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.

* 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 )

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

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

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

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

* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

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

* 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer

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

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina ( the keel, or the hull, of the ship ), Puppis ( the poop deck, or stern ), and Vela ( the sails ).

Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.

* 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist ( d. 1875 )

* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

The term " morphine ", used in English and French, was given by the French physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac ).

* 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton ( d. 1892 )