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An encyclopedia entry for Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu who was born in France in 1689 and died in 1755, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Diane de Poitiers, a French lady renowned for her beauty and her influence on Henry II, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for James Cartier, French navigator during the 1500s, is presented.

A biographical note on Chlodwig or Hlodwig Clovis, who succeeded his father as king of the Salian Franks in Tournay, France in the year 481, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for King Louis Philippe of France who lived in Belgium, the U.S. and England before returning to his home country in 1814 upon which his titles and estates have been restored.

An encyclopedia entry for Huguenot chief and French admiral Gaspard de Coligny is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for French chemist Anthony Laurence Lavoisier, who was born in Paris in 1743, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Jean de Valois, Comtesse de Lamotte, is presented. Born to poor parents in 1757, she was proven to be a descendant of the royal family of Valois. She was employed by Queen Marie Antoinette of France, who she betrayed by keeping up a fraudulent correspondence between the queen and the cardinal of Rohan regarding the purchase of a valuable necklace. As punishment, the countess was whipped and burnt on each shoulder with the letter V.

An encyclopedia entry for Hugh Capet, the first of the third race of French monarchs who was proclaimed the king of France in 987, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for various notable people is presented, including merchant Gilbert Y. Francis, French King Francis I and Saint Francis of Assisi are presented. The merchant served the U.S. Navy and was a prisoner in a desert of Arabia for two years. The French king ascended the throne at the age of 21 in 1839. The saint was born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy in 1182 to a merchant father who was believed to have bad habits.

An encyclopedia entry for French military official Adam Philip Custine who served in the wars involving France in the 1700s is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Clovis, the first Christian king of France, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Count of the Pliny of France George Louis le Clerc Buffon is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for John Bodin, an author from Angers, France during the 1500s is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Bertrand Barere, one of the major players in the French revolution, is presented. He played a major part in the so-called "Reign of Terror," in which his office was known as the Witling of Terror and the Anacreon of the Guillotine. He lived in Belgium during the reign of the Bourbons in France. He returned to France after the revolution that installed Louis Philippe as King.

An encyclopedia entry for Francis Noel Babeauf, a reformer in France, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Louis Léopold Robert, a French painter who committed suicide in March 1835, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for King Louis Philippe of France, who is known as the Duke of Chartres and Duke of Orléans and assumed the throne in 1830 after Charles X was deposed, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Jean Baptiste Jourdan, a Marshal of France, is presented.

A biographical note on Gaspard de Coligni or Coligny, a French admiral and Hugueno chief in the 16th century and son of Gaspard Coligni and Louise who was a sister of the Constable Montmorenci, is presented.

A biography of Paul de Cazes, secretary of the department of Public Instruction of Quebec, is presented. He was born on June 17, 1841 in Britanny, France, and received training at L'Institution Loriol in Paris. He moved to Canada in 1858 and earned a certificate from the Military School in Quebec. He edited "Le Messager de Joliette," "Le Courier de St. Hyancinthe," and "La Nation." Admitted to the bar of Quebec, he practice law in St. Hyacinthe and was member of the Royal Society of Canada. A Roman Catholic, he was married to Hermine St. Denis.

An encyclopedia entry for Sir Francis Walsingham, an English statesman who was sent as the country's ambassador to France in 1570 and eventually served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for François Michel Letellier, Marquess de Louvois, who served as French minister of state under the reign of King Louis XIV.

An encyclopedia entry for Anthony Watteau, a French artist who was born in 1684 at Valenciennes and died in 1721, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for 18th-century French composer Francis Andrew Philidor is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Anne de Montmorency, peer, marshall and constable of France who was born in 1493 and died in 1632, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for John Stephen Montucla, a French mathematician who was born in 1725 and died in 1799, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Anne Maria Louisa Montpensier, daughter of duke Gaston of Orleans, who was born at Paris, France in 1627 and died in 1693, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Anthony Houdart de la Motte, a French poet, historian and novelist who died in 1731, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Thomas Fautet de Lagny, a French mathematician who died in 1734, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Rodolph Kreutzer, a French violinist and musical composer who died in 1831, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Francis Christopher Kellermann, duke of Valmy and a French marshal, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for French navigator, astronomer, and geographer Joseph Bernard Chabert is presented.

The article presents an encyclopedia entry for French botanist Pierre Bulliard.

An encyclopedia entry for French astronomer and mathematician Ismael Bullialdus is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Pierre de Bourdeilles or Brantome, a French chronicler, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Andrew Michael Hyacinth Blin de Sainmore, an author from Paris, France during the 1700s, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry is presented for Hughes Bernard Maret, who is the first Duke of Bassano and a popular French political writer in the early 1800s.

An encyclopedia entry for French officer J. C. Eleonore Lemiceaud Arcon is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Adolphe Yvon, a French historical painter who was born in 1817, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Horace Vernet, a French painter and grandson of Claude Joseph Vernet, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Claude Joseph Vernet, a French painter, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Jules Verne, a French writer, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Paul Verlaine, a French painter, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, a French Girondist, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, a former Prince of Marsillac, France who was also a writer, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur de Rochambeau, a French marshal who served against the Austrians, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Marquess François Michel Letellier de Louvois, who is appointed Minister of State under King Louis XIV of France, is presented.