Coming from a pious and royalist family Charlotte Corday, Republican and friend of the Girondins of Caen, stabs Marat, the July 13, 1793, responsible for the fall of the Girondins. Her trial quickly conducted, Charlotte Corday was executed on July 17, showing calm and great courage. Charlotte Corday is a direct descendant of the poet Corneille
Italian Renaissance Prince, Laurenius de Medici (nicknamed Laurent the Magnificent ) ruled the Republic of Florence from 1469 to 1492. Coming from a family of wealthy bankers, the Medici, Lorenzo succeeded his father in 1469 at the head of this city-state and succeeded in making Florence the most po