List of Famous people born in France

Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne was a French clergyman, poet, and moralist.

Charles-Alexis Chauvet was a French organist and composer.

Henri Auguste Barbier was a French dramatist and poet.

Sébastien Vaillant was French botanist who was born at Vigny in present-day Val d'Oise.

Léon Werth was a French writer and art critic, a friend of Octave Mirbeau and a close friend and confidant of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Gustave Lanson was a French historian and literary critic. He taught at the Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. A dominant figure in French literary criticism, he influenced several generations of writers and critics through his teachings, which were anti-systematic and promoted a scrupulous and erudite approach to texts via extensive firsthand research, inventorying, and in-depth historical investigation.