Find out more about the greatest 19th Century French Leaders, including Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Pétain, Pierre Laval, Bernadette Soubirous and Georges Clémenceau.
Charles de Gaulle22 November 1890
Former President of France
Napoleon III20 April 1808
Emperor of the Second French Empire
Philippe Pétain24 April 1856
Marshal of France
Thérèse of Lisieux02 January 1873
Nun
Bernadette Soubirous07 January 1844
Saint
Léon Blum09 April 1872
Former Prime Minister of France
Jean Moulin20 June 1899
An Emblem of the Resistance
Aristide Briand28 March 1862
Prime Minister
Vincent Auriol27 August 1884
Former President of France
Georges Bidault05 October 1899
French Politician
Léon Bourgeois21 May 1851
French Statesman
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin02 February 1807
French Politician
Georges Clémenceau28 September 1841
Former French Prime Minister
Alfred Dreyfus09 October 1859
Military personnel
Pierre Laval28 June 1883
Politician, Lawyer
François Darlan07 August 1881
Politician, Military personnel
Maxime Weygand21 January 1867
Military personnel, Officer
Raymond Poincaré20 August 1860
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Paul Reynaud15 October 1878
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Adolphe Thiers15 April 1797
Lawyer, Politician, Journalist, Historian, Writer
Félix Faure30 January 1841
Politician
Maurice Gamelin20 September 1872
military personnel
Charles Albert of Sardinia02 October 1798
René Coty20 March 1882
Politician, Lawyer
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803
Biologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist, Ichthyologist
Marie François Sadi Carnot11 August 1837
Politician, Civil engineer, Engineer
Joseph Darnand19 March 1897
Politician
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Paul Lafargue15 June 1842
journalist, politician, economist, essayist
François Guizot04 October 1787
Politician, Diplomat, Historian, Translator,
Georges Ernest Boulanger29 April 1837
Politician, Officer, Military personnel
Albert Lebrun29 August 1871
Politician
Robert Nivelle15 October 1856
Military personnel
Jules Ferry05 April 1832
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer, Journalist
Léon Gambetta02 April 1838
Politician, Lawyer
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Louis Blanc29 October 1811
Journalist, Politician, Historian, Writer
Paul Doumer22 March 1857
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Alphonse Juin16 December 1888
Officer, Military personnel
Alexandre Millerand10 February 1859
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
Paul Deschanel13 February 1855
President
Gaston Doumergue01 August 1863
Prime Minister, Politician
Albert François Lebrun29 August 1871
Politician, Engineer
Fernand de Brinon26 August 1885
Journalist, Socialite, Lawyer
Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta13 July 1808
Édouard Daladier18 June 1884
Politician