1 Louis Pasteur
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Died: September 28, 1895
2 Michel Foucault
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3 Jean-Paul Sartre
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4 Emile Durkheim
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5 Jacques Derrida
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6 Simone Weil
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7 Henri Bergson
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Birthplace: Paris, France
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10 Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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19 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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20 Pierre Janet
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21 Ahmad Ahmad
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30 Charles Péguy
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32 Lucien Febvre
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