French people who were Hindus or were influenced by Hinduism include Victor Cousin, Alexandra David-Néel, Paul Gauguin, René Guénon, Jules Michelet, Mirra Richard, Romain Rolland, Satprem, Paul Verlaine, François Gautier and Voltaire.
His second wife, Athénaïs Michelet, who survived him, had been a teacher in St. Petersburg.
The Ministry of the Navy, from 1902 to 1905, Camille Pelletan, by giving these names to the French armoured cruisers, wished to honor Republican statesmen, philosophers or historians, such as Waldeck-Rousseau, Jules Michelet, Ernest Renan, or Edgar Quinet, as the officers of the French Navy (so called La Royale) were reputed to have rather Royalist sympathies.
Jules Verne | Jules Massenet | Jules Dassin | Étienne-Jules Marey | Jules Maigret | Danny John-Jules | Jules Shear | Jules Michelet | Jules Ferry | Jules Dumont d'Urville | Jules Chéret | Jules Bastien-Lepage | Pierre-Jules Hetzel | Jules Perrot | Jules Olitski | Judge Jules | Jules Guesde | Jules Feiffer | Jules Edouard Roiné | Jules and Jim | Pierre-Jules Boulanger | Jules Romains | Jules, Prince of Soubise | Jules Lermina | Jules Hodgson | Jules Germain Cloquet | Jules Dewaquez | Jules | Anne Jules de Noailles | Prix Jules Janssen |
Witchcraft scholar Jeffrey Russell devoted some of his 1980 book A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans to arguing against the claims in Aradia, Murray's thesis, and Jules Michelet's 1862 La Sorcière, which also theorised that witchcraft represented an underground religion.