Notable Opponents
- Voltaire (writer and philosopher)
- Nicolas de Condorcet (philosopher)
- Victor Hugo (writer and politician)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (writer and politician)
- Gaston Leroux (writer)
- Aristide Briand (politician, long-time Prime Minister and Minister)
- Jean Jaurès (Socialist leader)
- Armand Fallières (President)
- Michel Foucault (philosopher)
- Albert Camus (writer)
- Robert Badinter (attorney and Minister of Justice)
- François Mitterrand (President)
- Jacques Chirac (President)
- Georges Brassens (singer and poet)
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