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268 famous people found
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Joseph Ignace GUILLOTIN
French physician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution
1738 - 1814 -
Jean-Louis PONS
French astronomer
1761 - 1831 -
André Jean Baptiste ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY
French physician and entomologist
1799 - 1857 -
Henri BRACONNOT
French chemist and pharmacist
1780 - 1855 -
Joseph CHALEY
French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges
1796 - 1861 -
Guillaume DU BELLAY
French diplomat and general under King Francis I
1491 - 1543 -
Augustin THIERRY
French historian
1795 - 1856 -
Antoine PORTAL
French anatomist, doctor, medical historian and founding president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine
1742 - 1832 -
Henri NAVIER
French engineer and physicist
1785 - 1836 -
Amédée Louis Michel LE PELETIER
French entomologist
1770 - 1845 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Gaspard MONGE
French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry
1746 - 1818 -
François BONAMY
French botanist and physician
1710 - 1786 -
Charles BOSSUT
French mathematician
1730 - 1814 -
Bernard DE JUSSIEU
French naturalist
1699 - 1777 -
Jean-Jacques AMPERE
French philologist and writer
1800 - 1864 -
François ARAGO
French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
1786 - 1853 -
Antoine de JUSSIEU
French naturalist
1686 - 1758 -
Augustin-Louis CAUCHY
French mathematician
1789 - 1857 -
Dom Bédos de Celles
French Benedictine monk and organ builder
1709 - 1779