French people

Antoine Court, who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (Nîmes, January 25, 1725 – Paris, May 10, 1784), was a former Protestant pastor, born at Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom in 1781.

William of Jumièges (also known as Guillaume de Jumièges) was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of the earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest.

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Rutebeuf (or Rustebuef) (fl. 1245 – 1285), a trouvère, was born in the first half of the 13th century, possibly in Champagne (he describes conflicts in Troyes in 1249); he was evidently of humble birth, and he was a Parisian by education and residence.

François Caron (1600–1673) was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below Governor-General.

William Clito (25 October 1102 – 28 July 1128) reigned as Count of Flanders and claimed the Duchy of Normandy.

The French (French: Français) are an ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

Lucien Germain Guitry (13 December 1860 – 1 June 1925) was a French actor.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin; 2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.

Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (6 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a mistress of Charles II of England.

Catherine Cadière, or Marie-Catherine Cadière, (12 November 1709 in Toulon, year of death unknown), was an alleged French witch.

Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (4 February 1758, Nancy, France– 18 October 1840, Paris) was a French ballet dancer, ballet master, violinist, and composer.

Pierre de Montreuil (died 1267, Paris) was a French architect.

Henri Jules de Bourbon (Paris, 29 July 1643 – Paris, 1 April 1709) was prince de Condé, from 1686 to his death.

Camille Félix Michel Rousset (15 February 1821, Paris – 19 February 1892, Saint-Gobain) was a French historian.

Firmin Didot (French: [fiʁmɛ̃ dido]; 14 April 1764 – 24 April 1836) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.

Jean Bondol, also known as Jean de Bruges or Jan Baudolf, was the author of the illuminations in a translation of the Vulgate which was presented to Charles V of France by his valet Jehan Vaudetar.

Jacques Cassard (30 September 1679 in Nantes – 1740 in Ham) was a French naval officer and privateer.

This is a list of the counts of Eu, a French fief in the Middle Ages.

Louis Constant Wairy (1778–1845) was valet to Napoleon, Emperor of the French.

Elizabeth of Vermandois, or Elisabeth or Isabel de Vermandois (– 1131), was the third daughter of Hugh Magnus and Adelaide of Vermandois, and as such represented both the Capetian line of her paternal grandfather Henry I of France, and the Carolingian ancestry of her maternal grandfather Herbert IV of Vermandois.

Antoine-Louis Rouillé, comte de Jouy (7 June 1689 – 20 September 1761) was a French statesman and comte of Jouy-en-Josas.

Consuelo Balsan (formerly, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough; née Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family.

François-Ferdinand Decombe (15 April 1789, Bordeaux - 18 July 1865, Fontainebleau) was a French ballet dancer and ballet master, under the stage name Albert.

Odette de Champdivers (also known as Oudine or Odinette; b. about 1390 - d. ca. 1425) was the mistress of Charles VI of France (the Mad).

René David (January 12, 1906, Jura, France – May 26, 1990, Le Tholonet, France) was a French Professor of Law.

Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St.

Lucien Petipa (December 22, 1815 – July 7, 1898) was a French ballet dancer in the early 19th century (Romantic period), who was the brother of Marius Petipa, the famous ballet master of the Russian Imperial Ballet.

Jean (or Jehan) de Chelles (working 1258–1265) was a master mason and sculptor who was one of the architects at the Cathedral of Nôtre Dame de Paris.

Maximilien Gardel (18 December 1741, Mannheim - 11 March 1787, Paris) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of German descent.

Daniel Hulet (25 August 1945 Etterbeek - 9 September 2011 Ostend) was a Belgian cartoonist.

Henry-Clément Sanson (27 May 1799 – 25 January 1889) was a French executioner.

Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul.

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens (May 12, 1825 – September 17, 1878) was a French lawyer, and adventurer, who assumed the title of King of Araucanía and Patagonia.

Jean-François Coulon (1764, Paris - 1836) was a French ballet dancer and teacher.

Louis Pécour (also spelled Pecoor, Pecour, Pécourt; 10 August 1653 – 12 April 1729) was a French dancer and choreographer.

Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Russian: Ма́риус Ива́нович Петипа́), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818 – 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1910) was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer.

Louis-Antoine Duport (1781, Paris - 19 October 1853, Paris) was a French ballet dancer, ballet composer and ballet master.

Michel Blondy (1675–1739) was a French choreographer, dancer and ballet master.

Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback) (1245–50 – ?1285–88, or after 1306) was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician.

The Corsicans (French: Corses; Italian, Corsican and Ligurian: Corsi) are people from or with origins in Corsica, a Mediterranean island and a territorial collectivity of France.

Nicolas Rigault (Rigaltius; 1577-1654) was a French classical scholar.

Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300 in Strasbourg – 15 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic preacher and a theologian.

Jean de Metz (also Jean de Nouillonpont) (born c. 1398) was a French nobleman who is known primarily for his role in the exploits of Joan of Arc.

He was declared a Servant of God after Pope Pius VI opened his cause for sainthood on 6 August 1783 and Pope Pius XI declared him to be Venerable on 19 June 1927.

Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 – 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.

Saint Michel Garicoïts (15 April 1797 - 14 May 1863) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bétharram.