Social Activists
- Hubertine Auclert, journalist and feminist leader
- Simone de Beauvoir, author, philosopher, and feminist
- Sophie de Condorcet, feminist
- Maria Deraismes, feminist
- Marguerite Durand, journalist and feminist leader
- Olympe de Gouges, feminist
- Samir Kassir, journalist
- Jean Théophile Victor Leclerc, radical revolutionist, newspaper publisher
- Victor Schoelcher, abolitionist
- Pierre Seel, homosexual concentration camp survivor, activist, author
- Séverine, feminist
- Flora Tristan, feminist
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