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Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Ferdinand Foch
French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)
Francis de Sales
French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)
Joseph de Maistre
Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat (1753-1821)
Pierre Boulez
French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)
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Shlomo Yitzchaki (; – 13 July 1105), commonly known by the Rabbinic acronym Rashi (), was a French rabbi and commentator who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.
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French cartoonist (1934-2015)
Louis Couturat
French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist (1868–1914)
Abbot Suger
Suger (; ; ; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son Louis VII, acting as the latter's regent during the Second Crusade. His writings are seminal texts for early 12th-century Capetian history, and his reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, where he was abbot, was instrumental in creating the Gothic architecture style.
Jonathan Littell
American-French writer
Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1921)
Roscellinus
Roscelin of Compiègne (), better known by his Latinized name Roscellinus Compendiensis or Rucelinus, was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism.
Serge Dassault
French businessman and politician (1925–2018)
Philippe Honoré
French cartoonist
André Gorz
Austrian born French philosopher and journalist (1923-2007)
Philippe de Commines
writer and diplomat (1447-1511)
Arnold van Gennep
French ethnographer and folklorist (1873–1957)
Gérard Genette
French literary theorist (1930–2018)
Fulcher of Chartres
French chronicler of the First Crusade
Rémi Gaillard
French humorist and animal rights activist
Étienne Balibar
French philosopher
Christophe Plantin
French humanist, publisher and printer (c.1520–1589)
Jacques Tardi
French comics author
Guibert of Nogent
Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographies (c. 1055–1124)
Maxime Rodinson
French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
Bernard of Chartres
medieval philosopher and theologian(?-after 1126)
Florent Schmitt
French composer (1870-1958)
Paul Hazard
French historian (1878-1944)
Patrick Chamoiseau
Martiniquais writer (born 1953)
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
French statesman (1721-1794)
Félix Fénéon
French anarchist and art critic (1861-1944)
Henri Wallon
French psychologist, philosopher, pedagogist, and politician (1879–1962)
Marcel Prévost
French writer (1862-1941)
William of Conches
12th-century French scholastic philosopher (1080-ca. 1154)
Étienne Dolet
French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
Dieudonné Mbala Mbala
French comedian, actor and political activist
William of Champeaux
French scholastic theologian and philosopher
Claude Favre de Vaugelas
Savoyard grammarian and man of letters (1585-1650)
Paul Ranson
French painter and writer (1861–1909)
Évariste de Parny
French poet (1753-1814)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
French writer, economist, and government official (1739–1817)
John Antoine Nau
US-born French writer and translator (1860-1918)
Bernard Stiegler
French philosopher (1952–2020)
Olivier de Serres
French soil scientist
Daniel Bensaïd
French philosopher (1946-2010)
Sylvain Chomet
French comic writer, animator, and film director (born 1963)
François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
Duke of France (1747–1827)
Antoine Coypel
French painter (1661-1722)
Petrus Comestor
French theologian (1100–1179)
Marcel Amont
French singer and actor (1929–2023)
Guy Bonnet
French singer and composer (1942–2024)
Robert de Clari
Historian of the Crusades
René Rémond
French historian and political economist (1918-2007)
Anatole Le Braz
Breton writer and scholar (1859–1926)
Charles Wagner
French writer (1852–1918)
Jean-François Raffaëlli
French painter (1850-1924)
Michel Maffesoli
French sociologist (1944-)
Jacques Martin
French comics author (1921-2010)
Serge Moscovici
Romenian social psychologist (1925-2014)
Charles Le Goffic
French poet, novelist and historian (1863-1932)