Unlike the French pioneers who tended to be hunters and trappers, these settlers were establishing an agricultural community with potentially permanent inhabitants.

Charles Pathé (26 December 1863 - 25 December 1957) was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries.

Private citizens are also restoring - and living in - some of the sturdy remains of these houses built by the French pioneers.

He is recognized as a French pioneer in the client server computing and Internet era.

The first white man known to have lived on the island was a French pioneer known only as "Cunningham".

Alphonse Pénaud (May 31, 1850 - October 22, 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering.

At the final vote on May 2, 1843, Belleque and most of the French Canadian pioneers voted against forming a government.

Gérard Mourou is a French pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers.

Fernand Charron (1866 - 13 August 1928) was a French pioneer of motor racing.

The tableau was installed in 1958 by Étienne Thévenot, a French pioneer of the medieval glass revival.