Trained as a goldsmith, Gutenberg is known as the inventor of the printing press. After leaving Mainz in 1428, he settled in Strasbourg around 1434. He associated with several bourgeois and designed stone cutting and mirror manufacturing processes using an alloy of lead, tin and copper. enriched wit
Son of Charles Martel, born in 714, Pepin the Short (so nicknamed because of his small size), shares the kingdom of the Franks with his brother. But the latter, retiring to the convent in 747, left Pepin to reign alone, after having together reformed the Church (742-744). He was elected king of the
Victoria Montou, known as Toya (? – 1805), was a Haitian fighter against slavery and for independence. She takes up arms alongside Jean-Jacques Dessalines . Slave on a plantation In Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), then a French colony, Victoria Montou, called Toya, was exploited as a slave in
René Descartes (1596-1650) is a French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, theoretician of rationalism. Published in 1637, His Discourse on Method is his most important work. In mathematics, he developed algebraic writing and founded analytical geometry. Descartes will influence opposing philo