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The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work, Democracy in America:
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A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )
* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )
* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )
* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )
* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )
* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )
* 1941 – François Weyergans, French doctor and writer
* 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer ( b. 1556 )
* 1954 – Colette, French writer ( b. 1873 )
* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )
* 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer ( d. 1696 )
* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )
* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )
* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.
* 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer ( b. 1908 )
Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )
* 1920 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and writer
* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )
* 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer
* 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer ( b. 1079 )
* 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer ( b. 1646 )
* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )
* 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French writer ( d. 1996 )
French and Alexis
Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
Déjà Vu is a 2009 radio play by Alexis Zegerman in French and English co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and ARTE Radio.
* 1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French missionary ( d. 1837 )
The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on the " road to servitude ".
Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1831,
* 1973 – Alexis Gauthier, French chef
* 1689 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and dramatist ( d. 1773 )
* 1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician ( d. 1765 )
* 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1873 )
On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.
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At the same time the French company Kinétoscope Edison Michel et Alexis Werner bought these machines for the market in France.
* Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician
* April 16 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian ( b. 1805 )
* June 26 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1944 )
* May 17 – Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician ( b. 1713 )
** Alexis Paulin Paris, French scholar and author ( d. 1881 )
* July 29 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian ( d. 1859 )
* January 21 – Alexis Piron, French writer ( b. 1689 )
* July 9 – Alexis Piron, French writer ( d. 1773 )
* May 3 – Alexis Claude Clairaut, French mathematician ( d. 1765 )
This effect was computed prior to its return ( with a one-month error to 13 April ) by a team of three French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute.
The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: " The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics.
Following the capitulation of Solothurn on 2 March 1798, the French General Balthasar Alexis Henri Antoine von Schauenburg set up a provisional government on the following day.
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918 ) was a French poet and dramatist.
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