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Maurice Fombeure. Maurice Alphonse Jacques Fombeure (born in Jardres ( Vienne) 23 September 1906; died at La Verrière ( Yvelines) 1 January 1981) was a 20th-century French writer and poet. The son of a winemaking family from Poitou, he trained as a teacher at the École normale in Poitiers and then at the École normale supérieure de Saint ...
Life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years (2002) 10 years (2018) Maurice Boucher (21 June 1953 – 10 July 2022) was a Canadian gangster, convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker —once president of the Quebec Nomads chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. [2]
Early life. Jules Maurice Curé was born on 3 September 1886. He completed his secondary education at Royal College Curepipe where he was a "Laureate" in 1906, along with his peers Fernand Maingard and E. Osmond Barnard. He travelled to England at the age of 20 to study medicine under scholarship. [5]
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After studying journalism and a career in naval aeronautics, he embarked on journalism. In 1951, he became a chronicler for France-Soir and Le Monde. Passionate about writing, he is the author of several best sellers. Now that he has become a rather famous author, he is best known for his novel suite entitled Louisiana, in 6 volumes (1977–1987).
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc ( / ləˈblɑːn /; French: [ləblɑ̃]; 11 December 1864 [2] – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle 's creation Sherlock Holmes. [3]
Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Samuelson (The Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947), to neoclassical ...
In 1934 the Saint-Augustin printing house opened in town. The newspaper "valaisan Nouvelliste" (New Valais) was founded in 1903 in Saint-Maurice. It was renamed the "Feuille d'Avis Nouvelliste et du Valais" in 1968. The "Echos de Saint-Maurice" was first published in 1899, and in 2000 became the "Nouvelles de l'Abbaye".