WClaude-François Achard (1751-1809) was a French physician and author. He was the founder of the first public library in Marseille. He was the author of several books, including the first French-Provençal dictionary.
WMargot Anand is a French author, teacher, seminar leader and public speaker. She has written numerous books including The Art of Sexual Ecstasy; The Art of Everyday Ecstasy; and The Art of Sexual Magic. Her mother was Protestant, and her father was Russian Orthodox and she was raised in Orthodox religion.
WBernard Attali is a French business executive, political advisor and one-time novelist. He served as the chief executive officer of Air France from 1988 to 1993. He is a senior advisor to TPG Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
WAurélien Bellanger, born 20 April 1980 in Laval, Mayenne, is a French writer and actor. He debuted in 2010 with a monograph about Michel Houellebecq and has since published four novels. His second novel, L'Aménagement du territoire, received the 2014 Prix de Flore. Due to his occupation with technology and modern life, his novels have been compared to the works of Houellebecq and Honoré de Balzac. In La Croix, Sabine Audrerie notes "S'il fallait chercher un lien, on pourrait retenir la volonté de s'inscrire dans l'héritage balzacien." Less elogious, Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express described him as "a Houellebecq without humour, without sex, without aphorism, without melancholy".
WPatrick Bokanowski is a French filmmaker who makes experimental and animated films.
WStéphane Bourgoin is a French true crime writer. He presented himself as an expert on serial killers for many years, until 2020 when he admitted that he had lied about many of his claimed experiences. Bourgoin had written 75 books and produced dozens of documentaries, with his books selling thousands of copies in France. He was regarded as France's best known serial killer expert. He occasionally lectured police on the subject, and critiqued media depictions of serial killers.
WLazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot was a French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.
WMichèle Causse was a French lesbian, translator and author.
WCharles Ceccaldi-Raynaud was a French lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1993 to 1995, and the Senate from 1995 to 2004, representing Hauts-de-Seine. He was the author of a book about the Algerian War.
WJoseph-Dominique-Aldebert de Pineton, comte de Chambrun or Aldebert de Chambrun (1821-1899) was a French politician and businessman.
WAldebert de Chambrun (1872-1962) was a French general.
WJean-Marc Coicaud is a French and American legal and political theorist focusing on global issues, among numerous other topics. He is Professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea . Over the years, he has lived and worked in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. His professional trajectory has combined serving as a policy practitioner at the national, regional, and global levels, and as a scholar and professor in academia.
WPatrice Coirault was a French ethnomusicologist.
WFrancisque de Corcelle (1802-1892) was a French politician.
WJules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.
WMathieu de Dombasle (1777-1843) was a French agronomist. He was one of the first French farmers to grow beetroots to producer sugar, until he went bankrupt. He invented the Dombasle plough, and he established a model farm in Roville-devant-Bayon. He was the author of many books about agriculture.
WDiane Ducret is a Franco-Belgian writer. She has published both non-fiction historical books and novels. Much of her writing concerns the historical experiences of women, including studies of women who were closely associated with notorious dictators or gangsters. She has also written comedic fiction, and worked as a writer and host for historical television series.
WHenry or Henri Duhamel was a French mountaineer, author and skiing pioneer. He introduced the practice of skiing to his circle of friends at Grenoble, leading to the creation of the first ski club in France.
WJean Dupuis was a French trader and explorer. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as Đồ Phổ Nghĩa.
WJeanne 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.
WJean Fourton is a writer, humanist, painter and psychoanalyst.
WAdrien Étienne Pierre, comte de Gasparin was a French statesman and agriculturist.
WAgénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping.
WFrédéric Godart is a French sociologist and researcher who is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France). His work is on the dynamics of creative industries, and fashion and luxury. Godart's 2012 book is called Unveiling Fashion: Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry.
WPierre Guénin was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s, and the founder of the LGBT film awards in France. He was the founder of the eponymous Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists.
WColette Guillaumin, was a sociologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a French feminist.
WClaude Hagège is a French linguist.
WJean Le Bitoux was a French journalist and gay activist. He was the founder of Gai pied, the first mainstream gay magazine in France. He was a campaigner for Holocaust remembrance of homosexual victims. He was the author of several books about homosexuality.
WArnaud Leclercq is a Swiss / French author and banker. Since 2007 he is a Partner at Lombard Odier Group and holds the position of Head of New Markets. Recognized in the finance industry as an expert in private wealth management within emerging markets he currently focuses on the Middle East, Eurasia, and Turkey, volatile regions where he often meets decision makers from business communities. He is often sought after to attend international conferences, be interviewed and give lectures. His work consistently aims at building humble personal ties and subsequently direct peaceful economical bridges. These experiences on the ground are an essential base to understand his side activity to banking as a geopolitician willing to transmit a better understanding to both sides.
WNathalie Loiseau is a French politician, diplomat and academic administrator currently serving as a Member of European Parliament since 2019. She previously served as director of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) from 2012 to 2017 and as the French Minister for European Affairs from 21 June 2017 to 27 March 2019. She was the top candidate of the La République En Marche electoral list in the 2019 European elections.
WHenri Malosse is a French Politician and representative of the business world. he has been the 30th President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).
WDominique-Octave Mannoni was a French psychoanalyst and author.
WJean Firmin Marbeau was a French philanthropist who pioneered the crèche movement, a forerunner of modern day care.
WÉtienne Philippe Martin was a French painter, composer and writer.
WRobert René Meyer-Sée was a French art dealer and critic who was instrumental in organising the exhibition of Futurist painting at The Sackville Gallery in London in 1912. He ran the Marlborough Gallery where he organised an exhibition by the Italian Futurist Gino Severini, and was involved in a court case with an implication of fraud. Later, he moved to the United States.
WPhilippe Monneret is a French linguist. He is Professor of Linguistics at University of Burgundy since 2004 and at Paris-Sorbonne University since 2015. In 2003, he founded Les Cahiers de Linguistique Analogique and created the field of analogical linguistics. He is a member of the editorial board of «Romanica Olomucensia».
WAndré Morizet was a French politician. He served as a member of the French Senate from 1927 to 1942, representing Seine.
WS. E. Luc de La Barre de Nanteuil is a French career diplomat, who rose to become an Ambassador of France.
WAlbert Ouzoulias was a Communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45) using the name of "Colonel André". He played a major role in the 1944 liberation of Paris.
WOlivier Pastré is a French banker and economist. He serves as Chairman of IM Bank and as a Professor of Economics at Paris 8 University.
WMarcel Peyrouton was a French diplomat and politician. He served as the French Minister of the Interior from 1940 to 1941, during Vichy France. He served as the French Ambassador to Argentina from 1936 to 1940, and from 1941 to 1942. He served as the Governor-General of French Algeria in 1943. He was acquitted in 1948.
WCount Géraud Michel de Pierredon served as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to France from 1982.
WAnton Joseph Reicha (Rejcha) was a Czech-born, Bavarian-educated, later naturalized French composer and music theorist. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, he is now best remembered for his substantial early contributions to the wind quintet literature and his role as teacher of pupils including Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz and César Franck. He was also an accomplished theorist, and wrote several treatises on various aspects of composition. Some of his theoretical work dealt with experimental methods of composition, which he applied in a variety of works such as fugues and études for piano and string quartet.
WCharles d'Orléans de Rothelin was a French churchman, writer, scholar, numismatist and theologian.
WJean-Pierre Rousselot was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist.
WAuguste-Félix-Charles de Beaupoil, comte de Saint-Aulaire was a French aristocrat, diplomat, author and historian.
WJean-Yves Tadié is a French writer, biographer, and academic, noted particularly for his work on Marcel Proust.
WSavielly Tartakower was a Polish and French chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. Tartakower was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s.
WCharles Tellier was a French engineer, born in Amiens. He early made a study of motors and compressed air. In 1868, he began experiments in refrigeration, which resulted ultimately in the refrigerating plant, as used on ocean vessels, to preserve meats and other perishable food. In 1911, Tellier was awarded the Joest prize by the French Institute and, in 1912, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He wrote Histoire d'une invention moderne, le frigorifique (1910). Tellier died impoverished in Paris. Dimethyl ether was the first refrigerant, in 1876, Charles Tellier bought the ex-Elder-Dempster a 690 tons cargo ship Eboe and fitted a Methyl-ether refrigerating plant of his design. The ship was renamed Le Frigorifique and successfully imported a cargo of refrigerated meat from Argentina. However the machinery could be improved and in 1877 another refrigerated ship called Paraguay with a refrigerating plant improved by Ferdinand Carré was put into service on the South American run.
WNicolas Tenzer is a French civil servant, academic, writer, and editor. He is currently the editor of the journal Le Banquet and is the founding president of the Centre d’étude et de réflexion pour l’action politique (CERAP), a position he has held since 1986. He was a director of the Aspen Institute from 2010 to 2015 and has acted as its treasurer and president.
WSophie Thalmann is a French former beauty queen, model and television presenter. She was titled Miss Lorraine in 1997 and Miss France in 1998. She is the 68th Miss France.
WOctave Uzanne was a 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist.
WJean-Pierre Verdet is a French astronomer, historian of astronomy and mathematician.
WViolette Verdy was a French ballerina, choreographer, teacher, and writer who worked as a dance company director with the Paris Opera Ballet in France and the Boston Ballet in the United States. From 1958 to 1977 she was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet where she performed in the world premieres of several works created specifically for her by choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was Distinguished Professor of Music (Ballet) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, in Bloomington, and the recipient of two medals from the French government.
WSuzanne Monnier Voilquin was a French feminist, journalist, midwife, traveler and author, best known as editor of Tribune des femmes, the first working-class feminist periodical, and her memoirs, Souvenirs d’une fille du peuple: ou, La saint-simonienne en Égypt.