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French lawyers

35 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Adolphe ThiersAuthor · BooksMarie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (lang; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873.
Alain-René LesageAuthor · BooksAlain-René Lesage (6 May 166817 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright.
Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La ReynièreAuthor · BooksIllustration — Grimod de La Reynière
André CayattePerson · Film memorabiliaAndré Cayatte (3 February 1909 – 6 February 1989) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.
Antoine FuretièreAuthor · BooksAntoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688) was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Le Roman bourgeois, and also his famous Dictionnaire…
Antoine LavoisierAuthor · BooksAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical…
Baron d'HolbachAuthor · BooksPaul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French…
Dominique de VillepinAuthor · BooksDominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (dɔminik maʁi fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne ɡaluzo də vilpɛ̃;
Étienne CabetAuthor · BooksÉtienne Cabet (lang; January 1, 1788 – November 9, 1856) was a philosopher and utopian socialist who founded the Icarian movement.
François AndrieuxAuthor · BooksFrançois Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux (6 May 17599 May 1833) was a French man of letters and playwright.
François HotmanAuthor · BooksIllustration — François Hotman on his deathbed, after Joos van Winghe
François LemoyneArtist · PaintingsFrançois Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter.
François MignetAuthor · BooksIllustration — François-Auguste Mignet
Henri-Gustave Joly de LotbinièreArtist · PaintingsSir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, KCMG (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908), lawyer, businessman and politician, served as the fourth premier of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister,…
Henry HarrisseAuthor · Maps and atlasesHenry Harrisse (May 28, 1829 – May 13, 1910) was a writer, lawyer, art critic, and American historian who authored books on the discovery of America and geographic representations of the…
Jacques BergeracPerson · Film memorabiliaJacques Bergerac (26 May 1927 – 15 June 2014) was a French actor and businessman.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinAuthor · BooksJean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃tɛlm bʁija savaʁɛ̃; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of…
Jean BourdonAuthor · Maps and atlasesIllustration — Jean Bourdon.
Jean de La FontaineAuthor · BooksJean de La Fontaine (lang; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
Jean-Denis BredinAuthor · BooksJean-Denis Bredin (born Jean-Denis Hirsch: 17 May 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a French attorney and founding partner of the firm Bredin Prat.
Jean-Nicolas BouillyAuthor · BooksJean-Nicolas Bouilly (24 January 1763 – 14 April 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution.
Jeremy BenthamAuthor · BooksJeremy Bentham (4 February 1747/8 O.S. [15 February 1748 N.S.] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Louis RacineAuthor · BooksLouis Racine (6 November 1692 – 29 January 1763) was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment.
Louis-Antoine-François de MarchangyAuthor · BooksLouis Antoine François de Marchangy (25 August 1782 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer, author and politician.
Michel JobertAuthor · BooksMichel Jobert (lang; 11 September 1921 – 25 May 2002) was a French politician of the left-wing Gaullist orientation.
Michel MohrtArtist · PaintingsMichel Mohrt (28 April 1914 – 17 August 2011) was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.
Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxAuthor · BooksNicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic.
Nicolas ChorierAuthor · BooksNicolas Chorier (September 1, 1612 – August 14, 1692) was a French lawyer, writer, and historian.
Odet de TurnèbeAuthor · BooksOdet de Turnèbe (23 October 1552 – 20 July 1581) was a French dramatist.
Pierre Louis RoedererAuthor · BooksComte Pierre Louis Roederer (15 February 1754 – 17 December 1835) was a French politician, economist, and historian, politically active in the era of the French Revolution and First French…
Pierre-Yves BarréAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Pierre-Yves Barré, 1804, by Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou
Richard MalkaArtist · Comics and comic artRichard Malka (born 6 June 1968) is a French lawyer, comics writer and novelist.
Serge KlarsfeldAuthor · BooksSerge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the…
Sylvain MaréchalAuthor · BooksSylvain Maréchal (15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged utopian socialism and communism.[1] His views on a…
Wassily KandinskyArtist · PaintingsWassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (– 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras.

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