond the line of demarcation to the zone occupied by German troops. For two years Brother Roger hid Jewish refugees before being forced to leave Taizé. In 1944, he returned to Taizé to found the Community, initially a small quasi-monastic community of men living together in poverty and obedience.
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Gabriel de Broglie
Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel (born 21 April 1931) is a French historian and statesman.
Broglie-Revel was elected to the Académie française in 2001, replacing Alain Peyrefitte. He is a Knight Commander of the Légion d'honneur. He is a distant relative of the ducs de Broglie.
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Gaetano Martino
Gaetano Martino (25 November 1900 - 21 July 1967) was an Italian politician and university teacher.
A native of Messina, Sicily, he was a member of Italian Liberal Party. Gaetano Martino was one of the participants of the Messina Conference in 1955, which would lead to the Treaty of Rome in 1957. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1962 to 1964.
He died in Rome in 1967. His son Antonio Martino would follow in his footseps as Minister of Foreign Affairs, but would distinguish himself from his father, in that he would generally be considered one of Italy's leading Eurosceptics.
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George Marshall
George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
George Catlett Marshall was born into a middle-class family in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of George Catlett Marshall, Sr. and Laura Emily (Bradford) Marshall. Marshall was a scion of an old Virginia family, as well as a distant relative of former Chief Justice John Marshall. Marshall graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), where he was initiated into the Kappa Alpha Order, in 1901.
Following graduation from VMI, Marshall was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Until World War I, he was posted to various positions in the US and the Philippines. He served as an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the Phillipines during the Phillipine-American War and several other guerilla uprisings. He was schooled and trained in modern warfare. His pre-war service included a tour at Fort Leavenworth, KS from 1906 to 1910 as both a student and an instructor.
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Georges Spénale
Georges Spénale (1913 – 20 August 1983) is a French writer, poet and politician. He was the president of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1977.
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Giuseppe Pella
Giuseppe Pella (April 18, 1902 – May 31, 1981) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.
He was born in Valdengo, Piedmont. After graduation in Economy and Commerce, he adhered to the Christian Democracy (DC), in the right wing of the party. His first government position was as under-secretary of Finances in the II and III De Gasperi cabinets. In the IV De Gasperi he was Minister of Finances.
Pella was Minister of Treasure in 1948–1953, gaining the enmity of the Communist and Socialist parties, as well as some DC members due to his liberal and monetarist policies. After the political crisis caused by the failure of the Cheat Law, Pella was appointed Prime Minister in a deliberately provisional government. Pella gained further critics when, by issuing nationalistic declarations, he created strife with Josip Broz Tito regarding the Free Territory of Trieste. Pella resigned on January 12, 1954.
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Gyula Horn
Gyula Horn (born on July 5, 1932, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and the third Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, from 1994–1998.
He is remembered because as the last Communist Foreign Minister of Hungary, he played a major role in the demolishing of the "Iron Curtain" for East Germans in 1989, contributing to the later unification of Germany, and for the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, launched under his premiership, in 1995.
He was born in Budapest. Gyula Horn first studied in a lower technicians' school in Hungary. He graduated from the Rostov-on-Don College of Economics and Finance in 1954. He is married, he has a daughter and a son.
In 1954 Horn joined the Hungarian communist party, then called the Hungarian Working People's Party. In November 1956 he joined the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSzMP) established by János Kádár to lead the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian revolution against Soviet occupation and communist rule.
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György Konrád
György (George) Konrád (born April 2, 1933) is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom.
Konrad was born in Berettyóújfalu, near Debrecen into an affluent Jewish family. He graduated in 1951 from the Madách Secondary School in Budapest, entered the Lenin Institute and eventually studied literature, sociology and psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University. In 1956 he participated in the Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet occupation, but did not kill anybody, although he had a gun. In fact, in light of his later attitude towards 56-veterans his honesty about his alleged democratic values been questioned.
Due to oppositional activities he was warned by the public prosecutor and was later fired from his work. In 1977 he received a DAAD- scholarship which enabled him to stay in West Berlin along with Iván Szelényi. After writing The Intellectual on the Road to Class Power with Szelényi, he hid the manuscript at his brother in law Ernő Sándor. Konrád was arrested in 10/22 1974. After this incident communist leading party ideologist György Aczél personally asked Konrád not to emigrate. In a letter to Aczél, Konrád made a few terms for his staying. This letter was also published in the Hungarian daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet and was also used as evidence in the Konrád vs Lovas slander trial, where Konrád sought retribution on the publicist István Lovas who have presented Konráds doubtful past in 2003. During this trial the Supreme Court of Budapest stated:
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Hans Furler
Hans Furler (5 June 1904 – 29 June 1975) was a German christian-democrat politician.
He was the president of the European Parliament from 1956 to 1958 and from 1960 to 1962.
Furler was born in Lahr in the Baden portion of the Black Forest. After graduating from Lahr grammar school, Furler studied law in Freiburg in Breisgau, Berlin and Heidelberg. In 1925 he passed his first state examination and in 1928 he earned his doctorate with a thesis on "The Police's emergency measures and the state's obligation to compensate".
In December 1928, he passed the assessor's examination and first worked as an advocate in Pforzheim. Since 1930 he also lectured in patent law.
In 1932, he habilitated at Technical University Karlsruhe. In 1940, the University appointed him extraordinary professor for industrial property and copyright.
From 1945 to 1948 he worked as the lawyer of a paper factory owned by his in-laws. In 1948 he opened a new law firm in Freiburg.
After 1950 he lectured at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg.
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Hector Bianciotti
Hector Bianciotti (French pronunciation: [ɛktɔʁ bjɑ̃ʃoti]; born 19 March 1930) is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.
Born Héctor Bianciotti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈektor βjanˈtʃoti]) in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province (Argentina), Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade its use with their son. Instead, they spoke Spanish to him. Bianciotti began his study of French in 1945. He arrived in France in 1961 and completed his French naturalization in 1981. In 1982, he stopped writing in any language but French, his favorite.
Hector Bianciotti was elected to the Académie française on 18 January 1996 to Seat 2, succeeding André Frossard.
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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmuːt ˈkoːl]; born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of the reunited Germany between 1990 and 1998) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. His 16-year tenure was the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck and oversaw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Kohl is widely regarded as one of the main architects of the German reunification and, together with French President François Mitterrand, the Maastricht Treaty, which contributed to the creation of the European Union.
Kohl and Mitterrand were the joint recipients of the Karlspreis in 1988. In 1998, Kohl was named Honorary Citizen of Europe by the European heads of state or government for his extraordinary work for European integration and cooperation, an honour previously only bestowed on Jean Monnet. In 1996, he won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.
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Hendrik Brugmans
Hendrik Brugmans (Amsterdam 13 December 1906 - Bruges 12 March 1997) was the son of historian Hajo Brugmans and Maria Keizer. He studied history of French literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Brugmans, who was one of the intellectual leaders of the European Movement and co-founder and first president of the Union of European Federalists, was rector of the College of Europe in Bruges between 1950 and 1972.
Brugmans was awarded the Karlspreis in 1951. In 1972 he retired from work, but he remained living in Bruges. Brugmans died on the age of 90 years in 1997. The year after his death the College of Europe honoured Brugmans by naming that academic year the Brugmans promotion and by creating an annual lecture named after him. One of the buildings of the new Verversdijk site of the College in Bruges is also named after him.
Since 2010, the students of the College of Europe have honoured him further by holding an annual football tournament named the Hendrik Brugmans Memorial Cup. The tournament includes both current and former students of the College of Europe. The winner of the 2012 edition is the F.C. Natolinsky team.
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Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger ( /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American writer, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders.
A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Various American policies of that era, including the bombing of Cambodia, remain controversial to many.
Kissinger is still a controversial figure today. He is the founder and chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.
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Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac ( /ʒɑːk ʃɨˈræk/; French pronunciation: [ʒɑk ʃiʁak]; born 29 November 1932) is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 (making him the only person to hold the position of Prime Minister twice under the Fifth Republic), and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, a term at Harvard University and the École nationale d'administration (ENA), Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics. He subsequently occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior, Prime Minister, Mayor of Paris, and finally President of the French Republic.
Chirac's internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatisation. He also argued for more socially responsible economic policies, and was elected in 1995 after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale). After less statist policy when he was Prime Minister (1986–1988), he changed his method. Then, his economic policies, based on dirigisme, state-directed ideals, stood in opposition to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom, which Chirac famously described as "Anglo-Saxon ultraliberalism". Chirac is the second-longest serving President of France (two full terms, the first of seven years and the second of five years), after François Mitterrand. As President, he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur.
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Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office (between January 1985 and December 1994). He is the father of Martine Aubry, the leader of the Socialist Party of France.
Born in Paris in a family originating from Corrèze, Delors first held in the 1940s-1960s a series of posts in French banking and state planning with the Banque de France. As a member of the French Confederation of Christian Workers, he participated in its secularization and the foundation of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour. In 1969, he became social affairs adviser to the Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a move which was presented as part of Chaban's outreach to the centre-ground and first attracted media attention to Delors personally .
In 1974, Delors joined the French Socialist Party, with other left-wing Christians. He was one of the rare members of the party to be openly religious, thus challenging its long-standing secular tradition. He served in the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981, becoming chairman of its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Under President François Mitterrand, Delors served as Economics and Finance Minister from 1981–1983, and Economics, Finance, and Budget Minister from 1983–1984. He advocated a pause in the social policies, a clear acceptance of the market economy, and an alignment with European social democracy. Critically, he held the line on France's membership of the European Monetary System (EMS), giving priority to monetary stability over left-wing spending priorities. Mitterrand flirted with the idea of naming him Prime Minister[citation needed], but never made this appointment.
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Javier Solana
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko xaˈβjer soˈlana ðe maðaˈɾjaɣa], born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González (1982–1995) and Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
Solana was born in Madrid, Spain. He comes from a well-known Spanish family, being the grand nephew of Spanish League of Nations disarmament chief, diplomat, writer and European integrationist Salvador de Madariaga (Javier's grandfather, Rogelio de Madariaga y Castro and Salvador de Madariaga were cousins). His father was a chemistry professor, Luis Solana San Martín, who died when Javier was nineteen. His mother, Obdulia Madariaga Pérez, died in 2005. Javier is the third of five children. His older brother Luis was once imprisoned for his political activities opposing the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, subsequently became a distinguished leader in the Spanish telecommunications industry and was one of the first socialist members of the Trilateral Commission.
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Jean Clair
Jean Clair is the nom de plume (pen name) of Gérard Régnier (born October 20, 1940 in Paris, France). He is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the French Academy since May, 2008. He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Among the milestones of his long and productive career is a comprehensive catalog of the works of Balthus. He was also the director of the Venice Biennale in 1995.
The son of farmers, Jean Clair was born in the sixth arrondissement of Paris. He was a student at two secondary schools, the lycée Jacques-Decour and the lycée Carnot, before embarking on a course of post-baccalaureat preparation, the so-called khâgne, at the prestigious lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Then he pursued a degree at the Sorbonne, where he was a student of the art historian, André Chastel, and the philosopher, Jean Grenier. Later, he secured a doctorate in art at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. He was, for a time, involved with the Union of Communist Students.
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Jean Duvieusart
Jean Pierre Duvieusart (10 April 1900 in Les Bons Villers - 10 October 1977 in Charleroi) was a Belgian Catholic politician of the PSC-CVP and minister of economy (1947–1950, 1952–1954). After two months as the 36th Prime Minister of Belgium (1950), he resigned after the abdication of King Leopold III. He was president of the European Parliament (1964–1965) and president of the Rassemblement wallon and the Front Démocratique des Bruxellois Francophones (FDF) (1968–1972).
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Jean Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ mɔnɛ]; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity and is regarded as one of its founding fathers. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist.
Monnet was born in Cognac, Charente, into a family of cognac merchants. At the age of sixteen, he abandoned his university-entrance examinations part way through and moved to London where he spent some years in the City of London with Mr. Chaplin, the agent of his father's company. Subsequently, he traveled widely – to Scandinavia, Russia, Egypt, Canada, and the United States – for the family business.
Monnet believed that the only path that would lead to an Allied victory lay in the merging of France and Britain's war efforts and he reflected on a concept that would co-ordinate war resources. In 1914, young Monnet was allowed to meet French Premier René Viviani on this issue. The French government agreed in principle upon his plans. During the first years of the war Monnet had not much success, promoting and pressing internationally for a better organization of the allied economic cooperation. However, finally, stronger combines like the Wheat Executive (end of 1916) and the Allied Maritime Transport Council (end of 1917) were set into work and had a big share[citation needed] in winning the war.
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Jean Racine
Jean Racine (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁaˈsin]), baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such 'examples of neoclassical perfection' as Phèdre,Andromaque, and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy,Esther, for the young.
Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic alexandrine; his verse is renowned for elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what Robert Lowell described as a 'diamond-edge', and the 'glory of its hard, electric rage'. The language effects of Racine's works are widely considered to be untranslatable, although many eminent poets have attempted to do so, including Lowell, Ted Hughes, and Derek Mahon into English, and Schiller into German. The latest to attempt to translate Racine's plays into English, and the first to render the plays in rhymed heroic couplets, earned a 2011 American Book Award for the poet Geoffrey Argent. Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both the plot and stage.
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Jens Otto Krag
Jens Otto Krag (Danish pronunciation: [jɛns ʌto ˈkʁɑːʊ̯ˀ]) (September 15, 1914 – June 22, 1978) was a Danish politician. He was Prime Minister from 1962 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 1972.
Krag was born in Randers, Denmark. He joined the Danish Social Democratic Party youth organization in 1930 and rose through the ranks of the party. In the 1930s he moved to Copenhagen and studied economics at the University of Copenhagen while remaining very active in the party.
During World War II, he was Danish supply director and advisor to the labor unions on economic matters. He was elected to Parliament (Folketinget) in 1947 and became Commerce Minister. He supported the strengthening of the Danish military and Danish membership of NATO in 1949.
In 1950 Krag resigned from Parliament partially due to a conflict with Vilhelm Buhl and H. C. Hansen and, in order to become more fluent in the English language and see more of the world, requested a position at the Danish embassy in the United States. He received the position, and was in America until 1953 when he was re-elected to parliament and became a minister without portfolio. He was minister of the new department of foreign economic affairs from 1953 until 1958 and Foreign Minister from 1958 until 1962.
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Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈbuzɛk] ( listen) (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 13 June 2004, and he was elected as President of the European Parliament on 14 July 2009, succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering. He is married to Ludgarda Buzek and is the father of Polish actress Agata Buzek.
Jerzy Karol Buzek was born to a Lutheran family on 3 July 1940 in what is now Smilovice in the Czech Republic. He was born into the prominent Buzek family, which participated in Polish politics in the Second Polish Republic during the interbellum. The family was part of the Polish community in Zaolzie. Buzek's father was an engineer. After the Second World War, his family moved to Chorzów. He is a Protestant.
In 1963 Jerzy Buzek graduated from the Mechanics-and-Energy Division of the Silesian University of Technology, specialising in chemical engineering. He became a scientist in the Chemical Engineering Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1997 he has been a professor of technical science. He is also an honorary doctor of the universities in Seoul and Dortmund.
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Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell Fontelles (La Pobla de Segur, 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician. He was nominated President of the European University Institute on 12 December 2008, and assumed this position in January 2010. Borrell was President of the European Parliament from 20 July 2004 until 16 January 2007. Elected for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he sits with the Party of European Socialists group, and is the leader of the Spanish delegation. As of January 2007 he is chair of the Committee on Development.
In the presidential vote, out of 700 MEPs he received an absolute majority with 388 votes at the first ballot. The other two candidates were the Polish Liberal Bronisław Geremek (208 votes) and the French communist Francis Wurtz (51 votes). As part of a deal with the conservative faction in the parliament, the EPP, he was succeeded as president of the parliament by the German conservative politician Hans-Gert Pöttering in the second part of this term, which is from 2007 to June 2009.
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Joseph Bech
Joseph Bech (17 February 1887 – 8 March 1975) was a Luxembourgian politician. He was the 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven years, from July 16, 1926 until November 5, 1937. He returned to the position after World War II, becoming the 17th Prime Minister, serving for another four years, from 29 December 1953 until 29 March 1958.
Bech studied Law at Freiburg and Paris, before qualifying as a lawyer in 1914. The same year, on 30 June, he was elected to the Luxembourgian Chamber of Deputies for the newly-founded Party of the Right, representing the Canton of Grevenmacher.
On 15 April 1921, Bech was appointed to Émile Reuter's cabinet, holding the positions of Director-General for the Interior and Director-General for Education. In 1925, Bech lost these positions, as the Party of the Right's was edged out of government by a coalition of all other parties, who formed the government under Pierre Prüm.
When Prüm's coalition collapsed, in 1926, Bech became Prime Minister, which he remained until 1937.
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Joseph Luns
Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns (August 28, 1911 – July 17, 2002) was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He was the longest-serving Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs from September 2, 1952 until July 6, 1971 and later became the 5th (and also longest-serving) Secretary General of NATO for 13 years from October 1, 1971 until June 25, 1984.
Joseph Luns was born in a Roman Catholic, francophile and artistic family. His mother’s family originated from Alsace-Lorraine and had moved to Belgium after the annexation of the region by the German Reich in 1871. His father Huib Luns was a versatile artist and a gifted educationalist, who ended his career as professor of architectural drawing at the Technical University of Delft. Luns got his secondary education in Amsterdam and Brussels. He opted to become a commissioned officer of the Dutch Royal Navy, but registered too late to be selected. Therefore, Luns decided to study law at Amsterdam University during the period 1932-1937. Like his father, Luns demonstrated a preference for conservative and authoritarian political parties and an interest in international politics. As a young student he positioned himself on the political right, favoring a strong authority for the state and being of the opinion that socialism, due to its idealistic ideology, had fostered the rising of fascism and nazism. Luns himself had been a silent member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), but left in 1936 before this party chose a strongly anti-semitic course.
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Klaus Hänsch
Klaus Hänsch (born 15 December 1938 in Sprottau) is a German Politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament representing the SPD, and sits with the Party of European Socialists group.
He has been Vice-chairman of the PES group since 1989, except during his service as President of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997.
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Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈhɛɐman ˈjoːzɛf ˈaːdənaʊɐ]; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman. As Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963, he led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that forged close relations with old enemies France and the United States. In his years in power Germany achieved prosperity, democracy, stability and respect. He was the first chancellor (head of government) of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, called West Germany), 1949–63. He was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a coalition of Catholics and Protestants that under his leadership became and has since remained the most dominant in Germany.
Adenauer, dubbed "Der Alte" ("the old one"), belied his age as the oldest elected leader in world history by his intense work habits and his uncanny political instinct. He displayed a strong dedication to a broad vision of democracy, capitalism, and anti-Communism. A shrewd politician, Adenauer was deeply committed to a Western-oriented foreign policy and restoring the position of West Germany on the world stage. He worked to restore the West German economy from the destruction in World War II to a central position in Europe, rebuilt its army and came to terms with France, helped make possible Western European unification, opposed rival East Germany, and made his nation a member of NATO and a firm ally of the United States.
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Leo Tindemans
Leonard Clemence “Leo” Tindemans (Dutch: [ˈleˑ(ɪ̯)oˑ ˈtɪndəmɑns] ( listen)) (born 16 April 1922) is a Belgian politician and the 43rd Prime Minister. He was born in Zwijndrecht.
Tindemans was affiliated with the CVP. This party is strong in the northern region of Flanders. Tindemans was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1961 and re-elected in 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1978. From 1965 to 1973 Tindemans also served as the mayor of Edegem.
In 1968 Tindemans became minister tasked with the relations between the communities (1968–1972) during which he prepared the first constitutional reform which saw Belgium start transforming into a federal state. In 1972 he became minister for agriculture (1972–1973). In 1973 he became deputy Prime Minister and minister for the budget (1973–1974). Tindemans served as Prime Minister of two Belgian governments, from 25 April 1974 to 20 October 1978. His first cabinet was a minority government formed by the Christian-democrats and liberals. When his first government fell in 1977, Tindemans won the snap general election which followed and formed his second cabinet with the Christian-democrats, socialists and Flemish nationalists. His second government (1977–1978) fell due to the controversy surrounding the Egmont pact.
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Louis Gillet
Louis Gillet (11 December 1876, Paris - 1 July 1943, Paris) was a French art historian and literary historian.
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Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli was born June 10, 1932 in Marseille. A historian and essayist, he was elected to the Académie française March 2, 1995 and became its Director. He is also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions, the sister academy devoted to high erudition. Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at the University of Paris-IV, La Sorbonne (1980), he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe (16th and 17th century) at the Collège de France. He held it from 1986 to 2002, until mandatory retirement, and is now an emeritus professor. He is acknowledged for the revival of Rhetoric as field of study of European culture, in a sharp move away from both structuralism and post-modernism. His pioneering work remains L'Age De l'Eloquence (1980). This massive work redrew the map of rhetorical scholarship across Europe. Fumaroli was also a member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. He is a recipient of the prestigious Balzan Prize, the "Nobel" of the humanities (in 2001). He is a foreign member of the British Academy and of the American Philosophical Society.
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Mario Scelba
Mario Scelba (September 5, 1901 – October 29, 1991) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1969 to 1971.
Scelba was born in Caltagirone, Sicily, the son of a poor sharecropper on land owned by the priest Don Luigi Sturzo, one of the founders of the Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI). He studied law and graduated at the University of Rome.
Scelba was Sturzo's godchild and protégé. Sturzo paid for his law studies in Rome and employed him as his private secretary. When the Fascists suppressed the PPI and forced Sturzo into exile (in Brooklyn, part of the time), Scelba remained in Rome as his agent. He wrote for the underground paper Il Popolo during World War II. Arrested by the Germans, he was released within three days as a worthless catch.
On the day of Rome's liberation by the Allied forces, he joined the new five-man national directorate of the Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC). The Christian Democrats started organising post-Fascist Italy in competition with, but also for a time in coalition with, the parties of the centre and left. In 1945, Scelba won a seat in the post-war Italian Constituent Assembly and entered Ferruccio Parri's anti-fascist government as Minister of Post and Telecommunications, a post he retained in the two successive governments of Alcide de Gasperi.
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Martin Schulz
Martin Schulz (born on 20 December 1955 in Hehlrath) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, since 2004 leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament (formerly called the Party of European Socialists group and since 2009 called the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Martin Schulz has a secondary level of education, he attended high school Heilig Geist Gymnasium in Würselen. He is the current President of the European Parliament.
After four years at primary school, from 1962 to 1966, Schulz attended the Heilig-Geist (Holy Spirit) grammar school in Broich (now Würselen), a district of the town of Broichweiden, for nine years, leaving without his Abitur (A-levels). From 1975 to 1976 he then trained to be a bookseller .
Over the next five years he worked for a number of publishing houses and bookshops, and in 1982 he opened his own bookshop in Würselen, which he ran until 1994.
Besides German, he speaks French and English and understands Dutch.
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Maurice Schumann
Maurice Schumann (10 April 1911 in Paris – 9 February 1998 in Paris) was a French politician, journalist, writer, and hero of the Second World War who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou in the 1960s and 1970s. Schumann was a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement.
The son of an Alsatian Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother, he studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and the Lycée Henri-IV. He converted to his mother's faith in 1937. He once said of France's fate when suffering the Allied bombing raids, ‘….and now we are reduced to the most atrocious fate: to be killed without killing back, to be killed by friends without being able to kill our enemies’.
During a meeting of the foreign ministers of the European Community in 1969, he stated France's conditions for Britain joining the community on its third application, i.e. questions of agricultural finance had to be settled first.
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Max Gallo
Max Gallo (born in Nice on 7 January 1932) is a French writer, historian and politician.
The son of Italian immigrants, Max Gallo's early career was in journalism. At the time he was a Communist (until 1956). In 1974, he joined the Socialist Party. On April 26, 2007, the French Academy recorded his candidacy for its Seat 24, formerly held by the late Jean-François Revel. He was elected to the French Academy on 31 May 2007.
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Michel Déon
Michel Déon (born August 4, 1919 in Paris) is a French writer.
With Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent and Roger Nimier, he belonged to the literary group of the Hussards. He is a novelist as well as a literary columnist.
Over the course of his admirable career, Déon has published over 50 works. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les Poneys Sauvages (The Wild Ponies). Déon’s 1973 masterpiece, Un Taxi Mauve garnered him international renown when it received the esteemed title of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages, delivering his unique voice across cultural and continental boundaries. He is considered one of the most innovative French writers of the 21st century.
For Michel Déon, immortality is not a dream – it is his reality. In 1978, Déon was granted the prestigious title that would commemorate a brilliant, forty-plus-year literary career. Dubbed “un immortel” (an immortal) by the Académie française, Déon is one of just forty members who are elected by their peers to serve for life, cementing his position as one of the forerunners of literature and all things related to the French Language.
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Michel Poniatowski
Michel Poniatowski (16 May 1922, Paris, France – 16 January 2002, Opio, France) was a Polish Prince and French politician. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He was a founder and honorary president of the Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF).
Poniatowski descended from the Polish Royal Family, which included one of Napoleon's Marshalls, Joseph Poniatowski. His parents were Prince Charles-Casimir Poniatowski and Princess Anne de Caraman-Chimay.
Poniatowski attended the ENA for finance and began his career in Morocco, later becoming a finance attaché in Washington, DC in 1956. In 1958, he became the chief of staff for Pierre Pflimlin, the last president of the Council of the Fourth Republic before Charles de Gaulle. From 1959 to 1962, he was the chief of staff for prime minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, then chargé de mission (1962–65), and finally director of Insurances at the Minister of Finance from 1963 to 1967.
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Michel Serres
Michel Serres (born September 1, 1930 in Agen, France) is a French philosopher and author.
The son of a barge man, Serres entered France's naval academy, the École Navale, in 1949 and the École Normale Supérieure ("rue d'Ulm") in 1952. He aggregated in 1955, having studied philosophy. He spent the next few years as a naval officer before finally receiving his doctorate in 1968, and began teaching in Paris.
As a child, Serres witnessed firsthand the violence and devastation of war. "I was six for my first dead bodies," he told Bruno Latour. These formative experiences led him to consistently eschew scholarship based upon models of war, suspicion, and criticism.
Over the next twenty years, Serres earned a reputation as a spell-binding lecturer and as the author of remarkably beautiful and enigmatic prose so reliant on the sonorities of French that it is considered practically untranslatable. He took as his subjects such diverse topics as the mythical Northwest Passage, the concept of the parasite, and the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. More generally Serres is interested in developing a philosophy of science which does not rely on a metalanguage in which a single account of science is privileged and regarded as accurate. To do this he relies on the concept of translation between accounts rather than settling on one as authoritative. For this reason Serres has relied on the figure of Hermes (in his earlier works) and angels (in more recent studies) as messengers who translate (or: map) back and forth between domains (i.e., between maps).
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Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced [ni.kɔ.la saʁ.kɔ.zi] ( listen), born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the 23rd President of the French Republic from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.
Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's (UMP) first two governments (from May 2002 to March 2004), then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government (March 2004 to May 2005) and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government (2005–2007).
Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France from 1983 to 2002. He was Minister of the Budget in the government of Édouard Balladur (RPR, predecessor of the UMP) during François Mitterrand's last term.
In foreign affairs, he promised a strengthening of the entente cordiale with the United Kingdom and closer cooperation with the United States. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis (followed by the recession and the debt crisis caused by it) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He also married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
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Nicole Fontaine
Nicole Fontaine (born 16 January 1942 in Grainville-Ymauville, Seine-Maritime) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party. Fontaine was the President of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2001, and was then replaced by Pat Cox, from the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, in accordance with an agreement between the two groups at the start of the term.
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Octave Feuillet
Octave Feuillet (August 11, 1821–December 29, 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist.
Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father Jacques Feuillet was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. Feuillet inherited some of his father's nervous excitability, though not to the same degree. He was sent to Lycée Louis-le Grand, in Paris, where he achieved high distinction, and was destined for the diplomatic service.
In 1840 he told his father that he planned to be a writer instead, and the elder Feuillet disowned his son. Octave Feuillet returned to Paris and lived as best he could by becoming a journalist. In company with Paul Bocage he wrote the plays Echec et mat, Palma ou la nuit de Vendredi saint, and La Vieillesse de Richelieu. His father forgave him three years later and granted him an allowance. Feuillet enjoyed a comfortable existence in Paris and published his first novels.
The health of the elder M. Feuillet declined further, and he summoned his son to leave Paris and attend to him at Saint-Lô. This was a great sacrifice, but Octave Feuillet obeyed. In 1851, he married his cousin Valérie Feuillet (née Dubois), who was also a writer. During his "exile" in Saint-Lô (rendered irksome by his father's mania for solitude and tyrannical temper), Feuillet produced some of his best work. His first definite success came in 1852, when he published the novel Bellah and produced the comedy La Crise. Both were reprinted from the Revue des deux mondes, where many of his later novels also appeared. Other acclaimed works are La Petite Comtesse (1857), Dalila (1857), and the popular Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre (1858).
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Pat Cox
Pat Cox (born 28 November 1952) is an Irish politician and former television current affairs presenter. He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and served as a member of the European Parliament from 1989–2004.
Before this Cox was a journalist and presenter with RTÉ's Today Tonight and then a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South–Central. He is now the President of the European Movement International.
Born in Dublin but raised in Limerick, Cox was educated at Ardscoil Rís in Limerick, the University of Limerick and Trinity College, Dublin. Cox is married to Cathy, and lived at Ashboro, Shanakiel in the Cork northside suburb of Sunday's Well for 16 years.
Cox first came to prominence as a journalist, then a presenter, with RTÉ's Today Tonight, a four nights a week current affairs programme which dominated the Irish television schedules in the 1980s. He stood as a Fianna Fáil candidate at the 1979 local elections. Cox left the programme to become a political candidate. He was elected an MEP in 1989 for the constituency of Munster, representing the Progressive Democrats (PDs). At the 1992 general election he was also elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South–Central.
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Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.
He was born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère (Aisne), into a family of farmers and government officials. His father, Louis-Prosper, dealt in mortgages and bank transactions. His mother, the former Louise Cerveaux, came from a Champagne family of Catholic farmers and priests. Having spent his first years in Champagne, he studied at the lycée of Bar-le-Duc and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in 1881, when his parents moved to Paris. An unbeliever in his teenage years, he experienced a sudden conversion at the age of eighteen on Christmas Day 1886 while listening to a choir sing Vespers in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris: "In an instant, my heart was touched, and I believed." He would remain a strong Catholic for the rest of his life. He studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po).
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Philippe Beaussant
Philippe Beaussant (born 6 May 1930) is a French musicologist and novelist, an expert on French baroque music, on which he has published widely. He is the founder of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, of which he was the artistic adviser of 1987 to 1996. He has also been a producer of musical programs for Radio France since 1974. His biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lully ou le musicien du soleil (Éditions Gallimard, 1992), was the basis of the film Le Roi Danse (2000).
Beaussant won the 1993 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Héloïse.
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Julien Viaud; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French novelist and naval officer.
Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At the age of seventeen he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906. In January 1910 he went on the reserve list. He was in the habit of claiming that he never read books, saying to the Académie française on the day of his introduction (7 April 1892), "Loti ne sait pas lire" ("Loti doesn't know how to read"), but testimony from friends proves otherwise, as does his library, much of which is preserved in his house in Rochefort. In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences at Istanbul. The result was the anonymously published Aziyadé (1879), part romance, part autobiography, like the work of his admirer, Marcel Proust, after him.
He proceeded to the South Seas as part of his naval training, and several years after leaving Tahiti published the Polynesian idyll originally named Rarahu (1880), which was reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, the first book to introduce him to the wider public. His narrator explains that the name Loti was bestowed on him by the natives, after a red flower. The book inspired the 1883 opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes.
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Pierre Messmer
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ mɛsmɛʁ]; 20 March 1916 – 29 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under Louis XV – and then as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1972 to 1974. A member of the French Foreign Legion, he was considered as one of the historical Gaullists, and died aged 91 in the military hospital of the Val-de-Grâce. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1999.
Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer was born in Vincennes in 1916. He graduated in 1936 in the language school Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and the following year at the Ecole nationale de la France d'outre-mer (National School of Oversea France). He then became a senior civil servant in the colonial administration and became a Doctor of Laws in 1939. In the outbreaks of World War II, he was sous-lieutenant of the 12th regiment of Senegalese tirailleurs, and refused France's capitulation after the defeat. He then hijacked in Marseille an Italian cargo, along with Jean Simon, and sailed first to Gibraltar, then London and engaged himself in the Free French Forces as a member of the 13th Brigade of the French Foreign Legion. Messmer then participated to the campaign in Eritrea, in Syria, in Libya, participating to the Battle of Bir Hakeim, and in the Tunisia campaign. He also fought at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. He joined in London General Koenig's military staff and participated to the landings in Normandy in August 1944 and the Liberation of Paris.
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Pierre Nora
Pierre Nora (born November 17, 1931 in Paris) is a French historian of Jewish descent. Elected to the French Academy on June 7, 2001, he is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of Simon Nora, French financier.
Pierre Nora occupies a particular position that he himself qualifies as on "the side" of the French historical sphere.
In the 1950s he took hypokhâgne and khâgne at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand but — contrary to a persistent legend — he was not accepted at the École Normale Supérieure. Thereafter he obtained a bachelier ès lettres (equivalent to the Bachelor of Arts) degree in philosophy. Accepted to the Agrégation d'histoire (a French recruitment contest for teachers at secondary schools) in 1958, he was a teacher at the Lycée Lamoricière d'Oran in Algeria until 1960. He wrote an essay about it, published under the title Les Français d'Algérie (The French of Algeria) (1961).
From 1961 to 1963 he was a resident at the Thiers Foundation. From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Science). Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School of higher studies in social sciences).
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Pierre Pflimlin
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ flimlɛ̃]; 5 February 1907 – 27 June 2000) was a French Christian democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
Pfilimlin was born in Roubaix in the département Nord.
A lawyer and a member of the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), he was elected deputy of département Bas Rhin in 1945. With his personal roots in Alsace, Pflimlin numbered among his MRP party colleagues the Luxembourg-born Robert Schuman; for both, relations with Germany played an important role in their political thinking.
He held some governmental offices during the Fourth Republic, notably as Minister of Agriculture (1947–1949 and 1950–1951) and as Minister of Economy and Finance (1955–1956 and 1957–1958).
In 13 May 1958, the French National Assembly approved his nomination as Prime Minister. But the same day, riots took place in Algiers. The French generals in Algeria expected him to search for a negotiated solution with the Algerian nationalists and refused to recognize his cabinet. The crisis brought Charles de Gaulle to the head of the cabinet on 1 June.
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Pierre Rosenberg
Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian and essayist.
Born in Paris, he graduated at the École du Louvre. He joined the Musée du Louvre in 1962 as an assistant, then became curator and later director of the museum. Rosenberg was elected to the Académie française on 7 December 1995.
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Piet Dankert
Piet Dankert (8 January 1934 in Stiens – 21 June 2003 in Perpignan) was a Dutch politician, a member of the Dutch Labour Party.
He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1968. There he was spokesman for foreign affairs and defence. In the late 1970s he moved to the European Parliament, and was President of the European Parliament from 19 January 1982 to 24 July 1984.
In the third government of Ruud Lubbers (1989–1994) he was Secretary of State for European matters. He subsequently served a second period in the European Parliament, where he devoted himself to working for the accession of Turkey to the European Union.
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Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛf vɔjˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920, Wadowice, Republic of Poland – 2 April 2005, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523.
John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. He was instrumental in ending communism in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion. Though criticised by progressives for upholding the Church's teachings against artificial contraception and the ordination of women, and by traditionalists for his support of the Church's Second Vatican Council and its reform, he was also widely praised for his firm, orthodox Catholic stances.
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Raymond Barre
Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (French pronunciation: [ʁɛmɔ̃ baʁ]; 12 April 1924 – 25 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three Presidents (Rey, Malfatti and Mansholt) and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981. As a candidate for the presidency in 1988, he came in third and was eliminated in the first round. He was born in Saint-Denis, in the French island of Réunion, then still a colony (it became an overseas department in 1946).
After his education, Raymond Barre was professor of economics at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
From 1959 to 1962, he was director of Jean-Marcel Jeanneney's staff, in the ministry of Industry and Trade. Then, in 1967, President Charles de Gaulle chose him as vice-president of the European Commission for Economic & Financial Affairs. He stayed in Brussels until January 1973, serving in the Rey, Malfatti and Mansholt Commissions. Having come back to France, he joined the cabinet as minister of the External Trade in January 1976.
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René de Obaldia
René de Obaldia (b. October 22, 1918 in Hong Kong) is a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française June 24, 1999.
He grew up in Paris, studying at the Lycée Condorcet before being mobilised for the army in 1940. Taken prisoner, he was sent to Stalag VIII C (in Sagan). He was then sent to the lighter making area in Kransdyhernfurt on the 26th of June 1940, then to a commando at Auras-sur-Oder to clear a forest. Even in the worst moments of this ordeal, he kept his special sense of humour. He was repatriated in 1944.
He began his career in 1960, thanks to Jacques Vilar, who presented his first major play, "Génousie," at the Théâtre national populaire. This was followed by Le Satyre de la Villette, with André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a comedy which ranked him with his literary forebears Jacques Audiberti, Ionesco, Beckett. He has been, for more than fifty years, one of the most-produced French playwrights on the planet, as well as the most internationally renowned (having been translated into 28 languages).
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René Girard
René Girard (born December 25, 1923, Avignon, France) is a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy. He is the author of several books (see below), in which he developed the following ideas:
René Girard's writings cover many areas. Although the reception of his work is different in each of these areas, there is a growing body of secondary literature that uses his hypotheses and ideas in the areas of literary criticism, critical theory, anthropology, theology, psychology, mythology, sociology, economics, cultural studies, and philosophy.
René Noël Théophile Girard was born in Avignon on December 25, 1923. Between 1943 and 1947, he studied medieval history at the École des Chartes, Paris. The subject of his thesis was "Private life in Avignon in the second half of the fifteenth century" ("La vie privée à Avignon dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle").
In 1947, Girard went to Indiana University on a one-year fellowship, but eventually pursued most of his career in the United States. The subject of his PhD at Indiana University was "American Opinion of France, 1940-1943". Although his research was in history, he was also assigned to teach French literature, the field in which he would first make his reputation as a literary critic by publishing influential essays on such authors as Albert Camus and Marcel Proust. He received his PhD in 1950 and stayed at Indiana University until 1953. He occupied positions at Duke University and Bryn Mawr College from 1953 to 1957, after which he moved to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, where he became a full professor in 1961. In that year, he also published his first book: Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (Deceit, Desire and the Novel, 1966).
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Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʃuman]; 29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building post-war European and trans-Atlantic institutions and is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.
Schuman was a man of several cultures. His father, Jean-Pierre Schuman (1837–1900), was born in Évrange, Lorraine, just across the border with Luxembourg. Jean-Pierre Schuman was a French citizen, but after Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the German Empire in 1871, he became a German citizen. Robert's mother, Eugénie Duren (1864–1911), a Luxembourger born in Bettembourg, became a German citizen by marriage in 1884.
Schuman was born in 1886 in Clausen, a suburb of Luxembourg as a German by virtue of the principle of jus sanguinis. His mother tongue was Luxembourgish but he was taught French and Standard German at school. Since he learned French only in school (which is mandatory in Luxembourg), he spoke it with a distinct accent.
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Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (born 5 April 1934) is a German politician as a member of the Christian Democratic Union, (CDU) and served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. He was the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany to be elected to office after the reunification of Germany that took place in 1990. Prior to office he served as a judge of the constitutional court.
Roman Herzog was born in Landshut, Bavaria in 1934 to a Protestant family.
He studied law in Munich and took his first juristic state exam in 1957. In 1958, he gained the title Doctor juris and worked as an assistant at the University of Munich until 1964, where he also passed his second juristic state exam. For his paper Die Wesensmerkmale der Staatsorganisation in rechtlicher und entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Sicht ("Characteristics of State Organization from a Juristic and Developmental-Historical Viewpoint"), in 1964 he was awarded the title of professor, a title of academic distinction in Germany, and taught at the University of Munich until 1966. From 1966 he taught state law and political science as a full professor at the Free University of Berlin (FUB). In 1969, he accepted a chair of public law at the German University of Administrative Sciences and was university president from 1971 to 1972.
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Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician.
The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government. As Home Secretary from 1965–1967, he sought to build what he described as "a civilized society", with measures such as the effective abolition in Britain of capital punishment and theatre censorship, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, relaxing of divorce law, suspension of birching and the legalisation of abortion. As Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1967–1970, he pursued a tight fiscal policy later praised by Margaret Thatcher. In 1970, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, but resigned in 1972 because he supported entry to the Common Market, while the party opposed it.
When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party,[citation needed] he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office. In 1981, dismayed with the Labour Party's continuing leftward drift, he was one of the "Gang of Four" - Labour moderates who formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In 1982 he won a famous by-election in a Conservative seat and returned to parliament; but after disappointment with the performance of the SDP in the 1983 election he resigned as SDP leader.
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Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj]; born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family, she is the Honorary President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
She was elected to the Académie française in November 2008.
Veil was born Simone Annie Liline Jacob, the daughter of a Jewish architect in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. In March 1944, Veil's family was deported, Simone, her mother and one sister to Auschwitz-Birkenau then Bergen-Belsen where her mother died shortly before the camp's 15 April 1945 liberation. Veil's father and brother also died; they are last known to have been sent on a transport to Lithuania. Veil's other sister who had been arrested as a member of the Resistance survived her imprisonment in Ravensbrück. Veil returned to speak at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2005 for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camps.
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj]; 3 February 1909 in Paris, France – 24 August 1943 in Ashford, Kent, England) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.
Weil's whole life was marked by an exceptional compassion for the suffering of others; at the age of five, she refused to eat sugar after she heard that soldiers fighting WWI had to go without. She died from malnutrition during WWII after refusing to eat more than the minimal rations she believed were available to soldiers at the time. After completing her education Weil became a professor. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s - she took several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism. Weil was politically active from early childhood: her activism included helping unions to organise and work together collaboratively, involvement with Marxists and Anarchists, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and spending more than a year working as a labourer so she could better understand the working class. She sometimes gave away almost her entire income and lived in the most frugal of circumstances, though she did occasionally allow herself foreign holidays.
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party used the phrases "New Labour" and "New Socialism" to define its policy, and moved away from its support of state socialism since the 1960s and created a new version of the ethical socialism that was last pursued by Clement Attlee. Critics of Blair claim that "New Labour" did not adhere to socialism as claimed, and that it effectively advocated capitalism. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Victor Leemans
Victor Leemans (21 July 1901 - 3 March 1971) was a Belgian (Flemish) sociologist, politician and a prominent ideologist of the radical Flemish movement in the 1930s. He was a member of the militant organisation Verdinaso, and is seen by some as the main Flemish exponent of the historical phenomenon known as the Conservative Revolution.
Leemans was born at Stekene. He obtained his doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris, and lectured at the Catholic University of Leuven. During the German occupation he was Secretary-General of Economical Affairs, and as such was persecuted after the war. He was absolved in 1947, and quite unhinderedly pursued a political career in the Christian democratic Christelijke Volkspartij (CVP). He was appointed provincial senator for Antwerp in 1949, and served as President of the European Parliament from 1965 to 1966. He died at Leuven.
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːt͡slaf ˈɦavɛl] ( listen); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.
Havel was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote more than 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally.
Havel was voted 4th in Prospect magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He was the founder of the VIZE 97 Foundation and the principal organizer of the Forum 2000 annual global conference.
Havel was one of the signatories of the Charter 77 manifesto, a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and a council member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Havel received many recognitions, including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award.
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Walter Behrendt
Walter Behrendt (September 18, 1914 in Dortmund - July 23, 1997) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and president of the European parliament (1971-1973).
Behrendt was trained as a merchant and accountant. He took part in World War II and afterwards worked as clerk in an industrial firm. In 1954 he became a contributor to the company journal of Hoesch-Westfalenhütte AG in Dortmund. Behrendt joined SPD in 1932 being a member of the Socialist Working Youth (Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend). From 1945-1947 he was chairman of the regional Socialist Youth for Dortmund, Lünen and Castrop-Rauxel. He was chairman of the SPD branch in Dortmund-Altenderne in 1951/52 and in Dortmund from 1952 to 1955.
From 1952 until his death Behrendt was municipal councillor in Dortmund. In 1957 he was elected member of the Bundestag (electoral constituency: Dortmund III) and remained in office until 1976. Between 1961 and 1967 he was assistant chairman of the Labour Committee. Additionally, Behrendt was member of the European Parliament from 1967 to 1977 where he served as vice-president (1969-71, 1973-77) and president (1971-73).
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Walter Hallstein
Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a German politician and professor.
He was one of the key figures of European integration after World War II, becoming the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community, serving from 1958 to 1967. He famously defined his position as "a kind of Prime Minister of Europe". His name is associated with the Hallstein Doctrine, a key doctrine in West German foreign policy during the Cold War.
Hallstein was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of a government building officer. He studied law in Bonn, Munich and Berlin and graduated in 1925 with a doctoral dissertation on the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles with regard to insurance policies. From 1926 he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Foreign Private and International Private Law in Berlin. In 1930, at the age of 28, he was appointed professor for private law and company law at the University of Rostock (Rostock), where he remained until 1941. During Nazism Hallstein was a member of National Socialist People's Welfare and national socialist professional associations for lawyers and judges. In 1941 he was appointed professor of civil law at the University of Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main). He was also, at the same time, director of the university's Institute for Comparative Law and Commercial Law.
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Walter Scheel
Walter Scheel (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈʃeːl]; born 8 July 1919) is a German politician (FDP). He served as Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development from 1961 to 1966, Foreign Minister of Germany and Vice Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, acting Chancellor of Germany from 7 May to 16 May 1974 (following the resignation of Willy Brandt after the Guillaume Affair), and finally as President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1979.
He is currently the oldest former German president alive and the longest-lived German head of state.
Scheel was born in Solingen (now in North Rhine-Westphalia). During World War II, he served in the Luftwaffe, the last years of the war as a radar operator on a Bf 110 night fighter.
When his Free Democratic Party reentered government in a coalition with Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union in 1961, Scheel was appointed federal minister of economic cooperation and development. He continued in that office under Chancellor Ludwig Erhard but brought about the downfall of the latter in late 1966 of which he had become the leader, out of the coalition government. A Christian Democratic / Social Democratic Grand Coalition followed. During this time, in 1968, Scheel took over the party presidency from right wing liberal Erich Mende.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jenny Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
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Wolfgang Schäuble
Wolfgang Schäuble [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈʃɔʏblə] (born 18 September 1942) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel.
From 1984 to 1991 he was a member of Helmut Kohl's cabinet, first as Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany and Chief of the Chancellery and then as Federal Minister of the Interior. Between 1991 and 2000, he was chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the parliament, and from 1998 to 2000 also CDU party chairman. He served again as Federal Minister of the Interior in the First Cabinet Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
Schäuble was born in Freiburg im Breisgau as the son of a tax finance advisor. After completing his Abitur in 1961, Schäuble studied law and economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Hamburg, which he completed in 1966 and 1970 by passing the First and Second State Examinations respectively, becoming a fully qualified lawyer.
In 1971 Schäuble obtained his doctorate in law, with a dissertation called "The public accountant's professional legal situation within accountancy firms".
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Yves Pouliquen
Yves Pouliquen was born 17 February 1931 in Mortain, France. A doctor by profession, his work has been dedicated to the pathology of the cornea.
In 1992 he was made a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and on 29 November 2001 he was elected to the Académie française. Since 2006 he is the president of the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
In 2000, Pouliquen was featured in the documentary film Vies. He is currently a member of the International Review Board of the Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology.
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Érik Orsenna
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult (born 22 March 1947 in Paris), a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member (currently on leave) of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie française on 28 May 1998. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
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Simone Veil et son projet de loi
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Simone Veil Quotes
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What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Simone Veil? A French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d\'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
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What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Simone Veil? A French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d\'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
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Film simone veil com
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Simone Veil a manifesté contre le mariage homo - 14/01
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Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la manifestation contre le mariage homosexuel, a pu constater BFMTV. Une prise de position assez inattendue de la part de cette figure du féminisme, connue notamment pour avoir défendu ardemment la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en 1975 face, notamment, à l'oppostion de l'Eglise catholique.
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Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la manifestation contre le mariage homosexuel, a pu constater BFMTV. Une prise de position assez inattendue de la part de cette figure du féminisme, connue notamment pour avoir défendu ardemment la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en 1975 face, notamment, à l'oppostion de l'Eglise catholique.
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Simone Veil - Cité de la réussite 2010 - "Tout réinventer et ne rien oublier" 1/3
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Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinventer". Débat dirigé par Marie Drucker. www.citedelareussite.com
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Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinventer". Débat dirigé par Marie Drucker. www.citedelareussite.com
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Archive INA - Simone Veil / FN : ""Vous ne me faites pas peur..." (1979)
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Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, des membres du Front National sont venus perturber la réunion de Simone VEIL qui déclare depuis la tribune "Vous ne me faites pas peur, j'ai survécu a pire que vous, vous êtes des SS aux petits pieds".PM Jean Marie LE PEN souriant-divers plans de la bagarre qui éclate (quelques policiers interviennent-grenades lacrymo) sortie discrète de madame VEIL. www.ina.fr
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Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, des membres du Front National sont venus perturber la réunion de Simone VEIL qui déclare depuis la tribune "Vous ne me faites pas peur, j'ai survécu a pire que vous, vous êtes des SS aux petits pieds".PM Jean Marie LE PEN souriant-divers plans de la bagarre qui éclate (quelques policiers interviennent-grenades lacrymo) sortie discrète de madame VEIL. www.ina.fr
- published: 02 May 2012
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Nouvel IRM à l'hôpital Simone Veil (Eaubonne)
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Sites webs/blogs, copiez cette vidéo avec le bouton "Intégrer" ! Si vous voulez télécharger, allez sur myreplay.tv . L'hôpital Simone Veil d'Eaubonne a organisé des journées portes ouvertes pour faire découvrir le nouveau service d'imagerie. Plus d'infos sur wizdeo.com . Pour exploitation TV, droits réservés, nous contacter sur wizdeo.com
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Sites webs/blogs, copiez cette vidéo avec le bouton "Intégrer" ! Si vous voulez télécharger, allez sur myreplay.tv . L'hôpital Simone Veil d'Eaubonne a organisé des journées portes ouvertes pour faire découvrir le nouveau service d'imagerie. Plus d'infos sur wizdeo.com . Pour exploitation TV, droits réservés, nous contacter sur wizdeo.com
- published: 26 Nov 2012
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Mariage Gay: BHL & Badinter vs Bernheim & Simone Veil
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Mariage Gay: BHL vs Bernheim et Simone Veil
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Mariage Gay: BHL vs Bernheim et Simone Veil
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Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas nommer de femmes au Conseil constitutionnel est une erreur"
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Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas nommer de femmes au Conseil constitutionnel est une erreur"
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Hommage de Jl Borloo à Simone Veil
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Simone Veil: Une vie de témoin
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Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette conférence sur www.akadem.org
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Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette conférence sur www.akadem.org
- published: 28 Sep 2010
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Flash mobe au college simone veil
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EU parliament honours Simone Veil and Solidarity
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Hundreds of people turned out to celebrate the inauguration of the European Parliament's main promenade in Brussels. The walkway is being dedicated to both the parliament's first woman president Simone Veil and to the Solidarity trade union which helped over throw communism and re-unite the continent.... www.euronews.net
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Hundreds of people turned out to celebrate the inauguration of the European Parliament's main promenade in Brussels. The walkway is being dedicated to both the parliament's first woman president Simone Veil and to the Solidarity trade union which helped over throw communism and re-unite the continent.... www.euronews.net
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simone veil 1ere marvi
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Retour des P2 du WE d'intégration (1) PIFO/Simone Veil Cours embryo 7 de TORRE A 05/10/2012
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- Duration: 6:18
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
retour en plein cours des P2 de leur week end d'intégration tout exités avec une voix grorillesque et une magnifique queue humaine
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retour en plein cours des P2 de leur week end d'intégration tout exités avec une voix grorillesque et une magnifique queue humaine
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 247
- author: Naminoful
Simone Veil, destin courage (1/4)
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- Duration: 0:35
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heureuse avec un père exigeant intellectuellement et une mère qu'elle adore. Entre scoutisme et études, la vie s'écoule avec bonheur à Nice. Mais l'ombre de la guerre plane. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
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Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heureuse avec un père exigeant intellectuellement et une mère qu'elle adore. Entre scoutisme et études, la vie s'écoule avec bonheur à Nice. Mais l'ombre de la guerre plane. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
- published: 05 Oct 2007
- views: 14072
- author: vodeotv
BFMTV - Non-Stop - Edition de 17h
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- Duration: 16:29
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Edition du Non-Stop de BFMTV du 14 Janvier 2013 de 16:59 à 17:15 SOMMAIRE : 00:00 Pub. 00:30 Fin de la pub, les titres à 17h. 01:55 Générique Non-Stop. 02:05 Le Journal : Page spéciale Mali. 06:05 Intervention de Peter Ricketts, Ambassadeur. 11:00 Suite du journal : Page spéciale Mali. 11:30 Affaire Karachi (brève). 11:50 Simone Veil à la manif' pour tous (brève). 12:30 Mariage Gay : Déclaration de Bruno Le Roux. 13:32 Météo : neige et froid en France. 14:55 Panne géante en IDF. 16:29 Fin de l'enregistrement
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Edition du Non-Stop de BFMTV du 14 Janvier 2013 de 16:59 à 17:15 SOMMAIRE : 00:00 Pub. 00:30 Fin de la pub, les titres à 17h. 01:55 Générique Non-Stop. 02:05 Le Journal : Page spéciale Mali. 06:05 Intervention de Peter Ricketts, Ambassadeur. 11:00 Suite du journal : Page spéciale Mali. 11:30 Affaire Karachi (brève). 11:50 Simone Veil à la manif' pour tous (brève). 12:30 Mariage Gay : Déclaration de Bruno Le Roux. 13:32 Météo : neige et froid en France. 14:55 Panne géante en IDF. 16:29 Fin de l'enregistrement
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 312
- author: LiveTelevisionYouTub
Retour des P2 du WE d'intégration (2) PIFO/Simone Veil Cours embryo 7 de TORRE A 05/10/2012
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- Duration: 0:43
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
retour en plein cours des P2 de leur week end d'intégration tout exités avec une voix grorillesque et une magnifique queue humaine
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retour en plein cours des P2 de leur week end d'intégration tout exités avec une voix grorillesque et une magnifique queue humaine
- published: 10 Oct 2012
- views: 58
- author: Naminoful
![MERCI SIMONE - Les Dieselles [Teaser]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130217152601im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/VkWSkPeAvUI/default.jpg "MERCI SIMONE - Les Dieselles [Teaser]")
MERCI SIMONE - Les Dieselles [Teaser]
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- Duration: 3:01
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Les Dieselles sont des héroïnes. Pas tout à fait comme elles l'envisageaient au début de leur vie. Mais quand même. D'abord ce sont des femmes et rien que ça, c'est déjà balèze. De Marie Curie à Simone Veil en passant par Charles de Gaulle II, leurs itinéraires pas vraiment linéaires croisent ceux de personnages, eux, vraiment légendaires.
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Les Dieselles sont des héroïnes. Pas tout à fait comme elles l'envisageaient au début de leur vie. Mais quand même. D'abord ce sont des femmes et rien que ça, c'est déjà balèze. De Marie Curie à Simone Veil en passant par Charles de Gaulle II, leurs itinéraires pas vraiment linéaires croisent ceux de personnages, eux, vraiment légendaires.
- published: 02 Jan 2013
- views: 387
- author: LaDieselleCie
Simone Veil - Cité de la réussite 2010 - "Tout réinventer et ne rien oublier" 2/3
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- Duration: 21:53
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
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Taubira / Veil même combat ?
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- Duration: 2:05
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
Christiane Taubira a enflammé le web après son discours sur le mariage pour tous et l'adoption devant les députés. Retrouvez les chroniques de Guy Birenbaum sur www.europe1.fr
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Christiane Taubira a enflammé le web après son discours sur le mariage pour tous et l'adoption devant les députés. Retrouvez les chroniques de Guy Birenbaum sur www.europe1.fr
- published: 30 Jan 2013
- views: 108
- author: Europe1
Simone Veil - Una vida- Editorial Capin
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- Duration: 0:12
- Updated: 13 Nov 2012
Debido a su interés por el debate público y por la cultura, Hugo Sigman fundó Capital Intelectual, una editorial que se propone enriquecer el debate nacional y regional. Edita en promedio unos 60 títulos anuales de diversos géneros, divididos en colecciones, y exporta sus libros a 15 países. www.editorialcapin.com.ar
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Debido a su interés por el debate público y por la cultura, Hugo Sigman fundó Capital Intelectual, una editorial que se propone enriquecer el debate nacional y regional. Edita en promedio unos 60 títulos anuales de diversos géneros, divididos en colecciones, y exporta sus libros a 15 países. www.editorialcapin.com.ar
- published: 29 Oct 2012
- views: 5
- author: Hugo Sigman
3 Margherita PieracciHarwell racconta Simone Veil e Vasilij Grossman
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- Duration: 32:29
- Updated: 05 May 2012
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SIMONE WEIL STEPHEN PLANT
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- Duration: 24:59
- Updated: 16 Jan 2013
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This is an extract from one of our timeline projects. Please visit our timeline website for more information and to access our online editions of our timelines.www.stjt.org.uk
- published: 22 Apr 2012
- views: 3827
- author: StJohnsNottingham
Simone Weil Her Life and Philosophy
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- Duration: 58:37
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. on the life and works of Simone Weil. Part of the Modern Philosophers lecture series For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go to www.facebook.com
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A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. on the life and works of Simone Weil. Part of the Modern Philosophers lecture series For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go to www.facebook.com
- published: 04 Sep 2012
- views: 1320
- author: Wes Cecil
Simone Veil et son projet de loi
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- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 13 Feb 2013
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An Encounter with Simone Weil: trailer (documentary feature)
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
For more info visit: linestreet.net What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family----her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others?
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For more info visit: linestreet.net What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family----her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others?
- published: 30 Nov 2010
- views: 22856
- author: SimoneWeilMovie
"Stretched Out With Christ": Martin Luther and Simone Weil o
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- Duration: 23:57
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
"'Stretched Out With Christ': Martin Luther and Simone Weil on Suffering and Love" presented by Krista Duttenhaver (University of Notre Dame) on the topic of "Living in the Midst of Horrors." - "The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther, an International Conference," Department of Religion, Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, February 22, 2008. www.religion.northwestern.edu
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"'Stretched Out With Christ': Martin Luther and Simone Weil on Suffering and Love" presented by Krista Duttenhaver (University of Notre Dame) on the topic of "Living in the Midst of Horrors." - "The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther, an International Conference," Department of Religion, Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, February 22, 2008. www.religion.northwestern.edu
- published: 06 Jun 2008
- views: 2947
- author: NorthwesternU
Intervention de Simon Veil
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- Duration: 5:54
- Updated: 15 May 2011
Conférence de lancement du projet Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.
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Conférence de lancement du projet Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 1749
- author: rdescoings
Sarasota Film Festival - An Encounter with Simone Weil
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- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
An interview with Julia Haslett at the Sarasota Film Festival on the US premier of her film An Encounter with Simone Weil. Julia discusses the film making process used for this historical documentary. This interview was filmed with 35mm equipment, the same used by many of the indie filmmakers featured at the SFF. See more details at www.sarasotaupclose.com Video and production by Studio F Productions, Inc.
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An interview with Julia Haslett at the Sarasota Film Festival on the US premier of her film An Encounter with Simone Weil. Julia discusses the film making process used for this historical documentary. This interview was filmed with 35mm equipment, the same used by many of the indie filmmakers featured at the SFF. See more details at www.sarasotaupclose.com Video and production by Studio F Productions, Inc.
- published: 11 Apr 2011
- views: 1411
- author: SarasotaUpClose
Simone Veil Quotes
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 21 Mar 2012
What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Simone Veil? A French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d\'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
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What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Simone Veil? A French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d\'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
- published: 16 Mar 2012
- views: 68
- author: quotetank
Simone Veil - Cité de la réussite 2010 - "Tout réinventer et ne rien oublier" 1/3
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- Duration: 19:30
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinventer". Débat dirigé par Marie Drucker. www.citedelareussite.com
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Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinventer". Débat dirigé par Marie Drucker. www.citedelareussite.com
- published: 30 Mar 2012
- views: 646
- author: CitedelareussiteTV
Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de ...
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- Duration: 9:10
- Updated: 13 Jul 2012
Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas nommer de femmes au Conseil constitutionnel est une erreur"
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Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas nommer de femmes au Conseil constitutionnel est une erreur"
- published: 09 Mar 2010
- views: 850
- author: radiortl
Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet
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- Duration: 5:02
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Dalla lettera di Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet del 13 aprile 1942 Un piccolo omaggio per il centenario della nascita di Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) "L'attenzione è la forma più rara e più pura della generosità"
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Dalla lettera di Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet del 13 aprile 1942 Un piccolo omaggio per il centenario della nascita di Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) "L'attenzione è la forma più rara e più pura della generosità"
- published: 11 Mar 2009
- views: 17659
- author: Malalma76
Archive INA - Simone Veil / FN : ""Vous ne me faites pas peur..." (1979)
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- Duration: 1:25
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Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, des membres du Front National sont venus perturber la réunion de Simone VEIL qui déclare depuis la tribune "Vous ne me faites pas peur, j'ai survécu a pire que vous, vous êtes des SS aux petits pieds".PM Jean Marie LE PEN souriant-divers plans de la bagarre qui éclate (quelques policiers interviennent-grenades lacrymo) sortie discrète de madame VEIL. www.ina.fr
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Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, des membres du Front National sont venus perturber la réunion de Simone VEIL qui déclare depuis la tribune "Vous ne me faites pas peur, j'ai survécu a pire que vous, vous êtes des SS aux petits pieds".PM Jean Marie LE PEN souriant-divers plans de la bagarre qui éclate (quelques policiers interviennent-grenades lacrymo) sortie discrète de madame VEIL. www.ina.fr
- published: 02 May 2012
- views: 1405
- author: jmjarredou
Simone Veil, destin courage (1/4)
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- Duration: 0:35
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heureuse avec un père exigeant intellectuellement et une mère qu'elle adore. Entre scoutisme et études, la vie s'écoule avec bonheur à Nice. Mais l'ombre de la guerre plane. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
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Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heureuse avec un père exigeant intellectuellement et une mère qu'elle adore. Entre scoutisme et études, la vie s'écoule avec bonheur à Nice. Mais l'ombre de la guerre plane. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
- published: 05 Oct 2007
- views: 14072
- author: vodeotv
Simone Veil: Une vie de témoin
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- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette conférence sur www.akadem.org
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Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette conférence sur www.akadem.org
- published: 28 Sep 2010
- views: 1903
- author: AkademTV
SIMONE WEIL PART 2 STEPHEN PLANT
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- Duration: 20:13
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
The sound on this video stops after a few minutes the reason this happens is to allow viewers to see what extra they get if they subscribe to the timeline project where these videos originate from, to find this project go to www.stjt.org.uk
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The sound on this video stops after a few minutes the reason this happens is to allow viewers to see what extra they get if they subscribe to the timeline project where these videos originate from, to find this project go to www.stjt.org.uk
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 221
- author: StJohnsNottingham
Simone Veil a manifesté contre le mariage homo - 14/01
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- Duration: 1:18
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la manifestation contre le mariage homosexuel, a pu constater BFMTV. Une prise de position assez inattendue de la part de cette figure du féminisme, connue notamment pour avoir défendu ardemment la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en 1975 face, notamment, à l'oppostion de l'Eglise catholique.
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Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la manifestation contre le mariage homosexuel, a pu constater BFMTV. Une prise de position assez inattendue de la part de cette figure du féminisme, connue notamment pour avoir défendu ardemment la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en 1975 face, notamment, à l'oppostion de l'Eglise catholique.
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 730
- author: BFMTV
Simone Weil
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- Duration: 0:41
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
Photos of Simone Weil
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Simone Weil
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- Duration: 52:11
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
Pour Michel Serres, elle était une « sainte laïque ». Camus portait toujours sur lui une photo d'elle, Bernanos une lettre qu'elle avait écrite sur la guerre d'Espagne. Pour le 100ème anniversaire de sa naissance, Régis Burnet exhume la philosophe Simone Weil, en compagnie de Christiane Rancé, écrivain, et Martin Steffens, professeur de Philosophie. Portrait d'une femme assoiffée de vérité qui associa avec démesure : combat politique, vision philosophique et pratique mystique. Emission du 18/10/2009
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Pour Michel Serres, elle était une « sainte laïque ». Camus portait toujours sur lui une photo d'elle, Bernanos une lettre qu'elle avait écrite sur la guerre d'Espagne. Pour le 100ème anniversaire de sa naissance, Régis Burnet exhume la philosophe Simone Weil, en compagnie de Christiane Rancé, écrivain, et Martin Steffens, professeur de Philosophie. Portrait d'une femme assoiffée de vérité qui associa avec démesure : combat politique, vision philosophique et pratique mystique. Emission du 18/10/2009
- published: 17 Mar 2012
- views: 4413
- author: KTOTV
Simone Veil, destin courage (2/4)
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- Duration: 0:55
- Updated: 06 Sep 2012
Dans le deuxième volet de cette série d'entretiens en quatre parties, Simone Veil témoigne de sa terrible expérience des camps. Avec sa mère et sa sœur, elles furent déportées à Birkenau. Elle raconte la volonté de déshumanisation des nazis. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
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Dans le deuxième volet de cette série d'entretiens en quatre parties, Simone Veil témoigne de sa terrible expérience des camps. Avec sa mère et sa sœur, elles furent déportées à Birkenau. Elle raconte la volonté de déshumanisation des nazis. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
- published: 05 Oct 2007
- views: 15179
- author: vodeotv
Simone Weil's first cousin Raymonde finally agrees to an interview
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- Duration: 0:29
- Updated: 23 Oct 2012
Film Clip from the new documentary AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL, by Julia Haslett. Visit www.simoneweilmovie.com for more info about the film. After two years of asking, Simone Weil's 97-year-old cousin Raymonde, who grew up with Simone, finally agreed to an interview.
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Film Clip from the new documentary AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL, by Julia Haslett. Visit www.simoneweilmovie.com for more info about the film. After two years of asking, Simone Weil's 97-year-old cousin Raymonde, who grew up with Simone, finally agreed to an interview.
- published: 07 May 2012
- views: 465
- author: SimoneWeilMovie
Réception de Simone Veil à l'Académie française et Manifestation Anti IVG
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
Les militants anti IVG manifestent au moment de la réception de Simone Veil à l'Académie française le 18/3/2010
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Les militants anti IVG manifestent au moment de la réception de Simone Veil à l'Académie française le 18/3/2010
- published: 19 Mar 2010
- views: 6349
- author: franceenchine
Simone Veil : la loi d'une femme
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 05 Feb 2013
Documentaire sur Simone Veil de la collection Empreintes - France 5. A télécharger sur : www.imineo.com Ce documentaire mesure l'empreinte laissée par Simone Veil: la loi sur l'avortement qui porte son nom, son combat pour l'Europe, son action pour le devoir de mémoire de la Shoah. Il propose un lien entre son héritage personnel et ses champs d'action : son enfance, son éducation, sa mère, puis pendant l'adolescence, l'horreur d'Auschwitz. Simone Veil est l'une des personnalités françaises les plus respectées. Son engagement l'a placée au-dessus des contingences politiques. 'Simone Veil, la loi d'une femme' se propose de faire comprendre ce phénomène inhabituel et la femme exceptionnelle qui l'a rendu possible.
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Documentaire sur Simone Veil de la collection Empreintes - France 5. A télécharger sur : www.imineo.com Ce documentaire mesure l'empreinte laissée par Simone Veil: la loi sur l'avortement qui porte son nom, son combat pour l'Europe, son action pour le devoir de mémoire de la Shoah. Il propose un lien entre son héritage personnel et ses champs d'action : son enfance, son éducation, sa mère, puis pendant l'adolescence, l'horreur d'Auschwitz. Simone Veil est l'une des personnalités françaises les plus respectées. Son engagement l'a placée au-dessus des contingences politiques. 'Simone Veil, la loi d'une femme' se propose de faire comprendre ce phénomène inhabituel et la femme exceptionnelle qui l'a rendu possible.
- published: 19 Mar 2010
- views: 9971
- author: imineo
Simone Veil évite de saluer Carla Bruni
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- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Simone Veil évite soigneusement de saluer Carla Bruni lors du dîner officiel en l'honneur de Shimon Peres.
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Simone Veil évite soigneusement de saluer Carla Bruni lors du dîner officiel en l'honneur de Shimon Peres.
- published: 14 Mar 2008
- views: 395393
- author: César Sandoval
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SIMONE WEIL STEPHEN PLANT
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published: 22 Apr 2012
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SIMONE WEIL STEPHEN PLANT
This is an extract from one of our timeline projects. Please visit our timeline website for more information and to access our online editions of our timelines.www.stjt.org.uk
- published: 22 Apr 2012
- views: 3827
- author: StJohnsNottingham
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Simone Weil Her Life and Philosophy
A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. on the life and works of Si...
published: 04 Sep 2012
author: Wes Cecil
Simone Weil Her Life and Philosophy
A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. on the life and works of Simone Weil. Part of the Modern Philosophers lecture series For information on upcoming lectures, essays, and books by Wesley Cecil Ph.D. go to www.facebook.com
- published: 04 Sep 2012
- views: 1320
- author: Wes Cecil
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Simone Veil et son projet de loi
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published: 22 Feb 2010
author: marine171293
Simone Veil et son projet de loi
- published: 22 Feb 2010
- views: 13632
- author: marine171293
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An Encounter with Simone Weil: trailer (documentary feature)
For more info visit: linestreet.net What response does seeing human suffering demand of us...
published: 30 Nov 2010
author: SimoneWeilMovie
An Encounter with Simone Weil: trailer (documentary feature)
For more info visit: linestreet.net What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943), whose life and work took on this question in a dramatic way. Adopting Weil as her guide through an engaging and profound moral landscape, Julia goes on a journey to understand Weil's loss of faith in revolutionary politics and the spiritual awakening that followed. Driving her obsession with Weil is the interwoven story of suffering within Haslett's own family----her father's suicide when she was 17 and now her older brother's severe depression. When Weil dies from self-starvation at the height of World War II, she is left wondering if death was the logical conclusion to Weil's philosophy and her attempt to share the pain of others?
- published: 30 Nov 2010
- views: 22856
- author: SimoneWeilMovie
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"Stretched Out With Christ": Martin Luther and Simone Weil o
"'Stretched Out With Christ': Martin Luther and Simone Weil on Suffering and Love" present...
published: 06 Jun 2008
author: NorthwesternU
"Stretched Out With Christ": Martin Luther and Simone Weil o
"'Stretched Out With Christ': Martin Luther and Simone Weil on Suffering and Love" presented by Krista Duttenhaver (University of Notre Dame) on the topic of "Living in the Midst of Horrors." - "The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther, an International Conference," Department of Religion, Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, February 22, 2008. www.religion.northwestern.edu
- published: 06 Jun 2008
- views: 2947
- author: NorthwesternU
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Intervention de Simon Veil
Conférence de lancement du projet Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence....
published: 07 Apr 2008
author: rdescoings
Intervention de Simon Veil
Conférence de lancement du projet Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.
- published: 07 Apr 2008
- views: 1749
- author: rdescoings
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Sarasota Film Festival - An Encounter with Simone Weil
An interview with Julia Haslett at the Sarasota Film Festival on the US premier of her fil...
published: 11 Apr 2011
author: SarasotaUpClose
Sarasota Film Festival - An Encounter with Simone Weil
An interview with Julia Haslett at the Sarasota Film Festival on the US premier of her film An Encounter with Simone Weil. Julia discusses the film making process used for this historical documentary. This interview was filmed with 35mm equipment, the same used by many of the indie filmmakers featured at the SFF. See more details at www.sarasotaupclose.com Video and production by Studio F Productions, Inc.
- published: 11 Apr 2011
- views: 1411
- author: SarasotaUpClose
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Simone Veil Quotes
What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over...
published: 16 Mar 2012
author: quotetank
Simone Veil Quotes
What was your favorite Simone Veil quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Simone Veil? A French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d\'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
- published: 16 Mar 2012
- views: 68
- author: quotetank
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Simone Veil - Cité de la réussite 2010 - "Tout réinventer et ne rien oublier" 1/3
Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinvente...
published: 30 Mar 2012
author: CitedelareussiteTV
Simone Veil - Cité de la réussite 2010 - "Tout réinventer et ne rien oublier" 1/3
Débat organisé à l'occasion de la cité de la réussite 2010 sur le thème de "Tout réinventer". Débat dirigé par Marie Drucker. www.citedelareussite.com
- published: 30 Mar 2012
- views: 646
- author: CitedelareussiteTV
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Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de ...
Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas no...
published: 09 Mar 2010
author: radiortl
Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de ...
Simone Veil, ex-ministre de la Santé et future membre de l'Académie française : "Ne pas nommer de femmes au Conseil constitutionnel est une erreur"
- published: 09 Mar 2010
- views: 850
- author: radiortl
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Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet
Dalla lettera di Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet del 13 aprile 1942 Un piccolo omaggio per il c...
published: 11 Mar 2009
author: Malalma76
Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet
Dalla lettera di Simone Weil a Joë Bousquet del 13 aprile 1942 Un piccolo omaggio per il centenario della nascita di Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) "L'attenzione è la forma più rara e più pura della generosità"
- published: 11 Mar 2009
- views: 17659
- author: Malalma76
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Archive INA - Simone Veil / FN : ""Vous ne me faites pas peur..." (1979)
Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, de...
published: 02 May 2012
author: jmjarredou
Archive INA - Simone Veil / FN : ""Vous ne me faites pas peur..." (1979)
Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: www.amara.org Rue Lepic à Paris, des membres du Front National sont venus perturber la réunion de Simone VEIL qui déclare depuis la tribune "Vous ne me faites pas peur, j'ai survécu a pire que vous, vous êtes des SS aux petits pieds".PM Jean Marie LE PEN souriant-divers plans de la bagarre qui éclate (quelques policiers interviennent-grenades lacrymo) sortie discrète de madame VEIL. www.ina.fr
- published: 02 May 2012
- views: 1405
- author: jmjarredou
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Simone Veil, destin courage (1/4)
Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heu...
published: 05 Oct 2007
author: vodeotv
Simone Veil, destin courage (1/4)
Dans le premier volet de cette série en quatre parties, Simone Veil évoque son enfance heureuse avec un père exigeant intellectuellement et une mère qu'elle adore. Entre scoutisme et études, la vie s'écoule avec bonheur à Nice. Mais l'ombre de la guerre plane. En voir plus sur : www.vodeo.tv
- published: 05 Oct 2007
- views: 14072
- author: vodeotv
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Simone Veil: Une vie de témoin
Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette confé...
published: 28 Sep 2010
author: AkademTV
Simone Veil: Une vie de témoin
Hommage à Elie Wiesel pour son 80ème. anniversaire. Retrouvez l'intégralité de cette conférence sur www.akadem.org
- published: 28 Sep 2010
- views: 1903
- author: AkademTV
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RSWX presents Dave
Download the RADIO SOULWAX app for iphone / ipad / android or watch online at http://www.r...
published: 10 Nov 2012
author: Radio Soulwax
RSWX presents Dave
Download the RADIO SOULWAX app for iphone / ipad / android or watch online at http://www.radiosoulwax.com
Our homage to the man whose ability to change whilst remaining himself has been a massive influence on us. There are many legends in the music industry but for us, there is no greater than the mighty Dave. We've included all things Bowie, whether that is original songs, covers, backing vocals, production work or reworks we made, to attempt to give you the full scope of the man's genius.
For the visual side to this mix our friend Wim Reygaert (who also made the amazing film for Into The Vortex) came up with the most ambitious film for RSWX, taking us on a fever dream time travel through the man's career starring the amazing Hannelore Knuts as Dave. We've got to extend a special thank you to the cast and crew and everyone involved for putting so much time and energy and heart and soul into this amazing film, it is a pure labour of love for the phenomenon that is Bowie.
DAVE
A film by WIM REYGAERT
A RADIO SOULWAX PROJECT A CAVIAR PRODUCTION
Featuring HANNELORE KNUTS
Screenplay by WIM REYGAERT & STEFAN BRACKE
Executive Producers KATO MAES & RUBEN GOOTS
Executive Producer Radio Soulwax GLYN PEPPIATT
Producers GEERT DE WACHTER TOM DE PELSENEER EVA VAN RIET
Director of Photography MAXIMILIAAN DIERICKX
Production Designer STEFAN BRACKE
Editor KOEN TIMMERMAN
Costume Designer VALERIE HELLEBAUT
Post Production Supervisor CORENTIN DE SAEDELEER
CAST:
Dave - HANNELORE KNUTS
William S. Burroughs - SAM LOUWYCK
The Scary Monster - BENT VAN LOOY
The Milkshake Girl & The Veiled Assistant - JOY THIELEMANS
Iggy Pop - MAARTEN CLAEYSSENS
Ziggy Stardust - JEF PEREMANS
The Queen Bitch - SIMON TURNER
Freddie Mercury - NICOLAS KARAKATSANIS
Freddie Mercuryʼs Crew - THE HICKEY UNDERWORLD
Detective N°1 - STEPHEN DEWAELE
Detective N°2 - DAVID DEWAELE
Detective N°3 - STEFAAN VAN LEUVEN
Record Sleeve Fairies - ʻBINTIʼ, YASMIN HOLAIL, SHERIEN HOLAIL, RANA HOLAIL, HADIEL HOLAIL, FEDIA, HOLAIL, AMINA HOLAIL
Lulu - DORIEN LEYERS
Six Weird Men - MARIE-HELENE VAN QUICKENBORNE, FAYE BOGAERT, NORA MONSECOUR,
PAULINE DEHEEGHER, ELYNN VANDAMME, LAURA BAETS
Tony Visconti - CARL PLAISIER
Big Smile Woman - EVELYNE VANOBOST
Diamond Dog Girl N°1 - ANN-SOFIE CLAEYS
Diamond Dog Girl N°2 - ELISABETH PUGLIA
John Lennon - GEERT DE WACHTER
Andy Kent - MICHIEL GELUYKENS
Little Stephen - QUINTEN KASCH
Little David - LENN DʼHONDT
Production Managers - RIEN BEHAEGHE, VANESSA JACOB, THOMAS HOFMAN
First Assistant Director - NINA KERREMANS
Production Assistants - BERT DRAELANTS, RALPH URMEL, JAN ROGGEMAN, ALEX KNELL, JELLE KLOKMAN
Production Office Manager - KRISTOF THUES
Focus Pullers - SYLVAIN FREYENS, RUBEN APPELTANS
2nd Camera Assistant - JURGEN WILLOCX
Script / Continuity - KATE MAVEAU
Gaffer - DRIES DE PAEPE
Light Department - TOM VANDENABEELE, JOHANNA VANHAECKE, ANDREAS DE BRABANDERE,
DRIES CLAEYS, AARON VEYS, MAXIM HONORE, JOOST HENDRICKX, BERT JONCKHEERE
Key Grip - STIJN DE TROYER
Grip Department - ANNECHIEN TIELENS, ZHOU TINGYAO, TOMAS VAN CAMP, GEERT VAN BEEK
Art Directors - STEFAN BRACKE, TIM JANSEN, YVES VERSTRAETE, ROBBIE VAN NIEUWENHOVE,
JACQUES VAN LOOCK
Art Department - CARLITO BOUDALIA, SOFIE DESPEER, KATIA DE CAUWER, PIETER DE SCHEPPER, MICHIEL GELUYKENS, LAURA VAN HAECKE, BERT TIELEMANS, GREGORY EICHPERGER,
KATRIEN DE JONGHE, KLAAS BULLYNCK, STEFAAN VAN PARYS, PIETER-JAN DEPREDOMME,
WOUTER MOULART, LIESBETH FEYS, MARLIES DE CLERCK, REMCO REDANT, THOMAS VAN HEE,
FILIP VAN LIERDE, PIETER MORTIER, ROBIN OTTE, PIETER DE WILDE, LOTTE HAERICK, DAVY & GILLES,
AN DE JONGHE
Styling - HANNE GEERTS
Make-up - SANNE DE WOLF, BARBARA BIJELIC, VALERIE LELEU
Hair Styling - NATASCHA MATHEUWEZEN
Catering - TOM BALCAEN, NIKI MICHIELS, KATRIEN VERKERCKE, LEEN VERKERCKE, SOFIE VERGALLE, SARA BRUYNINCKX
Accounting - VERONIQUE ANSELME,VERA KLINCKAERT, GREET LAMBERT, KATRIEN VERKE
Head Of Post Production - PETER DEUSS
Post Production Coordinator - KATRIEN VAN DEN BRANDE
Assistant Editor - WARD GEERTS
Colorist - MAXIMILIAAN DIERICKX
Digital Compositors - DOMINIQUE FIORE
3D Operator - FLORIAN CASEAU
Foley - STEFAAN VAN LEUVEN
Making Of - STIJN DE RYCK, NIELS PUTMAN
Graphic Designers - LORE LAPORTE, AXELLE ZWARTJES
Graphics Radio Soulwax - FERGADELIC
App Design Radio Soulwax - DOTANK / JP ALTIER
Press Radio Soulwax - CAROLIEN DE BIE
Light Equipment - WATTS, SPOTS
Grip Equipment - CINE QUA NON
Camera Equipment - LITES
Set Decoration - TANKER
Post-production - CAVIAR POST
DCP - XDC
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Ang Thong Marine National Park Thailand
Der Ang Thong Marine Nationalpark besteht aus 42 Inseln und gehört zur Ang Thong Inselgrup...
published: 13 Jul 2009
author: Simon Veil
Ang Thong Marine National Park Thailand
Der Ang Thong Marine Nationalpark besteht aus 42 Inseln und gehört zur Ang Thong Inselgruppe. Exclusive Speedboot Tour von Koh Samui in den National Park.
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Walhai am Sail Rock
Sehr schöner tauchgang am Sail Rock im May 2009....
published: 22 Jun 2009
author: Simon Veil
Walhai am Sail Rock
Sehr schöner tauchgang am Sail Rock im May 2009.
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Fischsuppe am Sailrock
Sehr schöner tauchgang am Sail Rock im May 2009....
published: 22 Jun 2009
author: Simon Veil
Fischsuppe am Sailrock
Sehr schöner tauchgang am Sail Rock im May 2009.
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SIMONE WEIL PART 2 STEPHEN PLANT
The sound on this video stops after a few minutes the reason this happens is to allow view...
published: 30 Nov 2012
author: StJohnsNottingham
SIMONE WEIL PART 2 STEPHEN PLANT
The sound on this video stops after a few minutes the reason this happens is to allow viewers to see what extra they get if they subscribe to the timeline project where these videos originate from, to find this project go to www.stjt.org.uk
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 221
- author: StJohnsNottingham
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Simone Veil a manifesté contre le mariage homo - 14/01
Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la man...
published: 14 Jan 2013
author: BFMTV
Simone Veil a manifesté contre le mariage homo - 14/01
Toute l'actualité sur www.bfmtv.com Simone Veil a participé, dimanche après-midi, à la manifestation contre le mariage homosexuel, a pu constater BFMTV. Une prise de position assez inattendue de la part de cette figure du féminisme, connue notamment pour avoir défendu ardemment la loi sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse en 1975 face, notamment, à l'oppostion de l'Eglise catholique.
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 730
- author: BFMTV
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Simone Weil
Photos of Simone Weil...
published: 17 May 2010
author: philofacts
Simone Weil
Photos of Simone Weil
- published: 17 May 2010
- views: 3106
- author: philofacts
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Simone Weil
Pour Michel Serres, elle était une « sainte laïque ». Camus portait toujours sur lui une p...
published: 17 Mar 2012
author: KTOTV
Simone Weil
Pour Michel Serres, elle était une « sainte laïque ». Camus portait toujours sur lui une photo d'elle, Bernanos une lettre qu'elle avait écrite sur la guerre d'Espagne. Pour le 100ème anniversaire de sa naissance, Régis Burnet exhume la philosophe Simone Weil, en compagnie de Christiane Rancé, écrivain, et Martin Steffens, professeur de Philosophie. Portrait d'une femme assoiffée de vérité qui associa avec démesure : combat politique, vision philosophique et pratique mystique. Emission du 18/10/2009
- published: 17 Mar 2012
- views: 4413
- author: KTOTV
photo: AP
16 Feb 2013
February 16, 2013 -- Updated 0115 GMT (0915 HKT). Did you see the meteor? Share your images with CNN iReport. Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, authorities said ... The injured included more than 200 children ... The meteor leaves a white streak through the sky ... HIDE CAPTION ... 1. 2....(size: 14.9Kb)
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15 Feb 2013
A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains today morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people, many of them hurt by broken glass. "There was panic. People had no idea what was happening ... Fragments of the meteor fell in a thinly populated area of the Chelyabinsk region, the Emergency Ministry said in a statement ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
photo: UN / Mark Garten
16 Feb 2013
The United States has called on North Korea not to take any further provocative actions after report of plans for more nuclear tests. Friday's statement came after the North conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday, drawing global condemnation ... Meanwhile, North Korea's leader has made his first public appearance since Tuesday's controversial nuclear test. ... Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said ... 479 Source.....(size: 7.5Kb)
photo: AP / Office of the Supreme Leader
17 Feb 2013
TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader said Saturday that his country was not seeking nuclear weapons but added that if Iran ever decided to build them, no “global power” could stop it. Related. Nuclear Watchdog Says No Deal Reached With Iran (February 15, 2013). Connect With Us on Twitter. Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List. Reporters and Editors ... Mr ... During the same session, Mr....(size: 5.9Kb)
photo: AP
14 Feb 2013
In their hurry to flee last month, al Qaeda fighters left behind a crucial document. Tucked under a pile of papers and trash is a confidential letter, spelling out the terror network's strategy for conquering northern Mali and reflecting internal discord over how to rule the region ... Comparing the relationship of al Qaeda to Mali as that of an adult to an infant, he urges them to be more gentle, like a parent ... Ad Feedback ... - AP. ....(size: 12.4Kb)
France24
29 Jan 2013
Many internet users compared the speech to previous historic moments in the French National Assembly such as Simone Veils plea for abortion rights in 1974 and Patrick Badinters speech in favour of ......(size: 1.2Kb)
Ha'aretz
16 Jan 2013
The results are in from France’s annual flurry of end of the year polls to determine who is in and who is out, embraced or disgraced by the public ... Both Goldman and Copé, it just so happens, are Jewish. (As is Simone Veil, the politician and feminist icon who finished a close second to Goldman.) But it is a telling happenstance, one that casts light on a country seemingly bedeviled by the persistence of anti-Semitism. ... Or didn’t ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
Indian Express
05 Jan 2013
When former French Health Minister Simone Veil and her sister managed to survive Hitlers Nazi death camp, anti-Semitic Frenchmen made disparaging, gender-denigrating, judgmental remarks like, How did they come back? It proves that it was not that bad. Is it fair to victimise women victims with excoriating mental torture over and over? ... Actually rape is just one crime against women ... contd. PAGE. 123 ....(size: 1.9Kb)
France24
04 Jan 2013
French political writer and historian Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work on France’s 1789 revolution, “The Old Regime and the Revolution,” has become a bestseller in China – more than 150 years after it was first published. By FRANCE 24 (text). ... His liberal-minded and analytical prose is perhaps even more widely read and studied in the US ... . FRANCE - CHINA ... PAINTING ... Holocaust survivor Simone Veil joins Académie Française ... ....(size: 8.4Kb)
Indian Express
29 Dec 2012
Reading about Simone Veil, fighter for the rights of women, children, prisoners and immigrants, I discovered this luxury hotel was Nazi Headquarters in Nice, off the beautiful Mediterranean coast ... Torture surrounded Simone Veils life, yet she overcame it and was voted Frances most popular woman in 2010 ... Many Jews in Europe like Simone Veils father were secular to avoid racial animosity....(size: 2.0Kb)
Indian Express
15 Dec 2012
Women are nothing but machines for producing children. These outrageous words are from French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) ... From mid-20th century, French writer Simone de Beauvoirs feminist writings set the tone for Womens Lib later ... Their Health Minister who repealed the penalty for voluntarily terminating a pregnancy was Simone Veil, about whom Ill write shortly in this courageous women series Ive started ... contd....(size: 2.3Kb)
Ha'aretz
06 Nov 2012
related articles. In U.S. vote, Israeli Americans are from Mars, Jewish Americans are from Venus. By Chemi Shalev . Nov.06,2012 . 10.29 AM . 102. Thanks, Mr. Romney, for explaining why Jews should vote Obama. By Bradley Burston . Nov.06,2012 . 10.29 AM . 37. Ryan ... By Reuters ... 6 ... 1 ... The original French law legalizing abortion was developed by then-Health Minister Simone Veil, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, in 1975 in a rightist Gaullist government.....(size: 11.5Kb)
Ha'aretz
30 Mar 2012
Muslim world more familiar with the history of the Holocaust. A difficult mission indeed. ... Dr ... In March 2009 Revcolevschi launched the Aladdin Project along with other French figures, among them philosopher and politician Simone Veil, lawyer and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, and Claude Lanzmann, the maker of the documentary “Shoah.” Author Elie Weisel, who lives in the United States, also got involved in the organization. ... ....(size: 7.7Kb)
The Independent
10 Mar 2012
Over nearly four centuries, the 40 academy members, elected for life and known as "the immortals", have included great French writers, philosophers, politicians, soldiers, churchmen, a sprinkling of Francophone foreigners and an underwater explorer ... He told The Independent ... Quite right ... Present members include the former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the former president of the European Parliament, Simone Veil ... Tweet. ....(size: 6.5Kb)
Huffington Post
02 Mar 2012
A mere 12 people attended Angelina Jolie's directorial debut of In the Land of Honey and Blood in the Serbian capital ... An artistic attempt at the reconciliation of the old Balkan enemies failed the test ... Why? ... Ms ... Thanks to Simone Veil, a former French minister and president of the European Parliament it was revealed that the estimate of 20,000 victims was based on interviews with only four victims -- two women and two men." ... ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
photo: AP / Darko Vojinovic
02 Jan 2012
The survey, published each New Year in the Journal du Dimanche, has produced a remarkable result. two of the top seven celebrities are black; two are Jewish; and two are of North African origin. Only one person in the top seven is ethnically French ... Sy was born in a poor western Paris suburb to Senegalese parents. Fourth was Simone Veil, 84, the Auschwitz survivor, former health minister and former president of the European parliament ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)
PR Newswire
25 Oct 2011
. , , Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka ... The prize is 's highest honor and one of 's most prestigious awards, often compared to the Nobel Peace Prize ... Previous winners have included Mandela, Al Gore, Simone Veil, Mario Soares, Jacques Delors, Mijail Gorbachov, Al Gore, 'Lula' da Silva and organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization ... ....(size: 8.2Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
08 Jun 2011
OVIEDO, Spain, June 8, 2011 – OVIEDO, Spain, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka ... This year's award ceremony will be held on Oct. 21st in Oviedo, Spain ... Previous winners have included Mandela, Al Gore, Simone Veil, Mario Soares, Jacques Delors, Mijail Gorbachov, Al Gore, 'Lula' da Silva and organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization ... or....(size: 4.8Kb)
Not to be confused with Simone Weil, a French philosopher.
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| Simone Veil DBE | |
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| 12th President of the European Parliament | |
| In office July 1979 – 1982 |
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| Preceded by | Emilio Colombo |
| Succeeded by | Piet Dankert |
| Minister of Health | |
| In office 27 May 1974 – 4 July 1979 |
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| President | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
| Prime Minister | Jacques Chirac Raymond Barre |
| Preceded by | Michel Poniatowski |
| Succeeded by | Michel Poniatowski |
| In office 29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995 |
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| President | François Mitterrand |
| Prime Minister | Edouard Balladur |
| Deputy | Philippe Douste-Blazy |
| Preceded by | Bernard Kouchner |
| Succeeded by | Elisabeth Hubert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1927-07-13) 13 July 1927 (age 84) Nice, France |
| Political party | UDF, LDR |
| Spouse(s) | Antoine Veil |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
Simone Veil, DBE (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj]; born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family, she is the Honorary President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
She was elected to the Académie française in November 2008.
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Early years[link]
Veil was born Simone Annie Liline Jacob, the daughter of a Jewish architect in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. In March 1944, Veil's family was deported, Simone, her mother and one sister to Auschwitz-Birkenau then Bergen-Belsen where her mother died shortly before the camp's 15 April 1945 liberation. Veil's father and brother also died; they are last known to have been sent on a transport to Lithuania. Veil's other sister who had been arrested as a member of the Resistance survived her imprisonment in Ravensbrück. Veil returned to speak at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2005 for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camps.
Having obtained her baccalauréat in 1943 before being deported, she began the study of law and political science at Sciences Po and Pantheon-Assas Paris II University, where she met her future husband Antoine Veil.
The couple married on 26 October 1946, and have three sons.
Veil became an attorney and worked for several years as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice.
Political career[link]
Minister of Health[link]
From 1974 to 1979 she was Minister of Health in the governments of prime ministers Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre. She pushed forward the following notable laws:
- Making access to contraception easier (4 December 1974) – the sale of contraceptives such as the combined oral contraceptive pill had been made legal in 1967.
- Legalizing abortion (17 January 1975), her hardest political fight, and the one for which she is best-known.
European Parliament[link]
Veil was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 1979 European election. In its first session, the new Parliament elected Veil as its President, which she served as until 1982.[1] As well as being the first president of the elected Parliament, she was the first female President since the Parliament was created in 1952. In 1981, Veil won the prestigious Charlemagne Prize. She was re-elected in the 1984 election and became the leader of the Liberal Democrat group until 1989. She was re-elected for the last time in the 1989 election, standing down in 1993.[1]
Between 1984 and 1992 she served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and the Committee on Political Affairs. After standing down from these committees she served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its related Subcommittee on Human Rights. Between 1989 and 1993 she was also a member of Parliament's delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, serving as its vice-chairwoman until 1992.[1]
Member of the Constitutional Council[link]
In 1998, she was appointed to the Constitutional Council of France. In 2005, she put herself briefly on leave from the Council in order to campaign in favour of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. This action was criticized, because it seems to contradict the legal provisions that members of the council should keep a distance from partisan politics: the independence and impartiality of the council would be jeopardized, critics said, if members can put themselves "on leave" in order to campaign for such or such project.
Honors and other activities[link]
In 2003, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.[2]
In 2005 she was awarded with the Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation.
In 2007, she was awarded the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe.
In 2007, Veil surprised many observers by declaring her support for the neo-conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy. She was by his side on the day after he received 31 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential elections that year.
Veil entered the Académie française in 2008, the sixth woman ever to do so.[3] Veil joined the Academy's forty "immortals" at their 13th seat, originally the seat of Jean Racine. Her induction address was given in March 2010 by Jean d'Ormesson. On her sword, given to her as to every other immortal, is engraved her Auschwitz number [number 78651], the motto of the French Republic [liberté, égalité, fraternité] and the motto of the European Union [ Unis dans la diversité].[4]
She also participates as jury member for the Conflict Prevention Prize[5] awarded every year by the Fondation Chirac.
Political career[link]
Member of the Constitutional Council of France : 1998–2007
Governmental functions
- Minister of Health, Social security, and Family : 1974–1979 (Became member of European Parliament in 1979)
- Minister of State, minister of Health, Social affairs, and City : 1993–1995
Electoral mandates
- President of European Parliament : 1979–1982 (Elected member in 1979)
- Member of European Parliament : 1982–1984
References[link]
- ^ a b c [1], European Parliament website
- ^ Amnesty International, 12 September 2003, Amnesty International welcomes the election of a Board of Directors. Accessed 1 August 2007.
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (18 March 2010). "France: Ex-Minister To Join Academy". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E4D61E3EF93BA25750C0A9669D8B63. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- ^ Simone Veil : an icon in the Académie', Le Parisien, 18 March 2010.
- ^ The jury for the Conflict Prevention Prize awarded by the Fondation Chirac
| Preceded by |
Constitutional Council of France 1998–2007 |
Succeeded by Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc |
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Emilio Colombo |
Karlspreis 1982 |
Succeeded by King Juan Carlos of Spain |
| Preceded by ERASMUS programme |
Prince of Asturias Awards 2005 |
Succeeded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Academic offices | ||
| Preceded by Dries van Agt |
College of Europe Orateur 1980 |
Succeeded by Bruno Kreisky |
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| Name | Veil, Simone |
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| Short description | French politician |
| Date of birth | 13 July 1927 |
| Place of birth | Nice, France |
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