Not to be confused with his wife Michèle Raynaud, who is also a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Michel Raynaud (French: [ʁɛno]; born 16 June 1938) is a French mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Since 1967 he has been a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University.In 1983 he published a proof of the Manin-Mumford conjecture.In 1987 he received the Prize Ampère from the Académie des Sciences.