Alexandra David-Neel
French
Student of oriental cultures and languages. She traveled and studied widely, in 1934 arrived in the mysterious mountain land of Tibet, and spent a decade there.
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
Contemporaries
| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| 1881–1955 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
| 1847–1922 | Georges Sorel |
| 1854–1891 | Arthur Rimbaud |
| 1871–1922 | Marcel Proust |
| 1915–1968 | Thomas Merton |
| 1882–1973 | Jacques Maritain |
| 1873–1907 | Alfred Jarry |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1869–1951 | André Gide |
| 1910–1986 | Jean Genet |
| 1848–1903 | Paul Gauguin |
| 1862–1921 | Georges Feydeau |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
