Arras - Personalities

Personalities

Arras was one of the centers of trouvère poetry, and trouvères from Arras include:

• Adam de la Halle (c.1240–88)
• Andrieu Contredit d'Arras († c.1248)
• Audefroi le Bastart (fl. c1200–1230)
• Dame Margot
• Dame Maroie
• Gaidifer d'Avion
• Guillaume le Vinier (fl. c1220–45; †1245)
• Jacques le Vinier
• Jehan Bretel (c1200–1272)
• Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras (fl. c1240–70)
• Jehan Erart († c1259)
• Mahieu de Gant
• Moniot d'Arras (fl c1250–75)
• Robert de Castel
• Robert de la Piere

Arras was the birthplace of:

• Matthias of Arras (1290?–1352), architect
• Antoine de Févin (c.1470–1511 or 1512), composer
• Charles de l'Écluse (1526–1609), doctor and pioneering botanist
• Philippe Rogier (c. 1561–1596), composer
• Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre (1758–1794), French revolutionary leader
• Joseph le Bon (1765–1795), politician
• Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857), one of the first modern private investigators
• Lucien Gaudin (1886–1934), fencing champion
• Gabriel Hanot (1889–1968), journalist
• Violette Leduc (1907–1972), author
• Jean-Christophe Novelli (born 1961), chef and restaurateur
• Benoît Assou-Ekotto (born 1984), footballer
• Jean Pierre Arras (born 1998), footballer