Anne of Beaujeu(1461 - 1522)

Elder daughter of Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy, she married Pierre de Beaujeu at the age of 12 , who becomes Duke of Bourbon. On the death of her father, she exercised the regency during the minority of Charles VIII, her brother. Contrary to the expectations of the princes of the kingdom, it contains the nobility, firmly maintains against the Duke of Orléans the royal authority and the unity of the kingdom by putting an end to the Mad War. It convenes the Estates General of Tours.

Angilbert(745 - 814)

Anne of Brittany (1477 - 1514)

Bertrade(? - 783)
Daughter of Caribert, count of Laon, she married Pépin le Bref and thus became queen of the Franks. She is the mother of Charlemagne and Carloman. At first just Pepins concubine, ambitious, Berthe managed to get him to marry him in 749.
Flora Tristan
Born in Paris to a Peruvian noble father and a French mother from the petty bourgeoisie, Flora Tristan quickly experienced poverty after the premature death of her father. She became a colorist worker in Paris, where she met her future husband.Flora Tristans personal experience would determine her p
Jeanne D'Arc
Daughter of a labourer, Joan of Arc was born in Domrémy, in the Vosges. When she was 13, while she was in the garden, she heard the voices of Saint Margaret, Saint Catherine and the Archangel Saint Michael urging her to free France from the yoke of the English. She obtained an audience in Chinon wit
Olympe de Gouges
Coming from a modest Montalbanaise family, Marie Gouze moved to Paris on the death of her husband in 1766. She became known there under the pseudonym Olympes de Gouges through her writings and political battles and engaged in a fight against all injustices, mainly against those done to women and bla