Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

male, deceased (1880)
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially...
Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille

male, deceased (1684)
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been c...
Samuel Bochart

Samuel Bochart

male, deceased (1667)
Samuel Bochart (Rouen, 30 May 1599 - Caen, 16 May 1667) a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet, was a French Protestant...
Jacques Basnages

Jacques Basnages

male, deceased (1723)
Jacques Basnages De Beauval (1653 - September 23, 1723) was a celebrated Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs. He wrote...

Théodore Géricault

male, deceased (1824)
Théodore Géricault was an important French painter and lithographer, known for "The Raft of the Medusa" and other paintings. He was one of the pi...
Maurice Leblanc

Maurice Leblanc

male, deceased (1941)
Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc (11 December, 1864 - 6 November, 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the c...
Thomas Corneille

Thomas Corneille

male, deceased (1709)
Thomas Corneille (August 20, 1625 - December 8, 1709) was a French dramatist. He was the brother of Pierre Corneille. Born in Rouen nearly twenty...
Jean Goujon

Jean Goujon

male
Jean Goujon, French sculptor and architect, is one of the major figures of the French Renaissance. His early life is little known; he may have...

Marcel Dupré

male, deceased (1971)
Marcel Dupré, was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
Armand Carrel

Armand Carrel

male, deceased (1836)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel (May 8, 1800 - July 25, 1836) was a French writer. He was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and...