Traces Écrites

Romanian-born writer. Winner, twice at the French Academy for Chants d'Aurore and Le Rhapsode de la Dâmbovitza (1925).

Anthropologist, eugenicist theorist.

Poet, playwright and journalist, great friend and executor of Victor Hugo's will.

French director, screenwriter, actor, novelist and poet. He was the partner of famous actresses: Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda and Marie-Christine Barrault.

American Impressionist painter of French origin.

French writer, senior reporter and screenwriter.

Marshal of France.

Poet and educator from Perpignan. He campaigned very early on for the abolition of the death penalty.

Writer and poet, academician (1925).

Director of the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs at its creation in 1941, he was dismissed from his position because of his policy, which was considered too lenient by the Germans.

As Pasteur's son-in-law, collaborator and biographer, he participated in the inauguration of the Pasteur Institute (1888).

Journalist.

Writer and publisher, founder of Mercure de France, which he directed from 1890 to 1935.

French man of letters and publisher, founder of Mercure de France.

Franco-Swiss painter, engraver, illustrator, sculptor and art critic.

Naturalist, mineralogist and traveler, author of the Dictionnaire raisonné d'histoire naturelle (1800).

Actor.

Bishop of Liège (1829-1858), he worked to ensure the unity of Belgian Catholics, notably by establishing the episcopal hierarchy.

Writer. Goncourt Prize in 1994 for "Un aller simple", French Academy Theatre Prize in 1983 for "L'Astronome".

Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp.

French writer, winner of the Goncourt prize for his novel L'Empreinte du dieu, in 1936.

Portrait painter, one of the great representatives of Fauvism.

Neurologist and biologist, pioneer of medical photography and cinematography.

Historian, member of the French Academy (1896).

Playwright, novelist and literary critic.