| Peter Abelard | 1079 - 1142 |
| Edmond About | 1828 - 1885 |
| Marcel Achard | 1899 - 1974 |
| Isabelle Adjani | 1955 |
| Louis Adolphe Thiers | 1797 - 1877 |
| Anouk Aimee | 1932 |
| Jean Alesi | 1964 |
| Alphonse Allais | 1854 - 1905 |
| Jean Anouilh | 1910 - 1987 |
| Jacques Anquetil | 1934 - 1987 |
| Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | 1755 - 1826 |
| Marie Antoinette | 1755 - 1793 |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880 - 1918 |
| Louis Aragon | 1897 - 1982 |
| Antoine Arnauld | 1612 - 1694 |
| Bernard Arnault | 1949 |
| Raymond Aron | 1905 - 1983 |
| Antonin Artaud | 1896 - 1948 |
| Pierre Auguste Renoir | 1841 - 1919 |
| Vincent Auriol | 1884 - 1966 |
| Gaston Bachelard | 1884 - 1962 |
| Alain Badiou | 1937 |
| Josephine Baker | 1906 - 1975 |
| Robert Baldwin Ross | 1869 - 1918 |
| Balthus | 1908 - 2001 |
| Henri Barbusse | 1873 - 1935 |
| Eddie Barclay | 1921 - 2005 |
| Brigitte Bardot | 1934 |
| Jean-Louis Barrault | 1910 - 1994 |
| Maurice Barres | 1862 - 1923 |
| Roland Barthes | 1915 - 1980 |
| Frederic Bastiat | 1801 - 1850 |
| Georges Bataille | 1897 - 1962 |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821 - 1867 |
| Jean Baudrillard | 1929 |
| Pierre Bayle | 1647 - 1706 |
| Andre Bazin | 1918 - 1958 |
| Emmanuelle Beart | 1965 |
| Pierre Beaumarchais | 1732 - 1799 |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun | 1944 |
| Henri Bergson | 1859 - 1941 |
| Hector Berlioz | 1803 - 1869 |
| Georges Bernanos | 1888 - 1948 |
| Claude Bernard | 1813 - 1878 |
| Tristan Bernard | 1866 - 1947 |
| Sarah Bernhardt | 1845 - 1923 |
| Claude Berri | 1934 |
| Paul Bert | 1833 - 1886 |
| Luc Besson | 1959 |
| Georges Bidault | 1899 - 1983 |
| Alfred Binet | 1857 - 1911 |
| Juliette Binoche | 1964 |
| Georges Bizet | 1838 - 1875 |
| Louis Blanc | 1811 - 1882 |
| Marc Bloch | 1886 - 1944 |
| Leon Blum | 1872 - 1950 |
| Jean Bodin | 1530 - 1596 |
| Nicolas Boileau | 1636 - 1711 |
| Brigitte Boisselier | |
| Louis Bonaparte | 1778 - 1846 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769 - 1821 |
| Rosa Bonheur | 1822 - 1899 |
| Pierre Bonnard | 1867 - 1947 |
| Pierre Bosquet | 1810 - 1861 |
| Jacques Bossuet | 1627 - 1704 |
| Andre Boucourechliev | 1925 - 1997 |
| Dominique Bouhours | 1628 - 1702 |
| Nadia Boulanger | 1887 - 1979 |
| Pierre Boulez | 1925 |
| Antoine Bourdelle | 1861 - 1929 |
| Pierre Bourdieu | 1930 - 2002 |
| Georges Braque | 1882 - 1963 |
| Fernand Braudel | 1902 - 1985 |
| Robert Bresson | 1907 - 1999 |
| Andre Breton | 1896 - 1966 |
| Aristide Briand | 1862 - 1932 |
| Jeanne Calment | 1875 - 1997 |
| John Calvin | 1509 - 1564 |
| Albert Camus | 1913 - 1960 |
| Eric Cantona | 1966 |
| Andreas Capellanus | |
| Capucine | 1931 - 1990 |
| Pierre Cardin | 1922 |
| Marcel Carne | 1906 - 1996 |
| Leslie Caron | 1931 |
| Alexis Carrel | 1873 - 1944 |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1908 - 2004 |
| Rene Cassin | 1887 - 1976 |
| Laetitia Casta | 1978 |
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1894 - 1961 |
| Aime Cesaire | 1913 |
| Paul Cezanne | 1839 - 1906 |
| Claude Chabrol | 1930 |
| Marc Chagall | 1887 - 1985 |
| Nicolas Chamfort | 1741 - 1794 |
| Coco Chanel | 1883 - 1971 |
| Rene Char | 1907 - 1988 |
| Pierre Charron | 1541 - 1603 |
| Victor Cherbuliez | 1829 - 1899 |
| Maurice Chevalier | 1888 - 1972 |
| Jacques Chirac | 1932 |
| Emile M. Cioran | 1911 - 1995 |
| Camille Claudel | 1864 - 1943 |
| Paul Claudel | 1868 - 1955 |
| Georges Clemenceau | 1841 - 1929 |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889 - 1963 |
| Claudette Colbert | 1903 - 1996 |
| Auguste Comte | 1798 - 1857 |
| Benjamin Constant | 1767 - 1830 |
| Francois Coppee | 1842 - 1908 |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606 - 1684 |
| Rene Coty | 1882 - 1962 |
| Emile Coue | 1857 - 1926 |
| Gustave Courbet | 1819 - 1877 |
| Georges Courteline | 1858 - 1929 |
| Victor Cousin | 1792 - 1867 |
| Thomas Couture | 1815 - 1879 |
| Charles Cros | 1842 - 1888 |
| Pierre Curie | 1859 - 1906 |
| Georges Cuvier | 1769 - 1832 |
| Beatrice Dalle | 1964 |
| Serge Daney | 1944 - 1992 |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840 - 1897 |
| Rene Daumal | 1908 - 1944 |
| Jacques-Louis David | 1748 - 1825 |
| Honore de Balzac | 1799 - 1850 |
| Pierre de Beaumarchais | 1732 - 1799 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 1908 - 1986 |
| Isaac de Benserade | 1613 - 1691 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619 - 1655 |
| Jean de Brunhoff | 1899 - 1937 |
| Michel De Certeau | |
| Nicolas de Chamfort | 1741 - 1794 |
| Samuel de Champlain | 1570 - 1635 |
| Malcolm De Chazal | 1902 - 1981 |
| Marquis de Condorcet | 1743 - 1794 |
| Pierre de Coubertin | 1863 - 1937 |
| Marquis De Custine | 1790 - 1857 |
| Pierre de Fermat | 1601 - 1655 |
| Marie de France | |
| Delphine de Girardin | 1804 - 1855 |
| Hubert de Givenchy | 1927 |
| Edmond de Goncourt | 1822 - 1896 |
| Remy de Gourmont | 1858 - 1915 |
| Jean de la Bruyere | 1645 - 1696 |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621 - 1695 |
| Adam de la Halle | 1237 - 1288 |
| Francois de La Rochefoucauld | 1613 - 1680 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | 1757 - 1834 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790 - 1869 |
| Ninon de Lenclos | 1620 - 1705 |
| Julie de Lespinasse | 1732 - 1776 |
| Alain de Lille | 1128 - 1202 |
| Henri de Lubac | 1896 - 1991 |
| Joseph de Maistre | 1753 - 1821 |
| Francois de Malherbe | 1555 - 1628 |
| Guy de Maupassant | 1850 - 1893 |
| Michel de Montaigne | 1533 - 1592 |
| Baron de Montesquieu | 1689 - 1755 |
| Charles de Montesquieu | 1689 - 1755 |
| Alfred de Musset | 1810 - 1857 |
| Gerard De Nerval | 1808 - 1855 |
| Roger de Rabutin | 1618 - 1693 |
| Cardinal De Retz | |
| Marquis de Sade | 1740 - 1814 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 1900 - 1944 |
| Charles de Secondat | 1689 - 1755 |
| Madame de Sevigne | 1626 - 1696 |
| Madame de Stael | 1766 - 1817 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | 1805 - 1859 |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864 - 1901 |
| Marguerite de Valois | |
| Alfred de Vigny | 1797 - 1863 |
| Dominique de Villepin | 1953 |
| Maurice de Vlaminck | 1876 - 1958 |
| Guy Debord | 1931 - 1994 |
| Gerard Debreu | 1921 - 2004 |
| Claude Debussy | 1862 - 1918 |
| Edgar Degas | 1834 - 1917 |
| Eugene Delacroix | 1798 - 1863 |
| Robert Delaunay | 1885 - 1941 |
| Gilles Deleuze | 1925 - 1995 |
| Leo Delibes | 1836 - 1891 |
| Jacques Delille | 1738 - 1813 |
| Alain Delon | 1935 |
| Jacques Delors | 1925 |
| Julie Delpy | 1969 |
| Catherine Deneuve | 1943 |
| Maurice Denis | 1870 - 1943 |
| Gerard Depardieu | 1948 |
| Jacques Derrida | 1930 - 2004 |
| Rene Descartes | 1596 - 1650 |
| Eustache Deschamps | 1346 - 1406 |
| Camille Desmoulins | 1760 - 1794 |
| Savitri Devi | 1905 - 1982 |
| Denis Diderot | 1713 - 1784 |
| Ernest Dimnet | 1866 - 1954 |
| Sacha Distel | 1933 - 2004 |
| Robert Doisneau | 1912 - 1994 |
| Joachim du Bellay | 1522 - 1560 |
| Rene Dubos | 1901 - 1982 |
| Jean Dubuffet | 1901 - 1985 |
| Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont | 1846 - 1870 |
| Marcel Duchamp | 1887 - 1968 |
| Raymond Duchamp-Villon | 1876 - 1918 |
| Raoul Dufy | 1877 - 1953 |
| Georges Duhamel | 1884 - 1966 |
| Alexander Dumas | 1802 - 1870 |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802 - 1870 |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914 - 1996 |
| Emile Durkheim | 1858 - 1917 |
| Jacques Ellul | 1912 - 1994 |
| Paul Eluard | 1895 - 1952 |
| Elliott Erwitt | 1928 |
| Laurent Fabius | 1946 |
| Frantz Fanon | 1925 - 1961 |
| Francois Fenelon | 1651 - 1715 |
| Luc Ferrari | 1929 - 2005 |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821 - 1880 |
| Ferdinand Foch | 1851 - 1929 |
| Just Fontaine | 1933 |
| Guy Forget | 1965 |
| Leon Foucault | 1819 - 1868 |
| Charles Fourier | 1772 - 1837 |
| Anatole France | 1844 - 1924 |
| Jean Gabin | 1904 - 1976 |
| Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | 1873 - 1954 |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | 1971 |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1928 - 1991 |
| Leon Gambetta | 1838 - 1882 |
| Paul Gauguin | 1848 - 1903 |
| Francois Gautier | 1950 |
| Theophile Gautier | 1811 - 1872 |
| Jean Genet | 1910 - 1986 |
| Theodore Gericault | 1791 - 1824 |
| Andre Gide | 1869 - 1951 |
| David Ginola | 1967 |
| Jean Giraudoux | 1882 - 1944 |
| Jean-Luc Godard | 1930 |
| James Goldsmith | 1933 - 1997 |
| Charles Gounod | 1818 - 1893 |
| Eva Green | 1980 |
| Henri Gregoire | 1750 - 1831 |
| Sacha Guitry | 1885 - 1957 |
| Jean Guitton | |
| Georges Guynemer | 1894 - 1917 |
| Samuel Hahnemann | 1755 - 1843 |
| Ludovic Halevy | 1834 - 1908 |
| Ernest Hello | 1828 - 1885 |
| Heloise | 1101 - 1162 |
| Jean Henri Fabre | 1823 - 1915 |
| Thierry Henry | 1977 |
| Charles Hermite | 1822 - 1901 |
| Bernard Hinault | 1954 |
| Victor Hugo | 1802 - 1885 |
| Isabelle Huppert | 1955 |
| Jacques Ibert | 1890 - 1962 |
| Eugene Ionesco | 1912 - 1994 |
| Francois Jacob | 1920 |
| Max Jacob | 1876 - 1944 |
| Georges Jacques Danton | 1759 - 1794 |
| Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre | 1787 - 1851 |
| Laurent Jalabert | 1968 |
| Maurice Jarre | 1924 |
| Alfred Jarry | 1873 - 1907 |
| Pierre Jean de Beranger | 1780 - 1857 |
| Pierre Joseph Proudhon | 1809 - 1865 |
| Lionel Jospin | 1937 |
| Joseph Joubert | 1754 - 1824 |
| Leon Jouhaux | 1879 - 1954 |
| Alphonse Karr | 1808 - 1890 |
| Mathieu Kassovitz | 1967 |
| Jean-Claude Killy | 1942 |
| Yves Klein | 1928 - 1962 |
| Jacques Lacan | 1901 - 1981 |
| Christian Lacroix | 1951 |
| Jules Laforgue | 1860 - 1887 |
| Pierre Laplace | 1749 - 1827 |
| Jacques-Henri Lartigue | 1894 - 1986 |
| Marie Laurencin | 1883 - 1956 |
| Henri Laurens | 1885 - 1954 |
| Pierre Laval | 1883 - 1945 |
| Antoine Lavoisier | 1743 - 1794 |
| Jean-Marie Le Pen | 1928 |
| Amanda Lear | 1946 |
| Patrice Leconte | 1947 |
| Virginie LeDoyen | 1976 |
| Alexandre Ledru-Rollin | 1807 - 1864 |
| Violette Leduc | 1907 - 1972 |
| Fernand Leger | 1881 - 1955 |
| Michel Legrand | 1932 |
| Eliphas Levi | 1810 - 1875 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | 1908 |
| Alfred Loisy | 1857 - 1940 |
| Peter Lombard | 1100 - 1160 |
| Pierre Loti | 1850 - 1923 |
| Henri Louis Bergson | 1859 - 1941 |
| Claude Louis Hector de Villars | 1653 - 1734 |
| Marie Louise | 1791 - 1847 |
| Jacques Lucien Monod | 1910 - 1976 |