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Jules Lemaitre, French dramatist and critic, 1908. Lemaitres (1853-1914) critical reviews of plays and books were extremely influential
Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure, 1900. Duval inheited a chain of cheap restaurants founded by his father, the Bouillons Duval, from which Alexandre got the nickname
Alphonse Kirchoffer, French fencer, 1904. Alphonse Kirchoffer, French fencer, 1904. Kirchhoffer (1873-1913) won a silver medal in the masters foil at the 1900 Olympic Games held in Paris
Felix Ziem, French artist, 1905. Ziem (1821-1911) was a painter of the Barbizon School. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album
Anatole France, French writer, 1903. Anatole France was the pen name of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (1844-1924). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921
Henri Becquerel, French physicist, late 19th or early 20th century. In 1896 Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered that uranium, when placed on a sealed, light-tight photographic plate, exposed the plate
Henry Becque, French dramatist, 1899. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
Edgar Degas, French Impressionist painter, 1894. Degas (1834-1917) is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he preferred to describe his work as Realist
Henri Gouraud, French soldier, playing billiards, 1895. Gouraud (1867-1946) first came to prominence in French Sudan in the 1890s, where he succeeded in capturing Samori
Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer, 1889. Thomass (1811-1896) best known operas are Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868). He was Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 until 1896
Eugene Marin Labiche, French dramatist, 1879. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean-Leon Gerome, French artist, 1886. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
Octave Feuillet, French novelist and dramatist, 1872. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor, 1862. Barye (1796-1875) was best known for his works depicting animals. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres
Marshal MacMahon, French soldier and politician, 1873. Of Irish descent, Patrice MacMahon (1808-1893) was the commander of the French army defeated by the Prussians at the Battle of Sedan in
Rene Doumic, French literary critic and man of letters, 1922. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 8th album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, French, 1855Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin in 1855, (1855-1915). Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) has been described as the father of modern conjuring
Rodolphe Salis, French artist, 1897. Salis (1851-1897) opened Le Chat Noir, a cabaret, in Montmartre in 1881. It had a wealth of famous patrons but closed in 1897
Charles Maurice Donnay, French, 1908Charles Maurice Donnay in 1908, (1855-1915). A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 8th album, Editions MD, Paris
Etienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and pioneer of cinematography, 1901. Marey (1830-1904) was a French physiologist who pioneered the use of photography to record and analyse movement
Romain Rolland, French dramatist, author, art historian and mystic, 1921. Rolland (1866-1944) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
Charles Mangin, French soldier, 1918. Mangin was a general in the French Army during the First World War. Nicknamed the Butcher by his troops
Ferdinand Foch, French soldier and hero of World War I, 1922. Foch (1851-1929) was chosen as supreme commander of the Allied armies on 26 March, 1918
Raoul Pugno, French musician and composer, 1905. Pugno (1852-1914) earned a worldwide reputation for his performances of Mozarts piano and organ works
Henry Bataille, French dramatist and poet, 1913. Batailles (1872-1922) works were very popular between 1900 and the First World War
Paul Doumer, French statesman, 1908. Doumer (right) with his five sons, four of whom were killed in the First World War. He served as Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897-1902
Jose-Maria de Heredia, Cuban-born French poet, 1902. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1855-1915, 8th album, Editions MD, Paris
Jean-Louis Forain, French artist, 1897. Forain (1852-1931) was one of the Impressionist painters, participating in four of their exhibitions between 1879 and 1884
Louise Michel, French schoolteacher, medical worker and anarchist, 1899. Louise Michel (1830-1905) was active in the Paris Commune and as a result was deported to New Caledonia in 1873
Jules Ferry, French statesman, 1884. Jules Francois Camille Ferry (1832-1893) served as Prime Minister of France on two occasions
Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, French writers, 1887. Erckmann (1822-1899) and Chatrian (1826-1890) both came from Alsace-Lorraine
Henri d Orleans, Duc d Aumale, 1890. Henri of Orleans, Duke of Aumale (1822-1897), was the fifth son of Louis-Philippe, the last King of France
Charles Garnier, French architect, 1882. Garnier (1825-1898) designed the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris, as well as the casino, opera house and the Grand Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo
Jean-Marie Vianney, Cure d Ars, French priest, 1858. Vianney (1786-1859) was a Catholic parish priest who was made a saint and is the patron saint of all parish priests
Eugene Delacroix, French artist, 1854. Delacroix (1798-1863) was one of the leading figures of the French Romantic school
Victor Hugo, French novelist, in exile in Guernsey, 1866. Victor Hugo with, amongst others, Juliette Drouet, and his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne Hugo
Paul Deroulede, French author and politician and Jean Mounet-Sully, French actor, 1899. Deroulede was a leading figure on the right wing of French politics in the 1880s and 1890s
Emile Zola, French novelist, with his family, 1899. An influential writer, Zola (1840-1902) was also an important figure in the liberalisation of French society at the end of the 19th century
Alphonse Allais, French writer and humourist, 1895. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Emile Ollivier, French statesman, 1895. Although he was a republican, Ollivier (1825-1913) served as a cabinet minister in the regime of Napoleon III
Benoit-Constant Coquelin, French actor, 1895. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, 1895. Possibly the pre-eminent French sculptor, Rodin (1840-1917) is best known for his The Thinker (1902)
Francois Coppee, French poet and novelist, 1892. Coppee (1842-1908) was an extreme nationalist and was one of the founders of the Ligue de la Patrie Francaise
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, President of France, 1887. Carnot (1837-1894) became President of the French Third Republic in 1887 after the resignation of Jules Grevy
Jules Grevy, President of France, 1880. Grevy (1807-1891) was President ot the French Third Republic from 1879-1887. A leading Opportunist Republican
Jules Amedee Barbey d Aurevilly, French novelist and short story writer, 1889. Barbey d Aurevillys (1808-1889) novels and stories, set in his native Cotentin
Alfred Grevin, French illustrator and caricaturist, 1887. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Emile Augier, French dramatist, 1885. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
