Statistics for 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	93%
Emperor, defeated in Franco-Prussian War	Napoleon III	92%
President from 2017	Emmanuel Macron	90%
Officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II	Charles de Gaulle	88%
The Sun King	Louis XIV	88%
King beheaded during the French Revolution	Louis XVI	88%
Painter of Water Lilies	Claude Monet	80%
Woman, saint of Catholic Church, defender of nation during The Hundred Years War	Joan of Arc	80%
Writer, author of Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	80%
Statesman incarnation of the Terror during the French Revolution	Maximilien de Robespierre	77%
Physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity	Marie Curie/Pierre Curie	74%
Philosopher, Cogito ergo sum	René Descartes	73%
Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher	Voltaire	72%
Engineer of the famous tower of Paris	Gustave Eiffel	71%
Writer, author of The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	70%
Actress and model, sex symbol of 1950s and 1960s	Brigitte Bardot	70%
Writer, author of Journey to the Center of the Earth	Jules Verne	68%
Painter of The Luncheon on the Grass	Edouard Manet	67%
Driver, four times champion of Formula 1	Alain Prost	64%
President from 1981 to 1995	François Mitterrand	64%
Football player winner of Ballon d'Or in 1998	Zinedine Zidane	63%
Philosopher of XX century, key figure in existentialism	Jean-Paul Sartre	60%
Writer, author of The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	59%
Sculptor of The Thinker	Auguste Rodin	59%
Female singer symbol of the chanson between 1930s and 1960s	Édith Piaf	59%
Inventors of cinema	Louis Lumière/Auguste Lumière	59%
Chemist who developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax	Louis Pasteur	59%
Writer, author of The Stranger and The Plague	Albert Camus	58%
DJ, Titanium, She Wolf	David Guetta	57%
Writer, author of the letter I Accuse	Emile Zola	57%
Writer, author of Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	57%
Director of The Grand Illusione and The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir	53%
Playwright, author of The Imaginary Invalid and The Miser	Molière	53%
Painter of Dance at Le moulin de la Galette	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	53%
Editor of Encyclopédie	Denis Diderot	52%
Oceanographer and filmmaker, three times winner of Academy Award	Jacques-Yves Cousteau	52%
Football player, world champion in 2018	Kylian Mbappe	52%
Writer, author of In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	51%
Composer of Bolero	Maurice Ravel	51%
Actor, businessman and vineyard owner	Gérard Depardieu	50%
Actor, sex symbol between 1960s and 1980s	Alain Delon	48%
Chemist main figure of the XVIII century chemical revolution	Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier	48%
Painter of Liberty Leading the People	Eugène Delacroix	46%
Writer of XIX century, author of The Red and the Black	Stendhal	46%
Poet, author of The Flowers of Evil	Charles Baudelaire	45%
Painter of At the Moulin Rouge	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	44%
Leader of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France	Philippe Pétain	44%
Painter of L'Absinthe	Edgar Degas	43%
Writer, author of The Human Comedy	Honoré de Balzac	42%
Football player three times winner of Ballon d'Or	Michael Platini	42%
Jewish officer became famous for a political scandal	Alfred Dreyfus	41%
Cardinal and chief minister of King Louis XIII	Cardinal Richelieu	41%
Painter of Dance	Henri Matisse	40%
King who promulgated the Edict of Nantes, which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants in 1598	Henry IV	40%
Painter of The Yellow Christ	Paul Gauguin	40%
Political of French Revolution killed in the bathroom	Jean-Paul Marat	39%
Painter of The Card Players	Paul Cézanne	39%
Mathematician and philosopher of wager	Blaise Pascal	38%
Football player and actor, star of Manchester United	Eric Cantona	38%
Director of Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard	38%
President known for the Centre national d'art et de culture in Paris	Georges Pompidou	37%
Painter of Napoleon Crossing the Alps	Jacques-Louis David	37%
Poet, author of Illuminations	Arthur Rimbaud	36%
Composer of Pelléas and Mélisande	Claude Debussy	36%
Actor, winner of Academy Award in 2011 for his role in the Artist	Jean Dujardin	36%
Theologian and Protestant reformer in Geneva	John Calvin	35%
French-Armenian considered one of the greatest songwriters in the history of music and icon of pop culture	Charles Aznavour	34%
One of the greatest architect of XX century	Le Corbusier	33%
Actress, played a character in Belle de Jour	Catherine Deneuve	32%
Creator of the theory of separation of powers	Montesquieu	31%
One of the most important figure of American and French Revolution	Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette	29%
Painter of The Stone Breakers	Gustave Courbet	27%
Director of The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	23%
Prime Minister during the Treaty of Versailles	Georges Clemenceau	23%
Leading figure of French Revolution responsible of the September Massacres	Georges Danton	23%
Fabulist of XVII century	Jean de La Fontaine	23%
Poet, representative of Symbolism	Paul Verlaine	23%
Founder of the International Olympic Committee	Pierre de Coubertin	21%
Painter of The Raft of the Medusa	Theodore Gericault	21%
Director of A Trip to the Moon	Georges Méliès	18%
Actor considered one of the greatest of XX century, with a role in The Grand Illusion	Jean Gabin	18%
Enlightenment mathematician and philosopher	Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert	15%
Poet, representative of Cubism, died during the Spanish flu pandemic	Guillaume Apollinaire	14%
King, saint of Catholic Church, died during a Crusade	Louis IX/Louis the Saint/Saint Louis	14%
Cyclist, five times winner of Tour de France	Bernard Hinault	12%
Prime Minister who signed the Munich Agreement before World War Two	Édouard Daladier	12%
Allied Commander-in-Chief in World War One, who accepted the German capitulation	Ferdinand Foch	12%
Director of A Man Escaped and Pickpocket	Robert Bresson	10%
One of the fathers of European Union	Robert Schuman	10%
Actor acclaimed for his performances in English-speaking films	Vincent Cassel	10%
Composer of Faust	Charles Gounod	9%
Figure of XVIII/XIX century important for the development of engineering, mathematics and statistics	Pierre-Simon Laplace	9%
Writer, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1947	André Gide	8%
Medieval poet, known for his writing about Arthurian subjects	Chrétien de Troyes	8%
Mathematician and physicist, who made many fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics and mathematical physics	Henri Poincaré	8%
Moderate leader of the early stages of the French Revolution	Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau	8%
Philosopher, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1927	Henri Bergson	6%
One of the leaders of the Jacobin club during the French Revolution	Louis Antoine de Saint-Just	5%
Political and writer who was the chief political theorist of the French Revolution	Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès	3%
Leading member of the Girondins during the French Revolution	Jacques Pierre Brissot	3%