French social philosophers

French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)

French philosopher

French philosopher and sociologist

French philosopher (1754-1836)

French art historian (1906-1997)

French philosopher

French philosopher (1815–1880)

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