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Pierre Guitton (16 March 1944 – 20 July 2021) was a French painter and comic book author and artist. He notably designed the pages of Charlie Mensuel and Hara-Kiri. Biography. Guitton studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours , where he earned a degree in painting in 1962.
Jean Guitton (August 18, 1901 – March 21, 1999) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers." [1]
Crédit du Nord was a French retail banking network. It consisted of the following banks: Crédit du Nord is fully owned by Société Générale. Crédit du Nord specialises on professionals and small business. It serves about 1.5 million customers in more than 700 stores (2006).
Saint Pierre is a Michelin-starred French cuisine restaurant in Singapore. Named after the Saint Pierre Chapel in Notre-Dame de Paris, it serves Asian-French cuisine. [1] It was opened by Belgian -born chef Emmanuel Stroobant and his Malaysian-Chinese wife Edina Hong. [2] The restaurant first opened at Central Mall in Singapore in December 2000.
Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, TOSD (French pronunciation: [lwi maʁi ɡʁiɲɔ̃ də mɔ̃fɔʁ]; 31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Catholic priest known for his preaching and his influence on Mariology.
Biography. After being severely wounded, both physically and psychologically, in WW1, Pierre Vuitton abandoned his previous life as the child of wealthy merchants. After several stays in sanitariums and mental hospitals, he moved to Paris in 1920. As an enjoyer of morphine and alcohol, he lived as a casual laborer in poverty despite the rare ...
Snooker is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets. First played by British Army officers stationed in India circa 1875, the game uses twenty-two balls (pictured) – a white cue ball, fifteen red balls, and six other balls collectively called "the colours".
La Vérendrye explored the area from Lake Superior to the mouth of the Saskatchewan River. He also reached North Dakota and his sons reached Wyoming. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November 1685 – 5 December 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer. [1] In the 1730s, he and his four sons ...