pilgrim to Rome, venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Pierre Magnol (1638–1715), botanist, founder of the concept of plant families Charles Bertheau (1660–1732), French pastor Jean Raoux (1677–1734), painter. Louis Bertrand Castel (1688–1757) mathematician, entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Pons Augustin Alletz (1703–1785), agronomist Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter. Étienne-Hyacinthe de Ratte (1722–1805), mathematician and astronomer Suzanne Verdier (1745–1813), writer Cyrille Rigaud (1750–1824), poet Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès (1753–1824), lawyer and statesman, author of the Code Napoléon. Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas (1753–1837), military leader. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), chemist, physicist, inventor, the world's first modern parachuting pioneer Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761–1807), naturalist, contributed primarily to botany. Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte de Daru (1767–1829), soldier, statesman, historian and poet. Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès (1784–1838), writer and spouse of French general Jean-Andoche Junot. Joseph Frédéric Bérard (1789–1828), physician and philosopher. Auguste Comte (1798–1857), a founder of the discipline of sociology Antoine Jérôme Balard (1802–1876), chemist. Émile Saisset (1814–1863), philosopher. Charles Bernard Renouvier (1815–1903), philosopher. Édouard Albert Roche (1820–1883), astronomer Alfred Bruyas (1821–1876), art collector Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), painter. Renaud de Vilbac (1829–1884), composer, organist Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870), Impressionist painter Eugène Baudouin (1842–1893), painter Paul Ferrier (1843-1920) dramatist, he also provided libretti for several composers. Henri Chantavoine (1850–1918), writer and Professor of Rhetoric. Henri-Charles Puech (1902–1986), historian of religion Léo Malet (1909–1996), crime novelist Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist Adèle Charvet (born 1993), operatic mezzo-soprano Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968), organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue Monique de Bissy, member of the Resistance during World War II (1923–2009) Juliette Gréco (1927-2020), singer and actress Jean-Luc Dehaene (1940–2014), Prime-Minister of Belgium Didier Auriol (born 1958), rally driver, 1994 World Rally Champion Rémi Gaillard (born 1975), famous French prankster Sophie Divry (born 1979), writer, winner of the 2014 Prix Wepler Other famous inhabitants include: François Rabelais (1493–1553), student at the University of Montpellier. Nostradamus (1503–1566), student at the University of Montpellier. Iacob Heraclid, (1527–1563), ruler of Moldavia from 1561 to 1563 Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741–1824), zoologist Adamantios Korais (1748–1833), Greek humanist scholar and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment, studied at the University of Montpellier. Jean-Louis Michel (1785–1865), fencing master, who lived in Montpellier from 1830 onwards Agénor Azéma de Montgravier (1805–1863), deputy director of l'Ecole d'Artillerie de Montpellier, died in Montpellier Gaston Darboux (1842–1917), mathematician Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884–1980), botanist Jean Moulin (1899–1943), famous French resistant during WWII, studied and