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960 famous people found
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Victor NOIR
French journalist
1848 - 1870 -
Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
French novelist
1734 - 1806 -
Alphonse DAUDET
French novelist
1840 - 1897 -
Gustave DORÉ
French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor
1832 - 1883 -
Emile LITTRE
French lexicographer, freemason and philosopher
1801 - 1883 -
Emile ERCKMANN
French writer
1822 - 1899 -
Prosper MERIMEE
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer
1803 - 1870 -
Louis HACHETTE
French publisher
1800 - 1864 -
Henri ROCHEFORT
French politician
1831 - 1913 -
Camille SAINT-SAËNS
French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist
1835 - 1921 -
Gustave MOREAU
French Symbolist painter
1826 - 1898 -
Auguste BARTHOLDI
French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty
1834 - 1904 -
Alexandre DUMAS
French writer
1802 - 1870 -
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 -
Jean Eugène ROBERT-HOUDIN
French watchmaker, magician and illusionist
1805 - 1871 -
Jules VALLÈS
French journalist and author
1832 - 1885 -
Gustave FLAUBERT
French novelist and playwright
1821 - 1880 -
Edmond de GONCOURT
French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt
1822 - 1896 -
Eugène LABICHE
French dramatist
1815 - 1888 -
Pierre LAROUSSE
French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
1817 - 1875