Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance artist and humanist, who was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, but also a genius inventor. His most famous work is La Joconde, a painting exhibited at the Louvre Museum. In addition to the paintings where this great artist wanted to
Adolphe Thiers was born into a bourgeois family. A scholarship student at the Marseille high school, a brilliant speaker, he studied law in Aix-en-Provence, where he became friends with the historian Auguste Mignet. Received as a lawyer in 1820, he moved to Paris, where Mignet protected him. He writ
Suzanne Lévy became Suzanne Buisson (1883 – deported in 1943) is a resistance fighter and a French politician. The woman, the activist Suzanne Lévy was born on September 19, 1883 in Paris. Her modest family quickly moved to Dijon where Suzanne spent her childhood. In 1899, at the age of sixteen, s
Parisian laundress, Victorine Gorget (1843 – 1901) actively participated in the Paris Commune, during which she was considered a leader. The great Victorine Daughter of Eléonore Cochon and Edmet Gorget, Victorine Gorget was born on April 20, 1843 in Paris. The journalist Henri Rochefort will indic