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Jean CHASTEL
French local farmer and inn-keeper, noted for killing the Beast of Gévaudan
1708 - 1789 -
Ferdinand CHEVAL
French postman who spent 33 years of his life building Le Palais Idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives
1836 - 1924 -
Robert PICHé
Canadian pilot and captain
1952 -
Célestin HENNION
French police officer who rose to head the Prefecture of Police
1862 - 1915 -
Alexandre LE GRAND
French inventor of the Benedictine
1830 - 1898 -
Henriette MORIAME
French Resistant
1881 - 1918 -
Albert Gérard Léo D'AMADE
French general
1856 - 1941 -
Léon BOURJADE
Leading French fighter pilot in World War I
1889 - 1924 -
Marie BREMONT
French supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from November 2000 until her death
1886 - 2001 -
Marcelle BURGART
Wife of Charles Debbas, first President of Lebanon
1892 -
Jean-Baptiste CLERY
Personal valet to King Louis XVI
1759 - 1809 -
Jean CHOUAN
French counter-revolutionary, an insurrectionist, and a staunch royalist
1757 - 1794 -
Virginie COUPERIE
French equestrian
1962 -
Claude LANGUEREAU
Daughter of French drawer Jules Languereau
1921 -
Pascal PAOLI
Corsican patriot and leader
1725 - 1807 -
Anne-Marie PERIER
French journalist
1945 -
Emile PRISSE D'AVENNES
French Orientalist and artist
1807 - 1879 -
Catherine SCHNEIDER
French writer
1944