René de La Croix de CastriesRené de La Croix de Castries (ʁəne də la kʁwa də kastʁ; 1908 – 1986) was a French historian and a member of the House of Castries. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1972. He wrote under the pen name Duc de Castries, a courtesy title drawn from his family’s extinct dukedom. René de la Croix de Castries was born on 6 August 1908 in La Bastide-d'Engras, Gard, France. He grew up in a castle in Gaujac, Gard, and attended school in Nîmes and Versailles.
Henri René GuieuHenri René Guieu (19 March 1926 – 2 January 2000) was a French science fiction writer and ufologist, who published primarily with the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu. He occasionally used other pseudonyms as well, including Claude Vauzière for a young adult series, Jimmy G. Quint (with Georges Pierquin) for a number of espionage novels, Claude Rostaing for two detective novels and Dominique Verseau for six erotic novels. Guieu was one of the authors published by Fleuve Noir company's Anticipation science fiction imprint.
Stéphane FrançoisStéphane François (born 1 January 1973) is a French political scientist who specializes on radical right-wing movements. He also studies conspiracy theories, political ecology and countercultures. Born on 1 January 1973, Stéphane François attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, where he obtained a PhD in political science after a doctoral thesis on the "Paganism of the Nouvelle Droite.
Anne MuxelAnne Muxel is a French sociologist more specialised in the study of the biographical memory. Her major sociological works concern politic socialisation, on one hand, and biographical roots of political and family behaviour, on the other hand. She is Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a senior research fellow in the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a French research institute specializing in political and economic sciences and, specifically, in political sociology.
Muriel DarmonMuriel Darmon (born February 22, 1973) is a French sociologist. She is a director of research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CRNS) and has been affiliated with the Center for European sociologie and political science (CESSP) at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) since 2012. Her work deals with processed of socialization and the production of habitus, especially as related to youth, the body and health. Since 2017, she has been the president of the French Sociological Association.
Alain BosquetAlain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet. In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne. He fought in the Belgian army in 1940, then in the French army. In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received U.S. citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin.
Abd al Malik (rapper)Abd al Malik, born Régis Fayette-Mikano is a French rapper and spoken word artist of Congolese origin. He has also authored books in French, and directed a film adaptation of one of his books. New African Poets Talented in words and music, he formed with his brother Bilal and his cousin Aissa, a rap group they called New African Poets also known by the abbreviation N.A.P. Other members included Mustapha, Mohammed and Karim, all from the neighborhood where he lived. Most of the group come from the Neuhof quartier of Strasbourg.
