Title: Édouard Vaillant
Content:  Marie Édouard Vaillant (26 January 1840 – 18 December 1915) was a French politician. Born in Vierzon, Cher, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law at the Sorbonne. In Paris he knew Charles Longuet, Louis-Auguste Rogeard, and Jules Vallès. A reader of Joseph Proudhon writings, he met Proudhon, and joined the International Workingmen's Association. He went to study in Germany in 1866. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he returned to Paris. It was during the Siege of Paris that Vaillant met Auguste Blanqui. Vaillant opposed the Government of National Defence, and took part in the revolts on 31 October 1870 and 22 January 1871. He was one of 
Title: Édouard Vaillant
Content:  the 20th arrondissement. Although he had earlier been a convinced revolutionary, in the Chamber he generally followed a middle ground between the "revolutionaries" represented by Jules Guesde and the "reformists" represented by Jean Jaurès. He was among the founder members of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), a socialist party uniting revolutionary and reformist groups. Vaillant supported a general strike to prevent French participation in the First World War, but following the assassination of Jaurès and the outbreak of war, he joined the majority of socialists in supporting the Union sacrée and harshly criticised pacifist members of the SFIO in his speeches. Édouard Vaillant died in Paris on 18 December 1915. Schools in his birthplace of Vierzon, and in Gennevilliers, are named in his honour.
Title: Édouard Vaillant
Content:  four editors of the Affiche Rouge (red poster) calling for the creation of the Paris Commune. In the elections of February 1871 he stood as a revolutionary socialist candidate for the National Assembly but was not elected. In March 1871 he was elected by the 20th arrondissement to the council of the Commune where he oversaw work on education. Following the bloody suppression of the Commune in late May 1871, Vaillant fled France with Eugène Baudin for Great Britain where he was part of the Blanquist tendency of the First International. He was sentenced to death in absentia in July 1872 and did not return to France until the general amnesty of 1880. Active in socialist politics, Vaillant was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1893, 
Title: Edouard Vallet
Content:  Édouard Eugène Francis Vallet (12 January 1876 - 1 May 1929) was a Swiss artist. Born in Geneva to Francis Lucien Vallet and Rosalie Bouvier, Vallet went to a boarding school in France and apprenticed as a stonemason in 1892. He then went to the Geneva College of Fine Arts and studied woodcuts under Alfred Martin, Pierre Pignolat and Barthélemy Menn. He also travelled to Germany and Italy and held his first exhibition in 1899. He lived in the Swiss mountains in Valais, Savièse, Ayent, Hérémence, Vercorin and Sion from 1908 and painted portraits and landscapes from the region. He married the painter Marguerite Gilliard, daughter of the artist Eugène Gilliard (1861-1921) and after her death in 1918, he married Marie Jollien (1886-1951). Vallet died in 1929 and is buried in the cemetery at Confignon.
Title: Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant
Content:  Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, 1st Comte Vaillant (6 December 1790 &ndash; 4 June 1872), born in Dijon, was a Marshal of France. Vaillant entered the French army in 1809 in the corps of engineers. He served in the French invasion of Russia (1812) and the next year became a prisoner of war after the Battle of Kulm. During the Hundred Days Vaillant fought at Ligny and Waterloo. Vaillant commanded a battalion in the 1830 campaign against Algiers. Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he served under Gérard in the expedition into Belgium in 1831. Vaillant commanded the fortress at Algiers from 1837 to 1838, recalled to France, he was made director of the École polytechnique. Promoted to lieutenant general, Vaillant was put in charge of the building of the Parisian fortifications in 1845 under 
Title: Pierre Henri Vaillant
Content:  His father, Charles Émile Vaillant, was the Departmental Architect for Eure-et-Loir, and he spent most of his childhood in Chartres. He initially studied art at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where his primary instructors were Jean-Léon Gérôme and Marcel Baschet. After leaving school, he began painting in Brittany, where he became friends with Charles Cottet, who had a significant influence on his style. His favorite place to paint was in Camaret-sur-Mer, and the Pardon Ceremony was one of his favorite subjects. In 1905, he had his first solo exhibition at the Salon des artistes français, and was a frequent exhibitor there until 1914, when he was conscripted into the Army. Throughout 
Title: Jean Alexandre Vaillant
Content:  Vaillant arrived in Bucharest on November 4, 1829, being first employed as a French language tutor by the Great Ban George Iordachi, a member of the Filipescu family of boyars. Joining a sizable community of French and other European expatriates, he was, according to historian Nicolae Iorga, "the only one [of them] whose literary activity was able serve the rapprochement between distant France and this Latin country on the Danube". He terminated his contract in spring of the following year, and decided to open of school for boys aged 12 to 15; the initiative was publicized by Heliade Rădulescu's magazine Curierul Românesc. Vaillant's school was located in buildings owned by Serdar Popa, in the vicinity of Stavropoleos Monastery. Together with the similar activities of Félix Colson (who was 
Title: Pierre Henri Vaillant
Content:   Pierre Henri Vaillant (30 January 1878, Paris – 8 May 1939, Chartres) was a French painter and engraver. He specialized in genre paintings and portraits.
Title: Daniel Vaillant
Content:  Daniel Vaillant (born 19 July 1949) is a French Socialist politician.
Title: Jacques Vaillant
Content:  Jacques Vaillant is a French singer born on 8 June 1952 in Strasbourg (Alsace, France).

Question: In what city was Édouard Vaillant born?
Answer: Vierzon.