Famous French People

or french-speaking/writing people

Andre Marie Ampère -- scientist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- author

Antoine Lavoisier -- scientist

Blaise Pascal -- scientist and author

Charles Baudelaire -- author and poet

Charles de Gaulle -- general and statesman

Christine de Pizan -- historian, pop philosopher

Claude Debussy -- composer

Claude Levi-Strauss -- anthropologist

Claude Monet -- painter

Edmond Rostand -- author

Fermat -- scientist

François Truffaut --director

Gustave Eiffel -- engineer

Henri Poincaré -- scientist

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- philosopher and writer

Jeanne d'Arc -- warrior

John Calvin -- religious reformer, theologian

Jules Verne -- author

Louis Pasteur -- scientist

Louis XIV -- statesman

Marie de France -- poet

Marquis de Sade -- author

Napoléon Bonaparte -- Emperor

Napoleon III -- Emperor

Ninon de l'Enclos -- author and patron of the arts

René Descartes -- scientist and philosopher

Victor Hugo -- author and artist

Viollet le Duc -- architect

Voltaire -- author

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Not as Famous as They Deserve:

Paul Héroult -- inventor

Erik Satie -- composer

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