- female, deceased (1204)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess of Poitou (1122 – April 1 1204) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful wo...
- male, deceased (741)
- Charles Martel (or, in modern English, Charles "the Hammer") (23 August 686 - 22 October 741) was proclaimed Mayor of the Palace, ruling the Franks...
- female, deceased (1764)
- Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 - April 15, 1764) was a well known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France.
- male, deceased (1814)
- Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a p...
- male, deceased (1859)
- Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his "Democracy in America" (appearing in t...
- female, deceased (1566)
- Diane de Poitiers (September 3, 1499 - April 25, 1566) was a noblewoman and a fixture at the courts of Francis I and Henri II of France. She became...
- female, deceased (1876)
- Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and...
- 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....
- female, deceased (1793)
- Charlotte Corday, more fully Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, was the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
- male, deceased (1572)
- Gaspard de Coligny, "Seigneur" (Lord) "de Châtillon" held the office of Admiral of France and is best remembered as a Huguenot leader.
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