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Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
Pierre MARTIN
French murderer
1766 - 1833 -
Louis Pierre LOUVEL
French murderer
1783 - 1820 -
Giuseppe FIESCHI
Chief conspirator in an attempt on the life of King Louis-Philippe of France in July 1835
1790 - 1836 -
Nicolas Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
French novelist
1734 - 1806 -
Louis Antoine DE SAINT-JUST
French military and political leader during the French Revolution
1767 - 1794 -
Gilbert SOURY
French priest
1732 - 1810 -
Horace VERNET
French painter
1789 - 1863 -
Robert ESTIENNE
French printer and classical scholar
1503 - 1559 -
Alexandre FICHET
French engineer
1799 - 1862 -
Louis HACHETTE
French publisher
1800 - 1864 -
Georges CADOUDAL
Breton politician, and leader of the Chouannerie during the French Revolution
1771 - 1804 -
Jean Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN
French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome
1755 - 1826 -
Guillaume François LAENNEC
French physician
1748 - 1822 -
Diane de Poitiers
French noblewoman and prominent courtier
1499 - 1566 -
Jérome BONAPARTE
King of Westphalia
1784 - 1860 -
Madame DE LA FAYETTE
French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature
1634 - 1693 -
Benjamin DELESSERT
French banker and naturalist
1773 - 1847 -
Hortense DE BEAUHARNAIS
Queen consort of Holland
1783 - 1837 -
CLEMENT VII
French cardinals who opposed Urban VI, and was the first antipope of the Avignon papacy
1342 - 1394