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438 famous people found
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist
1822 - 1895
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André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836
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Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868
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Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869
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Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829
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René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826
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Théodore BACHELET
French historian
1820 - 1879
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Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938
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Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802
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Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804
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Charles Martial GALLET
Co-founder of the French perfume company Roger & Gallet
1824 - 1901
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Prosper MERIMEE
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer
1803 - 1870
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Guillaume François LAENNEC
French physician
1748 - 1822
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Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847
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Jean Dominique CASSINI
French astronomer
1748 - 1845
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Antoine Augustin PARMENTIER
French promoter of the potato as a food source in France and throughout Europe
1737 - 1813
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Armand TROUSSEAU
French internist
1801 - 1867
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Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
1806 - 1875
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Auguste BRAVAIS
French physicist
1811 - 1863