Famous French People

Voltaire -- author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- philosopher and writer

[Victor Hugo]? -- author and artist

[Charles Baudelaire]? -- author and poet

Jules Verne -- author

[Edmond Rostand]? -- author

Fermat? -- scientist

Blaise Pascal -- scientist and author

[René Descartes]? -- scientist and philosopher

Andre Marie Ampère -- scientist

[Henri Poincaré]? -- scientist

Jeanne d'Arc -- warrior

[Louis XIV]? -- statesman

Napoléon Bonaparte -- Emperor

[Napoleon III]? -- Emperor

Louis Pasteur -- scientist

[Charles de Gaulle]? -- general and statesman

François Truffaut --director

Viollet le Duc -- architect

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- author

[Christine de Pizan]? -- historian, pop philosopher

[Marie de France]? -- poet

Marquis de Sade -- author

Claude Monet -- painter

Antoine Lavoisier -- scientist

Claude Debussy -- composer

John Calvin -- religious reformer, theologian

Gustave Eiffel -- engineer

Claude Levi-Strauss -- anthropologist

Ninon de l'Enclos -- author and patron of the arts

Not as Famous as They Deserve:

Paul Héroult -- inventor

Erik Satie -- composer

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