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French male non-fiction writers

  • Jules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was born on the 8th of February 1828 on Île Feydeau in Nantes. This small artificial island sat within the river Loire before it was…
  • Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
  • Jules LequierJules Lequier entered the world on the 30th of January 1814 in Brittany. His birth certificate listed his name as Jules Lequier with a specific spelling.
  • Émile DurkheimDavid Émile Durkheim was born on the 15th of April 1858 in Épinal, Lorraine. He entered a long lineage of devout Alsatian Jews stretching back eight…
  • Alfred CobbanAlfred Bert Carter Cobban entered the world on the 24th of May 1901 in London. He attended Latymer Upper School before moving to Gonville and Caius College…
  • Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
  • Dudo of Saint-QuentinDudo was born in the 960s within the region of Picardy. He served as the dean of Saint-Quentin during a turbulent era. By the year 987, he held the title of…
  • Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de GuibertJacques-Antoine-Hippolyte de Guibert stood in the mud of Germany at age thirteen. He watched his father Charles-Benoît lead troops during the Seven Years'…
  • Henri PoincaréOn the 29th of April 1854, Jules Henri Poincaré was born in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy. His early years were marked by a severe illness that left…
  • Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville entered the world on the 29th of July 1805. He descended from an old Norman family that had produced…
  • François CatrouFrançois Catrou arrived in Paris on the 28th of December 1659. His father Mathurin served as secretary to King Louis XIV during that era.
  • Jean-Baptiste SayJean-Baptiste Say entered the world on the 5th of January 1767 in the city of Lyon. His father Jean-Etienne Say came from a Protestant family that had moved…
  • Jules MicheletJules Michelet was born on the 21st of August 1798 in Paris. His father worked as a master printer, and young Jules often assisted him with his work.