French opinion journalists

Charles-Joseph Mathon de la Cour (6 October 1738, Lyon – 15 November 1793, Lyon) was a French art critic, mathematician, financier, and essayist.

Joseph Salvador (1779–1873) was a scholar from a Sephardi Jewish family in the south of France.

Jean-Jules Clamageran (March 29, 1827-June 4, 1903) was a French politician of the French Third Republic.

Jean-Gilles Malliarakis (born 22 June 1944 in Paris) is a Greek-French far-right politician and writer.

Gilbert Achcar (Arabic: جلبير الأشقر‎‎; 5 November 1951) is a Lebanese academic, writer, and socialist.

Pierre Naville (1903 – 23 April 1993) was a French Surrealist writer and sociologist.

Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (French: [vidal nakɛ]; 23 July 1930 – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 1969.

Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard; 19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French journalist, author, philosopher and a member of the Académie française from June 1998 onwards.

Louis Favre (26 January 1826 – 19 July 1879) was a Swiss engineer who is remembered for building the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his death in the tunnel in 1879.

Paul Louis Courier (French: [kuʁje]; January 4, 1772 – April 10, 1825), French Hellenist and political writer, was born in Paris.

Victor Schœlcher French pronunciation: ​[/ʃœl.

Louis Étienne Arthur du Breuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816-23 December 1875) was a French politician and aristocrat, the member of a notable Poitou family.

Jean Charles Dominique de Lacretelle, (3 September 1766 – 26 March 1855), was a French historian and journalist.

Antoine Eugène Genoud (1792-1849) was a French theologian and politician.

Louis Stanislas de Girardin (19 January 1762 - February 1827) was a French general, prefect, and deputy.

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (pronounced: [ɑ̃.twan.fʁe.de.ʁik o.za.nam]; April 23, 1813 – September 8, 1853) was a French literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and social justice advocate.

Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, born Joseph Marie Degérando (Lyon, France, 29 February 1772 – Paris, 10 November 1842), was a French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher of Italian descent.

Georges Cogniot (15 December 1901 in Montigny-lès-Cherlieu, Haute-Saône – 12 March 1978) was a French writer, philosopher and politician.

Louis Ange Pitou (April 1767 in Valainville, a commune of Moléans 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Châteaudun – 8 May 1846 in Paris) was a French author and counterrevolutionary.

Charles Pierre Péguy (French: [ʃaʁl peɡi]; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor.

Elias Schwarzfeld or Schwartzfeld (Hebrew: אליאס (אליהו) שוורצפלד‎‎; March 7, 1855 – 1915) was a Moldavian, later Romanian Jewish historian, essayist, novelist and newspaperman, also known as a political activist and philanthropist.