Pierre Delanoë, born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer in Paris, France, was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, Johnny Hallyday, Joe Dassin, Michel Sardou and Mireille Mathieu. Delanoë was his grandmother's maiden name.
Pierre des Maizeaux, also spelled Desmaizeaux, was a French Huguenot writer exiled in London, best known as the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle.
Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle was a French writer of novels, short stories, and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, and was a well-known collaborationist during the German occupation.
Pierre Dubois, is a French specialist in enchantement. He is an author, Franco-Belgian comics scriptwriter, storyteller and lecturer at the origin of renewed interest in fairies and little people in France.
He became fascinated at a young age with fairy tales and Fairytale fantasy, becoming an illustrator after a short study of Fine Arts.
He has brought together local legends and recreated them in radio and television shows for over thirty years.
He is the inventor of elficology (elficologie) as a name for the study of the "little people", although it was originally just a joke on his part. His first comic book was published in 1986. Since then he has produced one each year and also made regular appearances on television and at conferences, always in the area of fairy tales, dreams and legends related to the fairies.
Pierre Dubois, a French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views.
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a historian of science, noted for his work on the European Middle Ages, which is regarded as having created the field of the history of medieval science. As a philosopher of science, he is remembered principally for his views on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria.
