| champollion | (n) Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832), Syn. Jean Francois Champollion |
| chateaubriand | (n) French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848), Syn. Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand |
| chopin | (n) French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849), Syn. Frederic Francois Chopin |
| comte | (n) French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study, Syn. Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte |
| couperin | (n) French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733), Syn. Francois Couperin |
| duvalier | (n) oppressive Haitian dictator (1907-1971), Syn. Papa Doc, Francois Duvalier |
| fourier | (n) French sociologist and reformer who hoped to achieve universal harmony by reorganizing society (1772-1837), Syn. Charles Fourier, Francois Marie Charles Fourier |
| france | (n) French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924), Syn. Anatole France, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault |
| gounod | (n) French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893), Syn. Charles Francois Gounod |
| halevy | (n) French operatic composer (1799-1862), Syn. Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy, Fromental Halevy |
| ibert | (n) French composer (1890-1962), Syn. Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert |
| jacob | (n) French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920), Syn. Francois Jacob |
| la rochefoucauld | (n) French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680), Syn. Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| maintenon | (n) French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719), Syn. Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon |
| mansart | (n) French architect who introduced the mansard roof (1598-1666), Syn. Francois Mansart |
| mauriac | (n) French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire and religious belief (1885-1970), Syn. Francois Charles Mauriac, Francois Mauriac |
| millet | (n) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875), Syn. Jean Francois Millet |
| mitterrand | (n) French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996), Syn. Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand, Francois Mitterrand |
| montespan | (n) French noblewoman who was mistress to Louis XIV until he became attracted to Madame de Maintenon (1641-1707), Syn. Marquise de Montespan, Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart |
| rabelais | (n) author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553), Syn. Francois Rabelais |
| rodin | (n) French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917), Syn. Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Auguste Rodin |
| sade | (n) French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814), Syn. Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade, de Sade |
| truffaut | (n) French filmmaker (1932-1984), Syn. Francois Truffaut |
| villon | (n) French poet (flourished around 1460), Syn. Francois Villon |
| voltaire | (n) French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778), Syn. Francois-Marie Arouet, Arouet |
