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Nicolas VILLEROY
French entrepreneur
1759 - 1843 -
Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE
French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France
1661 - 1706 -
Jean-Baptiste GAULTIER DE LA VERENDRYE
French explorer, founder of Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and of Fort Maurepas on the Red River
1713 - 1736 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Louis JOLLIET
French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America
1645 - 1700 -
René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1687 -
Champagne PERRIER-JOUËT
Founder of Perrier-Jouët
1786 - 1854 -
Johann Joseph KRUG
Founder of Krug champagne
1800 - 1866 -
François-Jean LEFEBVRE DE LA BARRE
French nobleman tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary nailed to his torso
1745 - 1766 -
Juan DE OÑATE
Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
1550 - 1626 -
Géraud Christophe Michel DUROC
French general noted for his association with Napoleon
1772 - 1813 -
Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802 -
Philippe SUCHARD
Swiss chocolatier and industrialist
1797 - 1884 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Sophie DE CONDORCET
French prominent salon hostess
1764 - 1822 -
Armand CARREL
French journalist and political writer
1800 - 1836 -
Olivier DE SERRES
French author and soil scientist
1539 - 1619 -
Antoine BECQUEREL
French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena
1788 - 1878 -
Paul DELAROCHE
French painter
1797 - 1856 -
Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673