There is no certainty that attests to the historical existence of Homer. Many still dispute it today. His name is surrounded by the craziest legends. He is said to be a bard (singer/poet) declaiming his verses throughout the world although blind. He would have been born in the VIIIe century BC in th
Born near Grenoble in 1476, Pierre de Terrail, Lord of Bayard, served his apprenticeship as a young nobleman as a page to the Duke of Savoy; then he went into the service of the kings of France. He will become the “Knight without fear and without reproach”. His name has always been synonymous with u
Arthur, Duke of Richemont was the son of John IV, Duke of Brittany. Wounded at Agincourt, Richemont will retain the nickname scarred. Taken prisoner, he remained in England until 1420. Yolande dAragon, mother-in-law of Charles VII, had him appointed Constable of France in 1425. But Arthur was a whol
Nephew of Napoleon Ist , son of Louis Bonaparte, he was the first President of the French Republic, elected on December 10, 1848 by universal male suffrage with 74.2% of the vote, before becoming Emperor of the French from December 2, 1852 to September 4, 1870 under the name of Napoleon III. He gre