Michel-Gabriel Paccard Michel-Gabriel Paccard Michel Gabriel Paccard (1757–1827) was a Savoyard doctor and alpinist, citizen of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Born in Chamonix, he studied medicine in Turin. Due to his passion for botany and minerals, he met Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who initiated the race to be the first to ascend Mont Blanc. Gaston Rébuffat wrote "Like Saussure a devotee of the natural sciences, he has a dream: to carry a barometer to the summit and take a reading there. An excellent mountaineer, he has already made several attempts." Paccard had a first, unsuccessful, attempt in 1783 with Marc Theodore Bourrit. In
Jean-Michel Jacques and passed selection for the french Commandos Marine, the Special Operation Forces of the French Navy. Jean-Michel Jacques Jean-Michel Jacques is a French politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the department of Morbihan. He is deputee-president of the defense committee at the French National Assembly, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and President of the "Major crisis and risks management" study group. Born on 26 February 1968 in Metz, he grew up in Hagondange, a small town in Moselle.