Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician
Francois Fenelon
Poet
Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematician
Jean Bodin
Philosopher
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet
Jean Racine
Dramatist
Louis XIV
Monarch
Rene Descartes
Philosopher
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher