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NameNationalityBornDiedFlourishedEra(s)
Odo of Cluny French c.878 942 Medieval
Fulbert of Chartres French c.960 1028 Medieval
Adémar de Chabannes French c.988/9 1034 Medieval
Adam of Saint Victor French c.1068 1146 Medieval
Peter Abelard French 1079 1142 Medieval
"Vidame de Chartres" (probably Guillaume de Ferrières) French c.1145-1155 1204 Medieval
Conon de Béthune French c.1160 1219 /20 Medieval
Gace Brule French c.1160 after 1213 Medieval
Philippe le Chancelier French c.1160 1236 Medieval
Chastelain de Couci French c. 1165 1203 Medieval
Gautier de Dargies French c.1165 after 1236 Medieval
Gautier de Coincy French 1177/8 1236 Medieval
Guillaume le Vinier French c.1190 1245 Medieval
Jehan Erart French 1200-10 1258/9 Medieval
Jehan Bretel French c.1210 1272 Medieval
Raoul de Soissons French 1210-1215 1270 Medieval
Gautier d'Épinal French before 1220 before 1272 Medieval
Adam de la Halle French 1240 1287 Medieval
Philippe de Vitry French 1291 1361 Medieval
Guillaume de Machaut French c.1300 1377 Medieval
Baude Cordier French c. 1380 before 1440 Medieval, Renaissance
Pierre Fontaine French c. 1380 c. 1450 Medieval, Renaissance
Beltrame Feragut French c. 1385 c. 1450 Renaissance
Guillaume Dufay (Guillaume Du Fay) French 1397 1474 Renaissance
Johannes Fedé French c. 1415 1477? Renaissance
Antoine Busnois French c. 1430 1492 Renaissance
Philippe Basiron French c. 1449 1491 Renaissance
Gilles Mureau French c. 1450 1512 Renaissance
Loyset Compère French c. 1450 1518 Renaissance
Jean Mouton French c. 1459 1522 Renaissance
Antoine Brumel French c. 1460 1512/1513 Renaissance
Antoine de Févin French c. 1470 1511/12 Renaissance
Carpentras French c. 1470 1548 Renaissance
Mathurin Forestier French c. 1470 1535 Renaissance
Pierrequin de Thérache French c. 1470 1528 Renaissance
Philippe Verdelot French c. 1475 before 1552 Renaissance
Jean l'Héritier French c. 1480 after 1551 Renaissance
Jacquet of Mantua French 1483 1559 Renaissance
Clément Janequin French c. 1485 1558 Renaissance
Claudin de Sermisy French c. 1490 1562 Renaissance
Sandrin French c. 1490 c. 1560 Renaissance
Pierre Attaingnant French c. 1494 1551/1552 Renaissance
Pierre Vermont French c. 1495 between 1527 and 1533 Renaissance
Hilaire Penet French ? 1501 15?? Renaissance
Guillaume Morlaye French c. 1510 c. 1558 Renaissance
Jean Maillard French c. 1510 c. 1570 Renaissance
Loys Bourgeois French c. 1510 1560 Renaissance
Pierre Certon French 1510/1520 1572 Renaissance
Jean Guyot de Châtelet French c. 1512 1588 Renaissance
Claude Goudimel French c. 1514/1520 1572 Renaissance
Thoinot Arbeau French 1519 1595 Renaissance
Adrian Le Roy French c. 1520 1598 Renaissance
Didier Lupi Second French c. 1520 after 1559 Renaissance
Lambert Courtois French c. 1520 after 1583 Renaissance
Claude Gervaise French 1525 1583 Renaissance
Anthoine de Bertrand French c. 1530/1540 c. 1581 Renaissance
Claude Le Jeune French 1530 1600 Renaissance
Guillaume Boni French c. 1530 1594 Renaissance
Guillaume Costeley French c. 1530 1606 Baroque, Renaissance
Nicolas de La Grotte French 1530 c. 1600 Renaissance
Jehan Chardavoine French 1537 1580 Renaissance
Paschal de l'Estocart French 1538/1539 after 1584 Renaissance
Eustache Du Caurroy French 1549 1609 Baroque, Renaissance
Charles Tessier French c. 1550 after 1604 Baroque, Renaissance
Jacques Mauduit French 1557 1627 Baroque, Renaissance
Jean Titelouze French 1562/1563 1633 Baroque, Renaissance
Julien Perrichon French 1566 c. 1600 Renaissance
Nicolas Formé French 1567 1638 Baroque, Renaissance
Pierre Guédron French 1570 1620 Baroque, Renaissance
Robert Ballard French c. 1572 or 1575, probably in Paris after 1650 Baroque, Renaissance
Ennemond Gaultier French 1575 1651 Baroque, Renaissance
Antoine Boësset French 1586 1643 Baroque, Renaissance
Guillaume Bouzignac French 1587 1643 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Andreas Herbst French 1588 1666 Baroque, Renaissance
Jacques Gaultier French 1592 1652 Baroque, Renaissance
Charles Racquet French 1597 1664 Baroque, Renaissance
Étienne Moulinié French 1599 1676 Baroque, Renaissance
Pierre Gaultier French 1599 1681 Baroque, Renaissance
Anton Reicha Czech-French 1770 1836 Classical-era, Romantic-era
François-Louis Perne French 1772 1832 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Sophie Bawr French 1773 1860 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Pierre Rode French 1774 1830 Classical-era, Romantic-era
François-Adrien Boieldieu French 1775 1834 Classical-era, Romantic-era
François de Fossa French 1775 1849 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Pauline Duchambge French 1778 1858 Classical-era, Romantic-era
François-Joseph Naderman French 1781 1835 Romantic-era
Louis François Dauprat French 1781 1868 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Daniel Auber French 1782 1871 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly French 1785 1858 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Marie Bigot French 1786 1820 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa French 1789 1856 Romantic-era
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold French 1791 1833 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Fromental Halévy French 1799 1862 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Amédée Méreaux French 1802 1874 Romantic-era
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy French 1802 1880 Romantic-era
Adolphe Adam French 1803 1856 Romantic-era
Hector Berlioz French 1803 1869 Romantic-era
Louise Farrenc French 1804 1875 Romantic-era
Napoléon Coste French 1805 1883 Romantic-era
Frédéric Chopin Polish-French 1810 1849 Romantic-era
Ambroise Thomas French 1811 1896 Romantic-era
Alexandre Dubuque Russian-French 1812 1898 Romantic-era
Louis-Antoine Jullien French 1812 1860 Romantic-era
Charles-Valentin Alkan French 1813 1888 Romantic-era
Charles Dancla French 1817 1907 20th-century, Romantic-era
Émile Prudent French 1817 1863 Romantic-era
Charles Gounod French 1818 1893 Romantic-era
Jacques Offenbach French 1819 1880 Romantic-era
César Franck Belgian-born French 1822 1890 Romantic-era
Édouard Lalo French 1823 1892 Romantic-era
Jean-Baptiste Arban French 1825 1889 Romantic-era
Adolphe Blanc French 1828 1885 Romantic-era
Adrien Barthe French 1828 1898 Romantic-era
Clémence de Grandval French 1828 1907 20th-century
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot French 1833 1914 20th-century
Camille Saint-Saëns French 1835 1921 20th-century, Romantic-era
Léo Delibes French 1836 1891 Romantic-era
Émile Waldteufel French 1837 1915 20th-century, Romantic-era
Paul Lacombe French 1837 1927 20th-century
Théodore Dubois French 1837 1924 20th-century
Georges Bizet French 1838 1875 Romantic-era
François Borne French 1840 1920 20th-century
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray French 1840 1910 Romantic-era
Emmanuel Chabrier French 1841 1894 Romantic-era
Louise Héritte-Viardot French 1841 1918 20th-century
Alphonse Duvernoy French 1842 1907 20th-century
Jules Massenet French 1842 1912 20th-century, Romantic-era
Émile Bernard French 1843 1902 20th-century, Romantic-era
Louis Diémer French 1843 1919 20th-century
Charles-Marie Widor French 1844 1937 20th-century, Romantic-era
Eugène Gigout French 1844 1925 20th-century
Paul Taffanel French 1844 1908 Romantic-era
Alphonse Hasselmans Belgian-born French 1845 1912 20th-century
Gabriel Fauré French 1845 1924 20th-century, Romantic-era
Albert Lavignac French 1846 1916 20th-century
Marie Jaëll French 1846 1925 20th-century
Augusta Holmès French 1847 1903 Romantic-era
Francis Chassaigne Belgian-born French 1847 1922 20th-century
Henri Duparc French 1848 1933 20th-century, Romantic-era
Benjamin Godard French 1849 1895 Romantic-era
Alexandre Luigini French 1850 1906 20th-century, Romantic-era
André Wormser French 1851 1926 20th-century
Gabrielle Ferrari French-Italian 1851 1921 20th-century
Vincent d'Indy French 1851 1931 20th-century, Romantic-era
Émile Sauret French 1852 1920 20th-century
Raoul Pugno French 1852 1914 20th-century
Charles Malherbe French 1853 1911 20th-century
Ernest Chausson French 1855 1899 Romantic-era
Jean Pietrapertosa Italian-French 1855 1940 20th-century, Romantic-era
Maude Valérie White French-born English 1855 1937 20th-century
André Gedalge French 1856 1926 20th-century
Alfred Bruneau French 1857 1934 20th-century
Cécile Chaminade French 1857 1944 20th-century, Romantic-era
Georges Hüe French 1858 1948 20th-century
Guy d'Hardelot French 1858 1936 20th-century
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert French 1858 1945 20th-century
Mélanie Bonis French 1858 1937 20th-century
Hedwige Chrétien French 1859 1944 20th-century
Gustave Charpentier French 1860 1956 20th-century, Romantic-era
Charles Martin Loeffler French-born American 1861 1935 20th-century
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard French 1861 1942 20th-century
Pierre de Bréville French 1861 1949 20th-century
Claude Debussy French 1862 1918 20th-century, Romantic-era
Maurice Emmanuel French 1862 1938 20th-century
Charles Bordes French 1863 1909 20th-century
Gabriel Pierné French 1863 1937 20th-century, Romantic-era
Guy Ropartz French 1864 1955 20th-century, Romantic-era
Albéric Magnard French 1865 1914 20th-century, Romantic-era
Paul Dukas French 1865 1935 20th-century, Romantic-era
Erik Satie French 1866 1925 20th-century, Romantic-era
Charles Koechlin French 1867 1950 20th-century, Romantic-era
Georges Martin Witkowski French 1867 1943 20th-century
Jules Mouquet French 1867 1946 20th-century
Albert Roussel French 1869 1937 20th-century, Romantic-era
Joséphine Boulay French 1869 1925 20th-century
Charles Tournemire French 1870 1939 20th-century
Florent Schmitt French 1870 1958 20th-century, Romantic-era
Louis Vierne French 1870 1937 20th-century
Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin French 1871 1942 20th-century
Albert Seitz French 1872 1937 20th-century
Henri Büsser French 1872 1973 20th-century
André Bloch French 1873 1960 20th-century
Henri Rabaud French 1873 1949 20th-century
Jean Roger-Ducasse French 1873 1954 20th-century
Lucien Capet French 1873 1928 20th-century
Henri Marteau French 1874 1934 20th-century
Henriette Renié French 1875 1956 20th-century, Romantic-era
Marcel Labey French 1875 1968 20th-century
Maurice Ravel French 1875 1937 20th-century, Romantic-era
Armande de Polignac French 1876 1962 20th-century
Edgar Bara French 1876 1962 20th-century, Romantic-era
Jean Huré French 1877 1930 20th-century
Louis Aubert French 1877 1968 20th-century
Paul Ladmirault French 1877 1944 Romantic-era
André Caplet French 1878 1925 20th-century
Gabriel Dupont French 1878 1914 20th-century, Romantic-era
Gabriel Grovlez French 1879 1944 20th-century
Jean Cras French 1879 1932 20th-century
Joseph Canteloube French 1879 1957 20th-century, Romantic-era
Jules Mazellier French 1879 1959 20th-century
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