It would be great if you give me some reference to this person. =]
2007-05-07 21:57:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Quite a few:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz#Births
2007-05-07 22:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by marcusmyrealbox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here a few courtesy of Wikipedia
Metz is home to FC Metz, a football team in Ligue 1, the first league in French football. Every other year, Metz also hosts Europe's largest hot air balloon festival.
[edit] Births
Metz was the birthplace of:
Rabbenu Gershom, rabbi
Charles Ancillon, prominent Huguenot
S. M. Stirling, science fiction, author
Francois Barbé-Marbois, politician in the French Revolutionary government
Paul Verlaine, poet
Louis Le Prince, first man to shoot moving images
Pilâtre de Rozier, first man to fly in a hot air balloon
Max Braubach, German historian
Peace
2007-05-07 23:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See also at the French Wikipedia :
"Personnages célèbres " ("Famous persons") : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz#Personnages_c.C3.A9l.C3.A8bres
"Autres personnalités liées à la ville" ("Other persons linked to the town") : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz#Autres_personnalit.C3.A9s_li.C3.A9es_.C3.A0_la_ville
2007-05-07 22:32:49 · answer #3 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋