Your french favorite XIXth century character

[VictoHugo]

Hello,

As I am working on an enhanced edition of my historical boardgame about Paris in the XIXth century, I would like to know who is your favorite french XIXth character, knowing that I am dividing them in two camps : Romantics or Moderns. The Romantics are fightng for political and poetical ideas and the moderns are working on establihing order and making a economical prosperous capital in France (the baron Haussmann for exemple).

[Pompey Bum]

Put me down for Balzac.

[Emil Miller]

Georges Duroy from Guy de Maupassant's brilliant novel Bel Ami.

[prendrelemick]

For the non artists...

Pierre Curie, Louis Pasteur, Napoleon, De Lesseps, Eiffel, Braille.

[VictoHugo]

Thank you very much, these answers are different than the french ones. I'll tell you who will be our new characters in our next (english) edition quite soon.