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 )

Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir burst onto the French culture, effecting a revolution with a style that has become commonplace today.

In 1875, a book-length French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven " included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé.

* 1834 – Edgar Degas, French painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1969 – Edgar Grospiron, French skier

* 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian ( b. 1803 )

The 19th-century French painter Edgar Degas was a most prolific user of pastel and its champion.

In 1821, French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix painted a self-portrait of himself as the melancholy, disinherited Edgar Ravenswood.

The French king, seeking a focus for those opposed to William's power, then proposed that Edgar be given the castle of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the English Channel, which would have given Edgar a strategic advantage against William, but he was forced to submit to William shortly thereafter, and returned to William's court.

* September 27 – Edgar Degas, French painter ( b. 1834 )

* July 19 – Edgar Degas, French painter ( d. 1917 )

In 1870, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar, daughter of Samuel and Julia Webster Appleton, and widow of Newbold Edgar.

Edgar Degas ( or ; ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917 ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing.

Early on, Hopper modeled his style after Chase and French masters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

The Interallied Mission to Poland also included French diplomat Jean Jules Jusserand and the British diplomat Lord Edgar Vincent D ' Abernon.

The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images.

Mendenhall had a movie theatre called the Star Theatre, built by Edgar French, Ben Slay and Lonnie Burnham.

A man from Prentiss was initially hired to run the theatre, but he was soon " sent packing " and Edgar French informed his son, George Lewis French, that " You're taking over that picture show.

Warwick has been connected romantically with Philadelphia Eagles great Timmy Brown, French singer-songwriter Sacha Distel, actor Philip Michael Thomas ( Miami Vice ), Seagram heir and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Las Vegas restaurateur and actor Gianni Russo ( The Godfather ).

Notable persons to have publicly stated that UFO evidence is being suppressed include Senator Barry Goldwater, Admiral Lord Hill-Norton ( former NATO head and chief of the British Defence Staff ), Brigadier-General Arthur Exon ( former commanding officer of Wright-Patterson AFB ), Vice-Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter ( first CIA director ), astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell, former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, and the 1999 French COMETA report by various French generals and aerospace experts.

Around 1874, Caillebotte met and befriended several artists working outside the official French Academy, including Edgar Degas and Giuseppe de Nittis, and attended ( but did not participate in ) the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874.