Philosophers
Main article: List of French philosophers- Pierre Abélard
- Louis Althusser
- Raymond Aron, sociologist & philosopher
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Gaston Bachelard
- Georges Bataille
- Roland Barthes
- Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist
- Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
- Julien Benda
- Henri Bergson
- Émile Boutroux
- Michel de Certeau
- André Comte-Sponville
- Jean de Crèvecœur
- Guy Debord
- Gilles Deleuze
- Jacques Derrida
- René Descartes, scientist and philosopher
- Denis Diderot, Enlightenment author and deist philosopher
- Michel Foucault
- Félix Guattari
- Vladimir Jankélévitch
- Étienne de La Boétie, philosopher and politician
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Henri Lefèbvre
- Marcel Légaut, Christian philosopher
- Jean de Léry, corsaire and ethnologist, anti-racism activist
- Emmanuel Lévinas
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Gabriel Marcel, philosopher
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenologist
- Michel de Montaigne, philosopher essayist
- Montesquieu, political philosopher
- Edgar Morin
- Emmanuel Mounier, philosopher
- Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher
- Blaise Pascal, scientist, Christian philosopher and author
- Jean-François Revel
- Paul Ricœur
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher
- Michel Serres
- François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Enlightenment author, deist/agnostic philosopher
- Éric Weil, philosopher
- Simone Weil
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