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Jules Massenet, French composer, 1905. Massenet (1842-1912) is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th century
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman, 1886. Clemenceau (1841-1929) when he was a member of the French Chamber of Deputies
Gustave Dore, French artist, engraver and illustrator, 1863. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris
Edmond de Goncourt, French author, 1868. Goncourt (1822-1896) was an author, critic and publisher. He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation of the Academie Goncourt, which, since 1903
Ewelina Hanska, Madame Honore de Balzac, 19th century. A Polish noblewoman, Countess Ewelina Hanska (1801-1882) married French author Honore de Balzac in 1850, five months before his death
Georges and Jeanne Hugo, grandchildren of French novelist Victor Hugo, 1884. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris
Stephane Mallarme, French poet and critic, c1890s. Mallarme (centre) (1842-1898) was an influential Symbolist poet. Edouard Manets painting The Execution of Maximilian (1868-1869)
Lucien Guitry, French actor, 1895. The boy with Guitry (1860-1925) is his son, Sacha (1885-1957), who went on to become an author, actor and film director
Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist, 1899. Curie (1859-1906) was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903, jointly with his wife, Marie, and Henri Becquerel
Julie Feyghine, French actress, 1881. An actress of Russian descent, Julie Feyghine committed suicide in 1882, aged just 20
Herve (Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger), French singer, composer and conductor, 1870. Herve (1825-1894) has been credited with inventing the musical genre of operetta in Paris in the 1840s
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol, French journalist and essayist, 1860. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Gerard de Nerval, French poet, 1855. Nervals (1808-1855) use of dreams and fantasies in his work influenced surrealism. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages
Coquelin cadet, French actor, 1898. Ernest Alexandre Honore Coquelin (1848-1909) was known as Coquelin cadet to distinguish him from his older brother, Benoit-Constant Coquelin (Coquelin aine)
Paul Feval the Elder, French novelist and dramatist, 1868. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Francois Clement Sauvage, French engineer and politician, 1854. A mining and railway engineer, Sauvage (1814-1872) was elected to the French National Assembly in 1871
Guy de Maupassant, French author, 1890. Maupassant (1850-1893) is regarded as one of the fathers of the modern short story
Andre Gill, French caricaturist, 1868. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines (1840-1885) he adopted the name Andre Gill in tribute to his hero, the English caricaturist James Gillray
The Eiffel Tower under construction, Paris, c1888. Designed by the French civil engineer Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), the Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition staged in Paris in
Cecile Sorel, French actress, 1893. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Aurelien Scholl, French author and journalist, 1868. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer, 1890. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Jules Janin, French author and critic, 1870. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Alfred de Vigny, French poet, playwright and novelist, 1862. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1905, 3rd album, Editions MD, Paris
Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic, 1857. Baudelaire (1821-1867) was an influential but controversial Symbolist poet who was interested in satanism and the macabre
Comtesse de Segur, Russian-born French author, 1860. Sophie Feodorovna Rostopchine, Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874 is best remembered for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophies Misfortunes)
Count Walewski, French statesman, 1854. Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski (1810-1868) was the son of Napoleon I and his mistress, Countess Maria Walewski
Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1852. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873) was President of the French Second Republic from 1849 until 1852
Empress Eugenie of France, 1859. A Spanish noblewoman, Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920) was the last Empress Consort of France
Juliette Adam, French author and feminist, 1929. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
Ernest Psichari, French soldier and author, 1913. Psichari (1883-1914) was killed in Belgium in the early days of World War I
Jean Richepin, French poet, dramatist and novelist, and Leon Bonnat, French artist, 1901. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album
Catulle Mendes, French poet and man of letters, 1906. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860-1920, 6th album, Editions MD, Paris
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
