Statistics for Famous French People

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Clue	Person	% Correct
Civil engineer who was the namesake of Paris' most iconic building	Gustave Eiffel	94%
Heroine of for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War	Joan of Arc	91%
Military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution	Napoleon Bonaparte	91%
Army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II	Charles de Gaulle	89%
Longest recorded reign of any monarch of a sovereign country in history	Louis XIV	89%
Fashion designer and businesswoman; founded brand named after her	Coco Chanel	83%
Writer and novelist; wrote "The Three Musketeers"	Alexandre Dumas	76%
Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher; advocate for civil liberties	Voltaire	74%
Lawyer and statesman; one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution	Maximilien Robespierre	72%
Painter and founder of impressionist painting; key precursor to modernism	Claude Monet	65%
Professional wrestler and actor, known for his great size as a result of gigantism	André the Giant	63%
Contributed greatly to the sciences; discovered the principles of vaccinations	Louis Pasteur	63%
General officer during World War I; became known as the 'Lion of Verdun'	Philippe Pétain	48%
Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement	Victor Hugo	41%
Invented analytic geometry, linking the then separate fields of geometry and algebra	René Descartes	28%