List of Famous people born in France
André Berge
André Berge was a French physician and psychoanalyst. He was born on 24 May 1902 in the 16th Arrondissement of Paris and died on the 27 October 1995 in Paris and he was a doctor, psychoanalyst and ‘Man of Letters’.
Dominique Fillon
Richard of Millau
Richard Millau (Milhau) was an 11th-century Cardinal and a major player in the Gregorian reform implemented in the South of France at the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
André Teissier du Cros
Arnaud Fontanet
Patrice Bougrain-Dubourg
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu was a French publicist and historian born at Lisieux, Calvados. He specialized in writing about the history of Russia.
Suzanne Duchamp
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman. Her work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore fascinating gender dynamics. Due to the fact that she was a woman in the male prominent Dada movement, she was rarely considered an artist in her own right. She constantly lived in the shadows of her famous older brothers, who were also artists, or she was referred to as "the wife of." Her work in painting turns out to be significantly influential to the landscape of Dada in Paris and to the interests of women in Dada. She took a large role as an avant-garde artist, working through a career that spanned five decades, during a turbulent time of great societal change. She used her work to express certain subject matter such as personal concerns about modern society, her role as a modern woman artist, and the effects of the First World War. Her work often weaves painting, collage, and language together in complex ways.
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.