Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Baudin

23 Oct 1811 – 3 Dec 1851

French Political Figure. A Doctor who devoted his...

Francois Barthelemy Beguinot

22 Jan 1757 – 26 Sep 1808

Military Figure. Francois Beguiot was a French...

Marcellin Berthelot

27 Oct 1827 – 18 Mar 1907

Scientist. Organic chemist and free-thinker....

Sophie Berthelot

16 Feb 1837 – 18 Mar 1907

Folk Figure. Born Ernestine Sophie Claudine...

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Beviere

20 Oct 1723 – 12 Mar 1807

Lawyer who signed the Tennis-Court Oath in the...

Louis Braille

4 Jan 1809 – 6 Jan 1852

French Educator and Inventor. He is best...

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis

5 Jun 1757 – 5 May 1808

Poet, French Revolutionary. At first and ardent...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Caprara

29 May 1733 – 27 Jul 1810

Italian Cardinal. He is the first foreigner to be...

Lazare Carnot

13 May 1753 – 2 Aug 1823

Fremch General. Left-wing member of the...

Marie-Francois Sadi Carnot

11 Aug 1837 – 25 Jun 1894

French President. Sadi Carnot was the Fourth...

René Cassin

5 Oct 1887 – 20 Feb 1976

Social Reformer. A professor of Law, he joined...

Antoine-Cesar de Choiseul-Praslin

6 Apr 1756 – 28 Jan 1808

Career politician and revolutionary yes-man....

Marquis de Condorcet

17 Sep 1743 – 28 Mar 1794

Scientist. Known as the Marquis de Condorcet, he...

Emmanuel Cretet

10 Feb 1747 – 27 Nov 1809

French Politician. Concerned with his nation's...

Marie Curie

7 Nov 1867 – 4 Jul 1934

Nobel Prize Recipient. Marie Curie received the...

Pierre Curie

15 May 1859 – 19 Apr 1906

Nobel Prize in Physics Recipient. Pierre Curie...

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

12 Nov 1729 – 31 Aug 1811

Navigator. Founded a colony on what are now the...

Gabriel Louis de Caulaincourt

15 Nov 1741 – 28 Oct 1808

French Soldier. Made a count in 1808. His two sons...

Hyacinthe-Hugues Timoleon de Cossé-Brissac

8 Nov 1746 – 19 Jun 1813

French Politician. Of aristocratic birth, became...

Justin-Bonaventure Morard de Galles

30 Mar 1741 – 23 Jul 1809

Admiral, nominated to the Senate in 1799, made a...