Prisoners of the Bastille

The list Prisoners of the Bastille includes Marquis de Sade, Voltaire, François de Montmorency, Jacques Pierre Brissot and Michel de Montaigne. The list consists of 55 members and 1 sublist.

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Bastille

Former Parisian fortress

Man in the Iron Mask
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Marquis de Sade

French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman (1740–1814)

Overview: Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include ...

Date of birth: 2 June 1740

Date of death: 2 December 1814

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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French atheist writers 4T

18th-century male writers 1,354T

18th-century atheists 14T
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Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher

Overview: François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (, ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of ...

Date of birth: 21 November 1694

Date of death: 30 May 1778

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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People involved in anti-clericalism 16T

Secular critics of Islam 75T

Vegetarians 377T
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Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

Overview: Michel Eyquem, Sieur de Montaigne ( mon-TAYN; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), also known as the Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1533

Date of death: 13 September 1592

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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College of Guienne alumni 5T

French male essayists 241T

16th-century male writers 845T
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Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé

Prince of Condé

Overview: Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1 September 1588 – 26 December 1646) was the head of the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon for nearly all his life and heir presumptive to the king ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1588

Date of death: 26 December 1646

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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17th-century peers of France 95T

Counts of Dammartin 11T

Grand Huntsman of France 11T
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Louise Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie

French

Overview: Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (26 December 1746 – 5 July 1779), known as Madame de Bonneval, was a mistress to King Louis XV of France from 1762 to 1765. She was the king's Petite maîtresse ...

Date of birth: 1746

Date of death: 1779

Age: 32 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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People imprisoned by lettre de cachet 14T

Mistresses of Louis XV 22T

1746 births 474T
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François de Montmorency

French soldier and diplomat (1530–1579)

Overview: François de Montmorency, Duc de Montmorency KG (17 July 1530 – 6 May 1579) was a French soldier, diplomat and peer who served as governor of Paris. He was Duke of Montmorency, Count of Dammartin, Baron ...

Date of birth: 17 June 1530

Date of death: 15 May 1579

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Court of Charles IX of France 14T

16th-century peers of France 57T

Counts of Dammartin 11T
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Jacques Pierre Brissot

French revolutionary (1754–1793)

Overview: Jacques Pierre Brissot (15 January 1754 – 31 October 1793), who assumed the name of de Warville (an English version of "d'Ouarville", a hamlet in the village of Lèves where his father owned property) ...

Date of birth: 15 January 1754

Date of death: 31 October 1793

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Diplomat

Gender: Male

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Births in Chartres 38T

18th-century male writers 1,354T

Members of the Legislative Assembly (France) 47T
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Nicolas Fouquet

French official (1615–1680)

Overview: Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He had a glittering ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1615

Date of death: 1680

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Politician

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Politicians from Paris 508T

Viscounts of France 29T

French Marquesses 82T
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Leonora Dori

Italian-French courtier (1568–1617)

Overview: Leonora Dori Galigaï (19 May 1568 – 8 July 1617) was a French courtier of Italian origin, an influential favourite of the French regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII of France. Galigaï was ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1571

Date of death: 8 July 1617

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Witch trials in France 17T

Household of Marie de' Medici 6T

Court of Louis XIII of France 18T
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Henry de Guénegaud

French, Academic

Overview: Henri du Plessis-Guénégaud, Lord of the Plessis-Belleville, Marquis de La Garnache (1610 – 16 March 1676) was a French scholar and a Secretary of State during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

Date of birth: 1610

Date of death: 16 March 1676

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Male

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Ministers of Marine and the Colonies 42T

1676 deaths 286T

1610 births 297T
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Jean Pecquet

French scientist

Overview: Jean Pecquet (9 May 1622, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime – 26 February 1674) was a French scientist. He studied the expansion of air, wrote on psychology, and is also known for investigating the thoracic duct ...

Date of birth: 1622

Date of death: 1674

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

French male writers 4,032T

People from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime 47T
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Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet

French journalist and advocate

Overview: Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet (14 July 1736 – 27 June 1794) was a French journalist and advocate known for his conservative politics who was executed during the French Revolution.

Date of birth: 14 July 1736

Date of death: 27 June 1794

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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18th-century French male writers 392T

French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

18th-century male writers 1,354T
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Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie

French cavalry officer

Overview: Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouërie (13 April 1751 – 30 January 1793), also known in the United States as "Colonel Armand," was a Breton cavalry officer who served under the American flag in the ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1751

Date of death: 30 January 1793

Age: 41 (age at death)

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Continental Army officers from France 9T

Knights of the Order of Saint Louis 162T

Breton people 80T
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Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron

Late Sixteenth-Century French governor and military commander

Overview: Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron (c.–31 July 1602) was a French noble, military commander, Admiral, Marshal and governor during the final days of the French Wars of Religion. The son of Marshal Armand ...

Date of birth: 1562

Date of death: 31 July 1602

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Executed people from Midi-Pyrénées 4T

17th-century executions by France 22T

People executed by France by decapitation 47T
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Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours

French noble (1433–1477)

Overview: Jacques d'Armagnac (c. – 4 August 1477), duke of Nemours, was the son of Bernard d'Armagnac, count of Pardiac, and Eleanor of Bourbon-La Marche.

Date of death: 4 August 1477

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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15th-century executions by France 3T

15th-century peers of France 55T

Counts of Castres 7T
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Madame de Brinvilliers

French murderer (1630–1676)

Overview: Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 – 16 July 1676) was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her father and two of her brothers in order to inherit ...

Date of birth: 1630

Date of death: 1676

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

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17th-century French criminals 8T

French female serial killers 11T

17th-century executions by France 22T
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Jean Henri Latude

French, Criminal

Overview: Jean Henri Latude (23 March 1725 – 1 January 1805), often called Danry or Masers de Latude, was a French writer famous for his lengthy confinement in the Bastille, at Vincennes, and for his repeated escapes ...

Date of birth: 23 March 1725

Date of death: 1 January 1805

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

18th-century French criminals 8T

French male criminals 11T
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Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême

Duke of Angoulême

Overview: Charles de Valois (28 April 1573 – 24 September 1650) was a French royal bastard, count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and memoirist.

Date of birth: 28 April 1573

Date of death: 24 September 1650

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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17th-century male writers 1,224T

French male writers 4,032T

Illegitimate children of French monarchs 29T
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Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal

Final governor-general of New France from 1755-60

Overview: Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil (22 November 1698 – 4 August 1778) was a Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America. He was governor of French ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1698

Date of death: 4 August 1778

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Governors of French Louisiana 11T

French Canadian people of the French and Indian War 18T

Marquesses of Vaudreuil-Cavagnal 1T
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Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal

French author and lady-in-waiting

Overview: Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, baronne de Staal (30 August 1684 – 15 June 1750) was a French author.

Date of birth: 1684

Date of death: 1750

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

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18th-century letter writers 51T

French women memoirists 58T

18th-century French women writers 67T