Fictional French people

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (; , ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles.

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fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc

fictional Star Trek character

fictional French police detective

Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).

novel by Hector Malot

thumb|250px| Pierrot ( , ; ) is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte whose origins date back to the late 17th-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne. The name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), using the suffix -ot and derives from the Italian Pedrolino. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown, often pining for love of Columbine (who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin). Performing u

fictional character from Harry Potter

1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac

children's book series by René Goscinny

fictional character and protagonist/heroine of Disney's 1991 animated feature "Beauty and the Beast"

fictional character in Les Misérables

fictional character in Gone with the Wind

character in Pink Panther

'''René d'Herblay, alias Aramis', is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, are friends of the novels' protagonist, d'Artagnan.

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fictional character in The Three Musketeers and its sequels

French YouTube channel and music label

title character from Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty

Disney version of the Cinderella classic character

Gavroche () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child. Gavroche plays a short yet significant role in the many adaptations of Les Misérables, sharing the populist ideology of the Friends of the ABC and joining the revolutionaries in the June 1832 rebellion. He figures in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th parts of the novel.

fictional character

Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. Porthos is a highly fictionalized version of the historical musketeer Isaac de Porthau.

comic book series

Éponine Thénardier ( , ), also referred to as "Ponine", the "Jondrette girl" and the "young working-man", is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as Ursule, Lark, or Mademoiselle Lanoire.

fictional Bishop from Les Misérables

fictional character in Marvel Comics

Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French erotic films based on the protagonist in the novel of the same name, by Emmanuelle Arsan, written in 1959 and published in 1967.

1839 novel by Honoré de Balzac

character in Austin Powers films

fictional human

character from the Beauty and the Beast

13th-century French epic poem

Christmas-giftbringer in the French-speaking world

film character

The Thénardiers, commonly known as ( , ) and , are fictional characters, and the secondary antagonists in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel and in many adaptations of the novel into other media.

character from Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

fictional character from Les Misérables

comic book series

Enjolras () is a fictional character who acts as the charismatic leader of the Friends of the ABC in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. In both the novel and the musical that it inspired, Enjolras is a revolutionary who fights for a France with more free and equal rights for the poor, weak, sick, needy, disposed, disabled, and oppressed masses, ultimately dying for his beliefs in the June 1832 rebellion.

Beauty and the Beast character

fictional character

science fiction comic book series

Schuss (, primarily German for 'shot', but also the same as the English noun 'schuss', i.e. a high speed ski run directly down a slope) was the unofficial Olympic mascot of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, a one-legged humanoid skier with a large red and white head. Schuss is often considered the first Olympic mascot, and appeared on pins, small toys, and cardboard cutouts. Every subsequent Olympic Games has featured a mascot excluding the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, which only had an unofficial mascot, Takuchan.

Bécassine is a French comic strip and the name of its heroine, appearing for the first time in the first issue of La Semaine de Suzette on February 2, 1905. She is considered one of the first female protagonists in the history of French comics.

Clémentine (pronounced ) is a 1985 French animated television series (in co-production with Japan). The series consists of 39 episodes which feature the fantastic adventures of a young girl (Clémentine Dumat) who uses a wheelchair. The show was produced by "IDDH", a company that originally started out producing French-dubbed versions of Japanese anime. It originally aired on Antenne 2 (now France 2). The series was released on VHS in 1990 and on DVD in 2006.

Companion of St. Nicholas in folklore

thumb| Vautrin and Eugene de Rastignac, in Le Père Goriot|Father Goriot. thumb| Vautrin over the body of Esther Van Gobseck, in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes|The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans. Vautrin () is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin (). He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–1843) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–1844), the sequel of Ill

1893 novel by Hector Malot

character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera

fictional James Bond villain

fictional character in Marvel Comics

comic character

painting by AI

franco-Belgian comics series

character from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame