French - Notable Historical Events
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French - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
498-12-25 |
French King Clovis baptises himself |
881-08-03 |
Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings |
896-02-22 |
Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor |
922-06-09 |
French republic chooses Robert I, King of France |
987-12-30 |
French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king |
999-04-02 |
Gerbert of Aurillac elected as 1st French Pope |
1119-06-28 |
Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders |
1140-06-03 |
French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. |
1198-12-26 |
French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest |
1212-06-20 |
French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo |
1216-05-21 |
French crown prince Louis enters England |
1217-09-12 |
French prince Louis & English King Henry III sign peace treaty |
1259-12-04 |
Treaty of Paris: English King Henry III & French King Louis IX |
1275-05-23 |
King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews |
1296-01-09 |
Earl Floris V signs accord with French King |
1302-05-18 |
Bruges Matins; the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by local Flemish militia. |
1302-07-11 |
Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army |
1303-05-20 |
Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to the English and arranges for marriage of English Prince Edward to French Princess Isabella |
1303-09-08 |
Anagni: French King Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII |
1304-08-10 |
-11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet |
1305-06-23 |
French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge |
1307-10-13 |
French King Philip IV convicts templars because of heresy |
1328-05-27 |
French King Philip VI Valois crowned |
1328-08-23 |
Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers |
1340-06-24 |
In the Hundred Years War, English fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys |
1352-01-06 |
French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star |
1356-09-19 |
English forces under The Black Prince defeat French at Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King during the Hundred Years War |
1358-05-28 |
Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising |
1358-06-10 |
French Jacquerie peasant leader Guillaume Cale captured at the Battle of Mello |
1360-03-15 |
French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea |
1360-05-08 |
Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French |
1360-12-05 |
The French Franc is created. |
1364-09-29 |
Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany |
1376-04-03 |
Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat French |
1377-06-29 |
French raid at Rye, England |
1380-11-16 |
French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever |
1382-03-01 |
French Maillotin uprises against taxes |
1382-11-27 |
Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed |
1389-10-30 |
French King Charles VI visits pope Clemens VII |
1390-07-01 |
French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates |
1415-10-25 |
Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight |
1419-01-19 |
French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War |
1421-03-21 |
Battle of Beauge-French beat English |
1423-07-31 |
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. |
1429-05-07 |
English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army |
1429-07-16 |
Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims |
1435-09-21 |
Treaty of Atrecht: Philip of Bourgondy vs French King Charles II |
1438-07-07 |
French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges |
1450-04-15 |
French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War |
1453-05-29 |
French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated |
1453-07-17 |
1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops |
1453-10-19 |
2nd Battle at Castillon: French forces defeat beats the English, end of The Hundred Years' War |
1463-01-05 |
French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris |
1464-06-19 |
French King Louis XI forms postal service |
1465-10-05 |
French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout |
1468-10-14 |
Treaty of Peronne: Duke Charles the Stoute & French King Louis XI |
1494-11-18 |
French King Charles VIII occupies Florence |
1495-02-22 |
French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown |
1495-05-20 |
French King Charles VIII leaves Naples |
1495-05-31 |
Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League |
1495-07-06 |
Battle of Fornovo, near Parma: French King Charles VIII beats Holy League |
1495-07-20 |
French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders |
1499-10-06 |
French King Louis XII occupies Milan |
1499-11-05 |
Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. |
1503-02-13 |
Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta. |
1504-01-31 |
By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon |
1509-04-16 |
French army under Louis XII enters Alps |
1509-05-14 |
Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy |
1511-01-19 |
Mirandola surrenders to the French. |
1511-10-05 |
Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League |
1511-11-17 |
England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of Westminster |
1512-02-05 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna |
1512-02-16 |
Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen |
1512-02-19 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia |
1512-04-11 |
Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars |
1515-09-14 |
Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory |
1516-11-29 |
Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty |
1518-04-27 |
Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant |
1521-04-22 |
French King Francois I declares war on Spain |
1522-01-30 |
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland |
1522-05-30 |
French troops driven out of Genoa |
1522-06-24 |
Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army |
1523-09-19 |
Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant |
1524-04-19 |
Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly |
1525-02-24 |
Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French. French King Francois I captured, 15,000 killed/wounded |
1526-03-17 |
French King Francois I freed from Spain |
1526-05-22 |
Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac |
1529-08-03 |
"Peace of the Ladies" (Treaty of Cambrai) made between Holy Roman Empire and the French, negotiated by Louise of Savoy and Margaret of Austria |
1534-05-10 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland |
1534-10-18 |
New pursuit of French protestants |
1535-09-01 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) |
1536-07-09 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada |
1537-03-17 |
French troops invade Flanders |
1537-07-30 |
Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire |
1538-06-18 |
Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I |
1541-08-23 |
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada. |
1542-07-12 |
French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders |
1542-08-02 |
French troops leave Flanders |
1543-02-11 |
Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant |
1543-07-07 |
French troops invade Luxembourg |
1543-08-05 |
French & Turkish troops occupy Nice |
1543-09-06 |
French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice |
1544-04-14 |
Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss |
1544-09-18 |
Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I |
1545-04-12 |
French King Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed |
1545-07-21 |
The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs. |
1549-08-12 |
French troops occupy Ambleteuse England |
1558-01-07 |
Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French |
1558-01-08 |
French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais |
1558-07-13 |
Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. |
1558-11-07 |
French King Henri II occupies Calais |
1561-01-28 |
By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended |
1562-04-30 |
1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida |
1563-07-27 |
French army recaptures Le Havre |
1565-09-20 |
Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French |
1567-11-10 |
Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots |
1568-03-23 |
Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike |
1570-07-25 |
Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army |
1572-08-22 |
Failed assassination on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman and admiral, a Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion |
1572-08-24 |
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces |
1575-11-08 |
French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty |
1579-05-17 |
Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian |
1580-11-26 |
French Huguenots & Roman Catholics sign peace treaty |
1582-04-03 |
French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen |
1582-08-23 |
French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders |
1583-06-17 |
Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries |
1585-07-07 |
King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms |
1588-07-11 |
French King Henri III accept demands of Catholic League |
1589-08-01 |
Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément |
1589-09-21 |
Battle at Arques: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League |
1590-03-14 |
Battle of Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion |
1591-03-01 |
Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French King Henri IV |
1591-08-19 |
French King Henri IV occupies Rouen |
1591-09-21 |
French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France |
1594-03-22 |
French King Henri IV festival in Paris |
1595-01-17 |
French King Henri IV declares war on Spain |
1596-10-31 |
English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" |
1597-09-16 |
French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria |
1597-09-25 |
Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV |
1598-03-20 |
French King Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty |
1598-04-13 |
Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots |
1609-07-29 |
Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years |
1610-05-15 |
Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king |
1610-06-19 |
Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec |
1614-10-02 |
French King Louis XIII declared an adult at 13 |
1616-05-03 |
Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war |
1616-11-20 |
Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War |
1620-06-03 |
Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. |
1620-08-07 |
Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici |
1620-12-23 |
French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII |
1621-06-25 |
French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle |
1622-09-05 |
Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII |
1622-10-18 |
French King Louis XIII & Huguenots sign treaty of Montpellier |
1626-02-06 |
Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle |
1627-10-27 |
English assault on French Il de Ré |
1628-11-01 |
French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle |
1629-05-03 |
French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain |
1629-06-28 |
Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited |
1630-03-23 |
French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont |
1632-03-29 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. |
1635-06-28 |
French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean |
1638-09-01 |
-4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam |
1638-12-17 |
French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine |
1639-02-07 |
Academie Francaise begins Dictionary of French Language |
1639-07-19 |
French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan |
1641-07-06 |
Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army |
1642-09-19 |
Perpignan surrenders to French troops |
1643-05-19 |
Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army |
1644-09-17 |
French troops occupy Mainz |
1645-08-03 |
Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians |
1647-09-01 |
French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan |
1648-06-30 |
French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together |
1648-08-20 |
Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards |
1648-11-11 |
Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands |
1649-03-11 |
The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. |
1650-01-18 |
French Prince Louis II of Condé captured |
1650-04-30 |
French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain |
1652-05-04 |
Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels |
1654-08-05 |
French troops occupy Stenay |
1654-11-23 |
French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life. |
1657-10-03 |
French troops occupy Mardyke |
1658-05-24 |
Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought |
1658-06-14 |
Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish |
1658-06-24 |
French fleet recaptures Duinkerk |
1658-06-25 |
Spanish garrison at Dunkirk surrenders to French & British |
1659-11-07 |
Peace of Pyreneeen: French King Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV |
1661-03-10 |
French King Louis XIV ends office of premier |
1661-09-05 |
French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested |
1665-08-02 |
French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers |
1666-10-25 |
Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance |
1667-05-24 |
French troops attack into Southern Netherlands |
1667-06-25 |
Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion |
1668-01-23 |
England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French |
1668-05-02 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle/1st peace of Aachen: ends War of Devolution, French-Spanish war in The Netherlands |
1669-02-01 |
French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion |
1670-06-01 |
English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
1671-11-01 |
French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
1671-11-11 |
Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine |
1672-06-07 |
Battle by Solebay: Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
1672-06-12 |
French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith |
1672-06-21 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht |
1673-06-14 |
Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet |
1673-06-16 |
Peace of Vossem: French King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg |
1673-07-06 |
French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War |
1673-08-21 |
Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet |
1673-08-30 |
Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant |
1675-01-05 |
Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
1676-06-02 |
Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet |
1677-02-15 |
King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands |
1677-04-11 |
Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III |
1677-04-22 |
Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet |
1677-11-16 |
French troops occupy Freiburg |
1678-04-25 |
French troops conquer Ypres |
1678-05-03 |
French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die |
1678-05-11 |
French admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curacao |
1678-08-14 |
Battle of Mons - French repulse William of Orange |
1680-03-22 |
Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas |
1681-10-23 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg |
1682-03-19 |
Nationally Council accept independence of French church |
1683-09-06 |
Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance |
1683-09-24 |
King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America |
1685-10-18 |
French King Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants |
1686-07-09 |
Germany, Sweden & Spain sign anti-French League of Augsburg |
1688-09-20 |
French troops occupies Palts |
1688-11-26 |
French King Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands |
1689-04-15 |
French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain |
1689-05-11 |
Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle |
1689-08-25 |
Battle at Charleroi: Spanish & English armies chase French |
1690-01-22 |
Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French |
1690-02-08 |
French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire |
1690-03-16 |
French King Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland |
1690-06-30 |
Battle of Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Dutch/English fleet |
1690-07-01 |
Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army |
1690-07-10 |
Battle of Beachy Head - French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen |
1690-08-01 |
Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy |
1691-04-09 |
French troops occupy Mons |
1692-07-24 |
French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein) |
1692-08-03 |
Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army |
1693-06-27 |
1st sea battle of Lagos: a French fleet under Anne Hilarion de Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke |
1693-07-04 |
Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army |
1693-10-04 |
Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. |
1694-06-29 |
Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports |
1695-08-04 |
French garrison of surrenders to Willem III |
1695-08-13 |
-15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels |
1695-09-01 |
French garrison of castle Namur surrenders fto the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England |
1696-07-28 |
De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance |
1697-10-30 |
Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Dutch/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending Nine Year War |
1701-09-07 |
Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant |
1702-08-19 |
-24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French |
1702-10-23 |
Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron |
1704-02-29 |
French & Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100 |
1704-08-02 |
Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim |
1704-08-13 |
French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
1704-08-25 |
Battle of Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet |
1705-10-01 |
Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rákóczi becomes king |
1706-05-23 |
Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed |
1708-08-29 |
Haverhill, Mass, destroyed by French & Indians |
1709-10-29 |
England/Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat" |
1710-12-08 |
Battle of Brihuega in the War of the Spanish Succession: British General James Stanhope captured by French & Spanish forces |
1711-09-22 |
French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro |
1712-10-08 |
French privateer Jacques Cassard seen on Suriname coast |
1712-11-02 |
Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800 |
1713-01-30 |
England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty |
1713-02-10 |
Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31] |
1713-02-18 |
French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao |
1713-02-27 |
French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao |
1713-04-11 |
Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty |
1713-06-23 |
The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. |
1714-03-06 |
Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg |
1714-09-07 |
Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine |
1714-09-11 |
French & Spanish troops under Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona |
1715-05-04 |
French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris) |
1717-11-28 |
Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne's Revenge" |
1718-08-25 |
Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded |
1720-10-10 |
French government proclaims strike on banknotes |
1726-06-11 |
Cardinal Fleury succeeds Duke of Bourbon as French premier |
1729-11-28 |
Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. |
1734-06-17 |
French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine |
1734-06-21 |
In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. |
1736-04-20 |
French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins his expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of latitude and prove the shape of the earth, he is joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier |
1736-05-26 |
Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French |
1737-02-20 |
French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns |
1738-07-20 |
North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. |
1739-04-05 |
French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty |
1741-08-15 |
French troops attack the Rhine |
1741-11-26 |
French & Beiers army occupies Prague |
1742-11-18 |
Prussia & Brtain sign anti-French military covenant |
1744-02-08 |
French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon |
1744-02-09 |
Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews) |
1744-02-22 |
Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet |
1744-03-15 |
French King Louis XV declares war on Britain |
1744-05-17 |
French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
1744-05-31 |
French troops conquer Kortrijk |
1745-06-17 |
American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Island from French |
1745-10-14 |
French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland |
1745-11-28 |
-29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY |
1746-02-22 |
French troops conquer Brussels |
1746-06-01 |
French troops conquer Antwerp |
1746-06-16 |
Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army |
1746-09-21 |
French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras |
1746-10-11 |
Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Neth armies |
1747-04-17 |
French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands |
1747-05-14 |
A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre. |
1747-09-16 |
French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom |
1747-10-25 |
British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre. |
1748-01-26 |
Britain, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty |
1748-05-07 |
French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession |
1752-06-09 |
French army surrenders to the British in Trichinopoly India |
1753-05-06 |
French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle |
1753-05-09 |
King Louis XV disbands French parliament |
1754-05-28 |
Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville |
1754-07-03 |
George Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War) |
1755-07-09 |
Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British |
1755-07-09 |
British General E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War |
1755-07-15 |
French ambassador recalled from London |
1755-09-08 |
Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French |
1756-05-17 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
1756-06-27 |
French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca |
1756-08-14 |
French capture Fort Oswego, NY |
1756-09-08 |
French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition. |
1757-01-05 |
Failed assassination attempt on French King Louis XV by Damiens |
1757-07-26 |
Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland |
1757-08-09 |
English Fort William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops |
1757-11-05 |
Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War) |
1758-05-21 |
Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. |
1758-06-23 |
Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. |
1758-07-08 |
British & Colonial assault on French forces at Ticonderoga, NY |
1758-07-25 |
Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. |
1758-09-12 |
French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula so begins his Messier Catalogue |
1758-11-25 |
Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French |
1759-04-08 |
British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India |
1759-04-13 |
French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen |
1759-07-25 |
British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) |
1759-07-26 |
French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY |
1759-09-13 |
British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) |
1759-09-18 |
Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City |
1759-11-20 |
-22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French |
1760-01-22 |
Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French |
1760-09-08 |
French army surrenders Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst |
1760-11-29 |
French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers |
1761-01-16 |
The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. |
1762-03-10 |
French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform |
1762-04-05 |
British take Grenada, West Indies, from French |
1763-02-10 |
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain |
1763-02-15 |
Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years War |
1764-02-15 |
St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue |
1764-11-09 |
Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. |
1766-03-05 |
Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French |
1771-02-16 |
Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy |
1776-05-12 |
Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns |
1776-09-06 |
Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die |
1776-10-26 |
Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. |
1779-06-18 |
French fleet occupies St Vincent |
1779-07-04 |
French fleet occupies Grenada |
1779-09-03 |
Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest |
1780-11-05 |
French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. |
1781-04-29 |
French fleet occupies Tobago during American War of Independence |
1781-04-29 |
French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope |
1781-08-30 |
French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in American Revolutionary War |
1781-09-05 |
Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, trap Cornwallis |
1781-09-28 |
9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown |
1781-10-06 |
Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of American Revolutionary War |
1782-02-04 |
British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet |
1782-02-13 |
French fleet occupies St Christopher |
1782-04-12 |
Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French |
1782-07-06 |
British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India) |
1785-06-15 |
2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident |
1785-08-15 |
French cardinal De Rohan arrested |
1786-12-29 |
French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convoked |
1787-07-06 |
French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax |
1788-06-07 |
Masses stone French army at Grenoble |
1788-08-08 |
King Louis XVI calls French States & Generals together |
1788-08-27 |
Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance |
1789-05-05 |
French Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614 at Versailles, summoned King Louis XVI |
1789-07-14 |
Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille |
1789-08-04 |
French National Meeting ending feudal system |
1789-08-27 |
French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen" |
1789-10-05 |
French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris. |
1789-10-06 |
French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October |
1789-11-05 |
French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law |
1791-06-20 |
King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution |
1791-06-21 |
Fleeing French King Louis XVI & family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne |
1791-07-14 |
The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. |
1791-07-17 |
Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people. |
1791-09-03 |
French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
1791-10-01 |
1st session of new French legislative assembly |
1791-11-21 |
Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. |
1792-02-07 |
Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant |
1792-04-14 |
France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars |
1792-06-13 |
King Louis XVI dissmisses French government |
1792-07-11 |
Prussia army moves into French territory |
1792-07-25 |
The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed. |
1792-08-13 |
Revolutionaries imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette |
1792-09-02 |
September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. |
1792-09-20 |
French defeat Prussians at Valmy |
1792-09-22 |
French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French King of his powers |
1792-11-06 |
Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire |
1792-12-26 |
During trial of French King Louis XVI court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze |
1793-01-16 |
French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution |
1793-02-24 |
French troops conquer Breda |
1793-03-04 |
French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth |
1793-03-05 |
French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured. |
1793-05-19 |
Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795) |
1793-05-30 |
Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public |
1793-08-08 |
The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution. |
1793-08-29 |
Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed |
1793-09-05 |
In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins |
1793-09-20 |
British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti |
1793-10-05 |
French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France. |
1793-11-03 |
French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. |
1793-12-18 |
Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. |
1793-12-26 |
Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. |
1794-02-04 |
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
1794-03-28 |
Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau. |
1794-04-30 |
The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union. |
1794-06-01 |
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win. |
1794-06-25 |
French troops occupy Charleroi |
1794-06-26 |
Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon |
1794-07-13 |
Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria |
1794-07-28 |
French Revolution figure Robespierre & 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris |
1794-08-26 |
French troops occupy Lock |
1794-09-27 |
French troops conquer Crèvecoeur |
1794-10-09 |
French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
1794-10-29 |
French troops occupies Venlo |
1794-11-03 |
French troops conquer Maastricht |
1794-11-07 |
French troops conquer Nijmegen |
1794-12-30 |
French troops conquer Grave Neth |
1795-01-16 |
French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth |
1795-01-18 |
French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance |
1795-02-05 |
Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud |
1795-02-25 |
French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an "educational utopia" aiming to "put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment." |
1795-05-16 |
Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state |
1795-07-15 |
"Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem |
1795-10-26 |
The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created. |
1796-04-21 |
Napoleon and the French defeat the Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi |
1796-05-10 |
French government arrest 10 utopists |
1796-05-15 |
French troops occupy Milan |
1796-09-08 |
Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians |
1796-11-17 |
Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy |
1797-02-22 |
The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales. |
1798-03-07 |
The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. |
1798-08-01 |
Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet |
1798-08-02 |
British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile |
1798-08-22 |
French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. |
1798-08-27 |
Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts the English |
1798-10-12 |
Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg |
1798-12-24 |
Russia & Britain sign Second anti-French Coalition |
1799-01-14 |
King of Naples flees before advancing French armies |
1799-02-09 |
USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
1799-07-15 |
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. |
1799-07-25 |
French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir |
1799-10-06 |
Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army |
1799-10-22 |
Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition |
1800-01-08 |
Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi |
1800-03-20 |
French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo |
1800-05-15 |
Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles |
1800-09-05 |
Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
1801-03-08 |
British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt |
1801-07-06 |
Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British |
1801-07-11 |
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet |
1801-07-12 |
Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish |
1802-03-27 |
Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends |
1802-04-08 |
French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled |
1802-05-19 |
French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms |
1802-06-15 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Héros |
1803-02-04 |
William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" |
1803-04-01 |
French law rules the use of intention |
1803-05-17 |
John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine |
1803-07-05 |
The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king). |
1803-11-18 |
Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French |
1803-12-20 |
French flag lowered in New Orleans to mark formal transfer of Louisiana Purchase from France to US for $27M |
1804-03-21 |
French civil Code of Napoleon adopted |
1804-05-18 |
Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate |
1804-10-02 |
Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion |
1805-10-21 |
Battle of Trafalgar, British Admiral Nelson defeats French & Spanish fleet but shot and killed |
1805-11-11 |
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force. |
1805-11-16 |
Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French |
1805-12-31 |
End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism |
1806-01-12 |
French evacuate Vienna |
1806-10-08 |
British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve |
1806-10-14 |
Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians |
1806-10-27 |
The French Army enters in Berlin. |
1807-02-09 |
French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon |
1807-06-14 |
Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. |
1808-03-31 |
French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names |
1808-04-09 |
Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace |
1808-05-02 |
Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid |
1808-05-30 |
Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate |
1808-06-05 |
-6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians |
1808-07-15 |
French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples |
1808-07-20 |
Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names |
1808-08-21 |
Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War. |
1809-01-12 |
British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814) |
1809-01-16 |
Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna |
1809-02-13 |
French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege |
1809-04-20 |
Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria |
1809-05-24 |
Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war |
1809-07-27 |
Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army |
1810-02-01 |
Seville, Spain surrenders to French |
1810-07-04 |
French troops occupy Amsterdam |
1810-07-09 |
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire. |
1810-08-09 |
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire. |
1811-03-01 |
French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel |
1811-05-16 |
Peninsular War: Allies defeat French at Albuera |
1811-10-06 |
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte visits Utrecht |
1812-04-05 |
Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish |
1812-07-22 |
Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain |
1812-09-15 |
French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow |
1812-12-12 |
French invasion of Russia comes to an end. |
1813-08-23 |
Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French |
1813-08-30 |
Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance. |
1814-02-10 |
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert, the French beat the Russians |
1814-02-18 |
The Battle of Montereau; victory of French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Austrians and Württembergers under the King of Württemberg. |
1814-05-17 |
Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian. |
1814-05-30 |
Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. |
1815-06-16 |
Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia |
1815-06-16 |
Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French |
1816-07-01 |
French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's painting "Raft of the Medusa" |
1816-07-03 |
French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas |
1816-07-19 |
Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days |
1820-09-25 |
French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself |
1821-08-19 |
Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII |
1822-03-31 |
The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. |
1825-06-20 |
Coronation of French King Charles X the Bourbon |
1825-10-17 |
1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris |
1827-10-20 |
Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russ/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet |
1828-10-07 |
The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison. |
1829-08-08 |
French government of De Polignac forms |
1830-06-12 |
Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch. |
1831-03-10 |
The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. |
1832-11-23 |
French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium |
1832-12-04 |
French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
1834-03-09 |
French Foreign Legion is founded. |
1839-01-02 |
1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
1839-01-09 |
Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science |
1840-08-18 |
French colony established in Akaroa, South Island of New Zealand |
1840-12-05 |
Napoleon Bonaparte receives a french state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death |
1848-02-24 |
King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared |
1848-02-26 |
2nd French Republic proclaimed |
1848-03-05 |
Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. |
1848-04-28 |
Free last slaves in French colonies |
1848-09-16 |
Slavery abolished in all French territories |
1849-07-03 |
The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. |
1851-12-02 |
French President Charles Louis Bonaparte in a Coup d'etat overthrows the Second Republic establishing himself as Emperor. |
1852-09-24 |
Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power |
1852-12-02 |
2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor |
1854-07-13 |
In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon. |
1854-09-04 |
English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka |
1854-09-20 |
Battle of the Alma: first major battle of Crimean War. British and French alliance defeat the Russians |
1854-11-05 |
Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 at Inkerman |
1855-06-17 |
Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, Crimea: 2,000+ killed |
1857-07-18 |
Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French. |
1858-01-14 |
French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed |
1859-02-16 |
The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch. |
1859-06-24 |
Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcame the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I. |
1860-09-21 |
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao. |
1860-10-12 |
British & French troops capture Beijing |
1862-05-05 |
French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo |
1862-06-25 |
Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days |
1863-04-30 |
Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. |
1863-06-07 |
Mexico City captured by French troops |
1863-08-11 |
Cambodia becomes French protectorate |
1864-09-03 |
US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki |
1864-09-05 |
British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits |
1866-05-18 |
French government of De Putte resigns |
1867-01-31 |
Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria |
1867-03-12 |
Last French troops leave Mexico |
1867-11-03 |
Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi |
1868-08-18 |
French Astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse |
1869-07-15 |
Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy |
1870-09-04 |
The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan |
1870-09-20 |
Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French |
1871-05-21 |
-July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die |
1873-07-10 |
French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol |
1878-12-18 |
French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed |
1879-01-30 |
French President MacMahon resigns |
1879-04-08 |
Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers |
1879-08-17 |
Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company |
1880-09-23 |
Jules Ferry forms French government |
1880-11-08 |
Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater |
1881-04-25 |
French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia |
1881-05-12 |
Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate |
1881-07-26 |
French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax |
1881-11-05 |
French government-Ferry resigns |
1881-11-14 |
Leon Gambetta forms French government |
1882-05-13 |
Toba indians killed 20 members of French expedition |
1882-09-03 |
French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die |
1883-02-01 |
French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger |
1883-02-21 |
2nd French government of Ferry begins |
1883-04-02 |
Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack |
1883-04-12 |
French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal |
1883-05-31 |
French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar |
1885-03-21 |
2nd French government of Ferry resigns |
1885-06-17 |
Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere' |
1887-02-23 |
French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die |
1887-12-02 |
French president Grevy (80) resigns |
1888-12-11 |
French Panama Canal Company fails |
1889-03-31 |
300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution) |
1890-04-06 |
French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan |
1890-04-27 |
French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan |
1890-08-05 |
British & French accord to divide African colonization |
1891-01-01 |
French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed |
1891-02-24 |
French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan |
1892-01-24 |
Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries |
1892-08-17 |
Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Double Alliance |
1892-11-02 |
French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands |
1893-03-10 |
Ivory Coast becomes a French colony |
1893-12-28 |
French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu |
1894-04-24 |
French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 |
1894-05-21 |
22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine. |
1894-11-16 |
French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa |
1894-12-22 |
French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
1895-01-05 |
French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent |
1895-01-15 |
French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar |
1895-01-17 |
French president Casimir-Perier resigns |
1895-09-23 |
French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms |
1896-07-01 |
Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier of Canada |
1897-08-14 |
The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. |
1898-07-04 |
French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die |
1898-07-12 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan |
1898-09-29 |
French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught |
1898-11-02 |
French government of Dupuy forms |
1899-03-21 |
British & French accord over West Africa |
1899-09-09 |
French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds |
1900-02-15 |
General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes |
1900-08-04 |
An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion |
1900-12-24 |
The French Chamber of Deputies and Senate pass a bill calling for an end to agitation or prosecutions against those involved in the Dreyfus affair, which has divided France since 1894 |
1901-07-20 |
Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony |
1901-11-07 |
A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896 |
1902-01-04 |
The French Panama Canal Company offers to sell its right to build a canal to the US for 40 million; this will tip the balance away from those favoring a canal through Nicaraugua |
1902-06-28 |
US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million |
1903-03-18 |
Following through on its attacks on Roman Catholic institutions, the French Government dissolves the Catholic religious orders |
1903-05-01 |
King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Paris, where he is feted in a first step toward improving Anglo-French relations, culminating in the sighing of the Entente Cordiale on 8 April, 1904 |
1903-11-17 |
Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate. |
1903-12-29 |
French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari |
1904-05-21 |
France recalls its ambassador to the Vatican to protest the Pope's attempt to discipline two French bishops; this is yet another incident driving France and the Catholic Church apart |
1905-01-18 |
French government of Combes falls |
1905-04-12 |
French Dufaux brothers test helicopter |
1905-05-02 |
French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work |
1905-06-06 |
French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request |
1905-11-22 |
British, Italian, Russian, French & Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos |
1905-12-09 |
French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state |
1906-01-10 |
The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues |
1906-12-31 |
French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia |
1907-07-18 |
French troops occupy Casablanca |
1907-07-30 |
Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners |
1907-11-13 |
French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor) |
1908-01-13 |
French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip |
1908-08-03 |
French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France. Known as the 'Old man of La Chappelle' his skeleton shows that Neanderthals led physically stressful lives with high risk of injury. |
1909-02-20 |
Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. |
1909-06-28 |
1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens |
1909-09-07 |
Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. |
1910-12-09 |
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
1911-01-17 |
Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
1911-05-02 |
French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco |
1911-05-21 |
French troop enter Fez in Morocco to quell anti-European agitation |
1911-06-30 |
Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War |
1911-09-25 |
French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
1911-09-29 |
Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode |
1912-03-30 |
French protectorate in Morocco established |
1912-07-25 |
Comoros proclaimed a French colonies |
1912-09-29 |
French/British troops lands on Samoa |
1913-01-21 |
Aristide Briand forms French government |
1913-02-18 |
French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC |
1914-07-30 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
1914-07-30 |
John French appointed British supreme commander |
1914-08-02 |
German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
1914-08-03 |
French fleet sails to North Africa |
1914-08-06 |
WWI: French cavalry enters Belgium |
1914-08-06 |
Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I. |
1914-08-07 |
French government awards King Albert of Belgium the Great Cross |
1914-08-07 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
1914-08-08 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
1914-08-10 |
WWI: French fall back at Alsace |
1914-08-14 |
British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France |
1914-08-17 |
French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
1914-08-18 |
French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg |
1914-08-20 |
Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing thousands |
1914-08-21 |
French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre |
1914-08-22 |
Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French |
1914-08-25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1914-08-28 |
British General John French evacuate Amiens |
1914-08-29 |
Battle of St Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac |
1914-09-03 |
French troops vacate Rheims |
1914-09-05 |
- till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris |
1914-09-05 |
French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine |
1914-09-15 |
Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I |
1914-09-18 |
Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I |
1914-10-04 |
Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts |
1914-12-10 |
French government returns to Paris |
1914-12-16 |
French offensive in Artois (Pétain) |
1915-02-13 |
The French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region |
1915-02-28 |
WWI: After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region, they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50,000 casualties |
1915-03-18 |
French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed |
1915-04-05 |
French begin Woëvre-offensive |
1915-04-18 |
French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. |
1915-05-09 |
German & French fight Battle of Artois |
1915-06-10 |
British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
1915-10-08 |
Battle of Loos WWI, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed |
1915-10-19 |
US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French |
1915-12-03 |
General Joseph Joffre becomes Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies |
1915-12-12 |
Aristide Briand forms French war government |
1916-01-11 |
French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
1916-02-08 |
French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 |
1916-02-23 |
French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun |
1916-02-26 |
Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 |
1916-03-12 |
French airship sinks British submarine D3 |
1916-03-24 |
German submarines torpedo the French Channel packet 'Sussex' which is unarmed |
1916-04-05 |
French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
1916-05-22 |
French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun |
1916-05-24 |
French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured |
1916-12-13 |
French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle |
1916-12-15 |
French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
1917-09-06 |
French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
1917-12-06 |
French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 |
1917-12-12 |
French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 |
1918-04-15 |
Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents |
1918-07-18 |
US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I |
1918-11-13 |
Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg |
1918-12-09 |
French troops occupies Mainz |
1919-02-20 |
French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt |
1919-04-19 |
French assembly decides on 8 hour work day |
1920-01-11 |
French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die |
1920-01-19 |
Alexandre Millerand forms French government |
1920-04-06 |
French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau |
1921-01-30 |
French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death |
1922-11-19 |
Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent |
1923-01-11 |
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
1923-03-31 |
French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die |
1923-11-02 |
Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven) |
1924-03-27 |
New French government of Poincaré begins |
1924-05-11 |
Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election |
1924-05-12 |
7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind |
1924-06-13 |
Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier |
1924-08-17 |
French-German trade agreement signed |
1924-09-28 |
French government names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria |
1924-10-28 |
French-Russian trade agreement signed |
1924-11-30 |
Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied |
1924-11-30 |
French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh |
1925-01-04 |
French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better" |
1925-01-05 |
French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings |
1925-04-11 |
Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco |
1925-04-17 |
Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier |
1925-05-08 |
French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco |
1925-07-13 |
French occupation force begins evacuating country |
1925-09-29 |
French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed |
1925-10-14 |
Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) |
1925-10-18 |
-20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus |
1925-11-28 |
7th French government of Briand sworn-in |
1926-05-19 |
French air force bombs Damascus Syria |
1926-05-23 |
Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate |
1926-06-14 |
2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (6-1 6-0) |
1926-06-15 |
7th French government of Briand falls |
1926-07-19 |
2nd French government of Herriot, forms |
1926-07-23 |
French government of Poincaré forms |
1926-08-01 |
Battles between Druze & French in Damascus |
1926-08-05 |
French & German trade agreement signed |
1926-09-30 |
German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes |
1926-12-29 |
Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index |
1927-06-05 |
3rd French Mens Tennis: R Lacoste beats B Tilden (6-4 4-6 5-7 6-3 11-9) |
1928-10-03 |
French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 |
1929-09-05 |
French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe |
1929-10-22 |
French government of Briand falls |
1930-02-17 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
1930-06-01 |
6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (3-6 8-6 6-3 6-1) |
1930-06-01 |
6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-2 6-1) |
1930-12-04 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
1930-12-13 |
Theodore Steeg forms French government |
1931-01-22 |
French government of Steeg falls |
1931-06-14 |
French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450 |
1932-07-27 |
Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death |
1932-09-05 |
The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. |
1932-10-29 |
French liner Normandie is launched |
1932-12-14 |
French government of Herriot falls |
1933-01-28 |
French government of Paul Boncour falls |
1933-01-31 |
French government of Daladier takes power |
1933-10-26 |
French government of Serraut forms |
1933-11-26 |
Camille Chautemps becomes French premier |
1934-01-27 |
French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) |
1934-02-06 |
Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France. |
1934-02-08 |
Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
1934-06-30 |
French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
1934-07-27 |
French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms |
1935-05-29 |
French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd |
1935-06-03 |
French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
1936-01-22 |
French Laval government falls |
1936-05-03 |
French People's Front wins elections |
1936-07-14 |
1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government |
1936-10-02 |
French franc devalued |
1936-11-05 |
French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime |
1936-11-06 |
Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London |
1937-06-21 |
French People's front government-Blum falls |
1938-12-06 |
French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
1939-04-16 |
Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact |
1940-03-19 |
French government of Daladier falls |
1940-03-20 |
Paul Reynoud becomes French premier |
1940-05-10 |
French marines stationed on Aruba |
1940-05-10 |
French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands |
1940-05-12 |
French mariners occupy St Maarten |
1940-05-19 |
French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle |
1940-05-21 |
Reynaud forms French government |
1940-05-27 |
British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII |
1940-05-28 |
British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway |
1940-06-03 |
Last British/French troop leave Dunkirk |
1940-06-05 |
General Charles de Gaulle becomes French junior minister of Defense |
1940-06-07 |
British/French troops evacuate Narvik |
1940-06-10 |
French government moves to Bordeaux |
1940-06-18 |
Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers |
1940-07-03 |
British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it. |
1940-07-04 |
British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die |
1940-07-11 |
Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France. |
1940-08-03 |
German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies |
1940-08-26 |
Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor. |
1940-08-28 |
French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle |
1940-09-23 |
-27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees |
1940-09-26 |
Japanese troops attack French Indo-China |
1940-10-04 |
French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs" |
1941-01-28 |
French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day. |
1941-06-08 |
British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria |
1941-06-11 |
Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews |
1941-06-21 |
2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria |
1941-06-22 |
Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group. |
1941-08-12 |
French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany |
1942-02-27 |
1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-03-28 |
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire |
1942-04-17 |
POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein. |
1942-05-27 |
Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
1942-06-14 |
French government of Reynaud resigns |
1942-07-16 |
French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris |
1942-07-17 |
Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-07 |
Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-17 |
Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-21 |
Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-24 |
Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-26 |
Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-08-28 |
Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-04 |
Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-07 |
Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-11 |
Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-21 |
Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-23 |
Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-09-29 |
French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich |
1942-10-22 |
US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria |
1942-11-07 |
First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French |
1942-11-08 |
Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa |
1942-11-09 |
Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942-11-11 |
745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz |
1942-11-11 |
Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany |
1942-11-14 |
Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender |
1942-11-24 |
French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
1942-11-27 |
French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them |
1943-01-30 |
German assault on French in Tunisia |
1943-02-11 |
Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943-03-04 |
Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
1943-05-20 |
French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia |
1943-05-27 |
French resistance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris |
1943-05-30 |
French general Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
1943-07-31 |
Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany |
1943-09-09 |
US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
1943-09-12 |
Free French lands on Corsica |
1943-10-04 |
Corsica freed by Free French |
1943-11-08 |
France arrests government of Lebanon after they abolish the French mandate |
1943-12-17 |
Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-04-13 |
Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-05-30 |
Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany |
1944-06-04 |
1st British gliders touch down on French soil for D-Day |
1944-06-04 |
French general De Gaulle arrives in London |
1944-06-05 |
1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day invasion |
1944-06-17 |
-19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
1944-06-19 |
French troops free Elba |
1944-06-30 |
French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands |
1944-07-06 |
French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC |
1944-07-31 |
Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-08-10 |
US/French offensive at Alencon |
1944-08-11 |
French 5th Armour division recaptures Sées |
1944-08-15 |
Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast |
1944-08-22 |
Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1944-08-31 |
French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris |
1944-08-31 |
French troops liberate Bordeaux |
1944-09-03 |
French troops liberate Lyon |
1946-01-07 |
Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union |
1946-01-20 |
F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government |
1946-03-19 |
French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique & Reunion become overseas "departments" of France |
1946-04-17 |
Syria declares independence from French administration |
1946-11-10 |
Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election |
1946-11-23 |
French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000 |
1946-11-28 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
1946-12-13 |
Leon Blum elected French premier |
1946-12-19 |
War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
1946-12-24 |
4th French republic established |
1946-12-31 |
French troops leave Lebanon |
1947-02-27 |
Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized |
1947-04-16 |
-17] Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp |
1947-04-19 |
French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 |
1947-08-07 |
Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean |
1947-10-19 |
De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections |
1947-11-23 |
French government of Schumann forms |
1948-07-19 |
French government of Schuman, resigns |
1949-07-19 |
Laos becomes associated state within French Union |
1950-01-01 |
Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China |
1950-02-07 |
Georges Bidault forms French government |
1950-05-09 |
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS |
1950-06-03 |
French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal |
1950-06-24 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
1950-07-02 |
Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic. |
1950-07-13 |
René Pleven forms French government |
1950-07-19 |
French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh |
1950-09-16 |
Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam |
1950-10-04 |
French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam |
1950-10-05 |
"Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs |
1950-11-07 |
French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta |
1951-01-06 |
"Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs |
1951-02-28 |
French government of Pleven dissolves |
1951-05-15 |
The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. |
1951-06-18 |
De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
1951-10-31 |
French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan |
1952-01-07 |
French Plevin government falls |
1952-01-24 |
Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base |
1952-02-01 |
General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
1952-02-19 |
French offensive at Hanoi |
1952-03-08 |
Antoine Pinay forms French government |
1952-10-25 |
French president inaugurates Donzère-Mondragonstuw Dam |
1952-12-08 |
French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
1952-12-22 |
French government of Pinay, resigns |
1953-01-08 |
René Mayer forms French government |
1953-05-21 |
French government of Mayer resigns |
1953-05-30 |
23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2) |
1953-05-30 |
23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4) |
1953-06-27 |
Joseph Laniel appointed French premier |
1953-08-13 |
4-5 million French go on strike against economizations |
1953-09-03 |
French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy |
1953-11-06 |
French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
1953-11-09 |
Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from Fance, within the French Union |
1953-11-30 |
French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
1954-04-21 |
USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam |
1954-05-07 |
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu |
1954-06-04 |
France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
1954-06-18 |
Pierre Mendèsforms French government |
1954-08-11 |
Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh |
1954-10-02 |
Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal |
1954-10-10 |
Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops |
1954-10-31 |
Algerian Revolution against French begins |
1954-11-01 |
India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements |
1955-02-23 |
Edgar Faure forms French government |
1955-08-20 |
Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria |
1956-01-02 |
Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
1956-01-31 |
French government of Mollet forms |
1956-02-06 |
French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers |
1956-03-27 |
French commandos land in Algeria |
1956-04-11 |
French government decides to send 200,000 reservists to Algeria |
1956-04-28 |
Last French troop leave Vietnam |
1956-05-10 |
French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria |
1956-05-27 |
French raid in Algiers |
1956-07-23 |
The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs. |
1956-08-29 |
French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
1956-12-22 |
Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
1957-05-21 |
French government of Mollet resigns |
1957-06-16 |
French offensive in Algeria |
1957-09-30 |
French government of Mauroy resigns due to Algeria |
1957-10-17 |
French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
1958-02-08 |
French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die |
1958-04-16 |
French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis |
1958-05-13 |
French settlers riot against French army in Algeria |
1958-05-13 |
Pierre Pflimlin forms French government |
1958-05-28 |
French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle |
1958-06-04 |
French premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers |
1958-06-06 |
Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French |
1958-06-21 |
French franc devalues |
1958-07-27 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open |
1958-09-30 |
French Guinee becomes independent republic Guinea |
1958-10-02 |
Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
1958-10-04 |
5th French republic forms |
1958-10-14 |
Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
1958-11-24 |
Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community |
1958-11-25 |
Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community |
1958-11-28 |
Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community |
1958-11-28 |
Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community |
1958-12-04 |
Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community |
1958-12-18 |
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) |
1958-12-30 |
French franc devalued |
1959-01-01 |
Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
1959-01-13 |
French President Charles de Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 Algerians sentenced to death |
1959-03-25 |
French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary |
1959-04-04 |
Fed of Mali, consisting of Senegal & French Sudan (dissolved 1960) |
1959-04-12 |
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
1959-05-29 |
Charles de Gaulle forms French government |
1959-09-16 |
French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination |
1959-12-02 |
Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus |
1960-01-01 |
Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France |
1960-01-22 |
French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
1960-01-24 |
Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
1960-03-04 |
French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
1960-04-01 |
2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara) |
1960-04-27 |
Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm |
1960-05-11 |
French liner "France" launched |
1960-09-22 |
Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France |
1960-11-22 |
French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
1960-11-30 |
French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
1961-04-21 |
French army revolts in Algeria |
1961-04-22 |
Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria |
1961-04-23 |
Algiers putsch by French generals. |
1961-04-26 |
French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria |
1961-07-20 |
French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. |
1961-07-29 |
Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory |
1962-02-05 |
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
1962-03-25 |
French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
1962-05-01 |
1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara |
1962-06-02 |
32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
1962-06-22 |
French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed |
1962-06-30 |
French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria |
1962-07-03 |
Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July) |
1962-07-05 |
Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule |
1962-08-14 |
French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel |
1962-08-22 |
Failed assassination on French president Charles de Gaulle |
1962-09-04 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
1963-02-11 |
Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres. |
1963-03-01 |
200,000 French mine workers strike |
1963-10-09 |
French air force gets first nuclear weapons |
1964-06-15 |
Last French troops leave Algeria |
1964-10-22 |
French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
1965-09-09 |
Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
1965-11-27 |
1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space |
1965-12-19 |
French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
1966-01-08 |
Georges Pompidou re-appointed French Prime Minister and forms new government |
1966-02-17 |
French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
1966-05-27 |
6 French fighters crash above Spain |
1966-06-11 |
French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
1967-03-19 |
French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France |
1967-04-06 |
Premier Georges Pompidou forms new French government |
1967-04-20 |
French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia |
1967-09-11 |
French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
1967-11-17 |
French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia |
1967-11-27 |
French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time |
1968-05-13 |
1,000,000 French demonstrate against Charles De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou |
1968-05-24 |
French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse |
1968-05-30 |
President De Gaulle disbands French parliament |
1968-06-09 |
38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62) |
1968-06-09 |
38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61) |
1968-06-30 |
Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats |
1968-07-13 |
French government-Couve de Murville forms |
1969-03-01 |
Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast |
1969-06-23 |
French government of Couve de Murville resigns |
1969-07-07 |
Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang |
1970-02-10 |
Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
1970-03-04 |
French submarine "Eurydice" explodes |
1970-05-28 |
The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel. |
1970-12-23 |
French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia |
1971-02-24 |
Algeria nationalizes 51 percent of French oil concessions |
1972-04-02 |
44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win |
1972-07-05 |
Pierre Messmer appointed French premier |
1973-06-04 |
43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
1973-06-05 |
43rd French Men's Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
1973-06-23 |
World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific |
1973-12-23 |
French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed |
1974-05-19 |
Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
1974-09-13 |
-17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
1974-12-22 |
Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
1975-05-14 |
French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia |
1975-06-14 |
45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) |
1975-06-15 |
45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) |
1975-08-21 |
3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway |
1975-09-15 |
The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. |
1976-05-24 |
In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. |
1977-01-12 |
Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes |
1977-03-20 |
Communists/socialists win French municipal elections |
1978-03-16 |
Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast |
1978-03-17 |
Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast |
1978-06-11 |
Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title |
1978-08-14 |
French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) |
1979-06-09 |
49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60) |
1979-06-10 |
49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
1979-09-20 |
Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman. |
1980-03-06 |
French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) |
1980-06-07 |
50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62) |
1980-06-08 |
50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63) |
1981-02-01 |
French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq |
1981-02-26 |
French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run |
1981-06-06 |
51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64) |
1981-06-07 |
51st French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61) |
1981-06-21 |
Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election |
1981-06-23 |
French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists |
1982-06-05 |
52nd French Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (76 61) |
1982-06-06 |
52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64) |
1982-09-24 |
US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
1983-06-04 |
53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
1983-06-05 |
53rd French Men's Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
1984-06-09 |
54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61) |
1984-06-10 |
54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (3-6 2-6 6-4 7-5 7-5) |
1984-08-25 |
French airship capsizes |
1984-12-05 |
French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia |
1985-03-10 |
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%) |
1985-04-03 |
French government adopts equal electoral system |
1985-06-06 |
55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75) |
1985-06-09 |
55th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (36 64 62 62) |
1985-07-10 |
French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, New Zealand |
1985-08-26 |
French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior |
1985-09-01 |
US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland |
1985-10-17 |
French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature |
1985-12-04 |
French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
1986-02-16 |
French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad |
1986-03-08 |
4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon |
1986-03-20 |
Jacques Chirac forms French government |
1986-06-07 |
56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63) |
1986-06-08 |
56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (6-3 6-2 6-4) |
1986-12-24 |
French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released |
1987-01-07 |
French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum |
1987-06-06 |
57th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (6-4 4-6 8-6) |
1987-06-07 |
57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76) |
1988-06-04 |
58th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (6-0 6-0) |
1988-06-05 |
58th French Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
1988-06-30 |
French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. |
1989-01-05 |
2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test |
1989-01-14 |
29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris |
1989-05-24 |
French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice |
1989-06-09 |
Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals |
1989-06-10 |
59th French Womens Tennis Open: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (7-6 3-6 7-5) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title |
1989-06-11 |
59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62) |
1989-09-19 |
French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die |
1990-05-10 |
French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph |
1990-06-09 |
60th French Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (7-6 6-4) |
1990-06-10 |
60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) |
1990-09-13 |
Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
1990-09-24 |
Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President Mitterrand called the action a violation of international law; a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah |
1990-10-23 |
Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages |
1990-11-10 |
Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari) |
1990-11-21 |
French President François Mitterrand voices support of a proposed UN resolution that would authorize the use of force in the Persian Gulf |
1990-12-01 |
British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) |
1991-06-08 |
61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) |
1991-06-09 |
61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64) |
1992-06-06 |
62nd French Womens Tennis Open: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (6-2 3-6 10-8) |
1992-06-07 |
62nd French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61) |
1993-03-28 |
Conservatives win French parliamentary election |
1993-03-30 |
French government of Balladur forms |
1993-06-05 |
63rd French Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (4-6 6-2 6-4) |
1993-06-06 |
63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) |
1994-06-05 |
64th French Men's Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) |
1994-06-05 |
64th French Women's Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (6-4 6-4) |
1994-06-23 |
Some 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN |
1994-06-24 |
1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting |
1994-07-16 |
Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights |
1994-07-17 |
French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche |
1994-08-21 |
The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there |
1994-09-08 |
Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin |
1994-12-26 |
French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille |
1995-05-07 |
Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election |
1995-06-10 |
65th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats A.S. Vicario (7-6 4-6 6-0) |
1995-06-11 |
65th French Mens Tennis: Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64) |
1996-03-24 |
Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual |
1996-06-08 |
66th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (6-3, 6-7, 10-8) |
1996-06-09 |
66th French Mens Tennis: Yevgeny Kafelnikov beats M Stich (76, 75, 76) |
1997-06-07 |
67th French Womens Tennis: Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62) |
1997-06-08 |
67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
1997-11-05 |
French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages |
1998-06-06 |
68th French Womens Tennis: |
1998-06-07 |
68th French Mens Tennis: |
1999-12-26 |
Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). |
2001-05-21 |
French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity. |
2002-07-14 |
French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. |
2002-10-06 |
The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. |
2004-11-04 |
12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war. |
2005-02-23 |
Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006. |
2006-01-12 |
The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. |
2007-04-03 |
Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. |
2008-03-22 |
The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008. |
2009-05-15 |
The French Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies announce that French gross domestic product shrank 1.2% in the first quarter of 2009 after falling by 1.5% in the final quarter of 2008; the French economy had avoided narrowly a recession in 2008 |
2012-04-10 |
Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97 |
2013-01-12 |
A failed attempt to rescue a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia, results in 18 deaths |
2013-04-09 |
The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage |
2013-04-23 |
The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
2013-05-12 |
Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 French football title |
2013-06-08 |
Serena Williams defeats Maria Sharapova to win the French Open in tennis |
2013-06-09 |
Rafael Nadel defeats David Ferrer to win his eighth French Open title |
2013-07-17 |
U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
2014-06-07 |
Maria Sharapova wins the French Open women's tennis singles |
2014-06-08 |
Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei win the women's tennis doubles at the French Open |
2014-06-08 |
Rafael Nadal wins his ninth French Open title |
2014-07-02 |
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors |
2015-11-15 |
10 killed after French high-speed train derails and crashes into canal |
2015-11-16 |
French jets bomb Syria in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa |
2015-12-26 |
French journalist Ursula Gauthier kicked out of China for slamming Beijing's Uyghur policy |
2016-06-16 |
French police arrest 36 after clashes with England fans |
2016-09-22 |
French actress Cotillard denies role in Jolie, Pitt split |
2017-04-24 |
Final French vote count puts Macron, Le Pen through to second round |
2017-04-24 |
Japan's Nikkei hits near 3-week high on French vote relief, Sony climbs |
2018-03-24 |
French policeman who took place of hostage dies of gunshot wounds |
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French - Notable Birthdays
French - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
582-08-13 |
Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) |
1024-05-13 |
Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109) |
1040-02-22 |
Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105) |
1075-02-16 |
Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet |
1160-06-23 |
Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder (Trinitarians) |
1213-03-09 |
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271) |
1291-10-31 |
Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet |
1321-09-29 |
John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387) |
1330-09-28 |
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1417?) |
1363-12-14 |
John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist |
1394-11-24 |
Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (d. 1465) |
1402-11-23 |
Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468) |
1409-03-02 |
John II, French duke of Alencon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc |
1465-02-04 |
French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen |
1466-03-21 |
French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen |
1476-09-11 |
Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I |
1491-12-31 |
Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557) |
1494-12-20 |
Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555) |
1498-04-09 |
John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550) |
1506-02-02 |
René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583) |
1506-04-13 |
Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546) |
1507-09-27 |
Guillaume Rondelet, Montpellier, French Naturalist famous for his study of marine animals |
1509-08-03 |
Étienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546) |
1510-10-25 |
Renée of France, French princess and Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1574) |
1513-10-29 |
Jacques Amyot, French humanist/translator/abbot of Bellozanne |
1515-11-22 |
Marie Guise, French wife of king James V of Scotland |
1515-12-22 |
Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland |
1517-07-25 |
Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist |
1518-08-08 |
Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) |
1519-02-16 |
Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral |
1519-02-17 |
Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563) |
1519-06-24 |
Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605) |
1521-04-18 |
Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac) |
1523-04-05 |
Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596) |
1524-08-23 |
Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien) |
1526-04-12 |
Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585) |
1527-10-21 |
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578) |
1528-01-07 |
Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV |
1529-06-07 |
Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615) |
1530-05-07 |
Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots |
1530-07-03 |
Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) |
1530-11-01 |
Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563) |
1537-07-20 |
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604) |
1539-11-01 |
Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596) |
1541-01-26 |
Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596) |
1545-05-01 |
Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist |
1547-11-12 |
Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
1549-11-05 |
Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay), French writer (d. 1623) |
1550-01-31 |
Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588) |
1552-02-08 |
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) |
1554-03-26 |
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) |
1555-09-23 |
Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange |
1556-03-07 |
Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621) |
1556-03-18 |
Francois-Hercule de Valois, French duke of Anjou/Brabant |
1556-11-15 |
Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618) |
1558-09-09 |
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602) |
1558-10-12 |
Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) |
1567-08-21 |
Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint |
1567-11-21 |
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) |
1568-02-11 |
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625) |
1571-01-09 |
Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621) |
1575-02-04 |
Pierre de Barulle, French cardinal |
1580-08-19 |
Pierre Vernier, Ornans, French mathematician and inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements |
1580-09-15 |
Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) |
1580-12-01 |
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637) |
1581-04-24 |
Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660) |
1581-10-09 |
Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist |
1582-11-27 |
Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651) |
1583-02-23 |
Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656) |
1585-01-06 |
Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian |
1588-04-15 |
Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist |
1588-09-01 |
Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646) |
1589-02-05 |
Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet |
1591-03-15 |
Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660) |
1591-09-08 |
Jacqueline M A de Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess |
1592-07-10 |
Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) |
1593-03-19 |
Georges de la Tour, French painter |
1593-03-25 |
Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) |
1594-06-15 |
Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665) |
1595-01-06 |
Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650) |
1595-12-04 |
Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) |
1597-01-12 |
François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643) |
1597-01-31 |
John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640) |
1597-02-24 |
Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648) |
1598-05-23 |
Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized |
1600-02-02 |
Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653) |
1601-08-22 |
Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667) |
1601-11-14 |
Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680) |
1602-03-18 |
Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) |
1602-05-26 |
Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674) |
1602-07-14 |
Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61) |
1602-08-10 |
Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675) |
1603-04-19 |
Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) |
1604-05-10 |
Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686) |
1604-08-04 |
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) |
1605-09-28 |
Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694) |
1605-10-16 |
Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer |
1606-05-25 |
Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) |
1606-11-12 |
Jeanne Mance, Langres, French Canadian settler (founded first hospital in North America) |
1607-01-10 |
Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) |
1607-11-15 |
Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701) |
1608-04-25 |
Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general |
1608-05-15 |
René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642) |
1609-11-16 |
Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669) |
1610-02-13 |
Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists |
1610-04-01 |
Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (d. 1703) |
1610-07-04 |
Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti) |
1610-10-06 |
Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690) |
1610-12-18 |
Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist |
1611-10-11 |
Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome |
1611-11-01 |
François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656) |
1612-02-06 |
Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist |
1612-09-28 |
Michel Anguier, French sculptor |
1613-02-02 |
Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) |
1613-03-12 |
André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700) |
1613-08-15 |
Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692) |
1613-09-15 |
François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680) |
1613-09-25 |
Claude Perrault, Paris, French Architect and Physician (east facade of the Louvre) |
1613-11-05 |
Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691) |
1616-01-13 |
Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic/French religious fanatic |
1616-01-16 |
François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669) |
1616-11-19 |
Eustache Le Sueur, French painter |
1618-04-13 |
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693) |
1619-02-24 |
Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690) |
1619-03-06 |
Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose |
1619-08-29 |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of Naval/baron |
1619-11-07 |
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692) |
1619-12-28 |
Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) |
1620-02-15 |
Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist |
1620-07-21 |
Jean Picard, French astronomer |
1620-11-10 |
Ninon de l'Enclos, French courtesan and writer (d. 1705) |
1621-07-08 |
Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables) |
1621-11-03 |
Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV) |
1622-01-15 |
Molière, French playwright (d. 1673) |
1622-01-28 |
Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691) |
1622-06-06 |
Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857) |
1622-10-31 |
Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694) |
1624-08-22 |
Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) |
1624-08-25 |
François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709) |
1624-10-30 |
Paul Pellisson, French writer (d. 1693) |
1625-07-10 |
Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) |
1625-08-20 |
Thomas Corneille, French playwright |
1625-10-04 |
Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661) |
1625-11-30 |
Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696) |
1625-12-14 |
Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) |
1626-02-05 |
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696) |
1627-09-27 |
Jacques-Benigne bossuet, French bishop and writer (Louis XIV court preacher), (d. 1704) |
1628-01-08 |
Francois de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxemburg, French soldier |
1628-12-25 |
Noel Coypel, French painter |
1630-11-24 |
Etienne Baluze, French scholar (d. 1718) |
1631-03-16 |
René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680) |
1632-06-10 |
Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710) |
1632-08-20 |
Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) |
1632-11-23 |
Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707) |
1633-06-16 |
Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667) |
1634-07-14 |
Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719) |
1635-05-05 |
Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret) |
1636-11-01 |
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711) |
1637-11-30 |
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698) |
1638-01-01 |
Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright |
1638-05-13 |
Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712) |
1638-08-06 |
Nicolas de Malebranche, French philosopher |
1639-01-19 |
Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian |
1639-12-22 |
Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699) |
1640-03-18 |
Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719) |
1640-06-15 |
Bernard Lamy, French mathematician (d. 1715) |
1640-09-29 |
Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized |
1640-12-06 |
Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723) |
1641-01-18 |
Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois) |
1641-10-05 |
Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707) |
1642-02-18 |
Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698) |
1643-03-25 |
Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680) |
1643-11-16 |
Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703) |
1643-11-22 |
René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer |
1643-12-22 |
Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana) |
1644-04-07 |
François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730) |
1644-08-06 |
Francoise L de la Baume Le Blanc, French mistress of Louis XIV |
1644-10-02 |
François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) |
1645-08-16 |
Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) |
1646-02-17 |
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714) |
1646-04-04 |
Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715) |
1646-04-15 |
Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719) |
1646-04-16 |
Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708) |
1646-04-20 |
Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) |
1647-03-12 |
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727) |
1647-07-22 |
Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint |
1647-08-22 |
Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) |
1647-11-08 |
Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer |
1648-04-09 |
Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720) |
1648-04-13 |
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717) |
1649-02-08 |
Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728) |
1649-06-13 |
Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706) |
1650-10-21 |
Jean Bart, French captain/sea hero (Escape from Plymouth) |
1651-04-06 |
André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722) |
1651-04-30 |
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint |
1651-05-27 |
Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729) |
1652-04-21 |
Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) |
1652-05-27 |
Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans |
1653-03-25 |
Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician |
1653-08-08 |
Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar |
1655-02-07 |
Jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria) |
1656-08-06 |
Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733) |
1656-09-06 |
Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1723) |
1656-10-20 |
Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746) |
1656-11-09 |
Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum) |
1658-01-08 |
Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Descente de Croix) |
1658-02-18 |
Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743) |
1658-03-05 |
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America |
1659-03-08 |
Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738) |
1659-07-20 |
Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743) |
1659-07-28 |
Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715) |
1661-01-30 |
Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741) |
1661-03-25 |
Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725) |
1661-04-11 |
Antoine Coypel, French painter/poet |
1661-05-25 |
Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737) |
1661-10-11 |
Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/elect (Anti-Lucretius) |
1661-11-01 |
Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725) |
1663-02-25 |
Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718) |
1663-06-24 |
Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742) |
1663-07-20 |
Pierre Drevet, French engraver |
1663-08-31 |
Guillaume Amontons, French physicist |
1663-10-16 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) |
1663-10-18 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy, Paris France, famous military commander for the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottomans and the French |
1664-04-30 |
François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709) |
1665-04-19 |
Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) |
1665-08-21 |
Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) |
1666-09-16 |
Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716) |
1667-05-26 |
Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) |
1668-05-08 |
Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier) |
1669-05-26 |
Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722) |
1670-08-21 |
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734) |
1671-01-11 |
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745) |
1671-04-06 |
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs) |
1671-07-14 |
Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732) |
1672-01-18 |
Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (d. 1731) |
1672-02-13 |
Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731) |
1672-02-26 |
Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (d. 1757) |
1673-01-31 |
Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716) |
1674-01-15 |
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762) |
1675-01-16 |
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755) |
1675-02-28 |
Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) |
1675-07-14 |
Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747) |
1677-02-18 |
Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn) |
1677-04-25 |
Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly) |
1678-03-03 |
Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747) |
1678-03-15 |
Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop |
1678-09-29 |
Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766) |
1678-11-26 |
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771) |
1679-01-27 |
Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter |
1679-08-22 |
Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) |
1679-11-11 |
Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist |
1680-04-09 |
Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754) |
1681-11-17 |
Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776) |
1681-11-28 |
Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740) |
1682-08-16 |
Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712) |
1682-10-29 |
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (d. 1761) |
1683-02-28 |
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757) |
1683-03-13 |
John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) |
1683-06-23 |
Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745) |
1684-01-14 |
Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter |
1684-03-19 |
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766) |
1684-10-10 |
Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige) |
1685-02-08 |
Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770) |
1685-03-17 |
Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter |
1685-11-17 |
Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749) |
1686-07-06 |
Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758) |
1687-03-07 |
Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760) |
1688-04-04 |
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) |
1688-11-15 |
Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757) |
1689-07-09 |
Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773) |
1689-12-24 |
French van Mieris "the Young", Dutch painter/historian |
1690-01-22 |
Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743) |
1690-11-17 |
Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist |
1691-05-17 |
Antoine Court, French reformed theologist |
1692-02-14 |
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754) |
1692-04-05 |
Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730) |
1692-10-31 |
Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765) |
1692-11-06 |
Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763) |
1694-06-04 |
Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV |
1694-07-04 |
Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose) |
1694-07-11 |
Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer |
1695-02-02 |
François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769) |
1695-05-03 |
Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771) |
1696-03-13 |
Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal |
1696-03-27 |
Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760) |
1697-04-01 |
Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763) |
1697-07-11 |
Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer |
1698-02-16 |
Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (heliometer) |
1698-10-23 |
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde) |
1698-11-22 |
Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778) |
1699-01-09 |
Robert J Pothier, French lawyer |
1699-11-02 |
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779) |
1700-01-29 |
Daniel Bernoulli, Basel Switz, mathematician (10 time French award) |
1700-02-07 |
Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen) |
1700-10-10 |
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759) |
1700-11-19 |
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770) |
1701-01-28 |
Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) |
1701-10-18 |
Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778) |
1702-07-31 |
Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768) |
1703-09-29 |
François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770) |
1703-10-28 |
Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768) |
1703-11-25 |
Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784) |
1704-02-12 |
Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772) |
1704-02-28 |
Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760) |
1704-06-24 |
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771) |
1705-02-15 |
Charles A Vanloo, French painter |
1706-12-17 |
Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire) |
1709-02-24 |
Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782) |
1710-05-23 |
Francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures) |
1710-11-13 |
Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (d. 1792) |
1712-02-28 |
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759) |
1712-03-27 |
Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779) |
1712-06-21 |
Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790) |
1712-11-25 |
Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789) |
1713-01-02 |
Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) |
1713-04-12 |
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796) |
1713-05-03 |
Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765) |
1713-05-06 |
Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) |
1713-07-22 |
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780) |
1713-08-28 |
Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland |
1713-09-18 |
Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher |
1714-01-26 |
Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) |
1714-01-28 |
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon) |
1714-02-22 |
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795) |
1714-06-17 |
Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor) |
1714-07-16 |
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800) |
1714-08-14 |
Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter |
1715-05-22 |
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794) |
1715-06-25 |
Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789) |
1715-08-06 |
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747) |
1715-09-22 |
Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786) |
1715-09-30 |
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780) |
1715-10-05 |
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789) |
1715-10-08 |
Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774) |
1715-11-23 |
Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799) |
1715-12-27 |
Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (d. 1794) |
1716-01-20 |
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795) |
1716-05-29 |
Louis J M Daubenton, French zoologist |
1716-06-18 |
Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter |
1716-12-01 |
Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791) |
1716-12-16 |
Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) |
1716-12-26 |
Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803) |
1717-06-20 |
Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776) |
1717-06-27 |
Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799) |
1717-08-13 |
Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (d. 1776) |
1717-10-05 |
Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744) |
1717-11-16 |
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French Enlightenment philosophe/mathematician (Encyclopédie), (d. 1783) |
1717-12-20 |
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787) |
1718-01-29 |
Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794) |
1719-01-02 |
Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) |
1719-06-28 |
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785) |
1719-07-04 |
Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797) |
1719-08-20 |
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791) |
1719-10-17 |
Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792) |
1720-03-22 |
Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799) |
1720-08-17 |
Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter (Contes de La Fontaine) |
1720-11-01 |
Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791) |
1721-10-19 |
Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800) |
1721-12-06 |
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794) |
1721-12-27 |
Franciscus "French" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher |
1721-12-29 |
Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th |
1722-02-19 |
Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (d. 1774) |
1723-02-21 |
Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) |
1723-04-30 |
Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806) |
1723-07-11 |
Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799) |
1723-08-02 |
Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect |
1724-05-22 |
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772) |
1724-07-31 |
Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801) |
1725-07-01 |
Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807) |
1725-08-21 |
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter |
1725-09-05 |
Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799) |
1725-09-12 |
Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) |
1725-09-16 |
Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) |
1725-10-12 |
Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) |
1726-04-20 |
Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer |
1726-11-30 |
Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver |
1727-01-02 |
James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec |
1727-02-25 |
Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer and organist (Notre Dame) |
1727-04-07 |
Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806) |
1727-04-29 |
Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action) |
1727-05-10 |
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76) |
1727-11-18 |
Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773) |
1728-02-12 |
Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799) |
1728-10-03 |
Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite |
1729-04-18 |
Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer |
1729-11-12 |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811) |
1730-01-03 |
Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician |
1730-03-07 |
Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807) |
1730-03-31 |
Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783) |
1731-12-07 |
Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter |
1732-04-05 |
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806) |
1732-09-30 |
Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804) |
1732-11-09 |
Julie de Lespinasse, French aristocrat, hostess and writer (d. 1776) |
1733-05-04 |
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799) |
1734-01-17 |
Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs, Mirza) |
1736-08-26 |
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790) |
1736-09-15 |
Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France) |
1736-11-26 |
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France) |
1738-06-22 |
Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813) |
1738-08-01 |
Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794) |
1739-01-25 |
Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823) |
1739-02-15 |
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813) |
1740-02-07 |
Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP |
1740-04-02 |
Armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500) |
1740-06-02 |
Marquis de Sade, Paris, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name. |
1740-07-27 |
Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803) |
1741-03-20 |
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828) |
1741-08-23 |
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788) |
1741-10-18 |
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803) |
1741-12-08 |
Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine) |
1742-08-14 |
Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris) |
1744-02-06 |
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795) |
1744-08-01 |
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, Paris, French naturalist (Lamarckian evolution) |
1745-01-06 |
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, Annonay, Ardèche, French inventors and 1st pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) |
1746-03-08 |
André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802) |
1746-04-23 |
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794) |
1746-05-10 |
Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818) |
1746-11-12 |
Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, Beaugency, French inventor and balloonist who, with Nicholas Robert, was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon |
1746-11-15 |
Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809) |
1747-01-10 |
Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker |
1747-10-08 |
Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807) |
1748-04-12 |
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836) |
1748-06-30 |
Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer |
1748-12-09 |
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822) |
1749-03-09 |
Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791) |
1749-09-08 |
Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793) |
1749-09-08 |
Marie-Louise, Princesse de Lamballe, French aristocrat (d. 1792) |
1749-09-19 |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy), (d. 1822) |
1750-03-05 |
Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon) |
1750-04-17 |
François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828) |
1750-06-21 |
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818) |
1750-06-23 |
Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (d. 1801) |
1750-07-28 |
Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794) |
1752-04-05 |
Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831) |
1753-02-06 |
Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet |
1753-02-12 |
François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798) |
1753-02-20 |
Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) |
1753-03-09 |
Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800) |
1753-04-01 |
Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821) |
1753-05-13 |
Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823) |
1753-05-31 |
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader |
1754-02-13 |
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838) |
1754-02-17 |
Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803) |
1754-07-20 |
Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836) |
1754-08-18 |
François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833) |
1755-03-12 |
Georges Couthon, French politician |
1755-04-01 |
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto) |
1755-04-16 |
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842) |
1755-04-27 |
Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836) |
1755-06-15 |
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809) |
1755-06-30 |
Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829) |
1755-07-22 |
Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839) |
1756-04-13 |
Louis H J Condé, French prince |
1756-06-17 |
Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public |
1757-06-05 |
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808) |
1757-09-06 |
Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary |
1758-02-04 |
Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer |
1758-03-09 |
Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology) |
1758-04-04 |
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits |
1758-05-06 |
Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781) |
1758-08-14 |
Carle [Antoine CH] Vernet, French painter/lithographer |
1759-01-05 |
Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader |
1759-05-06 |
Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician |
1759-10-04 |
Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803) |
1760-03-01 |
François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794) |
1760-03-27 |
MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers |
1760-07-08 |
Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826) |
1760-11-23 |
Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple) |
1761-02-16 |
Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804) |
1761-03-06 |
Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828) |
1761-10-21 |
Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer/brigadier general |
1761-12-22 |
Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress |
1761-12-24 |
Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831) |
1762-04-29 |
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (d. 1833) |
1762-07-14 |
Joseph Lakanal, Serres Ariège, French Politician and Educator |
1762-09-16 |
Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator |
1762-10-30 |
André Chénier, French writer (d. 1794) |
1762-11-20 |
Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833) |
1762-11-29 |
Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833) |
1763-01-03 |
Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator |
1763-01-08 |
Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834) |
1763-01-26 |
Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) |
1763-02-14 |
Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813) |
1763-03-13 |
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815) |
1763-05-21 |
Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) |
1763-06-21 |
Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher |
1763-12-25 |
Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph) |
1763-12-31 |
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) |
1764-02-04 |
Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy |
1764-02-11 |
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus) |
1764-04-13 |
Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830) |
1764-08-13 |
Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1816) |
1764-08-22 |
Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838) |
1764-12-07 |
Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841) |
1765-03-07 |
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833) |
1765-04-28 |
Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834) |
1765-11-04 |
Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836) |
1765-11-17 |
Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840) |
1766-03-04 |
Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon) |
1766-04-22 |
Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817) |
1766-07-08 |
Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842) |
1766-09-25 |
Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21) |
1766-10-23 |
Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (d. 1847) |
1767-04-25 |
Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847) |
1767-08-25 |
Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794) |
1767-10-23 |
H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer |
1768-02-13 |
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (d. 1835) |
1768-05-02 |
Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist |
1768-08-17 |
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800) |
1768-08-27 |
Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht) |
1768-10-13 |
Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839) |
1769-01-05 |
Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics) |
1769-01-10 |
Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo) |
1769-03-23 |
Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832) |
1769-03-29 |
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851) |
1769-08-23 |
Georges Cuvier [Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier], Montbéliard, France, French naturalist and zoologist |
1770-03-02 |
Louis Gabriel Suchet, French Marshal (d. 1826) |
1770-05-10 |
Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal (defeated Prussians) |
1770-11-05 |
Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann) |
1770-12-26 |
Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba) |
1771-02-28 |
French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter |
1771-06-03 |
Charles Bernard Desormes, Dijon, French Physicist and Chemist who determined the ratio of the specific heats of gases as well as the exact composition of carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide |
1771-06-19 |
Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859) |
1771-10-01 |
Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer |
1771-10-23 |
Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813) |
1772-01-04 |
Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French writer/interpreter |
1772-04-07 |
F M Charles Fourier, French socialist |
1772-04-15 |
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844) |
1772-08-30 |
Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader |
1773-03-28 |
Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844) |
1773-04-09 |
Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824 |
1773-08-22 |
Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858) |
1774-01-01 |
André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860) |
1774-04-21 |
Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer (balloonist) |
1774-06-24 |
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838) |
1774-07-20 |
Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852) |
1775-01-20 |
André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836) |
1775-07-23 |
Francois-Eugene Vidocq, French criminal and police detective |
1775-07-23 |
Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812) |
1775-08-06 |
Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme/General of France |
1776-04-01 |
Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) |
1777-01-03 |
Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker |
1777-03-31 |
Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859) |
1777-12-04 |
Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849) |
1778-01-24 |
Charles F, duke of Berry/son of French King Charles X |
1778-09-04 |
Louis Napoleon, French King of Netherlands (1806-10) |
1778-12-06 |
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) |
1779-08-07 |
Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842) |
1779-10-10 |
Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP |
1779-11-27 |
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865) |
1779-12-12 |
Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865) |
1780-04-29 |
Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844) |
1780-08-29 |
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) |
1780-12-23 |
Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher |
1781-06-21 |
Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840) |
1782-01-29 |
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer (Fra Diavolo) |
1782-06-10 |
Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian |
1782-06-19 |
Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir) |
1783-04-10 |
Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10) |
1784-07-27 |
Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music) |
1785-02-12 |
Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838) |
1785-02-22 |
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Ham, French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834) |
1785-11-28 |
Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36) |
1786-01-23 |
Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858) |
1786-02-02 |
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856) |
1786-02-28 |
D Francois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician |
1786-05-08 |
Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859) |
1786-06-20 |
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859) |
1786-07-24 |
Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843) |
1786-10-30 |
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer (d. 1871) |
1787-05-07 |
Jacques Viger, French Canadian politician, first mayor of Montreal (d. 1858) |
1787-06-04 |
Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856) |
1787-09-05 |
François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850) |
1787-10-04 |
Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician |
1788-03-07 |
Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878) |
1788-03-12 |
Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor |
1788-09-10 |
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868) |
1789-06-30 |
E J Horace Vernet, French painter |
1789-08-21 |
Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician |
1790-05-23 |
Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842) |
1791-06-30 |
Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart) |
1791-09-26 |
Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824) |
1791-12-24 |
A Eugene Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton) |
1792-05-21 |
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) |
1792-09-05 |
Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857). |
1792-11-28 |
Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education |
1792-12-20 |
Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845) |
1793-11-15 |
Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry) |
1794-01-25 |
François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878) |
1794-03-05 |
Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer |
1794-04-15 |
Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) |
1794-05-13 |
Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835) |
1795-01-06 |
Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871) |
1795-05-13 |
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875) |
1795-12-04 |
Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution) |
1796-02-22 |
Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837) |
1796-06-01 |
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832) |
1796-09-25 |
Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875) |
1797-03-27 |
Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton) |
1797-04-14 |
Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77) |
1797-07-17 |
Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856) |
1798-04-17 |
Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (d. 1840) |
1798-04-26 |
Ferdinand Eugene Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal) |
1798-08-21 |
Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) |
1798-09-25 |
JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist |
1798-10-07 |
Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas) |
1798-12-04 |
Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881) |
1799-02-11 |
Basil Moreau, French Founder priest (d. 1873) |
1799-02-26 |
Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (d. 1864) |
1799-05-20 |
Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850) |
1799-08-11 |
Joachim de Barrande, French paleontologist/geologist |
1799-09-19 |
René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838) |
1800-03-25 |
Paulin Paris, French historian |
1800-05-05 |
Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette) |
1801-02-01 |
Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881) |
1801-04-11 |
Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin) |
1801-05-11 |
Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875) |
1801-08-28 |
Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot) |
1801-10-06 |
Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888) |
1802-02-02 |
Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist |
1802-04-12 |
Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart) |
1802-09-06 |
Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857) |
1802-09-24 |
Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868) |
1803-05-24 |
Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano |
1803-06-10 |
Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858) |
1803-07-12 |
Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841) |
1803-09-28 |
Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870) |
1803-09-29 |
Charles-Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Sturm's Theorem) |
1803-12-11 |
Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869) |
1804-01-13 |
Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866) |
1804-01-20 |
Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857) |
1804-07-21 |
Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery |
1804-09-14 |
Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882) |
1804-10-03 |
Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869) |
1804-12-23 |
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk) |
1805-12-06 |
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) |
1805-12-31 |
Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife) |
1806-09-05 |
Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865) |
1806-12-09 |
Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838) |
1807-10-04 |
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864) |
1808-02-26 |
Honoré Daumier, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 1879) |
1808-03-24 |
Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836) |
1808-11-02 |
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889) |
1808-12-04 |
Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horatius) |
1809-06-15 |
François-Xavier Garneau, French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866) |
1809-06-27 |
Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member |
1810-01-03 |
Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24] |
1810-03-01 |
Frederic Chopin, Zelazowa Wola, (baptismal records 22nd Feb) Polish/French pianist/composer (Concert in F Minor) |
1810-07-21 |
Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist |
1810-10-04 |
Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son |
1811-08-05 |
Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896) |
1811-10-25 |
Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832) |
1811-12-02 |
Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885) |
1812-01-13 |
Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883) |
1812-05-23 |
Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) |
1812-06-12 |
Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890) |
1812-11-09 |
Paul Abadie, French master builder (renovated Notre Dame) |
1813-01-04 |
Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator |
1813-04-23 |
Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853) |
1813-08-15 |
Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891) |
1813-10-10 |
Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile - Rigoletto), (d. 1901) |
1813-11-30 |
Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890) |
1814-01-27 |
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879) |
1814-01-30 |
Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter |
1814-02-26 |
Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (d. 1876) |
1814-04-19 |
Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875) |
1814-06-25 |
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896) |
1814-09-08 |
Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874) |
1814-10-25 |
Louis CPR van Orleans, French duke of Nemours |
1815-01-01 |
Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neocriticism) |
1815-01-13 |
William Henry French, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 |
1815-02-21 |
Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor |
1815-03-28 |
Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896) |
1815-05-05 |
Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright |
1815-05-08 |
Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer |
1815-07-24 |
Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810] |
1815-10-13 |
Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist |
1815-12-21 |
Thomas Couture, French painter/author |
1815-12-22 |
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader |
1816-01-15 |
Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852) |
1816-04-22 |
Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general |
1816-07-11 |
French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect |
1816-07-14 |
Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882) |
1816-08-21 |
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856) |
1817-02-03 |
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881) |
1817-02-15 |
Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter |
1817-10-23 |
Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875) |
1817-10-24 |
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, Draguignan, France, French chemist and inventor of margarine |
1818-06-03 |
Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889) |
1818-08-07 |
Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist |
1818-11-22 |
Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1819-03-11 |
Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte) |
1819-06-10 |
J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine) |
1819-06-20 |
Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann) |
1819-07-02 |
Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900) |
1819-09-23 |
Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896) |
1819-10-19 |
Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial) |
1819-12-22 |
Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892) |
1820-03-24 |
A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891) |
1820-04-05 |
Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist |
1820-05-27 |
Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904) |
1820-05-30 |
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890) |
1820-06-16 |
Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875) |
1820-09-17 |
Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889) |
1821-02-11 |
Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881) |
1821-03-16 |
Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau) |
1821-07-18 |
Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910) |
1821-08-29 |
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Meylan, French Anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs |
1821-09-27 |
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil) |
1821-11-23 |
Charles Meryon, British/French etcher |
1822-01-12 |
Étienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900) |
1822-03-04 |
Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880) |
1822-03-16 |
Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill) |
1822-05-20 |
Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo) |
1822-05-20 |
Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901) |
1822-09-09 |
Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention |
1822-12-24 |
Charles Hermite, French mathematician (E is Transcendent) |
1823-02-28 |
Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion |
1823-03-14 |
Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891) |
1823-06-02 |
Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905) |
1823-06-21 |
Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) |
1823-09-28 |
Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889) |
1824-01-15 |
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) |
1824-02-22 |
Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907) |
1824-03-15 |
Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907) |
1824-04-24 |
Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger |
1824-05-11 |
Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904) |
1824-07-12 |
Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898) |
1824-12-14 |
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898) |
1825-03-17 |
Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain) |
1825-04-11 |
Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder (Allgemeiner) |
1825-05-04 |
Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908) |
1825-10-31 |
Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892) |
1825-11-29 |
Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (d. 1893) |
1826-04-06 |
Gustave Moreau, French painter |
1826-12-18 |
Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz) |
1827-02-01 |
Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker |
1827-04-16 |
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879) |
1827-04-17 |
French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp) |
1827-05-11 |
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875) |
1827-05-19 |
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896) |
1827-09-16 |
Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908) |
1827-10-29 |
Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907) |
1827-11-30 |
Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants) |
1828-02-14 |
Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885) |
1828-04-21 |
Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian (Voyage in Italy) |
1828-05-02 |
Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915) |
1828-08-17 |
Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897) |
1828-10-02 |
Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896) |
1828-10-08 |
Francisque Sarcey, French writer/critic |
1828-11-26 |
René Goblet, French politician (d. 1905) |
1829-07-08 |
Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer |
1829-12-05 |
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French Canadian politician (d. 1908) |
1830-01-23 |
Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/min of War (1899-1900) |
1830-03-15 |
Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905) |
1830-03-18 |
Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian/sociologist |
1830-05-10 |
Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult) |
1830-05-20 |
Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family) |
1830-07-10 |
Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (Impressionism) |
1831-06-03 |
Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1831-09-07 |
Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900) |
1832-01-06 |
Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883) |
1832-01-23 |
Edouard Manet, Paris, French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), (d. 1883) |
1832-04-05 |
Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman |
1832-11-09 |
Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873) |
1832-12-15 |
Gustave Eiffel [Alexandre], French engineer (Eiffel tower), (d. 1923) |
1833-10-17 |
Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body, such as altitude sickness and 'the bends', made possible space and ocean exploration |
1834-01-01 |
Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908) |
1834-09-17 |
Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer |
1834-12-16 |
Leon Walras, French economist (border use theory) |
1835-07-31 |
Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912) |
1835-07-31 |
Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903) |
1835-10-02 |
Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian |
1835-10-09 |
Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) |
1835-11-09 |
Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels) |
1835-12-07 |
Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist |
1836-01-14 |
Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904) |
1836-10-04 |
Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue) |
1836-10-15 |
James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902) |
1836-12-15 |
Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel) |
1837-04-29 |
Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891) |
1837-05-31 |
Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror) |
1837-08-11 |
Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated |
1837-11-02 |
Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891) |
1837-12-09 |
Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915) |
1838-01-05 |
Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) |
1838-02-28 |
Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910) |
1838-03-31 |
Leon Dierx, French poet |
1838-04-03 |
Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82) |
1838-04-18 |
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912) |
1838-05-20 |
Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925) |
1838-11-07 |
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889) |
1839-01-19 |
Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence Provence, French painter (d. 1906) |
1839-05-08 |
Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920) |
1839-07-25 |
Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873) |
1839-08-30 |
Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903) |
1839-10-30 |
Alfred Sisley, French impressionist painter |
1839-11-16 |
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908) |
1840-01-10 |
Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925) |
1840-02-28 |
Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) |
1840-04-02 |
Émile Zola, French novelist and critic (d. 1902) |
1840-04-22 |
Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916) |
1840-05-13 |
L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon) |
1840-09-26 |
Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923) |
1840-11-09 |
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1898) |
1841-01-14 |
Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist |
1841-01-30 |
Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899) |
1841-02-04 |
Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926) |
1841-02-28 |
Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914) |
1841-04-13 |
Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905) |
1841-05-22 |
Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909) |
1841-11-06 |
Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931) |
1841-11-16 |
Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923) |
1841-12-06 |
Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870) |
1841-12-20 |
Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) |
1842-01-02 |
Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist |
1842-01-12 |
Francois Coppee, French poet |
1842-02-07 |
Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (d. 1923) |
1842-03-18 |
Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898) |
1842-04-04 |
Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891) |
1842-04-17 |
Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (d. 1911) |
1842-10-01 |
Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur) |
1842-12-22 |
Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
1843-01-20 |
Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London) |
1843-05-21 |
Louis Renault, French lawyer |
1843-09-27 |
Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913) |
1843-10-21 |
Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor (Peter the Great) |
1843-10-30 |
A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter |
1844-03-30 |
Paul Verlaine, French Kiss |
1844-05-03 |
Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist |
1844-05-20 |
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream) |
1844-08-07 |
Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911) |
1845-01-13 |
Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896) |
1845-04-05 |
Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador |
1845-06-18 |
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922) |
1845-07-18 |
Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875) |
1845-08-16 |
Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist |
1846-04-04 |
Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870) |
1846-07-11 |
Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917) |
1846-08-25 |
Louise J Gautier, French poetess |
1846-12-02 |
Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier |
1847-04-01 |
Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer (South America) |
1847-07-02 |
Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology) |
1847-11-02 |
George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions) |
1847-11-08 |
Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907) |
1847-12-17 |
Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916) |
1848-01-21 |
Henri Duparc, French composer |
1848-02-14 |
Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934) |
1848-06-07 |
Paul Gaugin, [Eugene Henri], French post-impressionist painter |
1848-08-19 |
Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris) |
1848-10-03 |
Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929) |
1849-01-12 |
Jean Béraud, French painter (d. 1935) |
1849-02-04 |
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux) |
1849-03-28 |
James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894) |
1849-06-02 |
Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme) |
1849-07-19 |
F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian |
1849-07-19 |
Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906) |
1850-01-14 |
Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923) |
1850-04-20 |
Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor (Minute Man) |
1850-08-26 |
Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913) |
1850-10-08 |
Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936) |
1851-03-27 |
Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931) |
1851-04-06 |
Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932) |
1851-04-21 |
Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939) |
1851-05-29 |
Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920) |
1851-06-08 |
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940) |
1851-06-09 |
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921) |
1851-11-05 |
Charles Dupuy, French prime minister (d. 1923) |
1852-01-01 |
Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904) |
1852-01-12 |
Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne) |
1852-01-26 |
Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator (French Africa) |
1852-03-01 |
Theophile Delcasse, French statesman |
1852-09-02 |
Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935) |
1852-09-28 |
John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall |
1852-10-23 |
Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer |
1852-11-22 |
Paul H B d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist |
1852-9-28 |
John French, |
1853-04-27 |
Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914) |
1853-05-21 |
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) |
1853-07-07 |
Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval) |
1853-09-23 |
Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar |
1853-12-17 |
Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933) |
1853-12-26 |
René Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932) |
1854-10-20 |
Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) |
1854-11-05 |
Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) |
1854-11-17 |
Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17) |
1855-02-13 |
Paul Deschanel, French President (d. 1922) |
1855-11-05 |
Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere) |
1856-03-04 |
Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) |
1856-03-16 |
E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince |
1856-04-24 |
Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime) |
1856-05-20 |
Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter |
1856-05-25 |
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942) |
1856-07-24 |
Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941) |
1856-10-15 |
R G Nivelle, French military man |
1857-02-26 |
Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion) |
1857-03-30 |
Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926) |
1857-07-11 |
Alfred Binet, French child psychologist |
1857-07-23 |
French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years) |
1857-11-02 |
Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex) |
1858-01-19 |
Eugene Brieux, French playwright (Blanchette, Lesson Avaries) |
1858-01-27 |
Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer |
1858-03-13 |
Maximilien Luce, French painter |
1858-04-04 |
Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915) |
1858-04-15 |
Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social) |
1858-05-19 |
Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller (Surinam) |
1858-06-25 |
Georges Courteline, [Moineaux], French playwright |
1858-06-30 |
Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre) [or 7/31] |
1858-08-01 |
Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937) |
1858-09-15 |
Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit |
1858-11-25 |
Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922) |
1859-02-10 |
Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943) |
1859-09-03 |
AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves) |
1859-10-09 |
Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair) |
1859-12-12 |
Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers) |
1859-12-17 |
Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927) |
1860-01-11 |
Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author (Journal) |
1860-01-17 |
Charles K. French, A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate |
1860-02-11 |
Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus) |
1860-04-06 |
René Lalique, French jewel designer |
1860-06-25 |
Gustave Charpentier, French composer (opera Louise) |
1860-07-26 |
Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama) |
1860-08-11 |
Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson etats de Normandie) |
1860-08-16 |
Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas) |
1860-09-28 |
Paul Ulrich Villard, Lyon, French Chemist and Physicist who discovered gamma rays |
1860-11-07 |
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936) |
1860-12-13 |
Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925) |
1861-06-10 |
Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian |
1861-10-30 |
Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (d. 1929) |
1861-11-30 |
French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens) |
1861-12-16 |
Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917) |
1862-05-02 |
Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine) |
1862-07-18 |
Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne |
1862-09-25 |
Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques) |
1862-12-07 |
Paul Adam, French writer (La Bataille d'Uhde) |
1862-12-08 |
Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's) |
1862-12-14 |
Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [OS] |
1862-12-26 |
Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer [NS] |
1863-01-31 |
F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis) |
1863-07-12 |
Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933) |
1863-09-23 |
Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague) |
1863-10-10 |
Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912) |
1863-10-13 |
C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine) |
1863-11-08 |
René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15) |
1863-11-11 |
Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935) |
1863-12-05 |
Paul P Painlevé, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician [OS] |
1863-12-15 |
Paul [Prudent] Painlevé, French mathematician/minister/premier [NS] |
1863-12-25 |
Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957) |
1864-01-24 |
Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936) |
1864-10-14 |
Maurice de Plessys, French poet (Palace Occidental) |
1864-12-27 |
René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940) |
1865-03-25 |
Pierre Weiss, Mulhouse, France, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism) |
1865-06-09 |
Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, French composer |
1865-06-26 |
Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China) |
1865-09-15 |
Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie) |
1865-10-01 |
Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935) |
1865-12-08 |
Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Taylor series) |
1865-12-28 |
Félix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna) |
1866-09-07 |
Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947) |
1867-01-20 |
Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944) |
1867-01-21 |
Maxime Weygard, French general/gov-gen (Algeria) |
1867-10-03 |
Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator |
1867-11-27 |
Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950) |
1868-03-03 |
Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer |
1868-04-17 |
Charles R Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary) |
1868-05-06 |
Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927) |
1868-05-28 |
Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue) |
1868-09-01 |
Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952) |
1868-10-24 |
Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969) |
1868-11-11 |
Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist |
1868-12-02 |
Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme) |
1869-04-12 |
Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer |
1869-09-20 |
Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party) |
1870-03-11 |
Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946) |
1870-06-18 |
Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician |
1870-11-29 |
Andre Lichtenberger, French sociologist/writer (Le petit roi) |
1870-12-02 |
Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor |
1870-12-10 |
Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947) |
1871-01-07 |
Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) |
1871-03-03 |
Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957) |
1871-04-05 |
Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue) |
1871-05-06 |
Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) |
1871-08-02 |
John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951) |
1871-08-29 |
Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950) |
1871-12-26 |
Mirra Principi, Estrellita; or The Invasion of the French Troops in Portugal |
1872-01-23 |
Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946) |
1872-02-01 |
Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose |
1872-04-09 |
Leon Blum, French premier (People's front government) |
1872-05-10 |
Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950) |
1872-07-05 |
Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957) |
1872-09-20 |
Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo |
1872-11-15 |
Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert) |
1872-12-22 |
Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961) |
1873-01-02 |
Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) |
1873-01-28 |
Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle], Paris, French novelist and performer (Gigi) |
1873-02-03 |
Ernest B Allo, French theologist |
1873-03-28 |
Anne Douglas Sedgwick, The Little French Girl |
1873-09-08 |
Alfred Jarry, French absurdist playwright (d. 1907) |
1874-05-26 |
Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker) |
1874-07-14 |
Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium) |
1874-10-21 |
Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist |
1874-11-26 |
Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel) |
1875-01-01 |
Charles Rist, French economist |
1875-02-02 |
Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare) |
1875-03-07 |
Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) |
1875-04-05 |
Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956) |
1875-04-27 |
Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) |
1875-06-28 |
Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941) |
1875-08-09 |
Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist |
1876-02-21 |
Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X) |
1876-03-04 |
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947) |
1876-07-12 |
Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944) |
1876-10-06 |
Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941) |
1877-01-26 |
Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter |
1877-01-29 |
Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969) |
1877-02-15 |
Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944) |
1877-02-17 |
André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932) |
1877-02-19 |
Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera) |
1877-05-26 |
Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte) |
1877-06-14 |
Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970) |
1877-09-26 |
Alfred Cortot, French pianist |
1878-01-14 |
Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French writer |
1878-01-22 |
Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator |
1878-02-05 |
André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935) |
1878-02-28 |
Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929) |
1878-05-28 |
Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945) |
1878-06-06 |
Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956) |
1878-06-17 |
Albert Thomas, French socialist politician |
1878-07-22 |
Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther) |
1878-08-30 |
Paul Hazard, French literature historian |
1878-10-02 |
Francois C Schlumberger, French physicist |
1878-11-14 |
Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966) |
1879-01-18 |
Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949) |
1879-02-09 |
Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist |
1879-04-20 |
Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944) |
1879-06-05 |
René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907) |
1879-09-30 |
Henri Casadesus, French violist and composer (Viola d'amour) |
1879-11-23 |
Andre Caplet, French composer/conductor (Conte Fantastic) |
1879-12-22 |
Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion (1925) |
1880-01-02 |
Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer |
1880-01-10 |
Stephen French Whitman, The Rival |
1880-02-20 |
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923) |
1880-05-25 |
Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967) |
1880-07-21 |
Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919) |
1880-09-06 |
Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch night club performer (French governess) |
1880-10-12 |
Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913) |
1881-01-18 |
Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908] |
1881-02-04 |
Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955) |
1881-02-21 |
Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player |
1881-11-08 |
Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris, French Engineer and aviation pioneer who contributed to early heavier-than-air flight in Europe |
1881-12-13 |
Park French, The Thief of Bagdad |
1882-04-04 |
L.A. French, Our Relations |
1882-05-13 |
Georges Braque, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, French cubist painter and sculptor (Bike) |
1882-10-18 |
Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917) |
1882-10-29 |
Jean Giraudoux, French writer (d. 1944) |
1883-02-03 |
Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter |
1883-03-05 |
Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969) |
1883-04-14 |
George B. French, Tarzan of the Apes |
1883-08-19 |
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel) |
1883-09-01 |
Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934) |
1883-10-31 |
Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956) |
1883-12-17 |
Raimu, French actor (d. 1946) |
1883-12-22 |
Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965) |
1884-01-02 |
Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame) |
1884-06-13 |
Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978) |
1884-06-19 |
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974) |
1884-06-27 |
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu) |
1884-06-30 |
Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966) |
1884-07-06 |
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist |
1884-08-04 |
Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941) |
1884-09-24 |
Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963) |
1884-9-29 |
Gaston Gabaroche, French Cancan |
1885-06-05 |
Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign minister (-1940) |
1885-06-26 |
Andre Maurois, [Emile Herzog], French writer (Balzac) |
1885-07-05 |
Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian (Traité du paysage) |
1885-07-11 |
Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter |
1885-08-12 |
Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959) |
1885-11-14 |
Sonia Delaunay, Russian born French artist |
1885-12-23 |
Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964) |
1886-01-18 |
Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor |
1886-03-04 |
Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958) |
1886-05-03 |
Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971) |
1886-05-24 |
Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979) |
1886-06-29 |
Robert Schuman, French premier |
1886-10-03 |
Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist (Great Adventure) |
1886-10-26 |
Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS] |
1886-11-07 |
Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26] |
1886-11-15 |
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951) |
1886-11-27 |
Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter |
1887-02-21 |
Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player |
1887-05-07 |
Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) |
1887-07-28 |
Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) |
1887-09-15 |
Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet |
1887-09-16 |
Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor |
1887-10-24 |
Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917) |
1888-03-17 |
Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961) |
1888-03-18 |
Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor |
1888-04-23 |
Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967) |
1888-05-15 |
Jean Wahl, French philosopher |
1888-10-06 |
Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918) |
1888-11-09 |
Jean Monnet, French economist/EG-pioneer/chairman (EGKS) |
1888-11-16 |
Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol) |
1888-12-16 |
Alphonse Juin, French marshal |
1889-01-22 |
Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935) |
1889-02-23 |
Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957) |
1889-10-25 |
Abel Gance, French film director (d. 1981) |
1889-11-26 |
Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (d. 1976) |
1890-02-02 |
Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China) |
1890-04-06 |
Andre L Danjon, French astronomer |
1890-04-23 |
Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado) |
1890-05-19 |
Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vetnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69) |
1890-07-11 |
Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter |
1890-07-14 |
Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City) |
1890-08-19 |
Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist |
1890-12-20 |
Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958) |
1891-01-22 |
Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse) |
1891-02-27 |
Georges E Migot, French composer |
1891-08-22 |
Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US painter/cubist sculptor |
1891-12-30 |
Antoine Pinay, French premier (1952)/minister of Foreign affairs |
1892-01-22 |
Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder |
1892-03-16 |
Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros) |
1892-06-27 |
Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985) |
1892-07-31 |
Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959) |
1892-10-19 |
Alexander A Alekhine, Russian/French chess champ (1927-35, 37-46) |
1892-11-23 |
Erté, French artist (d. 1990) |
1893-01-03 |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist (Gilles) |
1893-02-03 |
Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978) |
1893-04-18 |
Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944) |
1893-05-14 |
Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952) |
1893-08-31 |
Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988) |
1893-11-19 |
René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952) |
1894-05-27 |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961) |
1894-09-15 |
Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion) |
1894-10-30 |
Jean Rostand, French biologist (d. 1977) |
1894-12-24 |
Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot |
1895-01-07 |
Marie-Dominique Chenu, French Roman Catholic theologist |
1895-02-28 |
Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire) |
1895-03-30 |
Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant) |
1895-04-30 |
Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960) |
1895-08-22 |
Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966) |
1895-11-07 |
Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81) |
1895-12-14 |
Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952) |
1896-02-08 |
Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning) |
1896-02-18 |
Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966) |
1896-02-19 |
André Breton, French poet (d. 1966) |
1896-02-20 |
Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist |
1896-04-04 |
Tristan Tzara, [Samuel Rosenfeld] French poet (Approximate Man) |
1896-04-21 |
Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte) |
1896-07-10 |
Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981) |
1896-07-27 |
Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969) |
1896-08-31 |
Félix-Antoine Savard, French-Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982) |
1896-09-16 |
Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist |
1896-10-08 |
Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967) |
1896-10-23 |
André Lévêque, French engineer (d. 1930) |
1897-01-17 |
Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946) |
1897-01-21 |
René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954) |
1897-02-27 |
Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter) |
1897-04-23 |
Harold French, director (Encore)/actor |
1897-06-29 |
Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001) |
1897-09-10 |
Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962) |
1897-10-03 |
Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982) |
1898-02-10 |
Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows) |
1898-03-04 |
Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940) |
1898-04-01 |
Roger Bastide, French sociologist |
1898-08-08 |
Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans) |
1898-09-30 |
Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933) |
1898-10-10 |
Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989) |
1898-10-31 |
Alfred Sauvy, French statistician (Affluence & Population) |
1898-11-14 |
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944) |
1899-01-12 |
Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979) |
1899-03-25 |
Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men) |
1899-04-07 |
Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) |
1899-05-14 |
Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993) |
1899-05-15 |
Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970) |
1899-05-24 |
Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984) |
1899-05-26 |
Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968) |
1899-06-20 |
Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II) |
1899-07-05 |
Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright (Jean de la Lune) |
1899-08-09 |
Armand Salacrou, French playwright |
1899-11-17 |
Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Coup of Trafalgar) |
1900-01-05 |
Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter |
1900-01-06 |
Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Sarabande, Jeunesse) |
1900-02-21 |
Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir) |
1900-03-19 |
[Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935) |
1900-04-13 |
Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) |
1900-04-28 |
Maurice Thorez, secretary-general (French Communist Party) |
1900-05-25 |
Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975) |
1900-06-29 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944) |
1900-09-06 |
Julien Green, US/French writer (Frere Francois) |
1901-01-05 |
H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter |
1901-01-08 |
Edmond Vandercammen, French/Belgian writer (L'amour responsable) |
1901-02-15 |
Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur) |
1901-03-04 |
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937) |
1901-04-05 |
Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter/graphic artist |
1901-04-13 |
René-Jean Pleven, French premier (1950-52) |
1901-04-13 |
Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981) |
1901-04-20 |
Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist |
1901-07-31 |
Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages) |
1901-08-05 |
Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000) |
1901-09-25 |
Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999) |
1901-10-03 |
Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959) |
1901-10-10 |
Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor |
1901-12-09 |
Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936) |
1902-01-11 |
Maurice Durufle, French organist/composer |
1902-02-26 |
Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer) |
1902-03-29 |
Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967) |
1902-04-04 |
Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage) |
1902-05-03 |
Alfred Kastler, Guebwiller France, French Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (Hertzian resonances within atoms) |
1902-08-11 |
Christian Castries, French general (Dien Bien Phu) |
1902-08-24 |
Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism) |
1902-09-22 |
F R Boschvogel, [French LJ Ramon], Flemish writer (War of Worlds) |
1902-11-24 |
Fernand Braudel, French historian |
1902-11-29 |
Georges Poulet, French/Belgian critic (Temps Humain) |
1903-02-21 |
Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit) |
1903-02-21 |
Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977) |
1903-05-08 |
Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday) |
1903-05-22 |
Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992) |
1903-06-18 |
Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le diable ouch corps) |
1903-08-18 |
Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983) |
1903-08-31 |
Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985) |
1903-10-04 |
Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993) |
1903-10-16 |
Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003) |
1904-01-18 |
Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude) |
1904-02-15 |
Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34) |
1904-02-27 |
André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980) |
1904-04-23 |
Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle) |
1904-04-23 |
Leslie French, Death in Venice |
1904-05-17 |
Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976) |
1904-07-07 |
Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991) |
1904-07-08 |
Henri Cartan, French mathematician |
1904-07-24 |
Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991) |
1904-09-21 |
Hans Hartung, German/French painter |
1904-11-10 |
Steven Geray, Uzhored Czechoslovakia, actor (French Line) |
1904-11-26 |
Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991) |
1904-12-06 |
Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie |
1904-12-23 |
Fred Aldrich, The French Revue |
1904-12-26 |
Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo) |
1905-02-02 |
Jean-Pierre Guerlain, French cosmetics pioneer |
1905-02-07 |
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration) |
1905-02-23 |
Leonidas Zoras, French composer |
1905-03-09 |
Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes) |
1905-03-14 |
Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist |
1905-03-20 |
Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949) |
1905-04-22 |
Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991) |
1905-05-01 |
Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982) |
1905-05-14 |
Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974) |
1905-06-21 |
Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France) |
1905-09-21 |
Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999) |
1905-11-29 |
Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman catholic bishop (d. 1991) |
1905-12-22 |
Pierre Brasseur, [Espinasse], French actor (Enfants du Paradis) |
1905-12-31 |
Guy Mollet, French socialist premier (1956-57) |
1906-01-08 |
Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist |
1906-02-01 |
Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs) |
1906-04-08 |
Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974) |
1906-04-13 |
Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969) |
1906-05-06 |
Andre Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician |
1906-05-07 |
Harold Gary, The French Connection |
1906-05-16 |
Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988) |
1906-07-29 |
Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989) |
1907-01-11 |
Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982) |
1907-03-26 |
Zena Howard, French for Love |
1907-04-16 |
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d. 1964) |
1907-05-26 |
Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006) |
1907-05-30 |
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008) |
1907-06-14 |
René Char, French poet/painter |
1907-06-17 |
Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990) |
1907-06-28 |
Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque) |
1907-09-23 |
Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998) |
1907-10-13 |
Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987) |
1907-10-16 |
Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir) |
1907-10-21 |
Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824) |
1907-10-29 |
Edwige Feuillère, French film actress (d. 1998) |
1907-11-22 |
Dora Maar, Tours France, French painter and photographer and lover of Picasso |
1907-12-10 |
Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005) |
1908-01-26 |
Stephane Grappelli, French jazz/violinist |
1908-01-28 |
Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998) |
1908-02-04 |
Gwili Andre, Secrets of the French Police |
1908-02-12 |
Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931) |
1908-02-12 |
Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982) |
1908-02-26 |
Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949) |
1908-03-14 |
Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher |
1908-03-26 |
Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935) |
1908-04-09 |
Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art) |
1908-05-05 |
Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria) |
1908-06-30 |
Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari) |
1908-11-28 |
Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist |
1909-01-02 |
Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais) |
1909-03-07 |
Leo Malet, French crime novelist |
1909-03-14 |
Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin) |
1909-03-22 |
Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute) |
1909-03-31 |
Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator |
1909-04-07 |
Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978) |
1909-05-21 |
Guy de Rothschild, French banker |
1909-06-28 |
French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist |
1909-07-20 |
Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969) |
1909-10-19 |
Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975) |
1909-10-20 |
Monique Hare, French pianist |
1910-01-26 |
Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989) |
1910-01-30 |
Hugh French, Fancy Pants |
1910-02-09 |
Jacques Monod, French biochemist |
1910-02-18 |
John Barrett, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1910-06-08 |
Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003) |
1910-06-11 |
Jacques Cousteau, French oceanic explorer (Calypso) |
1910-07-27 |
Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton) |
1910-08-14 |
Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer |
1910-09-14 |
Gaston Deferre, French politician |
1911-01-16 |
Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar |
1911-01-16 |
Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996) |
1911-02-02 |
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer |
1911-02-03 |
Jehan [Ariste] Alain, French organist/composer |
1911-04-10 |
Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu) |
1911-04-27 |
Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Tintin) |
1911-08-23 |
Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle) |
1911-10-12 |
Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78) |
1911-10-24 |
Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993) |
1911-11-01 |
Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007) |
1911-11-12 |
Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates) |
1911-11-17 |
Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974) |
1911-11-27 |
Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix/Kuifje) |
1911-12-05 |
Alfred Manessier, French painter (leaded windows) |
1911-12-17 |
André Claveau, French Cancan |
1912-01-15 |
Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996) |
1912-01-23 |
Susan French, Somewhere in Time |
1912-02-03 |
Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information |
1912-02-13 |
French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor |
1912-02-20 |
Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994) |
1912-03-25 |
Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971) |
1912-04-21 |
Marcel Camus, French director, Orfeu negro) |
1912-04-26 |
Lucie Lichtig, French Connection II |
1912-05-29 |
Lucie Aubrac [Bernard], Paris, history teacher and French resistance member, (d. 2007) |
1912-06-13 |
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943) |
1912-06-29 |
Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004) |
1912-07-04 |
Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991) |
1912-07-18 |
Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950) |
1912-08-05 |
Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007) |
1912-08-15 |
Julia Child, Pasadena California, chef (French Chef) |
1912-9-22 |
Terri Randall, Slightly French |
1913-03-03 |
Roger Caillois, French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes) |
1913-04-14 |
Jean Fournet, French conductor |
1913-05-18 |
Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
1913-05-26 |
Pierre Daninos, The French, They Are a Funny Race |
1913-06-26 |
Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008) |
1913-07-17 |
Roger Garaudy, French philosopher |
1913-08-11 |
Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976) |
1914-01-05 |
Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955) |
1914-01-23 |
Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne |
1914-02-11 |
French Duynstee, Dutch constitutional lawyer |
1914-02-19 |
Jacques Dufilho, French comedian (d. 2005) |
1914-04-27 |
Albert Soboult, French historian |
1914-05-11 |
Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998) |
1914-07-31 |
Raymond Aubrac, Paris, French resistance leader, (d. 2012) |
1914-11-25 |
Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995) |
1914-12-04 |
Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993) |
1915-03-05 |
Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002) |
1915-03-07 |
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician |
1915-05-15 |
Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974) |
1915-05-15 |
Gus Viseur, French Kiss |
1915-06-15 |
Paul Ganapoler, The French Connection |
1915-08-19 |
Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985) |
1915-11-04 |
Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar |
1915-11-09 |
André François, French cartoonist (d. 2005) |
1915-11-12 |
Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer) |
1915-12-17 |
André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003) |
1916-02-14 |
Marcel Bigeard, French general |
1916-05-03 |
Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome) |
1916-05-03 |
Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006) |
1916-06-29 |
Ben Kasazkow, The French Connection |
1916-07-22 |
Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949) |
1916-08-01 |
Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000) |
1916-08-24 |
Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993) |
1916-09-21 |
Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003) |
1916-12-07 |
Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988) |
1917-04-04 |
Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist (barricade uprising) |
1917-05-20 |
Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967) |
1917-05-21 |
Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes) |
1917-07-04 |
Gloria Watson, The French Line |
1917-07-18 |
Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008) |
1917-07-27 |
Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970) |
1917-08-17 |
P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer (Singular Love) |
1917-08-26 |
William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85) |
1917-09-11 |
Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001) |
1917-09-26 |
Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976) |
1917-10-29 |
Eddie Constantine, US/French actor (Lucky Jo, It Lives Again) |
1917-11-05 |
Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (d. 2000) |
1917-9-20 |
Fernando Rey, The French Connection |
1918-01-18 |
Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996) |
1918-04-23 |
Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt) |
1918-04-25 |
Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995) |
1918-07-06 |
Sebastian Cabot, London, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine) |
1918-07-09 |
Leon Clore, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1918-07-22 |
Cora Vaucaire, French Cancan |
1918-08-06 |
Norman Granz, French Kiss |
1918-10-14 |
Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991) |
1918-10-19 |
Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife) |
1918-11-07 |
Paul Aussaresses, French general |
1918-11-13 |
Janine Andrade, French violinist |
1918-12-08 |
Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) |
1918-12-16 |
Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006) |
1919-04-12 |
Maurice Girodias, French publisher |
1919-04-13 |
Roland Gaucher, French journalist |
1919-04-17 |
Gilles Lamontagne, French Canadian politician |
1919-05-14 |
Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001) |
1919-05-22 |
Charles Brodie, The Case of the French Interpreter |
1919-06-21 |
Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997) |
1919-08-10 |
Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001) |
1919-08-11 |
Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949) |
1919-11-10 |
François Périer, French actor (d. 2002) |
1919-12-25 |
Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999) |
1920-01-04 |
Robert Lamoureux, Impossible Is Not French |
1920-02-23 |
Paul Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian politician |
1920-02-29 |
Michèle Morgan, French actress |
1920-03-04 |
Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993) |
1920-03-10 |
Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959) |
1920-03-13 |
Mary Jane French, An American in Paris |
1920-04-13 |
Claude Cheysson, French politician |
1920-06-07 |
Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party) |
1920-10-15 |
Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002) |
1920-10-24 |
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996) |
1920-10-31 |
Joseph Gelineau French composer (d. 2008) |
1921-01-01 |
Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country (Oly-gold-1956), (d. 2013) |
1921-01-25 |
Bill Hickman, The French Connection |
1921-01-26 |
Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005) |
1921-02-13 |
Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist |
1921-02-28 |
Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006) |
1921-04-09 |
Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008) |
1921-04-20 |
Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress |
1921-05-17 |
Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade) |
1921-06-04 |
Nina Vyroubova, Russ/French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957) |
1921-06-10 |
Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980) |
1921-06-21 |
Jean de Broglie, French politician |
1921-06-26 |
Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945) |
1921-06-29 |
Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000) |
1921-07-12 |
Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1921-10-09 |
Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002) |
1921-10-22 |
Georges Brassens, French poet/cabaret singer |
1921-11-05 |
Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt) |
1921-12-15 |
Florence Healey French, The Secret of Lost Creek |
1921-12-23 |
Charles Millot, French Connection II |
1922-03-27 |
Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003) |
1922-04-26 |
Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993) |
1922-06-18 |
Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004) |
1922-07-03 |
Francois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village) |
1922-07-24 |
Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer |
1922-09-26 |
Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne |
1922-10-03 |
Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004) |
1922-11-09 |
Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006) |
1922-11-21 |
Maria Casares, La Coruna Spain, French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice) |
1922-11-25 |
Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005) |
1922-12-19 |
Burt French, Love of Life |
1923-02-26 |
Dennis Kane, French Quarter |
1923-03-19 |
Janine Dacosta, French pianist |
1923-06-12 |
Marta Pan, Hungarian/French sculptor (Great spiral) |
1923-08-03 |
Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet |
1923-09-02 |
Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002) |
1923-09-13 |
Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999) |
1923-12-10 |
Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z) |
1924-01-19 |
Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author (Ni Marx ni Jesus) |
1924-02-13 |
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician |
1924-05-09 |
Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour) |
1924-05-22 |
Charles Aznavour, Armenia, French singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum) |
1924-06-21 |
Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker |
1924-07-18 |
John Cruickshank, French scholar |
1924-07-24 |
Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer |
1924-08-01 |
Georges Charpak, Paris, Polish-French Physicist who invented and developed subatomic particle detectors (Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992) |
1924-08-14 |
Georges Prêtre, French conductor |
1924-10-10 |
Ludmilla Tcherina, French actress/ballet dancer (Sins of Rome) |
1924-10-27 |
Alain Bombard, Paris, French Biologist, Physician, and Politician who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions |
1924-10-30 |
Serge Golovine, French ballet choreographer (Death of Narcissus) |
1924-11-12 |
Audouin Dollfus, Paris, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn) |
1924-9-08 |
Charles Okun, French Kiss |
1925-01-01 |
Raymond Pellegrin, French actor |
1925-02-21 |
Al Fann, The French Connection |
1925-03-04 |
Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006) |
1925-03-12 |
Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55) |
1925-03-24 |
Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994) |
1925-03-31 |
Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999) |
1925-04-04 |
Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979) |
1925-05-19 |
Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004) |
1925-05-20 |
D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- ) |
1925-06-07 |
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning) |
1925-07-20 |
Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee (1985-95) |
1925-08-18 |
Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006) |
1925-08-21 |
Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003) |
1925-08-26 |
Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999) |
1925-08-27 |
Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006) |
1925-08-30 |
Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator |
1925-10-20 |
Roger Hanin, French actor |
1925-10-31 |
Robin Moore, The French Connection |
1926-01-01 |
Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005) |
1926-01-15 |
Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (d. 1996) |
1926-01-17 |
Michèle Philippe, French Cancan |
1926-01-24 |
Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter |
1926-02-02 |
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician |
1926-02-23 |
Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete) |
1926-03-31 |
John Fowles, England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman) |
1926-03-31 |
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1926-07-17 |
Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler |
1926-07-21 |
Karel Reisz, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1926-07-23 |
Charlotte Mitchell, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1926-08-10 |
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer |
1926-08-14 |
René Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer (Asterix) |
1926-08-17 |
Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (Le Dernier Metro) |
1926-08-21 |
Bernard Drew, The French, They Are a Funny Race |
1926-09-15 |
Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician |
1926-10-15 |
Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality) |
1926-10-15 |
Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher (Les Mots et les Choses) |
1926-12-24 |
Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director |
1927-01-01 |
Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007) |
1927-02-24 |
Emmanuelle Riva, French actress |
1927-03-02 |
Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist |
1927-04-25 |
Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist |
1927-05-28 |
Francois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois) |
1927-07-25 |
Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003) |
1927-10-24 |
Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001) |
1927-11-05 |
Francesco Smalto, French Fried Vacation |
1927-11-16 |
Alexander Jacobs, French Connection II |
1927-9-11 |
G. David Schine, The French Connection |
1928-01-01 |
Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection) |
1928-01-01 |
Ernest Tidyman, The French Connection |
1928-01-06 |
Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre], French actress and fashion model (Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?) |
1928-01-17 |
Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) |
1928-01-24 |
Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007) |
1928-02-26 |
Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress |
1928-03-01 |
Jacques Rivette, French film director |
1928-03-11 |
Valerie French, All My Children |
1928-04-02 |
Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginsburg], Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang) |
1928-04-28 |
Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter |
1928-05-06 |
Robert Poujade, French politician |
1928-05-13 |
Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter |
1928-05-23 |
Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998) |
1928-05-30 |
Agnès Varda, French director |
1928-06-12 |
Barbara Dobbins, The French Line |
1928-07-05 |
Pierre Mauroy, French politician (Prime Minister, 1981-4), (d. 2013) |
1928-07-10 |
Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999) |
1928-07-20 |
Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012) |
1928-08-03 |
Cécile Aubry, French actress |
1928-10-28 |
Marcel Bozzuffi, The French Connection |
1928-12-23 |
Michael French, Pretty Woman |
1928-12-31 |
Siné, French cartoonist |
1929-01-20 |
Bob Denard, French mercenary |
1929-02-06 |
Pierre Brice, French actor |
1929-02-19 |
Jacques Deray, French film director (d. 2003) |
1929-02-19 |
Philip D'Antoni, The French Connection |
1929-02-28 |
Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer |
1929-04-07 |
Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007) |
1929-05-16 |
Claude Morin, French Canadian politician |
1929-05-23 |
Philippe Venet, In the French Style |
1929-06-13 |
Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989) |
1929-07-02 |
William C. Gerrity, The French Connection |
1929-07-26 |
Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician |
1929-07-29 |
Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher |
1929-08-18 |
Hugues Aufray, French singer |
1929-09-09 |
Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004) |
1929-09-14 |
Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler |
1929-10-20 |
Colin Jeavons, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1929-10-24 |
Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977) |
1929-10-28 |
Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988) |
1929-11-09 |
Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (d. 2005) |
1929-11-21 |
Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room) |
1929-11-21 |
Marilyn French, The Women's Room |
1929-12-26 |
Régine, French singer and nightclub owner |
1930-01-03 |
Eddie Egan, The French Connection |
1930-02-07 |
Jean Champagne, French Postcards |
1930-04-29 |
Jean Rochefort, French actor |
1930-06-09 |
Barbara, French singer (d. 1997) |
1930-06-20 |
Thomasine Heiner, French Kiss |
1930-07-15 |
Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004) |
1930-08-01 |
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002) |
1930-08-06 |
Françoise Soulié, French Touch |
1930-10-29 |
Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002) |
1930-11-14 |
Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress |
1930-12-03 |
Jean-Luc Godard, French director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless) |
1931-03-05 |
Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist |
1931-03-28 |
Frédéric de Pasquale, The French Connection |
1931-05-16 |
Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director |
1931-05-24 |
Michael Lonsdale, French actor |
1931-05-27 |
Bernard Fresson, French Connection II |
1931-06-03 |
Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise) |
1931-06-03 |
Françoise Arnoul, French Cancan |
1931-07-06 |
Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician |
1931-07-23 |
Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter |
1931-07-24 |
Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998) |
1931-08-15 |
Bill Podmore, The French Disconnection |
1931-09-19 |
Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor |
1931-10-13 |
Raymond Kopa, French footballer |
1931-11-13 |
Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress |
1931-9-08 |
Victor Garrivier, French Kiss |
1932-01-06 |
Sacha Distel, French singer |
1932-03-11 |
Valerie French, London England, actress (Jubal) |
1932-04-26 |
Francis Lai, French film music composer |
1932-04-27 |
Anouk Aimée, French actress |
1932-06-27 |
Magali Noël, French actress |
1932-09-24 |
Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian |
1932-10-24 |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) |
1932-11-10 |
Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008) |
1932-11-23 |
Michel David-Weill, French investment banker |
1932-11-29 |
Jacques Chirac, French politician |
1932-12-05 |
Joseph French, Crimewave |
1932-9-17 |
Toni Palmer, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1933-03-15 |
Philippe de Broca, Paris France, French film director |
1933-03-29 |
Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet |
1933-05-18 |
Bernadette Chirac, French politician |
1933-05-21 |
Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012) |
1933-06-17 |
Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor |
1933-06-22 |
Jacques Martin, French TV host (d. 2007) |
1933-07-08 |
Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice |
1933-07-28 |
Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
1933-08-16 |
Tom Maschler, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1933-08-18 |
Just Fontaine, French footballer |
1933-08-28 |
Philip French, The Imposter |
1933-12-07 |
Randy Jurgensen, The French Connection |
1933-12-25 |
Franco Pastorino, French Cancan |
1934-02-27 |
Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992) |
1934-05-10 |
Dolly Summers, The French Line |
1934-07-01 |
Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter |
1934-07-25 |
Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter |
1934-07-25 |
Don Ellis, The French Connection |
1934-08-15 |
Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998) |
1934-08-16 |
Pierre Richard, French actor |
1934-08-25 |
Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician |
1934-09-25 |
Jean Sorel, French actor |
1934-11-26 |
Marinda French, Quadroon |
1934-12-04 |
Victor French, Santa Barbara California, actor (Highway to Heaven) |
1934-12-04 |
Victor French, An Officer and a Gentleman |
1935-02-21 |
Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative |
1935-06-13 |
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist |
1935-07-31 |
Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist |
1935-08-28 |
Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998) |
1935-08-29 |
William Friedkin, Chicago, Illinois, American director/producer/writer (The Exorcist, The French Connection) |
1935-10-10 |
André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive |
1935-12-18 |
Jacques Pépin, French chef |
1936-03-01 |
Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician |
1936-03-07 |
Georges Perec, French writer (Seire Noire, Retour a la bien-aimee) |
1936-04-07 |
Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist |
1936-04-15 |
Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist |
1936-04-22 |
Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998) |
1936-05-06 |
Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades) |
1936-05-28 |
Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician |
1936-10-19 |
Tony Lo Bianco, The French Connection |
1936-12-28 |
Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979) |
1937-07-12 |
Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer |
1937-07-28 |
Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter |
1937-09-17 |
Albertine Sarrazin, French author (L'astragale, La Cavale) |
1938-01-07 |
Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997) |
1938-02-22 |
Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995) |
1938-05-10 |
Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor |
1938-05-13 |
Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier) |
1938-05-15 |
Mireille Darc, French actress |
1938-07-10 |
Paul Andreu, French architect |
1938-07-27 |
Isabelle Aubret, French singer |
1938-07-30 |
Hervé de Charette, French politician |
1938-08-02 |
Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician |
1938-08-20 |
Alain Vivien, French politician |
1938-10-06 |
Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder |
1938-11-03 |
Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter |
1938-11-05 |
Joe Dassin, French-speaking American singer (d. 1980) |
1938-11-13 |
Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician (d. 1994) |
1938-11-30 |
Jean Eustache, French filmmaker |
1938-12-11 |
Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer |
1938-12-22 |
Pierre Koralnik, French Intrigue |
1939-01-01 |
Michèle Mercier, French actress |
1939-02-01 |
Claude François, French singer (d. 1978) |
1939-02-03 |
Josef Schwarz, French for Beginners |
1939-04-03 |
François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975) |
1939-04-06 |
André Ouellet, French Canadian politician |
1939-05-09 |
Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988) |
1939-05-23 |
Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004) |
1939-07-08 |
Anthony Langdon, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1939-07-17 |
Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician |
1939-10-05 |
Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress |
1939-10-05 |
Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright |
1939-10-09 |
Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer (Lettres Clandestines) |
1940-01-04 |
Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate |
1940-04-15 |
Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics |
1940-04-16 |
Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian politician |
1940-05-26 |
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician |
1940-07-11 |
Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician |
1940-08-28 |
Roger Pingeon, French cylist |
1940-08-28 |
Philippe Léotard, French Connection II |
1940-09-24 |
Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994) |
1940-10-29 |
Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996) |
1940-12-23 |
Robert Labine, French-Canadian politician |
1941-04-23 |
Jacqueline Boyer, French singer |
1941-04-28 |
Lucien Aimar, French cyclist |
1941-06-24 |
Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist |
1941-07-02 |
Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter |
1941-08-01 |
Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
1941-09-23 |
Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player |
1941-11-27 |
Aimé Jacquet, French football manager |
1942-02-27 |
Michel Forget, French Canadian actor |
1942-03-02 |
Luc Plamondon, French Canadian lyricist |
1942-08-01 |
André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer |
1942-08-12 |
Richard Allan, French Erection |
1942-09-05 |
Denise Fabre French television presenter. |
1942-09-28 |
Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999) |
1942-12-19 |
Rufus, French actor |
1943-02-11 |
Serge Lama, French singer |
1943-04-28 |
Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor |
1943-05-30 |
Luis Rego, French Fried Vacation |
1943-11-21 |
Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver |
1943-11-27 |
Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet |
1943-12-05 |
Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate |
1943-12-21 |
Walter Spanghero, French rugby player |
1944-01-17 |
Françoise Hardy, French singer |
1944-01-30 |
Lynn Harrell, Prom 26: French Night with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
1944-02-06 |
Christine Boutin, French politician |
1944-02-20 |
Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999) |
1944-05-10 |
Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, French actress and writer (Love on the Run, Cousin cousine) |
1944-07-27 |
Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist |
1944-09-30 |
Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer |
1944-11-01 |
Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia |
1944-12-01 |
Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor |
1944-12-01 |
Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin |
1944-12-01 |
Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco |
1944-12-04 |
François Migault, French racing driver |
1945-04-07 |
Joël Robuchon, French chef |
1945-05-12 |
Patrick Ricard, French businessman |
1945-07-04 |
Bruce French, Jurassic Park III |
1945-07-10 |
Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director |
1945-07-14 |
Leigh French, Forrest Gump |
1945-07-30 |
Patrick Modiano, French novelist |
1945-09-26 |
Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician |
1945-10-12 |
Aurore Clément, French actress |
1945-10-13 |
Christophe, French singer |
1945-11-29 |
Roger Bambuck, Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner (Olympic-bronze-1968) |
1945-9-02 |
Catherine Lachens, French Twist |
1946-02-18 |
Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor |
1946-02-25 |
Jean Todt, French executive director of Scuderia Ferrari |
1946-03-01 |
Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990) |
1946-03-18 |
Michel Leclère, French racing driver |
1946-03-25 |
Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991) |
1946-03-26 |
Alain Madelin, French politician |
1946-04-07 |
Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005) |
1946-04-14 |
Mireille Giuliano, French Women Don't Get Fat |
1946-04-20 |
Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor |
1946-04-22 |
Nicole Garcia, French actress and director |
1946-04-24 |
Dick Rivers, French singer and actor |
1946-04-28 |
Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress |
1946-05-19 |
André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
1946-06-06 |
Jean-Paul Jaud, Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution |
1946-08-08 |
French W Weisglas, Dutch MP (VVD) |
1946-09-10 |
Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician |
1946-10-07 |
Bernard Lavilliers, French singer |
1946-10-22 |
Claude Charron, French-Canadian politician and TV personality |
1946-11-18 |
Amanda Lear, French singer |
1946-12-10 |
Catherine Hiegel, French Twist |
1947-01-20 |
Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and directeur sportif |
1947-01-21 |
Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer |
1947-01-26 |
Michel Sardou, French singer |
1947-03-18 |
Patrick Chesnais, French actor |
1947-04-01 |
Alain Connes, French mathematician |
1947-06-02 |
Martin Lamotte, French Fried Vacation |
1947-06-20 |
David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo) |
1947-06-28 |
Anny Duperey, French film and television actress |
1947-08-11 |
Catherine Collard, French pianist (Schumann/Brahms) |
1947-10-04 |
Julien Clerc, French singer |
1947-10-09 |
France Gall, French singer |
1947-10-22 |
Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman |
1947-11-28 |
Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992) |
1947-12-01 |
Alain Bashung, French singer |
1948-01-10 |
Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist |
1948-01-17 |
Anne Queffélec, French pianist |
1948-04-03 |
Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer |
1948-04-20 |
Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician |
1948-04-23 |
Pascal Quignard, French author |
1948-04-23 |
Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor |
1948-04-28 |
Dorothée Berryman, French Canadian actress and singer |
1948-07-07 |
Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor |
1948-07-30 |
Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor |
1948-08-02 |
Dennis Prager, Baseball, Dennis & The French |
1948-08-24 |
Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician |
1948-10-08 |
Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006) |
1948-10-10 |
Séverine, French singer |
1948-11-05 |
Bernard-Henri Lévy, French public intellectual |
1948-11-25 |
Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician |
1948-12-18 |
Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer |
1948-12-27 |
Gérard Depardieu, French actor |
1949-01-18 |
Philippe Starck, French designer |
1949-02-10 |
Maxime Le Forestier, French singer |
1949-02-22 |
Arthur French, Another World |
1949-03-02 |
Alain Chamfort, French singer |
1949-04-01 |
Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman |
1949-04-24 |
Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter |
1949-04-25 |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician |
1949-06-04 |
Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor |
1949-06-22 |
Meryl Streep, Summit, New Jersey, American actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice) |
1949-07-04 |
Pierre Tati, French Connection II |
1949-10-22 |
Arsène Wenger, French football manager |
1949-12-28 |
Hilton McRae, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1950-01-15 |
Marius Trésor, French footballer |
1950-04-15 |
Josiane Balasko, French Twist |
1950-05-17 |
Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills) |
1950-05-20 |
Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1950-05-30 |
Bertrand Delanoë, French politician |
1950-06-21 |
Gérard Lanvin, French actor |
1950-09-07 |
Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star (French 1976, Italian 1976) |
1951-02-06 |
Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005) |
1951-04-16 |
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer |
1951-04-17 |
Ed French, Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
1951-06-23 |
Michèle Mouton, French race car driver |
1951-07-16 |
Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist |
1951-11-01 |
Fabrice Luchini, French actor |
1951-11-04 |
Larry French, From Noon Till Three |
1951-12-20 |
Gilbert Montagné, French musician |
1952-01-25 |
Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter |
1952-02-05 |
Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986) |
1952-03-16 |
Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur |
1952-03-26 |
Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987) |
1952-04-01 |
Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher |
1952-04-02 |
Thierry Le Luron, French humorist (d. 1986) |
1952-04-16 |
Michel Blanc, French actor |
1952-04-22 |
François Berléand, French actor |
1952-04-24 |
Jean Paul Gaultier, Arcueil France, French fashion designer |
1952-04-30 |
Jacques Audiard, French film director |
1952-05-06 |
Christian Clavier, French actor |
1952-05-11 |
Renaud Séchan, French composer |
1952-05-23 |
Anne-Marie David, French singer |
1952-09-27 |
Didier Dubois, French mathematician |
1952-09-27 |
André Viger, French Canadian marathoner |
1952-10-23 |
Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005) |
1952-11-24 |
Thierry Lhermitte, French comedian and actor |
1952-12-14 |
Germain Houde, French Canadian actor |
1952-12-25 |
Desireless, French singer |
1953-03-16 |
Isabelle Huppert, French actress |
1953-04-27 |
Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress |
1953-06-17 |
Edward Duke, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1953-09-03 |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director |
1953-09-22 |
Ségolène Royal, French politician |
1953-10-04 |
Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor |
1953-10-12 |
Serge Lepeltier, French politician |
1953-11-23 |
Francis Cabrel, French singer |
1953-12-24 |
François Loos, French politician |
1954-03-04 |
François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France |
1954-04-20 |
Gilles Lupien, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1954-07-20 |
Jay Jay French, NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It) |
1954-08-24 |
Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1954-08-25 |
Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist |
1954-09-17 |
Joël-François Durand, French composer |
1954-10-13 |
Claude Ribbe, French historian |
1954-11-08 |
David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster |
1954-11-14 |
Bernard Hinault, French bicylist (Tour de France) |
1954-12-06 |
Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse) |
1955-01-31 |
Virginia Ruzici, Campia Turzii Romania, tennis star (1978 French Open champion) |
1955-03-04 |
Dominique Pinon, French actor |
1955-03-25 |
Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur |
1955-04-05 |
Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress |
1955-04-30 |
Nicolas Hulot, French journalist |
1955-06-21 |
David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards) |
1955-06-21 |
Michel Platini, French footballer |
1955-06-23 |
Jean Tigana, French footballer |
1955-07-29 |
Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor |
1955-08-11 |
Marc Bureau, French Canadian politician |
1955-09-29 |
Benoît Ferreux, French actor |
1955-11-09 |
Bob Nault, French Canadian politician |
1955-9-25 |
Zucchero, French Kiss |
1956-01-14 |
Étienne Daho, French singer and songwriter |
1956-02-11 |
Didier Lockwood, French violinist |
1956-04-08 |
Christine Boisson, French actress |
1956-05-03 |
Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician |
1956-05-26 |
Frédéric Dutoit, French politician |
1956-07-20 |
Mima Jausovec, Maribor Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977) |
1956-08-11 |
Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician |
1956-08-15 |
Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer |
1956-08-16 |
Dominic Erban, French rugby international player |
1956-10-19 |
Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976) |
1956-12-20 |
Blanche Baker, NYC, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard) |
1957-05-26 |
François Legault, French Canadian politician |
1957-09-09 |
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist |
1957-10-11 |
Dawn French, Welsh comedian and TV actress (Supergrass, French & Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley) |
1957-10-11 |
Dawn French, Coraline |
1957-11-16 |
Jacques Gamblin, French actor |
1957-11-30 |
Joël Champetier, French Canadian author |
1957-12-06 |
Arabella Weir, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1957-12-12 |
Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright |
1957-12-13 |
Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman |
1957-12-19 |
Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993) |
1958-01-22 |
Michael Sturges, The French Atlantic Affair |
1958-02-06 |
Kelly Leadbetter, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1986 Hennessy French Open) |
1958-02-26 |
Michel Houellebecq, French novelist |
1958-02-28 |
Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress |
1958-04-30 |
Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter |
1958-05-23 |
François Feldman, French singer |
1958-08-31 |
Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer |
1958-09-21 |
Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player |
1958-10-31 |
Jeannie Longo, French cyclist |
1958-11-24 |
Alain Chabat, actor (French Twist, Six Days Six Night) |
1959-03-18 |
Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director |
1959-04-02 |
Yves Lavandier, French film director |
1959-04-25 |
Dominique Blanc, French actress |
1959-04-27 |
Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist |
1959-05-07 |
Lynsey Baxter, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1959-05-14 |
Patrick Bruel, Algerian/French actor/rock vocalist (Coup of Sirocco) |
1959-05-28 |
Sean French, Killing Me Softly |
1959-06-22 |
Nicola Sirkis, French singer and lyricist (Indochine) |
1959-07-15 |
Vincent Lindon, French actor |
1959-08-13 |
Bruce French, cricketer (England wicketkeeper in 16 Tests 1986-88) |
1959-09-09 |
Eric Serra, French composer |
1959-10-07 |
Jean-Marc Fournier, French-Canadian politician |
1959-12-17 |
Hélène Bourgy, French Kiss |
1959-12-30 |
Josée Verner, French Canadian politician |
1960-01-23 |
Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998) |
1960-03-11 |
Christophe Gans, French film director |
1960-03-28 |
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist |
1960-05-18 |
Yannick Noah, Sedan France, tennis player (French 1983) |
1960-07-12 |
Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer |
1960-08-12 |
Laurent Fignon, French cyclist |
1960-09-19 |
Loïc Bigois, French engineer |
1960-10-31 |
Arnaud Desplechin, French film director |
1960-11-22 |
Léos Carax, French film director |
1960-9-11 |
Rex Morrison, Raunch 6: French Kiss |
1961-04-07 |
Pascal Olmeta, French footballer |
1961-07-05 |
Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano |
1961-07-15 |
Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter |
1961-09-07 |
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French Pianist |
1961-09-12 |
Mylene Farmer, Montreal Canada, french singer (Cendres de Lune) |
1961-09-21 |
Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena) |
1961-10-16 |
Marc Levy, French novelist |
1961-10-21 |
Buck Meadows, French Connections Part One: Temptation |
1961-11-06 |
Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer |
1961-11-16 |
Corinne Hermès, French singer |
1961-12-15 |
Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess (Roue de la Fortune) |
1962-01-21 |
Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003) |
1962-03-04 |
Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000) |
1962-03-06 |
Valerie French, American animatronics art director |
1962-04-02 |
Pierre Carles, French documentarist |
1962-04-07 |
Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber |
1962-11-02 |
Mireille Delunsch, French soprano |
1962-9-17 |
Michael French, Born and Bred |
1963-01-12 |
François Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter |
1963-01-18 |
Maxime Bernier, French Canadian politician |
1963-04-24 |
Mano Solo, French singer |
1963-05-09 |
Sergio Canali, French Lieutenant's Boys |
1963-06-07 |
Roberto Alagna, French tenor |
1963-06-12 |
Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver |
1963-07-04 |
Henri Leconte, Lillers France, tennis player (French finalist 1988) |
1963-07-16 |
Mikael Pernfors, Malmo Sweden, tennis star (1986 French Open finalist) |
1963-07-25 |
Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician |
1963-09-11 |
Bonnie Gadusek, Pittsburgh, tennis player (French Juniors 1981) |
1963-11-03 |
Graham Fletcher-Cook, The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1963-12-18 |
Pauline Ester, French singer |
1963-9-30 |
Mark A. French, Bellaria - So lange wir leben! |
1964-02-20 |
French Stewart, NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun) |
1964-02-20 |
French Stewart, Stargate |
1964-03-01 |
Paul Le Guen, French football manager |
1964-03-04 |
Linda French, Oak Park Ill, badminton player (Olympics-96) |
1964-06-11 |
Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver |
1964-07-03 |
Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress |
1964-08-15 |
Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates |
1964-08-22 |
Mats Wilander, Vaxjo Sweden, tennis star (1988-US, Aust, French) |
1964-09-26 |
Nicki French, English singer |
1964-11-13 |
Ronald Agenor, Rabat Morocco, tennis player (1989 French quarters) |
1964-12-11 |
Michel Courtemanche, French Canadian comedian |
1965-01-04 |
Yvan Attal, French actor and director |
1965-03-21 |
Xavier Bertrand, French politician |
1965-03-31 |
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006) |
1965-04-19 |
Natalie Dessay, French soprano |
1965-04-30 |
Arthur W. French III, Men of Respect |
1965-05-20 |
Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor) |
1965-06-05 |
Sandrine Piau, French soprano |
1965-06-16 |
Ewa Leydo, The French Trick |
1965-08-25 |
Kathleen Horvath, Chicago Illinois, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980) |
1965-08-31 |
Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress |
1965-09-19 |
Sabine Paturel, French singer |
1965-11-19 |
Laurent Blanc, French footballer |
1966-01-12 |
Olivier Martinez, French actor |
1966-02-19 |
Robert Wichrowski, The French Trick |
1966-04-19 |
Véronique Gens, French soprano |
1966-05-14 |
Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter (Milli Vanilli with Rob Pilatus) |
1966-05-14 |
Marianne Denicourt, French actress |
1966-05-24 |
Eric Cantona, French footballer |
1966-06-18 |
Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles) |
1966-07-25 |
Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer |
1966-09-02 |
Olivier Panis, French race car driver |
1966-11-23 |
Vincent Cassel, French actor |
1966-12-05 |
Patricia Kaas, French pop singer (Mademoiselle Chant) |
1967-01-17 |
Fonda French, Anal Trashy Ass |
1967-02-10 |
Jacky Durand, French cyclist |
1967-04-14 |
Alain Côté, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1967-07-16 |
Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist |
1967-10-02 |
Thomas Muster, Leibnitz Austria, tennis star (1995 French Open) |
1967-10-10 |
Jonathan Littell, French-American writer |
1967-11-15 |
François Ozon, French film director |
1967-12-23 |
Carla Bruni, Italian-French model and singer |
1968-01-22 |
Frank Lebœuf, French footballer |
1968-01-27 |
Patrick Blondeau, French footballer |
1968-02-12 |
Grégory Charles, French Canadian singer, dancer, pianist, radio and television host |
1968-03-09 |
Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer |
1968-03-18 |
Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince |
1968-03-26 |
Laurent Brochard, French cyclist |
1968-04-08 |
Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100 m hurdles) |
1968-05-06 |
Lætitia Sadier, French singer (Stereolab) |
1968-05-09 |
Marie-Jose Perec, Guadeloupe, French 200m/400m runner (Oly-2 gold-96) |
1968-05-30 |
Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks |
1968-06-27 |
Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress |
1968-07-12 |
Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer |
1968-10-15 |
Didier Deschamps, French footballer |
1968-10-16 |
Elsa Zylberstein, French actress |
1968-10-28 |
Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach |
1968-11-27 |
Michael Vartan, French actor |
1968-11-30 |
Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist |
1969-03-05 |
MC Solaar, French rapper |
1969-07-07 |
Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer |
1969-09-23 |
Patrick Fiori, French singer |
1969-09-26 |
Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer |
1969-11-07 |
Hélène Grimaud, French pianist |
1969-12-09 |
Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer |
1969-12-27 |
Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver |
1970-01-27 |
Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist |
1970-02-27 |
Patricia Petibon, French opera singer |
1970-03-18 |
Suzan Anbeh, French Kiss |
1970-05-05 |
Soheil Ayari, French racer |
1970-06-03 |
Julie Masse, French Canadian singer |
1970-06-15 |
Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano |
1970-06-23 |
Yann Tiersen, French musician |
1970-08-17 |
Jim Courier, Sanford Florida, tennis champ (1990, 91 French) |
1970-09-22 |
Emmanuel Petit, French footballer |
1970-11-07 |
Marc Rosset, Geneva Switz, tennis star (1992 French Doubles) |
1970-12-03 |
Christian Karembeu, French footballer |
1971-01-06 |
Jennifer Loca, French Beauty |
1971-02-26 |
Hélène Ségara, French singer |
1971-04-07 |
Guillaume Depardieu, French actor |
1971-04-09 |
Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian race car driver |
1971-05-28 |
Isabelle Carré, French actress |
1971-06-10 |
Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer |
1971-07-14 |
Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer |
1971-09-01 |
Lââm, French singer |
1971-11-15 |
Sandra Kim, [Caldarone], French singer (J'aime la Vie) |
1971-12-17 |
Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player |
1971-12-21 |
Mathieu Chedid, French musician |
1972-01-01 |
Lilian Thuram, French footballer |
1972-02-22 |
Michael Chang, Hoboken New Jersey, tennis star (1989 French Open) |
1972-02-27 |
Christopher Birge, Slap Her, She's French! |
1972-03-23 |
Judith Godrèche, French actress and author |
1972-03-29 |
Michel Ancel, French game designer |
1972-04-21 |
Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer |
1972-05-25 |
Barbara Schulz, French Kiss |
1972-05-29 |
Stanislas Renoult, French singer |
1972-06-23 |
Zinedine Zidane, French footballer |
1972-07-06 |
Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer |
1972-11-24 |
Samira Bellil, The New French Revolution/The Image War/Domingo |
1972-12-10 |
Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer |
1972-12-12 |
Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter |
1973-02-18 |
Claude Makélélé, French footballer |
1973-02-28 |
Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver |
1973-04-05 |
Estefania Knuth, Barcelona Spain, LPGA golfer (1992 French Intl) |
1973-04-05 |
Élodie Bouchez, French actress |
1973-04-07 |
Carole Montillet, French skier |
1973-04-10 |
Guillaume Canet, French actor and film director |
1973-04-29 |
David Belle, French physical educator |
1973-05-20 |
Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress |
1973-06-17 |
Louis Leterrier, French film director |
1973-06-18 |
Julie Depardieu, French actress |
1973-07-19 |
Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor |
1973-07-30 |
Andrea Gaudenzi, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1990 French Open junior) |
1973-08-04 |
Xavier Marchand, French swimmer |
1973-09-13 |
Christine Arron, French runner |
1973-10-01 |
Rachid Chékhémani, French runner |
1973-10-06 |
Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer |
1973-10-29 |
Robert Pirès, French footballer |
1974-01-10 |
Steve Marlet, French footballer |
1974-02-08 |
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk) |
1974-02-20 |
Ophelie Winter, French actress |
1974-02-26 |
Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver |
1974-04-29 |
Pascal Cygan, French footballer |
1974-05-10 |
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer |
1974-05-11 |
Benoît Magimel, French actor |
1974-08-05 |
Antoine Sibierski, French footballer |
1974-08-10 |
David Sommeil, French footballer |
1974-08-11 |
Audrey Mestre, French diver |
1974-08-31 |
Andrei Medvedev, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1991 French Open junior) |
1974-09-12 |
Caroline Aigle, First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007) |
1974-10-05 |
Spicy Mac, French Bomber Detective |
1975-01-03 |
Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk) |
1975-04-04 |
Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman |
1975-04-17 |
Heike Brunner, French for Foreigners |
1975-05-17 |
Cheick Kongo, French martial artist |
1975-06-18 |
Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer |
1975-07-25 |
Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer |
1975-08-16 |
Didier Agathe, French footballer |
1975-09-30 |
Marion Cotillard, French actress |
1975-11-02 |
Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver |
1976-04-04 |
Sébastien Enjolras, French racing driver (d. 1997) |
1976-06-23 |
Patrick Vieira, French footballer |
1976-07-05 |
Brennan Foster, French Connections Part One: Temptation |
1976-07-10 |
Ludovic Giuly, French footballer |
1976-07-17 |
Soraya Garré, Oh La La, Hollywood Speaks French! |
1976-08-31 |
Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer |
1976-09-09 |
Emma de Caunes, French film actress |
1976-10-21 |
Mélanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier |
1976-11-15 |
Virginie Ledoyen, French actress |
1976-12-05 |
Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby union footballer |
1977-03-18 |
Willy Sagnol, French footballer |
1977-04-26 |
Lila French, Birdbath |
1977-04-27 |
Khalid Zoubaa, French runner |
1977-06-15 |
Steven French, So I Married a Porn Star |
1977-06-17 |
Jessica Mark, French Beauty |
1977-08-01 |
Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author |
1977-08-09 |
Mikael Silvestre, French footballer |
1977-08-17 |
William Gallas, French footballer |
1977-08-17 |
Thierry Henry, French footballer |
1977-10-08 |
Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider |
1977-10-15 |
David Trezeguet, French football player |
1977-10-31 |
Sylviane Félix, French athlete |
1977-10-31 |
Séverine Ferrer, French singer |
1977-11-30 |
Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer |
1977-12-08 |
Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer |
1977-12-16 |
Sylvain Distin, French footballer |
1977-12-17 |
Arnaud Clement, French tennis player |
1977-9-22 |
Ryan French, Galaxy Quest |
1977-9-22 |
Ryan French, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
1978-01-05 |
Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver |
1978-02-28 |
Jeanne Cherhal, French Singer-songwriter |
1978-03-31 |
Jérôme Rothen, French footballer |
1978-05-05 |
Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer |
1978-05-05 |
Riad Sattouf, The French Kissers |
1978-05-11 |
Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress |
1978-05-29 |
Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player |
1978-06-14 |
Steve Bégin, French-Canadian hockey player |
1978-06-17 |
Isabelle Delobel, French European ice dancer |
1978-06-23 |
Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce) |
1978-06-26 |
Alexandra, French singer, L5's singer |
1978-07-01 |
Frank Siegmund, French for Beginners |
1978-07-17 |
Émilie Simon, French singer |
1978-07-18 |
Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster |
1978-08-07 |
Alexandre Aja, French director |
1978-08-08 |
Louis Saha, French footballer |
1978-08-09 |
Audrey Tautou, French actress |
1978-08-31 |
Philippe Christanval, French footballer |
1979-01-04 |
Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver |
1979-01-25 |
Pi Hongyan, French badminton player |
1979-02-21 |
Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer |
1979-02-28 |
Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver |
1979-03-04 |
Csilla Star, French Beauty |
1979-03-14 |
Nicolas Anelka, French footballer |
1979-03-22 |
Ace Amerson, French Kissing and Telling: The Real World Paris Reunion |
1979-03-27 |
Bernadette Rivero, A French Twist on Mexico |
1979-04-13 |
Wesley French, Last Chance |
1979-04-14 |
Noé Pamarot, French footballer |
1979-05-21 |
Gaspard Augé, French musician |
1979-05-25 |
Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1979-06-22 |
Thomas Voeckler, French road bicycle racer |
1979-06-28 |
Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright |
1979-07-03 |
Ludivine Sagnier, French actress |
1979-07-05 |
Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player |
1979-07-11 |
Éric Abidal, French footballer |
1979-07-24 |
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player |
1979-08-10 |
Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver |
1979-09-19 |
Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel and actress |
1979-10-06 |
David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005) |
1979-11-14 |
Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer |
1980-01-06 |
Steed Malbranque, French footballer |
1980-01-26 |
Samuel French, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For |
1980-02-20 |
Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer |
1980-03-18 |
Sebastien Frey, French footballer |
1980-04-12 |
Simon French, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
1980-04-22 |
Nicolas Douchez, French footballer |
1980-06-04 |
François Beauchemin, French Canadian ice hockey player |
1980-06-13 |
Florent Malouda, French footballer |
1980-06-26 |
Sinik, French singer and rapper |
1980-07-05 |
Eva Green, French actress |
1980-07-09 |
Jessa French, Sweetzer |
1980-07-25 |
Diam's, French rapper |
1980-08-02 |
Piotr Litwic, The French Trick |
1980-08-07 |
Aurélie Claudel, French model |
1980-08-22 |
Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete |
1980-09-02 |
Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League |
1980-10-06 |
Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer |
1980-11-10 |
Rufin French, scAIRcrows |
1980-11-24 |
Philipp Chudalla, French for Beginners |
1980-12-02 |
Joel French, Episode #1.28 |
1980-12-05 |
Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter |
1980-12-07 |
Dana Schmidt, French Kissing |
1980-12-20 |
Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer |
1981-01-22 |
Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer |
1981-02-28 |
Florent Serra, French tennis player |
1981-04-17 |
Steven French, Salaam Namaste |
1981-04-26 |
Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer |
1981-05-15 |
Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer |
1981-08-04 |
Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer |
1981-08-12 |
Djibril Cissé, French footballer |
1981-08-20 |
Bernard Mendy, French footballer |
1981-08-29 |
Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist |
1981-10-22 |
Olivier Pla, French racing driver |
1981-12-15 |
Najoua Belyzel, French singer |
1982-01-12 |
Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player |
1982-03-31 |
Philippe Mexès, French footballer |
1982-04-05 |
Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver |
1982-04-16 |
Boris Diaw, French basketball player |
1982-04-22 |
Sarah French, Insectula! |
1982-05-02 |
Lorie, French singer |
1982-05-17 |
Tony Parker, French-American basketball player |
1982-06-12 |
Loïc Duval, French racing driver |
1982-09-28 |
Nolwenn Leroy, French Singer |
1982-10-15 |
Charline Labonté, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
1982-10-16 |
Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player |
1982-11-02 |
Charles Itandje, French footballer |
1982-11-16 |
Ronald Pognon, French athlete |
1982-11-30 |
Clémence Poésy, French actress |
1983-01-13 |
Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player |
1983-01-17 |
Julie Budet, French Electronic-Pop Musician |
1983-01-21 |
Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler |
1983-02-14 |
Bacary Sagna, French footballer |
1983-02-17 |
Gérald Cid, French footballer |
1983-02-22 |
Keira French, Camp Rock |
1983-03-14 |
Michael Good, The French Double |
1983-03-30 |
Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer |
1983-05-13 |
Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007) |
1983-06-14 |
Louis Garrel, French actor |
1983-10-31 |
Katy French, Irish model (d. 2007) |
1983-10-31 |
Katie French, Model |
1983-11-15 |
Laura Smet, French actress |
1983-9-28 |
Adam Nun, The French Double |
1984-03-07 |
Mathieu Flamini, French footballer |
1984-03-26 |
Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer |
1984-03-28 |
Christopher Samba, French-born footballer |
1984-06-05 |
Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress |
1984-08-21 |
Alizée Jacotey, French singer |
1984-10-20 |
Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer |
1984-10-21 |
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater |
1984-11-25 |
Gaspard Ulliel, French actor |
1984-12-27 |
Gilles Simon, French tennis player |
1984-9-23 |
Kate French, Accepted |
1985-01-28 |
Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer |
1985-03-10 |
Lassana Diarra, French footballer |
1985-04-17 |
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player |
1985-06-08 |
Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver |
1985-07-26 |
Gaël Clichy, French footballer |
1986-05-11 |
Abou Diaby, French footballer |
1986-05-25 |
Yoan Gouffran, French footballer |
1986-05-28 |
Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer |
1986-06-18 |
Richard Gasquet, French tennis player |
1986-07-11 |
Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer |
1986-07-23 |
Nelson Philippe, French racing driver |
1986-09-01 |
Gaël Monfils, French tennis player |
1986-10-09 |
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer |
1986-11-11 |
François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player |
1986-9-14 |
Jonathan Monaghan, French Penguin |
1987-05-24 |
Guillaume Latendresse, French-Canadian hockey player |
1987-06-26 |
Samir Nasri, French footballer |
1987-09-15 |
Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player |
1987-12-10 |
Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer |
1987-12-19 |
Karim Benzema, French footballer |
1987-12-31 |
Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast |
1988-01-05 |
Pauline, French singer |
1988-01-14 |
Jordy, French singer |
1988-01-25 |
Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player |
1988-12-14 |
Nicolas Batum, French basketball player |
1989-01-25 |
Sheryfa Luna, French singer |
1989-03-18 |
François Goeske, French for Beginners |
1989-05-01 |
Justin French, Frozen Flesh |
1990-02-09 |
Mathias Melloul, Sexual Chronicles of a French Family |
1990-12-22 |
Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor |
1991-03-17 |
Vanessa Krüger, French for Beginners |
1991-06-19 |
Sian French, Glasgow 2014: BBC One: Day 1: 13:45-15:00 |
1991-08-12 |
Victoria Price, The Girl from French Class |
1993-07-03 |
Vincent Lacoste, The French Kissers |
1993-09-01 |
Ilona Mitrecey, French singer |
1998-04-13 |
Jesse Veliz, S--LAUGHTER (It's French) |
1999-9-11 |
Savannah French, National Treasure: Book of Secrets |
French - Notable Weddings
French - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1558-04-24 |
Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois |
1575-04-24 |
William (the Silent) of Orange marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun |
1625-06-13 |
English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette |
1660-06-09 |
French King Louis XIV (21) marries Maria Theresa of Spain (21) at Saint-Jean-de-Luz |
1684-01-12 |
French King Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon |
1725-09-05 |
French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski |
1736-02-12 |
Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I) |
1796-03-09 |
French Leader Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries 1st wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose |
1810-02-11 |
French leader Napoleon I marries 2nd wife Marie-Louise of Austria |
1850-03-14 |
French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine |
1853-01-30 |
Emperor and French President Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo, Countess of Teba |
1921-04-07 |
French president Charles de Gaulle (30) weds Yvonne Vendroux (20) |
1935-08-19 |
French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris |
1993-04-21 |
Rolling Stone Bill Wyman weds Suzanne Accosta on French Riveria |
1994-01-01 |
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29) |
1995-05-27 |
"Friends" actress Lisa Kudrow (31) weds French advertising executive Michel Stern (37) in Malibu |
1998-12-20 |
"Def Jam" business magnate Russell Simmons (41) weds model Kimora Lee (23) on the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy |
1999-07-28 |
"Sixteen Candles" actress Molly Ringwald (31) weds French writer Valery Lamerignere in Bordeaux, France |
2003-09-25 |
Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome |
2005-12-03 |
French heiress Athina Onassis (20) weds Olympic gold medalist equestrian Alvaro de Miranda Neto (32) in Sao Paulo, Brazil |
2006-07-09 |
Former Beverly Hills, 90210 mean girl actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor-artist Brady Smith (33) at a French-Italian estate in Montecito, California |
2008-02-02 |
23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France |
2009-02-14 |
Actress Salma Hayek (42) weds French billionaire and PPR CEO Francois-Henri Pinault (46) in Paris |
2010-07-31 |
R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys (31) weds Grammy Award winning rapper Swizz Beatz (33) at a private home on the French island of Corsica |
2011-08-27 |
Oscar winner Sofia Coppola (41) weds vocalist of French indie rock band "Phoenix" Thomas Mars at the family villa, Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy |
2011-09-03 |
English DJ and musician Mark Ronson (36) weds french actress Josephine De La Baume (27) in Aix-en-Provence, France |
French - Notable Divorces
French - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1809-12-16 |
Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Joséphine by French Senate |
1810-01-10 |
French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Empress Joséphine |
French - Notable Deaths
French - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
394-09-08 |
Arbogast, French general, commits suicide |
545-06-03 |
Chlotilde, wife of French King Clovis/saint, dies at about 70 |
593-03-28 |
Guntram, French King in Burgundy, dies at about 67 |
660-12-01 |
Eligius/Eloy, French bishop of Tournay-Noyon/saint, dies |
711-04-14 |
Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27 |
783-07-12 |
Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French King Pippin III, dies |
794-08-10 |
Fastrada, 3rd wife of French King Charles the Great, dies at 30 |
833-07-20 |
Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63 |
840-03-14 |
Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69 |
840-06-20 |
Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies |
843-04-19 |
Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies |
855-09-29 |
Lotharius I, Romanian-French emperor (signed Treaty of Verdun), dies |
875-12-16 |
Ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75 |
876-09-08 |
Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72 |
1003-05-12 |
Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome |
1003-05-12 |
Pope Sylvester/Silvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies |
1004-11-13 |
Abbo van Fleury, [Floriacensis], French abbott/saint, dies |
1088-01-06 |
Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies |
1099-07-29 |
Urban II, [Odo van Lagery], French Pope (1088-99), dies |
1109-01-26 |
Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies |
1111-03-07 |
Bohemund I of Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies |
1112-10-05 |
Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler |
1113-06-19 |
Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies |
1115-06-08 |
Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64 |
1115-07-08 |
Petrus van Amiens, French Crusades predictor, dies |
1116-12-23 |
Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies |
1130-01-07 |
Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83 |
1133-12-18 |
Hildebert, French writer |
1142-04-21 |
Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) |
1151-01-13 |
Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081) |
1153-08-20 |
Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies |
1160-07-20 |
Peter Lombard, French theologian |
1171-06-09 |
Jacob Ben Meir, [Rabbenu Tam], French Tosofist, dies |
1174-07-11 |
Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies |
1187-07-04 |
Reinoud van Châtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies |
1197-09-22 |
Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies |
1199-04-06 |
Pierre Basile, French soldier |
1205-09-03 |
Petrus van Poitiers, French theologist (Sententiarum libri V), dies |
1208-01-15 |
Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered |
1213-12-17 |
Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53 |
1214-07-27 |
Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle |
1217-08-24 |
Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle |
1218-06-25 |
Simon de Montfort the elder, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader dies in the siege of Toulouse |
1236-12-23 |
Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies |
1245-02-08 |
Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies |
1250-02-08 |
Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216) |
1263-03-19 |
Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies |
1264-10-02 |
Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies |
1271-10-27 |
Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213) |
1274-07-15 |
John F Bonaventura, Ital/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies |
1274-08-15 |
Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201) |
1296-11-01 |
Guillaume Durand, French writer (b. 1230) |
1297-08-19 |
Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274) |
1298-09-11 |
Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269) |
1302-07-11 |
Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies |
1302-07-11 |
Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250) |
1304-05-23 |
Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer |
1317-02-07 |
Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256) |
1327-08-16 |
Roch, French saint (b. 1295) |
1350-12-26 |
Jean de Marigny, French bishop |
1356-09-19 |
Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies |
1356-09-19 |
Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle |
1356-09-19 |
Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle |
1358-07-31 |
Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies |
1361-06-09 |
Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69 |
1375-07-05 |
Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337) |
1378-03-27 |
Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies |
1380-07-13 |
Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60 |
1382-07-11 |
Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 |
1387-07-22 |
French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57 |
1393-01-30 |
Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball |
1396-09-25 |
Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle |
1396-09-25 |
Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle |
1396-09-25 |
Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle |
1397-02-18 |
Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 |
1397-06-15 |
Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity |
1397-06-16 |
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358) |
1407-04-23 |
Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326) |
1411-07-15 |
Johannes Parvus, [Jean Petit], French theologist, dies |
1415-10-25 |
Anton van Bourgondie, French son of Philip the Stout/duke, dies at 31 |
1415-10-25 |
Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle |
1415-10-25 |
Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle |
1420-08-09 |
Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies |
1431-05-30 |
Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412) |
1440-10-26 |
Gilles de Rais, French marshal, killer of 140 children, hanged |
1442-12-18 |
Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371) |
1444-04-07 |
John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50 |
1453-07-20 |
Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler |
1456-05-24 |
Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396) |
1456-11-25 |
Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle |
1465-01-05 |
Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394) |
1468-11-24 |
Jean de Dunois, French soldier (b. 1402) |
1471-07-25 |
John Soreth, French general, dies |
1472-07-05 |
Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) |
1474-11-27 |
Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74 |
1476-08-04 |
Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded |
1490-08-11 |
French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25 |
1491-12-03 |
Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies |
1492-11-06 |
Antoine Busnois, French composer |
1501-05-22 |
Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66 |
1510-03-25 |
Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49 |
1510-05-25 |
Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49 |
1512-04-11 |
Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle |
1518-08-16 |
Loyset Compère, French composer |
1522-10-30 |
Jean Mouton, French composer |
1522-11-14 |
Anne of France, daughter of French King Louis XI, Princess and French Regent (for her brother King Charles VIII during his minority). Born 1461 |
1524-04-30 |
Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473) |
1525-02-24 |
Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier |
1528-08-15 |
Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485) |
1529-04-16 |
Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake |
1530-04-18 |
Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 |
1531-09-22 |
Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55 |
1540-08-23 |
Guillaume Budé, French scholar |
1543-01-09 |
Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) |
1546-08-01 |
Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506) |
1546-08-03 |
Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509) |
1548-06-14 |
Carpentras, French composer |
1550-05-18 |
John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498) |
1553-04-09 |
Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 |
1555-08-08 |
Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) |
1555-11-24 |
French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65 |
1557-01-01 |
Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 |
1558-03-13 |
Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies |
1558-03-25 |
Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer |
1558-04-26 |
Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies |
1559-09-07 |
Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503) |
1559-10-02 |
Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) |
1560-01-01 |
Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies |
1560-02-16 |
Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat |
1560-06-11 |
Marie Guise, French wife of King James V of Scotland and mother and regent of Mary Queen of Scots, dies at 44 |
1561-03-25 |
Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518) |
1563-02-24 |
Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 |
1563-08-18 |
Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530) |
1563-12-29 |
Sebastian Castellio, French theologian (b. 1515) |
1565-06-12 |
Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512) |
1565-10-12 |
Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520) |
1565-10-22 |
Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479) |
1566-04-25 |
Diane de Poitiers, mistress of French King Henry II, dies aged 66 |
1566-04-25 |
Louise Labé, French poet |
1566-07-02 |
Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62 |
1566-07-30 |
Guillaume Rondelet, French Naturalist famous for his study of marine animals, dies at 58 |
1567-05-31 |
Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies |
1568-10-03 |
Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, dies at 23 |
1569-03-13 |
Louis Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenots, dies in Battle of Jarnac |
1569-05-27 |
Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies |
1570-01-08 |
Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510) |
1571-01-09 |
Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) |
1571-10-04 |
Claude Togniel d'Espence, French theologist (Sorbonne), dies at 60 |
1572-02-23 |
Pierre Certon, French composer |
1572-08-24 |
Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded |
1572-08-24 |
Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, beginning in Paris |
1572-08-24 |
Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515) |
1572-08-24 |
Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535) |
1572-08-26 |
Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) |
1572-08-27 |
Claude Goudimel, French composer |
1573-03-13 |
Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman |
1578-03-29 |
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527) |
1581-09-30 |
Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518) |
1583-11-24 |
René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506) |
1584-06-10 |
Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28 |
1585-06-04 |
Muretus (Marc Antoine de Muret), French humanist (b. 1526) |
1588-11-01 |
Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508) |
1588-12-23 |
Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 |
1589-07-01 |
Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies |
1589-08-01 |
Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) |
1590-02-12 |
Francois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65 |
1590-10-04 |
Cujacius, [Jacques Cujas], French lawyer, dies at about 68 |
1590-12-20 |
Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510) |
1591-01-07 |
Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59 |
1591-01-19 |
Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 |
1592-07-26 |
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524) |
1592-09-13 |
Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533) |
1593-02-07 |
Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 |
1596-10-03 |
Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541) |
1596-11-01 |
Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539) |
1597-07-20 |
Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Neth publisher, dies |
1602-02-19 |
Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558) |
1602-10-23 |
Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57 |
1602-10-30 |
Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528) |
1603-11-16 |
Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies |
1603-12-13 |
François Viète, French mathematician dies in Paris (b. 1540) |
1604-03-13 |
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537) |
1604-10-25 |
Claude de la Tremoille, French duke of Thouars/huguenot, dies |
1605-09-23 |
Pontus de Tyard, French poet |
1605-10-13 |
Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519) |
1606-10-05 |
Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546) |
1609-01-21 |
Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 |
1610-05-27 |
François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578) |
1611-06-08 |
Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552) |
1611-10-03 |
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554) |
1612-07-29 |
Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554) |
1614-07-01 |
Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559) |
1614-07-15 |
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540) |
1615-09-01 |
Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529) |
1615-12-02 |
Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general |
1617-04-24 |
Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered |
1618-12-06 |
Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) |
1619-07-02 |
Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies |
1619-12-29 |
Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies |
1620-11-13 |
Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65 |
1621-06-08 |
Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567) |
1621-07-10 |
Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571) |
1621-08-03 |
Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556) |
1621-10-08 |
Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist |
1622-12-28 |
Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 |
1623-11-11 |
Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549) |
1625-06-01 |
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (b. 1568) |
1628-10-16 |
François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) |
1629-10-02 |
Pierre the Barulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies |
1630-04-29 |
Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552) |
1632-08-20 |
Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 |
1632-10-30 |
Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded |
1632-12-20 |
Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed |
1634-08-18 |
Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590) |
1635-03-24 |
Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 |
1635-12-25 |
Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City, dies of a stroke at 61 |
1636-01-26 |
Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) |
1637-06-24 |
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580) |
1637-09-14 |
Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements, dies at 57 |
1638-02-28 |
Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 |
1638-02-28 |
Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies |
1638-12-18 |
Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies |
1640-05-30 |
Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies |
1640-12-09 |
Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565) |
1640-12-30 |
John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597) |
1641-01-11 |
Franciscus Gomarus, [Francois Gomaer], French theologist, dies |
1642-07-03 |
Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69 |
1642-09-12 |
Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed |
1642-09-29 |
René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608) |
1642-11-01 |
Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598) |
1646-10-18 |
Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1607) |
1646-12-23 |
François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) |
1648-05-26 |
Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597) |
1648-07-04 |
Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601) |
1648-09-01 |
Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59 |
1649-03-16 |
St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593) |
1649-03-17 |
Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610) |
1649-06-30 |
Simon Vouet, French painter |
1649-12-07 |
Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606) |
1649-12-08 |
Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613) |
1651-10-07 |
Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559) |
1651-12-14 |
Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) |
1652-07-30 |
Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624) |
1653-07-10 |
Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600) |
1653-09-03 |
Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguistic, dies at 65 |
1654-02-18 |
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594) |
1654-12-05 |
Jean François Sarrazin, French writer |
1655-04-06 |
David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591) |
1655-04-30 |
Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617) |
1655-07-28 |
Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris |
1655-09-07 |
Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
1655-10-24 |
Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63 |
1656-01-03 |
Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584) |
1656-07-02 |
François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611) |
1656-11-06 |
Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583) |
1657-04-02 |
Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608) |