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Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
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Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)

Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa is a French former politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012.
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
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Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
John Calvin
French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Alexis de Tocqueville
French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu
French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Enver Hoxha
former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. She redefined the mostly ceremonial role into a platform for arts and culture, by hosting multiple high-profile events at the White House and leading its restoration into a historical site. Through her fashion and cultural literacy, she improved the global standing of the United States during the politically volatile Cold War. Her personal style became known as the "Jackie Look", which inspired worldwide fashion trends during the 1960s.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
François Villon
French poet and criminal
Jean-Luc Godard
French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
Giorgos Seferis
Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
French diplomat (1754-1838)
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
Jacques-Louis David
French painter (1748–1825)
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank

Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Francis Xavier
Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
Jean Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)

Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
Norman Mailer
American writer (1923–2007)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
Alexander Alekhine
Russian-French chess player (1892–1946)

Jean Baudrillard
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist (1929–2007)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
French poet and critic (1636–1711)
Andreas Vesalius
Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1900-1958)
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
Habib Bourguiba
Tunisian politician (1903–2000)
Marguerite Duras
French writer and film director (1914-1996)
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
Bonaventure
Bonaventure ( ; ; ; born Giovanni di Fidanza; 1221 – 15 July 1274) was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland
Dominique de Villepin
French politician and diplomat; 95th Prime Minister of France
Pierre de Ronsard
French poet (1524-1585)
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
French general and politician (1757–1834)

Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
Jules Michelet
French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
Louis Néel
French physicist (1904-2000)
Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer, painter and physicist (1911-2011)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743-1794)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist (1933-)