Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Broglie, he served Pichegru then Hoche. He distinguished himself in 1796 on the Rhine where his qualities as a tactician worked wonders, particularly at Kaiserslautern. His soldiers affectionately call him “the warrior without fear and without reproach”. He became friends
Originally from a wealthy family in Padua, Livy went to Rome to receive the teaching of rhetoricians (person who teaches eloquence, master of rhetoric) and to study philosophy. Emperor Augustus brings him into a circle of initiates and entrusts him with the education of his son, Claude, the future e
Slave who became queen of the Franks, Bathilde (circa 630 – 680) influences the policy of the kingdom and then exercises the regency. She strives to keep the peace and bans the sale of slaves on her land. A child slave The main source concerning the life of Bathilde is the Vita sanctæ Bathildis (L
Brilliant speaker of the National Constituent Assembly, he forms with Lameth and Duport the opposition to Mirabeau and the right . He joined the Jacobins and became president of the Assembly in October 1790. After the episode of Varennes, he fell in love with the queen and became a defender of a con