Pierre-Yves Barré
(1749/1832)
Vaudeville performer, poet, songwriter and goguette member.
Marcel Marie André Barrière
(1859/1954)
A man of letters, author of, among other works, two trilogies, one of fiction and one philosophical.
Auguste Barth
(1834/1916)
Indianiste et épigraphiste, membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions, il est l’un des fondateurs de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient.
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
(1716/1795)
A clergyman, archaeologist, numismatist, and man of letters, he was Keeper of the Cabinet of Medals at the King's Library. He was a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres and the French Academy. He was the author of *The Voyage of Young Anacharsis in Greece*.
Roland Barthes
(1915/1980)
A writer and semiologist, he was the main driving force behind the French structuralist and semiotic movement.
Joseph-François Baudelaire
(1759/1827)
Père du poète Charles Baudelaire. Il fut fonctionnaire au Sénat.