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
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator reigned Egypt between 51 and 30 BC, first with her brothers and husbands Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, then with the Roman general Marc Antoine. Childhood Born during the winter of -69/-68 in Alexandria, Cleopatra was one of the daughters of the king of Egypt Ptole
Leon Blum was a politician and figure of French socialism in the interwar period. After the split at the Tours Congress of 1920, he embodied democratic and legalistic socialism. Following the victory of the Popular Front in the legislative elections of 1936, he became chairman of the council and lau
Victoria Montou, known as Toya (? – 1805), was a Haitian fighter against slavery and for independence. She takes up arms alongside Jean-Jacques Dessalines . Slave on a plantation In Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), then a French colony, Victoria Montou, called Toya, was exploited as a slave in