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489 famous people found
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Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867 -
Eugène DELACROIX
French Romantic artist
1798 - 1863 -
Molière
French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature
1622 - 1673 -
André CHÉNIER
French poet
1762 - 1794 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
French composer and music theorist
1683 - 1764 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
François COUPERIN
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist
1668 - 1733 -
Carle VAN LOO
French subject painter
1705 - 1765 -
Jean DE LA BRUYÈRE
French philosopher and moralist
1645 - 1696 -
Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783 -
Louis-Jules MANCINI-MAZARINI
French diplomat and writer
1716 - 1798 -
Denis DIDEROT
French philosopher, art critic, and writer
1713 - 1784 -
Antoine WATTEAU
French painter
1684 - 1721 -
Elisabeth VIGEE LE BRUN
French painter
1755 - 1842 -
Alphonse DE LAMARTINE
French writer, poet and politician
1790 - 1869