Patrice Brun, (born 1953, Pessac) is a French historian, a specialist of ancient Greece and epigraphy. His research focuses on the history of classical and Hellenistic Greece. He was president of the Bordeaux Montaigne University between 2009 and 2012.
Claude Cahen was a 20th-century French Marxist orientalist and historian. He specialized in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the Crusades, and social history of the medieval Islamic society.
Philippe Desan is Howard L. Willett Professor of French and History of Culture at the University of Chicago. Originally from France, Desan is among the top Montaigne scholars alive today. He received his PhD from the University of California Davis (1984), and has published widely on several topics pertaining to the literature and culture of the French Renaissance, often in relation to their economic, political and sociological context. At the University of Chicago, he has served as Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division and as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the general editor of the Montaigne Studies. He has been awarded numerous honors for his scholarly work, including being named Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1994) and awarded the Ordre National du Mérite (2004) and the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (2011). He has also received the Prix de l'Académie Française in 2005, the Grand Prix de l'Académie Française for "le rayonnement de la langue et littérature française" in 2015 and the Prix de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques for his "Montaigne. Une biographie politique" in 2015.
Les Belles Lettres is a French publisher specialising in the publication of ancient texts such as the Collection Budé.
Claude Calame is a Swiss writer on Greek mythology and the structure of mythic narrative from the perspective of a Hellenist trained in semiotics and ethnology (ethnopoetics) as well as philology. He was a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne and is now Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris.- He taught also at the Universities of Urbino and Siena in Italy, and at Yale University in the US.
Nicole Loraux was a French historian of classical Athens.
Claude Mossé is a French historian specialising in the history of Ancient Greece.
François Chamoux was a French Hellenist and archaeologist, a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.
Jacques Bompaire was a 20th-century French Hellenist and scholar of ancient Greek and Greek literature of the Roman and Byzantine period.
Ernest Louis Georges Will was a 20th-century French archaeologist and University professor, a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
André Chastagnol was a 20th-century French historian, specializing in Latin epigraphy and literature.
André Laronde was a French hellenist archaeologist.
Henri Massé was a 20th-century French orientalist. He was first professor of Arabic and Persian literatures at the faculté des lettres d'Alger, then professor of Persian language at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes of Paris (1927–1958), of which he was administrator from 1948 to 1958 and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Bernard Haussoullier was a French Hellenist, epigrapher and archaeologist.
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.
Jehan Desanges was a French historian, philologist and epigrapher, a specialist in the topic of North Africa during Antiquity.
Jean-Pierre Néraudau was a 20th-century French writer and professor of Latin literature.
Patrick Le Roux is a 20th–21st-century French historian.
Dominique Briquel is a French scholar, a specialist of archaeology and etruscology. Briquel studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1964 to 1969 and was a member of the École française de Rome from 1971 to 1974. Since 1974 he taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure. From 1984 to 1996 he was a professor of Latin at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. Since 1992, he has been Director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, in the department of historical and philological sciences and since 1996, professor of Latin at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Georges-Albert Radet (1859-1941) was a French epigrapher, archaeologist and historian. He was born in Chesley on 28 November 1859, and died at Saint-Morillon on 9 July 1941.
Pierre Maraval was a French historian and academic, specialising in the Early Christianity and of Late antiquity.