Roquemaure is a small town and commune in the Gard department of southern France. The town lies 12 kilometres north of Avignon on the right bank of the Rhône. In 2017 the commune had a population of 5,481.
André Pieyre de Mandiargues was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis. He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini.
Marc Ferro was a French historian.
Jean Léon Marie Delumeau was a French historian specializing in the history of the Catholic Church, and author of several books regarding the subject. He held the Chair of the History of Religious Mentalities (1975–1994) at the Collège de France and was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
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.
Pierre Nora is a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. He is known for his work on French identity and memory. He is associated with the study of nouvelle histoire.
Maurice Delafosse was a French ethnographer and colonial official who also worked in the field of the languages of Africa. In a review of his daughter's biography of him he was described as "one of the most outstanding French colonial administrators and ethnologists of his time."
Jean Favier was a French historian, who specialized in Medieval history. From 1975 to 1994, he was director of the French National Archives. From 1994 to 1997, he was president of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Jacqueline Chabbi is a historian and a professor of Arab Studies at the University of Paris-VIII. Her research concerns the history of the medieval Muslim world.
Claire Démar (1799–1833), was a feminist, journalist and writer, member of the Saint-Simonian movement. The avant-garde nature of her writings has led to her current recognition.
Maurice Laissant Began his career working for the French national railway company before taking a job as a sales representative. He became progressively more widely known as a militant anarchist individualist, free thinker and pacifist. He was a co-founder in 1953 of the newly regrouped Paris based Anarchist Federation.
Christian Liger was a 20th-century French writer.
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff is a French writer, laureate of several literary prizes
Bartolomé Bennassar was a French historian and writer. He specialized in Spanish and Latin American history.
Pierre Riché was a French historian specializing in the early Middle Ages and the year 1000.
Jacqueline Feldman is a French sociologist and author. She worked as a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research until retirement in 2001, but has continued to publish until 2020. She co-founded FMA, one of the ancestors that later would become Mouvement de libération des femmes in 1970.
Jacques Rougerie was a French historian of the Paris Commune.
Catherine Duprat, is a French historian specializing in the French Revolution and philanthropy. She is a professor at the Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University,
Anna Féresse-Deraismes was a French feminist activist for women's rights and a Freemason. She was appointed honorary president of the International Congress of Women in 1896 and 1900, and was a founding member of the first mixed-gender Masonic Order, Le Droit Humain. Maria Deraismes was her sister.
