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Gaspard DE BESSE
French highwayman
1757 - 1781 -
Jean Nicolas STOFFLET
French leader of the Revolt in the Vendée against the First French Republic
1753 - 1796 -
Marie TUSSAUD
French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London
1761 - 1850 -
Blaise PASCAL
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher
1623 - 1662 -
MADAME DE POMPADOUR
Member of the French court and the official chief mistress of Louis XV
1721 - 1764 -
Jonathan SWIFT
Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer
1667 - 1745 -
Louis Jean Marie DAUBENTON
French naturalist
1716 - 1800 -
URBAIN V
Pope from 1362 to 1370
1310 - 1370 -
TALLEYRAND
French diplomat
1754 - 1838 -
Carl von Linné den yngre
Swedish naturalist
1741 - 1783 -
Yves Joseph de KERGUELEN de TREMAREC
Breton explorer and French naval officer
1734 - 1797 -
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
English portrait and landscape painter
1727 - 1788 -
Sébastien LE PRESTRE DE VAUBAN
French military engineer
1633 - 1707 -
François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND
French writer, politician and diplomat
1768 - 1848 -
Baron de MUNCHHAUSEN
German baron
1720 - 1797 -
Robert SURCOUF
French privateer and slave trader
1773 - 1827 -
Alfred DE VIGNY
French poet, playwright, and novelist
1797 - 1863 -
Vincent DE PAUL
Catholic priest dedicated to serving the poor, he was canonised in 1737
1581 - 1660 -
SAINT-SIMON
French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs
1675 - 1755 -
Marquis DE SADE
Aristocrat, writer and libertine
1740 - 1814