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French physician and writer Rabelais celebrated " rabelaisian " freedom as well as good feasting and drinking ( an expression and a symbol of freedom of the mind ) in defiance of the hypocrisies of conformist orthodoxy in his utopian Thelema Abbey ( from θέλημα: free " will "), the devise of which was Do What Thou Wilt:
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* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )
Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.
* 1961 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author ( d. 2011 )
In 1893, a French physician, Jacques Bertillon, introduced the Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death at a congress of the International Statistical Institute in Chicago.
* 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1922 )
* 1780 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician ( d. 1838 )
* 1863 – Albert Calmette, French physician ( d. 1933 )
* 1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician ( d. 2006 )
* 1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician ( d. 1912 )
* 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician ( d. 1814 )
Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
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* 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1988 )
After having travelled to England and discovered William James ' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan ( Normandy ), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.
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The physician William Gorgas then applied these insights and eradicated yellow fever from Havana, and fought yellow fever during the construction of the Panama Canal after a previous effort on the part of the French failed ( in part due to the high incidence of yellow fever and malaria ).
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* March 20 – Charles Lasègue, French physician ( b. 1816 )
* November 3 – Émile Roux, French physician ( b. 1853 )
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* April 24 – Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, French physician ( d. 1838 )
* December 14 or 21 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician and writer of Les Propheties ( 1555 ) ( d. 1566 )
* December 17 – Émile Roux, French physician ( d. 1933 )
* June 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1922 )
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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 )
* 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 )
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