François Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt, Nord – 23 May 1921, Paris) was a French philosopher, translator and authority on Kant. He is now best known for an 1891 essay, Les idéologues, on the history of ideas and of scientific theories, philosophy and religious and political ideas in France since 1789. Works Mémoire sur le scepticisme (1884) l'Histoire de la philosophie, ce qu'elle a été, ce qu'elle peut être (1888) La Mettrie et la critique allemande (1888) Maine de Biran de l'an IX à l'an XI (1889) Les idéologues. Essai sur l'histoire des idées et des théories scientifiques, philosophiques, religieuses, etc. en France depuis 1789 (1891) online text, reprinted 1971 by Burt Franklin External links Biography in French 1851 births 1921 deaths 19th-century essayists 19th-century French non-fiction writers 19th-century French philosophers 19th-century German non-fiction writers 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German philosophers 19th-century philosophers 19th-century French translators French male essayists French male non-fiction writers French male writers French people of German descent German male essayists German male non-fiction writers German people of French descent German translators Kantian philosophers Philosophers of culture Philosophers of history Philosophers of religion Philosophers of science Political philosophers Social philosophers