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254 famous people found
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Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET
French bishop
1664 - 1743 -
Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431 -
RICHELIEU
French clergyman, noble, and statesman
1585 - 1642 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Gilbert SOURY
French priest
1732 - 1810 -
CLEMENT VII
French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, and was the first antipope of the Avignon papacy
1342 - 1394 -
CLEMENT VI
Pope from 7 May 1342 to his death in 1352
1291 - 1352 -
BENOIT XII
Pope from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342
1280 - 1342 -
François DE SALES
Bishop of Geneva, saint in the Catholic Church
1567 - 1622 -
Rose-Philippine Duchesne
French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988
1769 - 1852 -
Marie RIVIER
French Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Soeurs de la Présentation de Marie
1768 - 1738 -
Louis BOURDALOUE
French Jesuit and preacher
1632 - 1704 -
PERE LACHAISE
French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France
1624 - 1709 -
Bernard DE CLAIRVAUX
French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order
1090 - 1153 -
URBAIN V
Pope from 1362 to 1370
1310 - 1370 -
Vincent DE PAUL
Catholic priest dedicated to serving the poor, he was canonised in 1737
1581 - 1660 -
Félicité de LA MENNAIS
French Catholic priest, philosopher and political theorist
1782 - 1854 -
Joseph FESCH
French cardinal and diplomat
1763 - 1839 -
Pauline JARICOT
French laywoman, the founder of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and the Living Rosary Association
1799 - 1862 -
Marie-Madeleine POSTEL
French Catholic professed religious, founder of the Sisters of Christian Schools, Saint of the Catholic Church
1756 - 1846