* 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.

French philosopher Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory ( 1896 ) has been cited as anticipating the development of film theory during the birth of cinema.

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

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

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )

* 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist ( d. 1911 )

* 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( d. 1867 )

François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

* 1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect ( d. 1914 )

* 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher ( d. 1857 )

* 1865 – Auguste Cavadini, French target shooter ( death date unknown )

About 1907, he traveled to Paris, where he found work in the office of Auguste Perret, the French pioneer of reinforced concrete.

* 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor ( d. 1917 )

* 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( d. 1889 )

* 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor ( b. 1840 )

* 1862 – Auguste Lumière, French inventor ( d. 1954 )

A more successful and safer regulator was mass produced in France from 1865 to 1965 ( although production was twice interrupted during that period ): invented by Benoît Rouquayrol in 1860 for survival in flooded mines it was adapted to diving in 1864 with the help of French Navy officer Auguste Denayrouze.

Conflict became inevitable when a French mission, to peacefully bring Laos under French rule: led by Auguste Pavie to King Chulalongkorn ended in failure.

During World War I French engineer Auguste Rateau fitted turbochargers to Renault engines powering various French fighters with some success.

The sauce tomate of classical French cooking, as codified by Auguste Escoffier, consists of salt belly of pork, onions, bay leaves, thyme, tomato purée or fresh tomatoes, roux, garlic, salt, sugar, and pepper.

The French author Auguste le Breton uses numerous examples of verlan, for instance in Du rififi chez les hommes.

** Auguste Rodin, French sculptor ( b. 1840 )

* May 19 – Auguste Molinier, French historian ( b. 1851 )

* August 19 – Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam, French writer ( b. 1838 )

* June 6 – Auguste Casimir-Perier, French diplomat ( b. 1811 )

* September 5 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher ( b. 1798 )