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Bergier

Bergier is a French surname that can refer to:

  • Jacques Bergier (1912–1978), Russo-French chemical engineer, spy and author
  • Jean-François Bergier (1931–2009), Swiss historian
  • Nicolas Bergier (fl. 17th century), French archaeologist
  • Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (1718–1790), Catholic theologian
  • Bergier commission, on Switzerland's role in World War II

Usage examples of "bergier".

Commander Bergier stood hunched over the screens, looking like an aging eagle, his face a pale beak, suddenly noble when he raised his chin, a scrawny-bearded poet brooding over the bright terrain of his world.

A hidden speaker mumbled respectfully, and Bergier touched the controls.

He thought it all too possible that Bergier might arrange for a messenger sometime in the night to warn the mother against speaking to him.

And while it need not be Bergier, the commander was as good a suspect as any.

Perhaps questions of the kind that are also asked by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier and Robert Charroux will be answered in my lifetime.

As Bergier tells us: 'The passengers in such a flying lamp would not notice anything unusual.

Two cases which Pauwels and Bergier mention in their book Breakthrough into the Third Millennium are directly in line with my conviction that primitive memories await their discovery in the human consciousness.

According to Nicholas Bergier (1567–1623), European peasants thought they were "the work of demons, giants, and fairies using magic arts.

Based, for example, on Vitruvius' description of pavement construction in De Architectura, Bergier believed that beneath the road surface were three other layers.

On reaching Apt Montbrion and his colleague Bergier have the vehicles unloaded, putting the most valuable effects on one cart, which they appropriate to themselves, and drive away with it to some distance out of sight, paying the driver out of their own pockets: "No doubt whatever exists as to the knavery of Montbrion and Bergier.

For the preceding pages, the authorities are chiefly the correspondence of Grandfontaine, Marson, La Valliere, Meneval, Bergier, Goutins, Perrot, Talon, Frontenac, and other officials.