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46 famous people found
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Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE
French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France
1661 - 1706 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1687 -
Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Auguste de Saint-Hilaire
French botanist and traveler
1779 - 1853 -
Robert SURCOUF
French privateer and slave trader
1773 - 1827 -
René DUGUAY-TROUIN
Famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo
1673 - 1736 -
Martin PREVOST
New France settler
1611 - 1691 -
Jean BART
French naval commander and privateer
1650 - 1702 -
Jean Baptiste VENCE
French ship captain, privateer, merchant and shipowner
1729 - 1790 -
Jeanne BARRET
First woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe
1740 - 1807 -
Louis Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn
French Navy officer and explorer
1738 - 1772 -
Louis Dubois
Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York
1626 - 1696 -
François Fidèle RIPAUD de MONTAUDEVERT
French privateer
1755 - 1814 -
Louis-Michel AURY
French privateer
1786 - 1821 -
Antoine Ignace MELLING
French painter, architect and voyager
1763 - 1831 -
Marc Joseph MARION DU FRESNE
Breton-born French explorer
1724 - 1772