Third sister of Napoleon, she married Murat in 1800. Grand Duchess of Cleves and Queen of Naples. An eternal schemer, she tried in vain to preserve her kingdom.
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
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
Nephew of Napoleon Ist , son of Louis Bonaparte, he was the first President of the French Republic, elected on December 10, 1848 by universal male suffrage with 74.2% of the vote, before becoming Emperor of the French from December 2, 1852 to September 4, 1870 under the name of Napoleon III. He gre
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