Tricolore by @Tenakel
@thibault an icon of France
Over the centuries, France - the Grande Nation - has produced many great personalities who have left their mark on human history, attaining the status of legends, monuments and icons in the process. They not only influenced France with their profession, vocation, passion, commitment, vision, principles and belief in what they did, but also inspired, developed and improved Europe and the whole world. To name them all would easily fill the pages of a thick book, and my following list can therefore only be incomplete:
Charlie Hebdo, Édith Piaf, Alexandre Dumas, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Auguste Rodin, Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais, Zinédine Zidane,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis de Funès, Simone Signoret, Gustave Eiffel,
Jeanne d’Arc, Renaud Lavillenie, Charles Aznavour, Jean-Paul Sartre,
Marie Sebag, Daft Punk, Jean Reno, Marianne, Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Christian Dior, Kylian Mbappé, Étienne Bacrot,
Christine Arron, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Charlotte & Serge Gainsbourg,
Frédéric Chopin, Patricia Kaas, Gilbert Bécaud, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Bocuse, Audrey Tautou, Laurent Fignon,
Brigitte Bardot, André-Marie Ampère, Charles de Gaulle, Louis XIV,
Stéphane Charbonnier, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Louis-François Cartier,
Jacques Anquetil, Alain Prost, France Gall, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
Yves Montand, Marie-José Pérec, Joseph & Étienne de Montgolfier,
Alain Delon, Claude Brasseur, Jeannie Longo, Air, Gérard Depardieu,
Marcel Marceau, Mireille Mathieu, François Truffaut, Honoré de Balzac,
Yves Saint Laurent, Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Jeanne Moreau,
Catherine Deneuve, Michel Serrault, Louis & Fernand & Marcel Renault,
René Lacoste, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie & Pierre Curie, Blaise Pascal,
Henri Becquerel, Louis Pasteur, Maximilien Robespierre, Camille Muffat,
Voltaire, Raphaël Poirée, Laetitia Casta, Henri Leconte, Johannes Calvin,
François-André Danican Philidor, Sandrine Bailly, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin,
Paul Gauguin, Coco Chanel, Jules Verne, Henri Matisse, Juliette Binoche,
Nostradamus, Johnny Hallyday, Juliette Gréco, Marc Chagall, Pierre Brice,
Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, Isabelle Huppert, Inès de la Fressange,
Renaud Séchan, Léon Foucault, Pierre Massimi, Gendarm Daniel Nivel,
Sophie Marceau, Erik Satie, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Bernard Hinault,
Georges Auguste Escoffier, Christophe Lemaître, Édouard Michelin,
Louis Vuitton, Maryse Bastié, André Chéron, Jean Marais, Luka Karabatic,
Georges Pompidou, Kad Merad, Jean-Michel Jarre, Didier Deschamps,
Vanessa Paradis, Eugène Delacroix, Claude Debussy, René Descartes,
Paul Gauguin, David Guetta, Louis Braille, André Citroën, Paul Cézanne,
Thierry Mugler, Hélène Boucher, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Amélie Mauresmo,
Firmin Didot, Victor Hugo, Alizée, Molière, Albert Uderzo, Claude Monet,
Jean Cocteau, Mylène Farmer, Omar Sy, Sébastien Loeb, Victor Hugo, ...
Our friend Thibault Duplessis can undoubtedly be included in this list of the greatest among the great!
He and his phenomenal team have created a wonderful project with lichess, which they are constantly developing. The chess community appreciates this self-sacrificing commitment, is enthusiastic and thanks you very much for this fantastic work!
I wish us all a good, happy, successful and above all peaceful New Year.
