Historical clue formulations

• Honoré de Balzac's "___ Goriot" — 2026-06-21
• ___ Noël — 2025-07-13
• Michigan's ___ Marquette River (waterway named for a missionary) — 2025-07-05
• Parisian patriarch — 2024-09-26
• Title for a French priest — 2024-02-25
• Parisian papa — 2023-10-03
• Father: Fr. — 2022-09-05
• ___ Noël — 2022-09-04
• ___ Noël — 2022-08-06
• Famille member — 2022-02-12
• Parisian papa — 2022-01-26
• Father, in French — 2021-05-10
• Parisian priest — 2020-12-15
• ___ Noël (boss of 65-Across, in France) — 2019-12-16
• Champagne pop — 2019-10-26
• Pops up in France? — 2019-09-29
• French homophone of 30-Down — 2019-07-06
• Father, in France — 2019-05-07
• France's ___ Noël — 2018-02-18
• Member of la famille — 2017-11-08
• Father: Fr. — 2017-06-26
• Parisian parent — 2017-05-03
• Euro pop? — 2016-11-20
• Father of the mariée — 2016-01-08
• Juin honoree — 2014-08-17
• Membre de la famille — 2014-07-04
• Father, in France — 2013-07-08
• ___ Noël (French Santa Claus) — 2012-05-22
• Man in la famille — 2012-04-21
• ___ Noël (French Santa Claus) — 2011-11-16
• Old man of Orléans — 2011-10-29
• Van Gogh's "Portrait of ___ Tanguy" — 2010-05-15
• Senior, in French names — 2007-03-31
• ___ Noël — 2006-11-11
• ___ Lachaise (Paris's largest cemetery) — 2006-04-08
• French father — 2005-01-10
• ___ Noël — 2004-05-30
• Euro pop? — 2004-05-16
• "Senior" in French names — 2003-09-30
• Member of la famille — 2003-01-03
• A Dumas — 2002-05-23
• ___ Noël — 1999-10-24
• François's father — 1999-08-17
• "Le ___ Goriot" — 1999-05-02
• ___ Noël — 1999-03-21
• Jean-Luc's father — 1998-07-08
• French father — 1998-02-10
• II, to III, par exemple — 1997-12-27
• A Dumas — 1997-12-21
• Father, in France — 1997-11-25