List of Famous people born in France

Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Marie-Hélène Françoise Arnaud
First Name Marie-Hélène
Born on September 24, 1934
Died on October 6, 1986 (aged 52)

Marie-Hélène Françoise Arnaud was a French model and actress. Working as a house model for the French fashion house Chanel, she was the "face of Chanel" in the 1950s; she also developed a second career as an actress.

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Karine de Ménonville

First Name Karine
Born on October 5, 1972 (age 54)

Karine de Ménonville is a French journalist and television presenter.

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Jacques Soustelle

First Name Jacques
Last Name Soustelle
Born on February 3, 1912
Died on August 6, 1990 (aged 78)
Born in France, Occitania

Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Governor General of Algeria, he helped the rise of Charles de Gaulle to the presidency of the Fifth Republic, but broke with De Gaulle over Algerian independence, joined the OAS in their efforts to overthrow De Gaulle and lived in exile between 1961 and 1968. On returning to France he resumed political and academic activity and was elected to the Académie française in 1983.

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François Pallu

First Name François
Last Name Pallu
Died on October 29, 1684

François Pallu, MEP (1626–1684) was a French bishop. He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.

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Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin

Marie-Louise Jacotin
First Name Marie-Louise
Born on July 7, 1905
Died on October 19, 1972 (aged 67)

Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin was a French mathematician, the second woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics in France, and an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra.

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Karen Blanguernon

Karen Renée Blanguernon
First Name Karen
Last Name Blanguernon
Born on October 24, 1935
Died on November 22, 1996 (aged 61)
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Marie-Louise Girod

Marie-Louise Henriette Girod
First Name Marie-Louise
Born on October 12, 1915
Died on August 29, 2014 (aged 98)

Marie-Louise Girod-Parrot was a French organist and composer. Girod studied organ at the Paris Conservatory with Henriette Puig-Roget and Marcel Dupré.

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Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux

Élizabeth Charlotte Le Roulx Delaville
First Name Marie-Élisabeth
Born on March 27, 1769
Died on July 23, 1842 (aged 73)

Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied under David.

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Gabriel de Broglie

First Name Gabriel
Last Name Broglie
Born on April 21, 1931 (age 95)

Gabriel-Marie-Joseph-Anselme de Broglie-Revel is a French historian and politician.

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Marie Adam

First Name Marie
Last Name Adam
Born on October 13, 1968 (age 58)
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