Master midwife, Angélique du Coudray trained women giving birth in the countryside and invented the first obstetrical mannequin. The first obstetrical mannequin Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier Du Coudray was born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1714, into a family of eminent doctors. For 16 years, she wor
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910 – 1996) is one of Australia’s most famous and talented Aboriginal artists of contemporary times. A life in the desert Emily Kame Kngwarreye was born in 1910 in Australia, among the Anmatyerre people. She grew up in the desert area of Alhalkere, in what would later b
Louis the Germanic is the second son of Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne. Heir to an immense empire, the latter divides it between his three sons, Lothaire, Louis and Pépin. He favors the elder Lothaire in 817 by a legal text (Ordinatio Imperii ) by appointing him co-emperor, which triggered a wa
Japanese painter, Ogura Yuki (1895 – 2000) is known in particular for his bijin-ga, his portraits of women. Teacher Mizoguchi Yuki – she will become Ogura Yuki through marriage – was born on March 1, 1895 in Ōtsu in Shiga prefecture, on the island of Honshū in Japan, near Kyoto. She grew up in th