| marie antoinette | (n) queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793) |
| becquerel | (n) French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908), Syn. Antoine Henri Becquerel, Henri Becquerel |
| bougainville | (n) French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811), Syn. Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
| condorcet | (n) French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794), Syn. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet |
| domino | (n) United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928), Syn. Antoine Domino, Fats Domino |
| goncourt | (n) French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896), Syn. Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt |
| ibert | (n) French composer (1890-1962), Syn. Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert |
| jussieu | (n) French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836), Syn. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu |
| lavoisier | (n) French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794), Syn. Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier |
| pompadour | (n) French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764), Syn. Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson |
| reaumur | (n) French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757), Syn. Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur |
| watteau | (n) French painter (1684-1721), Syn. Jean Antoine Watteau |
