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page 1People from Languedoc
François Guizot
French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874)

Antoine de Rivarol
French writer (1753-1801)
Jean Nicot
French diplomat and scholar (1530-1605)
Fabre d'Églantine
French actor (1750-1794)
Henri Pitot
French hydraulic engineer
Bernard de Montfaucon
French monk and scholar (1655–1741)
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
French soldier

Jean-Baptiste Denys
French physician
Jean Calas
French protestant martyr (1698–1762)
Jean Astruc
Professor of medicine:Montpellier/Paris/wrote the first great treatise on syphilis/venereal diseases (1684-1766)
Firmin Abauzit
French, and then Genevan, physician, theologian and philosopher (1679–1767)
Charles-Joseph Natoire
French painter (1700-1777)
Pierre-Paul Riquet
French engineer
Pierre Magnol
French botanist (1638-1715)
Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix
French astronomer (1718-1802)
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
General, military writer (1743-1790)
Jean-François Séguier
French astronomer and botanist (1703-1784)

Nicolas Froment
French painter (1430-1484)
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency
Heiress of one of France's leading ducal families, and Princess of Condé by her marriage to Henry II, Prince of Condé
Jacques Cujas
French jurist (1522–1590)
Pontus De la Gardie
French noble (1520-1585)
Jean Jacques Dortous de Mayran
French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist
François de Troy
French painter (1645-1730)
Antoine-François Andréossy
French general (1761–1828)
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
French botanist (1706-1767)
Pierre Borel
French scholar (1620-1671)
Antoine Court de Gébelin
French writer and scholar
Jean-Antoine Roucher
French poet (1745-1794)
André Dacier
French scholar (1651-1722)
Pierre-Joseph Cambon
French politician (1756-1820)
Pierre Subleyras
French painter (1699-1749)
François Maynard
French writer
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
French mathematician
Alexandre Soumet
French poet
Guillaume Bouzignac
French composer
Rigord
Rigord (Rigordus) ( 1150 – c. 1209) was a French chronicler. He was probably born near Alais in Languedoc, and became a physician.
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne
French pastor & politician (1743-1793)
François de Joyeuse
Duke of Joyeuse
Jean Guillaume Bruguière
French zoologist (1750-1798)
Paul Pellisson
French writer
Jean Galbert de Campistron
French writer
Jean Raoux
French painter (1677-1734)

Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
Marshal of France
Pèire Godolin
poet
Jean-François Roberval
French privateer and governor (c. 1500–1560)
Henri Gautier
French civil engineer (1660-1737)
Alexandre Guiraud
French poet, dramatic author and novelist
François Gigot de la Peyronie
French surgeon
Benjamin Valz
French astronomer
Jean Baudoin
French translator (1590-1650)
Étienne Moulinié
French composer
Pierre Crozat
French art collector (1661-1740)
Jean-Pierre Solié
French opera singer
François Andréossy
French engineer
Antoine Deparcieux
French mathematician
Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare
French physicist
Jean Cavalier
Camisard rebel leader, Governor of Jersey
Jean François Aimé Dejean
French general (1749-1824)

Samuel de Sorbiere
French philosopher (1615-1670)
Jean Barbeyrac
French jurist