List of Famous people born in France
Lucien Guitry
Lucien Germain Guitry was a French actor.
Henri Guitton
Louis Racine
Louis Racine was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment.
Frédéric Forte
Henri Delaborde
Count Henri Delaborde (1811–1899) was a French art critic and historical painter, born in Rennes, son of Count Henri François Delaborde.
Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac
Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, better known as Godefroi Cavaignac, was a French politician.
Louis Maurin
Louis Félix Thomas Maurin was a French army general who was twice Minister of War in the 1930s. Before and during World War I (1914–18) he was a strong advocate of motorization. In the inter-war period from 1919 to 1939 he advocated a policy of passive defense against the growing German threat. He thought that with all the money that had been spent on the Maginot Line fortifications it would be madness to go on the offensive. He saw little value in tanks as a weapon. He advised against a limited military reaction when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland in March 1936, calling for general mobilization or nothing. He did not consider that the 1936 pact with Russia would help France militarily.
Henri Glaeser
Titus Aurelius Fulvus
Titus Aurelius Fulvus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Domitian. Fulvus is best known as the father of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. His father, also named Titus Aurelius Fulvus, had also been twice consul and promoted to the patrician class.
François de Troy
François de Troy was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.