Honoré de Balzac

male, deceased (1850)
Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850), born "Honoré Balzac", was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His work, much of...
Jean Fouquet

Jean Fouquet

male, deceased (1481)
Jean Fouquet or Jehan Fouquet (1420 - 1481) was the most important French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and...
Georges Courteline

Georges Courteline

male, deceased (1929)
Georges Courteline was a French dramatist and novelist. Born Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux, in Tours in the Indre-et-Loire département, his family m...
Emile Delahaye

Emile Delahaye

male, deceased (1905)
Emile Delahaye was a French automotive pioneer who founded Delahaye Automobiles. Emile Delahaye was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, in the Loire...
Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy

male, 86 years old
Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. His works have been of great importance in post-war French...
Abraham Bosse

Abraham Bosse

male, deceased (1676)
Abraham Bosse (c.1602-4 - February 14 1676) was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.

Louise de la Vallière

female, deceased (1710)
Louise Françoise de La Baume Le Blanc, duchesse de la Vallière was a French courtesan, the mistress to Louis XIV of France from 1661 to 1667.
Philippe Néricault Destouches

Philippe Néricault Destouches

male, deceased (1754)
Philippe Néricault Destouches was a French dramatist.

Gabriel Lamé

male, deceased (1870)
Gabriel Lamé was a French mathematician.
Bernard Silvestris

Bernard Silvestris

male, deceased (1178)
Bernard Silvestris, also known as Bernardus Silvestris, was a Medieval Platonist philosopher and poet of the 12th century.