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French author, physician, and poet known for the Salavin series and his election to the Académie française

French tennis player who dominated the sport in the 1920s, winning multiple Grand Slams and becoming the inaugural world No. 1

King of Navarre and France, known for his pragmatic leadership in balancing religious factions and establishing the House of Bourbon

King of France and Navarre who unified the crowns and established foundations for absolute monarchy

Genevan-French author, philosopher, and political theorist known for her influential literary works and her moderate stance during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era

19th-century French Symbolist painter and sculptor, known for his allegorical and mythological works, considered a master of Symbolism

French philosopher and Nobel laureate known for his influential ideas in analytic and continental philosophy

French film actress known as a leading lady for three decades in French cinema and Hollywood features, an inaugural winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes, and an honorary César recipient

King of Bavaria who encouraged industrialization, initiated the Ludwig Canal, and oversaw the first German railway, later abdicating during the 1848 revolutions

Irish politician, diplomat, and human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 for his efforts to secure human rights worldwide

French geographer, writer, and anarchist known for his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, and his unwavering political activism

French metaphysician, writer, and orientalist known for his traditionalist philosophy and writings on esotericism, symbolism, and initiation

Swiss composer and member of Les Six, known for his diverse compositions including Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and Pacific 231

French professional footballer who was integral to the France national team of the 1950s and won three European Cups with Real Madrid

French-born Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer who pioneered an expressionistic form of modern ballet with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne

French physicist, astronomer, and photographer who accurately measured the speed of light and conducted the Fizeau experiment

French painter, illustrator, and etcher, celebrated as the most prominent Rococo artist of the 18th century, known for his idyllic and decorative works

French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer who led the expedition confirming Earth's polar flattening and was the first president of the Prussian Academy of Science

French-American artist known for large-scale sculpture and installation art, who explored themes of domesticity, sexuality, and the unconscious

French actress known for portraying strong-willed, independent women with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to audiences

French mathematician known for Legendre polynomials, the method of least squares, and contributions to number theory

French philosopher, politician, and writer known for his work on materialist epistemology, his conversion to Islam, and controversial conviction for Holocaust denial

French official, architect, and urban planner who supervised the radical urban renewal of Paris, introducing grand boulevards and parks

French diplomat and writer known for his theories on scientific race and the Aryan master race