Stats: Top 100 most important and famous people from France

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Description	Answer	% Correct
General and emperor, died in Saint Helena	Napoleon Bonaparte	94%
Emperor, defeated in Franco-Prussian War	Napoleon III	93%
The Sun King	Louis XIV	90%
King beheaded during the French Revolution	Louis XVI	90%
President from 2017	Emmanuel Macron	89%
Officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II	Charles de Gaulle	88%
Writer, author of Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	84%
Woman, saint of Catholic Church, defender of nation during The Hundred Years War	Joan of Arc	83%
Painter of Water Lilies	Claude Monet	82%
Statesman incarnation of the Terror during the French Revolution	Maximilien de Robespierre	80%
Philosopher, Cogito ergo sum	René Descartes	77%
Writer, author of The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	76%
Engineer of the famous tower of Paris	Gustave Eiffel	76%
Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity	Marie Curie/Pierre Curie	76%
Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher	Voltaire	74%
Actress and model, sex symbol of 1950s and 1960s	Brigitte Bardot	72%
Writer, author of Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne	72%
Driver, four times champion of Formula 1	Alain Prost	71%
Painter of The Luncheon on the Grass	Edouard Manet	70%
Football player winner of Ballon d'Or in 1998	Zinedine Zidane	69%
President from 1981 to 1995	François Mitterrand	68%
Writer, author of The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	66%
Writer, author of The Stranger and The Plague	Albert Camus	65%
Sculptor of The Thinker	Auguste Rodin	65%
Philosopher of XX century, key figure in existentialism	Jean-Paul Sartre	65%
Female singer symbol of the chanson between 1930s and 1960s	Édith Piaf	64%
Writer, author of Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	64%
Inventors of cinema	Louis Lumière/Auguste Lumière	64%
Chemist who developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax	Louis Pasteur	64%
Writer, author of the letter I Accuse	Emile Zola	63%
DJ, Titanium, She Wolf	David Guetta	60%
Director of The Grand Illusione and The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir	59%
Writer, author of In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	59%
Playwright, author of The Imaginary Invalid and The Miser	Molière	59%
Painter of Dance at Le moulin de la Galette	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	59%
Editor of Encyclopédie	Denis Diderot	58%
Football player, world champion in 2018	Kylian Mbappe	57%
Oceanographer and filmmaker, three times winner of Academy Award	Jacques-Yves Cousteau	56%
Composer of Bolero	Maurice Ravel	56%
Actor, sex symbol between 1960s and 1980s	Alain Delon	54%
Painter of Liberty Leading the People	Eugène Delacroix	54%
Poet, author of The Flowers of Evil	Charles Baudelaire	53%
Actor, businessman and vineyard owner	Gérard Depardieu	53%
Writer of XIX century, author of The Red and the Black	Stendhal	53%
Leader of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France	Philippe Pétain	52%
Chemist main figure of the XVIII century chemical revolution	Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier	51%
Writer, author of The Human Comedy	Honoré de Balzac	51%
Painter of The Card Players	Paul Cézanne	49%
Cardinal and chief minister of King Louis XIII	Cardinal Richelieu	48%
Painter of At the Moulin Rouge	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	48%
Painter of The Yellow Christ	Paul Gauguin	48%
Mathematician and philosopher of wager	Blaise Pascal	47%
Painter of L'Absinthe	Edgar Degas	47%
Painter of Dance	Henri Matisse	47%
Football player three times winner of Ballon d'Or	Michael Platini	47%
Jewish officer became famous for a political scandal	Alfred Dreyfus	46%
King who promulgated the Edict of Nantes, which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants in 1598	Henry IV	46%
Painter of Napoleon Crossing the Alps	Jacques-Louis David	46%
Composer of Pelléas and Mélisande	Claude Debussy	45%
Political of French Revolution killed in the bathroom	Jean-Paul Marat	44%
Theologian and Protestant reformer in Geneva	John Calvin	43%
Poet, author of Illuminations	Arthur Rimbaud	42%
President known for the Centre national d'art et de culture in Paris	Georges Pompidou	42%
One of the greatest architect of XX century	Le Corbusier	42%
French-Armenian considered one of the greatest songwriters in the history of music and icon of pop culture	Charles Aznavour	41%
Football player and actor, star of Manchester United	Eric Cantona	41%
One of the most important figure of American and French Revolution	Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette	40%
Actor, winner of Academy Award in 2011 for his role in the Artist	Jean Dujardin	40%
Actress, played a character in Belle de Jour	Catherine Deneuve	38%
Director of Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	37%
Creator of the theory of separation of powers	Montesquieu	36%
Painter of The Stone Breakers	Gustave Courbet	33%
Prime Minister during the Treaty of Versailles	Georges Clemenceau	31%
Fabulist of XVII century	Jean de La Fontaine	31%
Poet, representative of Symbolism	Paul Verlaine	31%
Painter of The Raft of the Medusa	Theodore Gericault	31%
Leading figure of French Revolution responsible of the September Massacres	Georges Danton	29%
Founder of the International Olympic Committee	Pierre de Coubertin	28%
Director of The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	27%
Actor considered one of the greatest of XX century, with a role in The Grand Illusion	Jean Gabin	21%
Poet, representative of Cubism, died during the Spanish flu pandemic	Guillaume Apollinaire	20%
Enlightenment mathematician and philosopher	Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert	19%
King, saint of Catholic Church, died during a Crusade	Louis IX/Louis the Saint/Saint Louis	19%
Prime Minister who signed the Munich Agreement before World War Two	Édouard Daladier	18%
Allied Commander-in-Chief in World War One, who accepted the German capitulation	Ferdinand Foch	18%
Director of A Trip to the Moon	Georges Méliès	18%
Cyclist, five times winner of Tour de France	Bernard Hinault	17%
One of the fathers of European Union	Robert Schuman	17%
Composer of Faust	Charles Gounod	16%
Mathematician and physicist, who made many fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics and mathematical physics	Henri Poincaré	15%
Moderate leader of the early stages of the French Revolution	Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau	15%
Medieval poet, known for his writing about Arthurian subjects	Chrétien de Troyes	14%
Writer, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947	André Gide	13%
Figure of XVIII/XIX century important for the development of engineering, mathematics and statistics	Pierre-Simon Laplace	13%
Actor acclaimed for his performances in English-speaking films	Vincent Cassel	13%
One of the leaders of the Jacobin club during the French Revolution	Louis Antoine de Saint-Just	12%
Philosopher, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1927	Henri Bergson	11%
Political and writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution	Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès	10%
Leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution	Jacques Pierre Brissot	10%
Director of A Man Escaped and Pickpocket	Robert Bresson	8%

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