Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) is by far the best known of the French revolutionaries. Head of the Jacobins club, he sat in the Assembly as a Montagnard when he voted for the death of the king and war on the European monarchies. In June 1793, the Committee of Public Safety, of which he was on
Vercingetorix (72-46 BCE) was a Gallic aristocrat and chief of the Arverni tribe. At the head of a coalition of Gallic peoples, he stood up to the Roman armies before having to capitulate during the siege of Alesia. Vercingetorix, defeated by Caesar, almost single-handedly embodies a national myth d
A man with a troubled past, he was once imprisoned for his pamphlets against the queen. Founder of the newspaper Le Patriote français, member of the Legislative Assembly and the Convention, he was one of the leaders of the Girondins (also called Brissotins). He is against Robespierre, one of the sup
Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru had spent their entire lives in the Congress. Both were considered close associates of Gandhiji, but there was a difference in their personalities like Akash and Hades. Both went to England and obtained the title of barrister, but Sardar Patel was far ahead of Nehru