Born in Béziers in 1899, Jean Moulin studies law and leaves for the front in 1918, he will not participate in the fight, because the armistice is proclaimed. He joined the prefectural body in 1922. Successively chief of staff, sub-prefect of Albertville, ministerial chief of staff, he was appointed
Grandson of the tyrant Clistene of Sycione, this Athenian statesman belongs to the Alcmaeonids, a large aristocratic family with a major place in the public life of Athens. Cleisthenes is elected first archon (political leader) in -525-524 but must fight to keep this power. Despite the decline of Pe
The life of chronicler Raoul Glaber (Rodulfus Glaber dit le Chauve), a Burgundian monk born at the end of the 10th century, remains little known. His name and personality are nonetheless a subject of controversy among historians. Associated by romantic historiography and by Michelet with the so-call
Son of Septimius Severus, Caracalla is known not only for his taste for war, but above all for his various reforms, in particular the Edict of Caracalla, as well as for the construction in Rome of the baths that bear his name. Very early associated with the political life of the empire, Caracalla a