Son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Dauphin in 1789 after the death of his older brother. Locked up in the Temple during the Revolution, he was isolated from all contact in anonymity and distress. He is the pretender to the throne after the death of his father in 1793. In 1795, Louis XVII dies in
Lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, he was elected to the Estates General but remained unnoticed. He will nevertheless be elected to the Convention, but remains discreet within the Plain. He declared himself hostile to the Terror and joined the Committee of Public Safety after Thermidor. President of
Nanny or Queen Nanny (about 1685 – 1733 or 1760) is a Jamaican heroine, an emblematic figure of the resistance of the Jamaican maroons. Runaway slaves Many accounts of Queen Nannys existence come from oral sources and historical documents. Nanny was born around 1685 or 1686 in Ghana, in the Asha
Vicar at Chartres, he owes his fame to his pamphlet written at the beginning of the Revolution summarizing the aspirations of the Third State (“What is the Third Estate? Everything!...”). He becomes deputy to the States-General. Co-editor of the Tennis Court oath, co-founder of the Jacobins club (wh