Antoine Duhamel

Antoine Duhamel

male, 84 years old
Antoine Duhamel, born July 30, 1925, is a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher. Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département o...
Paul Cambon

Paul Cambon

male, deceased (1942)
Pierre Paul Cambon was a French diplomatist and brother to Jules Martin Cambon. He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to...
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

male, deceased (1804)
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February, 1725 - 2 October, 1804) was a French inventor believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical...
Hubertine Auclert

Hubertine Auclert

female, deceased (1914)
Hubertine Auclert, was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage. Born in the Allier "département" in the Auvergne area of F...
Francois Boutin

Francois Boutin

male, deceased (1995)
François Boutin was a leading French Thoroughbred horse trainer. The son of a farmer, he was born in the village of Beaunay in the northerly Marne d...
Louis Jacques Thénard

Louis Jacques Thénard

male, deceased (1857)
Louis Jacques Thénard, was a French chemist. His father, a poor peasant, managed to have him educated at the academy of Sens, and sent him at the a...
Armand David

Armand David

male, deceased (1900)
Father Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. Born in Espelette near Bayonne, in the...
Laurent Clerc

Laurent Clerc

male, deceased (1869)
Laurent Clerc was born December 26, 1785 in La Balme-les-Grottes, "département" of Isère, France, a village on the northeastern edge of Lyon. Cl...

Henri D'Orléans duc d'Aumale

male, deceased (1897)
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale was born in Paris. He was the fifth and second youngest son of Louis-Philippe, King of the Fr...
Yves Lainé

Yves Lainé

male, 72 years old
Yves Lainé is a Breton lawyer, politician and companies executive manager, now a writer, arguing for the return of Loire-Atlantique departement in t...