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Pierre DRIEU la ROCHELLE
French writer of novels, short stories and political essays
1893 - 1945 -
Michel SIMON
Swiss-French actor
1895 - 1975 -
Charles GOUNOD
French composer
1818 - 1893 -
Pierre Mac Orlan
French novelist and songwriter
1882 - 1970 -
Elisa DEROCHE
French pilot, world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910
1882 - 1919 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
Georges SEURAT
French post-Impressionist artist
1859 - 1891 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Biscottes PELLETIER
French baker and businessman
1871 - 1941 -
Aristide BRUANT
French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner
1851 - 1925 -
Francis PICABIA
French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist
1879 - 1953 -
Jean DE BRUNHOFF
French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books
1899 - 1937 -
Paul Vaillant-Couturier
French writer and communist
1892 - 1937 -
Auguste FAUCHON
French merchant
1856 - 1945 -
Félix POTIN
French businessman
1820 - 1871 -
René BAJANTE
Founder of Les Glacières de Fontainebleau, today Picard Surgelés
1880 - 1937 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
René Fonck
French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace
1894 - 1953 -
Jacques BAINVILLE
French historian and journalist
1879 - 1936