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Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867 -
Eugène DELACROIX
French Romantic artist
1798 - 1863 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
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 -
André CHÉNIER
French poet
1762 - 1794 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
French composer and music theorist
1683 - 1764 -
Charles Henri SANSON
French executioner
1739 - 1806 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
François COUPERIN
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist
1668 - 1733 -
Carle VAN LOO
French subject painter
1705 - 1765 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664