* 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 )

* 1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French writer ( d. 1592 )

Philosophical ideas in Hamlet are similar to those of the French writer Michel de Montaigne, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.

Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist, Montaigne.

Elements of historicism appear in the writings of Italian philosopher G. B. Vico and French essayist Michel de Montaigne, and became fully developed with the dialectic of G. W. F. Hegel, influential in 19th-century Europe.

* September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( b. 1533 )

* February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( d. 1592 )

The word was derived from the French word embarrasser, " to block " or " to obstruct ", or figuratively, " to put one in a difficult situation ".< sup > 6 </ sup > whose first recorded usage was by Michel de Montaigne in 1580.

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

French essayist Montaigne, who gave a spirited defense of Seneca and Plutarch in his Essays, was himself considered by Pasquier a " French Seneca "; similarly, Thomas Fuller praised Joseph Hall as " our English Seneca ".

A writer in Europe to condemn cruelty to animals as a wrong in itself was the French essayist, Montaigne ( 1533 – 1599 ).

Since the Renaissance French philosophy has been continuously influenced by Sextus: Montaigne in the 16th century, Pierre-Daniel Huet and François de La Mothe Le Vayer in the 17th century, many of the " Philosophes ," and in recent times controversial figures such as Michel Onfray, in a direct line of filiation between Sextus ' radical skepticism and secular or even radical atheism.

The French author Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ) in one of the most celebrated of his essays (" On experience ") expressed the benefits of living with a clear conscience: " Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

The English term " public opinion " dates back to the eighteenth century and has derived from the French l ’ opinion, which was first used in 1588 by Montaigne.

* September 13-Michel de Montaigne, French essayist ( born 1533 )

Forty-two discs have been released as part of the ensemble ’ s series on the French label Naïve Montaigne.

The word was derived from the French word embarrasser, " to block ," or " obstruct ",< sup > 1 </ sup > whose first recorded usage was by Michel de Montaigne in 1580.

Michel de Montaigne ( 1533 – 1592 ), French Catholic essayist and statesman, moderated between the Catholic and Protestant sides in the Wars of Religion.

Montaigne said of him, " I give the palm to Jacques Amyot over all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language in which he surpasses all others, nor for his constancy to so long an undertaking, nor for his profound learning ... but I am grateful to him especially for his wisdom in choosing so valuable a work.

Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).

In French, the modern pronunciation of the 16th century French author Montaigne as, rather than the contemporary, is a spelling pronunciation.

Middle French is the language found in the writings of François Villon, Clément Marot, Rabelais, Montaigne, Ronsard, and the poets of the Pléiade.