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Born January 11, 1795 • France
Died May 21, 1883 (aged 88) • Amana Colonies • Iowa
Founder Amana Colonies
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer
Esther Duflo
French American economist
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
French director
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
Lily-Rose Depp poses for photographers in a sleeveless black dress at The Idol photocall during the 76th Cannes film festival.
Lily-Rose Depp
French-American actress and model
Claudette Colbert in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Claudette Colbert
American actress
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
French-born American photographer and filmmaker
Ève Curie, c. 1945.
Ève Curie
French and American pianist, journalist, and diplomat
Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur.
Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur
French-American author
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director
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Pierre Charles L’Enfant
French engineer and architect
Josephine Baker poses in a feathered costume with an elaborate feathered headdress, smiling and raising one arm, circa 1926.
Josephine Baker
French entertainer
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Lily Pons
American singer
Green, Julien
Julien Green
American writer
Raymond Loewy.
Raymond Loewy
American industrial designer
Mandelbrot setDuring the late 20th century, Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot helped popularize the fractal that bears his name. The fundamental set contains all complex numbers C such that the iterative equation Zn + 1 = Zn2 + C stays finite for all n starting with Z0 = 0. As shown here, the set of points that remain finite through all iterations is white, with darker colours showing how quickly other values diverge to infinity. The fractal edge between points that remain finite and those that diverge to infinity is extremely complicated, with self-repeating features that can be seen at all scales.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born French American mathematician
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Edouard Séguin
American psychiatrist
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Jacques Barzun
American teacher, historian, and author