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19th-century French LGBTQ people

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The list 19th-century French LGBTQ people includes Colette, Marcel Proust, Liane De Pougy, Robert de Montesquiou and Lucien Daudet. The list consists of 27 members.
  • 1.

    Colette
    French novelist
    Colette
    Overview: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and was ...
    Date of birth: 28 January 1873
    Date of death: 3 August 1954
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Female
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    French LGBT novelists 55T
    Women opera librettists 57T
    Writers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 13T
  • 2.

    Marcel Proust
    French novelist, literary critic, and essayist (1871–1922)
    Marcel Proust
    Overview: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1871
    Date of death: 18 November 1922
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century French LGBT people 124T
    Deaths from pneumonia in France 59T
    French LGBT novelists 61T
  • 3.

    Liane De Pougy
    French courtesan
    Liane De Pougy
    Overview: Liane de Pougy (born Anne-Marie Chassaigne, 2 July 1869 – 26 December 1950), was a Folies Bergère vedette and dancer renowned as one of Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesans.
    Date of birth: 2 July 1869
    Date of death: 26 December 1950
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Female
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    Courtesans from Paris 22T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,251T
    French women memoirists 64T
  • 4.

    Robert de Montesquiou
    French writer
    Robert de Montesquiou
    Overview: Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris – 11 December 1921, Menton), was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. He is reputed to have ...
    Date of birth: 7 March 1855
    Date of death: 11 December 1921
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    LGBT nobility 27T
    French male equestrians 173T
    French-language LGBT writers 146T
  • 5.

    Lucien Daudet
    French writer
    Lucien Daudet
    Overview: Lucien Daudet (11 June 1878 – 16 November 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's ...
    Date of birth: 9 June 1878
    Date of death: 16 November 1946
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century LGBT people 3,251T
    Daudet family 5T
    19th-century French male writers 638T
  • 6.
    Georgette Leblanc
    Overview: Georgette Leblanc (8 February 1869, Rouen – 27 October 1941, Le Cannet) was a French operatic soprano, actress, author, and the sister of novelist Maurice Leblanc. She became particularly associated ...
    Date of birth: 8 February 1875
    Date of death: 26 October 1941
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    French women memoirists 58T
    20th-century French women writers 452T
    Bisexual actresses 185T
  • 7.

    Paul Verlaine
    Symbolist poet
    Paul Verlaine
    Overview: Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin ...
    Date of birth: 30 March 1844
    Date of death: 8 January 1896
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century French civil servants 7T
    19th-century French educators 18T
    19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 581T
  • 8.

    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet
    Arthur Rimbaud
    Overview: Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he started writing ...
    Date of birth: 20 October 1854
    Date of death: 10 November 1891
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Writers from Grand Est 18T
    Deserters 40T
    Male homosexuals died 19th century 52T
  • 9.

    Hélène van Zuylen
    French socialite, author, auto racing pioneer
    Hélène van Zuylen
    Overview: Baroness Hélène van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar or Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt de Haar, née de Rothschild (21 August 1863 – 17 October 1947), was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family ...
    Date of birth: 21 August 1863
    Date of death: 17 October 1947
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    French female racing drivers 13T
    People from Vleuten-De Meern 10T
    Baronesses of the Netherlands 7T
  • 10.
    Prince Edmond de Polignac
    Overview: Prince Edmond Melchior Jean Marie de Polignac (19 April 1834 – 8 August 1901) was a French aristocrat and composer.
    Date of birth: 19 April 1834
    Date of death: 8 August 1901
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    French male composers 409T
    Princes of Polignac 4T
    Polignac family 14T
  • 11.

    Marc-Andre Raffalovich
    French writer and activist
    Marc-Andre Raffalovich
    Overview: Marc-André Raffalovich (11 September 1864 – 14 February 1934) was a French poet and writer on homosexuality, best known today for his patronage of the arts and for his lifelong relationship with the English ...
    Date of birth: 11 September 1864
    Date of death: 14 February 1934
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    French-language LGBT writers 146T
    French male poets 774T
    LGBT Roman Catholics 244T
  • 12.

    André Gide
    French novelist and essayist
    André Gide
    Overview: André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement ...
    Date of birth: 22 November 1869
    Date of death: 19 February 1951
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    French LGBT novelists 55T
    Nouvelle Revue Française editors 14T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,252T
  • 13.

    Jane Avril
    French model and dancer
    Jane Avril
    Overview: Jane Avril (9 June 1868 – 17 January 1943) was a French dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she ...
    Date of birth: 9 June 1868
    Date of death: 17 January 1943
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Model
    Gender: Female
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    People of Montmartre 80T
    Moulin Rouge 21T
    French female dancers 58T
  • 14.

    Mathilde de Morny
    French painter
    Mathilde de Morny
    Overview: Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. Morny was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim" (an anagram of Missy), or as "Max" ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1863
    Date of death: 29 June 1944
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    1944 suicides 39T
    20th-century French women 31T
    French marchionesses 12T
  • 15.
    Marie Joséphine of Savoy
    Overview: Marie Joséphine Louise of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luigia; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was the wife of the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was a princess of Savoy by birth, became ...
    Date of birth: 2 September 1753
    Date of death: 13 November 1810
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Female
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    Nobility from Turin 80T
    18th-century LGBT people 53T
    People from Turin 815T
  • 16.

    Mlle Raucourt
    French actor
    Mlle Raucourt
    Overview: Françoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte, called Mlle Raucourt (3 March 1756 – 15 January 1815) was a French actress, engaged at the Comédie Française in 1772-1799, where she became famous as a tragedienne ...
    Date of birth: 3 March 1756
    Date of death: 15 January 1815
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Actor
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    18th-century LGBT people 53T
    Bisexual actresses 185T
    Male homosexuals died 19th century 52T
  • 17.

    Cha-U-Kao
    French entertainer
    Cha-U-Kao
    Overview: Cha-U-Kao was a French entertainer who performed at the Moulin Rouge and the Nouveau Cirque in the 1890s. Her stage name was also the name of a boisterous popular dance, similar to the can-can, which ...
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century circus performers 29T
    19th-century French women 50T
    LGBT entertainers from France 31T
  • 18.

    Sophie Arnould
    French soprano
    Sophie Arnould
    Overview: Sophie Arnould (13 February 1740, Paris – 18 October 1802, Paris) was a French operatic soprano.
    Date of birth: 13 February 1740
    Date of death: 18 October 1802
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    18th-century letter writers 51T
    18th-century LGBT people 53T
    Male homosexuals died 19th century 52T
  • 19.

    Tristan Klingsor
    French painter
    Overview: Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art ...
    Date of birth: 8 August 1874
    Date of death: 1966
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male artists 3,569T
    Writers from Hauts-de-France 15T
    French male painters 1,874T
  • 20.

    Herculine Barbin
    French intersex person, writer
    Overview: Herculine Barbin (November 8, 1838 – February 1868) was a French intersex person who was assigned female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law, after an ...
    Date of birth: 1838
    Date of death: 1868
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Writer
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    1860s suicides 44T
    19th-century memoirists 181T
    Intersex women 46T
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