Françoise
Encyclopedia
Françoise may refer to:
- Anne Françoise Elizabeth LangeAnne Françoise Elizabeth LangeAnne Françoise Elisabeth Lange was a French actress of the Comédie-Française and a 'Merveilleuse' of the French Directory. Her stage name was Mademoiselle Lange.-Life:...
(1772-1816), French actress - Claudine Françoise MignotClaudine Françoise MignotClaudine Françoise Mignot [commonly called Marie] , French adventuress, was born near Grenoble, at Meylan....
(circa 1617-1711), French adventuress - Françoise AdnetFrançoise AdnetFrançoise Adnet is a French figurative painter born in Paris.Adnet originally intended a professional career as a pianist. She gradually gave up the piano to devote herself to the drawing and the painting which she had always practised since her childhood.In 50 years of creation Françoise Adnet...
(born 1924), French figurative painter - Françoise ArdréFrançoise ArdréFrançoise Ardré is a French phycologist and marine scientist; honoured as the namesake of the red alga known as Pterosiphonia ardreana....
(born 1931), French phycologist and marine scientist - Françoise ArnoulFrançoise ArnoulFrançoise Arnoul is a French actress, who achieved popularity with her cute and sexy charm, especially during the 1950s.Born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch in Constantine, France , as the daughter of stage actress Janine Henry and artillery general Charles Gautsch, she has two brothers...
, a French actress - Françoise AtlanFrançoise AtlanFrançoise Atlan is a French singer, born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Narbonne 27 July 1964. Her father was a counselor native of Béjaïa in Kabylia and her mother was a pianist and a lyrical singer.-Musical learning:...
(born 1964), Moroccan singer - Françoise Barré-SinoussiFrançoise Barré-SinoussiFrançoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and director of the Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus as...
(born 1947), virologist and Nobel Prize winner - Françoise BasseporteFrançoise BasseporteMadeleine Françoise Basseporte, was a French painter.She became one of the pupils of Claude Aubriet thanks to her precocious talent for design. She replaced him as the Royal Painter after his death...
(1701-1780), French painter - Françoise Bertaut de MottevilleFrançoise Bertaut de MottevilleFrançoise Bertaut de Motteville , French memoir writer, was the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, a gentleman of the king's chamber, and niece of the bishop-poet Jean Bertaut....
(circa 1621-1689), French memoir writer - Françoise BoivinFrançoise BoivinFrançoise Boivin is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Gatineau in the Canadian House of Commons....
(born 1960), Canadian politician - Françoise BonnetFrançoise BonnetFrançoise Bonnet is a retired female long-distance runner from France. She set her personal best in the marathon in 1990.-Achievements:-References:*...
(born 1957), French long-distance runner - Françoise CastexFrançoise CastexFrançoise Castex is a French politician andMember of the European Parliamentfor the South West of Francewith the Socialist Party,part of the Socialist Group and sits on...
(born 1956), French politician - Françoise ChandernagorFrançoise ChandernagorFrançoise Chandernagor is a French writer, born June 15, 1945. She is the daughter of André Chandernagor. She is a former student of the National School of Administration - École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.-Biography:In 1991, Françoise...
(born 1945), French writer - Françoise ClaustreFrançoise ClaustreFrançoise Claustre , was a French archeologist who was taken hostage by a group of Chadian rebels, led by Hissène Habré, on 20 April 1974, at Bardaï, in the Tibesti Mountains of northern Chad. At the same time, the rebels also seized a German doctor, Christophe Staewen, and Marc Combe, who was an...
(1937-2006), French archeologist - Françoise d'AmboiseFrançoise d'AmboiseFrançoise d'Amboise was born in the castle of Thouars. She was the daughter of the rich noble Louis d'Amboise, prince of Talmont and Viscount of Thouars....
(1427-1485), Carmelite nun - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de MaintenonFrançoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de MaintenonFrançoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon was the second wife of King Louis XIV of France. She was known during her first marriage as Madame Scarron, and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon...
(1635-1719), morganatic second wife of Louis XIV of France - Françoise d'EaubonneFrançoise d'EaubonneFrançoise d'Eaubonne was a French feminist, who introduced the term ecofeminism in 1974....
(1920-2005), French feminist - Françoise de GraffignyFrançoise de GraffignyFrançoise de Graffigny, née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess....
(1695-1758), French writer - Françoise DavidFrançoise DavidFrançoise David, CQ is the spokesperson, with Amir Khadir, of Québec solidaire - a left-wing, feminist and sovereignist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada. Quebec Solidaire was born from the merger of Option Citoyenne with l'Union des Forces Progressistes...
(born 1948), Knight of the National Order of Quebec - Françoise de CezelliFrançoise de CezelliFrancoise spelt her name GAZELLI There is a statue of her in Leucate Village. There is a paragraph engraved next to it , in which she appeals to the commanders of the French garrison in 1589...
(1558-1615), French chevalier and war hero - Françoise de FoixFrançoise de FoixFrançoise de Foix, Comtesse de Châteaubriant was a mistress of Francis I of France.-Background:Françoise was the daughter of Jean de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, and Jeanne d'Aydie. Her father was the son of Pierre de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec; Pierre had been a younger brother of Gaston IV of Foix,...
(circa 1495-1537), mistress of Francis I of France - Françoise DiorFrançoise DiorMarie Françoise Suzanne Dior, also known as Françoise de Caumont La Force, Françoise Dior-Jordan, and Françoise Dior-de Mirleau , was a French socialite and post-war Nazi underground financier...
(1932-1993), French neo-Nazi - Françoise DoltoFrançoise DoltoFrançoise Dolto , was a French doctor and psychoanalyst, famous for her research on babies and childhood. Dolto revolutionized the field of psycho-therapeutic work with babies and with the mother baby dyad....
(1908-1988), French doctor and psychoanalyst - Françoise DorléacFrançoise DorléacFrançoise Dorléac was a French actress. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve, and was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort...
(1942-1967), popular French actress - Françoise DucrosFrançoise DucrosFrançoise Ducros is a Canadian government official, and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's communications director, who resigned after referring President George W. Bush as a "moron".-Life:...
, Canadian civil servant - Françoise DurrFrançoise DurrFrançoise Durr is a retired tennis player from France. She won 26 major singles titles and over 60 doubles titles....
(born 1942), former tennis player - Françoise FaucherFrançoise FaucherFrançoise Faucher is an actress. She was born in Montmorency, France in 1929. She trained in drama in France under René Simon and Bernard Bimont before immigrating to Canada in the 1950s. She became a member of The "Theatre du Nouveau Monde" in Quebec and participated in many plays. She wrote...
(born 1929), French film actress - Françoise Gilot (born 1921), French born painter
- Françoise GiroudFrançoise GiroudFrançoise Giroud, born France Gourdji was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician.-Biography:...
(1916-2003), French journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician - Françoise GrossetêteFrançoise GrossetêteFrançoise Grossetête is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South-East of France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement; part of the European People's Party.-Member:...
(born 1946), French politician - Françoise HardyFrançoise HardyFrançoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style. She is married to the singer and movie actor Jacques Dutronc.-Biography:...
(born 1944), French singer, actress and astrologer - Françoise HéritierFrançoise HéritierFrançoise Héritier is a French anthropologist and successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France . Her work deals mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest...
, French anthropologist - Françoise LebrunFrançoise LebrunFrançoise Lebrun is a French actress. She has appeared in many movies, and is especially known for her role as Veronika in The Mother and the Whore . She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les...
, French actress - Françoise MacchiFrançoise MacchiFrançoise Macchi is a French former alpine skier.Macchi was born at Le Sentier, Switzerland. She married the fellow skier Jean-Noël Augert.-World cup victories:-References:...
(born 1951), French former alpine skier - Françoise Mallet-JorisFrançoise Mallet-JorisFrançoise Mallet-Joris is the nom de plume of Françoise Lilar.She was born in Antwerp, the daughter of the writer Suzanne Lilar and the Belgian Minister of Justice and Minister of State Albert Lilar, and the sister of the 18th century art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar...
(born 1930), Belgian writer - Françoise MatraireFrançoise MatraireFrancesco Matraire was a printer in Turin, notable as the designer and producer of the earliest postage stamps of Sardinia and later Italy.Little is known of his life; his family is believed to have been from Nice originally, and his correspondence is mostly written in French.In 1850, when Piedmont...
(19th century), printer - Françoise Mbango EtoneFrançoise Mbango EtoneFrançoise Mbango Etone is a female track and field athlete, competing internationally for France, formerly of the Cameroon. She was a gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She retained her title with an Olympic record distance of 15.39m at the Beijing...
(born 1976), track and field athlete - Françoise Meltzer, professor of religion
- Françoise MoulyFrançoise MoulyFrançoise Mouly is a Paris-born French artist and designer best known for her work with RAW, a showcase publication for cutting edge comic art, and as art editor of The New Yorker, a position she has held since 1993...
(born 1955), Paris-born French artist and designer - Françoise PrévostFrançoise PrévostFrançoise Prévost was a French ballerina who helped establish classical ballet. She was expressive, light and dramatic in style. Prevost debuted at the Paris Académie in the ballet, Atys, later replacing Marie-Thérèse de Subligny as the female lead...
(circa 1680-1741), French ballerina - Françoise RobertsonFrançoise RobertsonFrançoise Robertson is a Canadian actress, known to US audiences for her portrayal of D'orothea Wilson in the TV miniseries More Tales of the City and its follow-up Further Tales of the City...
, actress - Françoise RosayFrançoise RosayFrançoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema...
(1891-1974), French actress - Françoise SaganFrançoise SaganFrançoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...
(1935-2004), French playwright, novelist and screenwriter - Françoise YipFrançoise YipFrançoise Fong-Wa Yip is a Canadian actress.Yip was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was raised in Toronto. Her father is Chinese, and her mother is Québécoise. At an early age Yip began studying both piano and dance, but it was piano that she would excel at...
(born 1972), Canadian actress - Ghislaine Marie Françoise DommangetGhislaine Marie Françoise DommangetGhislaine Dommanget , daughter of Colonel Robert Dommanget and his wife Marie Louise Meunier, was the Princess of Monaco from 1946 to 1949...
(1900-1991), French actress - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde RécamierJeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde RécamierJeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier , known as Juliette, was a French society leader, whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century.-Biography:...
(1777-1849), French socialite - Louise Françoise Contat (1760-1813), French actress
- Marie Françoise Sophie GayMarie Françoise Sophie GayMarie Françoise Sophie Gay , was a French author, born in Paris.Madame Gay was the daughter of M. Nichault de la Valette and of Francesca Peretti, an Italian lady. In 1793 she was married to M. Liottier, an exchange broker, but she was divorced from him in 1799, and shortly afterwards was married...
(1776-1852), French author
See also
- Françoise-Athénaïs
- Françoise-Louise
- Françoise-Marguerite
- Marie-FrançoiseMarie-FrançoiseMarie-Françoise or Marie Françoise is a given name, and may refer to:* Ghislaine Marie Françoise Dommanget , French actress* Marie Françoise Sophie Gay , French author* Marie-Françoise Audollent, French actress...
- Sainte-Françoise