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 )

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

** 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 )

* March 9 – Honore Mirabeau, French politician ( d. 1791 )

As French novelist Honore de Balzac pointed out, eroticism is dependent not just upon an individual's sexual morality, but the culture and time that individual resides in as well.

The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France ( Honore Bonnet ) and the USA ( Bob Beattie ).

Clearly these works contained strong social comment, and can be seen as modern parallels to the concerns of 19th-century French Realists such as Honore Daumier and Jean Francois Millet, artists Hanson admired.

* Jean Honore Fragonard ( French, 1732 – 1806 ) Best known for " The Swing "

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( d. 1733 )

* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

The Cinépolis Galerías Diana and the Teatro Juan Ruíz de Alarcón show French and French literary figures give talks on their specialised subjects.

* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )