
Antoine Alexandre Barbier was a French librarian and bibliographer.
Pierre Bersuire, also known as Pierre Bercheure and Pierre Berchoire, was a French author of the Middle Ages. A Benedictine, he was a translator, encyclopaedist, and the author of several works, including the Ovidius Moralizatus (1340), a work of mythography. The Gesta Romanorum, a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, is sometimes attributed to him.

Pierre Athanase Larousse was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.

Louis Moréri was a French priest and encyclopedist.

Jules Trousset was a 19th-century French encyclopedist, historian and geographer.

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur Robert, and his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (c.1723–1786), were leading cartographers in France during the 18th century.

Julien-Joseph Virey was a French naturalist and anthropologist.