WGabriel Louis Angoulvant was a colonial administrator in the second French colonial empire.
WLouis Archinard was a French Army general at the time of the Third Republic, who contributed to the colonial conquest of French West Africa. He was traditionally presented in French histories as the conqueror and "Pacifier" of French Soudan. Archinard's campaigns brought about the end of the Tukulor Empire. He also spent a large amount of energy fighting Samory Toure.
WPaul-Jean-Louis Azan was a French general and author. He is remembered for his missions to the United States during World War I and his French historical and military writings which examined and celebrated French Colonial rule in North Africa.
WPrincess Marie-Félix Bonaparte was a French heiress. Born into a wealthy French bourgeoisie family with financial holdings in Monaco and Germany, she was left with a large inheritance after her father's death. Despite her mother's objections, in 1880, she married Prince Roland Bonaparte, a member of a morganatic branch of the House of Bonaparte. She died from an embolism a month after giving birth to her only child, Princess Marie Bonaparte.
WJean-Jules Clamageran was a French politician of the French Third Republic. He was briefly minister of finance in the ministry of Henri Brisson. He was made a life senator in the Senate of France in 1882.
WLucien Dautresme was a French politician of the French Third Republic. He was minister of commerce in the government of Henri Brisson and minister of commerce and industry in the government of Maurice Rouvier and Pierre Tirard. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of France from 1876 to 1891 and the Senate of France from 1891 until his death.
WCharles Demôle was a French politician of the French Third Republic. He was minister of public works in the government of Henri Brisson. He was minister of justice in the government of Charles de Freycinet. He was a member of the Senate of France from January 5, 1879 until his death. He served twice as vice-president of the French Senate.
WAlfred Charles Edwards was a journalist and magnate of the French press.
WMarthe de Florian was a French demimondaine and socialite during the Belle Époque. She was known for having famous lovers including Georges Clemenceau, Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Paul Deschanel, Gaston Doumergue, Robert de Montesquiou, and Giovanni Boldini. Initially forgotten from history, her story resurfaced in 2010 after her belongings were discovered in her Parisian apartment, located at 2 square La Bruyère in the 9th arrondissement, untouched for decades. The discovery of her apartment was the inspiration behind Michelle Gable's novel A Paris Apartment.
WJoseph Simon Gallieni was a French soldier, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies. Gallieni is infamous in Madagascar as the French military leader who exiled Queen Ranavalona III and abolished the 350-year-old monarchy on the island.
WLéopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo was a Belgian-born French heiress and socialite during La Belle Époque. She was a granddaughter of French novelist, poet, and politician Victor Hugo. As an adult, Hugo was often written about in the press due to her status in Parisian high society and her connections to other members of the French elite.
WJean de Laborde was a French admiral who had a long career starting at the end of the 19th century and extending to World War II after which he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. A pioneer of naval aviation in France, he captained the first French aircraft carrier, earned many awards, and held many top posts. He is most well known for his final military act, the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon, after he refused to order his fleet to join the Allies during the German occupation of Vichy France in World War II, which left his prestige in ruins and led to his arrest and conviction for treason.
WLéo Lagrange was a French Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisure during the Popular Front (1936-1938). A member of the Éclaireurs de France scouting association during his youth, he joined the French Section of the Workers' International after the split at the Tours party congress in 1920 and wrote articles in Populaire (Popular), the press organ of the SFIO. Elected official appointed in 1932 at the time of the second Coalition of the left, he was then named under-secretary of State in the Popular Front government of Léon Blum. He participated in the organisation of the People's Olympiad in Barcelona, organized to counter the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin which were used as a propaganda instrument of Nazism.
WPierre Legrand was a 19th-century French politician of the French Third Republic. He served twice as minister of commerce in the government of Charles Duclerc, Armand Fallières and Henri Brisson and as minister of commerce and industry in the government of Charles Floquet.
WLéontine Lippmann (1844–1910), better known by her married name of Madame Arman or Madame Arman de Caillavet was the muse of Anatole France and the hostess of a highly fashionable literary salon during the French Third Republic. She is the model of Madame Verdurin in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.
WLucie Dreyfus-Hadamard, was the wife of Alfred Dreyfus, and his main and unwavering support during the Affair that shook the couple from 1894 to 1906. She never ceased to defend the honor of her husband.
WLouis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in 1917 he served briefly as Minister of War. From 1921 he was a Marshal of France. He was dubbed the French empire builder, and in 1931 made the cover of Time.
WAlfred Albert Martineau was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire.
WPauline Ménard-Dorian was a French woman of letters and a literary salon hostess of La Belle Époque.
WBenjamin Raspail, was a painter-engraver and politician of the French Third Republic. He was the son of François-Vincent Raspail. Like his father, he was classed extreme-left and was also exiled to Belgium.
WÉtienne Richaud, born on January 11, 1841 in Martigues and died on May 31, 1889 in the Bay of Bengal, was the Principal private secretary of the Minister of Commerce Maurice Rouvier, Governor of La Réunion, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic.
WFrançois Pierre Rodier was Governor General for various colonies in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic. He was born in Vieille-Brioude of Haute Loire département, France.
WPrincess Éléonore-Justine Bonaparte was the wife of Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte. Under the pseudonym Nina Bonaparte she published a memoir titled History of My Life. As she was from a peasant background, her morganatic marriage to Prince Pierre-Napoléon, although recognized by the Catholic Church, was not accepted by Napoleon III and the House of Bonaparte and did not receive civil legitimacy until the fall of the Second French Empire.
WMarguerite Jeanne "Meg" Japy Steinheil, Baroness Abinger was a French woman famous for her many love affairs with important men. She became notorious when it became known that she was present at the death of President Félix Faure, who allegedly had a seizure while having sex with her. She was later charged with the murder of her husband and mother.
WCharles Guillaume Frédéric Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince of Sagan, duke of Sagan and duke of Talleyrand was a famous French dandy, and the grandson of Dorothea von Biron.
WMarie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, 5th Duke of Talleyrand and Dino, Prince, then Duke of Sagan, was a French socialite and son of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord.
WLouis Charles Tillaye was a French politician of the Third French Republic. He was Minister of Public works in the government of Henri Brisson.