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Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer (1633–1707)
Louis-Nicolas Davout
Marshal of France (1770–1823)
Theodore Beza
French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar (1519-1605)
Pierre Larousse
French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
Nicolas-Edme Rétif
French writer (1734–1806)
Maurice René Fréchet
French mathematician (1878–1973)
Chevalier d'Éon
French diplomat, spy and soldier. d’Éon lived openly as a trans woman while in exile in England. (1728–1810)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot
French architect (1713–1780)
Marcel Griaule
French anthropologist (1898-1956)
Alfred Espinas
French academic (1844–1922)
Maurice Barrier
French actor (1932–2020)
Pierre de Bérulle
French Catholic priest and cardinal
Jean-Marc Thibault
French actor and film director (1923–2017)
Marie Huot
French writer and activist (1848–1930)
Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy
French painter (1798-1869)
Alfred Grévin
French artist (1827-1892)
Bernard Menez
French actor and singer
Edmond Hébert
French geologist (1812–1890)
Gaston Ramon
French biologist (1886–1963)
Apollinaire Bouchardat
French pharmacist (1806-1886)
Baron du Potet
French mesmerist (1796–1881)
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
French politician
Émile Moreau
French playwright (1852-1922)
Auguste Chauveau
French physiologist and veterinarian (1827–1917)
Athanase Dupré
French mathematician and physicist (1808–1869)
Laurent Achard
French film director and screenwriter (1963–2024)
Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle
French politician and journalist (1799–1879)
Paul Cabet
French artist (1815–1876)
Marie-Louise Fort
French politician (1950–2022)
Didier Levallet
French musician
Emilienne Galicier
French politician
Rose de Freycinet
French explorer (1794–1832)
Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin
French politician (1847–1943)
Émile Louis
serial killer (1934-2013)
Eugène Protot
French activist (1839–1921)
Joseph Chailley-Bert
French politician (1854-1928)
Henri de Raincourt
French politician
Émile Peynot
French sculptor (1850–1932)
André Paulvé
French film producer (1898-1982)
Clément Georges Lemoine
French chemist (1841-1922)
Anne Plantagenet
Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux
French general and governor of Guadalope (1767–1849)
Philibert Joseph Roux
French surgeon (1780–1854)
Pierre Louki
French singer-songwriter (1920-2006)
Juliette Carré
French actress (1933–2023)
Jean-Bernard Rousseau
French teacher (1797–1867)
André Boulanger
French latinist and archaeologist (1886-1958)