Volunteer in the National Guard, he took part in the conquest of Holland under the orders of Pichegru. He was then general-in-chief of the Armée du Nord. He helps Bonaparte during the 18 Brumaire which entrusts him with the Army of the Rhine. He won the great victory of Hohenlinden against the Austr
King of France, he was the youngest of Louis XVI, he reigned during two successive Restorations (1814- 1815, 1815-1824). He married Louise de Savoie with whom he had no children. He went into exile in 1791, and took the title of regent and Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew the Dauphin Louis
Michel Eyquen de Montaigne (1533-1592) is a French writer famous for his essays, his only work. A great Humanist, he was inclined towards tolerance between beings and respect for difference, by laying down the first principles where the Society should be made to serve Man and not the other way aroun
French conspirator. One of the leaders of the Breton chouannerie, he plotted against Bonaparte in 1800 and in 1803 during the attack on the Infernal Machine. From London, the royalists had financed a bomb, Napoleon escaped the explosion which caused other victims that evening in Paris.