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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
French priest and statesman (1748-1836)
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
French writer, a moralist (1715-1747)
Jean-Marie Guyau
French writer and philosopher (1854-1888)
Beate Klarsfeld
Franco-German journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian (born 1939)
Marie de Gournay
French writer
Dominique Venner
French journalist and essayist (1935–2013)
Antoine Gombaud
French writer and mathematician
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
Dominique Fernandez
French novelist, essayist, travel writer
Étienne Pivert de Senancour
French writer (1770-1846)
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
Anacharsis Cloots
Prussian noble (1755-1794)
Jean Clair
French journalist
Paul Janet
French philosopher (1823-1899)
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
French academic (1813–1900)
Louis Armand
French engineer, inventor, administrator, and resistance fighter (1905-1971)
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles
writer from France
Andreas Capellanus
12th-century author
Armand Louis de Gontaut
French general (1747-1793)
Jean-Pierre Changeux
French biologist and neuroscietist (born 1936)
Albert Thibaudet
French writer (1874–1936)
Didier Eribon
French author and philosopher (born 1953)
Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis
French lawyer (1746-1807)
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert
French general (1714–1800)
Michel Henry
French writer and philosopher (1922–2002)
Chantal Thomas
French writer
Pierre Claude François Daunou
French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire (1761-1840)
Fabrice Hadjadj
French writer and philosopher
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
French writer (1735-1813)
François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas
French politician (1756-1826)
Élie Halévy
French philosopher and historian (1870-1937)
Alfred Grosser
Writer, sociologist and political scientist (1925–2024)
René Rapin
French writer (1621-1687)
Louise de Broglie, comtesse d'Haussonville
Swiss-French writer (1818-1882)
Viviane Forrester
French writer (1925–2013)
Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
French writer (1827–1881)
Sabine Huynh
French poet
Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey
writer (1711–1797)
Paul-Marie Coûteaux
French politician
Louis Ratisbonne
French essayist (1827-1900)
Pierre François Tissot
French writer
Charles-Frédéric Reinhard
French politician (1761-1837)
Natacha Polony
French journalist and essayist
Louis de Loménie
French historian (1815-1878)
Jean Robieux
French physicist (1925–2012)
Huguette Bouchardeau
French socialist politician
Alexis Rosenbaum
French writer
Pierre-Jean Grosley
French writer
Louis-Antoine Caraccioli
French writer, poet and historian (1719–1803)
Gabriel Faure
French poet
Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan
French historian and writer
Gerald Messadié
French journalist and author (1931-2018)
Itxaro Borda
Basque writer
Cécile Wajsbrot
French writer, novelist, essayist, translator and journalist
Paul Stapfer
French writer (1840-1917)
Yann Moulier-Boutang
French economist
Louis Pierre Manuel
French historian and writer