Alexandre Dumas immortalized theChevalier de Maison-Rouge , a character from a novel, who enters the Conciergerie to help Marie-Antoinette escape in 1793. But this fictional character did indeed exist under the name of Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville :a ladies man, counter-revolutionary, devoted body
Lawyer, he was elected deputy to the States General, he will chair the Constituent Assembly. Elected to the Convention, he is a representative on mission in Mainz. He was president of the Five Hundred at the time of the Directory and, having become director, he organized with Barras the anti-royalis
Son of Philip the Bold and Isabella of Aragon, Charles de Valois was the father of Philip VI, the future king of France of the Valois dynasty. Moderately intelligent, overly ambitious and fairly greedy, Charles de Valois collected principalities. In 1280, the pope recognized him as king of Aragon (u
Belonging to an aristocratic family, Senghor studied in Senegal and obtained his baccalaureate. At the age of 22, he came to France for the first time to continue his studies in Paris, where he met Aimé Césaire. Passionate about French letters, he became a professor of classics and was the first Afr