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Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Edgar DegasEdgar Degas was born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas on the 19th of July 1834 in Paris, France. He entered the Lycée Louis-le-Grand at age eleven and graduated…
- MolièreJean Poquelin was born in Paris shortly before his christening on the 15th of January 1622. A maid who saw him for the first time exclaimed Le nez, a…
- Denis DiderotDenis Diderot was born on the 5th of October 1713 in the city of Langres. His father Didier worked as a cutler and his mother Angélique Vigneron supported…
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre was born on the 21st of June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
- 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…
- Charles BaudelaireOn the 10th of February 1827, Joseph-François Baudelaire died at rue Hautefeuille in Paris. The death left his nine-year-old son Charles without a father and…
- Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix was born on the 26th of April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Seine, near Paris. His mother Victoire Oeben was the daughter of a…
- 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…
- Maximilien RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was baptised on the 6th of May 1758 in the city of Arras, located in Artois.
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.