- Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the current President of France and "ex officio" Co-prince of Andorra. He was elected President of the French Republic on 6 May, 2007 after defeating left wing Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. Before his presidency, he was leader of the UMP right wing party. - Claude Monet
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting "Impression, Sunrise". - Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 - March 2, 1991) was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released "Aux Armes et caetera" more than twenty years after his music career had begun. But since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established. - Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer, known nationalist, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten. In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration, Islam in France, miscegenation, … - George Sand
Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist. - Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg (born on) is an Anglo-French actress and singer. - Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is considered an iconic figure in many respects (fashion, music style, personality) in the Francophile world. - Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve, (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. - Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Charles Branson Cocker (born 19 September, 1963, in Sheffield, England) is an English musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (pronounced:), was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. - Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December, 1930) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the "Nouvelle Vague", or "French New Wave". Born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris, he was educated in Nyon, Switzerland, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied anthropology. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter and actor. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known French singers abroad. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed more than 1000 songs (including 150 in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and sold well over 100 million records. Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006. - Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is a film director, writer, actor and producer. After beginning his career in Poland, he became a celebrated arthouse filmmaker, and Hollywood director of such films as "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "Chinatown" (1974). He is also known for his tumultuous personal life. In 1969, his wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family. - Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard is a French actress, perhaps best known for portraying Edith Piaf in 2007's "La Môme". - Lionel Jospin
Lionel Jospin (born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France, during the third "cohabitation", under Jacques Chirac, from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was the French Socialist Party candidate for President of France in the elections of 1995 and 2002. He was narrowly defeated in the final runoff election by Jacques Chirac in 1995. - France Gall
France Gall is a popular French singer. Her father was lyricist Robert Gall, and her mother, Cécile Berthier, was the daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Gall was married to, and had a very successful singing career in partnership with, the well-known French singer-songwriter, Michel Berger. - Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally in Paris's "École des Beaux-Arts" system, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, … - Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom (or at least licentiousness), unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure being the highest principle. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life (a year in Paris, 10 years in the Bastille, … - Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green is a French actress who has starred in such films as "The Dreamers", "Kingdom of Heaven", and "Casino Royale". - Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (October 23, 1844 - March 26, 1923) was a stage actress born in Paris. Often referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world," she made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the United States. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah." - Luc Besson
Luc Besson (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. - Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau (born 23 january 1928 in Paris, France) is a French actress, and director. Moreau was born in Paris to an English (dancer) mother and a French barman. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1947, she made her theatre debut at the Avignon Festival. By her twenties, Moreau was already one of France's leading stage actresses at the Comédie-Française. After 1951 she began appearing in films with small or "bit" parts. - Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli was a French pioneer jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt. It was one of the first (and arguably the most famous) of all-string jazz bands. - Carine Roitfeld
Carine Roitfeld is the Editor-in-Chief of the French edition of Vogue, a position she has held since 2001. - Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (b. October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist of world renown and the winner of multiple Grammy Awards. - Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 - April 15, 1764) was a well known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France. - Olivier Martinez
Olivier Martinez (born January 12, 1966 in Paris, France) is a Spanish-French film actor. He became known after roles in several French films, and has also appeared in Hollywood-produced features, including "Unfaithful". - François Truffaut
François began to assiduously go to the movies at 7. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who becomes his protector. Bazin helped the delinquent Truffaut and also when he was put in jail because he deserted the army. In 1953, he published his first movie critiques in "Les Cahiers du Cinema." In this magazine, Truffaut and some of his friends as... - Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol (born June 24, 1930, Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film, "Le Beau Serge" (1958) for his chilling tales of murder, including "Le Boucher" (1970). He was a member of the French New Wave cinema group. Chabrol and Éric Rohmer wrote "Hitchcock" (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film "The Wrong Man" (1957). - Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin was a major French actor and war hero. - Jacques Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, composer, and actor. He is married to the singer Françoise Hardy, as of March 30 1981, with whom he had a son (Thomas Dutronc, born 1973). - André Malraux
André Malraux was a French author, adventurer and statesman, and a dominant figure in French politics and culture. - Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws in France and harsh penalties for those who broke them. - Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin was a French pedagogue and historian best known for founding the International Olympic Committee. - Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for his opera "Carmen". - Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and a Woman"), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic "Les Uns et les Autres" is widely considered as his masterpiece. - Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (born 20 August 1946) is a former Socialist Prime Minister of France. He led the government from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. He was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic. - Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French singer and songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and in 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday. Born in Paris to immigrant Polish Jewish parents, Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn. Goldman was the third of four children and first learned the violin, and then the piano as a child. In 1968, he abandoned his classical music studies for the guitar. - Jade Jagger
Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger and is the only child resulting from the marriage of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger. Jade is of English-Nicaraguan ancestry, and spent her early years living with her parents on London’s fashionable Cheyne Walk. After her parents’ divorce in 1980, Jagger spent most of her time living in Manhattan with her jet-set mother and was often dropped off at the Factory to be babysat by Bianca’s friend, pop artist Andy Warhol. - Félix Faure
Félix Faure was President of France from 1895 until his death.
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