Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-mis) (1743 – 1833) was an American woman, abducted as a child by Native Americans and later assimilated into Native American culture. She is best known for negotiating a treaty for her tribe. The Kidnapping of Mary Daughter of Jane and Thomas Jemison, Mary was born in the f
Born on June 29, 1886 in Luxembourg, Robert Schuman is one of the founding fathers of European construction. After schooling in Luxembourg and Metz, Schuman left for Berlin to study law. He later opened a law firm in Metz. In 1914, when the First World War broke out, he was assigned to military serv
Daughter of the king of the Visigoths and elder sister of Brunehaut, she married Chilpéric I who was jealous of her brothers marriage Sigebert with Brunehaut. But the idyll is short-lived, his mistress Frédégonde convinces Chilpéric to kill Galswinthe in order to be able to get married. Thus, Galswi
Active in the XIIth century, Azalaïs de Porcairagues composed poetry and sang courtly love in the courts of Occitania. She is considered the first troubadouress whose name is known to us. Troubadouresses Its in Occitania, in the XIth century, that the troubadour movement was born. An emblematic fi