Jean-Claude RenardJean-Claude Renard (22 April 1922, Toulon – 19 November 2002, Paris) was a French poet. Renard entered the world of poetry with Juan in 1945, his first book. He was on the staff of Editions du Seuil and Editions Casterman. 1988 Grand Award for Poetry of the Académie française 1991 Prix Goncourt for poetry Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry Graham Dunstan Martin, editor, University of Texas Press, 1971 Selected Poems Oasis Books, Pierre de Ronsard. Ed. and trans. Malcolm Quainton, Elizabeth Vinestock. 1
Emmanuel MounierEmmanuel Mounier (muːnˈjeɪ; munje; 1 April 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist. Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which was the organ of the movement. Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne. In 1929, when he was only twenty-four, he came under the influence of the French writer Charles Péguy, to whom he ascribed the inspiration of the personalist movement.
Claude TresmontantClaude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 – 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher, Hellenist, and theologian. Claude Tresmontant taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science. He was given the Maximilien-Kolbe Prize in 1973 and the Grand Prix of the Academy of Moral and Political Science for his complete works in 1987. fr Essai sur la pensée hébraïque, éd. O.E.I.L., 1953 (republishing 1956). fr Études de métaphysique biblique, éd.
Pierre RosanvallonPierre Rosanvallon (born 1 January 1948) is a French historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history. His works are dedicated to the history of democracy, French political history, the role of the state and the question of social justice in contemporary societies. He is also director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, where he led the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches between 1992 and 2005.
Albert JacquardAlbert Jacquard (23 December 1925 – 11 September 2013) was a French geneticist, popularizer of science and essayist. He was well known for defending ideas related to science, degrowth, needy persons and the environment. He was 10 years an active member of the French communist party (PCF). He was born in Lyon to a catholic and conservative family from the region of Franche-Comté (east of France). At the age of nine, he was disfigured after a car accident in which his brother died.
Patrick GrainvillePatrick Grainville (born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An associate professor of letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years old, for his fourth novel, Les Flamboyants ("The Flasher"). He has written extensively on Africa, where he undertook a cooperative mission. He is professor of French at the Lycée Évariste Galois in Sartrouville. Grainville is also literary critic for Le Figaro.
Jean BaubérotJean Baubérot (born 26 July 1941 in Châteauponsac, Haute-Vienne), is a French historian and sociologist specializing in sociology of religions. He is the founder of the sociology of secularism. After holding the chair of "History and Sociology of Protestantism" (1978–1990), he held the chair of "History and Sociology of secularism "(since 1991) at the École pratique des hautes études, where he was the honorary president. He wrote twenty books, including a historical novel.
