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Jean de BETHENCOURT
French explorer
1362 - 1425 -
Bon-Adrien JEANNOT de MONCEY
Marshal of France, and a prominent soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
1754 - 1842 -
Claude-Adrien HELVETIUS
French philosopher and littérateur
1715 - 1771 -
Eugéne Constant Joseph César GOSSUIN
French politician
1758 - 1827 -
Bernard LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE
French author
1657 - 1757 -
Hyacinthe François Joseph DESPINOY
French general during the French Revolutionary Wars
1764 - 1848 -
Jean-Claude de LA METHERY
French naturalist, mineralogist and geologist
1743 - 1817 -
Jean-Pierre de BEAULIEU
French general
1725 - 1819 -
François-André PHILIDOR
French chess player and composer
1726 - 1795 -
Jean CHOUAN
French counter-revolutionary, an insurrectionist, and a staunch royalist
1757 - 1794 -
Jean-Baptiste CLERY
Personal valet to King Louis XVI
1759 - 1809 -
Guillaume AMFRYE de CHAULIEU
French poet and wit
1639 - 1720 -
Jean-Baptiste CHAPPE d'AUTEROCHE
French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769
1728 - 1769 -
Jacques Cathelineau
French Vendéan insurrectionist leader during the Revolution
1759 - 1793 -
Alexandre-Théodore BRONGNIART
French architect
1739 - 1813 -
Claude-Joseph BONNET
French industrialist
1786 - 1867 -
Pierre BELAIN d'ESNAMBUC
French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean
1585 - 1637 -
Rolland-Michel BARRIN
French governor of New France from 1747 to 1749
1693 - 1756 -
Marguerite Marie ALACOQUE
French Roman Catholic nun and mystic
1647 - 1690