• Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) philisopher and historian.

• Paul Drouot (1886-1915) : writer and poet.

• Albert Caquot (1881-1976) : engineer, scientist, architect.

• Jean Robic (1921-1980) : winner of the "Tour de France" in 1947

NATIVES OF THE VOUZIERS AREA

• Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821) born in Dricourt, receipt doctor in 1782 it is charged with the poor of St Sulpice. Named in 1797 with the pulpit of medicine of the college of France it acquires an immense reputation. Napoleon names it in 1804 first doctor of the Emperor. He will follow it in all his military campaigns. He enters to the institute in 1811 and withdraws himself after Waterloo. He dies in 1821. Founder of employers' teaching to the bed of the patient, it was the first to establish a cardiovascular semiology.

•Docteur Etienne Lancereaux(1829-1910): born at Brécy-Brières,this professor undertook research dé&terminantes in the treatment of
many diseases. He chaired in 1908l' Académie of medicine of Paris

• Louis Lefèvre-Gineau (1751-1829) : born at Authe, eminent chemist and physicist, teacher at the collège de France, he shared in the establishment of the kilogramme as the unit of mass.

• Savary, duke of Rovigo (1774-1833) : born at Marcq, aide-de-camp to Bonaparte, he was responsible for his safety .

• Guillaume de Machault (1290-1377) : an eminent poet.

• Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) : born in Saint-Pierremont, a Benedictine, the most scholarly man of his time but also the most modest, who wrote "Vie Diplomatica"

• Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743) : born at Champigneulle, a great animal painter. He painted the Hunt of Louis XIV.

• André Dhôtel (1900-1991) : writer and poet, winner of the Prix Femina 1955, Grand Prix de littérature of the Académie Française (1974) and Prix national des Lettres (1975).

• Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) : the prince of poets was a farmer at Juniville where today a museum is devoted to him in the Lion d'Or inn. He used to go there to drink absinthe. Prosecuted in Vouziers, he served a month's sentence in the town prison in1885.

• Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) : the poet with "soles of wind" wrote "The season in Hell" at Roche. He often stayed in the farm which his mother owned in this small village.

• Antoine-Eugène Alfred Chanzy (1823-1883) : born at Nouart. General, he was also member of Parliament for the Ardennes, Governor-General of Algeria, French Ambassador in Russia. He rests in a mausoleum built at the base of the castle which belonged to him at Buzancy and which is today the home of the middle school