Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard began his working life in 1952 as a teacher of philosophy at a boys' school in Constantine, Algeria. Exposure to racism and poverty during this time served to raise his political awareness, and he became involved in political journalism. He returned to France, and from the mid-1960s he was one of the members of the most important philosophical movement in France since Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism. In his first book, 'La Phenomenologies,' published in 1954, he stated that the main role of the intellectual was to understand history.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Soldier Abdoulaye Ndiaye was the last of the Senegalese riflemen who fought in the first world war. He volunteered to fight in order to secure the release of a cousin who had refused to fight and gone into hiding. He was wounded on the front in Belgium in Aug 1914, and was also wounded on the Somme in Jul 1916. He fought on the Northern Front in 1915, and then participated in the Dardanelles expedition. After the armistice he received the Croix de Guerre.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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General Georges Buis
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Soldier and writer Georges Buis was born in Saigon but educated in Toulon, France. He studied at Saint Cyr, and was sent to Syria in 1938. He joined the forces of Free France in May 1941, and fought against the Vichy army in Syria and Lebanon. He commanded French forces in the difficult area of the Hodna during the war in Algeria, and in 1962 became chef de cabinet for Christian Fouchet, who was preparing for Algerian independence.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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