Sunday, July 2, 2017

Notes on France on the French

The Valois Dynasty reigned France from 1328-1589

From 1573-1575, Henry 3rd was elected King of Poland. After that, he became King of France.

Of course, there is the Marquise de Lafayette who helped in the American revoluion.


When the French colonized Vietnam, a French adventurer by the name of
Marie-Charles David de Mayréna, set up a temporary kingdom known as the the kingdom of Sedang in what is modern day Vietnam

Special Operations Executive was a British organization; there to aid resistance movements such as that of the French. There were thus French SOE agents such as Lilian Rolfe, who was deteceted and executed by the Nazis.

Vatel was a 17th century French chef.


Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes- French diplomat, statesman, and foreign minister during the American Revolution.

Top Ten Dutch Scholars!

1. Christiaan Huygens- Often credited as the inventor of the pendulum clock

2. Spinoza- Dutch philosopher

3. Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)- Often credited as the inventor of the telescope; thought it may have been invented earlier.

4.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek- Known for his improvements of the microscope


5. Desiderius Erasmus

6.

Guido van Rossum- Dutch programmer. Inventor of the python programming language.

7.

Bram Moolenaar- Some Dutch computer programmer. (author of Vim)

8.
Max Euwe- fifth player to become a world chess champion. Also author of over 70 chess books.



9. Abel Tasman (1603-1659)- First European explorer to have been to New Zealand and Tasmania; also saw the island of Fiji.

10.
Willem Johan Kolff- Noted 20th century Dutch physician in the field of artificial organs.




HONORARY MENTIONS:

William of Orange: More of a statesman than a scholar though......


Michiel de Ruyter- The most noted Dutch Admiral of the 1600s.

Anton Phillipis- Founded Phillips electronics

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Grootste_Nederlander