Julien Gracq

Julien Gracq

male, 99 years old
Julien Gracq is the pen name of Louis Poirier, a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play and some poetry. His work, influenced by...
Paul Nizan

Paul Nizan

male, deceased (1940)
Paul Nizan was a French philosopher and writer. He was born in Tours and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at...
Claude Lefort

Claude Lefort

male, 85 years old
Claude Lefort is a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice...
Christopher Meyer

Christopher Meyer

male, 65 years old
Sir Christopher Meyer, KCMG (born 22 February 1944) is a former British Ambassador to the United States (1997–2003), and the current chair of the Pr...

Olympe-Philippe Gerbet

male, deceased (1864)
Olympe-Philippe Gerbet was a French Catholic bishop and writer. He studied at the Académie and the Grand-Séminaire of Besançon, also at St-...

Robert Flacelière

male
Robert Flacelière was a scholar of Classical Greek born in Paris, France, in 1904. He was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, the Lycée Henri IV...
Henri Chantavoine

Henri Chantavoine

male, deceased (1918)
Henri Chantavoine was a French writer. He was born in Montpellier and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. After teaching in the provinces he...
Hugh Algernon Weddell

Hugh Algernon Weddell

male, deceased (1877)
Hugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora. Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near...
Henri Francois Marion

Henri Francois Marion

male, deceased (1896)
Henri François Marion, French philosopher and educationalist, was born at Saint-Parize-en-Viry (Nièvre) on the 9th of September 1846. He studied at...
Marcel Jouhandeau

Marcel Jouhandeau

male, deceased (1979)
Marcel Jouhandeau was a French writer. Marcel Jouhandeau grew up in a world of women presided over by his grandmother. Under the influence of a...