* Henry-Louis de La Grange ( born 1924 ), French musicologist

* Choruses: Padre Martini, the erudite musicologist who corresponded with Rameau, affirmed that " the French are excellent at choruses ," obviously thinking of Rameau himself.

Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret () ( 21 October 18794 November 1957 ) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region.

Alongside his career as a composer, Canteloube worked as a musicologist, collecting traditional French folksongs, which were published by Didier and Heugel.

The French musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez contends that ‘ the narrative, strictly speaking, is not in the music, but in the plot imagined and constructed by the listeners ’.

The music of French Polynesia came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of unaccompanied vocal Christian music called himene tārava, recorded by French musicologist Pascal Nabet-Meyer.

Théodore Reinach ( July 3, 1860 – October 28, 1928 ) was a French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, papyrologist, philologist, epigrapher, historian, numismatist, musicologist, professor, and politician.

Flames of Paris ( original Russian title Plamya Parizha ) is a classical ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafiev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev.

Joseph de Marliave ( 1873 – 24 August 1914 ) was a French musicologist.

Tahiti came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of himene tarava, recorded by French musicologist Pascal Nabet-Meyer ( recorded without the use of guttural utterances ).

Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, an interview with noted French comparative philologist Georges Dumézil, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers, besides translations of texts by " Traditionalist " author and occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns.

Joseph-François Kremer ( born 1954 ) is a French composer, conductor, violinist and musicologist.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )

* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

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

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

* 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer

* 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer ( b. 1556 )

* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

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

* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )

* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

* 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer ( b. 1908 )

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

* 1920 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and writer

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer

* 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer ( b. 1079 )

* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )

* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )

* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )

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.

* 1949 – Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker

* 1944 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

* 1967 – Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach

* 2012 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver ( b. 1963 )

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

Then in 1702 the French astronomer Philippe de la Hire used a year he labeled at the end of years labeled ante Christum ( BC ), and immediately before years labeled post Christum ( AD ) on the mean motion pages in his Tabulæ Astronomicæ, thus adding the designation 0 to Kepler's Christi.

* 1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman ( d. 1951 )

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

After the death of her father, she travels to America and is abducted by Indians during the French-Indian Wars and eventually marries one of her captors, a French officer named Philippe de Saint-Christophe ( or Christopher ).

Several French colonial towns of the Illinois Country, such as Kaskaskia, Cahokia and St. Philippe, Illinois were flooded and abandoned in the late 19th century, with a loss to the cultural record of their archeology.

* 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier ( d. 1794 )

* 1962 – Philippe Sella, French rugby player

* 1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier ( b. 1558 )

* 1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French sopranist countertenor

* 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician ( d. 1856 )

* 1962 – Philippe Claudel, French writer and film director

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

The Vichy Regime – led by Philippe Pétain, the aging war hero of the First World War – was originally intended to be a temporary, care-taker regime, to supervise French administration before the soon-expected defeat of Britain.

A French opera on his life, by Philippe Manoury, was staged in Strasbourg in September 2011.

* 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver driver ( d. 2012 )

* 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor ( b. 1948 )