Who Is The Greatest Person Of French Nationality or Ancestry In History?
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I am really surprised nobody mentioned Albert Camus or Jean-Paul Sartre. If the poll had 12 options, those were the next two names I would have added.
Martin of XXXtase currently leads the poll voting by 1 vote over Napoleon Bonaparte.
Martin of XXXtase currently leads the poll voting by 1 vote over Napoleon Bonaparte.
Hello all,
Just a random example of some for thought:
http://www.rankopedia.com/ZID=3/157...Person-of-All-Time..........?/Step1/13607.htm
1. Napoleon
2. Jean d'Arc
3. Louis Pasteur
4. Voltaire - Francois Marie Arouet
5. Rene Descarts
6. Victor Hugo
7. Charles de Gaulle
8. Emile Zola
9. Zinedine Zidane (Now that's FUNNY!)
Like every other country what is "French" came out of a mix of many distinct peoples...Gauls, Celts, Bretons, Aquitanians (Basques), Iberians, Ligurians, Greeks in southern France, Italic people (Romans); Germanic peoples like the Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians (Bourgogne); Moors or Saracens; Vikings known as Normans (who were largely Danish and less Norwegian or Swedish). So William of Normandy is as legitimate as anyone.
Yes, real name Napoleone Buonaparte was Italian originally, "of minor Corsican nobility". The phrasing of the poll question would seem to eliminate him. But how one eliminates a person inseparable from French history and so inextricably connected to France shows the fault of the premise. It's like saying 300 years of English kings and queens don't count as English because they weren't English originally; they are actually German from the House of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg Gotha. I guess in Napoleon's case there is a minor difference between saying French ancestry and French history.
For me one would have to go back to those who started to make France and what became French. I look to Clovis first king to unify France, Charles Martel and Pepin the Short, and Charlemagne. But I'll settle for Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, and Pepe le Pew...and don't tell me Pepe isn't French or I'll just cry.
If we are going to kiss the butt of an agency owner I'll take Miss Jessy XXX. I happen to know her cheeks are sweet...as well as...
Luv you anyway Martin bro. Thumbs up!
Ummmmm,
Merlot
BTW...greatest Americans: George Washington and Bugs Bunny.
PS
I voted for Pasteur.
Just a random example of some for thought:
http://www.rankopedia.com/ZID=3/157...Person-of-All-Time..........?/Step1/13607.htm
1. Napoleon
2. Jean d'Arc
3. Louis Pasteur
4. Voltaire - Francois Marie Arouet
5. Rene Descarts
6. Victor Hugo
7. Charles de Gaulle
8. Emile Zola
9. Zinedine Zidane (Now that's FUNNY!)
Like every other country what is "French" came out of a mix of many distinct peoples...Gauls, Celts, Bretons, Aquitanians (Basques), Iberians, Ligurians, Greeks in southern France, Italic people (Romans); Germanic peoples like the Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians (Bourgogne); Moors or Saracens; Vikings known as Normans (who were largely Danish and less Norwegian or Swedish). So William of Normandy is as legitimate as anyone.
Yes, real name Napoleone Buonaparte was Italian originally, "of minor Corsican nobility". The phrasing of the poll question would seem to eliminate him. But how one eliminates a person inseparable from French history and so inextricably connected to France shows the fault of the premise. It's like saying 300 years of English kings and queens don't count as English because they weren't English originally; they are actually German from the House of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg Gotha. I guess in Napoleon's case there is a minor difference between saying French ancestry and French history.
For me one would have to go back to those who started to make France and what became French. I look to Clovis first king to unify France, Charles Martel and Pepin the Short, and Charlemagne. But I'll settle for Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, and Pepe le Pew...and don't tell me Pepe isn't French or I'll just cry.
If we are going to kiss the butt of an agency owner I'll take Miss Jessy XXX. I happen to know her cheeks are sweet...as well as...
Luv you anyway Martin bro. Thumbs up!Ummmmm,
Merlot
BTW...greatest Americans: George Washington and Bugs Bunny.
PS
I voted for Pasteur.
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Though she speaks French and is Canadian, I don't think she is of French ancestry. Martin I have met and he is of French ancestry. I don't believe John Eleganza, Chris of Devilish or Jessy are of French ancestry. I have met all of them in person. This has nothing to do with butt kissing; obviously this poll is not intended to be completely serious or scientific. We don't exactly have a bunch of history scholars posting on MERB.
Regarding Napoleon Bonaparte, he considered himself French and his last words were to salute his country (France), so how can you or anyone else defile his memory by claiming he was Italian. I actually read a few other legitimate polls by historical scholars on the greatest French person in history and Napoleon was named in every one.
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The thing with Jean-Marie Le Pen is that he's a bigot. But apparently that's not as bad as being "politically correct," God forbid.
I should note that I worded the poll question as I did only so I could get the last 3 nominees, all of whom are Canadians of French ancestry, into the poll. The poll question should be construed to include persons who were both French by nationality, and by ancestry.
I have modified the poll question accordingly.
I have modified the poll question accordingly.
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I'll second that choice and add one of my own...Jean Lafitte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte
Hello EagerBeaver,
I would add these ones:
1. Blaise Pascal
2. René Descartes
3. Racine, Molière and Corneille
4. Voltaire
5. Diderot and the encyclopedists
6. Laplace, D'Alembert, Poisson, Fourier (of the heat theory and Fourier Transform and series) and Claude Bernard
7. Samuel de Champlain
8. Maylee
9. Dr. Tran
and, of course, Elvis himself. He still lives in France, by the way.
I would add these ones:
1. Blaise Pascal
2. René Descartes
3. Racine, Molière and Corneille
4. Voltaire
5. Diderot and the encyclopedists
6. Laplace, D'Alembert, Poisson, Fourier (of the heat theory and Fourier Transform and series) and Claude Bernard
7. Samuel de Champlain
8. Maylee
9. Dr. Tran
and, of course, Elvis himself. He still lives in France, by the way.
How about:
Pierre Curie
(15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
or
Antoine Henri Becquerel
(15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie who had found additional radioactive elements).
Pierre Curie
(15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
or
Antoine Henri Becquerel
(15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie who had found additional radioactive elements).
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Second son of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Maria Buonaparte.Born in Corsica. That make him French
Where's that country located?
(Isn't this kind of like saying that Kim Kardashian isn't American?)
Food for thought...
For consideration (found this in a search)...many listed here are already mentioned but I thought an approach by category would net some deeper thought...
Top monarchs :
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XIV
Philip IV
Francis I
Henry IV
Top painters and sculptors:
Louis David
Auguste Rodin
Renoir
Toulouse-Lautrec
Cezanne
Gauguin
Monet
Manet
Matisse
Top architects:
Gustave Eiffel
Viollet-le-Duc
Vauban
Le Corbusier
Top composers:
Bizet
Hector Berlioz
Camille Saint-Saens
Jacques Offenbach
Claude Debussy
Jean Philippe Rameau
Jean-Michel Jarre
Top writers:
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Emile Zola
Moliere
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Francois Rabelais
Guy de Maupassant
Marcel Proust
Jean de La Fontaine
Top philosophers :
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Denis Diderot
Rene Descartes
Albert Camus
Top scientists and intellectuals:
Marie Curie
Louis Pasteur
Auguste and Louis Lumière (inventors of the cinema)
Montgolfier brothers
Jacques Cousteau
Claude Levi-Strauss
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Francois Champollion
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Top actors/actresses & filmmakers:
Jean Reno
Christian Clavier
Luc Besson
Louis de Funese
Jean Gabin
Bourvil
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Catherine Deneuve
Alain Delon
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Top designers:
Coco Chanel
Christian Dior
Yves Saint-Laurent
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Edouard de Givenchy
Pierre Cardin
Have Fun,
Jman
PS I voted for Joan of Arc and Louis Pasteur...there were no MLB players or SP's on the survey...
For consideration (found this in a search)...many listed here are already mentioned but I thought an approach by category would net some deeper thought...
Top monarchs :
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis XIV
Philip IV
Francis I
Henry IV
Top painters and sculptors:
Louis David
Auguste Rodin
Renoir
Toulouse-Lautrec
Cezanne
Gauguin
Monet
Manet
Matisse
Top architects:
Gustave Eiffel
Viollet-le-Duc
Vauban
Le Corbusier
Top composers:
Bizet
Hector Berlioz
Camille Saint-Saens
Jacques Offenbach
Claude Debussy
Jean Philippe Rameau
Jean-Michel Jarre
Top writers:
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Emile Zola
Moliere
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Francois Rabelais
Guy de Maupassant
Marcel Proust
Jean de La Fontaine
Top philosophers :
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Denis Diderot
Rene Descartes
Albert Camus
Top scientists and intellectuals:
Marie Curie
Louis Pasteur
Auguste and Louis Lumière (inventors of the cinema)
Montgolfier brothers
Jacques Cousteau
Claude Levi-Strauss
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Francois Champollion
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Top actors/actresses & filmmakers:
Jean Reno
Christian Clavier
Luc Besson
Louis de Funese
Jean Gabin
Bourvil
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Catherine Deneuve
Alain Delon
Francois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Top designers:
Coco Chanel
Christian Dior
Yves Saint-Laurent
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Edouard de Givenchy
Pierre Cardin
Have Fun,
Jman
PS I voted for Joan of Arc and Louis Pasteur...there were no MLB players or SP's on the survey...
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