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Examples:Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies—Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012—Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique—parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment—François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, President from 2012—Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), French clergyman and scientist, pioneer of the metric system—Martin Mersenne (1588-1648, French mathematician)—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist philosopher—Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French neoclassical painter—Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)—Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx—Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860—Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter—agrégation (exam for teaching diploma in French universities)—macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells (loanword)—Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune—François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664-1741), French Jesuit missionary Kangxi court—Prosper Mérimée, French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera—Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist—Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter—Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician—Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist—Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary leader, enthusiastic advocate of reign of terror 1791-1794—Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), French mathematician—Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French musician, composer of opera Carmen—Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician—Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One—Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific—a French-style bread, similar a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao—Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician—Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor—Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)—Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic—Édouard Daladier (1884-1970), French politician—Charles Gounod (1818-1893), French musician and opera composer— |