Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor (c. 1606–1663) was a French aristocrat and Count of Montrésor, who played a role in the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century, and was also a memoir-writer.
Camille-Ernest Labrousse was a French historian specializing in social and economic history.
Daniel Roche was a French social and cultural historian, widely recognized as one of the foremost experts of his generation on the cultural history of France during the later years of the Ancien Régime. Roche was elected an International member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009.
Dominique Varry is a French historian of books and professor at École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques, part of the University of Lyon.
Mary Diana Lee Sheriff was an American art historian, and W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who specialized in eighteenth-century French art, decorative arts, gender studies, and material culture.
Michelle Perrot is a French historian, and Professor emeritus of Contemporary History at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.
Charles Joret was a French literary historian, philologist and botanical author. His name is associated with the so-called ligne Joret, a locative boundary used in the linguistics (isogloss) of the Langues d'oïl.
Geneviève, comtesse Hubert de Chambure Thibault was a French musicologist associated with the revival of interest in early music. She graduated from the Sorbonne in 1920 with a thesis on John Dowland, and then continued the work with André Pirro on her doctoral thesis on the fifteenth-century chanson, which she never completed. In 1925 co-founded the Société de musique d'autrefois, designed to promote the publication de musical texts and a magazine les Annales musicologiques. After her marriage in 1931 she stopped musical and scholarly activities, gave birth to six children, and alternated her life between Vietnam and France. After the death of her husband Hubert Pelletier de Chambure (1903-1953), she returned permanently to Paris, where in June 1953 she resumed her scholarly activities and organization of concerts. From 1961 to 1973, she was curator of the historical instrumentals of the Conservatoire de Paris - in addition to having amassed her own private collection. She was an important muse and teacher to the first generation of baroque specialists, including young Americans in Paris - William Christie (harpsichordist) and soprano Judith Nelson.
Jean-Yves Mollier is a French contemporary history teacher.
Claude Mossé was a French historian specializing in the history of Ancient Greece.
Robert Muchembled is a French historian. In 1967, he passed the Agrégation in history. In 1985 he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on attitudes to violence and society in Artois between 1440 and 1600. In 1986 he became Professor of Modern History at Paris 13 University. He has written notably about witchcraft, violence and sexuality. Some of his works have been translated into English, German, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Croatian, Modern Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese.
Marc Venard was a French historian.
Jules Gustave Flammermont was a French historian, largely known for his writings on history of the 18th century.
Caroline Giron-Panelnée Giron is a French historian and musicologist.
Paul-Alexis Mellet is a French early modern historian and expert in the political and religious ideas from early modernity. He is a professor at the University of Geneva and a member of the Institute of Reformation History. Formerly, he was a professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, and at the University of Tours.
Claire Sotinel is a Professor of Ancient History at l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil. She is an expert on Italy in late antiquity, religion, society, and prosopography.
Claude-Hélène Perrot was a French historian and Africanist who specialized in the history of Côte d'Ivoire. She served as a professor of contemporary African history at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne from 1983 to 1993. Perrot's main areas of research concerned the history of the Akan of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana before colonization, mainly the Anyi and the Eotile; the use of oral tradition by historians; as well as relations between traditional African religions and political power. She was honored as Commander, Order of Ivory Merit.
Jean Meyer was a French historian who specialised in naval and maritime topics.
Hélène d'Almeida-Topor was a French historian and university professor of contemporary history.
Marie-Claude Felton, is a French-Canadian writer, teacher and historian who specializes in 18th-century France. Her book, Maîtres de leurs ouvrages: l’édition à compte d’auteur à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, made significant contributions to the understanding of publishing practices and the myriad issues relating to changing conceptions of literary property.
