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Top Academics for #France

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The most famous academics associated with 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	new	René Descartes	France	Academics	59.0	10.0
#2	new	Marc Bloch	France	Academics	43.6	15.3
#3	new	Michel Foucault	France	Academics	41.4	0.0
#4	new	Simone Weil	France	Academics	37.3	0.4
#5	new	Pierre Bourdieu	France	Academics	34.3	0.6
#6	new	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	32.8	1.7
#7	new	Jacques Lacan	France	Academics	32.4	0.3
#8	new	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	France	Academics	32.1	3.0
#9	new	Gilles Deleuze	France	Academics	31.1	0.0
#10	new	Jacques Derrida	France	Academics	30.7	0.0
#11	new	Jean Baudrillard	France	Academics	29.7	0.6
#12	new	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Academics	28.6	0.0
#13	new	Émile Durkheim	France	Academics	28.2	0.0
#14	new	Claude Lévi-Strauss	France	Academics	27.3	0.0
#15	new	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	France	Academics	27.1	0.5
#16	new	Roland Barthes	France	Academics	26.8	0.0
#17	new	Fernand Braudel	France	Academics	25.6	2.3
#18	new	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	France	Academics	25.4	0.2
#19	new	Julien Offray de La Mettrie	France	Academics	24.7	9.1
#20	new	Auguste Comte	France	Academics	24.4	0.0
#21	new	Emmanuel Levinas	France	Academics	23.5	0.8
#22	new	Louis Althusser	France	Academics	23.3	0.0
#23	new	Paul Ricœur	France	Academics	19.5	0.5
#24	new	Gustave Le Bon	France	Academics	19.4	1.4
#25	new	Jean-François Champollion	France	Academics	19.3	0.0
#26	new	Roger Garaudy	France	Academics	19.2	3.6
#27	new	Ernest Renan	France	Academics	19.1	0.5
#28	new	Marquis de Condorcet	France	Academics	18.9	0.0
#29	new	Charles Fourier	France	Academics	18.5	0.0
#30	new	Julia Kristeva	France	Academics	15.6	0.0
#31	new	Gaston Bachelard	France	Academics	15.5	0.0
#32	new	Jean-François Lyotard	France	Academics	14.1	0.2
#33	new	Anne Robert Jacques Turgot	France	Academics	13.8	0.8
#34	new	Lucien Febvre	France	Academics	13.7	3.1
#35	new	Maurice Allais	France	Academics	13.3	4.0
#36	new	Henri Fayol	France	Academics	12.9	0.2
#37	new	Marcel Mauss	France	Academics	12.7	0.9
#38	new	Jean Bodin	France	Academics	12.0	0.4
#39	new	Nikolai Berdyaev	France	Academics	11.8	0.9
#40	new	Princess Marie Bonaparte	France	Academics	11.6	0.0
#41	new	Yann LeCun French computer scientist, Chief AI Scientist at Meta	France	Scientists	10.3	1.3
#42	new	Jacques Le Goff	France	Academics	9.9	1.0
#43	new	Nicolas Malebranche	France	Academics	9.5	1.3
#44	new	Alfred Binet	France	Academics	9.2	1.1
#45	new	Gabriel Marcel	France	Academics	8.7	0.4
#46	new	Hippolyte Taine	France	Academics	8.0	0.0
#47	new	Jean-Baptiste Say	France	Academics	7.2	0.4
#48	new	Baron d'Holbach	France	Academics	7.0	0.0
#49	new	Léon Walras	France	Academics	6.3	0.1
#50	new	Pierre Bayle	France	Academics	6.3	0.1
#51	new	Claude Adrien Helvétius	France	Academics	6.1	0.8
#52	new	François Quesnay	France	Academics	5.9	0.0
#53	new	Étienne Bonnot de Condillac	France	Academics	5.0	0.0
#54	new	Frédéric Passy	France	Academics	5.0	3.2