Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents as of 1 January 2023 in an area of more than 105 km2 (41 sq mi),Paris is the fourth-most populated city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century,Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance,diplomacy,commerce,culture,fashion,and gastronomy. For its leading role in the arts and sciences,as well as its early and extensive system of street lighting,in the 19th century,it became known as the City of Light.
William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Hubert Reeves was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
François RenéJean Lucien Bayrou is a French politician who has presided over the Democratic Movement (MoDem) since he founded it in 2007. A centrist,he was a candidate in the 2002,2007 and 2012 presidential elections. He has also presided over the European Democratic Party (EDP) since 2004.
AndréArmand Vingt-Trois is a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 2005 to 2017,having previously served as Archbishop of Tours from 1999 to 2005. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2007.
Adam Goldberg is an American actor. Known for his supporting roles in film and television,Goldberg has appeared in films such as Stealing Home,Dazed and Confused,Saving Private Ryan,A Beautiful Mind,and Zodiac. He has also played leading roles in independent films such as The Hebrew Hammer and 2 Days in Paris. His TV appearances include the shows Law &Order:Criminal Intent, My Name Is Earl,Friends,Entourage,The Jim Gaffigan Show,The Unusuals,and his role as hitman Grady Numbers in the first season of Fargo. Since 2021 he has starred opposite Queen Latifah on CBS' The Equalizer.
Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist,painter,and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986),the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations,including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal,and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene,and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.
Paul Joseph Jean Poupard is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a Cardinal since 1985. He held positions in the Roman Curia for more than 25 years,serving as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1988 to 2007 and briefly as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
The Orchestre de Paris is a French orchestra based in Paris. The orchestra currently performs most of its concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements,particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought",and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies,politics,sociology,visual anthropology,ecology,education,and systems biology. As he explains:He holds two bachelors:one in history and geography and one in law. He never did a Ph.D. Though less well known in the anglophone world due to the limited availability of English translations of his over 60 books,Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world,Europe,and Latin America.
Maurice Boitel was a French painter.
Paris-Sorbonne University was a public research university in Paris,France,active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Paris. In 2018,it merged with Pierre and Marie Curie University and some smaller entities to form a new university called Sorbonne University.
Sorbonne Paris North University is a public university based in Paris,France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris,in the municipalities of Villetaneuse,Saint-Denis,La Plaine Saint-Denis,Bobigny and Argenteuil.
François Daniel Roth is a French organist,composer,musicologist,and pedagogue. He was titular organist from 1985 until 2023 at the church of Saint-Sulpice in France's capital,Paris,alongside Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin,and as of February 2023,will remain as emeritus titular organist.
Daniel Guérin was a French libertarian-communist author,best known for his work Anarchism:From Theory to Practice,as well as his collection No Gods No Masters:An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired,from the first writings of Max Stirner in the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He is also known for his opposition to Nazism,fascism,capitalism,imperialism and colonialism,in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War. His revolutionary defense of free love and homosexuality influenced the development of queer anarchism.
Suzanne Monnier Voilquin was a French feminist,journalist,midwife,traveler and author,best known as editor of Tribune des femmes,the first working-class feminist periodical,and her memoirs,Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple:ou,La saint-simonienne en Égypt.
Antoine-Joseph Duc,known as Duc-Quercy and sometimes called Albert Duc-Quercy,was a French journalist and militant socialist. He was involved in several strikes in the coal mining areas of Aveyron. He twice ran unsuccessfully for election to the legislature as socialist.
Eugène Baudin was a French porcelain worker and left-wing politician. He became an activist at an early age,and was forced into exile for his activities during the Paris Commune. After returning to France he was arrested twice for his activism before being elected to the legislature for two terms. At first enthusiastic,he became disillusioned and declined to run for reelection in 1898. He returned to porcelain making,and died in obscurity.
