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1 Jacques
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2 Jacques
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3 jacques
n. m.1. 'Jemmy', crowbar.2. 'Prick', 'cock', penis.3. Faire le jacques: To 'act the giddy goat', to play the fool. Cesse donc de faire le jacques! Stop arsing about! -
4 Jacques Charles
m.Jacques Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles. -
5 Jacques Costeau
m.Jacques Costeau, Jacques Yves Costeau. -
6 Jacques Marquette
m.Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette. -
7 Jacques Monod
m.Jacques Monod, Jacques Lucien Monod. -
8 Jacques Tati
m.Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff. -
9 Jacques Way Instrument
Music: JWIУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Jacques Way Instrument
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11 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 11 June 1910 Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France[br]French marine explorer who invented the aqualung.[br]He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsLégion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre with Palm. Officier du Mérite Maritime and numerous scientific and artistic awards listed in such directories as Who's Who.Bibliography1953, The Silent World.1972, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, 21 vols.Further ReadingR.Munson, 1991, Cousteau, the Captain and His World, London: Robert Hale (published in the USA 1989).LRD -
12 Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle
Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle ⇒ Les villes npr Santiago de Compostela.[sɛ̃ʒakdəkɔ̃pɔstɛl] nom propreDictionnaire Français-Anglais > Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle
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13 Chirac, Jacques
born 1932.(adj. Chiraquien)Former conservative (Gaullist) President of France, from 1995 to 2007. Chirac's reelection in 2002 was an unexpected twist of fortune, caused by the elimination of the front-runner, socialist Lionel Jospin, pipped into third place in the first round of the election by a surge in the vote for the far right wing leader of the French National Front, Jean Marie Le Pen.Facing Le Pen in the second round, Chirac was reelected with a massive majority in what was in essence a contest between the the extreme right and everyone else. Had the second round of the election been a classic left-right contest, Chirac's re-election would not have been guaranteed.Jacques Chirac was a highly ambitious career politician, who worked his way rapidly up the ranks of the Gaullist movement; yet his first steps in politics were actually as a militant for the Communist party, and as a student he sold the communist newspaper l'Humanité on the streets of Paris. After graduating from "Sciences Po", he changed tack, married into Parisian high society, studied at the elite ENA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration), and then began a career in politics, working for the office of the prime minister, Georges Pompidou. In 1976, he was appointed junior minister for employment in the third Pompidou government, and from then after he remained one of the most omnipresent of conservative politicians in France. From Gaullist, he became a supporter of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing during Giscard's 1974 bid for the presidency - against the Gaullist Chaban-Delmas - and was appointed Prime Minister when Giscard won. Two years later, he resigned, complaining that Giscard was cramping his style.This was the start of his rise to the top. No longer prime minister, in 1977 he set about building his own power base, or rather his own two power bases, firstly as leader of a new political party, the RPR, created out of the old Gaullist UDR, and secondly by becoming elected Mayor of Paris. In 1981, he challenged Giscard for the presidency, but came third in the first round of the election, which was won by François Mitterrand. By 1986 he was clear leader of the conservative opposition. When the conservatives won the general election of that year, he was appointed prime minister, ushering in the first period of cohabitation (see below) between a president and a government of different political persuasions.In 1988, he was again a candidate in the presidential election, and again lost; but with his power base in Paris and in the RPR, he then had seven years in which to prepare his third, and first successful, challenge for the presidency.He served two terms as president, the first of seven years, the second of five - though as already stated, his reelection in 2002 was more due to the failure of the Socialist campaign and the surprise presence of Le Pen in the second round, than in his own popularity. It is still rather early to judge the Chirac presidency in a historic perspective, but early appraisals suggest that it will not be remembered as a great period in French history. It was a time during which France dramatically failed to adapt to the changes in the modern world - the end of the Cold War and the challenge of globalisation - and failed to push through the social and economic reforms that were allowing other developed nations such as France, Germany or Spain, to find their place in the new world order.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Chirac, Jacques
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14 Cape St. Jacques, Vietnam
Airports: CSJУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Cape St. Jacques, Vietnam
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15 Jean Jacques Lussier
Names and surnames: JJLУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Jean Jacques Lussier
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16 coquille Saint-Jacques
scallop; ( écaille) scallop shell* * *sɛ̃ʒak nf* * *IIIa. [mollusque] scallopb. [enveloppe] scallop shell -
17 Chaban-Delmas, Jacques
(1915-2000)Conservative prime minister of France, 1969 - 1972. Chaban Delmas was a wartime leader in the French Resistance movement, who entered politics in the days of the Fourth Republic. At this time, he was a Radical and a Social Republican. He was a minister in the centre-left coalition government of Pierre Mendès-France in 1954-55 and minister of Defence in the Radical Socialist Gaillard government 1957-8. He then rallied to the Gaullist movement in 1958, though was mistrusted by many leading Gaullists, and did not serve as minister during the De Gaulle presidencies, though was elected leader of the National Assembly. He was appointed prime minister by Georges Pompidou. As well as his national duties, Chaban-Delmas was also Mayor of Bordeaux for 48 years, from 1947 to 1995, and also Député for the city - a classic example of cumul des mandats.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Chaban-Delmas, Jacques
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18 Delors, Jacques
A French catholic socialist politician, former President of the European Commission (1985-1995). Father of the leading French socialist politician Martine Aubry. Delors' socialist-catholic vision of European integration was strongly at odds with the "anglo-saxon/protestant" views of Margaret Thatcher, and the two leaders disagreed vehemently over many issues.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Delors, Jacques
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19 Médecin, Jacques
(1928-1998)Long-serving mayor of Nice (1966-1990), and son of a previous mayor of the city. The Medecin family dominated politics in Nice for over half a century, like a family of local princes. His career came to a stuttering end in the late 1980s, following the first of a series of indictments for improprieties in the management of local affairs, including corruption and tax fraud. He fled to Uruguay in 1990, but was extradited in 1994, and spent two years in prison. On release, he returned to Uruguay, where he died two years later.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Médecin, Jacques
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20 Tati, Jacques
(1907-1982)French film director, best remembered for his comedies, notably Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Trafic (1971).Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Tati, Jacques
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Jacques — is the French equivalent of Jake (and subsequently Jacob or James). In French it is pronounced IPA|/ʒɑk/, but in English it is traditionally pronounced IPA|/ˈdʒeɪˌkwɛz/ as a first name and IPA|/dʒeks/ (North America) or IPA|/dʒeɪks/ (United… … Wikipedia
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Jacques — hace referencia a: Abreviación científica para el botánico Henri Antoine Jacques 1782 1866. Jacques Anquetil, ciclista francés. Jacques Cousteau, oceanógrafo francés. Jacques Derrida, filósofo francés. Jacques Martin, historietista francés.… … Wikipedia Español
JACQUES II — (1430 1460) roi d’Écosse (1437 1460) Monté sur le trône en 1437, après le meurtre de son père Jacques Ier, Jacques II n’exerça le pouvoir qu’à partir de 1449, année de son mariage avec Marie de Gueldre, nièce de Philippe le Bon, duc de Bourgogne … Encyclopédie Universelle
JACQUES IV — (1472 1513) roi d’Écosse (1488 1513) Fils aîné de Jacques III, le futur Jacques IV est aux côtés des rebelles qui battent son père au Sauchieburn (1488), bataille suivie du meurtre du roi. Son rôle dans ces événements est mal connu et contesté.… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Jacques I. — Jacques I. ist der Name folgender Personen: Jacques I. (Monaco) (1689–1751), Fürst von Monaco Jacques I. Androuet du Cerceau (1510/1520–1585/1586), französischer Architekt, Architekturtheoretiker, Zeichner und Kupferstecher Jacques I. de Bourbon … Deutsch Wikipedia
