Jacques Peletier du Mans

Jacques Peletier du Mans

male, deceased (1582)
Jacques Peletier du Mans was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. Born into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège d...

Jacques Lefèvre D'Étaples

male, deceased (1536)
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c.1450-1536) was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. Although he...
Petrus Ramus

Petrus Ramus

male, deceased (1572)
Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist, logician, and educational reformer, was born at the village of Cuts in Picardy, a member of a...
Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

male, deceased (1592)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (February 28 1533-September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance....

Eguinaire Baron

male
Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan was a French jurist. He is also variously referred to as Baro, "Eguinaire Baron", "Eguinarius Baro", "...

Guillaume Budé

male, deceased (1540)
Guillaume Budé (January 26 1467 – August 23, 1540) was a French scholar.
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

male, deceased (1637)
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (December 1, 1580 - June 24, 1637) was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant who maintained a wide...
Muretus

Muretus

male, deceased (1585)
Muretus is the Latinized name of Marc Antoine Muret (April 12, 1526 - Rome, June 4, 1585), a French humanist who was among the revivers of a...

François Baudouin

male
François Baudouin, also called Balduinus, was a French jurist, Christian controversialist and historian. Among the most colourful of the noted F...

Barnabé Brisson

male, deceased (1591)
Barnabé Brisson (latinised: Barnabas Brissonius) was a French jurist and politician.