Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
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Spanish writer (1580-1645)
Francisco Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.
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French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
François Arago
Dominique François Jean Arago, known simply as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries, and politician.
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French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.
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French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
François Jacob
François Jacob was a French biologist.
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French writer (1885-1970)
François Mauriac
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was President of France from 1981 to 1995.
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16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
François Rabelais
François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.
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French poet and criminal
François Villon
François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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