French materialists

French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

French physician and philosopher

17th–18th century French priest and atheist (1664–1729)

French philosopher

French physiologist and materialist philosopher (1757-1808)

French philosopher

French anthropologist (1854–1936)

French philosopher and artist (1738-1810)

French biologist (1869-1917)

French naturalist, mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist (1743-1817)

chemist

thumb|right|Frontispiece of Destutt de Tracy's ''Éléments d'idéologie, Parts IV and V: Traité de la volonté et de ses effets'', 1815 The idéologues were a group of French philosophers, physicians and economists, active from the mid-1790s until the end of the Napoleonic era. With the philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy and the physician Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis as their leading theorists, the group aimed to develop a systematic "science of ideas" () grounded in eighteenth-century sensualist epistemology and focused on moral, political and educational reform. Although they were never a forma