Alain Tallon (14 November 1967) is a French modernist historian, specialist of religious history.
Roland Émile Mousnier was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.
Patrick Cabanel is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes. He mainly writes on the history of religious minorities, the construction of a secularised French Republic and French resistance to the Shoah.
Émile Mâle was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of Eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Denys Louis de Rougemont, known as Denis de Rougemont, was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
François Hinard was a French historian of the Roman Republic.
Alain Demurger is a French historian, and a leading specialist of the history of the Knights Templar and the Crusades.
Marguerite Harl was a French scholar, who worked on the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria and early patristic writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen. She was born in Paris in April 1919 and became a pupil of Henri-Irénée Marrou. She was a professor of Ancient Greek at the Sorbonne University from 1958 to 1983.
Pierre Chaunu was a French historian. His specialty was Latin American history; he also studied French social and religious history of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. A leading figure in French quantitative history as the founder of "serial history", he was professor emeritus at Paris IV-Sorbonne, a member of the Institut de France, and a commander of the Légion d'Honneur. A convert to Protestantism from Roman Catholicism, he defended his far-right views most notably in a longtime column in Le Figaro and on Radio Courtoisie.
Fabrice d'Almeida is a French historian, whose work focuses on the history of the media, image propaganda and manipulation.
Marc H. Smith is a French historian and palaeographer. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in England, he has both French and British citizenship.
Yves-Marie Bercé, is a French historian known for his work on popular revolts of the modern era. He is a member of the Institut de France.
Marc Venard was a French historian.
Émilienne Demougeot was a French historian, a specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. She was one of the first women professors of history at a French university, and the first woman professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Montpellier.
John Scheid is a French historian. A specialist of ancient Rome, he has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2001.
Olivier Chaline is a contemporary French historian, a specialist of the history of Central Europe.
Daniel Moulinet is a French priest and historian, professor of contemporary history at the Catholic University of Lyon.
Laurent Dandrieu is a French journalist, music and art critic.
Denise Launay was a 20th-century French organist and musicologist.
Caroline Giron-Panelnée Giron is a French historian and musicologist.
Michel Rouche was a French historian and academic. He specialized in the history of Gaul during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages.