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Gustave COURBET
French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting
1819 - 1877 -
Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821 -
Louis LÉPINE
French lawyer, politician and inventor
1846 - 1933 -
Armand FALLIERES
President of the French Republic from 1906 to 1913
1841 - 1931 -
Eugène POUBELLE
French lawyer, administrator and diplomat
1831 - 1907 -
Pierre Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS
French writer, economist, and government official
1739 - 1817 -
Louis-Napoléon BONAPARTE
First President of the French Second Republic
1808 - 1873 -
Léon GAMBETTA
French statesman
1838 - 1882 -
Jacques NECKER
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI
1732 - 1804 -
Louise MICHEL
French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker
1830 - 1905 -
Georges CLEMENCEAU
French statesman, physician, and journalist
1841 - 1929 -
Dominique Vivant DENON
French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist
1747 - 1825 -
Louis Charles DELESCLUZE
Journalist, Communard, Member of the National Assembly and Civilian Delegate for War
1809 - 1871 -
Pierre WALDECK-ROUSSEAU
French Republican politician, who served as the 29th Prime Minister of France
1846 - 1904 -
Edouard DRUMONT
French journalist and writer
1844 - 1917 -
Georges Eugène HAUSSMANN
Prefect of the Seine Department of France
1809 - 1891 -
Auguste BLANQUI
French socialist and political activist
1805 - 1881 -
Henri ROCHEFORT
French politician
1831 - 1913 -
Jean Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN
French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome
1755 - 1826 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847