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Top 100 Academics in France

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The most famous academics in France right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Voltaire	France	Academics	94.0	0.0
#2	—	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#3	—	Blaise Pascal	France	Academics	85.9	0.0
#4	—	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	78.8	10.9
#5	—	Montesquieu	France	Academics	78.3	0.0
#6	—	Denis Diderot	France	Academics	78.1	1.2
#7	—	Henri Poincaré	France	Academics	77.2	9.5
#8	—	Michel de Montaigne	France	Academics	77.1	2.2
#9	—	Edgar Morin	France	Academics	76.7	10.0
#10	—	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#11	—	Émile Durkheim	France	Academics	75.8	10.0
#12	—	Auguste Comte	France	Academics	73.2	0.0
#13	—	Pierre de Fermat	France	Academics	73.1	30.1
#14	—	Nostradamus	France	Academics	72.5	1.2
#15	—	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	France	Academics	72.5	11.0
#16	—	Joseph Fourier	France	Academics	72.4	0.0
#17	—	Michel Foucault	France	Academics	72.3	0.0
#18	—	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Academics	71.7	3.0
#19	—	Michel Onfray	France	Academics	71.2	0.0
#20	—	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	France	Academics	70.8	15.0
#21	—	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	France	Academics	66.4	0.0
#22	—	Jacques Derrida	France	Academics	66.1	0.4
#23	—	Évariste Galois	France	Academics	66.1	0.9
#24	—	Christine Lagarde	France	Academics	65.8	1.6
#25	—	Claude Lévi-Strauss	France	Academics	65.7	0.0
#26	—	Jean Baudrillard	France	Academics	65.6	10.0
#27	—	Simone Weil	France	Academics	65.2	0.0
#28	—	Augustin-Louis Cauchy	France	Academics	65.1	15.0
#29	—	Prosper Mérimée	France	Academics	64.4	0.0
#30	—	Paul Valéry	France	Academics	63.8	0.0
#31	—	Pierre Bourdieu	France	Academics	63.5	0.8
#32	—	Pope Urban V	France	Academics	63.3	16.1
#33	—	Arthur Mensch	France	Academics	63.3	0.9
#34	—	Gilles Deleuze	France	Academics	63.2	0.0
#35	—	Dominique Strauss-Kahn	France	Academics	62.9	21.6
#36	—	Étienne Chouard	France	Academics	62.6	0.0
#37	—	Vilfredo Pareto	France	Academics	62.5	0.0
#38	—	Roland Barthes	France	Academics	62.2	0.0
#39	—	Pope Innocent VI	France	Academics	62.1	16.8
#40	—	Frédéric Passy	France	Academics	61.6	9.8
#41	—	Thomas Piketty	France	Academics	61.2	6.2
#42	—	Esther Duflo	France	Academics	61.1	8.5
#43	—	Julia Kristeva	France	Academics	61.1	2.4
#44	—	Ernest Renan	France	Academics	61.0	0.0
#45	—	Jean-Baptiste Colbert	France	Academics	60.6	15.0
#46	—	Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot	France	Academics	60.4	0.4
#47	—	Pierre Bayle	France	Academics	60.4	4.8
#48	—	André Glucksmann	France	Academics	60.3	10.0
#49	—	François Fénelon	France	Academics	60.1	5.3
#50	—	Bernard-Henri Lévy	France	Academics	59.9	16.7
#51	—	François Viète	France	Academics	59.9	16.3
#52	—	Henri de Saint-Simon	France	Academics	59.7	0.0
#53	—	Louis Althusser	France	Academics	59.5	0.0
#54	—	Hippolyte Taine	France	Academics	59.5	0.3
#55	—	Charles Fourier	France	Academics	59.5	0.0
#56	—	Nikolai Berdyaev	France	Academics	59.3	0.2
#57	—	Maurice Allais	France	Academics	59.3	5.0
#58	—	Alexander Grothendieck	France	Academics	59.2	1.8
#59	—	Gabriel Fauré	France	Academics	59.2	3.1
#60	—	Régis Debray	France	Academics	59.1	12.1
#61	—	André Maurois	France	Academics	58.9	0.0
#62	—	Pope Innocent V	France	Academics	58.8	2.2
#63	—	Claude Adrien Helvétius	France	Academics	58.4	0.0
#64	—	Étienne de La Boétie	France	Academics	58.3	0.8
#65	—	Bénédicte Savoy	France	Academics	58.2	7.5
#66	—	Yann Le Cun	France	Academics	58.2	0.3
#67	—	Marquis de Condorcet	France	Academics	58.1	0.0
#68	—	Jean Tirole	France	Academics	58.0	4.0
#69	—	François Quesnay	France	Academics	58.0	20.5
#70	—	Frédéric Bastiat	France	Academics	57.8	0.0
#71	—	Joseph de Maistre	France	Academics	57.8	0.0
#72	—	FB Fabrice Bellard	France	Academics	57.6	9.7
#73	—	Sophie Germain	France	Academics	57.5	0.0
#74	—	Gaston Bachelard	France	Academics	57.5	0.0
#75	—	Paul Ricœur	France	Academics	57.5	2.5
#76	—	Jacques Rancière	France	Academics	57.5	15.0
#77	—	René Girard	France	Academics	57.5	0.0
#78	—	Abraham de Moivre	France	Academics	57.4	17.3
#79	—	Marin Mersenne	France	Academics	57.3	7.3
#80	—	Denis Papin	France	Academics	57.3	12.1
#81	—	Emmanuel Levinas	France	Academics	57.2	1.2
#82	—	Jean Meslier	France	Academics	57.2	8.5
#83	—	Élisée Reclus	France	Academics	57.1	4.7
#84	—	Jean-Baptiste Biot	France	Academics	56.9	1.5
#85	—	Emmanuel Mounier	France	Academics	56.9	15.1
#86	—	Alain	France	Academics	56.7	3.6
#87	—	Philippe Aghion	France	Academics	56.7	4.8
#88	—	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	France	Academics	56.7	0.1
#89	—	Cédric Villani	France	Academics	56.6	0.9
#90	—	VJ Vladimir Jankélévitch	France	Academics	56.5	3.4
#91	—	Jean-François Lyotard	France	Academics	56.5	1.1
#92	—	Édouard Balladur	France	Academics	56.4	0.0
#93	—	Jean-Baptiste Denys	France	Academics	56.3	13.6
#94	—	Bernard Stiegler	France	Academics	56.3	11.4
#95	—	Victor Cousin	France	Academics	56.2	15.2
#96	—	Jean-Pierre Rampal	France	Academics	56.2	15.2
#97	—	Émilie du Châtelet	France	Academics	56.2	0.1
#98	—	Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis	France	Academics	56.1	2.0
#99	—	Allan Kardec	France	Academics	56.0	0.0
#100	—	Gaspard Monge	France	Academics	55.9	2.7

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