* 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.

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 )

* 1613 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( d. 1692 )

* 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

* 1996 – Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter ( b. 1911 )

Doherty was the subject of a series of photographs, taken before and after he died by French journalist Gilles Peress.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

* 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " one of his masterpieces.

* 1945 – Gilles Marotte, French Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Gilles Grangier, French director ( d. 1996 )

* 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist ( d. 1904 )

Thus, French philosophers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze signed in November 1977 L ' Appel des intellectuels français contre la répression en Italie ( The Call of French Intellectuals Against Repression in Italy ) in protest against Negri's imprisonment and Italian anti-terrorism legislation.

* January 25 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher ( d. 1995 )

* August 8 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

* August 15 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( d. 1692 )

* July 23 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( b. 1613 )

* October 27 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( b. 1602 )

She established an excellent rapport with the French ambassador, Gilles de la Pommeraie.

* September 10 – Gilles de Rais, French aristocrat ( d. 1440 )

* October 26 – Gilles de Rais, French soldier ( b. 1404 )

Proponents of process philosophy include Charles Hartshorne and Nicholas Rescher, and his ideas have been taken up by French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze.

The eponym was bestowed by Jean-Martin Charcot ( 1825 – 1893 ) on behalf of his resident, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette ( 1859 – 1904 ), a French physician and neurologist, who published an account of nine patients with Tourette's in 1885.

Watching the turn of events, Gilles de Rais persuaded Joan to immediately resume the assault, but to direct the French soldiers not on the Boulevart, but rather on the detached bastille of the Augustins.