ORGANIZATION

Académie française, founded 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu "to protect and monitor the French Language".

Official Website:
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Charles Batteux	Philosopher	6-May-1713	14-Jul-1780	Les Beaux-Arts réduits
Maurice Béjart	Choreographer	1-Jan-1927	22-Nov-2007	Innovative ballet choreographer
Henri Bergson	Philosopher	18-Oct-1859	4-Jan-1941	L'Évolution Créatrice
Claude Bernard	Doctor	12-Jul-1813	10-Feb-1878	French physiologist
Marcellin Berthelot	Chemist	27-Oct-1827	18-Mar-1907	Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse
Jean-Baptiste Biot	Physicist	21-Apr-1774	3-Feb-1862	Biot-Savart Law
Nicolas Boileau	Poet	1-Nov-1636	13-Mar-1711	Satires du Sieur D...
Jacques Bossuet	Religion	25-Sep-1627	12-Apr-1704	Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle
Louis de Broglie	Physicist	15-Aug-1892	19-Mar-1987	Discovered the wave nature of electrons
Maurice de Broglie	Physicist	27-Apr-1875	14-Jul-1960	X-ray spectroscopy
Jean de La Bruyère	Author	16-Aug-1645	10-May-1696	Les Caractères de Théophraste
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Naturalist	7-Sep-1707	16-Apr-1788	Histoire Naturelle
François-René de Chateaubriand	Author	4-Sep-1768	4-Jul-1848	Génie du christianisme
Georges Clemenceau	Politician	28-Sep-1841	24-Nov-1929	French Prime Minister, 1917-20
Jean Cocteau	Poet	5-Jul-1889	11-Oct-1963	La Belle et la Bête
Pierre Corneille	Playwright	6-Jun-1606	1-Oct-1684	Le Cid
Jacques Cousteau	Scientist	11-Jun-1910	25-Jun-1997	Oceanographer, environmentalist
Georges Cuvier	Zoologist	23-Aug-1769	13-May-1832	Comparative anatomist, paleontologist
Jean le Rond d'Alembert	Mathematician	17-Nov-1717	29-Oct-1783	Early work in partial differential equations
André Dacier	Scholar	6-Apr-1651	18-Sep-1722	French classical scholar
Assia Djebar	Author	4-Aug-1936		So Vast the Prison
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas	Chemist	14-Jul-1800	10-Apr-1884	Pioneer of organic chemistry
Alexandre Dumas fils	Playwright	27-Jul-1824	27-Nov-1895	La dame aux camélias
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	Author	11-Feb-1657	9-Jan-1757	Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Mathematician	21-Mar-1768	16-May-1830	Fourier series
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	Head of State	2-Feb-1926		President of France 1974-81
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset	Poet	29-Aug-1709	16-Jun-1777	Vert Vert
François Guizot	Head of State	4-Oct-1787	12-Oct-1874	Prime Minister of France, 1847-48
Ludovic Halévy	Author	1-Jan-1834	8-May-1908	French vaudevillain author
José María de Heredia	Poet	22-Nov-1842	2-Oct-1905	Les Trophées
Pierre-Daniel Huet	Religion	8-Feb-1630	26-Jan-1721	Bishop of Avranches
Victor Hugo	Author	26-Feb-1802	23-May-1885	Les Miserables
Eugène Ionesco	Playwright	26-Nov-1912	28-Mar-1994	The Bald Soprano
Jean de la Fontaine	Poet	8-Jul-1621	13-Apr-1695	Fables and Contes
Alphonse de Lamartine	Poet	21-Oct-1790	28-Feb-1869	Bland French poet and failed politician
Pierre-Simon Laplace	Mathematician	23-Mar-1749	5-Mar-1827	Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Claude Lévi-Strauss	Anthropologist	28-Nov-1908		French anthropologist
Jean-Marie Lustiger	Religion	17-Sep-1926	5-Aug-2007	Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis	Astronomer	28-Sep-1698	27-Jul-1759	Sur la figure de la terre
François Mauriac	Novelist	11-Oct-1885	1-Sep-1970	Le Noeud de Vipères
André Maurois	Author	26-Jul-1885	9-Oct-1967	French biographer
Alfred de Musset	Poet	11-Dec-1810	2-May-1857	Les Caprices de Marianne
Étienne-Denis Pasquier	Politician	21-Apr-1767	5-Jul-1862	Last Chancellor of France
Louis Pasteur	Chemist	27-Dec-1822	28-Sep-1895	Discovered process of pasteurization
Charles Perrault	Author	12-Jan-1628	16-May-1703	Tales of Mother Goose
Philippe Pétain	Head of State	24-Apr-1856	23-Jul-1951	Leader of Vichy France
Henri Poincaré	Mathematician	29-Apr-1854	17-Jul-1912	Poincaré Conjecture
Jean Racine	Playwright	20-Dec-1639	21-Apr-1699	Phèdre
Alain Robbe-Grillet	Novelist	18-Aug-1922	18-Feb-2008	Proponent of the nouveau roman
Léopold Senghor	Head of State	9-Oct-1906	20-Dec-2001	President of Senegal, 1960-80
Hippolyte Taine	Historian	21-Apr-1828	5-Mar-1893	Origines de la France Contemporaine
Adolphe Thiers	Head of State	18-Apr-1797	3-Sep-1877	First President of the Third Republic
Alexis de Tocqueville	Historian	29-Jul-1805	16-Apr-1859	Democracy in America
Alfred de Vigny	Poet	27-Mar-1797	17-Sep-1863	Chatterton
Voltaire	Author	21-Nov-1694	30-May-1778	Enlightenment author of Candide
Marguerite Yourcenar	Novelist	8-Jun-1903	17-Dec-1987	Mémoires d'Hadrien

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