Category
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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Marine Le Pen
French politician (born 1968)
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
Germaine de Staël
Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
Charles Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)
Simone Veil
French politician (1927–2017)
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist (1830-1905)
Agnès Varda
French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)
Julie Delpy
French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer
Hélène Cixous
French philosopher and writer
Jacques Maritain
French philosopher (1882–1973)
Monique Wittig
French writer (1935-2003)
Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)
Alexandra David-Néel
French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
Henri Lefebvre
French philosopher (1901-1991)
Inessa Armand
French communist politician, editor
Kalki Koechlin
French actress and writer
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director (1873–1968)
Flora Tristan
French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
Adèle Haenel
French actress
Céline Sciamma
French director and screenwriter (born 1978)
Delphine Seyrig
French actress and film director (1932–1990)
Juliette Adam
French writer and salonnière (1836–1936)
Claude Cahun
French artist (1894–1954)
Marguerite Durand
French actress and journalist, editor (1864–1936)
Pan Yuliang
Chinese painter (1895-1977)
Hubertine Auclert
French feminist and suffragist (1848–1914)
Theroigne de Mericourt
French revolutionary (1762-1817)
Gisèle Halimi
French-Tunisian lawyer, feminist and politician (1927–2020)
Élisabeth Badinter
French author, historian, and professor
Louise Weiss
French journalist, writer, feminist & politician (1893-1983)
Victor Schoelcher
French politician and writer (1804-1893)
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
Rama Yade
Senegalese and French politician and the author
Alice Milliat
pioneer of women's sport (1884–1957)
Frédérique Bel
French actress
Benoîte Groult
French writer (1920–2016)
Françoise Héritier
French anthropologist (1933–2017)
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism (1796-1864)
Ovidie
Ovidie is a French director, actress, producer, journalist, former porn actress and a writer. First known as a porn actress from 1999 to 2003, she has since directed pornographic films as well as documentaries and has written several books.
Paul Robin
French anarchist pedagogue
Chimène Badi
French singer
Antoinette Fouque
French psychoanalyst & feminist (1936–2014)
Nelly Roussel
French activist (1878–1922)
Bracha L. Ettinger
Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)
Amandine Gay
French director, actress and afrofeminist
Clémentine Autain
French politician
Fadela Amara
French politician
Catherine Clément
French writer and philosopher (born 1939)
Paulette Nardal
French journalist (1896-1985)
Jeanne Deroin
French feminist, editor (1805–1894)
Catherine Malabou
French philosopher
Suzanne Voilquin
French writer, editor (1801–1876)
François Poullain de la Barre
French philosopher
Sandrine Rousseau
French economist and politician
Nathalie Lemel
French activist (1826-1921)
Eva Darlan
French actress