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490 famous people found
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Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE
French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars known for writing the words and music of La Marseillaise that become the French national anthem
1760 - 1836 -
Pierre CORNEILLE
French tragedian
1606 - 1684 -
Antoine Michel PERRACHE
French sculptor and engineer
1726 - 1779 -
Lucile MESSAGEOT
French painter
1780 - 1803 -
Jean Siméon CHARDIN
French painter
1699 - 1779 -
Jean-Baptiste Camille COROT
French landscape and portrait painter
1796 - 1875 -
Alexandre-Évariste FRAGONARD
French painter and sculptor
1780 - 1850 -
Ange-Jacques GABRIEL
Principal architect of King Louis XV of France
1698 - 1782 -
Jean-Antoine MORAND
French architect and urban planner
1727 - 1794 -
Jean-Pierre HOUEL
French painter, engraver and draftsman
1735 - 1813 -
Pierre Luc Charles CICERI
Leading French set designer of his era
1782 - 1868 -
Marie TUSSAUD
French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London
1761 - 1850 -
Blaise PASCAL
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher
1623 - 1662 -
François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND
French writer, politician and diplomat
1768 - 1848 -
Alfred DE VIGNY
French poet, playwright, and novelist
1797 - 1863 -
SAINT-SIMON
French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs
1675 - 1755 -
Marquis DE SADE
Aristocrat, writer and libertine
1740 - 1814 -
Jean RACINE
French dramatist
1639 - 1699 -
MONTESQUIEU
French social commentator and political thinker
1689 - 1755 -
MALESHERBES
French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI
1721 - 1794