Paris, France

Italian playwright and librettist celebrated for his witty comedies that mirrored the lives and values of 18th-century Venetian society

Mathematician and astronomer who transformed classical mechanics and pioneered the calculus of variations

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

Austrian novelist and journalist best known for his family saga Radetzky March and his novel of Jewish life Job

French physicist, engineer, and military officer known for Coulomb's law, describing electrostatic attraction and repulsion, and for pioneering work in friction and soil mechanics

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

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

Prolific French playwright, filmmaker, and actor, known for his 115 plays and significant contributions to boulevard theatre

German-born French composer, cellist, and impresario known for his influential operettas and the opera The Tales of Hoffmann

French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate for vascular suturing, pioneer of organ transplantation and tissue culture

French artillery officer whose wrongful conviction for espionage sparked the historic Dreyfus affair, exposing antisemitism and judicial error in France