Marseille, France

Iconic French comic actor, singer, and director who charmed audiences for decades with his distinctive humor and vocal talents

French poet and dramatist, best known for his neo-romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac, whose works contrasted with naturalistic theatre

French artist, engraver, and satirist renowned for his incisive social and political caricatures and profound depictions of everyday life in 19th-century France

French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor, and theatre director, a major figure of the European avant-garde and conceptualizer of the Theatre of Cruelty

French statesman and historian who served as the first President of the Third French Republic from 1871 to 1873