Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

male, deceased (1662)
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

male, deceased (1922)
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927.
Fernandel

Fernandel

male, deceased (1971)
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. He was born in Marseille, France. He was a comedy star wh...
Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux

male, deceased (1944)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the...
Stendhal

Stendhal

male, deceased (1842)
Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute...
Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand

male, deceased (1918)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play "Cyrano d...
Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre de Marivaux

male, deceased (1763)
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. The film received modestly favorable reviews, but was not a box office success. A 1997 musical stage...
Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet

male, deceased (1897)
Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.
Paul Morand

Paul Morand

male, deceased (1976)
Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (there wa...
Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel

male, deceased (1923)
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the...