
Austerlitz
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Politicians, kings, army :
Brennus (Gaulish chief)
Joan of Arc, Bayard, Du Guesclin, d'Artagnan
Saint Louis, Louis XIV(the sun king), Louis XVI
Richelieu, Vauban, Napoléon, Cambronne
Marquis de La Fayette
Pétain, De Gaulle, Général Leclerc, Jean Moulin
Nicolas Sarkozy (no comment)
Writers, poets, artists, inventors :
-Du Bellay, Ronsard, Rabelais,(XVIth century)
-Descartes, Molière, Corneille, Racine, La Fontaine, Perrault (XVIIth century)
-Voltaire, Didorot, Montesquieu, D'Alembert,(XVIIIth century)
-Tocqueville, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal,
Vigny, Musset, Lamartine, Chateaubriand
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Baudelaire, (XIXth century)
-Zola, Proust
François Mauriac, Charles Péguy
Aragon, Éluard, Valéry, Saint-Exupéry (XXth century)
Lully (XVIIth century), Monet, Delacroix (XIXth century)
Louis Pasteur (chemist-XIXth century)
Auguste and Louis Lumière (inventors of cinema-XIXth century)
Sailors and corsairs :
Jacques Cartier (discovered Canada)
René Duguay-Trouin (XVIII th century), Robert Surcouf (XVIII-XIXth century)
La Pérouse (XVIIIth), Dumont d'Urville (XIXth), explorers
Éric Tabarly (died 1998 in the Irish sea), Loïck Peyron
Music and cinema :
-cinema : François Truffaut
Alain Delon
Guillaume Canet, Gaspard Ulliel, Audrey Tautou
Jean Gabin
-singers : Édith Piaf, Daniel Balavoine, Michel Sardou, Hugues Auffray, Claude François, Johnny Hallyday
Sport :
-rugby : Fouroux brothers, Serge Blanco, Sébastien Chabal, Vincent Clerc...
-football : Zidane, Thierry Henry, Franck Ribéry
-tennis : Yannick Noah, Richard Gasquet, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon
-judo : David Douillet
-rallye : Sébastien Loeb
-bullfighting : Sébastien Castella
-ice skating : Brian Joubert
I hope it'll be enough !!! |