List of Famous people born in France
Philippe Le Bas
Philippe Le Bas was a French hellenist, archaeologist and translator. He was the son of Philippe Le Bas and Elisabeth Duplay, the daughter of Robespierre's landlord Maurice Duplay. He was only 6 weeks old when his father committed suicide on Robespierre's fall on 27 July 1794 in the Thermidorian Reaction.
Germain Delavigne
Louis Marie Germain Delavigne was a French playwright and librettist.
Pierre Daru
Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru was a French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet.
Jean Baptiste Berthier
Jean-Baptiste Berthier (1721–1804) was an officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) in the French Corps of Topographical Engineers during the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
Ghislaine Dupont
Ghislaine Dupont was a French journalist who specialised in African issues.
Paul d'Albert de Luynes
Paul d'Albert de Luynes was a French prelate. He was elected the seventh occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1743.
Boniface
Boniface (1245–1263) was Count of Savoy from 1253 to 1263, succeeding his father Amadeus IV. He never married and thus left no heir.
Joseph Reinach
Joseph Reinach was a French author and politician.
Julien Freund
Julien Freund, born in Henridorff on 8 January 1921, died in Colmar, on the tenth of September 1993, is a French philosopher and sociologist. Freund was called an "unsatisfied liberal-conservative" by Pierre-André Taguieff, for introducing France to the ideas of Max Weber. His work as a sociologist and political theorist is a continuation of Carl Schmitt's. Freund was like many people born in this region fluent in German, and he therefore published many of his works in both languages. His works have been translated into nearly 20 languages.