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539 famous people found
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Camille DESMOULINS
French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution
1760 - 1794 -
Georges Jacques DANTON
Leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety
1759 - 1794 -
Jean-Baptiste COLBERT
French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV
1619 - 1683 -
Charles DUPIN
French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician
1794 - 1873 -
Victor DE FAÿ DE LATOUR-MAUBOURG
French cavalry military commander
1768 - 1850 -
Georges COUTHON
French politician and lawyer known for his service as a deputy on the Legislative Assembly during the French Revolution
1755 - 1794 -
Jean-Baptiste CARRIER
French Revolutionary, known for his cruelty to his enemies, especially to clergy
1756 - 1794 -
Pauline BONAPARTE
First sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano
1780 - 1825 -
Antoine-Louis LEFEBVRE DE CAUMARTIN
French politician
1725 - 1803 -
Alexis VAVIN
French politician
1792 - 1863 -
Thomas Arthur de Lally-Tollendal
French general of Irish Jacobite ancestry
1702 - 1766 -
Guillaume DE NOGARET
Councillor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France
1260 - 1313 -
TALLEYRAND
French diplomat
1754 - 1838 -
François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND
French writer, politician and diplomat
1768 - 1848 -
Jean-Paul MARAT
Swiss-born physician, political theorist, scientist, radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution
1743 - 1793 -
MALESHERBES
French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI
1721 - 1794 -
Jean-Antoine CHAPTAL
French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist
1756 - 1832 -
Adolphe CRÉMIEUX
French lawyer and politician
1796 - 1880 -
Etienne SOULANGE-BODIN
French biologist botanist and army officer
1774 - 1846 -
Jean de Garancières
Medieval poet
1372 - 1415