• Pierre Allain (7 January 1904 – 19 December 2000) was a French alpinist who began climbing in the 1920s. In the 1930s he was joined by several others...
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  • Bret Allain, American politician Keith Allain (born 1958), American ice hockey player and coach Marcel Allain (1885–1969), French writer Pierre Allain (1904–2000)...
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    [fɑ̃tomas]) is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in...
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    19th-century Europe. Bouldering started in Fontainebleau, and was advanced by Pierre Allain in the 1930s, and John Gill in the 1950s. Big wall climbing started...
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    time of the first ascent of the north face (Pierre Allain and R. Leininger on 1 August 1935), Pierre Allain considered the west face to be unclimbable...
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    with Marcel Allain Naz-en-l'air, drama in five acts, Paris, Schaub-Barbré (1913), with Marcel Allain Histoire de l'automobile / Par Pierre Souvestre. 1907...
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    appeared and the first aluminium carabiner prototypes were made by Pierre Allain, although they were never sold. These were the first carabiners designed...
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    dedicated bleausards (or "boulderers") emerged. One of those athletes, Pierre Allain, invented the specialized shoe used for rock climbing. In the late 1950s...
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    Marcel Allain (15 September 1885 – 25 August 1969) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional...
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    World" (1879). Elias Wumpt from 1909 novel Le Rour, written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Prosper Garuche from Paul Arosa's story "Les mystérieuses...
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