The Most Famous
INSPIRATIONS from France
This page contains a list of the greatest French Inspirations. The pantheon dataset contains 7 Inspirations, 1 of which were born in France. This makes France the birth place of the 4th most number of Inspirations behind United States and Romania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary French Inspirations of all time. This list of famous French Inspirations is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eugène François Vidocq (1775 - 1857)
With an HPI of 68.82, Eugène François Vidocq is the most famous French Inspiration. His biography has been translated into 36 different languages on wikipedia.
Eugène-François Vidocq (French: [øʒɛn fʁɑ̃nswa vidɔk]; 24 July 1775 – 11 May 1857) was a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. He was the founder and first director of France's first criminal investigative agency, the Sûreté Nationale, as well as the head of the first known private detective agency. Vidocq is considered to be the father of modern criminology and of the French national police force. He is also regarded as the first private detective.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as inspirations born between 1775 and 1775. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inspirations include Eugène François Vidocq.
