* 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer

Basic Books, 2001, pp. 187 – 207 ; see p. 191 for the description: A French doctor, Jacques Lantier, who attended an FGM procedure in Somalia in the 1970s described how the inner and outer labia were separated and attached to each thigh using large thorns.

* 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist and medical doctor ( d. 1936 )

The rabies vaccine was initially created by Emile Roux, a French doctor and a colleague of Pasteur who had been working with a killed vaccine produced by desiccating the spinal cords of infected rabbits.

* Venus, a glamorous doctor of French origin on the television show Fireball XL5

* May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutioner, doctor, scientist ( d. 1793 )

* April 18 – Léon Jean Marie Dufour, French medical doctor and naturalist ( b. 1780 )

* July 30 – Guillaume Rondelet, French doctor ( b. 1507 )

The name Magnolia campbellii commemorates two people: Pierre Magnol, a French botanist, and Archibald Campbell, a doctor in British India.

Later versions of the Nights include that of the French doctor J. C. Mardrus, issued from 1898 to 1904.

French doctor Bernard Kouchner also witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving children, and, when he returned to France, he publicly criticised the Nigerian government and the Red Cross for their seemingly complicit behaviour.

Straightaway, a French doctor was called to perform some painful oral surgeries.

Driven by sadness, Martin ’ s character, an American doctor, leaves his Californian life and embarks on the 800-km pilgrimage from the French Pyrenees to Spain ’ s Santiago de Compostela himself, with his son ’ s ashes.

* François Rabelais, ( c. 1493-1553 ), was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist

François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.

Red Cross, Iron Cross was published anonymously, credited as " by a doctor in France ", in London in 1916 with all proceeds going to the French Red Cross, and details some of his experiences during the First World War.

After she broke-up with Richard Chanfray, Dalida had relationships with various anonymous men such as a sound technician, a lawyer, an Egyptian jumbo jet pilot, and lastly a French doctor named François during the period 1986-1987.

Boisselier revealed the roles of four scientists she says were involved —" a biochemist, a geneticist, a cell fusion expert, and a French medical doctor "— but without revealing their identity.

* The Orient Express plays host to an adventure game by Jordan Mechner: The Last Express is a murder mystery game set around the last ride of the Orient Express before it suspended operations at the start of World War I. Robert Cath, an American doctor wanted by French police as he is suspected of the murder of an Irish police officer, and becomes involved in a maelstrom of treachery, lies, political conspiracies, personal interests, romance and murder.

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1867 and obtained the degree of doctor of letters in 1877 with a Latin thesis on Gaius Asinius Pollio and a French one on Giacomo Leopardi ( whose works he subsequently translated into French He made a study of parliamentary oratory during the French Revolution, and published two volumes on Les orateurs de la Constituante ( 1882 ) and on Les orateurs de la Legislative et de la Convention ( 1885 ).

A French doctor operated on him, but it was already too late.

The son of a former doctor in the French navy, Henri Lacordaire was born on the 12 May 1802 at Recey-sur-Ource ( Côte-d ' Or ) and raised in Dijon by his mother, Anne Dugied, the daughter of a lawyer at the Parliament of Bourgogne who was widowed at an early age, when her husband died in 1806.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

* 1957 – Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman

* 1730 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( d. 1817 )

The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771.

Between 1774 – 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalogue of celestial objects that had a nebulous appearance similar to comets.

* July 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( d. 1817 )

* April 12 – Charles Messier, French astronomer ( b. 1730 )

* October 13 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.

* Charles Messier, French astronomer

" Later the same month, fellow French astronomer Charles Messier independently found the same nebula while searching for comets.

The Messier catalogue was compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier during the late 18th century and consists of 110 relatively bright deep sky objects ( galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters ).

The Dumbbell Nebula ( M27 ), is a large, bright planetary nebula which was discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier in 1764 as the very first object of its kind.

It was discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer Charles Messier, who cataloged it as a nebulous feature.

In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalogue of 103 objects that had a nebulous appearance.

In the modified Hubble sequence galaxy morphological classification scheme of French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Messier 87 is categorized as an E0p galaxy.

Messier was a controversial figure in France at the time, due to the perception that he was abandoning his French roots in favour of Americanization.

Jean-Marie Messier ( born 13 December 1956 ) is a French businessman who was Chairman and Chief Executive of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi SA ( formerly Vivendi Universal ) until 2002.

After studying at the École Polytechnique from 1976 to 1980, and then at the École nationale d ' administration between 1980 and 1982, Messier held several posts at the French Economy Ministry, including a post as technical counseler for privatization under Edouard Balladur, during the 1980s, before moving to investment bank Lazard Freres in 1989.

* June 26-Charles Messier, French astronomer ( died 1817 )

Pierre François André Méchain ( 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804 ) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets.

He was admitted to the French Académie des sciences in 1782, and was the editor of Connaissance des Temps from 1785 to 1792 ; this was the journal which, among other things, first published the list of Messier objects.

This crater is named in honor of the French astronomer Charles Messier ( 1730 – 1817 ).

Messier 72 ( also known as M72 or NGC 6981 ) is a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain on August 29, 1780.