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1,094 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
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Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821
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Charles DE GAULLE
French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II
1890 - 1970
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Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834
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Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928
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Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918
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Ferdinand FOCH
French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War
1851 - 1929
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Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431
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Bertrand DU GUESCLIN
Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War
1320 - 1380
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Henri D'ARAMITZ
Gascon abbé, and black musketeer of the Maison du Roi in 17th century France
1620 - 1673
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Joachim MURAT
Marshal of France
1767 - 1815
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Alfred DREYFUS
French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason
1859 - 1935
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Philippe LECLERC de HAUTECLOCQUE
French general during World War II
1902 - 1947
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Philippe PETAIN
French general, Marshal of France, and Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944
1856 - 1951
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Géraud Christophe Michel DUROC
French general noted for his association with Napoleon
1772 - 1813
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Robert NIVELLE
French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War
1856 - 1924
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Arnaud BELTRAME
Lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie nationale
1973 - 2018
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Philippe RONDOT
French general
1936 - 2017
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François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942
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Gaston DE GALLIFFET
French general
1830 - 1909