Great French musician, nicknamed the Latin Lully Michel-Richard De Lalande embodies the French Baroque in his violin and organ pieces. A composer, he is mainly known for his sacred work, made up of motets for the kings mass, inspired by Latin texts taken from the Psalms. Becoming master of the grand
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun , an illustrious painter, of world renown, was best known for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. As a child, she had a gift for drawing; as a young girl, she produced her first portrait at the age of 15; young woman, she entered the Royal Academy of Painting
Short biography - Of Belgian origin, René Magritte (1898-1967) was a complete artist, in turn surrealist painter, engraver, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker. He was part of this generation of young people who revolted after the dead of the First World War and to evacuate this feeling of oppress
Short biography - Raphael (1483-1520) is an Italian painter of the Renaissance . Trained in Perugia with a great master of painting, Perugino, he produced a famous work during his youth, the Marriage of the Virgin (1504) . He then goes to Florence and observes the works of Leonardo da Vinci, which h
Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor, Pablo Picasso is generally presented as one of the greatest artists of the XXth century. A ladies man whose companions would deeply inspire his work, he was, along with Georges Braque, the founder of cubism and one of the pillars of modern art. Author of a ri
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance artist and humanist, who was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, but also a genius inventor. His most famous work is La Joconde, a painting exhibited at the Louvre Museum. In addition to the paintings where this great artist wanted to
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is a German composer famous worldwide for his operas. The particularly rich and brilliant Germanic dramatic art of the 19th century was to find with this author one of the most powerful expressions of romantic genius. Its supremacy asserts itself with brilliance, its influ
French composer of Italian origin, Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) obtained the exclusive management and operation of the Royal Academy of Music under Louis XIV. He then exercised a real monopoly on musical life, contributing to the development and codification of opera in France. Lully was one of t
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and one of the greatest geniuses in the history of Western music. Placed at the junction of two eras with totally opposite tendencies, Beethoven , a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, expressed classical perfection in his first compositions but a
François Couperin (1668-1733) is a French composer and one of the great figures of French Baroque music. The “Couperins” are one of the greatest families of French musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries. François is its most illustrious member, becoming one of the two greatest masters of the harps
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer, considered one of the greatest geniuses in the history of classical music. At an age when most children cannot yet read and write, Mozart was already composing minuets. At fifteen he gave his first concerts at the court of Versailles. His
Joan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is a German music composer of the Baroque period , who wrote hundreds of pieces for organ, harpsichord and orchestra, concertos, masses, cantatas, etc... His work constitutes a decisive stage in the evolution of classical music:he developed a sort of “musical grammar
Originally from Provence,Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is a French painter famous for his compositions of landscapes and still lifes, and considered the father of modern painting. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, it was in isolation and anonymity that he produced his major works, in search o
Giotto di Bondone or Ambrogiotto di Bondone (1267-1337) was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect of the Trecento (14th century). He is considered the creator of the pictorial language of the Renaissance, inspiring his work from the nascent humanism at the end of the Middle Ages. Giotto worked
Leon Blum was a politician and figure of French socialism in the interwar period. After the split at the Tours Congress of 1920, he embodied democratic and legalistic socialism. Following the victory of the Popular Front in the legislative elections of 1936, he became chairman of the council and lau
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth II in English), Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland since 1952, has also been the titular head of state of fifteen other countries from the former British Empire, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. During his long reign , Queen Elizabeth II saw fifteen prime
Jefferson Davis was an American politician, advocate for states rights and slavery before the Civil War, and sole President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Great figures in history are often pitted against an antagonist – sometimes as famous as they are, and sometimes doomed
Founder of the newspaper LHumanité in 1904 and of the Socialist Party SFIO a year later, Jean Jaurès will embody peaceful socialism until his assassination on the eve of the First World War. Criticizing the Marxist conception of the seizure of power, he will oppose all his life the use of violence,
Nikita Khrushchev was the main leader of the USSR and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. FromMr. K , history will remember his famous stunt at the UN rostrum in 1960 and his showdown with Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis two years later. Stalins successor will denounce
Charles V (1500-1558) is famous for being one of the most powerful rulers in Europe, ruling over the Netherlands, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Master of an immense empire on which “the sun never set”, the story of Charles V unlike any other. Not only was he the first monarch to have a colonial e
A 15-year-old soldier, Kellermann willingly got involved in the Revolution. He is under the orders of Dumouriez, one of the winners of Valmy. He distinguished himself during the battle by standing up to the Prussians of Brunswick. Imprisoned under the Terror, he was reinstated in the Alps and in Ita
Queen Seondeok (hangul:선덕여왕) ruled the Silla Kingdom, one of the three historical kingdoms of Korea, in the 7th century. Twenty-seventh sovereign of the kingdom, she is its first queen. During her reign, she encouraged arts and culture. The Estate Princess Deokman, first or second of King Jinpyeon
Patels health deteriorated sharply in the summer of 1950. There was blood in his cough. Maniben reduced Patels meetings and working hours, and personal medical staff was appointed to look after Patels health. West Bengal Chief Minister Bidhan Roy, who was also a doctor, learned that Patel was now jo
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was an ancient Macedonian king and was one of the greatest conquerors in history. Educated by the philosopher Aristotle, he became king in 336 BC after the assassination of his father Philip II. After suppressing several revolts, in 336 BC. AD, Alexander leads a vast