François Mauriac

male, deceased (1970)
Légion d'honneur recipient, nobel prize in literature, writer, Member of the Académie française, from Aquitaine, novelist…Frombordeaux, born in Bordeaux, France
François Mauriac was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers o...
Philippe Sollers

Philippe Sollers

male, 73 years old
Roman Catholic, Tel Quel, from Aquitaine, A strange solitude, La Guerre du goût, Watteau in Venice…Frombordeaux, bordeaux
Philippe Sollers (born Philippe Joyaux 28 November 1936, Bordeaux, France) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the "avant garde"...
Albert Sarraut

Albert Sarraut

male, deceased (1962)
Prime Minister of France, prime minister, French, diplomat, french indochina, bordeaux…Frombordeaux, from Aquitaine
Albert-Pierre Sarraut (July 28, 1872 - November 26, 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic. Sarraut...
Joseph Black

Joseph Black

male, deceased (1799)
Glasgow universities, thermochemistry, Academic of the University of Glasgow, Frombordeaux, university of edinburgh, thermodynamics…From GLASGOW
Joseph Black (April 16,1728 - december 6,1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries on latent heat, specific heat, and...
Jean Baptiste Gay, Vicomte de Martignac

Jean Baptiste Gay, Vicomte de Martignac

male, deceased (1832)
Viscounts of Martignac, Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, right-wing politics, French nobility, Censorship, bordeaux…Frombordeaux
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, vicomte de Martignac was a moderate royalist French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration 1814-30 under King Charles X...
Olinde Rodrigues

Olinde Rodrigues

male, deceased (1851)
banker, reform movement, Spanish Jewish, orthogonal polynomials, saint-simonist, Saint-Simonianism…Frombordeaux, bordeaux
Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues, more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. Rodrigues was born...
Bruno Marie-Rose

Bruno Marie-Rose

male, 44 years old
Olympic bronze medalist, French, Sprinter, Athlete at the 1988 Summer Olympics, athlete, bordeaux…From France, Frombordeaux
Bruno Marie-Rose (born 20 May 1965 in Bordeaux) is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. He once held the world...

Armand Gensonné

male, deceased (1793)
Deputy to the French National Convention, rapporteur, paris commune, court of appeal, French, louis xvi…bordeaux, Frombordeaux, from Aquitaine
Armand Gensonné was a French politician. The son of a military surgeon, he was born in Bordeaux, Gascony, and studied Law before the outbreak of t...
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet

Antoine Charles Horace Vernet

male, deceased (1835)
Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, Morning of Austerlitz, Triumph of Paulus Aemilius, Order of Saint Michael, Battle of Marengo, Legion of Honour…Frombordeaux, bordeaux
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet. Born in Bordeaux,...
Raymond Desèze

Raymond Desèze

male, deceased (1828)
French, sans-culottes, louis xvi, lawyer, bordeaux, advocate…Frombordeaux
Raymond Romain, Comte de Sèze or Desèze was a French advocate. Together with François Tronchet and Malesherbes, he defended Louis XVI, when the kin...