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Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603 -
Louis MANDRIN
French smuggler (highwayman) from Dauphiné
1725 - 1755 -
Pierre Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS
French writer, economist, and government official
1739 - 1817 -
Jean DE LA BRUYÈRE
French philosopher and moralist
1645 - 1696 -
Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist
1717 - 1783 -
Louis-Jules MANCINI-MAZARINI
French diplomat and writer
1716 - 1798 -
Antoine FOUQUIER-TINVILLE
French lawyer during the Revolution and Reign of Terror periods
1746 - 1795 -
Jean-Baptiste COLBERT
French diplomat
1665 - 1746 -
Jacques Bénigne BOSSUET
French bishop
1664 - 1743 -
Jean-Baptiste DE LAMARCK
French naturalist
1744 - 1829 -
Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431 -
Denis DIDEROT
French philosopher, art critic, and writer
1713 - 1784 -
Antoine WATTEAU
French painter
1684 - 1721 -
Bertrand DU GUESCLIN
Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War
1320 - 1380 -
Agnès SOREL
Favourite mistress of King Charles VII of France
1422 - 1450 -
Henri D'ARAMITZ
Gascon abbé, and black musketeer of the Maison du Roi in 17th century France
1620 - 1673 -
MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN
Maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France
1640 - 1707