Daughter of the Emperor, Anne Comnenus (1083 – around 1153) was a Byzantine historian and writer, whose work is a major source on the political history of Byzantium. The Byzantine Empire Born on the 1st or December 2, 1083, Anne Comnenus is the eldest of Empress Irene Doukas and Byzantine Emperor
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
Peter the Hermit is from around Amiens. In 1095, he would have gone on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from where he would have returned with a letter from God ordering the Christians to come to the aid of their co-religionists in the East. He is the main preacher of the first crusade. An eloquent orator,
Get the Emperors attention Louis Pasteur, born in 1822 in Dole, was already an eminent professor of physics and chemistry when Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed the Second Empire in 1852. Deeply Bonapartist, Pasteur stayed more and more frequently in Paris. He entered the Academy of Sciences D