* Northeast Caucasian languages, such as Chechen, are seen by the French linguist Michel Morvan as more likely candidates for a very distant connection.

* 1884 – Marcel Cohen, French linguist ( d. 1974 )

In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).

From 1946 to 1948, renowned French linguist André Martinet was Director of Research.

* 1633 – Jean de Thévenot, French linguist, scientist, and botanist ( d. 1667 )

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, who defined the modern discipline of linguistics, first explicitly formulated the distinction, using the French word langage for language as a concept, and langue as a specific instance of a language system, and parôle for the concrete usage of speech in a particular language.

An early supporter was the French linguist Albert Cuny — better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory — who published his Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en « nostratique », ancêtre de l ' indo-européen et du chamito-sémitique (' Researches on the Vocalism, Consonantism, and Formation of Roots in " Nostratic ", Ancestor of Indo-European and Hamito-Semitic ') in 1943.

** Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist and orientalist ( d. 1838 )

He was a gifted linguist, over the years becoming fluent in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, in addition to his native English.

** Guillaume Postel, French linguist ( b. 1510 )

When the French linguist Jean-François Champollion in 1822 published a translation of the hieroglyphs and the key to the grammatical system, Young ( and many others ) praised his work.

A most proficient linguist, he spoke German, English, French, Spanish and Italian fluently, and read Portuguese and Catalan.

* Bernard Cerquiglini, a French linguist

Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (; 21 September 1758, Paris – 21 February 1838, Paris ), was a French linguist and orientalist.

* September 6-Guillaume Postel, French linguist ( born 1510 )

He was also a linguist with few peers, possessing fluency in Spanish, German, Dutch, Latin, French, English, and ancient Greek, and a reading knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, and modern Greek.

François Just Marie Raynouard ( 18 September 1761 – 27 October 1836 ) was a French dramatist and linguist.

French linguist Paul-Louis Thomas maintains that, compared to the differences between the variants of English, German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese, the distinctions between the variants of Serbo-Croatian are less significant.

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ( October 9, 1581 – February 26, 1638 ) was a French mathematician, linguist, poet and classics scholar born in Bourg-en-Bresse.

There, he was able to do a great deal of work with the French linguist Georges Dumézil and his associate Georges Charachidzé to help record his language.

König was also an accomplished linguist, fluently speaking seven languages: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian and Latin.

* 1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

* 1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist

* 1946 – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

* 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1930 – Jean-Claude Forest, French writer and illustrator ( d. 1998 )

** Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

Avogadro submitted this essay to a French journal, Jean-Claude Delamétherie's Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d ' Histoire naturelle ( Journal of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History ) so it was written in French, not Italian.

* French — Boutet, Gérard: Pierrot and the Secret of the Fire Rocks ( 1999 ; children's book, illustrated by Jean-Claude Pertuzé ); Major, Henriette: The Vampire and the Pierrot ( 2000 ; children's book ); Tournier, Michel: " Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night " ( 1978 ).

The cover for one of the French editions ( Presses Pocket, 1978 ) is by notable science fiction illustrator Jean-Claude Mézières

* Jean-Claude Vuillemin, " Jean Desmarets de Saint Sorlin ,", in L. Foisneau, ed., Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, 2 vols.

The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Télémaque “ the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination .” One of the most popular works of the century, it was an immediate best seller both in France and abroad, going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse ( first in Berlin in 1743, then in Paris by Étienne Viel ).

Luxembourg won for its first time with the song " Nous les amoureux " performed in French by Jean-Claude Pascal.

* Jean-Claude Merlin ( born 1954 ), French astronomer

* At the 1968 Winter Olympic Games French skier, Jean-Claude Killy won the Triple Crown.

* In Ringo Lam's Maximum Risk ( 1996 ), Jean-Claude Van Damme is a French policeman who discovers that a man who has been killed by the Russian Mafia was his look-alike twin brother that he never knew he had.

French authors René-Louis Maurice and Jean-Claude Simoën wrote the book Cinq Milliards au bout de l ' égout ( 1977 ) about Spaggiari's bank heist in Nice.

* Jean-Claude Dreyfus ( born 1946 ), French actor ( Delicatessen )

Jean-Claude Trichet (; born 20 December 1942 ) is a French civil servant who was the president of the European Central Bank, a position he held from 2003 to 2011.

At the final European Council meeting on the treaty in Lisbon, on 19 November 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy set off public speculation on candidates by naming Tony Blair, Felipe González and Jean-Claude Juncker, and praising the three as worthy candidates with Blair in particular being a long time front runner for the post.

* Jean-Claude Faveyrial ( 1813 – 1893 ), French historian and author of the first book on the history of Albania

The exact details of the plot may remain a mystery, but a French colonel named Jean-Claude Mantion served as the head of Kolingba's presidential guard for many years thereafter and was so powerful that he was often referred to in the CAR as " the president's president.