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(Topics List)Adolphe d'Archiac - Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac was a French geologist and paleontologist.
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.
Alain Escoffier - Alain Escoffier was a French anti-communist activist and martyr.
Alexander Berkman - Alexander Berkman was an anarchist known for his political activism and writing.
Alphonse Pénaud - Alphonse Pénaud, was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation, inventor of the rubber powered model airplane Planophore and founder of the aviation industry.
André Frédérique - André Frédérique was a French poet.
André Gorz - André Gorz, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher.
Antoine-Jean Gros - Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was both a French History and neoclassical painter.
Antonieta Rivas Mercado - María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos was a Mexican intellectual, writer, feminist and arts patron.
Berty Albrecht - Berty Albrecht was a French Resistance Fighter, born Berthe Wild at Marseille, 15 February 1893.
Betty Mars - Betty Mars was a French singer and actress, best known for her participation in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest.
Boris Fraenkel - Boris Fraenkel was a Communist politician active in French and international politics.
Charles de Choiseul-Praslin - Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, duc de Choiseul-Praslin was a French nobleman and politician, who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1838–1842.
Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni - Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni was a French-Italian nobelaman born in Ancona, the son of Filippo Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni, an Italian count, and Princess Elis...
Charles Joseph, comte Bresson - Charles-Joseph, comte Bresson was a French diplomat.
Christian Ferras - Christian Ferras was a French violinist.
Christophe Dupouey - Christophe Dupouey was a French mountain biker.
Claude Chappe - Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France.
Danielle Collobert - Danielle Collobert was a French author, poet and journalist, born in Rostrenen, Côtes-d'Armor on 23 July 1940.
Ernst Weiss - Dr Ernst Weiss was a German-speaking Austrian author of Jewish descent.
François Buzot - François Nicolas Léonard Buzot was a French politician and leader of the French Revolution.
François Vatel - François Vatel was a "Maître d'hôtel", famous for "inventing" Chantilly cream, a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV...
Gherasim Luca - Gherasim Luca was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet.
Hector MacDonald - Major-General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, also known as Fighting Mac, was a distinguished Victorian soldier.
Hubert-Joseph Henry - Hubert-Joseph Henry, French Lieutenant-Colonel in 1897 involved in the Dreyfus affair.
Jacqueline Roque - Jacqueline Roque was the second wife of Pablo Picasso and his frequent model.
Jean Eustache - Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker.
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz - Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz was a Czech composer and harpist.
Josef Cukierman - Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master.
L'Inconnue de la Seine - L'Inconnue de la Seine was an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' homes after 1900.
Mário de Sá-Carneiro - Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese poet and writer.
Nanterre massacre - The Nanterre massacre refers to an act of mass murder that occurred on March 27, 2002, in Nanterre, France.
Nicolas de Staël - Nicolas de Staël was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting.
Nikolay Chkheidze - Nikoloz Chkheidze was a Georgian Menshevik politician who helped to introduce Marxism to Georgia in the 1890s and played a prominent role in the Russian and Georgian revolutions of 1917 and 1918.
Octave Tassaert - Octave Tassaert was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical paintings, as well as a lithographer and engraver, though this family was of Flemish origin.
Otto von Stülpnagel - Otto von Stülpnagel was the German military commander of France during the Second World War.
Paul Lafargue - Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura.
Philippe Volter - Philippe Volter, child of director Claude Volter and actress Jacqueline Bir, was a Belgian actor.
Pierre Chanal - Pierre Chanal was a French soldier and suspected serial killer.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays, who lived and died in Paris.
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve - Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve was a French naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
Rembrandt Bugatti - Rembrandt Bugatti was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects.
René Crevel - René Crevel was a French writer involved with the surrealist movement.
Richard Durn - The Nanterre massacre refers to an act of mass murder that occurred on March 27, 2002, in Nanterre, France.
Rémy Belvaux - Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim - Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim was a French soldier and author.
Sarah Kofman - Sarah Kofman was a French philosopher.
Simone Mareuil - Simone Mareuil was a French actress.
Unica Zürn - Unica Zürn was a German author and painter.
Zo d'Axa - Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse, better known as Zo d'Axa, was an adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors'...
Étienne Clavière - Étienne Clavière was a Swiss-born French financier and politician of the French Revolution.
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