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Jacques NECKER
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI
1732 - 1804 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
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 -
Elisabeth VIGEE LE BRUN
French painter
1755 - 1842 -
Alphonse DE LAMARTINE
French writer, poet and politician
1790 - 1869 -
Honoré MIRABEAU
French revolutionary, writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and politician
1749 - 1791 -
Claude MOËT
French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that would later become Moët et Chandon
1683 - 1760 -
RICHELIEU
French clergyman, noble, and statesman
1585 - 1642 -
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment
1712 - 1778 -
Maximilien de ROBESPIERRE
One of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
1758 - 1794 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
LE LORRAIN
Artist of the Baroque era
1600 - 1682 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
Jean de LA FONTAINE
French fabulist
1621 - 1695 -
Charlotte CORDAY
Figure of the French Revolution
1768 - 1793 -
Joséphine DE BEAUHARNAIS
First wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French
1763 - 1814 -
Honoré DE BALZAC
French novelist and playwright
1799 - 1850 -
Dominique Vivant DENON
French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist
1747 - 1825 -
Henri Pitot
French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube
1695 - 1771