page_title: Blois
section_title: Personalities
hierarchical_section_title: Blois / Personalities
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Château de Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France. Panorama des façades intérieures. De droite à gauche: l'aile flamboyant Louis XII, le château gothique du Moyen Âge, l'aile Renaissance François Ier, et l'aile classique Gaston d'Orléans. English: Château de Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France. Panorama of the interior façades. From right to left: the Louis XII flamboyant wing, the medieval Gothic castle, the François I Renaissance wing, and the Gaston d'Orléans classic wing.
context_page_description: Blois is a city and the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in Centre-Val de Loire, France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.
context_section_description: Blois was the birthplace of:
  Thubois (c.1044–1090)
  Stephen (c. 1096–1154), King of England from 1135 to 1154.
  Louis XII (1462–1515), King of France from 1498 to 1515
  Jean Morin (1591–1659), theologian and biblical scholar of Protestant parents
  Denis Papin (1647 – c. 1712), physicist, mathematician and inventor
  Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras (1744–1790), royalist
  Jean Marie Pardessus (1772–1853), lawyer
  Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), historian
  Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–1871), magician
  René Guénon (also Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya), (1886–1951), author, philosopher, social critic, the founder of the Traditionalist School
  Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), medievalist and historian
  Albert Ronsin (1928–2007), 20th-century French scholar, historian, librarian, and curator
  Philippe Gondet (1942-2018), footballer
  Claudine Doury (born 1959), photographer
  Sonia Bompastor (born 1980), female footballer
  Aly Cissokho (born 1987), footballer of Senegalese descent
  Bernard Onanga Itoua footballer
  Nicolas Vogondy (born 1977), cyclist
  Corentin Jean (born 1995), footballer
  Fabrice Moireau (born 1962), 21st-century French watercolourist and artist
  Alexis Khazzaka (born 1994), Lebanese footballer
caption: Château de Blois (view from the South)
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