Senate Years of Service: 1964-1964Party: DemocratSALINGER, Pierre Emil George, a Senator from California; born in San Francisco, Calif., June 14, 1925; attended San Francisco State College…
(Encyclopedia) Louÿs, PierreLouÿs, Pierrepyĕr l&oomacr;ēˈ [key], 1870–1925, French writer of the Parnassian school, whose real name was Pierre Louis. His early poems, collected as Astarté (1891…
(Encyclopedia) Laclede, PierreLaclede, Pierrepyĕr läklĕdˈ [key], c.1724–1778, French pioneer in the United States. His surname was Liguest, but he adopted the name Pierre Laclede. He went to New…
(Encyclopedia) Gringore, PierreGringore, Pierrepyĕr grăNgôrˈ [key], c.1475–c.1539, French dramatist and poet. He produced ceremonial pageants and mystery plays and wrote the Jeu du prince des sots (…
(Encyclopedia) Bretonneau, PierreBretonneau, Pierrepyĕr brətônōˈ [key], 1778–1862, French physician. He performed (1825) the first successful tracheotomy for laryngeal diphtheria, wrote a treatise (…
(Encyclopedia) Fauchard, PierreFauchard, Pierrepyĕr fōshärˈ [key], 1678–1761, French dentist, a founder of modern dentistry. He practiced in Paris from c.1715 and was influential in raising dentistry…
(Encyclopedia) Jurieu, PierreJurieu, Pierrepyĕr zhüryöˈ [key], 1637–1713, French Calvinist theologian. He was (1674–81) professor at Sedan. In 1681 in an attempt to preserve Huguenot liberties he…
(Encyclopedia) Bouguer, PierreBouguer, Pierrepyĕr b&oomacr;gĕrˈ [key], 1698–1758, French mathematician and hydrographer. He made some of the first photometric measurements, calculating the…
(Encyclopedia) Pierre, AbbéPierre, Abbéäbāˈ pyĕr [key], 1912–2007, French priest and social activist, b. Lyons as Henri Antoine Grouès. Renouncing a wealthy inheritance to become a Capuchin monk in…
(Encyclopedia) Gouthière, PierreGouthière, Pierrepyĕr g&oomacr;tyĕrˈ [key], 1732?–c.1813, French metalworker. The greatest artist of ornamental bronzes of the period of Louis XVI, he produced a…
