Marseille, France

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

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

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

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

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

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

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