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P–Z[edit] 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 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] 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 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] 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] Raymond Blanc 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] Félix Éboué, Governor general of French Equatorial Africa 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 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Louisiana Jean Talon, Canada Composers[edit] Main article: List of French composers Dancers edit Jane Avril 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] Antoine Augustin Cournot 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] Christian Audigier, fashion designer and business man Liliane Bettencourt, majority owner of L'Oréal, one of the wealthiest people in Europe 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 Olivier Assayas 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 Henri Diamant-Berger 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 Humorists[edit] Alain Chabat Coluche 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 Charlemagne 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] Dominique A 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 Breakbot 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 IAM Joëlle Justice (band) K–Z[edit] Patricia Kaas Kassav' 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 Charles Trenet Christian Vander Sylvie Vartan Boris Vian Pauline Viardot, opera singer and composer Pedro Winter Zazie Philosophers[edit] Main article: List of French philosophers 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 Emmanuel Mounier, philosopher 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 Robert Badinter, lawyer, statesman and anti-death-sentence activist 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, two-term 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 Philippe Pétain, head of Vichy France 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
Lucie Samuel-Aubrac (1912–2007), human rights activist 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 See also French Resistance Scientists[edit] Main article: List of French scientists Social activists[edit] Hubertine Auclert, journalist and feminist leader 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] Jeanne d'Arc 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 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny 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. Marie-Émile Boismard O.P. 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. Auguste Sabatier Antonin Sertillanges O.P., founder of the Revue Thomiste Others[edit] André Charles Boulle, cabinet maker 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 Directory: uploads uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? uploads -> For want of a nail uploads -> Ownership Models There are two different types of ownership models uploads -> Police Militarization uploads -> City of rising star regular meting thursday, july 14, 2016 uploads -> Township of winfield uploads -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 uploads -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program What We Want Now! 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