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Alain Bombard
1924 – 2005
French

He thought that it would be possible to cross the Atlantic, eating solely from the sea, and then did make his point.

Contemporaries
fl. c. 1912–c. 1994Eugène Ionesco
1908–1986Simone de Beauvoir
1890–1970Charles de Gaulle
1909–1943Simone Weil
Born 1927Simone Veil
1871–1945Paul Valéry
1881–1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1908–1982Jacques Tati
1905–1980Jean-Paul Sartre
1900–1944Antoine Saint-Exupéry
1936–2008Yves Saint-Laurent
1885–1972Jules Romains
1913–2005Paul Ricoeur
1920–2003Pierre Poujade
1915–1963Edith Piaf
1856–1951Philippe Petain
1888–1979Jean Monnet
1915–1968Thomas Merton
1908–1961Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1882–1973Jacques Maritain
1889–1973Gabriel Marcel
1857–1939Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
1905–1991Marcel Lefebvre
Born 1928Jean-Marie Le Pen
1883–1945Pierre Laval
1859–1947Pierre Janet
1882–1944Jean Giraudoux
1869–1951André Gide
1910–1986Jean Genet
1926–1984Michel Foucault
1859–1935Alfred Dreyfus
1930–2004Jacques Derrida
Born c. 1941Régis Debray
1868–1969Alexandra David-Neel
1872–1956Curnonsky
1910–1997Jacques Cousteau
1857–1926Émile Coué
1889–1963Jean Cocteau
1868–1955Paul Claudel
1913–1960Albert Camus
1896–1966André Breton
1899–1984Brassal
1902–1985Fernand Braudel
1899–1978Charles Boyer
1859–1941Henri Bergson
1915–1980Roland Barthes
Born 1934Brigitte Bardot
1914–1982Pierre Balmain
1917–2000Jacqueline Auriol
1896–1948Antonin Artaud
1918–1990Louis Althusser