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2,335 famous people found
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CLEMENT VI
Pope from 7 May 1342 to his death in 1352
1291 - 1352 -
BENOIT XII
Pope from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342
1280 - 1342 -
Jean Dominique CASSINI
French astronomer
1748 - 1845 -
Guillaume Ier DE NORMANDIE
Second ruler of Normandy
900 - 948 -
Hervé CLEREL DE TOCQUEVILLE
French politician
1772 - 1856 -
NOSTRADAMUS
French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies
1503 - 1566 -
Guillaume BRUNE
French soldier and political figure who rose to Marshal of France
1763 - 1815 -
Emilie DU CHATELET
French mathematician, physicist, and author during the Age of Enlightenment
1706 - 1749 -
Olympe DE GOUGES
French playwright and political activist
1748 - 1793 -
François DE SALES
Bishop of Geneva, saint in the Catholic Church
1567 - 1622 -
Louise DE LA VALLIERE
A mistress of Louis XIV of France
1644 - 1710 -
Antoine LAVOISIER
French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology
1743 - 1794 -
Nicolas DE CONDORCET
French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist
1743 - 1794 -
Antoine Augustin PARMENTIER
French promoter of the potato as a food source in France and throughout Europe
1737 - 1813 -
Antoine Philippe DE LA TRÉMOÏLLE
French noble and royalist notable for his military involvement against the French Revolution
1765 - 1794 -
François RAVAILLAC
French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide
1578 - 1610 -
Rose-Philippine Duchesne
French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988
1769 - 1852 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Adolphe THIERS
French politician and historian
1797 - 1877 -
VOLTAIRE
French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher
1694 - 1778