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

Scholars such as French demographer Jean-Marie Robine, however, consider Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, also of the Netherlands, who turned 110 in 1898, to be the first verifiable case, as the alleged evidence for Peters has apparently been lost.

Alfred Sauvy ( 1898-1990 ) was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy.

Jacques Bertillon ( November 11, 1851 – July 7, 1922 ) was a French statistician and demographer.

Broca's Area was first suggested to play a role in speech function by the French neurologist and anthropologist Paul Broca in 1861.

* 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance ( d. 2008 )

* 1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist ( d. 2009 )

French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was arguably the first such scholar, sparking a widespread interest in Structuralism ..

The term " structuralism " itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

* November 28 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist ( d. 2009 )

** Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance ( d. 2008 )

* June 28 – Paul Broca, French anthropologist ( d. 1880 )

It has been noted, at times with disapproval and amazement by many social scientists, that Durkheim traveled little and that, like many French scholars and the notable British anthropologist Sir James Frazer, he never undertook any fieldwork.

* Louis Dumont ( anthropologist ) ( 1911 – 1998 ), French sociologist and anthropologist

* Marc Augé, a French anthropologist

* Maurice Godelier ( born 1934 ), social anthropologist, neo-Marxist, and French intellectual

Two millennia before the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote The Raw and the Cooked, the Chinese differentiated " raw " and " cooked " categories of barbarian peoples who lived in China.

Pierre Paul Broca ( 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880 ) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist.

Structuralism itself was a theory developed by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss ( 1908 – 2009 ), and held to the idea that " cultural patterns need not be caused by anything outside themselves … that underlying every culture was a deep structure, or essence, governed by its own laws, that people were unaware of but which ensured regularities in the cultural productions that emanate from it.

In 1982, she narrated a book about her life to Venezuelan author and anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, " Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia " ( My Name is Rigoberta Menchu and this is how my Conscience was Born ), which was translated into five other languages including English and French.

From 1931 to 1956 the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule studied the Dogon.

Bruno Latour (; born 22 June 1947 ) is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies ( STS ).

The French cultural anthropologist and sari researcher Chantal Boulanger categorised sari drapes in the following families:

* 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( d. 1874 )

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.

* 2007 – René Rémond, French historian and political economist ( b. 1918 )

* 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian ( b. 1640 )

Although he used the usual French terms " avant J .- C ." ( before Jesus Christ ) and " après J .- C ." ( after Jesus Christ ) to label years elsewhere in his book, the Byzantine historian Venance Grumel used negative years ( identified by a minus sign, −) to label BC years and unsigned positive years to label AD years in a table, possibly to save space, without a year 0 between them.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

The bikini is perhaps the most popular female beachwear around the globe, according to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to " the power of women, and not the power of fashion ".

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

* 1640 – Claude Fleury, French historian ( d. 1723 )

* 1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

* 1660 – Pierre d ' Hozier, French historian ( b. 1592 )

* 1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian ( d. 1899 )

* 1714 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian ( d. 1795 )

* 1723 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian ( d. 1808 )

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

One of Ganshof's contemporaries, the French historian Marc Bloch, was arguably the most influential 20th century medieval historian.

* 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( b. 1798 )

French film historian John Raeburn, editor of Cahiers du cinéma, notes that that Capra's films were unknown in France, but there too his films underwent a fresh discovery by the public.

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.

For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, " enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history ".

* 1592 – Pierre d ' Hozier, French historian ( d. 1660 )

* 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian ( d. 1741 )