Jean-Baptiste
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Jean-Baptiste is a male French
name, originating with Saint John the Baptist
, and may refer to any of the following:
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
name, originating with Saint John the Baptist
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
, and may refer to any of the following:
Persons
- Charles XIV John, born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte.
- Charles-Jean-Baptiste BoucCharles-Jean-Baptiste BoucCharles-Jean-Baptiste Bouc was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born Charles-Baptiste Bouc in Terrebonne, the son of a merchant, and was involved in the trade of grain and furs, as well as lending money. In 1785, he married Archange Lepage. He inherited some livestock and...
, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada - Felix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph NèveFelix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph NèveFelix-Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Nève was an Orientalist and philologist.His parents were devout Catholics...
, Orientalist and philologist - Gui-Jean-Baptiste TargetGui-Jean-Baptiste TargetGui-Jean-Baptiste Target was a French lawyer and politician.Born in Paris, he acquired a great reputation as a lawyer, less by practice in the courts than in a consultative capacity. He strenuously opposed the "parlement Maupeou", devised by Chancellor Maupeou to replace the old judiciary bodies,...
, French lawyer and politician - Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste GarnerayHippolyte Jean-Baptiste GarnerayHippolyte Jean-Baptiste Garneray was a French painter. He was the third son of the painter Jean-François Garneray. He was active in history painting, marine painting, engraving, landscape art and watercolour, whose works include Un perron époque Louis XIII .-References:...
, French painter - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse KarrJean-Baptiste Alphonse KarrJean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his aunt Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabile....
, French critic, journalist and novelist. - Jean-Baptiste BagazaJean-Baptiste BagazaJean-Baptiste Bagaza is a Burundian politician who was Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until November 10, 1976, and President from November 10, 1976 to September 3, 1987. While travelling abroad, Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état. He was replaced as president by...
, chairman of Supreme Revolutionary Council in Burundi until 1976 and president of Burundi (1976-1987) - Jean-Baptiste BaudryJean-Baptiste BaudryJean-Baptiste Baudry was born at Trois-Rivières and was the son of Guillaume Baudry, a gunsmith and goldsmith....
, son of Guillaume Baudry, gunsmith and goldsmith - Jean-Baptiste BessièresJean-Baptiste BessièresJean-Baptiste Bessières, 1st Duc d' Istria was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era. His younger brother, Bertrand, followed in his footsteps and eventually became a Divisional General...
, duke of Istria (1768–1813), was a Marshal of France of the Napoleonic Era - Jean-Baptiste Bethune, Belgian architect, artisan, and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement
- Jean-Baptiste BillotJean-Baptiste BillotJean-Baptiste Billot - 31 May 1907, Paris) was a French general and politician.-Life:Jean-Baptiste Billot entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1847, and on leaving it in 1849 joined the staff with the rank of sous-lieutenant...
, French general and politician - Jean-Baptiste BiotJean-Baptiste BiotJean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.- Biography :...
, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician - Jean-Baptiste Bissot de Vincennes, son of François Byssot de la Rivière, career man with the colonial regular troops
- Jean-Baptiste BoissièreJean-Baptiste BoissièreJean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française , published by Larousse in 1862. It was, in effect, the first thesaurus of the French language....
, French lexicographer - Jean-Baptiste BottexJean-Baptiste BottexJean-Baptiste Bottex was a Haitian painter. Hailing from Port Margot in northern Haiti, Bottex painted scenes from the Bible and daily Haitian life. His works were of the Naïve style and were displayed at the Centre d'Art. His younger brother, Seymour Bottex, was also a noted painter.-References:...
, Haitian painter - Jean Baptiste BoussingaultJean Baptiste BoussingaultJean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.-Biography:...
, French chemist - Jean-Baptiste-Camille CorotJean-Baptiste-Camille CorotJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...
, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching - Jean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste CarpeauxJean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a French sculptor and painter.Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of...
, French sculptor and painter - Jean-Baptiste ChaigneauJean-Baptiste ChaigneauJean-Baptiste Chaigneau was a French Navy soldier and an adventurer who played an important role in Vietnam in the 19th century...
, French Navy soldier and adventurer who played an important role in Vietnam - Jean Baptiste CharbonneauJean Baptiste CharbonneauJean Baptiste Charbonneau was an American explorer and guide, fur trapper and trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in California. He spoke French and English, and learned German and Spanish...
, son of Sacagawea and her French Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau - Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist
- Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph BélangerJean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph BélangerJean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Ecole Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France...
, French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics - Jean-Baptiste-Claude OdiotJean-Baptiste-Claude OdiotJean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot was a French silversmith working in a neoclassical style.-Business:Maison Odiot, in English "House of Odiot", was established in 1690, during the reign of Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste Gaspard Odiot, considered a fine silversmith.Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gave Jean-Baptiste...
, French silversmith working in a neoclassical style - Jean-Baptiste ColbertJean-Baptiste ColbertJean-Baptiste Colbert was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing...
, French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de SeignelayJean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de SeignelayJean-Baptiste Antoine Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay was a French politician. He was the eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, nephew of Charles Colbert de Croissy and cousin of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy....
, French politician - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de TorcyJean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de TorcyJean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy , generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession , in which the dying Charles II of Spain...
, French diplomat, who negotiated some most important treaties towards end of reign of Louis XIV - Jean-Baptiste Couillard DupuisJean-Baptiste Couillard DupuisJean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis was a farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented L'Islet in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1878 to 1881 as a Liberal....
, farmer, merchant and political figure in Quebec - Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-VallierJean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-VallierJean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrière de St. Vallier was appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop in 1685 by Louis XIV. But, Blessed Pope Innocent XI was not granting any more bulls of investiture....
, appointed to the see of Quebec as bishop by Louis XIV - Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore, French admiral and politician
- Jean-Baptiste de VoglieJean-Baptiste de VoglieJean-Baptiste de Voglie , born Jean Bentivoglio was an eminent Italian road and bridge engineer.-Career:Descended from the Ferrara branch of the Bentivoglio, Jean de Voglie entered the Corps of Bridges and Roads in France in 1742 and was appointed under-engineer to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet at...
, eminent Italian road and bridge engineer - Jean-Baptiste DenysJean-Baptiste DenysJean-Baptiste Denys was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV.- Attempts to transfuse blood :...
, French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion - Jean-Baptiste Dominique RuscaJean-Baptiste Dominique RuscaJean-Baptiste Dominique Rusca was born in the County of Nice, part of the Kingdom of Sardinia. By profession a medical doctor, he advocated the cause of the French Revolution and was expelled by the Sardinian authorities. In 1793, he treated the French sick and wounded during the Siege of Toulon...
, medical doctor who advocated the cause of the French Revolution - Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de RochambeauJean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de RochambeauMarshal of France Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau was a French nobleman and general who participated in the American Revolutionary War as the commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force which came to help the American Continental Army...
- Jean-Baptiste Du TertreJean-Baptiste Du TertreJean-Baptiste Du Tertre was a French blackfriar and botanist.In 1633 he joined the Dutch army where he worked in the headquarters in Maastricht...
, French blackfriar and botanist - Jean-Baptiste DumasJean-Baptiste DumasJean Baptiste André Dumas was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities...
, French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis - Jean-Baptiste-Édouard GélineauJean-Baptiste-Édouard GélineauJean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau was the French physician who first described narcolepsy....
, French physician who first described narcolepsy - Jean-Baptiste FerréJean-Baptiste FerréJean-Baptiste Ferré was a miller and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented York in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1815 to 1820. His name also appears as Jean-Baptiste Féré....
, miller and political figure in Lower Canada - Jean-Baptiste ForquerayJean-Baptiste ForquerayJean-Baptiste Forqueray , the son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer.Forqueray was born in Paris. He is most famous today for his 1747 publication of twenty-nine pieces for viol and continuo which he attributed to his father...
, son of Antoine Forqueray, player of the viol and a composer - Jean-Baptiste Francois des Marets, marquis de MailleboisJean-Baptiste Francois des Marets, marquis de MailleboisJean-Baptiste François Desmarets , marquis of Maillebois, was a Marshal of France.He was the son of Nicolas Desmarets, Marquis De Maillebois Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XIV of France and nephew of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.He learned the art of war from Claude Louis Hector...
, Marshal of France - Jean-Baptiste GirardJean-Baptiste GirardJean-Baptiste Girard may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste Girard , Swiss Franciscan educator* Jean-Baptiste Girard , French soldier of the Napoleonic Wars...
(disambiguation page) - Jean-Baptiste GrangeJean-Baptiste GrangeJean-Baptiste Grange is a French alpine ski racer.Born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Grange grew up in Valloire, Galibier, and made his World Cup debut at age 19 in January 2004. On February 17, 2007, he won the bronze medal in the slalom at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden...
, French alpine skiier - Jean-Baptiste GrenouilleJean-Baptiste GrenouilleJean-Baptiste Grenouille is the protagonist from Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume, published in 1985. Grenouille is born with an extreme form of hyperosmia , which eventually leads to him becoming a serial killer....
, protagonist from the novel Perfume - Jean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste GreuzeJean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...
, French painter - Jean-Baptiste GuimetJean-Baptiste GuimetJean-Baptiste Guimet , French industrial chemist, was born at Voiron, Isère.He studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and in 1817 entered the Administration des Poudres et Salpêtres...
, French industrial chemist - Jean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.-Life:Deshays was born in Colleville. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen painter Jean-Dominique Deshays, he then spent a little time under Jean-Baptiste Descamps at his Ecole...
, French painter of religious and mythological subjects - Jean-Baptiste Henri LacordaireJean-Baptiste Henri LacordaireJean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire , often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist...
, French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist - Jean-Baptiste JanssensJean-Baptiste JanssensJean-Baptiste Janssens was the twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium.-Early Life and schooling:...
, twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus - Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier seriesFourier seriesIn mathematics, a Fourier series decomposes periodic functions or periodic signals into the sum of a set of simple oscillating functions, namely sines and cosines...
- Jean-Baptiste JourdanJean-Baptiste JourdanJean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Comte Jourdan , enlisted as a private in the French royal army and rose to command armies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Emperor Napoleon I of France named him a Marshal of France in 1804 and he also fought in the Napoleonic Wars. After 1815, he became reconciled...
(1762–1833), marshal of France - Jean-Baptiste Juchereau DuchesnayJean-Baptiste Juchereau DuchesnayJean-Baptiste Juchereau Duchesnay was a Canadian politician, officer, merchant, and seigneur.Jean-Baptiste Juchereau Duchesnay was born in Beauport, Quebec to Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay and Catherine Dupré. In 1792 he was placed as a boarder at Quebec, where for three years he attended the Petit...
, Canadian politician, officer, merchant, and seigneur - Jean Baptiste KléberJean Baptiste KléberJean Baptiste Kléber was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars. His military career started in Habsburg service, but his plebeian ancestry hindered his opportunities...
, French general during the French Revolutionary Wars - Jean Baptiste KouameJean Baptiste KouameJean Baptiste Kouame, often referred to simply as Jean Baptiste, is a songwriter and record producer.-2009:*The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.**"Boom Boom Pow" *Blake Lewis - Heartbreak on Vinyl**"Left My Baby for You"-2006:...
, record producer - Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
, French naturalist - Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French Catholic clergyman and first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Jean-Baptiste LandéJean-Baptiste LandéJean-Baptiste Landé was a French ballet dancer, active in Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He is the founder of the Russian Ballet Mariinsky Ballet....
(died 1748), founder of the Mariinsky Ballet - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de BienvilleJean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de BienvilleJean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienvillepronounce] was a colonizer, born in Montreal, Quebec and an early, repeated governor of French Louisiana, appointed 4 separate times during 1701-1743. He was a younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville...
, colonizer and repeated governor of French Louisiana - Jean-Baptiste LepèreJean-Baptiste LepèreJean-Baptiste Lepère was a French architect, father-in-law of the architect Jacques Hittorff. He was the designer of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, Paris, largely revised by Hittorf during its protracted execution, and one of the architects who worked on raising the colonne Vendôme.Lepère was one...
, French architect - Jean Baptiste Loeillet of GhentJean Baptiste Loeillet of GhentJean Baptiste Loeillet , who later styled himself Loeillet de Gant, was a Belgian composer, born in Ghent. He spent the largest part of its life in France in services to the archbishop of Lyon, Paul-François de Neufville de Villeroy. He wrote many works for flute, including trio sonatas,...
, Belgian composer - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of LondonJean-Baptiste Loeillet of LondonJean-Baptiste Loeillet of London , was a Flemish baroque composer as well as a performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord...
, Flemish baroque composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe, and harpsichord - Jean-Baptiste-Louis FranquelinJean-Baptiste-Louis FranquelinJean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin was born at Saint-Michel de Villebernin, France in 1651. He died in France around 1712. He was a cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation. He was also the first official cartographer in Canada....
, cartographer, a royal hydrographer, and a teacher of navigation - Jean-Baptiste-Louis GressetJean-Baptiste-Louis GressetJean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert....
, French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert - Jean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste LullyJean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
, Italian-born French composer - Jean-Baptiste MaunierJean-Baptiste MaunierJean-Baptiste Maunier , nicknamed JB or Jean-Bapt, is a French actor and singer famous for his role in the 2004 French film, Les Choristes.- Early life :...
(born 1990), French child actor - Jean-Baptiste Massillon, French churchman and preacher
- Jean-Baptiste MeilleurJean-Baptiste MeilleurJean-Baptiste Meilleur was a doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born at Petite-Côte in Saint-Laurent, Lower Canada on the Island of Montreal in 1796, the son of Jean Meilleur, and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and an English school in Montreal...
, doctor, educator and political figure in Lower Canada - Jean-Baptiste MichonisJean-Baptiste MichonisJean-Baptiste Michonis was a personality of the French Revolution. Originally a producer of lemonade, he became a member of the Commune de Paris, inspector of prisons and chief of police. He participated in the "complot de l'œillet" organised by Jean, Baron de Batz and for this was guillotined...
, personality of the French Revolution - Jean-Baptiste MondinoJean-Baptiste MondinoJean-Baptiste Mondino is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Neneh Cherry and Les Rita Mitsouko...
, French fashion photographer and music video director - Jean-Baptiste Morin (mathematician), French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer
- Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)Jean-Baptiste Morin (composer)Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the "Ordinaire de la Musique" to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. 1719-1731 was Morin "Maître de musique" of Louise-Adélaïde of Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.Morin was born in...
, French composer - Jean-Baptiste Ngo Dinh DiemNgo Dinh DiemNgô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam . In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. Accruing considerable U.S. support due to his staunch anti-Communism, he achieved victory in a...
, South Vietnamese president - Jean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.-Biography:...
, French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer - Jean Baptiste Ouedraogo, President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983
- Jean-Baptiste Peyras-LoustaletJean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet| name =Jean-Baptiste Peyras-Loustalet| image =| fullname =| birth_date = | birth_place = Pau, France| height = | weight = 93 kg| nickname =| school =| university =| relatives =| position = Wing| currentclub = Montpellier| clubnumber =| youthyears =...
, French rugby union player - Jean-Baptiste PigalleJean-Baptiste PigalleJean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor.He was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Grand Prix, after a severe struggle he entered the Académie Royale and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day.His earlier work, such as Child with Cage ...
, French sculptor - Jean Baptiste PitoisJean Baptiste PitoisJean Baptiste Pitois, also known as Jean Baptiste or Paul Christian was a French author, known for The History and Practice of Magic, first published in France in 1870.-Life:...
, French writer on the occult - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first settler in Chicago
- Jean-Baptiste RaymondJean-Baptiste RaymondJean-Baptiste Raymond was a seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies in New France in 1757 and entered the fur trade at a young age. He later became a merchant at La Tortue...
, seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada - Jean-Baptiste RégisJean-Baptiste RégisJean-Baptiste Régis was a French Jesuit missionary in imperial China.-Biography and works:He was born at Istres in Provence on 11 June 1663, or 29 January 1664; died at Peking on 24 November 1738...
, French Jesuit missionary in imperial China - Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
, French painter - Jean-Baptiste RenaudJean-Baptiste RenaudJean-Baptiste Renaud was a prominent businessman, merchant and land owner in Quebec. He served as a member of the Quebec Board of Trade and represented Saint-Pierre Ward on the municipal council for Quebec City from 1862 to 1868.He was born in Lachine, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Renaud...
, prominent businessman, merchant, and land owner in Quebec - Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de RouvilleJean-Baptiste-René Hertel de RouvilleJean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Montreal in 1789, the son of Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville. He became a lieutenant in the militia around 1807 and served as a captain in the Canadian Voltigeurs during the War of 1812...
, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada - Jean-Baptiste Robert LindetJean-Baptiste Robert LindetJean-Baptiste Robert Lindet was a French politician of the Revolutionary period. His brother, Robert Thomas Lindet, became a constitutional bishop and member of the National Convention...
, French politician of the Revolutionary period - Jean-Baptiste RousseauJean-Baptiste RousseauJean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French poet.-Biography:Rousseau was born in Paris, the son of a shoemaker, and was well educated. As a young man, he gained favour with Boileau, who encouraged him to write. Rousseau began with the theatre, for which he had no aptitude...
, French poet - Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe
- Jean-Baptiste Sanson de PongervilleJean-Baptiste Sanson de PongervilleJean-Baptiste Sanson de Pongerville was a French a man of letters and poet. He was elected the tenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1830....
, French a man of letters and poet - Jean-Baptiste SayJean-Baptiste SayJean-Baptiste Say was a French economist and businessman. He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free trade, and lifting restraints on business...
, French economist and businessman - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinJean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinJean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities...
, French painter - Jean-Baptiste TavernierJean-Baptiste TavernierJean-Baptiste Tavernier was a French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, and travels through Persia , most known for works in two quarto volumes, Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and diamond merchant for some important diamonds of the century...
, French traveler and pioneer of trade with India - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de GribeauvalJean Baptiste Vaquette de GribeauvalLieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval was a French artillery officer and engineer who revolutionized French cannon, creating a new production system that allowed lighter, more uniform guns without sacrificing range. His Gribeauval system superseded the de Vallière system...
, French artillery officer and engineer - Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French luthierLuthierA luthier is someone who makes or repairs lutes and other string instruments. In the United States, the term is used interchangeably with a term for the specialty of each maker, such as violinmaker, guitar maker, lute maker, etc...
- Jean Baptiste WilkieJean Baptiste WilkieJean Baptiste Wilkie was a Métis chief from the Pembina area.Wilkie's father, Alexander, was of Scottish origin and his mother was a Chippewa named Mezhekamkijkok. He married Amable Elise Azure, the daughter of Pierre Azure and Margaret Assiniboine...
(1803-1886), former chief of the Metis tribe near Pembina, North Dakota - Jean-Pierre-André AmarJean-Pierre-André AmarJean-Pierre-André Amar or Jean-Baptiste-André Amar was a French political figure of the Revolution.-Early activities:...
, also known as Jean-Baptiste-André Amar, French political figure of the Revolution - Joseph-Jean-Baptiste GosselinJoseph-Jean-Baptiste GosselinJoseph-Jean-Baptiste Gosselin was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1900 to 1919 as a Liberal....
, merchant and political figure in Quebec - Marianne Jean-BaptisteMarianne Jean-BaptisteMarianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is a British actress and singer of Antiguan and St. Lucian heritage.-Early life:...
, British actress and singer of Antiguan and Saint Lucian heritage - MolièreMolièreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
, stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, French playwright and actor considered among greatest masters of comedy in Western literature - P. Jean-Baptiste BradelP. Jean-Baptiste BradelP. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, a French draughtsman and engraver, was born in Paris about 1750. He was chiefly employed in engraving portraits, which are neatly executed, and which include the following plates:*Pope Benedict XIV.*Pope Clement XIV....
, French draughtsman and engraver - Pham Minh Man, short for Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese: Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn), Catholic cardinal priest and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City
See also
- Saint-Jean-Baptiste SocietySaint-Jean-Baptiste SocietyThe Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec Sovereignism. Its current President is Mario Beaulieu....
(Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), institution in Quebec dedicated to protection of francophone interests - Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada [a neighborhood]
- Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New BrunswickSaint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New BrunswickSaint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche is an unincorporated community in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.-References:...
, Canada - National Holiday (Quebec), celebrated on 24 June, the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. Quebec is a Francophone province of Canada.
- Hunting of Jean-BaptisteHunting of Jean-BaptisteThe Hunting of Jean-Baptiste was a wolf-hunt that began in France and ended somewhere in the Duchy of Luxembourg, and is notable not only for the detailed record of the chase that survived but as an excellent representative of modernized hunting in the medieval style...
, wolf and quarry of famed 1780 hunt - Alès Cathedral, short for Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Alès, Catholic cathedral and national monument in Alès, France
- Bazas Cathedral, short for Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bazas, Catholic cathedral and national monument in Bazas, Gironde, France