Cartesian

of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works

— Princeton's WordNet

Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Swiss philosopher

— Wiktionary

Emile

the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

— Princeton's WordNet

Lacanian

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).

— Wiktionary

Cartesian

of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy

— Webster Dictionary

Derridean

Of or pertaining to Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French Algerian-born philosopher and founder of deconstruction.

— Wiktionary

Rousseauan

of or pertaining to or characteristic of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jacob, Francois Jacob

French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jacob, Francois Jacob

French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jolliet, Louis Jolliet, Joliet, Louis Joliet

French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)

— Princeton's WordNet

Jacobin

a Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris

— Webster Dictionary

Montgolfier, Josef Michel Montgolfier

French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)

— Princeton's WordNet

Montgolfier, Josef Michel Montgolfier

French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810)

— Princeton's WordNet

mirror stage

A concept concerning the structure of human subjectivity and the imaginary order in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

— Wiktionary

Reaumur

of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented

— Webster Dictionary

jouissance

The sexual connotation (i.e. orgasm) lacking in the English word "enjoyment", and therefore left untranslated in English editions of the works of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

— Wiktionary

Jacobin

one of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue

— Webster Dictionary

Jacquerie

the name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants

— Webster Dictionary

Crescent

any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services

— Webster Dictionary

Coello

the name of two Spanish painters in the 16th and 17th centuries, whose works are in the Escurial.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Golden Legend

a collection of lives of saints and other tales, such as that of the "Seven Sleepers" and "St. George and the Dragon," made in the 13th century by Jacques de Voragine, a Dominican monk, to the glory especially of his brotherhood.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Jack

a familiar form of John, the most widely spread of Christian names, and said to be derived from the French Jacques or, as others maintain, from Jankin, a distinctive form of Johan or John; Johnkin gives us Jock and Jockey; from its extreme commonness it has acquired that slightly contemptuous signification observable in such compounds as "every man Jack," "Jack-of-all-trades," "Jack-an-apes," and the name as applied to the knaves in playing-cards, and to the small white ball used as a mark in the game of bowls is an example of its transferred sense.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Rubens, Peter Paul

the greatest of the Flemish painters, born at Siegen, in Westphalia; came with his widowed mother in 1587 to Antwerp, where he sedulously cultivated the painter's art, and early revealed his masterly gift of colouring; went to Italy, and for a number of years was in the service of the Duke of Mantua, who encouraged him in his art, and employed him on a diplomatic mission to Philip III. of Spain; executed at Madrid some of his finest portraits; returned to Antwerp in 1609; completed in 1614 his masterpiece, "The Descent from the Cross," in Antwerp Cathedral; with the aid of assistants he painted the series of 21 pictures, now in the Louvre, illustrating the principal events in the life of Maria de' Medici during 1628-1629; diplomatic missions engaged him at the Spanish and English Courts, where his superabundant energy enabled him to execute many paintings for Charles I.—e. g. "War and Peace," in the National Gallery—and Philip IV.; was knighted by both; in all that pertains to chiaroscuro, colouring, and general technical skill Rubens is unsurpassed, and in expressing particularly the "tumult and energy of human action," but he falls below the great Italian artists in the presentation of the deeper and sublimer human emotions; was a scholarly, refined man, an excellent linguist, and a successful diplomatist; was twice married; died at Antwerp, and was buried in the Church of St. Jacques; his tercentenary was celebrated in 1877 (1577-1640).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia