* 1930 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist ( d. 1992 )

* 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher ( d. 1715 )

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

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

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

* 1903 – Henry Corbin, French philosopher and iranologist ( d. 1978 )

* 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1924 )

* 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* 1803 – Flora Tristan, French philosopher ( d. 1844 )

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

The French philosopher Voltaire was also influenced by Confucius, seeing the concept of Confucian rationalism as an alternative to Christian dogma.

The work of French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault has been utilized in a variety of disciplines, such as history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and linguistics.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes — from his name — Rene Des-Cartes.

The adjective Cartesian refers to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( who used the name Cartesius in Latin ).

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1967 work Of Grammatology.

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze used ideas from Butler's book at various points in the development of his philosophy of difference.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

* 1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1694 )

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

* 1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman ( b. 1835 )

* 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

* 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist ( d. 1941 )

* 1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer ( d. 1995 )

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

In the debate leading up to the adoption of the holiday, Henri Martin, chairman of the French Senate, addressed that chamber on 29 June 1880.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

The French period Ville Nouvelle ( New Town ) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time.

Further exploration by Henri Lambert, French Consular Agent at Aden, and Captain Fleuriot de Langle led to a treaty of friendship and assistance between France and the sultans of Raheita, Tadjoura, and Gobaad, from whom the French purchased the anchorage of Obock in 1862.

* 1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1908 )

A contretemps occurred during the progress in mid-August when the Queen twice requested Oxford to dance before the French ambassadors, who were in England to negotiate a marriage between the 46 year old Elizabeth and the younger brother of Henri III of France, the 24 year old Duke of Anjou.

* 1824 – Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founder of Le Crédit Lyonnais ( d. 1905 )

* 1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer ( d. 1892 )

* 1782 – Henri de Rigny, French admiral and statesman ( d. 1835 )

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

Hegel, French materialist and utilitarian philosophe Claude Adrien Helvétius, Swiss collectivist philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, and Savoyard conservative Joseph de Maistre as thinkers who constituted the ideological basis for modern authoritarianism, in his book Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty.

Henri Gautier, a French Royal Engineer, recognized the " natural slope " of different soils in 1717, an idea later known as the soil's angle of repose.

A passage from Henri Christophe's personal secretary, who lived more than half his life as a slave, describes the crimes perpetrated against the slaves of Saint-Domingue by their French masters: