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French engineer officer. He composed in 1792, in Strasbourg, the words and the music of the Marseillaise. Imprisoned during the Terror, released on the death of Robespierre, he composed songs, romances, plays (the School of Mothers, 1798). But he remained in the shadows until Louis-Philippe granted
Philip II the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, seeking alliances with Germany gave as wife his nephew Charles VI the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, Isabeau. The kings madness, which broke out in 1392, made her the regent of the kingdom. She then found herself at the center of all the quarrels and intrigues
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934) - Polish physicist and chemist. In 1898, she discovered two new chemical elements:polonium and radium. In 1903 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1911 in Chemistry. From 1906, she headed the chair of physics at the Sorbonne
Kenojuak Ashevak (1927 – 2013) is a Canadian Inuit artist who practices drawing, printmaking and sculpture. She is known in particular for her depictions of stylized birds. A young orphan Daughter of Silaqqi and Ushuakjuk, a respected shaman, Kenojuak Ashevak was born on October 3, 1927 in an igl