Paris, France

French physicist and astronomer who invented the Foucault pendulum, measured the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and named the gyroscope

Prolific French novelist, memoirist, and journalist of the European Romantic era, known for her more than 70 novels and activism

French experimental physicist who discovered spontaneous radioactivity and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics

French writer and dramatist best known for the romantic novel <em>La Dame aux Camélias</em> and its adaptation into Verdi's <em>La traviata</em>

French chemist and Nobel laureate known for isolating fluorine, discovering moissanite, and developing the electric arc furnace

French physicist, engineer, and the father of thermodynamics, known for his foundational work on the maximum efficiency of heat engines

French physician who won the 1907 Nobel Prize for discovering that protozoan parasites cause malaria and trypanosomiasis

French Neo-Impressionist painter and graphic artist known for co-developing the Pointillism technique with Georges Seurat

French painter and founder of Impressionism, known for his pioneering exploration of light and nature in art

French author, moralist, and memoirist known for his Maximes, which offered profound and often cynical insights into human conduct and virtue

King of the French from 1830 to 1848, known as "the Citizen King," who abdicated during the French Revolution of 1848 leading to the Second Republic

The son of Napoleon I and disputed Emperor of the French for two days in 1815