The idéologues were a group of French philosophers, physicians and economists, active from the mid-1790s until the end of the Napoleonic era. With the philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy and the phys
Bust of Destutt de Tracy by David d'Angers
Collège des Quatre-Nations, since 1805 the seat of the Institut de France
Madame Helvétius, at whose salon in Auteuil the idéologues gathered
Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, 1803, by François Gérard
Pierre-Louis Ginguené was a French author.
Guinguné's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery