La Toussaint
1. Choose a person from the list or choose a famous French person (make certain they are
DECEASED!). Be sure to check with me to see if he/she is acceptable ! If you have to ask
yourself this question, “I wonder if Madame will think this person is appropriate?”…that
person is probably NOT.
2. Research your person. You will need the following information:
a. Birthdate-né(e)
b. Date of death- mort(e)
c. Where born
d. Where buried OR where they died
e. 3 (trois) IMPORTANT things about that person’s life…for example, what are they
known/famous for?
f. Picture of the person- it can be printed, cut out of a magazine, copied from a book or
NEATLY drawn (NO stick figures s’il vous plaît!)
g. A quote from or about that person- this can be in English or French depending on the
source of the quote. If the quote is about the person, note the author of the quote.
3. Using a cereal box, Styrofoam, or another material of your choice, create a tombstone for the
person you chose with all of the above information. Make sure to include the picture and
quote. The tombstone should stand on its own.
4. The tombstone is DUE ON OCTOBER 31, 2013…HALLOWEEN. If your project is not
turned in on 10-31-13, you will be assigned a three paragraph essay about the person you
chose. The essay should give a brief biography in your own words, tell the person’s
accomplishments, and explain why you chose that person. The essay will be completed in
English and will be due on November 1, 2013. Note that you will receive a zero for the
tombstone AND a grade for the essay.
Rubric for La Toussaint:
Tombstone (information and picture correct)
60 pts.
Neat, creative, attractive, can stand alone
30 pts.
ON TIME
10 pts.
*French II- We will have a lesson on how to write IN FRENCH the items in letters A through D.
I will assist students with writing letter E given it is prepared in a TIMELY MANNER… i.e.at
least one week before the due date!
*French I- We will complete this as a cultural lesson only ! Next year…be prepared!
La Toussaint
Birthdate
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Date of death
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Place of birth
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Place of death or burial
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Picture included
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Quote
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3 Facts about the person
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Stands on its own
_____/10
Neat/creative/attractive
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On time
_____/10
Total Points
______/100
This list was generated from Wikipedia minus the criminal section
Actors[edit]
Main article: List of French actors
A–C[edit]
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Isabelle Adjani
Renée Adorée
Anouk Aimée
Flo Ankah
Arletty
Antonin Artaud
Fanny Ardant
Jeanne Aubert
Jean-Louis Aubert
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Claude Autant-Lara
Daniel Auteuil
Charles Aznavour
Brigitte Bardot
Emmanuelle Béart
Jean-Paul Belmondo
François Berléand
Charles Berling
Suzanne Bianchetti
Juliette Binoche
Bernard Blier
Sandrine Bonnaire
Élodie Bouchez
Bourvil
Dany Boon
Angelique Boyer
Charles Boyer
Guillaume Canet
Capucine
Martine Carol
Leslie Caron
Isabelle Carré
Vincent Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Laetitia Casta
Robert Clary
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Grégoire Colin
Marion Cotillard
Clotilde Courau
Darry Cowl
D–L[edit]
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Béatrice Dalle
Lili Damita
Danielle Darrieux
Alain Delon
Danièle Delorme
Julie Delpy
Catherine Deneuve
Élisabeth Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu
Guillaume Depardieu
Patrick Dewaere
Arielle Dombasle
Michel Drucker
Morgane Dubled
Jean Dujardin
Anny Dupérey
Romain Duris
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Fernandel
Brigitte Fossey
Louis de Funès
Félicité Du Jeu
Jean Gabin
Julie Gayet
Annie Girardot
Judith Godrèche
Eva Green
Sacha Guitry
Isabelle Huppert
Irène Jacob
Claude Jade
Marlène Jobert
Valérie Kaprisky
Mélanie Laurent
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Virginie Ledoyen
Noémie Lenoir
Max Linder
Sheryfa Luna
M–Z[edit]
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Marcel Marceau
Sophie Marceau
Jean Marais
Olivier Martinez
Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Miou-Miou
Mistinguett
Yves Montand
Jeanne Moreau
Michèle Morgan
Musidora
Gérard Philipe
Michel Piccoli
Clémence Poésy
Alexia Portal
Yvonne Printemps
Pérette Pradier
Jérôme Pradon
Rachel (actress) pseudonym for Elisa-Rachel Félix
Gabrielle Réjane
Jean Reno
Marine Renoir
Pierre Richard
Sebastian Roché
Jean Rochefort
Béatrice Romand
Philippine de Rothschild
Nathalie Roussel
Michel Roux
Emmanuelle Seigner
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Signoret
Audrey Tautou
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Marie Trintignant
Gaspard Ulliel
Michael Vartan
Hervé Villechaize
Lambert Wilson
Architects[edit]
Main article: List of French architects
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Jacques-François Blondel
Germain Boffrand
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Salomon de Brosse
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Libéral Bruant
Androuet du Cerceau family
Le Corbusier pseudonym for Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Swiss-born)
Philibert de l'Orme
Gustave Eiffel
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
Charles Garnier
Tony Garnier
Hector Guimard
Villard de Honnecourt
Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss-born)
Henri Labrouste
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Pierre Lescot
André Lurçat
Robert Mallet-Stevens
François Mansart
Jules Hardouin Mansart
Louis Métezeau
Jean Nouvel
Charles Percier
Claude Perrault
Dominique Perrault
Auguste Perret
Christian de Portzamparc
Jean Prouvé
Alain Provost
Henri Sauvage
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Louis Le Vau
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Artists[edit]
Main article: List of French artists
Painters[edit]
Main article: List of French painters
Photographers[edit]
Main article: List of French photographers
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Brassaï born in Hungary
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Raymond Depardon
Robert Doisneau
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Pierre Dubreuil
Jules Gervais-Courtellemont
Nadar
Willy Ronis
Sculptors[edit]
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Frédéric Bartholdi
Antoine Bourdelle
Antonin Carlès
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
César
Antoine-Denis Chaudet
Camille Claudel
Paul Dubois
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Alexandre Falguière
Jean-Antoine Houdon
René Iché
Antonin Idrac
Antonin Mercié
Hippolyte Moulin
Émile Louis Picault
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Antoine-Augustin Préault
Auguste Rodin
François Rude
Niki de Saint Phalle
Sacha Sosno
Athletes[edit]
See also Category:French athletes
A–J[edit]
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André the Giant, professional wrestler
Sarah Abitbol, pairs figure skater (withStéphane Bernadis); World Figure Skating
Championship bronze[1]
Tariq Abdul-Wahad (born Olivier Saint-Jean), basketball player
Luc Alphand, Alpine skier
Jacques Anquetil, cyclist
Fabien Barthez, football player
Marion Bartoli, tennis player
Fabrice Benichou, world-champion super bantamweight boxer
Stéphane Bernadis, pairs figure skater (withSarah Abitbol)
Alain Bernard, Olympic swimmer
Serge Betsen, Cameroon-born French citizen, rugby player
Serge Blanco, Venezuela-born French citizen, rugby player
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Jean Bloch, Olympic silver football player
Louison Bobet, cyclist
Surya Bonaly, figure skater
Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet, 1928 and 1932 Olympic skating gold medalists
Alain Calmat, figure skater, Olympic silver, world championship gold, silver, two-time bronze
Philippe Candeloro, figure skater
Eric Cantona, football player
Georges Carpentier, world-champion boxer
Marcel Cerdan, world-champion boxer
François Cevert (born François Goldenberg),Formula One driver
Eugène Christophe, cyclist
Albert Clément (c. 1878–1907), motor racing driver
Robert Cohen, world-champion bantamweight boxer
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, tennis player
Eugène Criqui, world-champion boxer
Jean Cruguet, jockey of Seattle Slew
Richard Dacoury, basketball player
Pierre Darmon, tennis player, highest world ranking # 8
Mathieu Debuchy, football player
Émile Delahaye, race car pioneer
Abou Diaby, football player
Boris Diaw, basketball player
Marcel Desailly, Ghana-born French citizen, football player
David Douillet, judoka
Yves Dreyfus, épée fencer, Olympic bronze medal, French champion
Isabelle Duchesnay and Paul Duchesnay, ice dancers
Andre Ethier, Major League Baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
Patrice Evra, football player for Monaco and Manchester United
André Fabre, horse trainer
Laurent Fignon, cyclist
Jeremy Flores, surfer
Just Fontaine, football player
Jacques Fouroux, rugby union player and coach
Jessica Fox (born 1994), French-born Australian, slalom canoer, Olympic silver (K-1 slalom),
world championships bronze (C-1)[2]
Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi, slalom canoer, Olympic bronze (K-1 slalom), five golds at ICF Canoe
Slalom World Championships (two-time K-1, three-time K-1 team)
Pierre Galle, basketball player and coach
Camille du Gast, race car driver
Lucien Gaudin, fencer
Yoann Gourcuff, football player
Stéphane Haccoun, boxer
Rudy Haddad, football player
Alphonse Halimi ("la Petite Terreur"), world-champion bantamweight boxer
Marlène Harnois (born 1986), taekwondo practitioner
Thierry Henry, football player
Bernard Hinault, cyclist
Cristobal Huet, hockey player
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Constant Huret, cyclist
Olivier Jacque, motorcycle rider
Rene Jacquot, boxer, underdog who became world champion
Laurent Jalabert, cyclist
Max Jean, Formula One driver
Brian Joubert, figure skater
K–Z[edit]
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Jean-Claude Killy, skier
Raymond Kopa, football player
Pascal Lavanchy, ice dancer (with Sophie Moniotte)
Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player
Alexander Levy, professional golfer
Alexandre Lippmann, épée fencer, two-time Olympic champion, two-time silver, bronze
Bixente Lizarazu, football player
Sébastien Loeb, rally driver and five-time champion
Jeannie Longo, cyclist
André Mahé, cyclist
Claude Makélélé, football player: Paris Saint-Germain
Laure Manaudou, swimmer
Amélie Mauresmo, tennis player
Jose Meiffret, cyclist
Éric Millot, figure skater
Alain Mimoun, athlete
Sophie Moniotte, ice dancer (with Pascal Lavanchy)
Carole Montillet, skier
Armand Mouyal, épée fencer, Olympic bronze, world champion
Alfred "Artem" Nakache, swimmer, world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French
two-time world record (3x100 relay team)
Claude Netter, foil fencer, Olympic champion, silver
Hellé Nice, pioneer female race car driver
Joakim Noah, NBA basketball player (Chicago Bulls)
Yannick Noah, tennis player
Micheline Ostermeyer, Olympic champion in discus and shot put, bronze in high jump
Tony Parker, Belgian-born French citizen, basketball player
Gwendal Peizerat, ice dancer
Marie-José Pérec, athlete
Mary Pierce, Canadian-born French citizen, tennis player
Stéphane Peterhansel, car and motor racer, nine-time Dakar Rally winner
Julien Pillet, fencer
Michel Platini, football player
Alain Prost, Formula One driver and four-time champion
Antoine Rigaudeau, basketball player
François Rozenthal, ice hockey player
Maurice Rozenthal, ice hockey player
Georges Stern, jockey
Jean Stern, épée fencer, Olympic champion
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Léon Théry, race car driver
Marcel Thil, world-champion boxer
Christophe Tiozzo, world-champion boxer; brother of Fabrice Tiozzo
Fabrice Tiozzo, world-champion boxer; brother of Christophe Tiozzo
David Trezeguet, football player
Patrick Vieira, Senegal-born French citizen, football player
Richard Virenque, Morocco-born French citizen, cyclist
Roger Walkowiak, cyclist
Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver
Zinedine Zidane, football player
Authors[edit]
See also: List of French-language authors, List of French-language poets and List of French
novelists
A–E[edit]
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Marcel Achard
Alain-Fournier
Olivier Ameisen
Jean Anouilh, 20th-century dramatist
Guillaume Apollinaire
Louis Aragon
Antonin Artaud
Marcel Aymé
Honoré de Balzac, realist author
Henri Barbusse
Charles Baudelaire, 19th-century poet
Pierre Beaumarchais, comedy playwright
Simone de Beauvoir, 20th-century author
Cyrano de Bergerac
Georges Bernanos
Tristan Bernard
Maurice Blanchot
Antoine Blondin
Nicolas Boileau
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Pierre Boulle
Fernand Braudel
André Breton
Retif de la Bretonne
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Michel Butor
Albert Camus, existentialist author
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 20th-century author
Blaise Cendrars
Aimé Césaire, 20th-century author
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Nicolas Chamfort
René Char, 20th-century poet
François-René de Chateaubriand
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Emil Cioran
Paul Claudel
Jean Cocteau, 20th-century poet and playwright
Colette, 20th-century author
Benjamin Constant
Tristan Corbière
Pierre Corneille, classicist playwright
Marquis de Custine, travel writer
Robert Desnos, 20th-century poet
Charles Dezobry, historian and historical novelist
Denis Diderot
Alexandre Dumas, père, author
Alexandre Dumas, fils, playwright/author
Marguerite Duras, 20th-century novelist
Vanessa Duriès
Paul Éluard
F–O[edit]
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Frantz Fanon, 20th-century author, psychiatrist
Léon-Paul Fargue
Georges Feydeau
Marc Ferro
Amanda Filipacchi, novelist (French and U.S. citizenship, writes in English)
Alain Finkielkraut, essayist
Gustave Flaubert, realist author
Anatole France
Marie de France, poet
Romain Gary
Jean Genet
André Gide, Nobel Prize Winner
Jean Giono
Jean Giraudoux
Françoise Giroud
Julien Gracq
Julien Green
Pierre Guyotat
Jean-Edern Hallier
Auguste Himly, historian
Victor Hugo, novelist, poet, and playwright
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Eugène Ionesco
Alain Jouffroy, poet, art critic, plastician
Jean de La Bruyère
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Jean de La Fontaine
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse)
Leconte de Lisle, parnassian poet
Alphonse de Lamartine
Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, historian
Paul Lafargue
Jules Laforgue
Valéry Larbaud
Maurice Leblanc, created Arsène Lupin
Gaston Leroux, journalist and author, credited with creating the locked room puzzle mystery
novel Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room) and author of Le
Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera)
Stéphane Mallarmé, poet
Hector Malot, 19th-century author
André Malraux
Matthieu Marais, 18th-century lawyer and writer
Marcel Marceau, 20th-century mime (and member of the French Resistance in World War II)
Pierre de Marivaux, playwright
Clément Marot, poet
Guy de Maupassant, novelist
François Mauriac, Roman Catholic writer
Prosper Mérimée, 19th-century novelist
Catherine Millet, art expert, editor and erotic memoirist
Patrick Modiano
Jean Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière, 17th-century comedic playwright and actor
Alfred de Musset, 19th-century poet
Gérard de Nerval
Anaïs Nin
P–Z[edit]
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Marcel Pagnol
Charles Péguy, 20th-century poet
Charles Perrault, Mother Goose Tales
Georges Perec
Saint-John Perse
Roger Peyrefitte
Jean Piaget, psychologist
Jean Piat
Christine de Pizan, historian, poet, philosopher
Jacques Prévert, 20th-century poet
Abbé Prévost
Marcel Prévost
Marcel Proust, novelist
Raymond Queneau
François Rabelais, Renaissance writer
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Raymond Radiguet
Jean Racine, classicist playwright
Pauline Réage, novelist
Arthur Rimbaud, symbolist poet
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Pierre de Ronsard
Edmond Rostand, neo-romantic playwright
Raymond Roussel
Maximilien Rubel
Marquis de Sade, erotic and philosophic author
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
George Sand, feminist author
Jean-Paul Sartre, 20th-century existentialist philosopher
Nathalie Sarraute
Pierre Seel, homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author
Victor Segalen
Madame de Sévigné
Madame de Staël
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator
Claude Simon
Stendhal, novelist (born Henry Beyle)
Alain Tasso, poet, painter, essayist, art critic, literary critic
François Truffaut, 20th-century filmmaker
Paul Valéry, 20th-century poet
Vercors, pseudonym of Jean Bruller
Paul Verlaine, symbolist poet
Jules Verne, novelist
Boris Vian, 20th-century author
Alfred de Vigny, 19th-century poet
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
François Villon
Voltaire
Marguerite Yourcenar
Émile Zola, naturalist author
Aviators[edit]
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Clément Ader
Jacqueline Auriol
Louis Blériot
Henri Farman
René Fonck
Roland Garros, first to cross the Mediterranean; French Open is named after him.
Georges Guynemer
Raymonde de Laroche
Hubert Latham
Léon Lemartin
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Marie Marvingt
Jean Mermoz
Les Frères Robert – balloonists Anne-Jean Robert and Nicolas-Louis Robert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author and aviator
André Turcat
Gabriel Voisin
Business[edit]
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Bernard Arnault (born 1949), entrepreneur
Liliane Bettencourt, cosmetics, one of the richest persons in Europe
Marcel Bich (1914–1994), Bic pens
Vincent Bolloré (born 1952), transportation and engineering
Marcel Boussac, textiles, fashion, newspapers, race horse breeding
Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), automobile manufacturer
André Citroën (1878–1935), automobile manufacturer
Adolphe Clément-Bayard (1855–1928) entrepreneur manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic
tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aviation
Alexandre Darracq (1855–1931), automotive pioneer
Claude Dauphin (born 1951), commodities trader
Louis Delâge (1874–1947) automotive pioneer
Émile Delahaye (1843–1905), automotive pioneer
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932), agricultural commodities
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771–1834), founder of DuPont
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), entrepreneur
Jacques Foccart (19..–1997), import-export
Léon Gaumont, pioneer film inventor
Paul-Louis Halley (1934–2004), supermarket tycoon
Max Hymans (1900–1961), aviation
Jean-Marie Messier (born 1957), former Vivendi CEO
Gérard Mestrallet (born 1949), Chairman and CEO of Suez
Gérard Mulliez, entrepreneur (Auchan, Decathlon, Flunch...), whose family is considered as
one of the richest in Europe
Xavier Niel (born 1967), entrepreneur and businessman Iliad
Charles Pathé, pioneer of film industry
Armand Peugeot (1849–1915) automobile manufacturer
François Pinault (born 1936), entrepreneur
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (1726–1803), shipping magnate and a "Father of
the American Revolution"
Marcel Renault (1872–1903), automobile manufacturer
James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), banker
Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), wine maker
Eugène Schueller (1881–1954), founder of L'Oréal
Bernard Tapie (born 1943), entrepreneur
Chefs[edit]
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Paul Bocuse
Daniel Boulud
Michel Bras
Pascal Caffet
Marie-Antoine Carême
Alain Ducasse
Adolphe Dugléré
Auguste Escoffier
Pierre Gagnaire
Michel Guérard
Victor Hirtzler
Ludovic Lefebvre
Jacques Pépin
Georges Perrier
Fernand Point
Charles Ranhofer
Eric Ripert
Joël Robuchon
Albert Roux
Michel Roux
Michel Roux, Jr.
Guy Savoy
François Vatel
Marc Veyrat
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Colonial administrators[edit]
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, French Congo
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, Louisiana
Samuel de Champlain, New France
François Caron, first Governor of French territories of India
François Martin, Governor for French territories in India
Pierre Christoph Le Noir, Governor for French territories in India
Pierre Benoît Dumas, Governor for French territories in India
Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and administrator, in the
service of the French East India Company.
Joseph François Dupleix, Governor for French territories in India
Lally-Tollendal, Governor for French territories in India
Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, Governor for French territories in India
Louis Faidherbe, Senegal
Joseph Gallieni, Madagascar
Francis Garnier, French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos)
Émile Gentil, French Congo
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, Algeria
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Jean Talon, Canada
Composers[edit]
Main article: List of French composers
Dancers edit
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La Goulue
Sylvie Guillem
Marcelle Lender
Cléo de Mérode
Hellé Nice
François Perron
Roland Petit
Les Twins, Larry and Laurent Bourgeois
See also Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère
Economists[edit]
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Maurice Allais, Nobel Prize
Raymond Barre, economist and politician
Frédéric Bastiat
Fernand Braudel
Jules Dupuit
Gérard Debreu, Nobel memorial prize 1983
Charles Gide
Dominique Guellec
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Pierre Émile Levasseur
Alain Lipietz, green economist
Thomas Piketty
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
François Quesnay
Pascal Salin
Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean Tirole
Turgot
Léon Walras
Fashion[edit]
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Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
Laetitia Casta, model
Coco Chanel, fashion designer
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Hubert de Givenchy
Inès de La Fressange, model and fashion designer
Christian Dior, fashion designer
Morgane Dubled, model
Julien Fournié
Jean Paul Gaultier
Daniel Hechter, inventor of ready-to-wear
Christian Lacroix
Noémie Lenoir, model
Jennifer Messelier, model
Claude Montana
Thierry Mugler
Paul Poiret
Nina Ricci, fashion designer
Sonia Rykiel
Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
Hedi Slimane
Louis Vuitton, fashion designer
Filmmakers[edit]
See also: List of French film directors
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Jacques Becker
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Luc Besson
Alice Guy-Blaché
Bertrand Blier
Catherine Breillat
Robert Bresson
Laurent Cantet
Yves Caumon
André Cayatte
Claude Chabrol
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
René Clair
René Clément
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jean Cocteau
Fabien Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Demy
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Abel Gance
Jean-Luc Godard
Michel Gondry
Michel Hazanavicius
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Mathieu Kassovitz
Jan Kounen
Patrice Leconte
Claude Lelouch
Philippe Lioret
Louis Malle
André Malraux
Georges Méliès
Jean-Pierre Melville
Maurice Pialat
Jean Renoir
Alain Resnais
Yves Robert
Éric Rohmer
Jean Rollin
Alain Sarde
Claude Sautet
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur
François Truffaut
Roger Vadim
Agnès Varda
Jean Vigo
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Pierre Dac, humorist and Resistance worker
Jamel Debbouze
Pierre Desproges
Raymond Devos
Gad Elmaleh
Florence Foresti
Thierry Le Luron
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala
Military leaders[edit]
Main article: List of French military leaders
See also: Constable of France, Marshal of France and French nobility
Monarchs and royals[edit]
See also: List of French monarchs and members of the French Royal Families
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Charles Martel
Philip IV the Fair
King Francis I
King Henry IV
Louis XIV, the Sun King, reigned 1643–1715
Henriette Marie, Queen of England, wife of Charles I of England and mother toCharles
II and James II
Philip V of Spain, grandson of Louis XIV through male line, born and bred in France, became
King of Spain aged 17
King Louis XV, reigned 1715–1774
King Louis XVI, reigned 1774–1792, executed in 1793 in Revolution
Emperor Napoleon I, first to be styled 'Emperor of the French', reigned 1799–1814 and again in
1815
Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of above
King Louis Philippe, only monarch styled King of the French; reigned 1830–1848
Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, President (1848–1852) and Emperor (1852–1871); last
French monarch
Charles-Marie David de Mayréna I, King of the Kingdom of Sedang
Henri Marie Jean André, Prince Consort of Denmark, married to Queen Margrethe II of
Denmark.
Marie Agathe Odile Cavallier, Princess of Denmark, married to Prince Joachim of Denmark
Musicians[edit]
See also: List of French composers and List of French singers
A–J[edit]
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Air (band)
Alizée
Charles Aznavour
Josephine Baker, American-born entertainer
Jane Bathori, opera singer
Barbara
Guy Béart
Bénabar
Michel Berger
Pierre Bouvier
Lucienne Boyer
Georges Brassens
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Aristide Bruant
Julie Budet
Manu Chao
Matthieu Chedid
Richard Clayderman, pianist
Chuck Comeau
Daft Punk
Dalida
Damia
Claude Debussy
David Desrosiers
Natalie Dessay, opera singer
Dimitri from Paris
Sacha Distel, heartthrob: covered "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
Marie Dubas
Jacques Dutronc
Kenza Farah
Mylène Farmer
Jean Ferrat
Léo Ferré
Nino Ferrer
Thomas Fersen
Claude François, popular singer during the 1960s and 1970s
Fréhel
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg
France Gall
Laurent Garnier
Gipsy Kings
Georgius
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Stéphane Grappelli, jazz musician
Juliette Gréco
Gribouille (born Marie-France Gaîté)
David Guetta, house-music producer and DJ
Yvette Guilbert
Arthur H
David Hallyday
Johnny Hallyday, born in Belgium, served in the French Army
Françoise Hardy
Jacques Higelin
Sébastien Izambard, member of the quartet Il Divo
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Joëlle
Justice (band)
K–Z[edit]
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Rina Ketty
Kiki, "Queen of Montparnasse"
La Goulue
Boby Lapointe
Bernard Lavilliers
Maxime Le Forestier
Sébastien Lefebvre
Gérard Lenorman
Nolwenn Leroy
Lilly Wood and the Prick
Claudine Longet
Sheryfa Luna
M83
Christophe Maé
Mano Negra
Luis Mariano
Anna Marly
Alain Marion
Didier Marouani, musician and composer
Mireille Mathieu
Félix Mayol
Miossec
Mireille
Mistinguett
Ginette Neveu
Yannick Noah
Claude Nougaro
NTM
Noir Désir
Vanessa Paradis
Pierre Perret
Michel Petrucciani
Édith Piaf
Michel Polnareff
Lily Pons, opera singer (naturalized as a United States citizen in 1940)
Rene Rancourt
Renaud
Tino Rossi
Jean Sablon
Bob Sinclar
Skip the Use
Alain Souchon
Mano Solo
Jeff Stinco
Sébastien Tellier
Yann Tiersen
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Christian Vander
Sylvie Vartan
Boris Vian
Pauline Viardot, opera singer and composer
Pedro Winter
Zazie
Philosophers[edit]
Main article: List of French philosophers
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Pierre Abélard
Louis Althusser
Raymond Aron, sociologist and philosopher
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Gaston Bachelard
Georges Bataille
Roland Barthes
Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
Julien Benda
Henri Bergson
Émile Boutroux
Michel de Certeau
André Comte-Sponville
Jean de Crèvecœur
Guy Debord
Gilles Deleuze
Jacques Derrida
René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
Denis Diderot, Enlightenment author and deist philosopher
Michel Foucault
Félix Guattari
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher and politician
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Henri Lefèbvre
Marcel Légaut, Christian philosopher
Jean de Léry, corsaire and ethnologist, anti-racism activist
Emmanuel Lévinas
Jean-François Lyotard
Nicolas Malebranche
Gabriel Marcel, philosopher
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenologist
Michel de Montaigne, philosopher essayist
Montesquieu, political philosopher
Edgar Morin
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Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher
Blaise Pascal, scientist, Christian philosopher and author
Jean-François Revel
Paul Ricœur
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher
Michel Serres
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Enlightenment author, deist/agnosticphilosopher
Éric Weil, philosopher
Simone Weil
Politicians[edit]
See also: List of Prime Ministers of France, List of Presidents of France and List of foreign-born
French politicians
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François Bayrou, UDF party leader
Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister
José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist
Aristide Briand
Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, twoterm French president
Georges Clemenceau
Gaspard de Coligny
Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris
Jacques Delors
Félix Faure, President of France who died of a heart attack while making love to his mistress
Charles de Gaulle, World War II general, commander of the Free French Forces, heroic French
president
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
François Guizot, Prime Minister
Gisèle Halimi lawyer and feminist activist
François Hollande, PS (Socialist Party) leader, current French president
Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist
Lionel Jospin, socialist, former prime minister
Bernard Kouchner, founder of Médecins du Monde
Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential
candidate
Louis Lépine, Paris police chief, governor of Algiers, founder of the Concours Lépine
Émile Loubet, President of France who was elected in 1899, after the death ofFélix Faure
Henri-Auguste Lozé,Paris police chief, senator of the Third Republic
Jean-Claude Martinez, lawyer and European deputy
Pierre Mendès France, lawyer and statesman, prime minister
Honoré Mirabeau
François Mitterrand, lawyer and statesman, president
Jean Monnet
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Alexandre de Prouville, Viceroy of New France
Marthe Richard
Ségolène Royal, politician, Socialist party, presidential candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, President of the right wing party
Victor Schoelcher, anti-slavery activist
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Maurice Thorez
Jacques Toubon
Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France
Dominique Voynet, physician and Green party politician
Popes[edit]
Main article: List of French popes
Resistance workers[edit]
Resistance workers during the German occupation of France in World War II
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Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), statesman
Robert Benoist (1895–1944), SOE operative, champion race car driver
Denise Bloch (1915–1945), SOE operative: King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, Legion of
Honor, French Resistance Medal
Andrée Borrel (1919–1944), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
Madeleine Damerment (1917–1944), SOE operative: Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre, Médaille
combattant volontaire de la Résistance
Marie Louise Dissard (1880–1957), U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedomrecipient
William Grover-Williams (1903–1945), SOE operative, champion race car driver
Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), lawyer, statesman
Jean Moulin (1899–1943), statesman
Abbé Pierre (1912–2007), Priest and founder of Emmaus
Christian Pineau (1904–1995), statesman
Eliane Plewman (1917–1944), SOE operative: Croix de guerre
Germaine Ribière (1917–1999), Righteous among the Nations
Élise Rivet (1890–1945), nun executed by Nazis for aiding the resistance
Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), SOE agent executed by the Nazis
Odette Sansom (1912–1995), SOE operative: George Cross, MBE, Legion of Honor
Suzanne Spaak, Belgian-born agent: "Red Orchestra" intelligence network; executed 1944
Violette Szabo (1921–1945), SOE operative: George Cross, Croix de guerre
Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), SOE operative, champion race car driver
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Main article: List of French scientists
Social activists[edit]
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Simone de Beauvoir, author, philosopher, and feminist
Sophie de Condorcet, feminist
Maria Deraismes, feminist
Marguerite Durand, journalist and feminist leader
Olympe de Gouges, feminist
Samir Kassir, journalist
Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc, radical revolutionist, newspaper publisher
Victor Schoelcher, abolitionist
Pierre Seel, homosexual concentration camp survivor, activist, author
Séverine, feminist
Flora Tristan, feminist
Soldiers[edit]
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Chevalier Bayard
François Achille Bazaine
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Georges Boulanger
Thomas Robert Bugeaud
François de Charette
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé.
Gaspard de Coligny
François Darlan
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Bob Denard
Alfred Dreyfus
Charles François Dumouriez
Ferdinand Foch
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
Joseph Gallieni
Maurice Gamelin
Henri Gouraud
Bertrand du Guesclin
Joseph Joffre
Edmond Jouhaud
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Alphonse Juin
Marie-Pierre Kœnig
Jacques de la Palice
Charles Leclerc
Jean Lannes
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Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
Hubert Lyautey
Patrice MacMahon
Charles Mangin
Claude Martin
André Masséna
Jacques Massu
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Simon de Montfort
Philippe Morillon
Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte
Joachim Murat
Michel Ney
Robert Nivelle
Philippe Pétain
Comte de Rochambeau
Raoul Salan
Maurice Sarrail
Nicolas Soult
Louis Jules Trochu
Henri de Turenne
Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
Maxime Weygand
Theologians[edit]
O.P. (Ordo Praedicatorum) is the abbreviation used to indicate that someone is/was a member
of Dominican order, a Catholic religious order. S.J. (Societas Iesu) is the abbreviation used to
indicate that someone is/was a member of the Society of Jesus, another Catholic religious order.
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Jean Calvin
Sebastian Castellio, translator of the Bible
Pierre Cauchon, condemned Joan of Arc
Bernard of Clairvaux
Jean Claude
Yves Congar, O.P.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
Pierre Lagrange O.P., founder of the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique de Jérusalem
Hubert Languet
Maurice Leenhardt, ethnologist, theologian
Alexander de Rhodes S.J., 17th-century missionary to Indochina
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J.
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Louis Braille, blind inventor
Charles Cros, poet and inventor
Jeanne Calment, who reached the longest lifespan in human history at 122 years and 164 days
Jean René Champion, first Free French Forces soldier to enter the city of Paris on its liberation
in August 1944.
Pierre de Coubertin, initiator of the modern Olympic Games
Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), commander and Saint
Jean-Louis David, hairdresser
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
Ninon de l'Enclos, courtesan, patron of the arts
Cavalier de la Salle, explorer
Marcel Deprez, electrical engineer
René Dumont, agronomist engineer and sociologist and ecology activist
Jules Dumont d'Urville
Maurice Duverger, jurist
Jean-Baptiste Ebrard, founder of Liverpool, a chain of department stores in Mexico
Gustave Eiffel, engineer
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, planned Washington, D.C.
Charles-Michel de l'Épée, founder of world's first public school for deaf people
Marquis de la Fayette, military leader in the American Revolution
Arthur de Gobineau, diplomat, author of An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Paul Héroult, inventor
Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans, designed the first steamship in 1783
René Lalique, artist
Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds, explorer and canal engineer
Auguste and Louis Lumière, inventors
Jean Paul Marat
Jacques Mayol, freediver
Montgolfier brothers, balloonists
Jean-Marie Pelt, botanist
Élisée Reclus, geographer and anarchist
César Ritz, hotelier
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, magician, namesake of "Harry Houdini"
Pierre Seel, homosexual survivor of the concentration camps, activist, author
Philippe Starck, designer
Vauban, engineer
François Henri de la Motte, French spy executed for treason 1781 in London
Eugène François Vidocq, French convict-turned-spy considered the father of modern forensics