What is "chretien"

Chrétien may refer to:

• Chrétien de Troyes, 12th-century French poet
• Chrétien Le Clercq, 17th-century Roman Catholic missionary
• Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845), French merchant-trader, diplomat and scholar
• Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754-1811) inventor of the physionotrace
• Chrétien Urhan (1790–1845), French musician and composer
• Henri Chrétien, (1879–1956), French astronomer and inventor
• Jean Chrétien (born 1934), 20th Prime Minister of Canada (serving 1993-2003), and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (serving 1990-2003) also:
  • Aline Chrétien (born 1936), his wife
  • Michel Chrétien (born 1968), his son
  • Raymond Chrétien (born 1942), former Canadian ambassador to the United States, his nephew
• Jean-Guy Chrétien (born 1946), Canadian politician
• Jean-Loup Chrétien (born 1938), French astronaut
• Pierre Chrétien (1846–1934), French entomologist
• Todd Chretien (born 1969), contemporary U.S. activist
• Chrétien (crater), a lunar crater
• William Chretien (born 1916), former American sailor during World War II, Received Purple Heart.

In the French language, Chrétien is the masculine form of 'Christian', as both noun, adjective or adverb.

thumb|right|240px|Oblique Lunar Orbiter 2 view, facing south Chrétien is a lunar crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. It lies due south of the Mare Ingenii, one of the few maria on the Moon's far side. The crater lies in the midpoint between the craters Garavito to the west-southwest and Oresme to the east-northeast, both of these being somewhat smaller than Chrétien.

The most notable feature of this crater is the low albedo interior floor, which has the same darker hue as the Mare Ingenii to the north. The irregular satellite crater Chrétien C, which shares the straight and narrow northeastern rim of Chrétien, is also covered with this dark basaltic lava. The outer rim of Chrétien is irregular in shape, with several other satellite craters intruding into the sides. The most notable of these are Chrétien S across the southwest rim, and Chrétien W attached to the northwest rim.

The northern rim of Chrétien has a break that joins a small, irregular plain. This area has been resurfaced by the same lava flows that covered the interior of Chrétien. At the southern end, the inner wall forms a wide, irregular surface while the damaged rim bulges outward to the south.