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112 famous people found
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Denis EPITALON
French businessman
1794 - 1874 -
Jean-Baptiste GUIMET
French industrial chemist
1795 - 1871 -
Vital ROUX
French businessman
1766 - 1846 -
Barthélémy BAROU DE LA LOMBARDIÈRE DE CANSON
French politician
1774 - 1858 -
Jean ZUBER
French industrialist
1773 - 1852 -
Jean-Pierre DE BATZ
French royalist and businessman
1754 - 1822 -
Aymé-Stanislas DARBLAY
French businessman
1794 - 1878 -
Gabriel LE COAT DE KERVEGUEN
French businessman
1800 - 1860 -
Casimir Pierre PERIER
French statesman
1777 - 1832 -
Barbe CLICQUOT-PONSARDIN
French businesswoman who took on her husband's wine business when widowed at 27
1777 - 1866 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Barthélemy THIMONNIER
French inventor, who invented the first sewing machine
1793 - 1857 -
Claude CHAPPE
French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system
1763 - 1805 -
Jean-Charles de BORDA
French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
1733 - 1799 -
Nicolas-Noël Boutet
French arms manufacturer
1761 - 1833 -
Stanislas Foäche
French merchant, slave owner and slave planter
1737 - 1806 -
Claude Launoy
French mineralogist and inventor
1748 - 1830 -
Edme Champion
French jeweler
1764 - 1852 -
Pierre-Vincent BENOIST
French diplomat
1758 - 1834 -
Alexandre César DE LA PANOUSE
French politician
1764 - 1836