Famous People
- Professor Jean Delumeau, historian, stays frequently in Les Houches and practices mountaineering.
- Catherine Destivelle, mountaineer.
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize for Physics, came to study and teach at the Physics School of Les Houches (l'École de Physique des Houches).
- Christophe Profit, mountaineer.
- Marie Paradis (1778-1839), first female to climb Mont Blanc in July 1808.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“Many famous feet have trod
Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
The strength they have against the strength they need;
And famous lips interrogated God
Concerning franchise in eternity....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do.”
—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)