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Dubois, Guillaume
1656 - Born on September 6th in Brive-la-Gallarde, France. French cardinal, leading minister in the administration of Ph...
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Poisson, Jeanne Antoinette (Pompadour, Marquise de; Madame de Pompadour)
1721 - Born on December 29th in Paris, France. The influential mistress of the French king Louis XV and a notable patron...
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King Philip II (Philip Augustus; Philippe II, Philippe Auguste)
1165 - Philippe Auguste, born on the 21st of August in Paris, France, the son of Louis VII. His reign formed a key period...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Wed 18th Apr 07
Daudet, Alphonse
1840 - Born in Nîmes, France, on the 13th of May to Vincent Daudet a silk manufacturer. He was the father of Léon Daudet...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 19th Jun 07
Catherine de Medicis (also Caterina de' Medici)
1519 - Born on April 13th in Florence, France. The queen consort of Henry II of France and subsequently regent of France,...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 19th Jun 07
Damiens, Robert Francois
French fanatic 1715 - Robert-Francois Damiens was born on the 9th of January in La Tieuloy, France. He became a menial...
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Bonaparte, Joseph (Joseph)
1768 - He was born Buonaparte on the 7th of January to Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino at Corte in Corsica. - He...
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Eboue, Felix
1884 - Born on the 26th of December in Cayenne, France. 1936 - He was made Governor of Guadeloupe, France. 1939 - He was transferre...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Thu 10th May 07
Brule, Etienne
1592 - Born in Champigny-surMarne, France. French-born Canadian explorer. He was also known as The First Coureur de...
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Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure
1787 - Born on the 24th of April in Minorca, Spain. 1819 - He was appointed professor of medical jurisprudence. - He suc...
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Bignon, Louis Pierre Edouard
1771 - Louis de Bignon was born at Rouen,Normandy, France on 3rd of January. French historian and politician. 1797 - He...
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Blum, Leon
1872 - Born on the 9th of April in Paris, France. 1889 - Published his first poems at the age of 17 in a journal they cr...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 17th Jul 07
Beauharnais, Alexandre, Vicomte de
1760 - Born on May 28th in Martinique. The first husband of Joséphine (later empress of the French) and grandfather of N...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 31st Jul 07
Borda, Jean Charles (Jean)
1733 - He was born on the 4th of May in Dax, France. - Borda entered the French army at an early age and later transferr...
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Jogues, Isaac (Saint Isaac Jogues)
1607 - Saint Isaac Jogues, born on the 10th of January in Orléans, France. He was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and...
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Vouet, Simon
1590 - Born on January 9th in Paris, France. French painter who introduced an Italianate Baroque style of painting into...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Fri 08th Jun 07
Bonaparte, Jerome (Jerome)
1784 - He was born on the 15th of November in Ajaccio, the fifth surviving son, of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino...
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Dumas, Alexandre (the father)
1802- born at Villers-Cotteret (north of france) 1829- his first piece of theater "Henri 3 et sa cour" which was played...
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Theobald (Tedbaldus)
1090 - Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, born near Bec, NW France. He was of Norman parentage. 1137 - A monk at Bec,...
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Jean Claude Killy (Killy Jean Claude)
1943 - Born in Saint-Cloud on the 30th of August. 1969 - He moved to Geneva, Switzerland. 1967 - Killy was a World Cup c...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Mon 14th May 07
Louis XV
1710 - Born Louis, Duke of Anjou at Versailles on the 15th of February. 1714 - In August, he had made a will which...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Sat 31st Mar 07
Beauharnais, Hortense Eugenie Cecile (Hortense)
1783 - Born on April 10th in Paris, France. The queen of Holland, stepdaughter of Napoleon I, and mother of Napoleon...
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Pinay, Antoine
1891 - Born on December 30th in Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise, France. The leader of the Republican Independents in France...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Thu 12th Jul 07
Reinhardt, Django (orig. Jean Baptiste Reinhardt)
1910 – He was born on the 23th day of January this year in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium. 1928 - He started...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Thu 28th Jun 07
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri
1737 - Born on the 19th of January in Le Havre. 1773 - Wrote Voyage à l'Île de France, à l'île Bourbon et au cap de Bonn...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Sun 04th Feb 07
Demy, Jacques
1931 - Born on June 5th in Pontchâteau, Loire-Atlantique, Pays-de-la-Loire, France. French director best known for his r...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Thu 07th Jun 07
Cagliostro, Alessandro di (Giuseppe Balsamo)
1743 - Alessandro di Cagliostro was born on the 2nd of June. - He became well known in Naples and later Rome, where he...
[ 0% ] Last updated: Tue 11th Sep 07
Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de
1658 - He was born at Les Laumets in the hamlet of Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, in Gascony, on the 5th of March. - He...
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Maillol, Aristide Joseph Bonaventure
1861 - Born on April 8th in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. French painter and sculptor. 1882 - He went to Paris to study paint...
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Tailleferre, Germaine
1892 - Born on April 19th in Saint Maur Des Fossés, Ile-de-France, France. French composer Germaine (Marcelle) Taillefer...
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