France / Paris subjects

282 out of 1057 (26%) plaques have been curated

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Gender Diversity


Prosper Mérimée
(1803-1870) writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875-1926) poet
Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890) painter
Theo Van Gogh
(1857-1891)
Marcel Proust
(1871-1922) author
André-Marie Ampère
(1775-1836) discoverer of electrodynamic forces
Max Ernst
(1891-1976) poet
Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867) poet
Louis Icart
(1888-1950) painter
Tristan Tzara
(1896-1963) writer
Adolf Loos
(1870-1933) architect
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903) painter
Vicomte François-René de Chateaubriand
(1768-1848) Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Manès Sperber
(1905-1984) novelist
Iulia Haşdeu
(1869-1888) poet
Valery Larbaud
(1881-1957) poet
Cécile Sorel
(1873-1966) comedian
Colette
(1873-1954) novelist
Anatole de Baudot
architect
Église Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste, Paris
church
Eugène Paul
(1895-1975) painter
Simón Bolívar
(1783-1830) liberator of Latin America
Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973) painter
Yves Toudic
(d.1944)
Guillaume Apollinaire
(1880-1918) poet
Jean Sylvain Bailly
(1736-1793) Mayor of Paris
Edwige Feuillere
(1907-1998) comedian
Roland Abon
(d.1944)
Marshal Émile Fayolle
(1858-1928) Marshal of France
Edmond Rostand
(1868-1918) poet
St Jeanne d'Arc
(1412-1431) Saint
Porte Saint-Honoré
gate
Maximilien de Robespierre
(1758-1794) lawyer
Frédéric Chopin
(1810-1849) composer
Alphonse Mucha
(1860-1939) painter
Capt Charles Nungesser
(1892-1927) aviator
Hubert Lyautey
(1854-1934) Maréchal de France
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918) composer
Henri Troyat
(1911-2007) member of l'Académie Française
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) poet
Jacob Kaplan
(1895-?) Chief Rabbi of France
Stanislas Fumet
(1896-1983) man of letters
Professor Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
(1744-1829) Professor
Henri Becquerel
(1852-1908) physicist
François Couperin
(1668-1733) composer
Marie Curie
(1867-1934) discoverer of radium
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
(1725-1807) Marshal of France
Alfred Kastler
(1902-1984) Nobel Physics Laureate
Osip Mandelstam
(1891-1938) poet
Marcel Aymé
(1902-1967) novelist
Jean Beausire
(1652-1743) architect
Louis Boucherat, Count of Compans
(1616-1699)
Louis Braille
(1809-1852) inventor
Professor Édouard Branly
(1844-1940) inventor
Georges Wolinski
(1934-2015) cartoonist
Ivan Bunin
(1870-1953) writer
Henri Casadesus
(1879-1947) violinist
André Gide
(1869-1951) author
Louis Helie
Stendhal
(1783-1842) writer
Paul Valéry
(1871-1945) poet
Rudolf Nureyev
(1938-1993) dancer
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900) wit
Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957) composer
Richard Wagner
(1813-1883) composer
André Siegfried
(1875-1959) geographer
Molière
(1622-1673) playwright
Henri Poincaré
(1854-1912) mathematician
Olympe de Gouges
(1748-1793) author of the Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
(1814-present) learned society of artists
Conrad Kickert
(1882-?)
Marcel Pagnol
(1895-1974) playwright
Leo Hamon
(1908-1993)
Charles Waldmann
(1892-1916)
Brahim Bouarram
(1965-1995)
Dr Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
(1862-1950) physician
Jean Moulin
(1899-1943) French Resistance agent
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986) writer
Henry de la Vaulx
(1870-1930) pioneer of aviation
Helene Boucher LdH
(1908-1934) pilot
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937) writer
Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880) novelist
Barbara
(1930-1997) singer
Allen Ginsberg
(1926-1997) poet
William S. Burroughs
(1914-1997) writer
Brion Gysin
(1916-1986)
Gregory Corso
(1930-2001) poet
Peter Orlovsky
(1933-2010)
Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939) founder of Psychoanalysis
Pierre Curie
(1859-1906) physicist
Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963) musician
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946) literary luminary
Alice B. Toklas
(1877-1967) writer
Auguste Comte
(1798-1857) founder of postivism
Jacques Lacan
(1901-1981) psychoanalyst
Felix Arvers
(1806-1850) poet
James Joyce
(1882-1941) novelist
Vassil Levski
(1837-1873) revolutionary
Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
(1754-1838) French statesman
Honoré de Balzac LdH
(1799-1850) novelist
George Sand
(1804-1876) writer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(1927-2014) writer
Jean-Baptiste Lully
(1632-1687)
Charles Barbaroux
(1767-1794) politician
Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986) writer
Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905-1980) philosopher
Louis Pasteur
(1822-1895)
François Alexandre Frédéric , duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
(1747-1827) Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
André Malraux
(1901-1976) writer
Général Noël Édouard
(1851-1944) vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
Queen Natalie of Serbia
(1859-1941) Queen Consort of Serbia
King Christian VII of Norway of Denmark
(1749-1808) King of Norway
Edouard Manet
(1832-1883)
Robert Debré
(1882-1978) member of the Institute
Maurice Desrez
(1882-1969) composer
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
(1807-1874) politician
Rose Valland LdH
(1898-1980) French Resistance agent
Philippe de Champaigne
(1602-1674) painter
Bertie Albrecht
(1893-1943) heroine of the Resistance
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) author of the American Declaration of Independence
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) author of Common Sense
Georges Louis Leclerc
(1707-1788) Count de Buffon
Paul-Elie Gernez
(1888-1948)
René Cassin
(1887-1976) Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Charles-Louis Philippe
(1874-1909) writer
André Dignimont
(d.1965) painter
Lucienne Ginestet
Paris bus employee
Miklos Radnoti
(1909-1944) poet
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) Founding Father of the United States
John Adams
(1735-1826) United States Ambassador to The Netherlands
David Hartley
(1732-1813)
John Jay
André Dhôme
(d.1944)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery LdH
writer
Voltaire
(1694-1778) philosopher
King Louis XIII of France
(1601-1643) King of France
Romain de Sèze
(1748-1828) advocate
Django Reinhardt
(1910-1953) guitarist
Paul Verlaine
(1844-1896) poet
Henri Louis Habert de Montmor
(1600-1679)
Jean Habert de Montmor
treasurer
Pierre Gassendi
(1592-1655) philosopher
Gilles de Roberval
(1602-1675) mathematician
Dr Gui Patin
(1601-1672) man of letters
Jean Chapelain
(1595-1674) poet
Christiaan Huygens FRS
(1629-1695) Fellow of the Royal Society
Général Charron
farmer
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
(1847-1930) chemist
Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973) poet
Marguerite Audoux
(1863-1937) novelist
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
(1887-1965) architect
Édouard Albert
(1910-1968) architect
Jean Pierre de Batz
(1754-1822) Royalist
Félix Éboué LdH
(1884-1944) colonial administrator
Erik Satie
(1866-1925) composer
Andrei Tarkovsky
(1932-1986) film maker
Lucie Delarue Mardrus
(1874-1945) poet
Jean-Baptiste Clément
poet
Henri Lagriffoul
(1907-1981) artist
Rudolf Diesel
(1858-1913) inventor
André Chenier
(1762-1794) poet
Pont de l'île aux Singes
bridge
Georges Moustaki
(1934-2013) performer
Louis Blériot
(1872-1936) aviator
Maryse Bastié
(1898-1952) aviator
Jean Dausset
(1916-2009) immunologist
Georges Fully
(d.1973)
Hôpital Cochin
hospital
Jean-Denis Cochin
parish priest
Adam Mickiewicz
(1798-1855) poet
Émile Bernard
(1868-1941) painter
Jean Sarment
(1897-?) playwright
César Baldaccini
(1921-1998) sculptor
Gyula Illyés
(1902-1983) poet
Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli
(1651-1727) chef
Jean de La Fontaine
(1621-1695) poet
Georges Danton
(1759-1794) lawyer
Dr Jean-Paul Marat
(1743-1793) political theorist
Anatole France
(1844-1924) poet
Léon Gambetta
(1838-1882) statesman
Théophile Gautier
(1811-1872) poet
Victorien Sardou
(1831-1908) dramatist
Walter Benjamin
(1892-1940) literary critic
Romain Rolland
(1866-1944) writer
Marthe Chenal
(1881-1947) operatic soprano
Ernest Chausson
(1855-1899) composer
Pierre Emmanuel
(1916-1984) poet
Georges Haret
(1874-1932) radiologist
Lise Delamare
(1913-2006) actor
Jean Montvallier-Boulogne
(1920-1944)
Raymond Bonnard
(d.1944)
Cyrano de Bergerac
(1619-1655) novelist
Georges Méliès
(1861-1938) illusionist
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
(1680-1767) Chevalier de St Louis
René Sitterlin
(d.1944)
Sophie Germain
(1776-1831) mathematician
Roger Joseph Boscovich
(1711-1787) philosopher
Joséphine de Beauharnais
(1763-1814)
Pierre Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes
(1718-1783) magistrate
Louis Duval de l'Epinoy
(1696-1778)
Marie-Jeanne Duval de l'Epinoy
(1733-1823) Marquise de Mondragon
Jean-Jacques Gallet de Beauchesne
(1711-1796) Marquis de Mondragon
Paribas
(1869-present) bank
Pierre Janet
(1859-1947) founder of dynamic psychology
Charles Gounod
(1818-1893) composer
Paul Reynaud
(1878-1966) Prime Minister of France
Melchior de Gillier
(1589-1669)
Hôtel de Gillier
house
Louis Le Vau
(1612-1670) architect
Hôtel de Noailles
hotel
Lt. Colonel Alfred Dreyfus LdH
(1859-1935) Légion d'honneur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791) composer
Simone Weil
(1909-1943) philosopher
Sarah Bernhardt
(1844-1923) actor
Nicolas Chamfort
(1741-1794) writer
Camille Claudel
(1864-1943) sculptor
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
(1814-1879) architect
Alphonse de Lamartine
(1790-1869) poet
E. J. Delécluze
(1781-1863)
E. N. Viollet le Duc
(1781-1857)
General Charles De Gaulle
(1890-1970) President of the French National Committee
Ernest Denis
(1849-1921) founder of the Institutes of Slavonic Studies
Jean Cocteau
(1889-1963) writer
Mary Cassatt
(1844-1926) Impressionist painter
Charles Nodier
(1780-1844) author
René Descartes
(1596-1650) philosopher
Georges Pompidou
(1911-1974) President of the French Republic
Marshal Général Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
(1902-1947) French Army Général d'Armée
General Dietrich von Choltitz
(1894-1966) General
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Col Henri Rol-Tanguy
(1908-2002) Colonel
Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont
(1914-2006) politician
Jacques de Guillebon
Cdre Capt John Paul Jones
(1747-1792) Commodore
Charles Le Goffic
poet
Henri Queffélec
(1910-1992) writer
Vladimir Lenin
(1870-1924) founder of the USSR
Charles Vildrac
(1882-1971) poet
Arthur Rimbaud
(1854-1891) poet
Émile Durkheim
(1858-1917)
Paul Claudel
(1868-1955) writer
Dr Jacques Solomon DSc
(1908-1942) Doctor of Science
Irène Joliot-Curie
(1897-1956) chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
(1900-1958) physicist
Marcel Baschet
(1862-1941) painter
Azzedine Alaïa
(1957-2017) couturier
Marcel Achard
(1899-1974) dramatist
Auguste Chapuis
(1858-1933) composer
Robert S. White
(1918-1950) student
Pierre Bounin
(d.1944)
Laurent Schwartz
(1915-2002) mathematician
Jean de La Bruyère
(1645-1696) philosopher
Alain-Fournier
(1886-1914) author of Le Grand Meaulnes
A. A. Parmentier
(1737-1813) promoter of the potato
Gabriele D'Annunzio
(1863-1938) playwright
Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321)
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961) internationally renowned author
Marc Bloch
(1886-1944) historian
Augustin Jordan
(1910-2004) ambassador
Louis Aragon
(1897-1982) poet
Elsa Triolet
(1896-1970)
Francis Picabia
(1879-1953) artist
Marcel Duchamp
(1887-1968) artist
Moïse Kisling
(1891-1953) artist
Man Ray
(1890-1976) artist
Alice Prin
(1901-1953) model
Vladimir Maïakovski
(1893-1930) poet
Adolphe Thiers
(1797-1877) statesman
Gustave Courbet
(1819-1877) painter
Félicie Dosne
(1823-1906)
Élise Thiers
(1818-1880)
Eurydice Dosne
(1794-1869)
Hôtel Thiers
house
Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe
(1834-1895) architect
Fondation Dosne-Thiers
library
Cyrano de Bergerac
(1897-present) play
Hector Berlioz
(1803-1869) composer
Jean Jaurès
(1859-1914) founder of the newspaper L'Humanité
Louise Michel
(1830-1905) teacher
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) novelist
Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
(1879-1949) artist
Giorgio De Chirico
(1888-1978)
Denis Diderot
(1713-1784) philosopher
Claude-Nicolas Lapas-Dubuisson
Inspector Charles Célestin Deloge
(1900-1944) Police Inspector
Henri Dutilleux
(1916-2013)
Geneviève Joy
(1919-2009)
Pierre Jacob
(1904-1979) poet
Léon Bourgeois
(1851-1925)
Philippe Lebon
(1767-1804)
Hôtel d'Ecquevilly
Vichy France
(1940-1944)
Saint-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement
church
Étienne-Hippolyte Godde
(1781-1869)
Jean-Jacques Feuchère
(1807-1852)
Eugène Delacroix
(1798-1863)
Abel de Pujol
(1785-1861)
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
(1811-1899)
Charles Lederman
(1913-1998) lawyer
Vladimir Lossky
(1903-1958)
Jean-François Blondel
(1683-1756) architect
Jacques Chirac
(1932-2019)
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
(1948-present)
Dominique de Villepin
(1953-present)
Jean-Paul Proust
(1940-2010)
Bertrand Delanoë
(1950-present)
Liberation of Paris
Jean Jemini
(d.1944)