Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 - 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899, and enlisted in the army to avoid being...
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, essayist, art historian, mystic and pacifist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Rolland was born in Clamecy,...
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful...
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist. Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry....
Paul Gustave Doré (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɡystav dɔʁe]; January 6, 1832 –; January 23, 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood...
Jean Arp / Hans Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966) was a German-French sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper. Arp was born in...
Johannes Schefferus was one of the most important Swedish humanists of his time. Schefferus was born in Strasbourg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He came from...
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – 10 May 1521) was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff. He was born in Strasbourg. He studied at Basel...
Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (born November 28, 1931) is a French-German illustrator best known for his erotic and political illustrations, as well as children's books. He is active in...
Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. She published her first novel, L'opoponax,...
Antoine de Saint Exupéry was a French writer and aviator. He is most famous for his novella The Little Prince, and is also well known...
Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (Lyon, October 3, 1804 – Paris, March 31, 1869). He is known today as the systematizer of...
Daniel Boulud (born March 25, 1955 in Saint-Pierre de Chandieu, France) is a famous French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Palm Beach, Miami, Vancouver...
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 in Lyon – 16 June 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social...
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. Widor was born in Lyon, France to a family of organ builders, and initially...
Azouz Begag, (Arabic: عزوز بقاق ) (born 5 February 1957 in Lyon, Rhône, France) from an Algerian background is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the...
Edmond Audran (11 April 1842 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880...
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented...
Louise Labé, (c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – April 25, 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière, (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon...
Henri Charrière was a convicted felon chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in a penal colony on French Guiana. Charrière was born in...
Jacques Roubaud (born 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, Rhône) is a French poet and mathematician. He is a retired Mathematics professor from University of Paris X, a retired Poetry professor from...
Pierre Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ buˈlɛz]) (born March 26, 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music and a conductor. Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France...
Raymond Depardon (b. 6 July 1942, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. In 1966, Depardon co-founded the photojournalism agency...
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and...
Marcel Achard (b. 5 July 1899, in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône; d. 4 September 1974, Paris) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position...