Édith Piaf was a French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
Émile Cohl, born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Parisian".
Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny, was a French poet, comedian and playwright.
André Gill was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset. Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray. Gill began illustrating for Le Journal Amusant. Gill, however, became known for his work for the weekly four-sheet newspaper La Lune, edited by Francis Polo, in which he drew portraits for a series entitled The Man of the Day. He worked for La Lune from 1865 to 1868. When La Lune was banned, he worked for the periodical L'Éclipse from 1868 to 1876. Gill also drew for famous periodical Le Charivari.
Pierre Delanoë, born Pierre Charles Marcel Napoléon Leroyer in Paris, France, was a French lyricist who wrote thousands of songs for dozens of singers, including Dalida, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Petula Clark, Johnny Hallyday, Joe Dassin, Michel Sardou and Mireille Mathieu. Delanoë was his grandmother's maiden name.
The Alcazar was a Café-concert which opened in 1858, located at 10 Rue du Faubourg Poissonière in Paris, and closed in 1902.
Catherine Sauvage was a French singer and actress.
Francesca Solleville is a French singer. She was born in Périgueux on 2 March 1932 and lives in Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine). She is the granddaughter of the founder of the Italian League for the Rights of Man. She is married to the painter Louis Loyzeau de Grandmaison.
Suzanne Lagier was a French theatre actress and opera singer. She often performed with Thérésa and made many appearances in Paris, France and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Antoine Paul Taravel, known as Xavier Privas was a French singer, poet, goguettier and composer.
Emma Liébel was a French chanteuse. She was one of the pioneers of the chanson réaliste style.
Julia Daudet, born Julia Allard, was a French writer, poet and journalist. She was the wife and collaborator of Alphonse Daudet, mother of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet.
Ferdinand Dugué was a 19th-century French poet and playwright. He wrote poetry and both comic and dramatic plays, some of them in collaboration. He also authored studies about historic personalities such as Mathurin Régnier and Salvator Rosa.
Charles-François Panard, or Pannard, was an 18th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier
Étienne-Gabriel Peignot was a 19th-century French bibliographer.
Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia, was a French art critic and writer, linked to the dada movement. She was the first wife of artist Francis Picabia.
Jehan (Jean) Texier or Le Texier, better known as Jehan (Jean) de Beauce was a 15th/16th-century French architect. He is known for his works of religious architecture, notably on the Chartres cathedral of which he reconstructed the northern spire.
Annie Le Brun is a French writer, poet and literary critic.
Armand Alfred Patusset was a French composer, conductor and musical arrangeur.
Alice Marie Marguerite Sauvrezis was a French composer, pianist, choral conductor and concert organiser. As an active member of a group of Breton composers in Paris and as president of the Société Artistique et Littéraire de l'Ouest she promoted Celticist music and culture in France.
