Casimir the Great in the painting by Leopold Löffler. Casimir III the Great (1310-1370) - king of Poland from the Piast dynasty, son of Władysław Łokietek and Jadwiga Kaliska. He was probably the last child of this couple. He was seriously ill in his youth. He also did not receive a broader educ
Coming from one of the most powerful families in the kingdom, Anne de Montmorency was brought up at the Château dAmboise with the future King François I, to whom he is very close. His military qualities are widely demonstrated (Marignan, Ravenna, Novara), and he becomes Marshal of France. He was tak
Shivaji was closely watching the internal tribulations of the Mughals. When the Mughal princes got busy in the war of succession, Shivaji broke the power of the Adilshahi of Bijapur and got many of its territories in his kingdom. At this time Adilshah (II) was sitting on the throne of Bijapur. It wa
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a pioneer of civil aviation. Endowed with literary talent, he recounted his experiences in several works (Courrier Sud, Vol de nuit, Terres des hommes) in which he expressed his humanism and his ideal of greatness and solidarity among men. Endowed with a poet