French chef and restaurateur, renowned for Les Crayeres, his chateau restaurant in Reims, which boasted three Michelin stars.
French rower who won a Silver medal in the women’s lightweight double sculls event at the 2020 Summer Olympics on 29 July 2021 at the…
French farmer, politician, and syndicalist. Link to Wikipedia biography
French graphic designer, illustrator and poster designer, who began his career as a layout artist for various Parisian advertising agencies. During his career at the…
French entomologist, carcinologist, and professor at the Mus‚um national d’histoire naturelle, known for his 1918 book Vie psychique des insectes (The Psychic Life of Insects,…
French racehorse trainer.
French Thoroughbred horse trainer. He began riding horses at a young age and competed in show jumping and cross-country equestrianism. He began his professional racing…
French pharmacist, chemist, and the author of numerous studies in the 19th century on the quality of water from sources or rivers used for human…
French government employee; appointed General Secretary of the Vichy police by Prime Minister Pierre Laval during WW II, 1942, a post he held until the…
French documentary filmmaker, producer and director. He is the son of the philosopher and economist Pierre Boutang’s half-brother Yann Moulier Boutang. He died on 20…
French chemist and professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris, who became the Chief Pharmacist at the La‰nnec Hospital in 1887, where he established…
French swimming champion and a record holder for speed in the freestyle. On April 26, 2009 in the French championships, he set the record for…
French poet and paraplegic who suffered major spinal cord trauma during the war on 27 May 1918. He lived paralyzed for 32 years. Bousquet died…
French footballer (soccer player). He currently plays for FC Lorient in Ligue 1, the top division in French soccer. Link to Wikipedia biography
French cartoonist and comic book writer. He died in Paris on 12 June 1997. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French doctor and ecologist, a humanist and an inquisitive spirit, who simultaneously pursued two careers, as a gerontologist and an ecologist. He died on 10…
French neurologist, he worked as interne at the Salp‚triŠre and then as pediatric at Bicˆtre. Link to Wikipedia biography
French businessman, sports leader and politician. He was the president of AJ Auxerre from 24 May 2011 to 19 April 2013. Link to Wikipedia biography…
French criminal profiler and writer. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French sculptor of statues, who died on 30 October 1924 in Paris. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his work in France. Link to Wikipedia biography
French politician and statesman, an ardent promoter of the League of Nations, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1920. Trained in law,…
French journalist, essayist, editor and radio/television executive. In 1982 he became President of Radio France International and held several subsequent high-level jobs in the media.…
French radical socialist politician, Prime Minister of France in 1957. He was active with the French Resistance movement, 1941-44. He died in Paris on 10…
French politician, a member of the Academy of Medicine, who became Director of the Central Pharmacy of Hospitals in 1885. He had dealt only with…
French con artist and serial impostor, nicknamed “The Chameleon.” Even in his 30s, he usually impersonated children taking on more than 20 identities in over…
French physician specializing in neurophysiology and in the treatment of pain. He died on 23 June 2005 near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Link to Wikipedia biography…
French track cyclist, who won a bronze medal in the men’s team sprint race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Laurent Gan‚…
French princess of the Blood and member of the courts of Louis XIV and his successor Louis XV of France. She never married, but she…
French race car driver, one of the most successful drivers in the history of the Champ Car World Series, having won four successive championships from…
French jazz and improvisational musician (saxophone, flute, clarinet, piano, Bolemar, synthesizers) and composer. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
French actor Link to Wikipedia biography
French author, a specialist on Korea.
French businessman, father of Laeticia Halliday, former rugby player living in the USA, called ‘the French Paul Newman”. In 1993, he created the Amnesia nightclub…
French lyric soprano who sang opera and operetta. She had a debut in Toulouse in 1935 and performed for many years, singing in operetta in…
French official, the Inspector General of Cultural Affairs. He also served as director of music, dance, theater and performing at the Ministry of Culture and…
French naval officer, an admiral who died on 9 September 1871. Link to Wikipedia biography
French actor and playwright. He died in Paris on 27 October 1888. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French “m‚decine dosim‚trique” (a doctor using plant alkaloids in treatment). A follower of the strict moral hygienism popular in the nineteenth century, he wrote numerous…
French fencer who won gold at both the 1932 Los Angeles Games and 1948 London Games, and a silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,…
French comic book artist, most famous for his surreal comics revolving around the main character J‚r“me Moucherot. Link to Wikipedia biography
French horse racing jockey.
French pharmacist and mycologist, who co-founded the Mycological Society of France, over which he presided from 1887 to 1890, before being elected honorary president in…
French artist, a marine painter and follower of Corot and master of Monet. He was called “the master of the sea” by Corot for his…
French engineer and astrologer, a disciple of Choisnard, and chief editor of “Astrologie” magazine (founded in 1934), vice-president of the “Soci‚t‚ Astrologique de France,” 1934-1937,…
French clergyman, who served as Bishop of Mende from 1957 to 1983 and as bishop emeritus from 1983 to 1994. He died on 26 May…
French actor, a member of the Com‚die-Fran‡aise (1866-1901), who died on 26 November 1924 in Paris. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
French sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics as a crew member of the French boat l’Aile VI which won the gold medal in…
“`html Louis-Alexandre Bouché: A Portrait of Art and Design Louis-Alexandre Bouché, born on October 1, 1838, in Luzancy, France, was a renowned French landscape painter…
Astrology researcher with a focus on ancient religious history and the history of Hellenism. Auguste Bouch‚-Leclercq was the son of farmers Louis-Thomas Bouch‚ and Marie-Jos‚phine…