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133 famous people found
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Eugène POUBELLE
French lawyer, administrator and diplomat
1831 - 1907 -
Joséphine DE BEAUHARNAIS
First wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French
1763 - 1814 -
Charles SURUGUE
Oldest French soldier to enlist in WWI
1839 - 1921 -
Jean Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN
French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome
1755 - 1826 -
Hortense DE BEAUHARNAIS
Queen consort of Holland
1783 - 1837 -
Ferdinand de LESSEPS
French developer of the Suez Canal
1805 - 1894 -
Henri DUNANT
Swiss businessman and social activist
1828 - 1910 -
Marie DUPLESSIS
French courtesan and mistress
1824 - 1847 -
Édouard ANDRÉ
French horticulturalist, landscape designer
1840 - 1911 -
Léopoldine HUGO
Eldest daughter of novelist, poet, and dramatist Victor Hugo and his wife, Adèle Foucher
1824 - 1843 -
Méry LAURENT
French demi-mondaine
1849 - 1900 -
Joachim MARTIN
French carpenter
1842 - 1897 -
Sophie BERTHELOT
First women to be buried in the Panthéon, France
1837 - 1907 -
Jean Baptiste André GODIN
French industrialist, writer and political theorist
1817 - 1888 -
Joseph Simon GALLIENI
French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies
1849 - 1916 -
Frédéric PASSY
French economist and a joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901
1822 - 1912 -
Victor LEMOINE
French flower breeder
1823 - 1911 -
Cadet ROUSSEL
French politician
1743 - 1807 -
Albin MAZON
French journalist and historian
1828 - 1908 -
Aimée DE COIGNY
French writer
1769 - 1820