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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
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
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
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
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
Jean-Baptiste Courtalon
Étienne-François Dutour de Salvert
French physicist
Jean-Baptiste Degaulle
André Michaux
French botanist
Louis Charles Desnos
French geographer and bookseller
Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset
French botanist and agronomist