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To be French, according to the first article of the Constitution, is to be a citizen of France, regardless of one's origin, race, or religion (sans distinction d'origine, de race ou de religion) According to its principles, France has devoted herself the destiny of a...
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1913
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 1960 (age 46 years)
Aria Giovanni
Aria Giovanni (born November 3, 1977) is a pornographic actress and model who was Penthouse magazine's Pet for the month of September 2000. She has modeled in a range of photographic styles and has also had roles in television shows.
Giovanni was...
Date of birth:
- Nov 3, 1977 (age 32 years)
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (French pronunciation: [bʁi.ʒit baʁ.do]; born 28 September 1934) is a French animal rights activist and a former actress, fashion model and singer.
In her early life Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer. She started her...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1934 (age 75 years)
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (French pronunciation: [blɛz paskal]), (b. 1623-06-19 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, d. 1662-08-19 in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1623
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1662 (age 39 years)
Charles Messier
Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects". The...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1730
Date of death:
- Apr 12, 1817 (age 86 years)
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as chief editor of and contributor to the creation of the Encyclopédie....
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1713
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1784 (age 70 years)
Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois (French pronunciation: [evaʁist ɡalwa]) (October 25, 1811 – May 31, 1832) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-la-Reine. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1811
Date of death:
- May 31, 1832 (age 20 years)
Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: [efɛl], English: /ˈaɪfəl/), was a French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1832
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1923 (age 91 years)
Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1883
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1971 (age 87 years)
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1828
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1905 (age 77 years)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life...
Date of birth:
- Jun 11, 1910
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1997 (age 87 years)
Jeanne d' Arc
Saint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War,...
Date of birth:
- 1412
Date of death:
- May 30, 1431 (age 19 years)
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (pronounced: [pastøʁ] December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1822
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1895 (age 72 years)
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), known as the Sun King (French: le Roi Soleil), was King of France and of Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1638
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1715 (age 77 years)
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, receiving...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1867
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1934 (age 66 years)
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time;...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1871
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1922 (age 51 years)
Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937) was a French pedagogue and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and considered father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1863
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1937 (age 74 years)
René Descartes
René Descartes (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]), (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1596
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1650 (age 53 years)
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion...
Date of birth:
- Nov 21, 1694
Date of death:
- May 30, 1778 (age 83 years)
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand ( fʁɑ̃swa mɔʁis mitɛˈʁɑ̃ (help·info), 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1916
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1996 (age 79 years)
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yˈɡo]) (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
In...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1802
Date of death:
- May 22, 1885 (age 83 years)
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: [katʁin dəˈnœv], born 22 October 1943) is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. Deneuve won two César...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (French pronunciation: [də ˈɡoːl] ( listen), English: /də ˈɡɔːl/; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1890
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1970 (age 80 years)
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI of France (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, he was tried by the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1754
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1793 (age 38 years)
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molière, (January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1622
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1673 (age 51 years)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃tɛɡzypeˈʀi]) (29 June 1900—31 July 1944) was a French writer and aviator. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince, and for his books about aviation adventures, including...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1900
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1944 (age 44 years)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz loˈtʁɛk]) (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1864
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1901 (age 36 years)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1769
Date of death:
- May 5, 1821 (age 51 years)
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 – September 1, 1557) was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1491
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1557 (age 65 years)
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine "Yazid" Zidane (born 23 June 1972) is a retired French World Cup-winning footballer. Widely considered one of football's all-time greats, Zidane played for club teams in France, Italy and Spain, and was a member of the French national team....
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1972 (age 37 years)
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1802
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1870 (age 68 years)
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur (and abbé) de Brantôme (c. 1540 – 15 July 1614) was a French historian, soldier and biographer.
Brantôme was born in Perigord, Aquitaine, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille. His mother and maternal grandmother...
Date of birth:
- 1540
Date of death:
- Jul 15, 1614 (age 74 years)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1825
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1905 (age 79 years)
Amédée Mouchez
Amédée Ernest Barthélemy Mouchez (24 August 1821 – 29 June 1892) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887.
Born in Madrid, Spain, Mouchez embarked on a career in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1821
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1892 (age 70 years)
Eugène Freyssinet
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.
Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1879
Date of death:
- Jun 8, 1962 (age 82 years)
Laure Sainclair
Laure Sainclair (born near Rennes, France) is a former adult film actress. She was Marc Dorcel's first contract performer. She decided to try her hand at adult films, and made her debut in 1995 in Désir dans la peau, Le (1996). She has won several...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1972 (age 37 years)
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced [nikɔla saʁkɔzi] (help·info), born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa on January 28, 1955, is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1955 (age 54 years)
Marie Tussaud
Anna Maria Tussaud (née Grosholtz, sometimes spelled Grossholtz or Grossholz) or Marie Tussaud (1 December 1761 - 16 April 1850) was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she set up in London.
She was born...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1761
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1850 (age 88 years)
Carlos Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay (born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barrés; December 3, 1833, Puerto Principe, Cuba – August 20, 1915, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.
Finlay was born in Puerto Principe,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1833
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1915 (age 81 years)
Tabatha Cash
Tabatha Cash (born December 27, 1973, in Saint Denis, France) is a French former pornographic actress, who starred in over 50 adult movies during the 1990s.
Outside pornography, she has worked as a presenter on Sky Radio in France, and starred in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 27, 1973 (age 36 years)
Anna Ohura
Anna Ohura (大浦あんな, Ōura Anna) is a Japanese AV (adult video) performer and model, known for her prodigious (100-centimeter, metric I-cup) natural breasts. In 2003, according to the Taipei Times, she claimed to have the largest breasts in the...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1980 (age 29 years)
Lolo Ferrari
Lolo Ferrari, born Eve Valois (February 9, 1963(1963-02-09) – March 5, 2000) was the stage name of a French dancer, actress, and singer billed as "the woman with the largest breasts in the world" though their size was artificially achieved. She...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1963
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 2000 (age 37 years)
Estelle Desanges
Estelle Desanges (born March 8, 1977) is a French pornographic actress.
She received the Hot d'Or prize for Best French New Starlet in 2000, and a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009.
Estelle Desanges issued in 2002 a compilation album of her favorite...
Date of birth:
- Mar 8, 1977 (age 32 years)
Rebecca Lord
Rebecca Lord (born February 16, 1973) is the stage name of a French pornographic actress who has been active since 1993. After moving to the U.S., she achieved popularity in the porn industry there.
Originally from Paris, France, Lord attended...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1973 (age 36 years)
Cheyenne Silver
Cara Fawn, (born on July 18, 1978 in San Clemente, California), known by the stage name Cheyenne Silver, is a former American pornographic actress. She is of Native American (Cherokee, Choctaw), Franco-Irish heritage.
Fawn danced under the stage...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1978 (age 31 years)
Élodie Bouchez
Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter (born 5 April 1973) is a César Award winning French actress. Today she currently resides in Beverly Hills, California with her husband Thomas Bangalter. She's most known for her roles as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1973 (age 36 years)
Terri Summers
Terri Summers (born 16 January 1976) is a Dutch erotic dancer and a porn star. She is sometimes credited (incorrectly) as Terry Summers or Terri Summer.
Summers was born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands. Her father is from Aruba, and her...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1976 (age 33 years)
Katsuni
Katsuni (born April 9, 1979 in Lyon, France) is a pornographic actress.
Katsuni is of French/Vietnamese heritage. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother's family is French. She is fluent in both English and French.
She entered the adult film...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1979 (age 30 years)
Jessica Jaymes
Jessica Jaymes is an American pornographic actress.
Jaymes' adult film career began in around 2002. Her stage name is a combination of her real first name, Jessica, and the first name of her then-lover, James. In 2004 she became Hustler's first...
Chloe Vevrier
Chloe Vevrier (born 18 September 1968) is a German erotic model and former pornographic actress.
Vevrier began her career as nude model in the early 1990s and has since posed for numerous publications worldwide including Juggs, Gent, Mayfair,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1968 (age 41 years)
Kikki Daire
Kikki Daire (born September 18, 1976 in Memphis, Tennessee) is the stage name of an exotic dancer and pornographic actress. She is also commonly known as Kiki D'Aire.
She began appearing in adult films while also working as a stripper. Her first...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1976 (age 33 years)
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is an internationally renowned French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including a few Hollywood movies.
Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1967 (age 42 years)
Melissa Lauren
Melissa Lauren (born October 16, 1984, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French pornographic actress and director.
Lauren started off studying as a cook for three years and worked in Paris as a pastry chef. After reading an ad in a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1984 (age 25 years)
Dany Verissimo
Dany Verissimo (born June 27, 1982 in France) is an actress and model.
The child of a Malagasy mother and a French father, a financial director at Air France, Verissimo spent her childhood in France, the United States, and Nigeria. She began...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1982 (age 27 years)
Kaylynn
Kaylynn (born September 26, 1977) is an American pornographic actress.
Kaylynn was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Before working in the adult industry she worked a number of jobs: security guard...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1977 (age 32 years)
Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin
Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin (born 15 February 1977 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie) is a French Alpine skier.
Dalcin was French Champion in Downhill 2000. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Dalcin was leading the Super-G competition before it was stopped....
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1977 (age 32 years)
Daniel Boulud
Daniel Boulud (born March 25, 1955 in Saint-Pierre de Chandieu, France) is a famous French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Palm Beach, Miami, Vancouver and Beijing. He is best known for his eponymous restaurant,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1955 (age 54 years)
Magali Amadei
Magali Amadei (born November 30, 1974) is a French fashion model living in New York City. She was featured regularly during the '90s on the covers of Vogue, ELLE, and Marie Claire, as well as several other top magazines with global distribution. In...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1974 (age 35 years)
Joël Chenal
Joël Chenal (born October 10, 1973), is a French alpine skier.
Chenal won silver medal in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. His other notable successes are first place in Alta Badia, on December 19, 1999, second place in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1973 (age 36 years)
Manuel Ferrara
Manuel Ferrara (November 1, 1975, Gagny, France) is a prolific French pornographic actor and adult film director .
Ferrara entered the adult industry in 1997 after winning a competition. He works in both European and American pornography. He was...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1975 (age 34 years)
