Actors/Actresses

A

• Isabelle Adjani
• Renée Adorée
• Anouk Aimée
• Arletty
• Antonin Artaud
• Fanny Ardant
• Jeanne Aubert
• Jean-Pierre Aumont
• Claude Autant-Lara
• Daniel Auteuil
• Charles Aznavour

Isabelle Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is an actress and movie producer. ... Renée Adorée (September 30, 1898–October 5, 1933) was a French actress. ... Anouk Aimée (born April 27, 1932) is a French film actress. ... Arletty (born Léonie Bathiat) (15 May 1898 _ 24 July 1992) was a French model, singer, and actress. ... Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896–March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director. ... Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born March 22, 1949 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France) is a French actress. ... Jeanne Aubert, (February 21, 1906 – March 6, 1988) was a French singer and actress. ... Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 - January 29, 2001) was a French actor. ... Daniel Auteuil (born January 24, 1950) is a French actor. ... Portrait of Charles Aznavour. ...

B-C

• Brigitte Bardot
• Emmanuelle Béart
• Jean-Paul Belmondo
• Charles Berling
• Sarah Bernhardt
• Suzanne Bianchetti
• Juliette Binoche
• Sandrine Bonnaire
• Élodie Bouchez
• Bourvil
• Charles Boyer
• Guillaume Canet
• Capucine
• Martine Carol
• Leslie Caron
• Vincent Cassel
• Maurice Chevalier
• Aurore Clément
• Claudette Colbert
• Clotilde Courau

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934 in Paris) is a French actress and model, daughter of an industrialist. ... Emmanuelle Béart (born August 14, 1965) is a French actress. ... Jean Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Belmondo (born April 9, 1933) is a French actor. ... Sarah Bernhardt (portrait by Nadar) Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress. ... Suzanne Bianchetti, born February 24, 1889 in Paris, France - died October 17, 1936 in Paris, was an pioneer film actress. ... Juliette Binoche Juliette Binoche (born March 9, 1964) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. ... Bourvil (July 27, 1917 - September 23, 1970), né André Bourvil, was a French actor best known for his roles in comedy most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille (1966). ... Charles Boyer in Love Affair Charles Boyer ( August 28, 1897 – August 26, 1978) was a French actor. ... Capucine (January 6, 1931 - March 17, 1990) was a European actress. ... Leslie Caron (b. ... Vincent Cassel (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. ... Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 - January 1, 1972) was a French actor and popular entertainer. ... Aurore Clément (born October 12, 1945) is a French actress. ... Photo still of Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 _ July 30, 1996) was a French-American actress. ... Clotilde Courau (born April 3, 1969 in Levallois-Perret, France) is an actress. ...

D-L

• Beatrice Dalle
• Lili Damita
• Danielle Darrieux
• Alain Delon
• Julie Delpy
• Catherine Deneuve
• Gérard Depardieu
• Patrick Dewaere
• Fernandel
• Brigitte Fossey
• Louis de Funès
• Jean Gabin
• Annie Girardot
• Judith Godrèche
• Eva Green
• Sacha Guitry
• Isabelle Huppert
• Irène Jacob
• Valérie Kaprisky
• Virginie Ledoyen
• Max Linder

B atrice Dalle (born December 19, 1964) is a French actress. ... Lili Damita (July 19, 1901 – March 21, 1994) was an actress. ... Danielle Darrieux Danielle Darrieux (born May 1, 1917) is a French singer and actress. ... Alain Delon Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. ... Julie Delpy, 2003 press photo Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French actress. ... Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve (born October 22, 1943) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. ... Gérard Depardieu (born December 27, 1948;  pronunciation?) is a French actor. ... Patrick Dewaere (January 26, 1947 - July 16, 1982) was a French actor. ... Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (May 8, 1903 - February 26, 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor. ... Brigitte Fossey Brigitte Fossey, born June 15, 1946 in Tourcoing, Nord, France, is an actress. ... Louis de Funès poster from Les Grandes Vacances Louis de Funès de Galarza ( July 31, 1914, Courbevoie, France, - January 27, 1983) was a French actor who is considered by many to be one of the giants of French comedy. ... Jean Gabin (May 17, 1904 - November 15, 1976) was a major French actor and war hero. ... Categories: People stubs | 1980 births | Cinema actors | French actors ... Sacha Guitry, born February 21, 1885 in St. ... Isabelle Ann Huppert (born March 16, 1955) is a French actress. ... Virginie Ledoyen (born November 15, 1976) is a French actress, born in Aubervilliers, France as Virginie Fernandez. ... Max Linder, born December 16, 1883 - died October 31, 1925, was an influential French pioneer of silent film. ...

M-V

• Marcel Marceau
• Sophie Marceau
• Jean Marais
• Miou-Miou
• Mistinguett
• Yves Montand
• Jeanne Moreau
• Michèle Morgan
• Gérard Philipe
• Michel Piccoli
• Yvonne Printemps
• Pérette Pradier
• Jean Reno
• Pierre Richard
• Jean Rochefort
• Philippine de Rothschild
• Emmanuelle Seigner
• Delphine Seyrig
• Simone Signoret
• Audrey Tautou
• Jean-Louis Trintignant
• Marie Trintignant
• Michael Vartan
• Hervé Villechaize

Marcel Marceau (born March 22, 1923) is a well-known mime and among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. ... Sophie Marceau Sophie Marceau (November 17, 1966) is a French actress. ... Jean Marais, born Jean-Villain Marais (December 11, 1913 - November 8, 1998) was a French actor, and the lover of Jean Cocteau. ... Miou-Miou (born Sylvette Hery, February 22, 1950 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ... Mistinguett (April 5, 1875 - January 5, 1956) was a French singer, born Jeanne Bourgeois in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-dOise, Île-de-France, France. ... Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 - November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy. ... Jeanne Moreau (born January 23, 1928) is a French actress. ... Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. ... Yvonne Printemps, born July 25, 1895 in Ermont, Île-de-France, France - died January 19, 1977 in Paris, France, was a singer and actress. ... Jean Reno (born Don Juan Moreno y Jederique Jimenez, July 30, 1948 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French actor. ... Jean Rochefort (born 29 April 1930) is a French actor. ... Emmanuelle Seigner (born June 22, 1966) is a French actress, born in Paris, France. ... Delphine Seyrig (April 10, 1932 - October 15, 1990) was a stage and film actress and a film director. ... Simone Signoret (March 25, 1921 - September 30, 1985), was the pseudonym (after her mothers last name) of Simone Kaminker, a French actress. ... Audrey Tautou (born August 9, 1978) is a French actress, born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France. ... Jean-Louis Trintignant (born December 11, 1930) is a French actor, born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-C dAzur, France. ... Marie Trintignant (January 21, 1962 - August 1, 2003) was a French actress. ... Michael Vartan (born November 27, 1968) is a French-American actor who was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. ... Hervé Villechaise Hervé Villechaise (April 23, 1943 - September 4, 1993) was a famous French actor who was born in Paris and achieved world-wide recognition with his role as Tattoo in the television series Fantasy Island (1978-1984). ...

Architects

• Le Corbusier
• Étienne-Louis Boullée
• Fontaine architect
• Hector Guimard
• Charles Percier
• Claude Nicolas Ledoux
• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

The Villa Savoye near Paris Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887–August 27, 1965) was the pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris. ... There are communes that have the name Fontaine, and Fontaines: Fontaine, in the Aube département Fontaine, in the Isère département Fontaine, in the Territoire de Belfort département Related names Fontaine-au-Bois, in the Nord département Fontaine-au-Pire, in the Nord département Fontaine... Abbesses station - one of the art nouveau metro station entrances designed by Hector Guimard The name of Hector Guimard (March 10, 1867 - May 20, 1942), who designed the glass and cast-iron Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris Metro, 1899-1902, is synonymous with the style metro in France. ... Charles Percier (Paris, August 22, 1764 - Paris, September 5, 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Pierre Francois Leonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days, from 1794 onwards, that it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. ... Ledouxs Rotonde de la Villette in Paris Claude Nicolas Ledoux (March 21, 1736_November 18, 1806) was a French neoclassical architect. ...

Authors

See also: French language authors, French language poets, French novelists List of French speaking authors Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987) Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867), (Les fleurs du mal, 1857) Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 - 1655) Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780... Poets who have written in the French language: Guillaume Apollinaire Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Octave Crémazie Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Jean Chapelain René Char Chrétien de Troyes Paul Claudel Jean Cocteau Jean Daurat Évariste Desiré de Forges, vicomte de Parny Christine de Pisan Pontus de Tyard Paul Dirmeikis Joachim du... This is a list of novelists from France. ...

A

• Marcel Achard -- playwright and scriptwriter
• Alain-Fournier
• Jean Anouilh -- 20th century dramatist
• Guillaume Apollinaire -- (born Russian) poet
• Antonin Artaud

Marcel Achard (July 5, 1899 - September 4, 1974) was a French playwright and script writer. ... Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier (October 3, 1886 - September 22, 1914), a French author and soldier. ... Jean Anouilh(June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century. ... Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 - November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ... Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896–March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director. ...

B

• Honoré de Balzac -- realist author
• Henri Barbusse
• Charles Baudelaire, 19th century poet
• Pierre Beaumarchais, comedy playwright
• Simone de Beauvoir -- 20th century author
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Georges Bernanos
• Tristan Bernard
• Maurice Blanchot
• Pierre Boulle
• Fernand Braudel
• André Breton
• Restif de le Bretonne
• Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• Michel Butor

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (pronounced ball-sack) ( May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), was a French novelist. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873 - August 30, 1935) was a French novelist and journalist. ... Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821–August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets. ... Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 - May 18, 1799) was, among other accomplishments, a writer and librettist. ... Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist. ... Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac ( March 6, 1619 – July 28, 1655) was a French dramatist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. ... Georges Bernanos (February 20, 1888 - July 5, 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in the Great War. ... Tristan Bernard (September 7, 1866 - December 7, 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. ... Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907-February 20, 2003) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. ... Pierre Boulle (February 20, 1912 - January 30, 1994) was a French novelist. ... Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902 - November 27, 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history, a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences. ... André Breton ( February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. ... —Brillat-Savarin Quite possibly the most famous French epicure and gastronome of all, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (April 1, 1755 - 1826) was born in the town of Belley,where the Rhine then separated France from Savoy, to a family of lawyers in whom eloquence flowed. ... Michel Butor is a French novelist and essayist known for contributing to the literary genre of the nouveau roman. ...

C-E

• Albert Camus -- existentialist author
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- 20th century author
• Blaise Cendrars
• Aimé Césaire-- 20th century author
• Nicolas Chamfort
• René Char, 20th century poet
• François-René de Chateaubriand
• E. M. Cioran
• Paul Claudel
• Jean Cocteau -- 20th century poet and playwright
• Colette-- 20th century author
• Benjamin Constant
• Pierre Corneille -- classicist playwright
• Marquis de Custine -- travel writer
• Denis Diderot
• Alexandre Dumas, père, Author
• Alexandre Dumas, fils -- Playwright/author
• Marguerite Duras - 20th century novelist
• Mircea Eliade
• Paul Eluard

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement emphasizing individualism, individual freedom, and subjectivity. ... Céline Louis-Ferdinand Destouches as Céline (May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961) was a French writer and physician. ... Frédéric Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 _ January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet. ... Nicolas Chamfort (1741 - April 13, 1794), was a French writer. ... René Char (June 14, 1907 - February 19, 1988) was a 20th century poet. ... François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer and diplomat considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. ... Emil Cioran (known in French as Émile Cioran), (April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995) was a writer noted for his somber works in the French language. ... Paul Claudel (August 6, 1868 - February 23, 1955) was a French poet and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Benjamin Constant ( October 25, 1767 – December 8, 1830) was a Swiss thinker, writer and politician. ... Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606–October 1, 1684) was one of the three great dramatists produced by France during the 17th century, along with Molière and Racine. ... Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. ... Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, marquis de Custine (1790 - 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 entitled Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia. ... Denis Diderot Denis Diderot ( October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784) was a French writer and philosopher. ... Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ( July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. ... Alexandre Dumas, fils ( July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his fathers footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright. ... Marguerite Donnadieu (April 4, 1914 - March 3, 1996), better known as Marguerite Duras, was a writer and film director. ... Categories: 1907 births | 1986 deaths | 20th Century philosophers | Fantasy writers | Romanian philosophers | Romanian writers | People stubs ... Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952), a French poet. ...

F-I

• Frantz Fanon -- 20th century author, psychiatrist
• Léon-Paul Fargue
• Georges Feydeau
• Alain Finkielkraut - essayist
• Gustave Flaubert -- realist author
• Anatole France
• Marie de France -- poet
• Romain Gary
• Jean Genet
• André Gide, Nobel Prize Winner
• Jean Giono
• Jean Giraudoux
• Françoise Giroud
• Julien Gracq
• Julien Green
• Pierre Guyotat
• Victor Hugo -- novelist, poet, and playwright
• Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Eugène Ionesco

Frantz Fanon (1925 - December 6, 1961) was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. ... Léon-Paul Fargue (March 4, 1876 - November 24, 1947) was a French poet and essayist. ... Georges Feydeau, (born December 8, 1862, in Paris, France, and died there on June 5, 1921), was a playwright of La Belle Epoque. ... Alain Finkielkraut (b. ... Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – Croisset, May 8, 1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. ... Marie de France was a poet, in France and England during the late 12th century. ... Romain Gary (May 8, 1914 - December 2, 1980) was a novelist, a film director and a diplomat. ... Jean Genet (born illegitimately on December 19, 1910 in Paris, died April 15, 1986 in Paris) was a novelist, playwright, and poet. ... André Paul Guillaume Gide ( November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and spokesman for gay rights. ... The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ... Jean Giono (1895 - 1970) was a French author, renowned for his works of fiction set in the Provence region of France. ... Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays. ... Victor Hugo Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) was a French author, the most important of the Romantic authors in the French language. ... Joris-Karl Huysmans (February 5, 1848 - May 12, 1907) was a French novelist. ... Eugène Ionesco (Romanian spelling: Eugen Ionescu) (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the theatre of the absurd. ...

L

• Jean de La Bruyère
• Jean de La Fontaine
• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse)
• Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
• Leconte de Lisle -- parnassian poet
• Alphonse de Lamartine
• Jacques Lacan - psychoanalyst
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - historian
• Jules Laforgue
• Valéry Larbaud

Jean de La Fontaine (c. ... Pierre Ambrose Choderlos de Laclos, a French official and army general, was born on October 18, 1741 in Amiens, France and died in Taranto, Italy on September 5, 1803. ... Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (October 22, 1818 - July 17, 1894), was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. ... The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ... Alphonse de Lamartine (October 21, 1790 _ February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician. ... Jacques Lacan Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was an influential French psychoanalyst as well as a structuralist who based much of his theories on Ferdinand de Saussures theories on language. ... Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime focusing on the history of the peasantry. ...

M-N

• Stéphane Mallarmé -- poet
• Hector Malot -- 19th century author
• André Malraux
• Pierre de Marivaux - playwright
• Clément Marot -- poet
• Guy de Maupassant novelist
• François Mauriac - Roman Catholic writer
• Prosper Mérimée - 19th century novelist
• Henri Michaux
• Catherine Millet - art expert, editor and erotic memoirist
• Patrick Modiano
• Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière -- 17th century comedic playwright and actor
• Alfred de Musset -- 19th century poet
• Anaïs Nin

Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. ... André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman André Malraux ( November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman whose preeminence in the world of French politics and culture was as much fact as it was a product of his own imagination. ... Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (February 4, 1688 - February 12, 1763), French novelist and dramatist, was born at Paris. ... Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (IPA: ɡi də mopasɑ̃) (August 5, 1850 - July 6, 1893) was a French writer. ... François Mauriac ( October 11, 1885– September 1, 1970) was a French author. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée ( September 28, 1803 – September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. ... Henri Michaux (May 24, 1899 - October 18, 1984) was an important, highly individualistic French poet, writer and painter who was born and educated in Belgium. ... Catherine Millet (born 1948) is an expert on modern art, and editor of the magazine Art Press. ... Molière, engraved frontispiece to his Works Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière ( January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673), was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire. ... Alfred Louis Charles de Musset, (December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. ... Anaïs Nin ( February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her self-published diaries, which span a period of forty years, beginning when she was twelve years old. ...

P-R

• Marcel Pagnol
• Charles Péguy -- 20th century poet
• Charles Perrault -- Mother Goose Tales
• Georges Perec
• Saint-John Perse
• Jean Piaget - psychologist
• Christine de Pizan, historian, poet, philosopher
• Jacques Prevert -- 20th century poet
• Abbé Prévost
• Marcel Prevost
• Marcel Proust -- novelist
• François Rabelais -- Renaissance writer
• Raymond Radiguet
• Jean Racine -- classicist playwright
• Pauline Réage, novelist
• Arthur Rimbaud -- symbolist poet
• Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Pierre de Ronsard
• Edmond Rostand -- neo-romantic playwright
• Raymond Roussel

Marcel Pagnol (February 28, 1895 - April 18, 1974) was a French novelist, playwright and filmmaker. ... Charles Perrault, 1665 Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 _ May 16, 1703) was a French author. ... Georges Perec (March 7, 1936 - March 3, 1982) was a 20th century French novelist, filmmaker and essayist, a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important post-WWII authors. ... Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry. ... Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980), a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1929 to 1975, was a francophone Swiss developmental psychologist who is most well known for organizing cognitive development into a series of stages - that is levels of development corresponding to infancy, childhood... Christine de Pizan, showing the interior of an apartment at the end of the 14th or commencement of the 15th century Christine de Pizan (circa 1365 - circa French poet and arguably the first female author in Europe to make a living from being a writer (Marie de France being the... Jacques Prévert (February 4, 1900 - April 11, 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. ... Eugene Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 - 1941) was a French author, writer and dramatist. ... Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past). ... François Rabelais (ca. ... Raymond Radiguet (June 18, 1903 - December 12, 1923) was a French author. ... Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 - April 21, 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the big three of 17th century France (along with Molière and Corneille). ... Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. ... Pauline Réage ( September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) pseudonym of Anne Desclos, was a French author. ... Photo of Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud ( October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Alain Robbe-Grillet (born August 18, French agricultural engineer, filmmaker and writer. ... Pierre de Ronsard, commonly referred to as Ronsard (September 11, 1524 - December, 1585), was a French poet and prince of poets (as his own generation in France called him). ... Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918), French poet and dramatist. ... Raymond Roussel (1877–1933) is considered the father of constraint-based writing, and an important precursor to the nouveau roman. ...

S-Z

• Marquis de Sade -- erotic and philosophic author
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
• George Sand -- feminist author
• Nathalie Sarraute
• Victor Segalen
• Madame de Sévigné
• Madame de Staël
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery , humanist author and aviators.
• Claude Simon
• Stendhal -- novelist (born Henry Beyle)
• Paul Valéry -- 20th century poet
• Paul Verlaine -- symbolist poet
• Jules Verne -- novelist
• Boris Vian -- 20th century author
• Alfred de Vigny -- 19th century poet
• François Villon
• Émile Zola -- naturalist author

Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Van Loo (~1761) Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade (pronounced saad; June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814), was a French aristocrat best known as a writer of philosophy-laden pornography, as well as a some strictly... Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (December 23, 1804 – October 13, 1869) was a literary critic and one of the major figures of French literary history. ... George Sand (portrait by Nadar) Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin - later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word), writing under the pen name of George Sand. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Nathalie Sarraute, born July 18, 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia - died October 19, 1999 in Paris, France, was a lawyer and a Francophone writer of Russian origin. ... Madame de Staël Anne Louise Germaine de Staël ( April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French author who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. ... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... Claude Simon (French, born 10 October 1913 in Tananarive/ Madagascar): He is the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combines the poets and the painters creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition. ... Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known as Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer. ... Paul Valéry (October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French author and poet of the Symbolist school. ... Paul Verlaine (March 30, 1844 - January 8, 1896) is one of the greatest and most popular of French poets. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Jules Verne. ... Boris Vian (March 10, 1920 - June 23, 1959) was a French writer, poet, singer, and musician, who also wrote under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. ... Alfred Victor de Vigny (March 27, 1797 _ September 17, 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. ... mile Zola (April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ...

Aviators

• Clément Ader
• Jacqueline Auriol
• Louis Blériot
• Henry Farman
• Georges Guynemer
• Jean Mermoz
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, humanist author and aviators.
• Roland Garros, First to cross the Mediterranean Sea. French Open is named after him.

Photograph of Ader Clément Ader (February 4, 1841 – March 5, 1926) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. ... Henry Farman (May 26, 1874 - July 18, 1958) was an aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. ... Georges Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer (December 24, 1894 - September 11, 1917) was a French aviator during World War I. Born into a wealthy Compiègne family, Guynemer experienced an often sickly childhood. ... Jean Mermoz (December 9, 1901—December 7, 1936) was an aviator, viewed as a hero by many in both Argentina and his native France, where many schools bear his name. ... Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator. ... Humanism is a system of thought that defines a socio-political doctrine (-ism) whose bounds exceed those of locally developed cultures, to include all of humanity and all issues common to human beings. ... For the tennis tournament of the same name, see French Open Roland Garros (October 6, 1888 - October 5, 1918) was an early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot of the World War I. Garros was already a noted aviator before the war. ... -1... The French Open, officially the Tournoi de Roland-Garros (English: Roland Garros Tournament), is a tennis event held from the middle of May to the beginning of June in Paris, France, and is the second of the worlds Grand Slam tournaments. ...

Business

• Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur
• Liliane Bettencourt, cosmetics, richest person in France
• Marcel Bich, (1914-1994), Bic pens
• Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering
• Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), automobile manufacturer
• André Citroën (1878-1935), automobile manufacturer
• Marcel Dassault (1892-1986), aviation
• Alexandre Darracq (1855-1931), automotive pioneer
• Louis Delâge (1874-1947) automotive pioneer
• Emile Delahaye (1843-1905), automotive pioneer
• Philippe Camus Former EADS co-CEO
• Gerard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932), agricultural commodities
• Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771-1834), founder of DuPont
• Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), entrepreneur
• Jacques Foccart (1901-1956), import-export
• Léon Gaumont, pioneer film inventor
• Paul-Louis Halley (1934-2004), supermarket tycoon
• Max Hymans (1900-1961), aviation
• Jean-Marie Messier (born 1957), former Vivendi CEO
• Charles Pathé, pioneer of film industry
• François Pinault (born 1936), entrepreneur
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (1726-1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of the American Revolution"
• Marcel Renault (1872-1903), automobile manufacturer
• James Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868), banker
• Philippe de Rothschild (1902-1988), wine maker
• Eugene Schueller (1881-1954), founder of L'Oreal
• Bernard Tapie (born 1943), entrepreneur

Bernard Arnault, born March 5, 1949, is a French businessman and one of the richest men in the world. ... Liliane Bettencourt (born 1922), is the principal share holder of LOréal and one of the wealthiest people in the world. ... The Bugatti logo Bugatti is one of the most celebrated marques of automobile and the one of the most exclusive Italian yet also French car producers of all time. ... André Citroën - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. ... Alexandre Darracq, born November 10, 1855 _ died 1931, was a French automobile manufacturer. ... Emile Delahaye, born October 16, 1843 - died June 1, 1905, was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles. ... European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is a large European industrial corporation of the aerospace business, formed by the merger on July 10, 2000 of Aérospatiale-Matra of France, Dornier and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG (DASA) of Germany, and Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) of Spain. ... Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932) is a French businessman and one of the richest men in the world, his and his familys net worth is estimated at $2. ... Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours ( June 24, 1771 – October 31, 1834) was born in Paris, France and emigrated with his father Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to the United States in 1799. ... This article is about the DuPont company. ... Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739 - 1817 August 7), born in Paris, France, was the founder of a dynamic and innovative family of entrepreneurs. ... Jean-Marie Messier (born December 13, 1957) is a French businessman known for his flamboyance. ... Francois Pinault (born 1937) runs the retail company Pinault Printemps Redoute (PPR). He lives in France and is married with four children. ... Jacques-Donatien Le Ray (1726-1803) was a French Father of the American Revolution, but later an opponent of the French Revolution. ... Before the Revolution: The 13 colonies are in red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the French and Indian War, and the orange region was claimed by Spain. ... James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany – died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France , was a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. ... Baron Philippe de Rothschild (April 13, 1902 - January 20, 1988) was a member of the Rothschild family who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a scriptwriter, a theatrical producer, a poet, and the most successful wine grower in the world. ... Bernard Tapie (born 26 January 1943 in Paris) is a French businessman, politician and, occasionally, actor, singer, and TV host. ...

Colonial administrators

• Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza - French Congo
• Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac - Louisiana
• Samuel de Champlain - New France
• Joseph François Dupleix - French territories in India
• Louis Faidherbe - Senegal
• Joseph Gallieni - Madagascar
• Francis Garnier - French Indo-China (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos)
• Émile Gentil - French Congo
• Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey - Algeria
• Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville - Louisiana
• Jean Talon - Quebec

Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 26, 1852 - September 14, 1905) was an explorer of Italian nationality. ... Statue of Cadillac commemorating his landing in Detroit Antoine Laumet, dit de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (March 5, 1658-October 15, 1730), a French explorer, was a colourful figure in the history of New France. ... Samuel de Champlain by Théophile Hamel (1870) Samuel de Champlain 1567 - 1635 was a French geographer, draftsman, explorer and founder of Quebec City. ... New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. ... Joseph François Dupleix ( January 1, 1697 — November 10, 1763) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the great rival of Robert Clive. ... Louis Léon César Faidherbe (June 3, 1818 - September 29, 1889), French general and colonial administrator, was born at Lille. ... The Republic of Senegal is a country south of the Senegal River in West Africa. ... Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 - 27 May 1916) was a French military leader in the French colonies and later in World War I. He was born at Saint-Beat, in the department of Haute-Garonne. ... Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. ... Francis Garnier on a 1943 stamp of Indochina Marie Joseph François (Francis) Garnier (25 July 1839 - 21 December 1873) was a French officer and explorer known for his exploration of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. ... Indochina, or French Indochina, was a federation of French colonies and protectorates in south-east Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ... French Congo was the original French colony established in the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic. ... Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854 - 1934), made Marshal of France in 1921, was the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. ... The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, or Algeria, is a nation in north Africa, and the second largest country on the African continent. ... Louisiana is a southern state of the United States of America. ... Jean Talon (1625-1694) was a French colonial administrator who was the first and most highly regarded Intendant of New France. ... This article describes the Canadian province. ...

Composers

• Georges Auric
• Hector Berlioz
• Georges Bizet -- composer of Carmen
• Pierre Boulez -- avant-garde composer
• Marc Antoine Charpentier
• François Couperin
• Michel Richard Delalande
• Georges Delerue
• Claude Debussy -- Impressionist composer
• Paul Dukas -- composer of The Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Gabriel Fauré
• César Franck -- also considered Belgian
• Jean-Jacques Goldman*
• Reynaldo Hahn
• Pierre Henry -- writer of musique concrète and electronic music
• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Maurice Jarre -- film music composer
• Michel Legrand
• Jean François Lesueur
• Jean Baptiste Lully, court composer to Louis XIV
• Darius Milhaud
• Jacques Offenbach -- noted for his operettas
• Francis Poulenc
• Jean Philippe Rameau
• Maurice Ravel
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle -- composer of "La Marseillaise", French National Anthem
• Edmond Roussel
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Erik Satie composer of Musiques d'ameublement
• Pierre Schaeffer -- inventor of musique concrète
• Les Six -- group of composers
• Germaine Tailleferre
• Charles-Marie Widor

Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. ... Portrait of Berlioz by Signol, 1832 Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie Fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. ... Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875), was a French composer of the romantic era best known for his opera Carmen. ... Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet, with text by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. ... Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - February 24, 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era. ... François Couperin (born Paris November 10, 1668 – September 12, 1733 in Paris) was an esteemed French composer in the Baroque style. ... Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] (1657-1726) was a prolific French Baroque composer and organist who specialized in writing orchestral suites, known in their day as Simphonies pour les Soupers du Roy, or, in an alternative spelling of the time, simply as Symphonies. Delalande also composed ballets and church music. ... Georges Delereue (1925 - 1992) was a renowned French film composer who worked on over 300 films. ... Claude Debussy Claude Achille Debussy ( August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918), composer of impressionistic classical music. ... See also Impressionist (entertainment): A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. ... Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music. ... The Sorcerers Apprentice is the English name of both an 1897 symphonic poem by Paul Dukas (Lapprenti sorcier in French), and of a 1797 ballad by Goethe (Der Zauberlehrling in German), which inspired the musical work. ... Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (in the Paris Museum of Music) Gabriel Urbain Fauré ( May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer. ... César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck ( December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist. ... Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a French singer and songwriter. ... Reynaldo Hahn, born on August 9, 1874 in Caracas, Venezuela, died on January 28, 1947 in Paris, France, was a German - Venezuelan composer, conductor and a music critic. ... Musique concrète is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... Jean-Michel Andr Jarre (born August 24, 1948) is a French composer of electronic music. ... Maurice Jarre (born in Lyon, France, September 13, 1924) is a French composer of film scores, noted for his use of the Ondes Martenot. ... Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932) is a French composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. ... Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli (November 28, 1632–March 22, 1687), was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. ... Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ... Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French-Jewish composer and teacher. ... Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819 – October 4, 1880), composer and cellist, the creator of La vie Parisienne and an originator of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. ... Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. ... Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition. ... Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (b. ... Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ( IPA: [ʃaʁl. ... Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (born Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925 in Paris) was a French composer, performing pianist and publicist. ... Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (born August 14, 1910, died August 19, 1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. ... Musique concrète is the name given to a class of electronic music produced from editing together fragments of natural and industrial sounds. ... Le Groupe des Six, 1922, by Jacques-Emile Blanche. ... Germaine Tailleferre (April 19, 1892 - November 7, 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the famous Group Les Six. ... Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. ...

Criminals

For Collaboration with Nazi Germany see also the politicians section. Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

• Jacques de Bernonville (1897-1972), war criminal sentenced to death
• Jules Bonnot
• Émile Louis
• Henri Désiré Landru -- serial killer
• Jacques Mesrine
• Maurice Papon -- politician and war criminal
• Marcel Petiot -- serial killer
• Jean-Claude Romand -- murderer
• Paul Touvier -- The only Frenchman convicted of crime against humanity

The Bonnot Gang was a French criminal anarchist group that terrorized France and Belgium from 1911 to 1912. ... Jacques Mesrine (December 28, 1936 - November 2, 1979) was a French criminal who also visited the United States and Canada. ... Maurice Papon (born September 3, 1910) was an official of the French Vichy government, which collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II. After the war ended, he hid his role in the Vichy government and went on to have a successful career in politics until the emergence of details... Doctor Marcel Petiot (1897-1946) was a French doctor who was convicted of multiple murder after the discovery of the remains of twenty-six people in his home in Paris after World War II. Early life Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot was born January 17, 1897 at Auxerre, France. ... Jean-Claude Romand is a French impostor and murderer who pretended to be a medical doctor. ... Paul Touvier (April 3, 1915 - July 17, 1996) was the only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity. ...

Dancers

• Jane Avril
• Aristide Bruant
• La Goulue
• Marcelle Lender
• Cléo de Mérode
• Hellé Nice
• Roland Petit

See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergeres Avril by Toulouse-Lautrec Jane Avril, (1868-1943), was a French can-can dancer made famous through paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. ... Aristide Bruant, born May 6, 1851 – February 10, 1925, was a French cabaret singer, comedian and nightclub owner who is best recognized as the man in the red scarf and black cape on the famous poster by Henri de Toulouse_Lautrec. ... La Goulue, born 1866 – died January 30, 1929, is the stage name of Louise Weber, a French Cancan dancer. ... Marcelle Lender (1862-1926) was a French singer-dancer and entertainer made famous in paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. ... Moulin Rouge (French for red mill) is a traditional cabaret, built in 1889 by Joseph Oller who already owned the Paris Olympia. ... Costume, c. ...

Economists

• Maurice Allais
• Frederic Bastiat
• Jules Dupuit
• Gerard Debreu -- Nobel memorial prize 1983
• Alain Lipietz -- green economist
• François Quesnay
• Pascal Salin
• Jean-Baptiste Say
• Turgot
• Fernard Braudel

Maurice Allais (born May 31, 1911) was the 1988 winner of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources. ... Frédéric Bastiat Claude Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801–December 24, 1850) was a French classical liberal author and political economist. ... Jules Dupuit (18 May 1804 - 5 September 1866) was a French civil engineer and economist. ... Gerard Debreu (July 4, 1921–December 31, 2004) was a French-born American economist who won the 1983 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alain Lipietz (born September 19, French engineer, economist and politician, a member of the French Green Party. ... Pascal Salin (born in 1939) is a French economist, professor at Paris IX Dauphine University, specialist of public finances, president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1994 to 1996. ... Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 - November 15, 1832) was a French economist and businessman. ... Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, often referred to as Turgot (May 10, 1727 ? March 18, 1781), was a French statesman and economist. ...

Fashion

• Liliane de Bettencourt, majority owner of L'Oreal, wealthiest person in France
• Pierre Cardin -- Fashion Designer
• Coco Chanel -- fashion designer
• Edouard de Givenchy
• Christian Dior -- fashion designer
• Jean-Paul Gaultier
• Madame Grey
• Daniel Hechter -- inventor of ready-to-wear
• Paul Poiret
• Yves Saint-Laurent -- fashion designer

Liliane Bettencourt (born 1922), is the principal share holder of LOréal and one of the wealthiest people in the world. ... Pierre Cardin (born July 7, 1922) is a French fashion designer. ... Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (August 19, 1883 - January 10, 1971) was a French fashion designer and perfume creator. ... Christian Dior ( January 21, 1905 – October 24, 1957) was an influential French fashion designer. ... Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24, 1952, in Arcueil) is a French fashion designer. ... Categories: People stubs | 1879 births | 1944 deaths | French people ... Yves Saint-Laurent (born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria) is a French fashion designer. ...

Fictional characters

• Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix (French: Idéfix) (René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo) -- Gaul warriors
• Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan (Alexandre Dumas) -- Musketeers of the King of France
• Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand -- not fictional but there's no better category)
• Rastignac (Honoré de Balzac) -- The most ambitious man in Paris?
• The Man in the Iron Mask -- Not fictional either, but who knows who he was?

A shrewd, cunning little warrior; all perilous missions are immediately entrusted to him. ... A Menhir delivery-man by trade; addicted to wild boar. ... Dogmatix is a fictional character, a dog who belongs to Obelix in the Asterix comics. ... Albert Uderzo (born April 25, 1927 in France) is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. ... Gallia (in English Gaul) is the Latin name for the region of western Europe occupied by present-day France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ... Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... This article is about the fictional character. ... Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte dArtagnan (c. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ... The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Kings ruled in France from the Middle Ages to 1848. ... Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac ( March 6, 1619 – July 28, 1655) was a French dramatist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story. ... Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918), French poet and dramatist. ... Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (pronounced ball-sack) ( May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850), was a French novelist. ... The Man in the Iron Mask is a myth that developed after the death of a mysterious prisoner in the Bastille prison on November 19, 1703. ...

Filmmakers

• Olivier Assayas
• Jacques Becker
• Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Luc Besson
• Alice Guy-Blaché
• Bertrand Blier
• Catherine Breillat
• Robert Bresson
• André Cayatte
• René Clair
• René Clément
• Jean Cocteau
• Jacques Cousteau
• Jacques Demy
• Abel Gance
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Mathieu Kassovitz
• Patrice Leconte
• Claude Lelouch
• Louis Malle
• André Malraux
• Georges Méliès
• Maurice Pialat
• Roman Polanski
• Jean Renoir
• Alain Resnais
• Alain Sarde
• Claude Sautet
• Jacques Tati
• Jacques Tourneur
• Maurice Tourneur
• François Truffaut
• Roger Vadim
• Agnès Varda
• Jean Vigo

Olivier Assayas (born January 25, 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. ... Jean-Jacques Beineix (born October 8, 1946) is a French film director. ... Luc Besson Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer, and producer. ... Bertrand Blier (born March 14, French screenwriter and film director. ... Catherine Breillat (born July 13, 1948) is a filmmaker and director based in Paris. ... Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901–December 18, 1999) was a French film director and master of minimalism. ... René Clair (November 11, 1898 – March 15, 1981) was a French filmmaker. ... René Clément, born on March 18, 1913 in Bordeaux, in the Gironde département of France - died on March 17, 1996, in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was a film director and screenwriter. ... Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. ... Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 - June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. ... The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. ... Abel Gance (October 25, 1889 - November 10, 1981) a world renowned French film director, producer, writer, actor and editor. ... Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard (born December 3, 1930) was one of the most influential members of the nouvelle vague. ... Jean-Pierre Jeunet Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953, Roanne, Loire - France) is a French film director. ... Mathieu Kassovitz is a French actor, director and screenwriter, and is considered one of contemporary Frances top young film talents. ... Patrice Leconte (born November 12, 1947, in Paris, France) is a French film director and screenwriter. ... Claude Lelouch (born October 30, French film director, writer and producer. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... André Malraux, French author, adventurer, and statesman André Malraux ( November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman whose preeminence in the world of French politics and culture was as much fact as it was a product of his own imagination. ... Georges Méliès (December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938), full name Maries-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. ... Maurice Pialat (August 21, 1925 - January 11, 2003) was a French film director and actor. ... Roman Polanski Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a French/Polish film director and actor. ... Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894-February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was a film director. ... Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpiece Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for his other moving and challenging work, such as the... Claude Sautet (February 23, 1924 _ July 22, 2000) was a French author and film director. ... Jacques Tati (October 9, 1908 - November 5, 1982) was a French film-maker. ... Jacques Tourneur, born November 12, 1904 – died December 19, 1977, was a French film director. ... Maurice Tourneur, born February 2, 1873 – died August 4, 1961, was an important international film director and screenwriter. ... François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932–October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ... Roger Vadim (January 26, 1928 - February 10, 2000), was a journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardots career in the film And God Created Woman. ... Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French filmmaker and director based in Paris and one of the key figures in modern film. ... Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a French film director. ...

Humorists

• Coluche
• Francis Blanche
• Pierre Dac humorist and Resistance worker
• Pierre Desproges

Michel Colucci (October 28, 1944 - June 19, 1986), better known as Coluche, was a famous French comedian who went the extra mile to rock the establishment. ...

Monarchs

See also French monarchs, members of the French Royal Families Kings ruled in France from the Middle Ages to 1848. ... This is a list of non-ruling members of the French royal family. ...

• Charlemagne
• Henri IV
• Louis XIV, the Sun King -- King of France
• Louis XVI -- King of France when the Revolution started.
• Marie Antoinette -- Austrian born Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI.
• Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais -- Emperor and Empress of France
• Napoleon III -- Président and Emperor

A Frankish king, like Charlemagne, (center) depicted in the Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (about 870) Charlemagne (c. ... By Frans Pourbus the younger. ... Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ... Louis XVI Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ... A revolution is a relatively sudden and absolutely drastic change. ... Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria (born November 1755 – executed 16 October 1793) Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, wife of Louis XVI and mother of Louis XVII. She was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. ... Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français... Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress Joséphine Joséphine de Beauharnais (June 23, 1763 _ May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and became Empress of France. ... ...

Musicians, singers

• Charles Aznavour
• Josephine Baker, American born entertainer
• Jane Bathori, opera singer
• Barbara
• Guy Béart
• Michel Berger
• Lucienne Boyer
• Georges Brassens
• Aristide Bruant
• Manu Chao
• Air_(band)
• Dalida
• Damia
• Marie Dubas
• Jacques Dutronc
• Claude François -- popular singer 1960s-1970s
• Fréhel
• France Gall
• Serge Gainsbourg
• Gipsy Kings
• Georgius
• Jean-Jacques Goldman
• Stéphane Grappelli -- jazz musician
• Juliette Gréco
• Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté)
• Yvette Guilbert
• Johnny Hallyday - borned in Belgium, served in the French army
• David Hallyday
• Françoise Hardy
• Joëlle
• Kiki -- "Queen of Montparnasse"
• La Goulue
• Claudine Longet
• Luis Mariano
• Didier Marouani — musician and composer
• Félix Mayol
• Mireille Mathieu
• Mireille
• Mistinguett
• Ginette Neveu
• Yannick Noah
• Vanessa Paradis
• Pierre Perret
• Edith Piaf
• Lily Pons - opera singer (naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1940)
• Tino Rossi
• Jean Sablon
• Bertrand Bergalat
• Alain Souchon
• Charles Trenet
• Sylvie Vartan
• Pauline Garcia-Viardot - opera singer & composer

Portrait of Charles Aznavour. ... Josephine Baker, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an African American dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as the Black Venus. She became a French citizen in 1937. ... Jane Bathori (June 14, 1877 - January 25, 1970) was a French opera singer. ... Monique Andrée Serf (June 9, 1930 - November 25, 1997) was a popular singer best known under the stage name of Barbara. ... Guy Béart (born July 16, 1930) is a French singer and songwriter. ... Lucienne Boyer, born August 18, 1903 in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France - died on December 6, 1983 in Paris, was a singer. ... Georges Brassens (October 22, 1921 - October 29, 1981) was a French singer and songwriter. ... Aristide Bruant, born May 6, 1851 – February 10, 1925, was a French cabaret singer, comedian and nightclub owner who is best recognized as the man in the red scarf and black cape on the famous poster by Henri de Toulouse_Lautrec. ... Manu Chao (born June 21, 1961 in Paris; real name Jose-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao; also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor) is a French Latin folk singer. ... Air is a French band, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, founded in 1995. ... Dalida as shown on a French stamp issued in 2001 Dalida (January 17, 1933 - May 3, 1987) was an Egyptian-born singer, of Italian origin, making her career in France. ... Marie-Louise Damien (December 5, 1889 – January, 1978) was a French singer and actress best known under the stage name Damia. ... Marie Dubas, born September 3, 1894 – died February 21, 1972, was a music-hall singer and comedienne. ... Jacques Dutronc (b. ... Claude François Claude François, born February 1, 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt; died March 11, 1978 in Paris, France, was a pop music singer. ... Fréhel, born Marguerite Boulch on July 14, 1891 – died February 3, 1951, was a French singer and actress. ... France Gall is a famous French singer. ... Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginzburg, (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991) was a poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ... The Gipsy Kings are a group of French gypsy (gitane) musicians, best known for bringing rhumba flamenca, a pop-oriented version of traditional flamenco music, to mainstream audiences. ... Georges Guibourg (June 3, 1891 - January 8, 1970) was a French singer, author, writer, playwright, and actor, George Guibourg, alias Georgius, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years. ... Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a French singer and songwriter. ... Django (left) & Grappelli (right). ... Marie-France Gaîté, a singer better known as Gribouille, was born on July 17, 1941 in Lyon, France and died on January 18, 1968 in Paris, France. ... Yvette Guilbert, born January 20, 1867 in Paris, France – died February 4, 1944 in Aix-en-Provence, was a music-hall singer and actress. ... Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943) is a French singer and actor. ... Françoise Hardy (b. ... Kiki, was the stage name for Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 - 1953), a nightclub singer, actress, model, and painter. ... The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. ... La Goulue, born 1866 – died January 30, 1929, is the stage name of Louise Weber, a French Cancan dancer. ... Claudine Longet (born in Paris on January 29, 1942), was a popular singer and recording artist in the 1960s and 1970s. ... Didier Marouani is a French composer and musician. ... Mireille Mathieu (album) Mireille Mathieu (born July 22, 1946) is a French singer. ... Mireille Hartuch (born September 30, 1906 in Paris, France - died December 29, 1996 in Paris, France) was a singer, composer, and actress known as Mireille. ... Mistinguett (April 5, 1875 - January 5, 1956) was a French singer, born Jeanne Bourgeois in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-dOise, Île-de-France, France. ... Ginette Neveu, born August 11, 1919 – died October 27, 1949, was a French concert violinist. ... Yannick Noah (b. ... Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born December 22, 1972) is a French singer and actress. ... Edith Piaf Édith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963) was one of Frances most beloved singers, with much success shortly before and during World War II. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad presented with a heartbreaking voice. ... Lily Pons as Rosina Lily Pons (also known as Alice Josephine Pons) (April 12, 1904 - February 13, 1976) was a French-born U.S. coloratura soprano. ... Tino Rossi (April 29, 1907 – September 26, 1983) was a singer and film actor. ... Jean Sablon (born March 25, 1906 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Seine, France; died February 24, 1994 at Cannes-La-Bocca, Alpes-Maritimes) was a popular singer. ... Charles Trenet (May 18, 1913, Narbonne, France - February 19, 2001, Cr teil, France) was a French singer and songwriter. ... Sylvie Vartan (born 1944) is a French pop singer and music hall impressario. ... Pauline Garcia-Viardot (July 18, 1821 - May 18, 1910) was a 19th century French mezzo-soprano and composer. ...

Painters

• François Boucher
• Pierre Brissaud
• Gustave Caillebotte
• Paul Cézanne
• Jules Chéret
• Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
• Gustave Courbet
• Thomas Couture
• Jacques Louis David
• Edgar Degas
• Eugène Delacroix
• Robert Delaunay
• André Derain
• Marcel Duchamp
• Suzanne Duchamp
• Henri Fantin-Latour
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• Antonio de La Gandara
• Paul Gauguin
• Jean-Baptiste Gros
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• Charles de La Tour
• Georges Lacombe
• Fernand Léger
• Edouard Manet
• Henri Matisse
• Claude Monet
• Gustave Moreau
• Berthe Morisot
• Gen Paul
• Francis Picabia
• Camille Pissarro
• Nicolas Poussin
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Georges Seurat
• Nicolas de Staël
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Maurice Utrillo
• Suzanne Valadon
• Horace Vernet
• Jacques Villon
• Philippe Watteau
• Félix Ziem

Pierre Brissaud (December 23, 1885- 1964) was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter and engraver. ... Self portrait Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 - February 21, 1894), was a French painter and supporter of the Impressionist movement in art. ... Vase of Flowers (1876) Oil on canvas Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French painter who represents the bridge from impressionism to cubism. ... Jules Chéret, born May 31, 1836 – died September 23, 1932, was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of poster art. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. ... Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar) Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 - December 31, 1877) was a French painter. ... Thomas Couture (December 21, 1815 - March 30, 1879) was an influential French history painter and teacher. ... Self portrait Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 - December 29, 1825), most usually known as David (pronounced Dah-veed rather than Day-vid), was a French painter. ... Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a Faggot buttlicker and ballsucker. ... Eugène Delacroix (portrait by Nadar) Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( April 26, 1798 - August 13, 1863) was an important painter from the French romantic period. ... Robert Delaunay (born April 12, 1885 in Paris, France; died October 25, 1941 in Montpellier, France), French impressionist artist. ... Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906) André Derain ( June 10, 1880 - September 8, 1954) was a French painter and illustrator. ... Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968) was a French/American artist. ... Suzanne Duchamp (1889 - September 11, 1963) was a French Dadaist painter. ... Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. ... Antonio de La Gandara (December 16, 1861 - June 30, 1917) was a painter, pastellist and draughtsman. ... Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 - May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. ... Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French painter. ... Georges Lacombe (June 18, 1868 - June 29, 1916) was a French sculptor and painter. ... Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar) Édouard Manet (January 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883) was a noted French painter. ... Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906). ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 _ December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Orpheus by Gustave Moreau (1865) Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 - April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. ... Berthé Morisot in a portrait by Édouard Manet, 1872 Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was an impressionist painter. ... Gen Paul, born Eugène Paul on July 2, 1898 in Montmartre, France - died on April 30, 1975 in Paris, France, was a painter and engraver. ... Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Et in Arcadia ego by Nicolas Poussin. ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919) was a preeminent French painter. ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ... Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901) was a French painter. ... Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon, (December 25, 1883 - November 5, 1955) was a French Painter. ... Suzanne Valadon (September 23, 1865 - April 7, 1938) was a French painter. ... Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (June 30, 1789 - January 17, 1863) was a French painter of battle panoramas, sporting, and Arab themes. ... Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 - June 9, 1963) was a French Cubist painter and printmaker. ...

Philosophers

• Louis Althusser
• Jean le Rond d'Alembert
• Georges Bataille
• Roland Barthes
• Jean Baudrillard -- philosopher and sociologist
• Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
• Julien Benda
• Henri Bergson
• Emile Boutroux
• Michel de Certeau
• André Comte-Sponville
• Jean de Crèvecoeur
• Guy Debord
• Gilles Deleuze
• Jacques Derrida
• René Descartes -- scientist and philosopher
• Denis Diderot -- Enlightenment author and atheist philosopher
• Elisabeth Bourdiau de Fontenay
• Michel Foucault
• Félix Guattari
• Vladimir Jankelevitch
• Étienne de La Boétie -- philosopher and politician
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
• Henri Lefèbvre
• Marcel Légaut - christian philosopher
• Jean de Léry -- corsaireand ethnologist, anti-racism acivist
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• Jean-François Lyotard
• Nicolas Malebranche
• Gabriel Marcel -- philosopher
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- phenomenologist
• Michel de Montaigne -- philosopher essayist
• Montesquieu, political philosopher
• Emmanuel Mounier -- philosopher
• Jean Luc Nancy -- philosopher
• Blaise Pascal -- scientist, Christian philosopher and author
• Paul Ricoeur
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jean-Paul Sartre -- existentialist philosopher
• Michel Serres
• Jean-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire -- Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher
• Eric Weil -- philosopher
• Simone Weil

Louis Althusser (October 19, 1918 - October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. ... Jean le Rond dAlembert, pastel by Maurice Quentin de la Tour Jean Le Rond dAlembert ( November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. ... Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 - July 9, 1962) was a French writer and philosopher, though he avoided the latter term himself. ... Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher and semiotician. ... Jean Baudrillard (born 1929) is a cultural theorist and philosopher. ... Pierre-Félix Bourdieu (August 1, 1930-January 23, 2002) was a French sociologist. ... Julien Benda (December 26, 1867 - June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist. ... Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941) was a French philosopher, influential in France, but out of the main currents of his time. ... Emile Boutroux, French philosopher Éteinne Émile Marie Boutroux (July 28, 1845 - November 22, 1921) was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of Science and Religion, and an historian of Philosophy. ... Michel de Certeau (Chambéry, 1925- Paris, 9 January 1986) was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences. ... Guy Debord (December 28, 1931-November 30, 1994) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and the founder and chief theorist of the Situationist International (SI). ... Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a major French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French literary critic and philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop deconstruction. Positioning Derridas thought Derrida had a significant effect on continental philosophy and on literary theory, particularly through his long-time association... René Descartes René Descartes (IPA: , March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, worked as a philosopher and mathematician. ... Denis Diderot Denis Diderot ( October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784) was a French writer and philosopher. ... The Age of Enlightenment (or The Enlightenment for short) was an intellectual movement in 18th-century Europe. ... Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France choosing for himself the title Professor of the History of Systems of Thought. His writings have had an enormous impact across the humanities and social sciences including such disciplines... Pierre-Félix Guattari (1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ... A modern French philosophist who is influenced by Heideggers concept of destruction and Derridas concept of deconstruction. ... Emmanuel Levinas (January 12, 1906 - December 25, 1995) was a Jewish philosopher originally from Kaunas in Lithuania, who moved to France where he wrote most of his works in French. ... Jean-François Lyotard ( August 10, 1924- April 21, 1998) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. ... Nicolas Malebranche (August 6, 1638 – October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. ... Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was the leading existentialist Christian. ... Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 - May 4, 1961) was a French phenomenologist philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl, and often somewhat mistakenly classified as an existentialist thinker because of his close association with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and his distinctly Heideggerian conception of Being. ... Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592) was an influential French Renaissance writer, generally considered to be the inventor of the personal essay. ... Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ( January 18, 1689 – February 10, 1755) was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and... Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Paul Ricoeur (born February 27, 1913 in Valence) is a French philosopher best known for his attempt to combine phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment Biography of Rousseau The tomb of Rousseau in the crypt of the Panth on, Paris Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Michel Serres (born September 1, 1930) is a French philosopher and author with an unusual career. ... Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher. ... For the period in European history, The Age of Enlightenment For the corresponding movement in the European Jewish community, see Haskalah. ... Deism is belief in a God or first cause based on reason, rather than on faith or revelation, and thus a form of theism in opposition to fideism. ... Agnosticism is the philosophical and theological view that the existence of God, gods or deities is either unknown or inherently unknowable. ... Simone Weil should not be confused with Simone Veil, a French politician. ...

Politicians

See also: Prime Ministers of France, Presidents of France This page is a list of French prime ministers. ... The President of France, known officially as the President of the Republic (Président de la République in French), is Frances elected Head of State. ...

• Robert Badinter -- lawyer, statesman and anti death sentence activist
• Léon Blum
• José Bové -- altermondialist
• Marcel Cachin -- founder of the daily periodic L'Humanité
• Jacques Chirac
• Georges Clemenceau
• Gaspard de Coligny
• Bertrand Delanoë
• Jacques Delors
• Félix Faure, President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress
• Charles de Gaulle
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• Guizot, Prime Minister
• Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist
• Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist
• Lionel Jospin
• Bernard Kouchner -- founder of Medecins du Monde and other "French Doctors"
• Jean-Marie Le Pen
• Alain Lipietz -- green economist
• Pierre Mendès-France -- Lawyer and Statesman
• Honoré Mirabeau
• François Mitterrand -- Lawyer and Statesman
• Jean Monnet
• Henri Philippe Pétain -- Head of Vichy France
• Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France
• Jean-Pierre Raffarin -- Prime Minister of France since 2002
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Victor Schoelcher -- anti-slavery activist
• Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
• Maurice Thorez
• Jacques Toubon
• Dominique Voynet -- Physician and Green politician

Robert Badinter (March 30, 1928) is a French politician (after being a high-profile criminal lawyer and a university professor in Law). ... Léon Blum Léon Blum ( 9 April 1872 - 30 March 1950), French socialist leader and Prime Minister, was born in Paris, into a middle-class Jewish family. ... José Bové (born June 11, 1953) is a French farmer, anarcho-syndicalist, and member of the anti-globalization movement, and spokesperson for Via Campesina. ... LHumanité (Humanity), formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), was the only French newspaper owned by a political party. ... Jacques (René) Chirac (born 29 November 1932) is a French politician. ... Georges Clemenceau (September 28, 1841 - November 24, 1929) was a French doctor, journalist and statesman. ... Gaspard de Coligny (February 16, 1519 - August 24, 1572), Seigneur (Lord) de Châtillon, admiral of France and Protestant leader, came of a noble family of Burgundy. ... Bertrand Delanoë (born May 30, 1950;  pronunciation) is a French Socialist politician, currently the Mayor of Paris. ... Categories: Stub | 1925 births | Presidents of the European Commission ... French statesman Félix Faure François Félix Faure ( 30 January 1841– 16 February 1899) was President of France from 1895 to his death in 1899. ... Portrait of General Charles de Gaulle. ... Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard dEstaing (born February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, Germany) is a French politician who was President of the Republic from 1974 until 1981. ... François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator and statesman. ... Jean Jaurès Jean Léon Jaurès ( September 3, 1859 - July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. ... Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French statesman. ... Bernard Kouchner, born on November 1, 1939 in Avignon is a French politician and a doctor. ... Le Pen Jean-Marie Le Pen (born June 20, 1928) is a controversial French politician. ... Alain Lipietz (born September 19, French engineer, economist and politician, a member of the French Green Party. ... Pierre Mendès-France Pierre Mendès France (pronounced Man-dez-Fronce) ( 10 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... Portrait of Mirabeau Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, (often referred to simply as Mirabeau) ( March 9, 1749 - April 2, 1791) was a French writer, popular orator and statesman. ... François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterand ( October 26, 1916 - January 8, 1996;  pronunciation?) was a French politician and President of France from May 1981, re-elected in 1988, until 1995. ... Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (November 9, 1888 – March 16, 1979) is regarded by many as the architect of European Unity. ... Philippe Pétain Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain (April 24, 1856 - July 23, 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French soldier and Head of State of Vichy France. ... Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (1603-1670) was an aristocrat statesman and military leader born in France. ... New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. ... Jean-Pierre Raffarin (born August 3, 1948;  French pronunciation?) is a French conservative politician. ... Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy (born in Paris January 28, 1955) is a French politician, who is president of the UMP conservative political party. ... Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893) was a French abolitionist writer in the 1800s and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834. ... Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (February 2, 1754 - May 17, French diplomat. ... Maurice Thorez Maurice Thorez (April 28, 1900–July 11, 1964) was a French statesman and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death. ... Jacques Toubon is a conservative French politician. ...

Popes

See List of French popes Sixteen popes have had French ancestry, all in the second half of the medieval era. ...

Resistance workers

See also French Resistance The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the resulting Vichy France during World War II after France surrendered in 1940. ...

• Lucie Samuel-Aubrac(born 1912), human rights activist
• Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), statesman
• Robert Benoist (1895-1944), SOE operative, champion race car driver
• Denise Bloch (1915-1945), SOE operative: King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, Legion of Honor, French Resistance Medal
• Andrée Borrel (1919-1944), SOE operative: Croix de Guerre
• Madeleine Damerment (1917-1944), SOE operative: Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, Médaille combattant volontaire de la Résistance
• Marie Louise Dissard
• William Grover-Williams (1903-1945), SOE operative, champion race car driver
• Cecily Lefort (1900-1945), SOE operative: Croix de Guerre
• Pierre Mendès-France (1907-1982), lawyer, statesman
• Jean Moulin (1899-1943), statesman
• Abbé Pierre (1912- ), Priest and founder of Emmaus
• Christian Pineau(1904-1995), statesman
• Eliane Plewman (1917-1944), SOE operative: Croix de Guerre
• Germaine Ribière
• Elise Rivet (1890-1945), nun executed by Nazis for aiding the resistance
• Lilian Rolfe (1914-1945), SOE agent executed by the Nazis
• Odette Sansom (1912-1995), SOE operative: George Cross, MBE, Legion of Honor
• Suzanne Spaak, Belgian-born agent: "Red Orchestra" intelligence network; executed 1944
• Violette Szabo (1921-1945), SOE operative: George Cross, Croix de Guerre
• Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908-1949), SOE operative, champion race car driver

Lucie Aubrac (b 1912) is a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance. ... Robert Marcel Charles Benoist, (March 20, 1895 - September 9, 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Denise Madeleine Bloch, born in 1915 in France - died February 5, 1945 in Ravensbrück, Germany, was a heroine of World War II. From a Jewish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the Gestapo. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Andrée Raymonde Borrel, born in France on November 18, 1919 - died July 6, 1944 at Natzwiller, Bas-Rhin, France. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Madeleine Zoe Damerment (November 11, 1917 - September 11, 1944) is a heroine of World War II. Madeleine Damerment was born in the city Lille in the Nord département of France. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, (January 16, 1903 – March 18, 1945), was a Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 _ May 1, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. Born in London, England of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. Alex Lefort. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Pierre Mendès-France Pierre Mendès France (pronounced Man-dez-Fronce) ( 10 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... Jean Moulin (June 20, 1899–July 8, 1943) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Before the War Jean Moulin was born in Béziers, France, and enrolled in the French Army in 1918, but World War I came to an end before he could see any... This is a page about the charity, Emmaus. ... Christian Pineau, French resistance leader and statesman Christian Pineau (October 14, 1904 _ April 5, 1995) was a noted French Resistance fighter. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Elise Rivet born January 19, 1890, in Draria, Algeria - died March 30, 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany, was a Roman Catholic nun and war heroine. ... -1... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Odette Sansom (April 28, 1912 - March 13, 1995) was an Allied heroine of World War II. Odette Marie Celine Brailly was born in Amiens in the Somme département of France. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Suzanne Spaak (c. ... Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, G.C., M.B.E., CdG (June 26, 1921 - February 5?, 1945) was a World War II secret agent. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ... Jean-Pierre Wimille (February 26, 1908 - January 28, 1949) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver. ... The Special Operations Executive (SOE), often called the Baker Street Irregulars after Sherlock Holmess fictional group of spies, was a World War II organisation initiated by Winston Churchill in July of 1940 as a mechanism for conducting warfare by means other than direct military engagement. ...

Scientists

A-C

• Louis Agassiz -- geologist
• André-Marie Ampère -- scientist
• François Arago -- physicist, astronomer (and also politician)
• Antoine Arbogast -- mathematician
• Jean Baptiste Biot -- physicist
• Jean-Charles de Borda -- mathematician, physicist, political scientist
• Henri Braconnot -- chemist and pharmacist
• Louis de Broglie -- 1929 Physics Nobel Prize winner.
• Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot -- physicist
• Augustin Louis Cauchy -- mathematician
• Jean-François Champollion -- egyptologist
• Emilie du Chatelet -- 18th century mathematician
• Georges Charpak -- physicist, Nobel prize winner
• Marquis de Condorcet -- philosopher, mathematician and political scientist
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb -- physicist, mathematician, engineer
• Jacques Cousteau, Marine scientist
• Joseph Cugnot
• Irène Joliot-Curie -- scientist
• Pierre Curie -- scientist

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. ... André-Marie Ampère (January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836), was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. ... François Jean Dominique Arago ( February 26, 1786 – October 2, 1853) was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician. ... Louis François Antoine Arbogast (October 4, 1759 _ April 8, 1803) was a French mathematician. ... Categories: People stubs | 1774 births | 1862 deaths | French physicists | French mathematicians | Members of the Académie française ... Jean-Charles de Borda (May 4, 1733 - February 19, 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor. ... Henri Braconnot Henri Braconnot (Commercy May 29, 1780 - Nancy January 15, 1855) was a French chemist and pharmacist. ... Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... Lazare Carnot Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (Nolay, May 13, 1753 - Magdeburg, August 22, 1823) was a French politician and mathematician. ... Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy ( August 21, 1789 – May 23, 1857) was a French mathematician. ... Jean-François Champollion For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). ... Emilie du Chatelet Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet-Laumont (December 17, 1706 - September 10, 1749) was a French mathematician, physicist and author. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a noted physicist. ... Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. ... Portrait of Coulomb Charles Augustin Coulomb (June 14, 1736—August 23, 1806) was a French physicist. ... Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 - June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. ... Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (25 September 1725 - 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who built what may have been the worlds first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile. ... Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie (September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ... Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906) was a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ...

D-M

• Guillaume Delisle, cartographer
• René Descartes -- scientist and philosopher
• Girard Desargues -- mathematician
• Georges Duby -- historian
• Pierre de Fermat -- mathematician
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- mathematician and physicist
• Pierre Gassendi -- philosopher mathematician
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes -- physicist, Nobel prize winner
• Evariste Galois -- mathematician
• Frédéric Joliot -- scientist
• Joseph Louis Lagrange -- mathematician
• Pierre-Simon Laplace -- mathematician and physicist
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Jean-Marie Lehn -- chemist, Nobel prize winner in 1987
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
• Antoine Lévi-Leblond -- physicist
• Albert Matthiez -- historian
• André Michaux -- botanist and explorer
• Jules Michelet -- historian
• Abraham de Moivre -- mathematician
• Theodore Monod -- naturalist and theologian
• Claude Mossé -- (Ms), historian

Guillaume Delisle (February 28, 1675 - January 25, 1726) was a French cartographer, born in Paris, France (he also died there). ... René Descartes René Descartes (IPA: , March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, worked as a philosopher and mathematician. ... Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) was a French mathematician and one of the founders of projective geometry. ... Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages. ... Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. ... Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 - May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. ... Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist and mathematician, best known for attempting to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity. ... Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Galois was young-looking for his age and had black hair. ... Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Joseph Louis Lagrange (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer who later lived in France and Prussia. ... Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer, the discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplaces equation. ... Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( August 26, 1743– May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. ... Jean-Marie Lehn received Chemistry Nobel at 1987. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth centurys greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture Biography Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at... André Michaux (March 7, 1746 _ November 16, 1802) was a French botanist and explorer. ... Jules Michelet (August 21, 1798 - February 9, 1874) was a French historian. ... Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 - November 27, 1754), was a French mathematician famous for de Moivres formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. ...

P-V

• Denis Papin
• Louis Pasteur -- scientist
• Blaise Pascal -- mathematician and philosopher
• Étienne Pascal -- mathematician
• Henri Poincaré -- mathematician and physicist
• Simeon Poisson -- mathematician and physicist
• Michel Rolle -- mathematician
• Jean Rostand
• Albert Soboul -- historian
• Jean-Pierre Vernant -- historian
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- historian and Civil Rights activist
• Pierre Vilar, historian
• Christophe Victor -- geographer
• Paul-Emile Victor -- ethnologist

Denis Papin (August 22, 1647 - c. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist who demonstrated the germ theory of disease and developed techniques of inoculation, most notably the first vaccine against rabies. ... Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Henri Poincaré, photograph from the frontispiece of the 1913 edition of Last Thoughts Jules Henri Poincaré ( April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912) was one of Frances greatest mathematicians, theoretical scientists and a philosopher of science. ... Simeon Poisson. ... Michel Rolle (April 21, 1652 - November 8, 1719) was a French mathematician. ... Albert Soboul (1913-1982) was a French historian of the Great French Revolution of 1789-1794; he also treated the pre-revolutionary history of French enlightenment in 1977 for the period 1715_1789 in two parts; mentality and history of Sans-Culottes army. ...

Sculptors

• Frédéric Bartholdi
• Antonin Carlés
• Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
• César
• Antoine-Denis Chaudet
• Camille Claudel
• Paul Dubois
• Raymond Duchamp-Villon
• Alexandre Falguière
• Jean Antoine Houdon
• Antonin Idrac
• Georges Lacombe
• Antonin Mercié
• Hippolyte Moulin
• Auguste Préault
• Auguste Rodin
• Francois Rude
• Niki de Saint Phalle

One of his works Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (August 2, 1834 - October 4, 1904) was a French sculptor. ... Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sometimes called Jules Carpeaux (May 11, 1827 - October 12, 1875) was a French sculptor who studied under Fran ois Rude. ... César Baldaccini (January 1, 1921 in Marseille - December 6, 1998 in Paris) was a noted sculptor. ... Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763 - 1810) was a French sculptor. ... Camille Claudel (December 8, 1864 – October 19, 1943) was a French sculptor and graphic artist. ... Paul Dubois (July 18, 1829 - 1905) was a significant French sculptor and painter. ... Raymond Duchamp-Villon (November 5, 1876 - October 9, 1918) was a French sculptor. ... Jean-Antoine Houdon (March 20, 1741 - July 15, 1828) was a French sculptor. ... Georges Lacombe (June 18, 1868 - June 29, 1916) was a French sculptor and painter. ... Hippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin (1832- 1884) was a 19th Century French sculptor. ... Rodins The Burghers of Calais in Calais, France. ... François Rude: 1888 engraving François Rude (June 4, 1784 - November 3, 1855) was a French sculptor. ... Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle, née Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle (October 29, 1930 - May 21, 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. ...

Social Activists

• Hubertine Auclert -- journalist and feminist leader
• Simone de Beauvoir -- author, philosopher, and feminist
• Sophie de Condorcet -- feminist
• Maria Deraismes -- feminist
• Marguerite Durand -- journalist and feminist leader
• Olympe de Gouges -- feminist
• Séverine -- feminist
• Flora Tristan -- feminist

Hubertine Auclert, April 10, 1848 - died August 4, 1914, was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for womens suffrage. ... Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist. ... Maria Deraismes, born August 17, 1828 - February 6, 1894, was a French author and major pioneering force for womens rights. ... Marguerite Durand, born January 24, 1864 – died March 16, 1936, was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. ... Olympe de Gouges (May 7, 1748 - November 3, 1793) (born Marie Gouze) was a playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience. ... Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, born April 27, 1855 – died April 24, 1929, was a French socialist, journalist, and feminist best known under the name Séverine. ... Flora Tristan, born April 7, 1803 in Paris, France - died November 14, 1844 in Bordeaux, France, was one of the founders of modern feminism and Paul Gauguins grandmother. ...

Soldiers

• Louis Nicolas Davout
• Bob Denard
• Alfred Dreyfus
• Ferdinand Foch
• Bertrand du Guesclin
• Antoine-Henri Jomini
• Charles Leclerc
• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
• Simon de Montfort
• Michel Ney

Louis Nicolas dAvout (May 10, 1770 - June 1, 1823), better known as Davout, was duke of Auerstädt, prince of Eckmühl, and a marshal of France. ... Colonel Bob Denard, known in Arabic as Said Mustapha Mahdjoub (born April 7, 1929 as Gilbert Bourgeaud in Bordeaux, France) is perhaps the most famous and influential mercenary in the last fifty years. ... Alfred Dreyfus in an army uniform, wearing a mustache. ... Ferdinand Foch ( October 2, 1851 – March 20, 1929) was a French soldier. ... Bertrand du Guesclin (c. ... Antoine-Henri, baron Jomini (March 6, 1779 _ March 24, 1869), general in the French and afterwards in the Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the art of war, was born at Payerne in the canton of Switzerland, where his father was syndic. ... Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc (Pontoise Val-dOise, France 1772_Saint Domingue, November 1, 1802) was a French general and a companion of Napoleon I of France. ... Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (February 2, 1889 - January 11, 1952) was a French military hero of World War II. Born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds (during the time of Georges Clemenceau, who was also born there), he graduated from school in 1911, and fought in World War I. He specialized... Two notable men bore the name of Simon de Montfort or Simon de Montford in the middle ages: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester (1160 - 1218), a French nobleman, achieved prominence in the Fourth Crusade and in the Albigensian Crusade. ... Michel Ney (January 10, 1769 - December 7, 1815) called Le Rougeaud (the ruddy) and le Brave des Braves (the bravest of the brave) was a marshal of the French army who had fought in the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. ...

Sportsmen and -women

• Tariq Abdul-Wahad -- basketball player (born Olivier Saint-Jean)
• Louis Acaries -- boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
• Jacques Anquetil -- cyclist
• Fabien Barthez -- football player
• Serge Blanco -- Venezuela born French citizen, rugby player
• Louison Bobet -- cyclist
• Surya Bonaly -- figure skater
• Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet -- 1928 & 1932 Olympic skating Gold Medalists
• Philippe Candeloro - figure skater
• Eric Cantona -- football player
• Georges Carpentier -- world champion boxer
• Marcel Cerdan -- world champion boxer
• Eugene Criqui -- world champion boxer
• Jean Cruguet -- jockey of Seattle Slew
• Richard Dacoury -- basketball player
• Emile Delahaye -- race car pioneer
• Marcel Desailly -- Ghana born French citizen, football player
• David Douillet -- judo
• Laurent Fignon -- cyclist
• Just Fontaine -- football player
• Lucien Gaudin -- fencer
• Thierry Henry -- football player
• Bernard Hinault -- cyclist
• Cristobal Huet -- hockey player
• Constant Huret -- cyclist
• Olivier Jacque -- motorcycle rider
• Rene Jacquot -- boxer, underdog who became world champion
• Laurent Jalabert -- cyclist
• Jean-Claude Killy -- skier
• Raymond Kopa -- football player
• Suzanne Lenglen -- tennis player
• Bixente Lizarazu - football player
• Jeannie Longo -- cyclist
• Laure Manaudou -- swimmer
• Amélie Mauresmo -- tennis player
• Jose Meiffret -- cyclist
• Alain Mimoun -- athlete
• Antoine Monteiro -- boxer, lost to Santos Laciar for the world title
• Carole Montillet -- skier
• Hellé Nice -- pioneer female race car driver
• Yannick Noah -- tennis player
• Tony Parker -- Belgian born French citizen, basketball player
• Marie-José Perec -- athlete
• Mary Pierce-- Canadian born French citizen, tennis player
• Julien Pillet -- fencer
• Michel Platini -- football player
• Alain Prost -- automobile racer
• Antoine Rigaudeau -- basketball player
• Georges Stern -- thoroughbred racing jockey
• Marcel Thil -- world champion boxer
• Christophe Tiozzo -- world champion boxer
• Fabrice Tiozzo -- world champion boxer, Christophe's brother
• Damien Touya -- fencer
• Patrick Vieira -- Senegal born French citizen, football player
• Richard Virenque -- Morocco born French citizen, cyclist
• Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver
• Zinédine Zidane -- football player

Tariq Abdul-Wahad (born November 3, 1974) is a professional basketball player. ... Jacques Anquetil (January 8, 1934 - November 18, 1987), was a French cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, 1957 and 1961-64. ... Fabien Barthez, born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet, France, is the current (as of 2004) goalkeeper for the French Ligue 1 football club Olympique de Marseille. ... Serge Blanco (born 31 August 1958 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a former rugby union footballer who played full back for Biarritz Olympique and France, gaining 93 caps, 81 at full back. ... The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela)1 is a country in northern South America. ... French cycling star Louison Bobet (March 12, 1925 - March 13, 1983) is one of just eight riders to win the Tour de France at least three times. ... Surya Bonaly (born December 15, 1973) is a black French professional figure skater, born in Nice, France. ... Eric Cantona (born May 24, 1966 in Marseille) is a former French footballer. ... Georges Carpentier (January 12, 1894 - October 28, 1975) was a French boxer. ... Marcel Cerdan (July 22, 1916 - October 27, 1949) was a French world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be Frances and Europes greatest boxer, and by many more fans to be one of the best to come out of that continent. ... Seattle Slew (February 15, 1974 - May 7, 2002) was an American thoroughbred race horse that won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1977, only the 10th horse to accomplish the feat. ... Emile Delahaye, born October 16, 1843 - died June 1, 1905, was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles. ... Marcel Desailly (born September 7, 1968 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian football player, currently a citizen of France and a former star for its national team, with whom he won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. ... The Republic of Ghana is a nation in West Africa. ... Laurent Fignon (born August 12, 1960 in Paris) was a French cyclist, who won the Tour de France twice, and missed winning it a third time with minimal difference. ... Just Fontaine (born August 18, 1933 in Marrakech, Morocco) was a French football player. ... Thierry Henry Thierry Henry (born August 17, 1977 in Les Ulis, Paris, France) is a French international footballer. ... Bernard Hinault (born 14 November French cyclist, best known for his five victories in the Tour de France. ... Cristobal Huet (born September 3, 1975 in Saint-Martin-dHères, France) is a professional ice hockey player. ... Constant Huret, knicknamed le Boulanger (the Baker), of Ressons, France (January 26, 1870 - September 18, 1951) was a long distance track racing cyclist. ... Laurent Jalabert was born in France in 1968, a professional cyclist from 1989-2002. ... Jean-Claude Killy (born August 30, 1943) is a French alpine skier and a triple Olympic champion. ... Raymond Kopa (born October 13, 1931 in Nœux-les-Mines, France), né Raymond Kopaszewski, was a French football player of Polish descent, integral to the French national teams of the 1950s. ... Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labelled the diva or prima donna of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity. ... Bixente Lizarazu (born December 9, 1969 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) is a football (soccer) left defender and midfielder for Bayern Munich and France. ... Jeannie Longo (born October 31, 1958) is a female French cyclist, multiple French and world champion, who is still active in cycling in 2004. ... Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is a French swimmer. ... Amélie Mauresmo (born 5 July 1979) is a French professional tennis player. ... Jose Meiffret (born in 1913, Boulouris, France) was a daring cyclist who set a world motor-paced speed record of 204. ... Alain Mimoun OKacha (born January 1, 1921) is an Olympic marathon champion from Algeria. ... Santos Benigno Laciar (born January 31, 1959), from Huiina Renanco, Córdoba, Argentina, known familiarly as Santos Laciar and nicknamed Falucho, was considered by many to be one of the best World Flyweight champions in history. ... Carole Montillet (born April 7, 1973) is an Olympic downhill skiing (alpine skiing) champion and winner of the 2002_2003 World Cup Super_G title. ... Yannick Noah (b. ... William Anthony Tony Parker (born May 17, 1982 in Bruges, Belgium) is an NBA basketball player, with the San Antonio Spurs. ... The Kingdom of Belgium (Dutch: Koninkrijk België, French: Royaume de Belgique, German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in Western Europe, bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and the North Sea. ... Marie-José Perec (born May 9, 1968) is a French athlete, specialised in the 200 and 400 m, and triple Olympic champion. ... Mary Pierce (born January 15, 1975 in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional tennis player . ... Canada is a sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ... Michel Platini (born June 21, 1955) is a former French football player, widely regarded as one of the most elegant midfielders of his generation. ... Alain Marie Pascal Prost, born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France, is one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time. ... Antoine Rigaudeau (born December 17, 1971 in France), nicknamed Le Roi (The King), is a French Basketball player. ... Patrick Vieira (b. ... The Republic of Senegal is a country south of the Senegal River in West Africa. ... Richard Virenque (born 19 November 1969) is a French cyclist, born in Casablanca, Morocco. ... The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in northwest Africa. ... Jean-Pierre Wimille (February 26, 1908 - January 28, 1949) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver. ...

Theologians

O.P. (Ordo Praedicatorum) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of Dominican order, a Catholic religious order. S.J. (Societas Iesu) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member of the Society of Jesus, which is a Catholic religious order too. The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum), more commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic religious order. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... A religious order is an organization of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with religious devotion. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

• Marie-Emile Boismard O.P.
• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
• Jean Calvin
• Sebastian Castellion -- translator of the Bible
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Jean Claude
• Yves Congar, O.P.
• André Gounelle
• Pierre Lagrange O.P. -- founder of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique de Jérusalem
• Hubert Languet
• Maurice Leenhardt -- ethnologist, theologian
• Etienne Mennegoz
• Wilfred Monod
• Etienne Nodet O.P.
• Rachi de Champagne
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J.
• Auguste Sabatier
• Antonin Sertillanges O.P. -- founder of the Revue Thomiste
• Bernard Sesboué S.J.

John Calvin John Calvin (July 10, 1509–May 27, 1564) founded Calvinism, a form of Protestant Christianity, during the Protestant Reformation. ... Bernard of Clairvaux, illustrated in A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart, 1900 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe... Yves Marie Joseph Cardinal Congar (April 8, 1904-June 22, 1995) was a French Dominican priest and theologian. ... Hubert Languet (Viteaux (21 miles west of Dijon) 1518–Antwerp September 30, 1581) was a French diplomat and reformer. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Louis Auguste Sabatier (October 22, 1839 _ April 12, 1901), French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon (Ardèche), in the Cévennes, and was educaled at the Protestant theological faculty of Montauban and the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. ...

Others

• André the Giant, professional wrestler
• Paul Bocuse -- Chief cook
• Charles Cros -- poet and inventor
• Jeanne d'Arc -- (Joan of Arc) warrior, Saint.
• Pierre de Coubertin -- initiator of the modern Olympic Games
• Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
• Ninon de l'Enclos -- courtesan, patron of the arts
• Cavalier de la Salle -- explorer
• Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer
• René Dumont -- agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist
• Jules Dumont d'Urville
• Maurice Duverger -- jurist
• Gustave Eiffel -- engineer
• Pierre Charles L'Enfant -- planned Washington, D.C.
• Marquis de la Fayette -- military leader in the American Revolution
• Paul Héroult -- inventor
• Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans, designed the first steamship in 1783
• René Lalique -- artist
• Auguste and Louis Lumière -- inventors
• Jean Paul Marat
• Marcel Mazoyer -- agronomist
• Montgolfier brothers -- balloonists
• Jean-Marie Pelt -- botanist
• Bernard Pivot
• Lionel Poilâne -- boulanger
• Elisée Reclus -- geographer and anarchist
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin -- magician, namesake of "Harry Houdini"
• Philippe Starck - designer
• Vauban - engineer

André the Giant was the influence for a graffiti sticker campaign as seen here André the Giant, The 8th Wonder of the World, ( May 19, 1946 – January 27, 1993) was a professional wrestler and actor, born André René Roussimoff in Grenoble, France. ... Paul Bocuse (born on 11 February 1926 in Collonges-au-Mont-dOr near Lyon) is a French chef, considered one of the finest cooks of the 20th century. ... Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. ... Image of Joan of Arc, painted between 1450 and 1500 (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490). ... Baron Pierre de Coubertin Baron Pierre de Coubertin (January 1, 1863-September 2, 1937), born as Pierre de Frédy, was a French pedagogue and historian, but is best known as the founder of the modern Olympic Games. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896), writer, critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. ... René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 - March 19, French cleric and explorer. ... Marcel Deprez (December 12, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. ... Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont dUrville (May 23, 1790 – May 8, 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. ... Maurice Duverger (born June 5, 1917) is a French jurist. ... Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 - December 27, 1923; French pronunciation /EfEl/ in X-SAMPA, in English usually pronounced /ajfEl/) was a French engineer and entrepreneur, specialist of metallic structures. ... Pierre Charles LEnfant ( 2 August 1754 – 14 June 1825) designed the street plan of the Federal City in the United States, now known as Washington, DC. Born in France, he came to the American colonies as a military engineer with General Lafayette and became closely identified with the United... Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (September 6, 1757–May 20, 1834), was a French aristocrat most famous for his participation in the American Revolutionary War and early French Revolution. ... Before the Revolution: The 13 colonies are in red, the pink area was claimed by Great Britain after the French and Indian War, and the orange region was claimed by Spain. ... The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean ( October 5, 1864– June 6, 1948) and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas ( October 19, 1862– April 10, 1954), were the creators of the cinematographic projector. ... Jean-Paul Marat Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 - July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born scientist and physician, who made much of his career in England, but is best known as a French Revolutionary. ... The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 – June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 – August 2, 1799), inventors of the montgolfière hot air balloon. ... Jean-Marie Pelt (born October 24, 1933) is a French botanist. ... Bernard Pivot (born 5 May 1935 at Lyon, France) is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. ... Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794), known also to his contemporaries as the Incorruptible, is one of the best known of the leaders of the French Revolution. ... Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, ( December 6, 1805 - 1871) was a French magician, born in Blois, France, where he also died. ... Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss (born Weisz Erik in the native Hungarian), one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time. ... Philippe Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a well-known French designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style. ... Vauban designed this pentagonal fortress to withstand sieges. ...

See also

• List of people by nationality: Belgians, Catalans, Monegasque people, Quebecois, Swiss
• List of French Jews
• Franco-Belgian comics