The city was abandoned at an unknown date, but when the French traveller Pierre Belon visited it in the 16th century, there were nothing but ruins, used by the Turks as a quarry.

* September 3 – Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist and traveller ( b. 1799 )

** Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India ( d. 1689 )

French traveller Gérard Louis Domeny de Rienzi mentions bapati.

In Western Europe the fashionable hour for dinner began to be incrementally postponed during the 18th century, to two and three in the afternoon, until at the time of the First French Empire an English traveller to Paris remarked upon the " abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening ".

Dionysius of Byzantium mentions a Roman shrine to Apollo on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine.

* 1799: French traveller Jacques de la Tocnaye visits Norway and writes in his travel diary: " In winter, the mail is transported through Filefjell mountain pass by a man on a kind of snow skates moving very quickly without being obstructed by snow drifts that would engulf both people and horses.

Galland's diary ( March 25, 1709 ) records that he met the Maronite scholar, by name Youhenna Diab (" Hanna "), who had been brought from Aleppo to Paris by Paul Lucas, a celebrated French traveller.

* March 6-Jacques Arago, French traveller and writer ( died 1855 )

The French traveller François Bernier, who witnessed such executions, recorded his dismay at the pleasure that the emperor derived from this cruel punishment.

The French jeweller and traveller, Jean Baptiste Tavennier, who had the opportunity to examine the throne at close quarters, confirms the court chronicler ’ s description ... Its place in the two fortress-palaces of Delhi and Agra was usually at the Hall of Private Audience known as Diwan-I-Khas, although it was kept at the Hall of Public Audience known as the Diwan-I-Am when larger audience were expected.

Évariste Régis Huc, or Abbé Huc, ( 1813 – 1860 ) was a French missionary traveller, famous for his accounts of China, Tartary and Tibet.

At the beginning the two buildings were isolated: according to the 16th-century French traveller Pierre Gilles between them and the Mosque of Beyazid lay ruins of churches and a large cistern ; but soon many sellers opened their shops between and around them, so that a whole quarter was born, devoted exclusively to commerce.

In the 1780s a community of roughly 200 Indian traders had formed at Mahajanga at the mouth of the Betsiboka River, according to French traveller Dumaine.

* Jean Chardin, ( 1643 – 1713 ), French jeweller and traveller, author of The Travels of Sir John Chardin

The range of goods produced in late-17th century Birmingham, and its international reputation, were illustrated by the French traveller Maximilien Misson who visited Milan in 1690, finding " fine works of rock crystal, swords, heads of canes, snuff boxes, and other fine works of steel ", before remarking " but they can be had better and cheaper at Birmingham ".

Jean de Thévenot ( June 16, 1633 – November 28, 1667 ) was a French traveller in the East, who wrote extensively about his journeys.

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:

Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:

Jean Baptiste Douville ( 1794 – 1837 ), French traveller, was born at Hambye, in the department of Manche.

In the early 19th century, when Debar rebelled against the Turkish Sultan, the French traveller, publicist, and scientist Ami Bue observed that Debar had 64 shops and 4, 200 residents.

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix ( 24 October 1682 – 1 February 1761 ) was a French Jesuit traveller and historian, often distinguished as the first historian of New France, which then occupied much of North America known to Europeans.

Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay ( 2 May 1828 – 24 October 1915 ) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries.

* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist ( d. 2010 )

* 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator

* 1960 – Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host

* 1983 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director

* 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( b. 1936 )

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

* 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer

* 1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer

* December 10 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer ( d. 2005 )

** Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host

* August 12 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer ( d. 2010 )

* April 13 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal ( d. 1830 )

** French authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their comments against Charles De Gaulle.

* August 30 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator

* February 12 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( b. 1693 )

* March 17 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal ( b. 1764 )

* September 17 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( b. 1748 )

* April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* August 8 – Laurent Belissen, French composer ( d. 1762 )

The Cassegrain antenna design was adapted from the Cassegrain telescope, a type of reflecting telescope developed around 1672 and attributed to French priest Laurent Cassegrain.

The first documented development of handheld micrometer-screw calipers was by Jean Laurent Palmer of Paris in 1848 ; the device is therefore often called palmer in French, and tornillo de Palmer (" Palmer screw ") in Spanish.