Notable inmates

François Lehideux (30 January 1904 – 21 June 1998) was a French industrialist and member of the Vichy government. .

François Le Lionnais (3 October 1901 – 13 March 1984) was a French chemical engineer and writer.

François Louis Michel Chemin des Forgues (born 29 September 1759, in Vire – 10 September 1840, in Maincy (Seine-et-Marne)) was a French politician, and Foreign Minister.

François Henry Spoerry (28 December 1912 – 11 January 1999) was a French architect, developer, and urban planner who created the seaside town of Port Grimaud.

François Thureau-Dangin (3 January 1872 in Paris – 24 January 1944 in Paris) was a French archaeologist, assyriologist and epigrapher.

François-Xavier Audouin (18 April 1765 – 23 July 1837), commonly called Xavier Audouin, was a French clergyman and politician during the French Revolution.