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Deschanel, Paul Eugéne Louis

(Encyclopedia) Deschanel, Paul Eugéne LouisDeschanel, Paul Eugéne Louispôl ûzhĕnˈ lwē [key]Deschanel, Paul Eug dāshänĕlˈ [key], 1855–1922, president of the French republic (1920); son of Émile…

Chanzy, Antoine Eugène Alfred

(Encyclopedia) Chanzy, Antoine Eugène AlfredChanzy, Antoine Eugène AlfredäNtwänˈ özhĕnˈ älfrĕdˈ shäNzēˈ [key], 1823–83, French general. After service in Algeria, Italy, and Syria, he was refused a…

Rostow, Eugene Victor Debs

(Encyclopedia) Rostow, Eugene Victor Debs, 1913–2002, U.S. lawyer, educator, and government official, brother of Walt Whitman Rostow, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Admitted to the bar in 1938, Rostow joined the…

O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone)

(Encyclopedia) O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone), 1888–1953, American dramatist, b. New York City. He is widely acknowledged as America's greatest playwright. Near the end of his life O'Neill renounced…

Néel, Louis Eugène Félix

(Encyclopedia) Néel, Louis Eugène Félix, 1904–2000, French physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Strasbourg, 1932. He was a professor at the Univ. of Strasbourg from 1932 to 1945, when he joined the faculty at…

Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene

(Encyclopedia) Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867–1940, American philosopher, b. Windsor, Ont., grad. Amherst, 1889, and Union Theological Seminary, 1892, and studied (1892–94) at the Univ. of…

Simon, Claude Eugène Henri

(Encyclopedia) Simon, Claude Eugène Henri, 1913–2005, French novelist. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and studied at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge. He fought in World War II both as a…

Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin

(Encyclopedia) Berthelot, Pierre Eugène MarcelinBerthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelinpyĕr ûzhĕnˈ märsəlăNˈ bĕrtəlōˈ [key], 1827–1907, French chemist. He was professor at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie…