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"Philippe Viannay (15 August 1917 - 27 November 1986) was a French journalist. School foundation He founded the Centre de formation des journalistes, and, later, the sailing school Les Glénans. French resistance During World War II, he led a resistance movement named Défense de la France. They printed an underground journal which distributed up to 400,000 copies.December, 2002 interview with Hélène Viannay, Spartacus Educational Personal The Canadian journalist Caitlin Kelly—who studied with Viannay at the Centre in Paris on an eighth-month journalism fellowship—later described him as "the most inspiring man I've ever met."Caitlin Kelly, "The Man to Whom I'm Most Grateful," Broadside, November 23, 2010 Hélène Viannay During the first year of the German occupation, Viannay married the former Hélène Mordkovitch. Hélène Viannay co-administered Les Glénans with her husband, and following Viannay's death became president of the association of Ancient Résistants of Défense de la France.December, 2002 interview with Hélène Viannay, Spartacus Educational Prix Philippe Viannay-Défense de la France The French Fondation de la Résistance awards an annual prize for resistance-era histories, the Prix Philippe Viannay-Défense de la France. Fondation de la Résistance References Category:French journalists Category:French Resistance members Category:1917 births Category:1986 deaths Category:Place of birth missing Category:Place of death missing Category:French male non-fiction writers Category:20th-century journalists "
"William Parry-Okeden dressed in his military uniform, ca. 1870 William Edward Parry-Okeden (13 May 1841 – 30 August 1926) was a public servant, Police Commissioner and Protector of Aborigines (1895-1903), as well as a horseman, in Queensland, Australia. Early life William Edward Parry-Okeden was born on 13 May 1841, the son of David Parry-Okeden. He was born at Maranumbela, his father's station, Snowy River, in the Monaro District of New South Wales. Having served three years as an articled clerk to a solicitor in Melbourne, he relinquished the law and joined his father in squatting pursuits in Queensland in 1861. Public service career Nine years later he was appointed to initiate the Border Customs, and entered the Civil Service as Inspector of the Border Patrol in December 1870. Having been employed as a police magistrate from 1872 to 1886, Parry-Okeden acted for the next three years as Immigration Agent at Brisbane, receiving the appointment of Under- Colonial Secretary in July 1889. In 1887 he acted with Kinnaird Rose on an inquiry into gaol management in Queensland. He served as Queensland Police Commissioner from 1895 to 1 April 1905, when he retired from the public service. Other interests In 1868, Parry-Okden's horse Hermit won the first Queensland Derby run at Gayndah Racecourse. Later life Parry- Okeden died on 30 August 1926 in Brisbane and was buried in Balmoral Cemetery. External links *Michael D. de B. Collins Persse, 'Parry-Okeden, William Edward (1840–1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 147–148. *Friends of Balmoral Cemetery, "Balmoral Characters – William Parry-Okeden" accessed 2006-11-15 Category:1841 births Category:1926 deaths Category:History of Queensland Category:Burials in Balmoral Cemetery, Brisbane Category:Commissioners of the Queensland Police "
":see Frederick Rousseau, for the French new age musician, Frederic Rousseau for the Flemish biologist Frédéric Rousseau is a French historian, specializing in the social history of soldiers in World War I.Military service, combat, and American identity in the Progressive Era - Page 15 Sebastian Hubert Lukasik, Duke University. History - 2008 "The epitaph French historian Frédéric Rousseau wrote for the millions of European soldiers of the Great War is an outstanding example of this historiographical trend: “What [was] a soldier, if not a man oppressed, bullied, dehumanized, ..."Michael Dorland -Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust 2009 Page 197 "23 In the same collection, historian Frédéric Rousseau returns to Jean Norton Cru's 1929 book, Witnesses: An Essay of Analysis and Critique of the Memoirs of Combatants Published in French, 1915-1928. 24 The book caused a scandal at the ..." He is notable as one of the first historians to discussion the suppression of sexuality in combatants,The Great War in history: debates and controversies Page 103 J. M. Winter, Antoine Prost - 2005 "Frederic Rousseau (1999) included in his study of European combatants a treatment of their suppressed sexuality." and early use of the term and view "demodernization" (2000).Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema - Page 251 Antoine De Baecque - 2011 "It is in this sense that some historians of the Great War use the term demodernization, notably Frédéric Rousseau in an article published in 2000, in which he explains that between 1914 and 1918 men had to renounce most of the " He teaches at the University of Montpellier, and is a director of Laboratoire CRISES (or Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales). Publications * La Guerre censurée. Une histoire de combattants européens, le Seuil, 1999, rééd. Points Seuils 2003 ; * Le Cri d'une génération, Privat, 2001 ; * Le Procès des témoins de la Grande Guerre : L'Affaire Norton Cru, Le Seuil, 2003 ; * La Grande Guerre : En tant qu'expériences sociales, Ellipses, 2006; * L'Enfant juif de Varsovie : Histoire d'une photographie, Seuil, 2009. References Category:Living people Category:Social historians Category:French military historians Category:Historians of World War I Category:French male non-fiction writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) "