| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Maurice Barrès |
Novelist |
19-Aug-1862 |
4-Dec-1923 |
Cult of the Self |
| 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 |
| Fernand Braudel |
Historian |
24-Aug-1902 |
27-Nov-1985 |
La méditerranée |
| 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 |
Activist |
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 |
7-Feb-2015 |
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 |
| Anatole France |
Novelist |
16-Apr-1844 |
13-Oct-1924 |
French novelist |
| 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, failed politician |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Mathematician |
23-Mar-1749 |
5-Mar-1827 |
Traité du Mécanique Céleste |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
1-Nov-2009 |
French anthropologist |
| Jean-Marie Lustiger |
Religion |
17-Sep-1926 |
5-Aug-2007 |
Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005 |
| Jean-Luc Marion |
Philosopher |
3-Jul-1946 |
|
Phenomenologist, God Without Being |
| 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 |
| Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu |
Philosopher |
18-Jan-1689 |
10-Feb-1755 |
De l'Esprit des Lois |
| Alfred de Musset |
Poet |
11-Dec-1810 |
2-May-1857 |
Les Caprices de Marianne |
| Marcel Pagnol |
Screenwriter |
28-Feb-1895 |
18-Apr-1974 |
Jean de Florette |
| 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 |
Candide |
| Marguerite Yourcenar |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1903 |
17-Dec-1987 |
Mémoires d'Hadrien |
