French Famous Boy Names with Letter J

Was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies a

Was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921. Historians such as Georges Blond, Basil Liddell Hart

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was eliminated in the first r

Was a French boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he was eliminated in the first round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Samuel Mosberg.

Is a French football midfielder.

Is a French football midfielder.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the 1956 Tour de France.

Was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won one stage in the 1956 Tour de France.

Was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of French sculptors by François Jouffroy and François Rude

Was a French sculptor. He was the pupil of French sculptors by François Jouffroy and François Rude. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he created Ulysse blessé à la chasse par un sanglier, a bas-relief with whom he won the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1857. Then he moved to Rome and lived in the Académie de France à Rome of Villa Medici, from 27 January 1858 to 31 December 1862.[1]

Was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrody

Was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at Faculty of Sciences of Lille, lecturing differential and integral calculus at Institut industriel du Nord (École centrale de Lille). From 1896 to his retirement in 1918, he was professor of mechanics at Faculty of Sciences of Paris.

Is a former French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer O

Is a former French boxer who won the bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Was a Luxembourgian politician. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), Wohlfart

Was a Luxembourgian politician. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), Wohlfart held office at local, national, and supranational level.In 1950, Wohlfart was elected to the communal council of Lorentzweiler, on which he served for over two decades, including a period as mayor (1961 – 74). He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1954. Wohlfart sat in the Thorn Ministry as the Minister for the Interior from 1974 until 1979. In 1988, on the death of Lydie Schmit, Wohlfart succeeded as one of Luxembourg's six Members of the European Parliament, in which capacity he served until the 1989 election.

Was a French archaeologist and Canon of Belley. He studied at the petit séminaire of Belley and bec

Was a French archaeologist and Canon of Belley. He studied at the petit séminaire of Belley and became a professor there in 1832. He was curate later at Cressy and afterwards a parish priest of Arbignieu.

Was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was elected bishop of Nancy on March

Was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was elected bishop of Nancy on March 27, 1867. He took part in the First Vatican Council. He was promoted to the Metropolitan See of Besançon on March 30, 1882, and transferred to the Metropolitan See of Lyon on May 26, 1887.

Was a Swiss architect. Coming from an old middle class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his

Was a Swiss architect. Coming from an old middle class family from Solothurn, Froelicher begins his architectural studies in Switzerland, receiving his degree in Solothurn in 1809. He then left for Paris, endowed with a pension from the Swiss government to complete his studies in Paris. He entered the école des Beaux-Arts in 1809, gallicizing his name into Joseph Antoine Frelicher, then Froelicher.

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France)

Is a French composer, conductor and musicologist.Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony (Île-de-France). He is associated with an original movement in Post-modernim, cited in the ‘‘Larousse de la musique’’ (see Histoire de la musique published by Larousse, 2000, p. 1137). His compositional style is situated between the formal conception of a theorised musical heritage and the research of new freely referenced musical climates. He is very sensitive to the sound qualities of contemporary music as well as the human role in the context of musical interpretation. As a cellist, he studied with Robert Cordier, Maurice Gendron and Claude Burgos. He studied orchestral conducting with J.C. Hartmann and Pierre Dervaux. As a composer, he was principally the disciple of Claude Ballif.

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to

Was a French oboist and composer. Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to a family of modest means. His father was a shoe-maker in the Place Jean d'Autan. His uncle was a bassoonist, who brought him to Paris to learn the oboe. In 1769 Garnier joined the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music (which was to become the National Opera of Paris after the Revolution),

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which d

Is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.[1] He has written several books which deal with musical phenomenology, especially on the symbolic forms of music (1984), on the great musical topics (1994), on musical aesthetics (2000), as well as on musical theory, among them the first French reissue of Rameau’s Traité d'harmonie of 1722, a project supported by the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1986, and in 1996 Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique of 1726. Must be also mentioned several works of comparative aesthectics [3].

Was a French Jesuit missionary and writer. Joseph-François Lafitau entered the Society of Jesus, in

Was a French Jesuit missionary and writer. Joseph-François Lafitau entered the Society of Jesus, in 1696, and the general, Tamburini, yielding to his entreaties, sent him to Canada in 1711. Appointed to the mission of Sault Saint-Louis (Caughnawaga), he made a thorough study of Iroquois character and usages, as a preparation to his great work Mœures des Sauvages américains comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps, published in 1724.

Was a French adventurer, businessman, and diplomat who fathered the Lambert Charter. He travelled to

Was a French adventurer, businessman, and diplomat who fathered the Lambert Charter. He travelled to Mauritius where, at the age of 22, he married a wealthy widow and accumulated further wealth by entering the slave trade. By sea, he relieved a Merina garrison, in Madagascar, in 1854, that was beleaguered by rebelling Malagasy tribes. As a reward, he was invited to a royal audience with the xenophobic queen Ranavalona I. At her capital Antananarivo, he met Jean Laborde, a Frenchman who had established an armament industry for the Merina army

Was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal. He was bishop of Viviers in 1842, and archbi

Was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal. He was bishop of Viviers in 1842, and archbishop of Tours in 1857.

Was a French sculptor. He was professor at the école des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, and official sculptor

Was a French sculptor. He was professor at the école des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, and official sculptor to the diocese of Lyon. In 1840, he set himself up at Saint-Étienne, where he was professor at the town's university. He left the town for Lyon in 1845 where he became a professor at the école des beaux-arts de Lyon

A French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist idio

A French architect, interior designer, and landscape architect working within the neoclassicist idiom. In his lifetime, he worked in France, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, and the USA. He also published books on landscaping with his own numerous garden designs as examples.

Was a French politician. On 13 May 1815, he was elected a member of the Chambre des Représentants,

Was a French politician. On 13 May 1815, he was elected a member of the Chambre des Représentants, a short-lived parliamentary assembly set up by Napoleon I during the Hundred Days, for the arrondissement of Bayonne.

Was a French journalist and Breton nationalist. He also published under pseudonyms, most notably as

Was a French journalist and Breton nationalist. He also published under pseudonyms, most notably as Jos Pempoull. Working for the journal Nouvelliste de Lorient he created the "Celtic Circle of Lorient" and became active in the Breton National Party. He also worked voluntarily for Loeiz Herrieu's Breton language literary magazine Dihunamb.[1]

Was a Basque French composer and pianist of Impressionist and Expressionist music, known especially

Was a Basque French composer and pianist of Impressionist and Expressionist music, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his melodies and of his orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. His piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music have become staples of the concert repertoire.

Was a French astronomer. He was one of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle (1644–1720). Like many of his

Was a French astronomer. He was one of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle (1644–1720). Like many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle, he initially followed classical studies. Soon however, he moved to astronomy under the supervision of J. Lietaud and Jacques Cassini. He entered the French Academy of Sciences as pupil of Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709–1788). Though he was a good scientist and member of a wealthy family he did not have much money.

Was a French musician, composer, and harpsichordist.

Was a French musician, composer, and harpsichordist.

Was a French painter, known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. He returned to Carpentra

Was a French painter, known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits. He returned to Carpentras, spent a brief time in Lyon then arrived about 1752 in Paris, where he was accepted into the Académie de Saint-Luc and exhibited some portraits, which were now his specialty, in 1764, but did not achieve much notice until his exhibition of ten paintings at the Paris salon of 1769, very well received and selected for special notice by Denis Diderot; the Académie de peinture et de sculpture accepted him in the category of portraitist, considered a lesser category at the time.