* 1620 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist ( d. 1702 )

* 1828 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist ( d. 1915 )

The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team directed by French archaeologist Jean-François Jarrige, and was excavated continuously between 1974 and 1986, and again from 1997 to 2000.

* 1692 – Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist ( d. 1765 )

* 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist ( d. 1868 )

* 1814 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, archaeologist, and historian ( d. 1874 )

* July 1 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist ( d. 1904 )

* April 4 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist ( d. 1715 )

* February 15 – François Charpentier, French archaeologist ( d. 1702 )

* Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac, French artist, scholar and archaeologist ( d. 1847 )

* February 17 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist ( b. 1646 )

The film co-stars Karen Allen as Indiana's former lover, Marion Ravenwood ; Paul Freeman as Indiana's nemesis, French archaeologist René Belloq ; John Rhys-Davies as Indiana's sidekick, Sallah ; Ronald Lacey as Gestapo agent Arnold Toht ; and Denholm Elliott as Indiana's colleague, Marcus Brody.

It was discovered in pieces on the island in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, and is now-headless-in the Louvre in Paris.

André Godard, the French archaeologist who excavated Persepolis in the early 1930s, believed that it was Cyrus the Great ( Kūrosh ) who chose the site of Persepolis, but that it was Darius the Great ( Daryush ) who built the terrace and the great palaces.

The French archaeologist Albert Gayet worked at Antinoopolis and found much relevant material, but his work, like that of many of his contemporaries, does not satisfy modern standards.

This structuralist approach was first taken from anthropology and applied into forms of archaeology by the French archaeologist André Leroi-Gourhan ( 1911 – 1986 ), who used it to interpret prehistoric symbols in his 1964 work, Les Religions de Préhistoire.

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

Binford was also known for a friendlier rivalry with French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom he argued over the interpretation of Mousterian sites.

The Gospel of Peter was recovered in 1886, by the French archaeologist, Urbain Bouriant, in the modern Egyptian city of Akhmim ( sixty miles north of Nag Hammadi ).

* April 22-François Charpentier, French archaeologist and writer ( born 1620 )

Pierre Henri Larcher ( 12 October 1726 – 22 December 1812 ) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.

* Henri Hubert ( 1872 – 1927 ), French archaeologist and sociologist

The French archaeologist T. Reinach defined them as " ustensiles monnais " i. e. utensils-money.

Salomon ReinachSalomon Reinach ( 29 August 1858 – 4 November 1932 ) was a French archaeologist.

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

* 1932 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor

* 1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French politician

* 1936 – Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist

* 1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, ( French, 1755 – 94 ), author of Fables ( published 1802 )

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

* 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist ( d. 2000 )

In 2004, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to be the site of the new building, called Le Louvre-Lens.

* 1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor

* 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host

* 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor ( d. 2007 )

In 1974, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin commissioned Dick to write a screenplay for a Ubik film.

* 1953 – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French director

* 1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician

* No Word Needed ( album ), released as Scripture: No Word Needed, by French Canadian composer Jean-Pierre Isaac

** Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* January 28 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( b. 1908 )

* January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor ( d. 2001 )

* September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician

* August 2 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director ( b. 1917 )

** Jean-Pierre Mader, French singer-songwriter

** Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist ( d. 2000 )