Gilles Vigneault is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are considered by many to be Quebec's unofficial anthems: "Mon pays" and "Gens du pays", and his line Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver became a proverb in Quebec. Vigneault is a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Edmond Couchot was a French digital artist and art theoretician who taught at the University Paris VIII.
Michel Maffesoli is a French sociologist.
Georges Chelon is a French singer and songwriter. He was made a member of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1985.
Barthélemy Mercier de Saint-Léger was a French abbot and librarian.
Lucky Blondo is a French singer who was popular in the 1960s.
Danièle Bourcier is a French lawyer and essayist, who has contributed to the emergence of a new discipline in France: Law, Computing and linguistics.
Maurice Sartre is a French historian, an Emeritus professor of ancient history at the François Rabelais University, a specialist in ancient Greek and Eastern Roman history, especially the Hellenized Middle East, from Alexander to Islamic conquests.
Brigitte Giraud is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite.
Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.
Maurice Denuzière is a French journalist and writer.
Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Since 2011, Benbassa has served as a French senator, representing Paris from 2017 onwards and Val-de-Marne from 2011 to 2017.
Marie Peltier is a Belgian author. She teaches at the Institut supérieur de pédagogie Galilée in Brussels.
Charles Pépin is a French philosopher and novelist. He was born in Saint Cloud in 1973. He is the author of several bestsellers, such as Les Vertus de l’échec, La Confiance en soi and La Planète des sages.
Martine Aballéa is a French-American artist born in 1950.
Marion Sarraut was a French film and theatre director.
Philippe Corentin, pseudonym of Philippe Le Saux, was a French youth author and illustrator.
Cécile Pozzo di Borgo is a French diplomat and politician.
Lisa Mandel is a French bande dessinée comic book author. With Jul Maroh, Mandel co-founded the Collective of female comics creators against sexism (2015). In 2021, Mandel launched the Exemplaire publishing house, with the subtitle, La maison qui édite autrement.
Claire Simon is a French screenwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor, and director.
