Angers

Angers is a city in France in the département of Maine-et-Loire, 191 miles south-west of Paris. (The area surrounding Angers is more popularly known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou.)

Births

The city is the birthplace of:

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• Rene I of Naples (1409-1480)
• Jean Bodin (1529-1596), philosopher and jurist, author of "La République"
• Michel Eugène Chevreul, (1786-1889), chemist
• Georges Louis Leclerc, (1707 - 1788), naturalist author
• Joseph Louis Proust, (1754 - 1826), chemist responsible for "Proust's law"
• David d'Angers, (1788 - 1856), sculptor
• Edouard Cointreau, (1849 - 1923), creator of the "Cointreau" orange-flavoured liquor
• René François Nicolas Bazin (1853 - 1932), writer and educator
• André Bazin (1918-1958), critic of the French New Wave
• Henri Dutilleux (born 1916), composer
• Jacques Loussier (born 1934), composer and jazz pianist