Alexandre Emmanuel François Janson de Sailly (1785–1829) was a rich lawyer who disinherited his wife Marie-Jeanne after discovering she was having an affair. He left his money to the state for it to build something on the lines of the present Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, otherwise known simply as Janson or JDS. On the rue de la Pompe elevation are the busts of twenty-four writers, although a few are better known for other professions. Below I include all of the busts from rue de Longchamp, moving south.
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869).
Abel-François Villemain (1780–1870).
Lazare Carnot (1753–1823).
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814).
Jean de La Bruyère (1645–96).
Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711).
René Descartes (1596–1650).
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92).
Voltaire (born François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778).
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704).
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95).
Pierre Corneille (1606–94).
Jean Racine (1639–99).
Molière (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–73).
François Fénelon (1651–1715).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78).
François de Malherbe (1555–1628).
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).
Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–88).
Montesquieu (1689–1755).
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–48).
François Guizot (1787–1874).
Victor Cousin (1792–1867).
Victor Hugo (1802–85).
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