Famous People with Name Blaise

Blaise De Vigenère            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Blaise De Vigenère: was a French diplomat and cryptographer. The Vigenère cipher is so named due to the cipher being incorrectly attributed to him in the 19th century. Vigenère (IPA: [vi?n???]) was born in the village of Saint-Pourçain. At age 17 he entered the diplomatic service, and remained there for 30 years, retiring in 1570. Five years into his career he was sent to the Diet of Worms as a very junior secretary. At age 24, he entered the service of the Duke of Nevers

Blaise Sonnery            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Blaise Sonnery: is a French professional road bicycle racer who previously rode for UCI ProTour team Ag2r-La Mondiale.

Blaise Gisbert            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Blaise Gisbert: was a French Jesuit rhetorician and critic. Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1672, he taught the humanities, rhetoric, and philosophy, after which he devoted himself for a long time to preaching. The pleasure which Gisbert took in discussing pulpit eloquence with Nicolas de Lamoignon, the intendant of Languedoc, impelled him to write an essay on sacred eloquence, which he entitled Le bon gôut de l'éloquence chrétienne (Lyons, 1702). He spent ten years in retouching this essay, and augmented it considerably by adding to the rules examples drawn from Holy Scripture and the Church Fathers,