French F1 Drivers.

With more time on my hands now, I decided to go back to my roots and check out, current and former French F1 drivers.
I was actually surprised to see so many unfamilliar names in the list.
The obvious ones that come to mind would be Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Rene Arnoux, J.Pierre Jabouille and so on..
So over the next few weeks, I will dedicate a post each to my fellow Frenchman who made our country proud in some time or another.
Here is the list of the drivers that will be featured ( in alphabetical order)

A
Jean Alesi

Philippe Alliot
René Arnoux

B
Marcel Balsa

Élie Bayol
Jean Behra
Paul Belmondo
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
Éric Bernard
Jean-Christophe Boullion
Sébastien Bourdais

C
François Cevert
Eugène Chaboud
Bernard Collomb
Érik Comas

D
Yannick Dalmas
Patrick Depailler
José Dolhem

E
Philippe Étancelin

F
Pascal Fabre

G
Patrick Gaillard
Yves Giraud-Cabantous
Aldo Gordini
Jean-Marc Gounon
Georges Grignard
Olivier Grouillard
André Guelfi

H
François Hesnault

J
Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Jean-Pierre Jarier
Max Jean

L
Robert La Caze
Jacques Laffite
Franck Lagorce
Gérard Larrousse
Michel Leclère
Pierre Levegh
Guy Ligier
Henri Louveau
Roger Loyer
Jean Lucas
Jean Lucienbonnet

M
Guy Mairesse
Robert Manzon
Eugène Martin
François Mazet
François Migault
Franck Montagny

P
Olivier Panis
Henri Pescarolo
François Picard
Didier Pironi
Jacques Pollet
Charles Pozzi
Alain Prost

R
Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Louis Rosier

S
Stéphane Sarrazin
Jean-Louis Schlesser
Jo Schlesser
Johnny Servoz-Gavin
André Simon (racing driver)
Raymond Sommer

Mike Sparken
Philippe Streiff

T
Patrick Tambay
André Testut
Maurice Trintignant

As each driver is revealed, you will notice many of them only had a few races to their name. Nevertheless they deserve to be noted down in memory of their contribution to the sport.

I will try and get as much details as possible for each one but should you notice errors or misses do not hesitate to comment and I will amend accordingly.