* 1905 – Louis Jean Heydt, American actor ( d. 1960 )

In addition to Bonaparte himself, Louis Alexandre Berthier, Auguste de Marmont, Jean Lannes, Joachim Murat, Louis Desaix, Jean Reynier, Antoine-François Andréossy, Jean-Andoche Junot, Louis-Nicolas Davout and Dumas were all passengers on the cramped Mediterranean crossing.

This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

* 1935 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer ( b. 1875 )

* Notable draftsmen of the 19th century include Paul Cézanne, Aubrey Beardsley, Jacques Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon, Edgar Degas, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Jean Ingres, Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, and Vincent van Gogh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* In 1689, Jean Baptiste Racine wrote Esther, a tragedy, at the request of Louis XIV's wife, Françoise d ' Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon.

It largely evolved from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, and Dziga Vertov and film theorists like Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer.

French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L ’ Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff.

* Collection of three vinyl recordings of Jean Cocteau including La Voix humaine by Simone Signoret, 18 songs composed by Louis Bessières, Bee Michelin and Renaud Marx, on double-piano Paul Castanier, Le Discours de réception à l ' Académie Française, Jacques Canetti JC1, 1984

* Hommage à Jean Cocteau, mélodies d ' Henri Sauguet, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Jean Wiener, Max Jacob, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Georges Auric, Guy Sacre, by Jean-François Gardeil ( baryton ) and Billy Eidi ( piano ), CD Adda 581177, 1989

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* Lascoux Jean Louis, 2001, 2007.

* Lascoux Jean Louis, 2008.

The differences between tantalum and niobium were unequivocally demonstrated in 1864 by Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, and Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville, as well as Louis J. Troost, who determined the formulas of some of the compounds in 1865 and finally by the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac in 1866, who all proved that there were only two elements.

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963 ) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794 ), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez known as Jean Reno (; born July 30, 1948 ) is a French-Spanish actor.

François Jean Dominique Arago (), known simply as François Arago (; Catalan: Francesc Aragó, ) ( 1786 – 1853 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.

Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; 23 August 1741 – 1788?

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987 ) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.

Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642 ) was a French clergyman, noble and statesman.

Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979 ) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012 ) was a French comics artist, working in the French tradition of bandes dessinées.

Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (; 23 October 1813 – 18 May 1900 ) was a French philosopher and archaeologist.

Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille (; 22 April 1797 – 26 December 1869 ) was a French physician and physiologist.

Jean Moréas (; born Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, Ιωάννης Α. Παπαδιαμαντόπουλος ; April 15, 1856 – April 30, 1910 ), was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.

Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (; 8 November 1847 – 11 March 1907 ) was a French politician, fifth President of the French Third Republic.

Jean Lesage, PC, CC, CD (; 10 June 1912 – 12 December 1980 ) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada.

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877 ) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.

John James " Jean " Charest, PC (; born June 24, 1958 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the 29th Premier of Quebec, from 2003 to 2012.

Orpheus (; also the title used in the UK ) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.

Jean Leray (; 7 November 1906 – 10 November 1998 ) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology.

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 19112 April 1974 ) was a French politician.

Jean-Luc Dehaene (; born Jean Luc Joseph Marie Dehaene, 7 August 1940 ) is a Belgian politician.

Wyclef Jeanelle Jean (; ; born October 17, 1969 ) is a Haitian American rapper, singer, record producer, and politician.

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979 ) was a French political economist and diplomat.

Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien (; ( 15 October 1840 – 28 November 1915 )