Pierre Laval (28 June 1883 - 15 October 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government. Judged for Collaborationism after World War II, he was found guilty of high treason and executed after the war.

Robert Brasillach was a French pro-Nazi Germany author in the Vichy France who was executed for collaboration. Born in Perpignan, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and then became a novelist and literary critic for the "Action Française" of Charles Maurras. After the 6 February 1934 crisis in the Place de la Concorde, Brasillach openly supported fascism. After the fall of France, he became an editor of "Je suis partout", an antisemitic paper, …

Paul Doumer was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, …

Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the correct Dutch pronunciation is) (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers.

Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920 - January 31,1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War II and the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War. Although over twenty-one thousand soldiers were given varying sentences for desertion during World War II-including forty-nine death sentences-only Slovik's death sentence was carried out.

Jules François Camille Ferry. Examples of everyday abuse included pupils and students speaking words in a tongue other than French at school or in the schoolyard being systematically punished and humiliated, with slapping and their fingers whacked by the teacher's ruler common reminders that French and only French was the language of the Republic. At a time when many French citizens were naturally fluent in two or more languages, …

Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of the Moskowa (January 10 1769 - December 7 1815), known as "Le Rougeaud" ("red faced" or "ruddy") by his men and "le Brave des Braves" ("the bravest of the brave") was a French soldier and military commander during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one of the original 18 Marshals of France created by Napoleon I.

Ibrahim Ali (1978 - 1995) was a seventeen-year-old French-man with Comorian origins killed in Marseille, France, on February 21 1995. He was walking with a group of ten other young men in Marseilles' XVth arrondissement, when they encountered three supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National party who had been posting campaign signs nearby, armed with guns. The latter group opened fire on them. Ibrahim Ali was shot in the back.

Alexander Berkman (November 21 1870 - June 28 1936) was a Russian immigrant who became an American writer, radical anarchist, and would-be assassin. Berkman was a leading member of the anarchist movement. He was the lover and close associate of Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian-born anarchist with whom he collaborated frequently and organized civil rights and anti-war campaigns.

Hanns-Martin Schleyer (May 1 1915, Offenburg, Germany - October 19 1977 near Mulhouse, France) was a German manager, CDU member and employer representative. In 1977 he was kidnapped by the extreme-left terrorist organisation Red Army Faction (RAF) and later murdered.

Guy Ernest Debord was a writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic. Born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Basses-Pyrénées, he was Prime Minister of France in 1913. Barthou was an authority on Trade Union history and law. Louis Barthou was the primary figure behind the Franco-Soviet Mutual Assistance Pact, which was signed by his successor, Pierre Laval.

François Darlan was a French naval officer. Darlan rose through the French Navy. He ultimately became Admiral of the Fleet, and was a major figure of the Vichy France regime during World War II. Darlan was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, graduating from the École Navale in 1902. During World War I, he commanded an artillery battery. He remained in the French Navy after the war, and was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1929 and Vice Admiral in 1932.

Missak Manouchian was an Armenian-French communist militant in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI) and the Resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of France.

Gaspard de Coligny, "Seigneur" (Lord) "de Châtillon" held the office of Admiral of France and is best remembered as a Huguenot leader.

François Faber was a Luxembourgian cyclist. He was born in France, but because his father was a Luxembourger, he was able to receive Luxembourgian nationality. In 1906 he participated in the Tour de France for the first time. He didn't finish. The next year, he was 7th and in 1908 he took second place and won two stages. In 1909 he dominated the Tour. He won five consecutive stages, a record that went unbroken for almost a century.

Romain Gary was a French novelist, film director, World War II pilot, and diplomat.

Jean-Marie-François-Ferdinand de Broglie was a French politician. Born in Paris, he was one of the negotiators of the Évian Accords. Jean de Broglie was assassinated on 24 December 1976 while coming out of the house of Pierre de Varga, his financial advisor. Varga was quickly arrested; in 1981, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for complicity in the assassination.

Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777 - October 28, 1832was a French surgeon born in Toulouse. He earned his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1801 and spent the next several years as a teacher of anatomy in Toulouse. In 1812 be became a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier, where he remained until his death in 1832. Delpech is best known for his work in orthopedics, and he established a clinic for orthopaedic diseases at Saint-Eloi.

Prince Shahryar Shafiq (in Persian: والاگهر شهریار شفیق) was the son of HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and Ahmad Shafiq of Egypt. He married Maryam Eghbal, daughter of Manouchehr Eghbal, in 1967. They had two sons: HH Prince Nader Shafiq (born 15th March 1968) and HH Prince Dara Shafiq (born 1970). Shahryar Shafiq was an Imperial Iranian Navy Captain, …

Khaled Kelkal was a French terrorist of Algerian origin affiliated with the GIA. He was involved in several gunfights and was one of the men behind the islamist bombing campaign in France in 1995.

Évariste Galois as a technical term in mathematics to represent a "group of permutations". A radical Republican during the monarchy of Louis Philippe in France, he died from wounds suffered in a duel under murky circumstances at the age of twenty.

Salah ad-Din al-Bitar (born Damascus 1912, died Paris 21 July 1980), was a Syrian politician who, with Michel Aflaq, founded the Arab Ba'th Party in the early 1940s. During their student days in Paris in the early 1930s, the two worked together to formulate a doctrine that combined aspects of nationalism and socialism. Al-Bitar later served as prime minister in several early Ba'thist governments in Syria, but became alienated from the party as it grew more radical, …

Symon Petlura (("Simon Petljura"); in English, also occasionally spelled "Simon Petliura" or "Petlyura"; May 10, 1879 - May 25, 1926) was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the Russian Civil War, he was briefly Head of the Ukrainian State. In 1926 Petlura was assassinated in Paris.

Jean Léon Jaurès-full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès was a French Socialist leader. He was one of the first social democrats: within the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), he opposed Jules Guesde's refusal of socialist participation in bourgeois governments.

Pierre Goldman was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and assassinated mysteriously. It has been suspected that the "Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación" (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder. His half-brother Jean-Jacques Goldman is a popular French singer.

Sir Jack Cecil Drummond D.Sc., FRIC, FRS (12 Jan 1891-4 Aug or 5 Aug 1952) was a distinguished biochemist, noted for his work on nutrition as applied to the British diet under rationing during the Second World War. He was murdered, together with his wife and 10-year old daughter, on the night of 4 Aug - 5 Aug 1952 near Lurs, a village or commune in the Basses-Alpes region (now Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) of Southern France.

Joseph Epstein, also known as "Colonel Gilles" and as "Joseph Andrei", was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and leader of the French Resistance during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.

Gerard Lebovici (1932 - 5 March1984) was a French film producer, editor and impresario. His mother was executed in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Then on the point of embarking on a promising career on the stage at twenty years of age, Lebovici's father died, leaving him orphaned. Out of the necessity to ensure a more secure source of income for himself than acting, he followed his father into a menial occupation.

Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat. He is most noted for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan. The assassination triggered Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass." Vom Rath born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a high-ranking public official. He attended a school in Breslau, and then studied law at Bonn, Munich and Königsberg, until 1932, when he joined the Nazi Party and became a career diplomat.

Francis II, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise, Duke of Aumale, called "Balafré" ("the scarred"), was a French soldier and politician.

Jim Mooney (September 16, 1907 - 1944) was an American football player. He died in France, when he was shot by a sniper.

Count Louis Philippe de Roffignac (1766 – 1846) was Mayor of New Orleans from May 1820 to May 1828. He born in Angoulême. At fourteen he was a page in the household of his godmother, the Duchess of Orléans; at seventeen, he joined the French army as a lieutenant of artillery. He first saw service in Spain, under his father. At twenty-four he was promoted captain for gallant and meritorious service in the field. His army career then took him to America, …