François Mitterrand | François Truffaut | Claude François | François Villon | François Rabelais | François Hollande | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Jean-François Lyotard | Jean-François Millet | François-René de Chateaubriand | Antoine Watteau | François Boucher | François Fénelon | Antoine de Caunes | François Tombalbaye | François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) | Charles François Dumouriez | Antoine Brumel | François Mauriac | Antoine Walker | Antoine Lavoisier | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | Jean-François Champollion | François Viète | François Ozon | François Bozizé | Antoine-Louis Barye | Marc Antoine | Louis-François Richer Laflèche |
From 1827 he was a pupil of F. A. Habeneck at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875.