The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

Émile Zola was a prominent French author of the 19th century.

* 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and author

* 1926 – René Goscinny, French comic-strip author ( d. 1977 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

* 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet

* 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author

* 2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author ( b. 1903 )

** based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.

The Claudine books are a series of four early novels by the French author Colette published from 1900-1904.

Caligula, by French author Albert Camus, is a play in which Caligula returns after deserting the palace for three days and three nights following the death of his beloved sister, Drusilla.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

* 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author ( d. 1937 )

* 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

As author of works such as Cvisinier françois, he is credited with publishing the first true French cookbook.

* 1864 – Jules Renard, French author ( d. 1910 )

* 1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist ( d. 1806 )

* 1952 – Jacques Audiard, French director

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

* 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

* 1890 – Jacques Ibert, French composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* Jean Jacques Barthelemy's The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece ( French )

* 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer ( d. 1721 )

Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).

* 1823 – Jacques Charles, French chemist ( b. 1746 )

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.

A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.

However, it was French explorer Jacques Cartier who made the first detailed reconnaissance of the region for a European power, and in so doing, claimed the region for the King of France.

Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

* 1865 – Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician ( d. 1963 )

Jacques le fataliste ( written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French ) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey.

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.

* Derrida, Jacques, 1954 ( French ), 2003 ( English ).