Born on November 28

A French officer of the First Empire, Louis-Pierre-Pantaléon Resnier was a Napoleonic dignitary who served in the military and administrative structures of the Empire. He embodies the profile of the provincial notable elevated by Napoleonic reforms.

A French socialist politician, Léo Lagrange was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Sports and Leisure in the Popular Front government in 1936. He worked to make sport and holidays accessible to the working classes, before dying in combat in June 1940.

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908-2009), founder of structural anthropology. He revolutionized the study of human societies by applying structuralist methods to myths, kinship systems, and cultural practices. His major work, Tristes Tropiques, combines ethnographic narrative with philosophical reflection.