Father of modern anatomy, Vesalius was born in Brussels, and came from a family of doctors and pharmacists. He studied medicine in Paris in 1533, then taught anatomy and surgery at the University of Padua (Italy), from 1537.His attraction to anatomy led him to dig up human bodies in cemeteries to st
A teacher, woman of letters and anarchist and feminist activist, Louise Michel (1830 – 1905) is one of the major figures of the Commune of Paris . Love of equality Born on May 29, 1830 in Haute-Marne at the Château de Vroncourt, Louise Michel was the daughter of Marie-Anne Michel, a servant, and
Töregene Khatun is a Khatun (sovereign) of the Mongol Empire. She exercised the regency from the death of her husband in 1241 until the election of her eldest son five years later. Khatoun A member of the Naimans, Turkic-speaking Mongols from the south-west of the Mongolian plateau, Töregene was
He is part of a family of French painters, sculptors and scholars. He himself was a writer and astronomer, he belonged from 1785 to the three academies (French, Fine Arts and Sciences). Member of the Third Estate, he became President of the National Assembly. After the storming of the Bastille, he i