Who is your favorite French person and why?

Voltiare
A witty writer, we own much of our enlightenment ideas to him

The one I play SFV with because he's good at the game

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Le Héros des Deux Mondes
Repose en paix

I like Voltaire but he was a bit of a hypocrite

He was a filthy free mason but F

Also Tocqueville is kind of funny in a sad way, guy was a genuine blue-blooded aristocrat who had his family decimated and he was *still* in favour of the revolution

thats part of his charme

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre

It isn't very charming, especially when it's driven by an ego fueled by the saltiness of the nobility

He was more a humorous prankster than an individual I'd want to converse with

...

I thought it was pretty funny
>flee from Frederick II. court and steal a bunch of shit
>get arrested
>"why are you treating me like this? other rulers will look at us and say, 'see, the philosopher king cant get along with other philosophers' "

For slavery ? Yeah.

HOLY

Robespierre, the incorruptible

This based man

Guillotine, he was a nice inventor

Nah, germans and brits are more based

Napoleon
He brought anti-feudal laws to the rest of the Europe. He fought against the eternal anglo.

this

this badass french-mongol guy

Lavoisier! He taught us all about oxidation!

>the incorruptible
As much as I can't hock what he stood for I have to admit his 'incorruptibility' and dedication was pretty hardcore.

Bouguereau or maybe Manet

Napoleon was Italian not French

Joan of Arc

By the time of 19th century our emperors were german, not russian. Relax

t. brit

Gilles de Rais
Prominently daring, yet obnoxiously perverted.