Paul Déroulède
(1846/1914)
Writer, journalist and nationalist politician, founder of the League of Patriots.
Nicolas Des Marets
(1648/1721)
Financier, Controller General of Finances under Louis XIV.
Emile Deschanel
(1819/1904)
Writer and politician, biographer, professor of modern literature at the Collège de France; he is the father of the President of the Republic, Paul Deschanel.
Alfred Deseilligny
(1828/1875)
Director of the Creusot forges, administrator of Decazeville, he was also Minister of Public Works, Mayor of Creusot and deputy of Aveyron.
Etienne Deydier
(1743/1825)
Elected to the Legislative Assembly and then to the Convention (Ain) in the ranks of the regicide Montagnards, he became a councillor at the imperial court of Lyon (1811) from which he was dismissed at the Restoration.
Denis Claude Bénigne Dézé
(1758/1819)
Deputy for Côte d'Or in the Council of Five Hundred, then Advocate General at the Imperial Court of Dijon.
Jacques Doriot
(1898/1945)
Communist politician, then nationalist and collaborationist, founder of the PPF.
Scipion Dreux-Brézé (Marquis of)
(1793/1845)
Son of Henri-Evrard, defender of the conservative and legitimist cause.
Emile Driant
(1855/1916)
An officer, deputy for Nancy, and writer under the name Danrit, he was killed at Verdun at the head of the 56th Chasseurs Battalion.