Coming from a modest family, named Darc (she was never a shepherdess), Jeanne heard around 1425 the voice de Saint-Michel, who ordered him to go to the aid of the King of France Charles VII. In Feb. 1429, she obtains from Robert de Baudricourt, that a small escort accompany her to Chinon, where the
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a pioneer of civil aviation. Endowed with literary talent, he recounted his experiences in several works (Courrier Sud, Vol de nuit, Terres des hommes) in which he expressed his humanism and his ideal of greatness and solidarity among men. Endowed with a poet
Ngalifourou (1864 – 1956) is a queen of the Teke kingdom in Central Africa, the last ruler of black Africa. Queen of the Teke kingdom Daughter of Bokapa, Ngalifourou was born in 1864 in Ngabé, on the right bank of the Congo River. She is part of the Téké people, a Bantu population that lives in
Born in Vinci, near Florence, Leonardo is the natural son of the notary Piero da Vinci and a simple peasant. He will join his father in Florence at the age of 14 and enter the polytechnic workshop of a renowned artist. Having acquired a solid reputation as a painter, he lived in the great capitals o