Chevalier D'Eon

Chevalier D'Eon

male, deceased (1810)
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée Éon de Beaumont, usually known as the Chevalier d'Eon was a French diplomat, spy, soldier and Free...
Lazare Carnot

Lazare Carnot

male, deceased (1823)
Comte Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (May 13, 1753-August 2, 1823), the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars was a French...
Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon

male, deceased (1788)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 - April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and...
Louis Nicolas Davout

Louis Nicolas Davout

male, deceased (1823)
Louis Nicolas d'Avout, better known as Davout, Duc d'Auerstaedt, prince d'Eckmühl, was a Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Era. Because of h...

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

male, deceased (1704)
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (September 27, 1627 - April 12, 1704) was a French bishop, theologian, and renowned pulpit orator and court preacher....

Nicéphore Niépce

male, deceased (1833)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, also spelled Niepce was a French inventor, most noted as a pioneer in photography.
Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

male, deceased (1944)
Romain Rolland was a French writer. His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel...
Arnaud Montebourg

Arnaud Montebourg

male, 47 years old
Arnaud Montebourg is a French politician, and a deputy to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He used to be one of the founding...
Vauban

Vauban

male, deceased (1707)
Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban, commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost m...
Adelaide Of Italy

Adelaide Of Italy

female, deceased (999)
Saint Adelaide (931 - 16 December 999) was perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century. She was the daughter of Rudolf II of...