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Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)
Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), the conflict between Bourbon France and Habsburg Spain within the Thirty Years' War, ending with the Treaty of the Pyrenees, Rocroi, the Catalan revolt, and French dominance in Europe.
Franco-Syrian War
The Franco-Syrian War was the 1920 conflict between France and the Arab Kingdom of Syria under King Faisal, ending in the French victory at the Battle of Maysalun.
Franco-Thai Treaty of 1946
The Franco-Thai Treaty of 1946, usually called the Washington Accord, was a settlement under which Thailand returned to France the Indochinese territories it had gained in 1941.
Franco-Thai War (สงครามฝรั่งเศส-ไทย)
Franco-Thai War (สงครามฝรั่งเศส-ไทย), 1940-41 border conflict between Thailand and Vichy France over Indochina; ended by Japanese mediation and the Tokyo Convention of 9 May 1941 ceding about 70,000 km² to Thailand.
Franco-Tukulor Treaty of 1860
The Franco-Tukulor Treaty of 1860 was an agreement between Tukulor emperor al-Hajj Umar Tall and the French administration in Senegal, under which Umar gave up his Senegalese conquests.
Francofolies de La Rochelle
Les Francofolies de La Rochelle is a five-day festival of francophone popular music held each July in La Rochelle, France, founded in 1985 by the radio presenter Jean-Louis Foulquier.
François Arago
François Arago (1786–1853), French astronomer, physicist, and republican politician; Paris Observatory director, Academy perpetual secretary, daguerreotype presenter, and signer of the 1848 abolition-of-slavery decree.
François Arnaud (actor)
François Arnaud, born François Landriault-Barbeau in 1985 in Montreal, is a Canadian actor known for Cesare Borgia in The Borgias (2011–2013) and Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry (2025).
François Bayrou
François Bayrou (born 1951) is a French centrist politician, MoDem founder, mayor of Pau, education minister 1993-1997, justice minister 2017, and Prime Minister from 13 December 2024 to 9 September 2025, who fell after losing a confidence vote on the 2026 budget amid the Bétharram school abuse affair.
François Bernier
François Bernier was a French physician and traveler who spent about twelve years in Mughal India, serving the prince Dara Shikoh and writing Travels in the Mogul Empire.
François Bonneau
François Bonneau, born in 1953, is a French Socialist politician who has been president of the Regional Council of Centre-Val de Loire since 2007, succeeding Michel Sapin.
Francois Botha
Francois (Frans) Botha, "The White Buffalo", South African heavyweight boxer born 1968 in Witbank; IBF champion 1995 vs Axel Schulz (later No Contest); fought Tyson, Lewis, Klitschko, Holyfield; also K-1 kickboxer.
François Boucher
François Boucher (1703–1770), Paris-born French Rococo painter, draughtsman, and decorator. Prix de Rome 1723; First Painter to the King and Académie director 1765; chief patron Madame de Pompadour; ~1,500 prints after his works.
Francois Brandt
François Brandt (François Antoine Brandt, 1874–1949), Dutch rower; with Roelof Klein won the 1900 Paris coxed pairs, the first Dutch Olympic title, plus eights bronze; recognized by IOC only in 2012.
François Brisson
François Brisson, born 1958 in Saintes, French forward and left winger; two France caps, Olympic gold at Los Angeles 1984, scored the first goal in the 2-0 final win over Brazil; clubs included PSG, Lens, Marseille, Lille.
François Bruhat
François Bruhat (1929–2007) was a French mathematician who worked on algebraic groups, best known for the Bruhat decomposition, the Bruhat order, and the Bruhat–Tits theory of reductive groups over local fields.
François Cevert
François Cevert, born Albert François Cevert, was a French Formula One driver who won the 1971 United States Grand Prix for Tyrrell and was killed in practice for the 1973 race at Watkins Glen.
François Chau
François Chau, Cambodian-American actor (born 1959, Phnom Penh), known as Dr. Pierre Chang on Lost, Jules-Pierre Mao on The Expanse, Shredder in TMNT II, and voice roles in Ghost of Tsushima and XCOM.
François Chollet
François Chollet is a French software engineer and AI researcher who created the Keras deep learning framework and the ARC-AGI reasoning benchmark, and co-founded Ndea in 2025.
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé (1739–1800) was a French general and colonial administrator who seized several British Caribbean islands and organized Louis XVI's 1791 flight from Paris.
François Clemmons
François Scarborough Clemmons (born 1945), American opera singer and actor; Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 1968–1993, first recurring Black character on U.S. children's TV, Grammy-winning Porgy and Bess singer.
François Cluzet
François Cluzet, French film and stage actor born 1955 in Paris, César winner for Tell No One (2007) and star of Intouchables (2011), with 11 César nominations and frequent Chabrol collaborations.
François Combefis
François Combefis (1605–1679) was a French Dominican friar and patrologist who first published editions of Greek patristic texts, including a 1675 edition of Maximus the Confessor.
François Coppée
François Coppée (1842–1908) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist called "the poet of the humble" for verse on ordinary Parisian lives, elected to the Académie française in 1884.
François Cosserat
François Cosserat (1852–1914) was a French railway engineer and mathematician who, with his younger brother Eugène, founded the theory of generalized continua in their 1909 treatise Théorie des corps déformables.
François Cuzin
François Cuzin, born in 1938, is a French geneticist and professor emeritus at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, known for transgenesis in the mouse and RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance.
François d'Aix de la Chaise
François d'Aix de la Chaise, known as Père de la Chaise, was a French Jesuit who served as confessor to Louis XIV from 1675 until his death in 1709.
François Darlan
François Darlan (1881–1942), French admiral of the fleet and Pétain's designated successor at Vichy, drove collaboration including the Paris Protocols, then switched to the Allies after Torch and was assassinated in Algiers by Bonnier de la Chapelle.
François de La Rochefoucauld
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) was a French nobleman and writer, one of the great moralists of seventeenth-century France, best known for his Maximes dissecting self-love and vanity.
François Diederich
François Diederich (1952–2020) was a Luxembourg-born organic chemist who was professor of organic chemistry at ETH Zurich from 1992, known for molecular recognition, fullerenes, and fluorine's role in pharmaceuticals.