Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (1914 – 1996) was a French woman of letters and director, an important author of the 20th century. Indochinese childhood Third child of Marie Donnadieu, teacher, of Henri Donnadieu, school principal, Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born in 1937), is the first woman in history to have made a journey into space, and the only woman to have made this journey alone. Selected by Nikita Khrushchev Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937, in Maslennikovo, Russia, to a farmer father and a mot
Landsberg Herrade (between 1125 and 1130 – 1195) was an Alsatian abbess, poetess and encyclopaedist. She composed the Hortus deliciarum , the first encyclopedia made by a woman. Hortus deliciarum From a noble family in Alsace, Herrade de Landsberg was born between 1125 and 1130 in Hohenbourg, on t
Considered as one of the masters of French and European Romanticism, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) is above all presented as the father of the history of France but also as the “teacher” of this nation. A man of the people, dedicated to the people, the historian has always thought that his mission was