Jean Le Rond d’Alembert. 1717-1783. Mathematician, scientist, and philosopher.
Rene Francois Armand (pseudonym, Sully Prudhomme). 1839-1907. Poet.
Honore de Balzac. 1799-1850. Writer.
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire. 1821-1867. Poet.
Henri Bergson. 1859-1941. Philosopher.
Hector Berlioz (Louis-Hector Berlioz). 1803-1869.
Composer.
George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. 1707-1788. Naturalist.
John Calvin (Jean Cauvin). 1509-1564. Theologian and religious reformer.
Paul Cezanne. 1839-1906. Painter Charles II (Charles the Bald). 823-877. King of France (840-877) and Holy Roman Emperor (875-877).
Charles III (Charles the Simple). 879-929. King (893-923). Pierre Corneille. 1606-1684. Playwright.
Jacques-Louis David. 1748-1825. Painter.
Claude Debussy. 1862-1918. Composer.
Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas). 1834-1917. Painter.
Eugene Delacroix (Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix). 1798-1863. Painter.
Rene Descartes. 1596-1650. Mathematician and philosopher. Denis Diderot (Pantophile Diderot). 1713-1784.
Encyclopedist and philosopher.
Alfred Dreyfus. 1859-1935. Army officer.
Eustace IV d. 1153. Count of Boulogne (1150-1153). Gabriel-Urbain Faure. 1845-1924. Composer.
Gustave Flaubert. 1821-1880. Writer.
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault). 1844-1924. Writer.
Francis I. 1494-1547. King (1515-1547).
Francis II. 1544-1560. King (1559-1560).
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange. 1610-1688. Scholar.
Paul Gauguin (Eugene-Henri-Paul Gaugin). 1848-1903. Painter.
Geoffrey V (Geoffrey Plantagenet). 1113-1151. Count of Anjou and Maine (1131-1151).
Theodore Gericault (Jean-Louis-Andre - Theodore Gericault). 1791-1824. Painter.
Pierre Guerin (Pierre-Narcisse Guerin). 1774-1833. Painter. Henry IV (Henry of Navarre). 1553-1610. King of Navarre (1572-1589) and of France (1589-1610).
Victor-Marie Hugo. 1802-1885. Writer.
Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans). c. 1412-1431. Military leader and saint.
Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette). 1634-1693. Novelist. Jean de La Fontaine. 1621-1695. Poet.
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste Lamarck). 1744-1829. Naturalist. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. 1743-1794. Chemist.
Louis IX (Saint Louis). 1214-1270. King (1226-1270).
Louis XI. 1423-1483. King (1461-1483).
Louis XIV (Louis the Great; The Sun King). 1638-1715.
King (1643-1715).
Louis XV (Louis the Well-Beloved). 1710-1774. King (1715-1774).
Stephane Mallarme. 1842-1898. Poet.
Edouard Manet. 1832-1883. Painter.
Mary of Burgundy 1457-1482. Duchess of Burgundy (1477-1482).
Frederic Mistral. 1830-1914. Poet.
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin). 1622-1673. Playwright. Claude Monet. 1840-1926. Painter.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne. 1533-1592. Writer.
Napoleon I Bonaparte (The Little Corporal). 1769-1821. Emperor (1804-1814).
Napolean III (Louis-Napoleon). 1808-1873. Emperor (1852-1871)
Louis Pasteur. 1822-1895. Chemist and microbiologist. Philip II (Philip Augustus). 1165-1223. King (1179-1223). Philip II (Philip the Bold). 1342-1404. Duke of Burgundy (1363-1404).
Philip III (Philip the Good). 1396-1467. Duke of Burgundy (1419-1467).
Camille Pissarro. 1830-1903. Painter.
Nicolas Poussin. 1594-1665. Painter.
Franqois Rabelais. c. 1483-1553. Writer.
Jean Racine. 1639-1699. Playwright.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 1841-1919. Painter.
Arthur Rimbaud (Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud).
1854-1891. Poet.
Auguste Rodin (Franqois-Auguste-Rene Rodin). 1840-1917. Sculptor.
Romain Rolland. 1866-1944. Novelist.
Pierre de Ronsard. 1524-1585. Poet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1778. Philosopher and writer. Alfred Sisley. 1839-1899. Painter.
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle). 1783-1842. Writer.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa). 1864-1901. Painter.
Chretien de Troyes.
Voltaire (Franqois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire). 1694-1778. Writer.
Emile Zola (Emile-Edouard-Charles-Antoine). 1840-1902. Writer.
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