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Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist artist
Camille Pissarro
French painter
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Louis Le Prince
Cinema pioneer
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer and architect
Caroline Massin
French bookseller
Jules Lair
French business owner
Mathilde Bonaparte
Princess of France
Ferdinand de Lesseps
French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal
Charles Philipon
French journalist and artist
Louis Braille
Inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired
Armand Moisant
French engineer
Henri Rousseau
French painter
Edmond James de Rothschild
French member of the Rothschild banking family
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
French magician
Ildefonse Rousset
French journalist
Félix Bracquemond
French painter
Alphonse-Alfred Haentjens
French politician
Auguste Fabre
Antonio Vidal Calzada
Octave Chanute
French-American aviation pioneer
Robert de Nervo
French manufacturer and politician
Alfred Loreau
French politician
Marie-Louise Jaÿ
French entrepreneur
Florent Guillain
French politician
Abel Ballif
Président du Touring Club de France
Gustave Trouvé
French electrical engineer and inventor
Auguste Escoffier
French chef, restaurateur, and culinary writer
Jules Hochet
French businessperson
Charles Durand
French chansonnier, publisher and poet
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embriologist, biologist, Nobel laureat
Auguste Estrade Delcros
Leon Goüin
French engineer, entrepreneur and archaeologist
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Lucien Arbel
French artist
Léon Pillet
French journalist and opera company manager
Victor Thiébaut
French founder
Thérèse Couderc
Co-founder of the Sisters of Cenacle
Henri Dupuy de Lôme
French naval architect