"Tik Tok" (styled "TiK ToK") is the debut solo single by American singer-songwriter Kesha. It is from her debut studio album, "Animal". The song topped charts worldwide, including countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US, where it was the best-performing song of 2010. It is Kesha's second single after the number-one single "Right Round" by rapper Flo Rida; her vocals are not credited on this song.
Jean-Denis Bredin
Jean-Denis Bredin (born 17 May 1929) is a French attorney. He is known for being the founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat. He is the twentieth and current occupant of seat 3 of the Académie française. He was elected on 15 June 1989.
Gabriel de Broglie
Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel (born 21 April 1931) is a French historian and politician.
Broglie-Revel was elected to the Académie française in 2001. He replaced Alain Peyrefitte. He is a Knight Commander of the Légion d'honneur. He is a distant relative of the ducs de Broglie.
Unstad
Unstad is a village in Norway's municipality of Vestvågøy. The village is on the isle of Vestvågøya.
The village's beach, Unstad Beach, has been used for surfing since 1963.
Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 in Marseille – 24 June 2020 in Paris), is a French historian and essayist. Fumaroli was elected to the Académie française on 2 March 1995 and became its Director. He is also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions, the sister academy.
Following his appointment to a chair in Seventeenth Century Studies at the University of Paris-IV, La Sorbonne (1980), he was elected to a Chair in Rhetoric and Society in Europe (16th and 17th century) at the Collège de France. He held it from 1986 to 2002, until mandatory retirement, and is now an emeritus professor.
Fumaroli is known for the revival of Rhetoric as field of study of European culture, in a sharp move away from both structuralism and post-modernism. His pioneering work remains "L'Age De l'Eloquence" (1980). This massive work redrew the map of rhetorical scholarship across Europe. Fumaroli was also a member of the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought.
Fumaroli was killed in a car crash in Paris on 24 June 2020, aged 88.
Fumaroli is a recipient of the prestigious Balzan Prize, the "Nobel" of the humanities (in 2001). He is a foreign member of the British Academy and of the American Philosophical Society.
Jean d'Ormesson
Jean Bruno Wladimir François de Paule Le Fèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French novelist. His work mostly was made up of partially or totally autobiographic novels.
On 18 October 1973, he was elected a member of the Académie française, taking seat 12, following the death of Jules Romains. On the death of Claude Lévi-Strauss on 30 October 2009, he became the Dean of the "Académie", its longest-serving member until his death in 2017. He was also a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
In 2010, he was awarded the Ovid Prize.
On 5 December 2017, d'Ormesson died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, at the age of 92.
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929 in Paris) is a French historian. She is the permanent secretary of the Académie française. She is a well known historian in specializing in Russian history. She was a recipient of Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2008.
Carrère d'Encausse is a graduate of the elite Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po").
She was elected to seat 14 of the Académie française in 1990, and her academician's sword was made by the sculptor Goudji. She became permanent secretary on 21 October 1999.
In her book "L'Empire éclaté" published in 1978 she predicted the fall of the Soviet Union.
She was awarded Grand Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2011).
Michel Serres
Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher and author. In 1990, Serres was elected to the Académie française, in recognition of his position as one of France's most prominent intellectuals. He serves as a Professor of French at Stanford University.
Serres was a vocal supporter for freely accessible knowledge, especially Wikipedia.
Serres died on 1 June 2019 at the age of 88.
René de Obaldia
René de Obaldia (born 22 October 1918) is a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française on 24 June 1999. He began his career in 1960. His first major play, "Génousie," was presented at the Théâtre national populaire.
This was followed by "Le Satyre de la Villette", with André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a comedy which ranked him with his literary forebears Jacques Audiberti, Ionesco, Beckett. He has been, for more than fifty years, one of the most-produced French playwrights on the planet, as well as the most internationally renowned (having been translated into 28 languages).
In 1985 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Française.
Ethyl iodide
Ethyl iodide (also called iodoethane) is a colorless and flammable chemical compound. It has the chemical formula CHI. It is prepared by heating ethanol with iodine and phosphorus.
Harshad number
In mathematics, a harshad number (also known as a Niven number) is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits in a given base. A harshad number in base n is called an n-harshad number.
Pierre Rosenberg
Pierre Max Rosenberg (born 13 April 1936 in Paris) is a French art historian, curator, and professor. Rosenberg is the honorary president a director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie française. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge in 1987.
TG Norba 24
TG Norba 24 is an Italian 24-hour all-news television channel, owned by Gruppo Norba.
The channel's format shows rolling news bulletins, updated every 15 minutes. It broadcasts live from 5am to midnight.
Dominique Fernandez
Dominique Fernandez (born on 25 August 1929) is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.
In 2007, he was elected a member of the Académie française.
Pierre Nora
Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931) is a French historian. He was elected to the Académie française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. His name is associated with the study of new history. He is the brother of the late Simon Nora, former French officer.
From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the "Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris" (Paris Institute of Political Science). Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the "École des hautes études en sciences sociales" (School of higher studies in social sciences).
François Cheng
François Cheng (, born 30 August 1929) is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. He became a French citizen in 1973. He was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of the Academy. He was the winner of the 1998 Prix Femina for "Le Dit de Tianyi" (""The Tale of Tianyi"") (pub. Albin Michel, Paris, 1998).
Yves Pouliquen
Yves Pouliquen (born 17 February 1931) is a French physician. His work has been dedicated to the pathology of the cornea.
In 1992, he was made a member of the Académie nationale de médecine. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and on 29 November 2001 he was elected to the Académie française.
Since 2006, he is the president of the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
Max Gallo
Max Gallo (; 7 January 1932 – 18 July 2017) was a French writer, historian and politician.