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Personnalits D'Origine Protestante Ou Lies Au Protestantisme
This article provides a list of personalities original Protestant or related to Protestantism.
Major figures in history and politics
- Jeanne d'Albret (1528-1572) - Mother of Henry IV
- Gaspard de Coligny , "said Admiral de Coligny (1519-1572 during the massacre of St. Bartholomew) - Admiral of France, a Protestant leaders during the wars of religion. His daughter Louise married William the Silent (his fourth and last marriage).
- Henri I de Bourbon, Prince de Conde second (1552-1588), one of Protestant leaders during the wars of religion. His daughter Eleanor married William the Silent.
- Henry of Navarre who became King Henry IV (1553-1610) - King of France
- Maximilien de Bethune , Duke of Sully (1559-1641) - a peer of France, a prince and sovereign Henrichemont Boisbelle, finance minister of King Henry IV
- Pierre Du Gua de Monts (1559-1641) - First colonizer of Canada
- Jean Calas (1698-1762) - Marchand made famous by Toulouse trial the Calas case and his defense by Voltaire
- Jacques Necker (1732-1804) - Director General of Finance and Minister of State of Louis XVI
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) - One of the drafters of the 1783 treaty that recognized American independence entrepreneur and economist of French descent and an American diplomat. Huguenot, he is behind one of the richest American families and large. President of the Constituent Assembly
- Franois Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas (1756-1826) - Revolutionary moderate opinions, he was under the Convention a strong supporter of religious freedom and citizens of color. Become committed to large state, he was named Count of the Empire by Napoleon, and Peer of France by Louis XVIII. During the White Terror, he was a peacemaker and defender of Protestant liberties. He was vice-president of the Bible Society and a member of the Consistory of the Reformed Church of France.
- Rebecque Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) - Franco-Swiss novelist, politician during the Revolution and Empire, leader of the Liberal opposition in 1800.
- Francois Guizot (1787-1874) - French politician and historian, Chairman
- Georges Eugene Haussmann (1809-1891) - Paris Renovator
- William Henry Waddington (1826-1894), Chairman of the Board in 1879.
- Jules Siegfried (1837-1922) - Merchant and politician, founder of the Schools of Business, Mulhouse, Lyon, Rouen, Le Havre, the father of the Law on Housing, rental housing (HLM)
- Louis-Nathaniel Rossel (1844-1871) - Politician (one of the major players in the Paris Commune)
- Emile Kuss (1815-1871), Professor of Medicine, mayor of Strasbourg and Alsatian symbol of protest against the annexation by Germany's spectacular death in Bordeaux on March 1, 1871, the day the National Assembly accepts the annexation.
- Gaston Doumergue (1863-1937) - 13th President of the French Republic
- Henri Donnedieu de Vabres (1880-1952) - Professor of law (criminal law, international criminal law, the French judge at the Nuremberg trials
- Jean Rey (1902-1983) - Lawyer, politician and activist Belgian Walloon. He is president of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970. One of the "fathers of Europe".
- Maurice Couve de Murville (1907-99) - Politician, Prime Minister (1968-69)
- Michel Rocard (1930 - ...) - Enarque, candidate of the Socialist Unity Party (PSU) in the presidential election of 1969, premier from 1988 to 1991.
- Lionel Jospin (1937 - ...) - Enarque, diplomat and scholar, Minister of National Education from 1988 to 1992, Prime Minister from 1997 to 2002.
Architects and Engineers
- Denis Papin (1647-circa 1712) - Physicist who discovered the power of steam pressure and Papin invented the pot (the forerunner of the pressure cooker)
- Gaspard Andr (1840-1896) - Lyon Architect who built the Great Temple Protestant de Lyon (1884)
- Baptist Androuet Hoop (1545-1590) - architect who began the construction of the Pont-Neuf in Paris
- Jacques Androuet Hoop II (1550-1614) - architect who built the Hotel de Mayenne
- Jean Androuet Hoop (1585-1649) - architect who built the Hotel de Sully in Paris in 1624 and the famous iron staircase at Fontainebleau (1623)
- Jean-Henri Dollfus (1724-1802) - Creator, with Samuel Koechlin and Schmaltz, Indian plants, printed fabrics that will make the fortune of the town of Mulhouse in the eighteenth century.
- Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764-1846) - architect, who built the courthouse in Lyons (1835)
- Baltard Victor (1805-1874) - architect, builder of the central market of Paris (Pavillon Baltard Tea New Star)
- Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626) - architect who built the Luxembourg Palace
- Oehmichen Etienne (1884-1955) - Engineer, inventor of the helicopter in 1921
- Maurice Koechlin (1856-1946) - engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower
- Augustin Rey (1864-1934) - architect
- Charles-Louis Claude de Freycinet of Saulses , commonly called Charles de Freycinet (1828-1923), French engineer, creator of the gauge Freycinet (standard for the locks) and Plan Freycinet plan to build railroads in France (1879) and Chairman of the Board under the Third Republic
- Armand Reclus (1843-1927) - Engineer Marine Engineering and Naval Officer
- Eric Jaulmes (1914-2002) - Engineer, Technical Director of Motobecane , father of the Moped.
bankers and industrialists
- Jerome Hatt (1633-1675), master brewer and founder of the eponymous dynasty of brewers.
- Dominique Andre (1766-1844) - Banker
- Etienne Delessert (1735-1816) - French banker
- Frank, Julie and Emile Delmas - Create the shipping company in 1867 Delmas
- Andre Koechlin (1789-1875) - Industrial, maker of the foundry Mulhouse (SACM ancestor and thus Alstom), manufacturer of locomotives ...
- Peugeot Eugene (1844-1907) - Industrial, co-founder of the car brand Peugeot
- Armand Peugeot (1849-1915) - industrial visionary, co-founder of the car brand Peugeot
- Conrad Schlumberger (1878-1936) - Industrial
- Marcel Schlumberger (1884-1953) - Industrial
- Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815) - Industrial, founder of the royal manufacture of printed cloth of Jouy-en-Josas
- Say Louis Auguste (1774-1840), brother of the economist Jean-Baptiste Say, founder of the beet sugar industry.
- Ernest Andr (1803-1864) - Banker, politician.
- Edouard Andr (1833-1894) - Son of former banker, politician, collector and patron French, founder of the museum Jacquemart-Andre.
- Louis Schweitzer (1942 - ...) - Senior, president of the automotive group Renault (he bought Nissan), chairman of the HALDE (High Authority against Discrimination and for Equality.)
- Jrme Seydoux (1934 - ...) - Co-President of the Path film company, his fortune is estimated at 700 million euros.
Teachers and educators
- Kergomard Pauline (1838-1925) - creator of the Kindergarten, the first woman member of the Higher Council of Public Instruction
- Emilie Mallet (1794-1856) - born Oberkampf, activist and pioneer of the nursery school in France.
- Frederic Oberlin (1740-1826) - Pastor pietistic and apostle of social progress, educator who transformed his parish of Ban-de-la-Roche teaching.
- Felix Pecaut (1828-1898) - Inspector-General of Education, appointed by Jules Ferry founded the Ecole Normale Superieure girls Fontenay-aux-Roses.
Explorers, geographers and anthropologists
- Jean de Lery (1536-1613) - traveler who describes the cannibalistic Indians of Brazil, becoming the first ethnographer.
- Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799) - Swiss naturalist and geologist considered the founder of alpinism.
- Louis Claude de Freycinet Saulces , and Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842) - French geologist and geographer who explored the southern lands.
- Elie Reclus (1827-1904) - Journalist and anthropologist
- Elisha Reclus (1830-1905) - geographer
- Onesimus Reclus (1837-1916) - geographer
- Cadier brothers (George, born in 1874, Henry (1877), Albert (1879), Charles (1881), Edward (1883)) are famous for having climbed two summers, early twentieth century, most peaks over 3000 meters between Aneto Balatous and peak in the Pyrenees. The elder is a pastor, two are students of theology, one in law and in engineering school.
- Hubert Latham (1883-1912) - Aviator and test pilot, first to exceed an altitude of 1000 m
Physicians and Surgeons
- Ambroise Pare (1509-1590) - "Father of Surgery
- Paul Broca (1824-1880) - Surgeon Neurologist
- Jules Francois Rene Ladreit de la Charrire (1833-1903) - Doctor Ear, Nose and Throat
- Davaine Casimir (1812-1882) - French physician known for his work on anthrax, a disease transmissible from animals to humans (zoonosis) and for introducing the idea of pathogenic bacteria, paving the way for bacteriology.
- Paul Reclus (1847-1914) - Surgeon
- Kss Ren (1913-2006) - Surgeon, French pioneer of kidney transplantation, president of the National Academy of Medicine.
Military and Marine
- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne-Bouillon , vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675) - Right arm turbulent Henry IV, Marshal of France, founder of the Academy of Sedan, (a Protestant university), second wife Elizabeth Nassau, daughter of William the Silent, who bore him eight children, including the famous Turenne.
- Claude de la Tremoille (1566-1604) - Poitevin of high lineage, opted for Protestantism at age 21, companion in arms of Henry IV at Ivry and Coutras, duke and peer of France, wife Charlotte Brabantine, a girl William I of Orange.
- Henri II de Rohan (1579-1638) - Prince of Rohan family, one of the great princely families of Brittany, Protestant and French. Protestant party leader after the death of Henri IV, banished after the capture of La Rochelle by Cardinal Richelieu.
- Henri de Schomberg (1565-1632) - Superintendent of Finance of the Kingdom (the equivalent of a Minister of Finance), a brilliant Marshal of France (country of the island of R, making ... Pinerolo), governor of Languedoc
- Charles de Schomberg (1601-1656) - Odd and Marshal of France, son of the former governor of Languedoc in the wake of his father
- Abraham Duquesne (1610-1688) - Lieutenant General of the navy of Louis XIV
- Turenne , and Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne-Bouillon, vicomte de Turenne, duc de Bouillon, Prince of Sedan (1611-1675) - One of the best generals of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, Marshal of France, he was converted to Catholicism at the end of his life by Bossuet.
- Frederick Armand de Schomberg , said Marshal Schomberg (1615-1690), Huguenot refugee who became famous in the army commander who installed the prince of Holland William of Orange on the throne of England (the Glorious Revolution).
- Maurice de Saxe (1696-1750), born German, condottiere, Marshal General of France (it stands as winner of the Battle of Fontenoy and conquering the whole of the Netherlands).
- Jean-Baptiste Klber (1753-1800) - French general who distinguished himself in the wars of the Revolution, especially in the Vende and Egypt, assassinated in Cairo, Egypt.
- John Earl Rapp (1771-1821): General French Empire.
- Louis Henri de Freycinet Saulces (1777-1840), French admiral.
- Charles Henry Augustus Saulces Freycinet (1823-1881), French admiral, son of the former.
- Pierre Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878) - French Military, still famous for leading the resistance of the fortress of Belfort in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870
- Archinard Louis (1850-1932) - French General who contributed to the colonial conquest of France in West Africa
- Jaurguiberry Jean Bernard (1815-1887) - Admiral and French politician, twice Minister of Marine
Musicians and Composers
- Andr Silbermann (1678-1743) - Pension organ, the first in a line of famous organ builders, active in Alsace in the eighteenth century.
- Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) - Composer
- Marie-Louise Girod (1915 - ...) - French organist.
- Jean-Claude Casadesus (1935 - ...) - conductor, composer, creator and director of the Orchestre National de Lille
Pacifists, idealistic and humanitarian
- Philippe Duplessis-Mornay (1549-1623) - Reformed theologian, soldier, writer, statesman, adviser of Henry IV, who negotiated the Edict of Nantes , his many writings are the delight of historians. Speaking seven languages, a huge biblical culture and general admirer of Chancellor Michel de L'Hospital and admired by Turenne , Duplessis-Mornay opposes any coercion in religion and is part of the small group of supporters of tolerance. Austere manners, dressing in dark colors, however, he is credited with the invention of hunter sauce, Mornay, bechamel, Lyon and Porto.
- Charlotte Brabantine of Orange-Nassau (1580-1631) - Wife of Claude La Tremoille, daughter of William I of Orange-Nassau, raised by her stepmother Louise de Coligny, playing an important diplomatic role for the Protestant party through its relations with the houses of Orange and Bouillon, she discourages her husband to engage in the conspiracy of Biron and incentive to pledge allegiance to the sovereign. Widow, she took over management of family estates. After the renunciation of his son Henry III in 1628, it continues to protect communities Huguenot Thouars and Vitre.
- Jean-Paul Saint-Etienne Rabault said Rabault Saint-Etienne (1743-1793) - Son of Pastor Paul Rabaut, activist liberties to Protestants, Louis XVI gets the Edict of Tolerance, and member of the Third Estate, President Constituent Assembly, member of the Convention, guillotined with the Girondins.
- Andre-Daniel Laffon of Ladebat (1746-1829) - Politician Bordeaux, abolitionist, author of the speech on "The necessity and means of destroying slavery in the colonies" (1788)
- Philippe Rhl (1737-1795) - Member of the Lower Rhine Convention, revolutionary trail, he committed suicide before his arrest.
- Adam Guillaume de Felice , Count of Panzutti (1803-1871) - Savoy Noble, pastor, theologian and activist for the abolition of slavery.
- Anthony Benezet Anthony Benezet or (1713-1784) - philanthropist and abolitionist, born in France and died in Philadelphia , his personality scored the fight against slavery.
- Jean Antoine Bost said John Bost (1817-1881) - Switzerland, pastor of the village of La Force (Dordogne), he decided to build a home for unwanted children: the disabled, orphans, the poor. Asylums La Force today became the John Bost.
- Henri Dunant (1828-1910) - Humanist and Swiss businessman, founder of the Red Cross.
- Ferdinand Buisson (1841-1932) - Co-founder and president of the League of Human Rights, Director of Primary Education 1879-1896
- Pressens Francis (1853-1914) - Pacifist, diplomat, journalist and French politician, a figure of movement Dreyfus.
- Raoul Allier (1862-1939) - Normale Philosophy professor, large Dreyfus; influenced the liberal conception of the law of separation of church and state.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) - Pasteur, doctor, musician, musicologist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952
- Suzanne de Dietrich (1891-1981) - engineer, theologian and founder of CIMADE
- Ferrires Gabrielle (1900-2001) - resistant, pioneer of SOS Friendship, author of the biography of his brother Jean Cavailles.
- Andre Trocme (1901-1971) - Christian pacifism theorist known for having organized the rescue of thousands of Jews between 1940 and 1945.
- Jacques Soustelle (1912-1990) - Normale, anthropologist, professor of Philosophy, it was during his life Marxist, pacifist, Gaullist minister of de Gaulle's RPF organizer and pro-OAS and, as such, prohibited, pardoned in 1968 and also a member of the French Academy before becoming set at the end of his life in a sensational financial scandal.
- Sullerot Evelyn , nee Hammel (1924 - ...) - Feminist activist, sociologist, founder of the French Movement for Family Planning and is responsible for the "European Directive on equal treatment between men and women."
Painters, sculptors and artists
- Bernard Palissy (1509-1589) - Potter, who discovered the secrets of the enamels
- Jean Goujon (1510-1567) - Sculptor and Architect
- Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) - Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
- Gustave Jaulmes Louis (1873-1959) - architect, painter and decorator French.
- Jean-Eugne Bersier (1895-1978) - French painter and engraver.
Philosophers and writers
- Agrippa d'Aubign (1552-1630) - writer and poet French Baroque Protestant.
- Catherine de Parthenay (1554-1631) - French humanist known for its commitment Calvinist poet, playwright and patron.
- Conrart Valentin (1603-1675) - Founder of the French Academy
- Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) - Philosopher and writer refugee in Holland
- Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) - Writer
- Ehrenfried Stoeber (1779-1835) - lawyer, playwright, poet, and one of the creators of the theater Alsatian
- Auguste Stoeber (1808-1884) - poet and folklorist Alsatian.
- Galzy Jeanne (1883-1977) - Writer
- Louisa Siefert (1845-1877) - Writer
- Pierre Loti (1850-1923) - Writer
- Andre Gide (1869-1951) - Writer
- Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) - Writer Swiss, naturalized French
- Chamson Andr (1900-1983) - Recorder, French novelist and essayist, academician.
- Denis de Rougemont (1906-1985) - Swiss writer and philosopher
- Jacques Ellul (1912-94) - One of the key thinkers in the twentieth century art
- Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) - Philosopher
- Frdrique Hbrard (1927 - ...) - Novelist, daughter of academician Andr Chamson
Policies and contemporary PIPOL
- Joxe Louis (1901-1991) - Secretary General of the French Committee of National Liberation (1942-1944), Secretary General of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1946), Ambassador (Moscow, Bonn), Minister without interruption from July 1959 to May 1968 including Algerian Affairs (22 November 1960 to November 28, 1962) and as negotiator with the FLN.
- Defferre (1910-1986) resistant, Socialist mayor of Marseille for 34 years, a minister under the Fourth and Fifth Republics, father of the Framework Act 1956 (decolonization of Africa) and that of 1982 on decentralization.
- Pierre Joxe (1934 - ...) - Socialist minister, including the Interior and Defense, First President of the Court of Auditors, a member of the Constitutional Council from 2001 to 2010, the son of Louis Joxe.
- Catherine Lalumiere (1935 - ...) - Doctor in Public Law, Secretary of State Governments Mauroy and Fabius, MEP and Vice-President of the European Siding
- rignac Claude (1937-1998) Prefect recognized as a man of dialogue and negotiation, was murdered in the line of duty in February 1998 in Ajaccio
- Antoine Rufenacht (1939 - ...), Mayor of Le Havre, president of the Regional Council of Haute-Normandie Secretary of State to the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Handicrafts
- Alain Duhamel (1940 - ...) - French political journalist and essayist, brother of Patrick.
- Georgina Dufoix , born Negro (1943 - ...) - Minister of Social Affairs and National Solidarity from 1984 to 1986.
- Eva Joly (1943 - ...) - Norwegian living in France since the end of his studies, investigating judge who has made the financial hub of Paris prosecutor , politician French.
- Patrice Duhamel (1945 - ...) - journalist and patron of the French press, the brother of Alain.
- Catherine Trautmann (1951 - ...) - Theologian, mayor of Strasbourg, Minister of Culture and MEP.
- Renaud Sechan , "said Renaud (1952 - ...) - Singer / songwriter French, occasional actor, the multiple commitments (human rights, ecology, anti-militarism ...)
- Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres (1954 - ...) - French politician, Minister of Culture and Communication from 2004 to 2007, grand-son of Henry, judge at the Nuremberg trials
- Frachon Irene (1963 - ...), Brest pulmonologist doctor whose book "Mediator, How many deaths" had to break the code of silence around this dangerous drug.
- Xavier Bertrand (1965 - ...) - Mayor of Saint-Quentin, several times Minister of Health and Labour, Secretary General of the UMP from 2008 to 2010.
- Quivrin (1979-2009) - French actor award for Best Male Newcomer Light, price-Patrick Dewaere, Csar nomination for Best Male Newcomer in 2008, died at the wheel of his roadster into a tunnel in St. Cloud.
- Lou Doillon (1982 - ...) - French actress and model, daughter of Jane Birkin
- La Seydoux (1985 - ...) - French actress, granddaughter of Jerome Seydoux
reformers and theologians
- Jean Calvin (1509-1564) - reformer and theologian
- Sebastian Castellon (1515-1563) - Translator of the Bible into French, known for his Bible, making him one of the founders of modern criticism and philosophy pluralistic and tolerant.
- Theodore Beza (1519-1605) - French Protestant Theologian
- Guillaume Farel (1489-1565) - reformer who played a significant role in the expansion of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland and in Montbliard.
- Pierre Viret (1511-1571) - Reformer Vaud and the only reformer speaking native of Switzerland.
- Amyraut Moses (1596-1664) - French Protestant theologian influential, tried to reconcile the proponents of Arminianism and those of Gomar and promote tolerance.
- Antoine Court (1695-1760) - Protestant minister and historian French
- Antoine Court de Gebelin (1719? -84) - French writer and scholar, son of the previous
- Guy de Bres (1522-1567) - Reform of the Spanish Netherlands.
- Henry Xhrouet said Chrouet (1621-1691) - Prime minister in Olne (Principality of Liege) Stayed there during the Dutch war, he was murdered with her daughter by the soldiers of Louis XIV. Author of numerous books and religious cultists in French rather than in Wallonia.
- David Martin (1639-1721) - pastor and theologian, must take refuge in the Netherlands and died in Utrecht.
- Jacques Abbadie (1654-1727) - Pasteur of French refugees in Berlin in 1680, ended his life in London.
- Andr Lortie , born mid-seventeenth century and died in La Rochelle to London - Pastor, Protestant theologian and polemicist French.
- Paul Rabaut (1718-1794) - Pasteur, a tireless organizer of the Church "under the Cross" (illegal) despite the risk of arrest and execution.
- Alexandre Vinet (1797-1847) - Literary critic and Swiss theologian, has exerted a profound influence on French Protestantism pressing his sermons on his experience living and personal.
- Louis Auguste Sabatier (1839 - 1901) - Liberal Theologian.
- Tommy Fallot (1844-1904) - Pasteur, founder of the great social movement of Christianity.
- Charles Wagner (1852-1916) - French Liberal Pastor, whose works to influence President Roosevelt, very engaged in pastoral and non-profit (League for Education, League of Moral Education, adult education, the School of assisting the sick, the Sorbonne and even public instruction), founder of Home of the Soul.
- Ruben Saillens (1855-1942) - poet, author and clergyman, composer of "The Cevennes," founded the Biblical Institute of Nogent sur Marne.
- Madeleine-Saillens Blocher (1881-1971) - France's first female pastor (Baptist), daughter of Reuben Saillens.
- Marc Boegner (1881-1970) - pastor, theologian, leader of the French Protestantism (both at the head of the Reformed Church of France and the Protestant Federation of France), he distinguished himself by denouncing the occupation as strongly anti-Jewish measures and deportations.
- Roger Mehl (1912-1997) - Associate of philosophy and doctor of theology, professor of ethics and sociology of religion at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Human Sciences of Strasbourg from 1945 to 1981.
- Georges Casalis (1917-1987) - pastor and theologian, a follower of liberation theology.
- Andre Dumas (1918-1996) - philosopher and theologian, Cimade teammate during the war and awarded the Medal of the Righteous for his help to Jews as such, a member of the honorary committee of the MRAP, a professor of philosophy and Ethics at the Free Faculty of Protestant Theology in Paris from 1961 to 1984 and dean from 1973 to 1975.
- France Qur (1936-1996) - Ph.D. in theology, specializing in church fathers, writer, columnist, member of the National Committee of Ethics.
Resistance
- Pierre said Seguier Seguier Spirit (1657-1702) - One of the great prophetic movement inspired by the accompanying Camisards War, inspired the expedition against the Abbot of Chayla. Arrested and burned alive at the Pont-de-Montvert.
- John Knight (1681-1740) - Major military leader of the revolt of Camisards.
- Gideon Laporte (1660-1702) - Head camisard, which leads to Pont-de-Montvert first hand the Camisards War and was killed in action the same year!
- Abraham Mazel (1677-1710) - Prophet and fought in both the first and last Camisards.
- Elijah Marion (1678-1713) - Chief camisard, one of the few to have a higher education. Exiled in London, he founded the group Children of God "or" French Prophets "and tries to pass the torch prophetic throughout Europe.
- Marie Durand (1711-1776) - Prisoner for faith in the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes
- Vieljeux Lonce (1865-1944) - Owner, reserve colonel and mayor of La Rochelle, Resistance hero who was shot in 1944.
- Andr Philip (1902-1970) - French Socialist politician, doctor and lawyer in economics, strong, mimistre Finance in 1946-1947, participated in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe , advocating the creation of the ECSC , critical policy Algerian Guy Mollet , is excluded from the SFIO in 1957, joined the PSU until 1962, precludes Pierre Mendes-France , whom he does not forgive the episode of the DAC.
- Jean Cavailles (1903-1944) - Major of the entrance examination of the cole normale suprieure, rue d'Ulm, PhD in Mathematics, Philosophy professor, Resistance hero who was shot in 1944.
- Roland de Pury (1907-1979) - Swiss pastor known for his commitment to the Jews in Lyon under occupation.
- Madeleine Barot (1909-95) - Strong, moderator of CIMADE from 1940 to 1956.
