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TROYES

Most Famous People Born in Troyes, France

Notable people
302
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1861
Most distinctive
Prelate 9.7×
Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Troyes during each.

Notable Births by Decade

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What Troyes Is Known For

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Politician is Troyes's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (39).

Troyes over-indexes on prelate9.7× the global rate.

Troyes under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician39
  2. Painter29
  3. Football18
  4. Sport14
  5. Writer12
  6. Priest12
  7. Actor10
  8. Historian8
  1. Prelate59.7×
  2. Painter293.7×
  3. Sculptor63.0×
  4. Sport142.8×
  5. Priest122.7×
  6. Historian82.5×
  7. Architect62.2×
  8. Militar82.2×
  1. Football180.5×
  2. Actor100.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Troyes's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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302 notable people

0001 WRITER

Chrétien de Troyes

1135 - 1185

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0002 RABBI

Rashi

1040 - 1105

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0003 ECONOMIST

Jean Tirole

Born 1953

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0004 POLITICIAN

Édouard Herriot

1872 - 1957

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0005 CHURCH

Pope Urban IV

1185 - 1264

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0006 PSYCHOLOGIST

Émile Coué

1857 - 1926

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0007 PAINTER

Pierre Mignard

1612 - 1695

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0008 COUNT

Theobald I of Navarre

1201 - 1253

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0009 ACTOR

Clotilde Hesme

Born 1979

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0010 FOOTBALL

Djibril Sidibé (footballer, born 1992)

Born 1992

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0011 FOOTBALL

Damien Perquis

Born 1984

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0012 NUN

Marguerite Bourgeoys

1620 - 1700

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0013 SCULPTOR

François Girardon

1628 - 1715

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0014 MONK

Robert of Molesme

1024 - 1111

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0015 FOOTBALL

Gaëtane Thiney

Born 1985

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0016 PAINTER

Nicolas Mignard

1606 - 1668

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0017 ACTOR

Annelise Hesme

Born 1976

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0018 FOOTBALL

Abdoul Sissoko

Born 1990

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0019 HISTORIAN

Petrus Comestor

1100 - 1179

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0020 HISTORIAN

Pierre Pithou

1539 - 1596

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0021 ARISTOCRAT

Theobald III, Count of Champagne

1179 - 1201

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0022 PAINTER

Jacques Linard

1597 - 1645

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0023 FOOTBALL

Thierry Laurey

Born 1964

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0024 PAINTER

Jacques Carrey

1649 - 1726

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0025 FOOTBALL

Yannick Stopyra

Born 1961

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0026 PRIEST

Peter Cellensis

1115 - 1183

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0027 POET

Jean Passerat

1534 - 1602

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0028 COBBLER

Antoine Simon

1736 - 1794

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0029 SPORT

Armand de Las Cuevas

1968 - 2018

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0030 FOOTBALL

Stéphane Nater

Born 1984

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0031 ORGANIST

Nicolas Siret

1663 - 1754

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0032 WRITER

Louis Ulbach

1822 - 1889

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0033 STATESMAN

Philibert Orry

1689 - 1747

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0034 PLAYWRIGHT

Pierre de Larivey

1549 - 1619

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0035 PLAYER

Pascale Paradis

Born 1966

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0036 PAINTER

Maurice Marinot

1882 - 1960

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0037 PAINTER

Adrien Moreau

1843 - 1906

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0038 WRITER

Jean-Philippe Blondel

Born 1964

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0039 COUNT

Henry II, Count of Champagne

1166 - 1197

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0040 PRIEST

Nicolas Caussin

1583 - 1651

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0041 SPORT

François Simon (cyclist)

Born 1968

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0042 WRITER

Pierre-Jean Grosley

1718 - 1785

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0043 CRIMINAL

Patrick Henry (French murderer)

1953 - 2017

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0044 FOOTBALL

François Marque

Born 1983

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0045 ACTOR

Didier Bienaimé

1961 - 2004

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0046 SWIMMER

Gilbert Bozon

1935 - 2007

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0047 POET

Albert Mérat

1840 - 1909

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0048 OFFICER

Félix Gustave Saussier

1828 - 1905

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0049 POLITICIAN

Catherine Lemorton

Born 1961

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0050 ACTOR

Pauline Lefèvre

Born 1981

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0051 MARTYR

Patroclus of Troyes

200 - 259

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0052 SPORT

Jérôme Simon

Born 1960

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0053 ARCHITECT

Martin-Pierre Gauthier

1790 - 1855

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0054 SPORT

Régis Simon

Born 1958

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0055 MILITAR

Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes

1645 - 1688

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0056 SCULPTOR

Pierre-Charles Simart

1806 - 1857

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0057 SPORT

Bruno Rossetti

1960 - 2018

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0058 LEXICOGRAPHER

Jean-Charles Laveaux

1749 - 1827

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0059 DESIGNER

Guillaume Le Bé

1525 - 1598

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0060 HORTICULTURIST

Charles Baltet

1830 - 1908

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0061 ART HISTORIAN

Pierre Amandry

1912 - 2006

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0062 ENGRAVER

Philippe Thomassin

1562 - 1622

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0063 PAINTER

Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert

1771 - 1849

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0064 PAINTER

Nicolas Baudesson

1611 - 1680

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0065 FOOTBALL

Baptiste Martin

Born 1985

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0066 POLITICIAN

Alain Suguenot

Born 1951

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0067 ENGRAVER

Nicolas Cochin

1610 - 1686

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0068 FOOTBALL

Mohamed Bradja

Born 1969

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0069 PRODUCER

Cendrine Dominguez

Born 1962

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0070 PAINTER

Patrick Moya

Born 1955

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0071 WRITER

François Pithou

1543 - 1621

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0072 PRIEST

Yves Patenôtre

Born 1940

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0073 FILM

Roger Lion

1882 - 1934

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0074 PAINTER

Blanche Odin

1865 - 1957

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0075 PAINTER

Jean Boulanger (engraver)

1606 - 1660

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0076 PAINTER

Jean Chalette

1581 - 1643

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0077 SCREENWRITER

Jacques Siclier

1927 - 2013

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0078 CHEF

Pascal Caffet

Born 1962

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0079 PAINTER

Jacques de Létin

1597 - 1661

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0080 SPORT

Mathieu Drujon

Born 1983

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0081 MILITAR

Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons

1761 - 1810

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0082 BOXER

Jaoid Chiguer

Born 1985

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0083 WRITER

Eustache Le Noble

1643 - 1711

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0084 SOCIOLOGIST

Eugène Buret

1810 - 1842

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0085 LYRICIST

Louis Poterat

1901 - 1982

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0086 PAINTER

Nicolas Fouché

1653 - 1733

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0087 HISTORIAN

Pierre Desrey

1450 - 1519

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0088 SWIMMER

Lucien Zins

1922 - 2002

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0089 PAINTER

Marie Antoinette Marcotte

1869 - 1929

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0090 POLITICIAN

Edme-Bonaventure Courtois

1754 - 1816

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0091 HISTORIAN

Nicholas Camusat

1575 - 1655

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0092 TRADE UNION

Raymond Burgard

1892 - 1944

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0093 ATHLETIC

Jack Pani

Born 1946

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0094 ACTOR

Thierry Ragueneau

Born 1960

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0095 JUMPER

Hubert Bourdy

1957 - 2014

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0096 ACTOR

Élodie Hesme

Born 1973

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0097 PAINTER

Jacques Antoine Friquet de Vauroze

1638 - 1716

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0098 DRUMMER

Franck Bauer

1918 - 2018

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0099 SPORT

Ernest Neuhard

1903 - 1980

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0100 PAINTER

Anne-François Arnaud

1787 - 1846

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0101 LAWYER

André Lefèvre (1717–1768)

1718 - 1768

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0102 KNIGHT

Guy I of Dampierre

1105 - 1151

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0103 LIBRARIAN

Édouard-Thomas Simon

1740 - 1818

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0104 WRITER

Michel Laclos

1926 - 2013

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0105 PLAYWRIGHT

Marie-Adélaïde Barthélemy-Hadot

1763 - 1821

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0106 ACTOR

Jules-Théophile Boucher

1847 - 1924

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0107 PAINTER

Martine Martine

Born 1932

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0108 OFFICER

Arsène Marie Paul Vauthier

1885 - 1979

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0109 SCREENWRITER

Sophie Robert

Born 1967

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0110 PERFORMER

Claude-Ambroise Seurat

Born 1797

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0111 MUSIC

Angelico Surchamp

1924 - 2018

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0112 PLAYWRIGHT

François-Michel-Chrétien Deschamps

1683 - 1747

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0113 INVENTOR

Henri Gambey

1787 - 1847

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0114 FOOTBALL

Jonathan Clauss

Born 1992

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0115 FONCTIONNAIRE

Jean Daubigny

Born 1948

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0116 PRIEST

Joseph-Marie Perrin

1905 - 2002

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0117 SPORT

Jérémy Cabot

Born 1991

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0118 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Victor Petit

1817 - 1871

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0119 PRIEST

Anchero Pantaléone

1210 - 1286

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0120 TEACHER

Jean-Pierre Astolfi

1943 - 2009

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0121 HISTORIAN

Pierre-Alexandre Levesque de La Ravalière

1697 - 1762

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0122 LAWYER

Edmond Mérille

1579 - 1647

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0123 INVENTOR

Gëorgia Knap

1866 - 1946

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0124 DIPLOMAT

Jacques Dupont (politician)

1929 - 2002

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0125 POLITICIAN

André Mutter

1901 - 1973

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0126 SCULPTOR

Jean Joly (sculptor)

1650 - 1740

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0127 ENGRAVER

Simon Thomassin

1655 - 1733

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0128 EXPLORER

Alban Michon

Born 1977

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0129 ARCHITECT

Michel Marot (architecte)

Born 1926

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0130 OFFICIER

Jean-Michel Beau

1943 - 2020

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0131 JOURNALIST

Louis Merlin

1901 - 1976

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0132 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Achille Peigné-Delacourt

1797 - 1881

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0133 MÁRTIR

Tanca

Died 637

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0134 NOVELIST

Sonja Delzongle

Born 1967

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0135 AVIATOR

Suzanne Bernard

1892 - 1912

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0136 STYLIST

Claudie Pierlot

1947 - 2009

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0137 PRESBYTER

Gilles Wach

Born 1956

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0138 FOOTBALL

Édouard Thomas

Born 1971

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0139 MANUFACTURER

Henry Darcy (1840-1926)

1840 - 1926

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0140 ARCHITECT

Charles Fichot

1817 - 1903

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0141 PRIEST

Paul Grammont

1911 - 1989

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0142 FILM

Jean-François Dion

Born 1948

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0143 LAWYER

Raymond Odent

1907 - 1979

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0144 PAINTER

Paul Albert Steck

1866 - 1924

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0145 ARTIST

Franck Bonnet

Born 1964

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0146 CHIESA

Maura of Troyes

827 - 850

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0147 ACTOR

Clémentine Justine

Born 2013

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0148 MUSIC

Alain Giroux

1942 - 2018

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0149 DANCER

Nathalie Hervé

Born 1963

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0150 DIPLOMAT

Alphonse de Bourboulon

1809 - 1877

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0151 ACTOR

Nathalie Bienaimé

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0152 SPORT

Benoît Drujon

Born 1985

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0153 HISTORIAN

Léon Maître

1840 - 1926

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0154 GEOLOGIST

Georges Millot

1917 - 1991

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0155 ILLUMINATOR

Georges Trubert

Died 1508

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0156 BUSINESS

André Gillier

1882 - 1935

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0157 PRIEST

Frobert of Troyes

595 - 673

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0158 FILM

Charles Ladmiral

Born 1970

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0159 FOOTBALL

Robert Sab

Born 1954

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0160 JOURNALIST

Roger Bruge

1926 - 2009

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0161 LITERARY

Vincent Landel (écrivain)

Born 1958

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0162 DRIVER

André Morel

1884 - 1961

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0163 WRITER

Rodolphe Barry

Born 1969

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0164 PRIEST

Aderald

Died 1004

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0165 JOURNALIST

Stanislas Xavier Pourille

1833 - 1872

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0166 EXPLORER

Charles Joseph Cornet

1879 - 1914

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0167 WRITER

Élodie Bernard

Born 1984

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0168 PAINTER

Noël Cochin

1622 - 1695

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0169 MECHANIC

René Gillet (entreprise)

1877 - 1944

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0170 FOOTBALL

Rafik Mezriche

Born 1978

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0171 POET

Jean-Pierre Issenhuth

1947 - 2011

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0172 ROWER

Philippe Malivoire

Born 1942

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0173 RUNNER

Bruno Heubi

Born 1960

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0174 JOURNALIST

Michel Colomès

Born 1942

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0175 ROWER

André Fevret

1941 - 2006

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0176 PAINTER

Gustave Leheutre

1861 - 1932

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0177 FOOTBALL

Birahim Sarr

Born 1991

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0178 CLERK

Claude Barrat

1658 - 1711

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0179 POLITICIAN

Antoine Marie Charles Garnier

1742 - 1805

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0180 MILITAR

Henri Parisot

1881 - 1963

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0181 WRITER

Nicolas de Troyes

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0182 WRITER

Nicolas Millet

Born 1979

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0183 HISTORIAN

Joseph-Epiphane Darras

1825 - 1878

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0184 AUDIO

Pascal Armant

Born 1963

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0185 POLITICIAN

Charles Bourlon de Rouvre

1850 - 1924

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0186 PHYSICIAN

Paul Harvier

1880 - 1960

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0187 HISTORIAN

Antoine-Henri-François Corrard de Bréban

1792 - 1871

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0188 OPERA

Blanche Miroir

1859 - 1938

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0189 SALONNIÈRE

Marie Bruneau des Loges

1585 - 1641

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0190 MISSING

Édouard-François Simon

1769 - 1827

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0191 POLITICIAN

René Walter

1910 - 1960

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0192 PRIEST

François Boutard

1664 - 1729

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0193 POLITICIAN

François Aubert

Born 1736

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0194 PRELATE

Guichard de Troyes

Died 1314

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0195 THÉOLOGIEN

Charles Le Cointe

1611 - 1681

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0196 NATURALIST

Jules Joseph Ray

1815 - 1883

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0197 NATURALIST

Henri Louis Douliot

1859 - 1892

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0198 SCULPTOR

Jules Édouard Valtat

1838 - 1871

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0199 PROFESSOR

Nicolas Henrion

1663 - 1720

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0200 GYMNAST

Clara Della Vedova

Born 1994

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0201 LIBRARIAN

Charles Des Guerrois

1817 - 1916

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0202 WRITER

Henri Forneron

1834 - 1886

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0203 SKATER

Céline Lecompére

Born 1983

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0204 JOURNALIST

Olivier Pain (journaliste)

1845 - 1884

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0205 LAWYER

Victor Paillot de Loynes

1767 - 1842

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0206 POLITICIAN

Claude Huez

1724 - 1789

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0207 MILITAR

Gustave Paul Lacapelle

1869 - 1942

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0208 PAINTER

Jean Cossard

1764 - 1838

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0209 POLITICIAN

Amédée Gayot

1806 - 1880

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0210 LAWYER

Pierre Nevelet

1554 - 1610

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0211 FOOTBALL

Guy Formici

Born 1947

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0212 FOOTBALL

Alex Jeannin

Born 1977

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0213 PAINTER

Leonie Matthis

1883 - 1952

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0214 ATHLETIC

Clément Dhainaut

Born 1997

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0215 POLITICIAN

Jean Millard

1802 - 1884

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0216 SPORT

Ken Bogard

Born 1985

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0217 PAINTER

Pierre Noël (peintre)

1903 - 1981

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0218 ARCHITECT

Bernard Guillaumot

1926 - 2010

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0219 ÉDUCATION

Gabriel Maucurier

1882 - 1957

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0220 OFFICER

Pierre Edmé Gautherin

1770 - 1851

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0221 POLITICIAN

Désiré Argence

1812 - 1889

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0222 WEIGHTLIFTER

Line Mary-Louassier

1972 - 2011

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0223 POLITICIAN

Henri Fréminet

1843 - 1895

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0224 RELIGIOUS

Denis Largentier

1557 - 1624

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0225 PAINTER

Pierre Cossard

1720 - 1780

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0226 LAWYER

Jean de Mesgrigni

Died 1678

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0227 DIPLOMAT

Jacques Rummelhardt

Born 1941

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0228 POLITICIAN

Charles-Jacques de Fadate de Saint-Georges

1779 - 1854

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0229 BOXER

Maurice Holtzer

1906 - 1960

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0230 ENTOMOLOGIST

Louis Gabriel d'Antessanty

1834 - 1922

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0231 POLITICIAN

Nicolas Vernier-Guérard

1769 - 1849

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0232 SPORT

Frédéric Jaillant

Born 1958

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0233 COMMERÇANT

François-Joseph Audiffred

1807 - 1892

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0234 POLITICIAN

Bernard Joly

1934 - 2020

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0235 PAINTER

Guillaume I Cossard

1663 - 1716

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0236 POLITICIAN

Paul Verneyras

1898 - 1996

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0237 SPORT

Jérôme Delbove

Born 1974

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0238 SPORT

Claude Chabanel

Born 1948

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0239 DOCTEUR

Hanane Karimi

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0240 SPORT

David Han

Born 1995

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0241 PRELATE

Tristan de Bizet

Died 1679

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0242 PRINTER

Jean-Antoine Garnier

1742 - 1780

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0243 PRELATE

Pierre Nivelle

1593 - 1661

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0244 POLITICIAN

Gilles Félix Lerouge-Collinet

1749 - 1818

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0245 POLITICIAN

Jules Coutant-d'Ivry

1854 - 1913

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0246 SCULPTOR

Mathilde Thomas-Soyer

1858 - 1940

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0247 THEOLOGIAN

Jacques Hennequin

1575 - 1661

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0248 MILITAR

Maurice de Bazelaire de Ruppierre

1878 - 1966

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0249 POLITICIAN

Jean-Jacques Thomas

1758 - 1794

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0250 HOCKEY

Yann Lecompère

Born 1981

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0251 POLITICIAN

Nicolas-Jacques Camusat de Bellombre

1735 - 1809

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0252 ENGINEER

Jean de Mesgrigny

Died 1720

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0253 POLITICIAN

Joseph Arsène Blavoyer

1815 - 1884

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0254 POLITICIAN

Antoine Edme Delahuproye

1765 - 1839

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0255 FOOTBALL

Hervé Schreiner

Born 1974

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0256 POLITICIAN

Joseph Jacob

1896 - 1976

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0257 DOCTEUR

Marie-Ange Rauch

Born 1957

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0258 POLITICIAN

Édouard Berthelemot

1877 - 1932

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0259 RÉSISTANT

Delphine Aigle

1899 - 1967

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0260 PAINTER

Guillaume II Cossard

1692 - 1761

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0261 POLITICIAN

Henry Bressolier

1922 - 1999

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0262 POLITICIAN

François Joseph de Barral

1787 - 1856

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0263 POLITICIAN

Jean Delaporte

1796 - 1870

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0264 MALACOLOGIST

Henri Drouët

1829 - 1900

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0265 POLITICIAN

Émile Gayot

1834 - 1909

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0266 POLITICIAN

François Patenôtre

1908 - 1977

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0267 PAINTER

André Romand

1889 - 1982

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0268 POLITICIAN

Claude Baltet

1832 - 1918

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0269 ÉVÊQUE

Jean Lesguisé

1386 - 1450

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0270 POLITICIAN

Nicolas Jeannet

1739 - 1790

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0271 POLITICIAN

Louis Parigot

1804 - 1875

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0272 MILITAR

Philibert Flore Carel

1789 - 1859

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0273 POLITICIAN

Jean Durlot

1907 - 1989

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0274 POLITICIAN

Jacques Dollat

1882 - 1959

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0275 SCULPTOR

François Joseph Valtat

1811 - 1876

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0276 ACTOR

Jean-Baptiste Raisin

1655 - 1693

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0277 ARCHITECT

Gabriel Favereau

Died 1576

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0278 POLITICIAN

Pierre Louis Sissous

1741 - 1819

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0279 NAVY

Henri Frochot

1871 - 1929

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0280 POLITICIAN

Jean-Jérôme Jaillant

1746 - 1814

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0281 MAGISTRAT

Jacques Corps

Died 1798

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0282 PHOTOGRAPHER

Virginie Terrasse

Born 1976

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0283 RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE

Charles Louis Didier Songis l'Aîné

1752 - 1840

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0284 SCOUT

Robert Wilmes

1928 - 2018

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0285 PAINTER

Henri Valton

1798 - 1878

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0286 PLAYER

Michel Lecointre

1926 - 1956

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0287 PRIEST

Vincenzo di Troyes

Died 546

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0288 ARCHITECT

Louis Devilliars

1711 - 1774

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0289 SWIMMER

Isabelle Lefèvre

Born 1966

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0290 PRELATE

Louis de Vaucemain

Died 1357

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0291 MILITAR

Antoine Didier Guéry

1765 - 1825

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0292 PRIEST

Étienne Boucher

Died 1571

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0293 RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE

Denis Joseph Demauroy

1726 - 1796

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0294 PRELATE

Guérin d'Arcy

Died 1376

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0295 PRIEST

Augustin Sibille

1724 - 1798

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0296 MILITAR

Étienne Bernard Cossard

1756 - 1837

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0297 INSPECTEUR

Hippolyte Pallu

1833 - 1921

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0298 PLAYER

Lucas Créange

Born 1992

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0299 POLITICIAN

Eugène Bonamy de Villemereuil

Born 1800

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0300 SINGER

Hervé Lesserteur

Born 1968

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