22 French book and manuscript collectors

Paul Arbaud (1832-1911) was a French book collector and philanthropist.

Marc Antoine René de Voyer, Marquis de Paulmy and 3rd Marquis d'Argenson (1757), was a French ambassador to Switzerland, Poland, Venice and to the Holy See, and later became the Minister of War. He was also a noted bibliophile and collector of art.

Pierre Henri Édouard Bocher was a French politician.

Jean-Baptiste Boisot was a French abbot, bibliophile, and scholar notable for leaving his collection of manuscripts to the Benedictine monks of Saint-Vincent. He is also known for leaving his library to his birthplace of Besançon and for his correspondence with Madeleine de Scudéry.

Jean Bouhier was a French magistrate, jurisconsultus, historian, translator, bibliophile and scholar. He served as the first président à mortier to the parlement de Bourgogne from 1704 to 1728, when he resigned to devote himself to his historic and literary work following his 1727 election to the Académie française.

Eliakim Carmoly was a French scholar. He was born at Soultz-Haut-Rhin, then in the French department of Haut-Rhin. His real name was Goschel David Behr ; the name Carmoly, borne by his family in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was adopted by him when quite young. He studied Hebrew and Talmud at Colmar; and, because both French and German were spoken in his native town, he became proficient in those languages.

Jules Charles-Roux was a French businessman and politician. He served as the vice president of the Suez Canal Company. He served as a corporate director of shipping companies in the Antilles, West Africa and French Indochina. He was a supporter of the French colonial empire.

Clementia of Hungary was queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Louis X.

Daniel Filipacchi is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art.

Jeanne de Flandreysy, born Jeanne Mellier was a French author and literary critic. She was the author of many books about Provence, and she promoted Franco-Italian cultural exchanges.

Claude Gouffier was a French nobleman and book collector. He was the model for the "Marquis de Carabas" from the story Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault.

Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. He used the title Duke of Aumale. He retired from public life in 1883.

Henry II was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis III, Duke of Brittany, in 1536.

John of Orléans, Count of Angoulême and of Périgord, was a younger son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, and Valentina Visconti, and a grandson of Charles V of France. He was the younger brother of the noted poet, Charles, Duke of Orléans, and grandfather of Francis I of France.

Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, duc de Vaujours, duc de La Vallière, was a French nobleman, bibliophile and military man. The present duc d'Uzès and duc de Luynes descend from him.

Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verrue was a French noblewoman and the mistress of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia.

Louis Médard was a French indiennes merchant and rare books bibliophile.

Paul Pétau (1568-1614) was a French publisher and book collector. He was conseiller of the Parlement de Paris from 1588 to 1614.

Jean-Baptiste Marie de Piquet, Marquess of Méjanes (1729-1786) was a French aristocrat, public servant and book collector.

Charles d'Orléans de Rothelin was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian.

Joseph Justus Scaliger was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands.

Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.