French Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depic

Was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity. His success was in large measure due to his portraying of attractive young women using etching, drypoint and engraving. His prints were often in limited editions of 20. With the growth of his success, Boutet targeted a wider market by doing his own publishing and using the "eau-fort synthetique" process,

Was a French chemist and pharmacist.At 13, he was placed as apprentice in a pharmacy in Nancy where

Was a French chemist and pharmacist.At 13, he was placed as apprentice in a pharmacy in Nancy where he learnt pharmacy, chemistry and botany. At 15, he left Nancy for a military service in an hospital in Strasbourg.In 1801-1802, he lived in Paris where he learnt in various schools, Museum, school of medicine among others, and followed the lectures of Fourcroy, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. He carried out some chemical investigations on the composition of a fossil horn which were published later (J Chim Phys 1806).

Was a French military officer and explorer. Henri François Brosselard was born on June 3, 1855. The

Was a French military officer and explorer. Henri François Brosselard was born on June 3, 1855. The stepson of General Louis Faidherbe, he was permitted to attach the surname of his stepfather to his own.[1] He died on August 19, 1893 in Coutances, Manche.

Is a French-Polish former association football player and manager. He played in France for FC Metz a

Is a French-Polish former association football player and manager. He played in France for FC Metz and Limoges FC, and later coached Chamois Niortais and LB Châteauroux.

Was a French classical composer and conductor. Büsser began teaching at the Conservatoire in Paris

Was a French classical composer and conductor. Büsser began teaching at the Conservatoire in Paris in 1921, and was promoted to professor of composition in 1931. Noted students include Prix de Rome winner Henri Challan and the Japanese composer Tomojiro Ikenouchi (1906–1991). The Académie[clarification needed] elected him as member in 1938.

Was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his work in trompe-l'oeil paintings. He is c

Was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his work in trompe-l'oeil paintings. He is credited with being a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949 (called nowadays Mouvement Trompe-l’oeil-réalité). See [[1]] He was also president of the Association for the Protection of the Cité Fleurie (the "Flowering City"), a wooded area around the boulevard Arago in Paris's 13th arrondissement where about thirty artist’s studios are located.

Is a French political figure most prominent during the postwar years 1946-58, when, during the Fourt

Is a French political figure most prominent during the postwar years 1946-58, when, during the Fourth Republic, he was a member of the National Assembly and as a Senator from 1967-1985. A native of Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, and trained as a lawyer, Henri Caillavet is renowned in France as a veteran guardian of civil liberties. He proposed bills concerning gay rights, abortion, transgender issues, divorce by mutual consent, euthanasia and organ transplants.

Is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker, but is currently unattached after being released

Is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker, but is currently unattached after being released by Wigan Athletic.

Is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathemat

Is a son of Élie Cartan, and is, as his father was, a distinguished and influential French mathematician.Henri Cartan is known for work in algebraic topology, in particular on cohomology operations, killing homotopy groups and group cohomology. His seminar in Paris in the years after 1945 covered ground on several complex variables, sheaf theory, spectral sequences and homological algebra, in a way that deeply influenced Jean-Pierre Serre, Armand Borel, Alexander Grothendieck and Frank Adams, amongst others of the leading lights of the younger generation. The number of his official students was small, but includes Adrien Douady, Roger Godement, Max Karoubi, Jean-Pierre Serre and René Thom.

Was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of

Was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.

Was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of

Was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that

Was a violist and music publisher. He was the brother of Marius Casadesus, uncle of the famous piani

Was a violist and music publisher. He was the brother of Marius Casadesus, uncle of the famous pianist Robert Casadesus, and granduncle of Jean Casadesus. He founded the Society of Ancient Instruments with Camille Saint-Saëns in 1901. The society, which operated between 1901 and 1939, was a quintet of performers who used obsolete instruments such as the viola da gamba, or Casadesus's own instrument, the viola d'amore.

Was a French footballer. During his club career he played for Amiens AC, Excelsior AC Roubaix and Re

Was a French footballer. During his club career he played for Amiens AC, Excelsior AC Roubaix and Red Star FC 93. He earned 11 caps for the France national football team, and took part in the first two editions of the World Cup in 1930 and 1934.

Was a major French banker, economist and Asian art collector, who started off as an Italian politici

Was a major French banker, economist and Asian art collector, who started off as an Italian politician in 1848-1850. In September the formation of the Third Republic enabled Cernuschi to return, but he soon left Paris to travel in the Far East. He returned with a fine art collection that he would constantly expand upon for the remainder of his life.

Was a French composer and music educator. He had a long association with the Conservatoire de Paris

Was a French composer and music educator. He had a long association with the Conservatoire de Paris where he was both a student and a faculty member. He was a pupil of Jean Gallon and Henri Büsser and was appointed a professor of harmony in 1936. That same year he won both the first and second prize at the Prix de Rome.[1] One of his notable pupils was Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi.

Was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves.Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study u

Was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves.Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.

Was a convicted felon chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in a pe

Was a convicted felon chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in a penal colony on French Guiana.Charrière was born in Ardèche, France. He had two older sisters. His mother died in 1917, when Henri was nearly 11 years old, fourteen years before his conviction. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the French Navy, and served for two years. After leaving the Navy, Charrière became a member of the Paris underworld, and married a French woman and had a daughter. He was convicted of the murder of a pimp, Roland le Petit, a charge which he strenuously claimed was false. He was sentenced to hard labour for life on October 26, 1931. He had to leave behind his family, his pregnant wife and his daughter.

Was an avant-garde poet and musician.Henri Chopin was a little-known but key figure of the French av

Was an avant-garde poet and musician.Henri Chopin was a little-known but key figure of the French avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century. Known primarily as a concrete and sound poet, he created a large body of pioneering recordings using

Is a Peruvian architect and teacher. Ciriani was born and worked in Lima, Peru before moving to Pari

Is a Peruvian architect and teacher. Ciriani was born and worked in Lima, Peru before moving to Paris in 1964.[1] He has worked on modernist experimental living projects in the 1970s and the Noisy II in 1980 housing plan for Marne-la-Vallée, designed the St. Antoine Hospital kitchen building in Paris in 1985

Is a number theorist, and a Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He is best known for leading th

Is a number theorist, and a Professor at the University of Bordeaux. He is best known for leading the team that created the PARI/GP computer algebra system. He has also written several widely-used textbooks in computational and algebraic number theory.

Was a French composer and music critic who lived in Paris. Today his music is seldom performed and h

Was a French composer and music critic who lived in Paris. Today his music is seldom performed and he is best remembered for his 1920 article in Comoedia in which he coined the term Groupe des six to designate a young group of musicians at the Conservatoire de Paris which included Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud.

Was a French film editor and film director. Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, w

Was a French film editor and film director. Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, which was directed by Luis Buñuel.[1] Une aussi longue absence was written by Marguerite Duras, featured Alida Valli in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue.

Was a French composer, conductor, and organist.Gabriel Pierné was the organist at Saint Clotilde

Was a French composer, conductor, and organist.Gabriel Pierné was the organist at Saint Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890-1898, succeeding his teacher César Franck, and himself being succeeded by another distinguished Franck pupil, Charles Tournemire. Associated for many years with Edouard Colonne's concert series, the Concerts Colonne, from 1903, Pierné became chief conductor of this series in 1910, and remained in the post until 1934.

Was a French cyclist who won the 1904 Tour de France. He is its youngest winner, just short of his 2

Was a French cyclist who won the 1904 Tour de France. He is its youngest winner, just short of his 20th birthday.The Tour de France had proved a success when the first race was run in 1903 and both the competition between riders and the passion of the fan

Is a French judoka. He received a bronze medal at the 1956 World Judo Championships in Tokyo, shared

Is a French judoka. He received a bronze medal at the 1956 World Judo Championships in Tokyo, shared with Anton Geesink, after losing the semi final to winner Shokichi Natsui.[1] He is three times individual European champion (1952, 1958 and 1959), and fo