The most important French social theorist since Foucault and Lévi-Strauss is Pierre Bourdieu, who trained formally in philosophy and sociology and eventually held the Chair of Sociology at the Collège de France.

* 1930 – Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist ( d. 1992 )

* 1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist ( d. 1958 )

During the same period a movement with similar aims had also developed in France under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc a French architect and theorist, famous for his " restorations " of medieval buildings.

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.

" Film theorist Roy Armes has said of him: " Marker is unclassifiable because he is unique ... The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker.

In the years after World War II, the French film critic and theorist André Bazin reacted against this approach to the cinema, arguing that film's essence lay in its ability to mechanically reproduce reality, not in its difference from reality.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (; 30 June 180124 December 1850 ) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly.

In an 1818 collection of his writings, the French liberal theorist, Benjamin Constant, argued against the recently introduced idea of " property which has been called intellectual.

He was one of the few Americans who paid much attention to the French theorist Jean Jacques Rousseau.

Blending Marx and structuralism was another French theorist, Louis Althusser, who introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to " structural Marxism ".

* Roland Barthes ( 1915 – 1980 ) was a French literary theorist and semiotician.

* September 7 – Christian Metz, French film theorist ( b. 1931 )

* November 8 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist ( d. 1957 )

** Charles Le Brun, French painter and art theorist ( d. 1690 )

* May 3 – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist ( d. 1836 )

André Malraux () DSO ( 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976 ) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

French social theorist Michel Foucault developed a notion of discourse in his early work, especially the Archaeology of knowledge ( 1972 ).

French physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo and German philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx were some of the exponents of political economy.

Michel Foucault (; born Paul-Michel Foucault ) ( 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984 ) was a French philosopher, social theorist, historian of ideas, and literary critic.

Jean-Baptiste le Rond d ' Alembert () ( 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783 ) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

* 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

Roland Mousnier is amongst those French sociologists who found that the French society was stratified beyond three levels.

** Chanson de Roland ( Old French )

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros ' Morane-Saulnier Type L. Unfortunately the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he was provided had an erratic rate of fire and it was impossible to synchronize it with a spinning propeller.

* Walker, Leslie H. " Sweet and Consoling Virtue: The Memoirs of Madame Roland " Eighteenth-Century Studies, French Revolutionary Culture ( 2001 ): 403 – 419.

* Roland's sword in early 12th century French poem Song of Roland, was named Durendal.

Like the French epics, such as the Chanson de Roland, Homeric poetry is indigenous and, by the ease of movement and its resultant simplicity, distinguishable from the works of Dante, Milton and Virgil.

* 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator ( d. 1997 )

* 1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer ( d. 2011 )

* 1915 – Roland Barthes, French critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1888 – Roland Garros, French pilot ( d. 1918 )

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

Rumour has long circulated that he named his company after the French epic poem La Chanson de Roland.

Propaganda accounts of Muslim-Christian hostility came into being to support that idea: most notably, the Chanson de Roland, a highly mythical contemporary French re-creation of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass ( 778 ) dealing with the Iberian Saracens, and taught as true in the French educational system until not long ago.

However, by the late 1960s, many of Structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors.

** Roland Garros, French fighter pilot ( b. 1888 )

* February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian ( b. 1907 )