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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Marquis de Sade
Novelist and philosopher
Louis François Joseph
Prince of Conti
Pierre Beaumarchais
French playwright diplomat and polymath
Jean-Sifrein Maury
Catholic cardinal
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
French economist
Baron d'Holbach
French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
French admiral and explorer
Carlo Goldoni
Italian playwright and librettist
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
French orientalist
Jean-Baptiste Poncet-Delpech
French lawyer, politician and poet
Vivant Denon
French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist
Jean-Paul Marat
Politician and journalist during the French Revolution
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
French diplomat
Jacob Neyts
Opera troupe leader and manager
Edme-Louis Billardon de Sauvigny
French journalist and poet
Jacques Necker
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
French economist
Claude Adrien Helvétius
French philosopher
Jean-François de La Harpe
French playwright, writer and critic
Jean Chrysostome Larcher
Joseph Lavallée
French journalist
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably
French philosopher and writer
Jean-François Marmontel
French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement
Dorville
French actor, theatre director and author
Étienne Polverel
French revolutionary and trustee of the Estates of Navarre
Adamantios Korais
Greek humanist scholar
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
French physician and philosopher
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French academic
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
French writer
Charles-Pierre Colardeau
French poet
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan
French man of letters and erudition
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
French dramatist and writer
Nicolas Chamfort
French writer
Jean Joseph Vadé
French chansonnier, composer and writer
Barthélemy Baudrand
French writer
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian
Pierre Joseph Joubert de La Salette
French poet