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Marcel BICH
Co-founder of Bic, the world's leading producer of ballpoint pens
1914 - 1994 -
Jules VERNE
French author
1828 - 1905 -
Edith PIAF
French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress
1915 - 1963 -
Louis Pasteur
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist
1822 - 1895 -
Molière
French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature
1622 - 1673 -
François MITTERRAND
President of France from 1981 to 1995
1916 - 1996 -
Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834 -
René LACOSTE
French tennis player and businessman
1904 - 1996 -
Irène JOLIOT-CURIE
French scientist
1897 - 1956 -
Victor HUGO
French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
1802 - 1885 -
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer
1832 - 1923 -
Gérard DEPARDIEU
French actor and winemaker
1948 -
Charles de GAULLE
French army officer and statesman
1890 - 1970 -
Gustave COURBET
French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting
1819 - 1877 -
Jacques CHIRAC
President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007
1932 - 2019 -
Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821 -
Paul BOCUSE
French chef
1926 - 2018 -
Juliette BINOCHE
French actress, artist, and dancer
1964 -
Brigitte BARDOT
French former actress, singer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist
1934 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836