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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 -
Charles DE GAULLE
French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II
1890 - 1970 -
Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834 -
Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928 -
Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918 -
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 -
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 -
D'ARTAGNAN
French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard
1612 - 1673 -
Alfred DREYFUS
French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason
1859 - 1935 -
Philippe LECLERC de HAUTECLOCQUE
French general during World War II
1902 - 1947 -
Philippe PETAIN
French general, Marshal of France, and Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944
1856 - 1951 -
Géraud Christophe Michel DUROC
French general noted for his association with Napoleon
1772 - 1813 -
Robert NIVELLE
French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War
1856 - 1924 -
Arnaud BELTRAME
Lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie nationale
1973 - 2018 -
Philippe RONDOT
French general
1936 - 2017 -
François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942