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841 famous people found
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Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN
French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec
1574 - 1635 -
Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821 -
Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834 -
Francesco SFORZA
Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy
1401 - 1466 -
Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431 -
Bertrand DU GUESCLIN
Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War
1320 - 1380 -
Henri D'ARAMITZ
Gascon abbé, and black musketeer of the Maison du Roi in 17th century France
1620 - 1673 -
Joachim MURAT
Marshal of France
1767 - 1815 -
Géraud Christophe Michel DUROC
French general noted for his association with Napoleon
1772 - 1813 -
Georges CADOUDAL
Breton politician, and leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution
1771 - 1804 -
Jérome BONAPARTE
King of Westphalia
1784 - 1860 -
Guillaume BRUNE
French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France
1763 - 1815 -
Antoine Philippe DE LA TRÉMOÏLLE
French noble and royalist notable for his military involvement against the French Revolution
1765 - 1794 -
Toussaint-Guillaume LA MOTTE-PICQUET
French Navy officer and admiral
1720 - 1791 -
Pierre CAMBRONNE
General of the First French Empire
1770 - 1842 -
George DOWNING
Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy
1623 - 1684 -
Victor DE FAÿ DE LATOUR-MAUBOURG
French cavalry military commander
1768 - 1850 -
Antoine SIMON
French shoemaker, he was designated to watch over Louis XVII at the Temple
1736 - 1794 -
CINQ-MARS
A favourite of King Louis XIII of France
1620 - 1642 -
Eugène DE BEAUHARNAIS
Viceroy of Italy
1781 - 1824