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Pierre Joseph Roussier (1716 - Aug 18, 1792) was a French musicologist and theorist known as the proponent of Rameau's theories. [1]
François-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.
Antoine Houdar de la Motte was a French author.
Jean Joseph Mounier was a French politician and judge.
Michel Corrette was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books.
Charles François de Cisternay du Fay was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi.
Nicolas Bergasse was a French lawyer, philosopher, and politician, whose activity was mainly carried out during the beginning of the French Revolution during its early Monarchiens phase.
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet was a French naturalist who contributed primarily to botany. He was born in Montpellier, where he was educated, and travelled to Morocco, Spain, the Canary Islands, and Southern Africa before returning to France and serving as director of the botanical garden in Montpellier. The tree Broussonetia is named after him.
Pierre Attaingnant or Attaignant was a French music publisher, active in Paris. He was one of the first to print music by single-impression printing, greatly reducing the labor involved, and he published music by more than 150 composers.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist.
Basse-sur-le-Rupt is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Its inhabitants are called Bassurois. It is a mountainous commune of seven hamlets, crossed by the river Rupt. Its landmarks include Le Haut du Roc, Le Pierre des Communes, Le Piquante Pierre and the memorial of Le Croix des Moinats. Its historical industries were textiles, sawmills and granite.
Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon was a violinist, composer, music theorist, and connoisseur of French literature. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1760) and the Académie française (1779).
Natalis de Wailly was a French archivist, librarian and historian.
Édouard Constant Biot was a French engineer and Sinologist. As an engineer, he participated in the construction of the second line of French railway between Lyon and St Etienne, and as a Sinologist, published a large body of work, the result of a "knowledge rarely combined."
Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont was a French lawyer from an old Norman Protestant family.
Louis-Toussaint Milandre was a French composer, violinist, viol and viola d'amore player in the court chamber music of Louis XV of France.
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy was a French antiquarian and historian, who introduced the terms menhir and dolmen, both taken from the Breton language, into antiquarian terminology. He interpreted megaliths as gallic tombs.
Jean-Pierre-François de Ripert-Monclar (1711–1773) was a French aristocrat, landowner and lawyer.
Jehan Chardavoine was a French Renaissance composer mostly active in Paris. He was one of the first known editors of popular chansons, and the author, according to musicologist Julien Tiersot, of "the only volume of monodic songs from the 16th century that has survived to our days."
Bertrand Pelletier was an 18th-century French pharmacist and chemist.
Antoine Aimable Elie Elwart was a French composer and musicologist.