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Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul 1580?-1660, French priest renowned for charitable work, b. Gascony. He was ordained in 1600. There are conflicting stories about his capture by pirates and enslavement in Tunis and his subsequent escape. In Rome he came to the attention of Pope Paul V, who sent him on a missio...
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Paul Vincent Carroll
Paul Vincent Carroll 1900-1968, Irish playwright. His plays, vigorous commentaries on the conflicts of village life in Ireland, include Shadow and Substance (1937), The White Steed (1939), The Wise Have Not Spoken (1946), and The Wayward Saint (1955).
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Paul de Kruif
Paul de Kruif , 1890-1971, American author, b. Zeeland, Mich., grad. Univ. of Michigan (B.S., 1912). He was bacteriologist at the university from 1912 to 1917. Among his books are Microbe Hunters (1926), The Fight for Life (1938), and Hunger Fighters (1939).
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Antoine Frédéric Ozanam
Antoine Frédéric Ozanam , 1813-53, French Roman Catholic scholar. In 1831 he first achieved notice with his pamphlet against the Saint-Simonians. In Paris (1839), where he went to study, he met Chateaubriand, Lacordaire, Ampère, and other leaders of Catholic thought. In 1833 he ...
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Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin , 1872-1946, French physicist and chemist. He was professor of experimental physics at the Collège de France from 1909 and at the École municipale de Physique et de Chimie, Paris, from 1904 (director from 1929); dismissed by the Vichy government in 1940, he resumed his po...
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Paul Anton de Lagarde
Paul Anton de Lagarde , 1827-91, German Orientalist. Lagarde was one of the most important biblical critics and Middle Eastern philologists of his century. His work included studies in Iranian, Syriac, Greek, Arabic, and Aramaic, but perhaps his best-known contributions were to the criticism of the ...
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Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , 1737-1814, French naturalist and author. He was a friend of Rousseau, by whom he was strongly influenced. His chief work, Études de la nature (1784), sought to prove the existence of God from the wonders of nature; it is rich in descriptive passages...
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Paul Morin
Paul Morin , 1889-1963, French Canadian poet, b. Montreal. After taking degrees in the arts, science, and law at Laval Univ., he studied in Paris. His two books of poems, Le Paon d'émail [the enamel peacock] (1911) and Poèmes de cendre et d'or [poems in ashes and gold] (1922), are ...
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Paul Scarron
Paul Scarron , 1610-60, French writer. His picaresque novel Le Romant comique (1651) vividly portrays the lives of a company of strolling players. He also wrote short stories, collected as Les Nouvelles tragi-comiques (1655), satires, and burlesque poems and plays. Scarron married (1652) Fran&cc...
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Paul de Chomedey Maisonneuve, sieur de
Paul de Chomedey Maisonneuve, sieur de , 1612-76, founder and first governor of Montreal, b. France. A soldier, he fought in European wars before being sent by the Société de Notre Dame de Montréal to take possession of their grant in the new world. He landed (1642) on Montreal ...
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