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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician, mathematical physicist
Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist
Émilie du Châtelet
French mathematician, physicist, and author
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French naturalist
François-César Le Tellier de Courtanvaux
French astronomer
Baron d'Holbach
French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist
Jean Chanorier
French politician
Abraham-Louis Breguet
French engineer and clockmaker
Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville
French woman scientist
Dom Bédos de Celles
French organ builder
François Renier Duminy
French cartographer
Jean-Paul Marat
Politician and journalist during the French Revolution
Jean François Coste
French physician
Jacques Charles
French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist
Claudine Picardet
French chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and translator
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry and the father of differential geometry
Michel Adanson
French naturalist
Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle
French botanist
Jérôme Lalande
French astronomer
Gaspard Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort marquis de Courtivron
Born 1715; died 1785
Louis Pascault, Marquis de Poleon
French agriculturist
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian
Pierre Le Roy
French clockmaker
François Rozier
French botanist
Jeanne Baré
French explorer
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist
Pierre Méchain
French astronomer
Charles Messier
French astronomer
Charles-François Dupuis
French academic
Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond
French geologist
Jean-Nicolas Céré
French botanist
Jean-Jacques Isle de Beauchaine
Jean-René de Verdun de la Crenne
French scientist (1741-1805)
Louis Brion de la Tour
French cartographer
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
French astronomer
Catherine Haussard
French scientific illustrator
Nicole-Reine Lepaute
French astronomer