From July 12, 1789, at the Palais-Royal, he led the Parisian crowd to the insurrection which ended in the storming of the Bastille. A mountain dweller, he joined the Cordeliers club, and became close to Fabre dÉglantine and Danton, he fought with them against the Girondins. The violent pamphlets he
Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Broglie, he served Pichegru then Hoche. He distinguished himself in 1796 on the Rhine where his qualities as a tactician worked wonders, particularly at Kaiserslautern. His soldiers affectionately call him “the warrior without fear and without reproach”. He became friends
Nicknamed The Iron Marshal. During the Revolution, he tries to stop Dumouriez when he goes over to the enemy. He follows Bonaparte to Egypt where he commands a cavalry brigade. At Austerlitz, he was responsible for attracting the Austrians to the marshes. During the Prussian campaign, while Napoleon
French painter, leader of the neo-classical school (which advocates a return to the aesthetic canons of Antiquity Greek and Latin). He was a member of the Convention, but he was imprisoned after the fall of Robespierre, he was pardoned under the Empire, of which he became the official painter (Le Sa
Lawyer in the Kings Council from 1785 to 1791, he spoke out for the Revolution, founding in 1790 the club of Cordeliers. He left for England after the Champ-de-Mars shooting. Minister of Justice after August 10, 1792, he allowed the September massacres to take place. Conventional mountain dweller, h
Son of Clotaire II, he was placed at the age of 10 under the guardianship of Pépin de Landen and by Arnold of Metz. On the death of his father, he took control of Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy and settled in the Paris region. He leaves to his brother Caribert II, the care of governing Aquitaine.
Son of Sigebert III and Emnechildis. Prior to Dagoberts birth, the mayor of the Grimoald Palace had had his own son, Childebert, adopted. On his death, the king entrusts his young son, Dagobert, to Grimoald. The mayor of the palace has him shaved and sent to a monastery in Ireland with his mother. H
He is the son of Childebert IV and reigns under the authority under the tutelage of Pépin de Herstal over Burgundy and Neustria. It will therefore play no political role.
With his three brothers (the Chouan brothers), he fomented in lower Maine the Catholic and royalist insurrection which took the name of chouannerie. The latter was nicknamed Jean Chouan because he had adopted the cry of the owl as a rallying sign. The Chouans carry out a parallel action with the Ven
Coming from a pious and royalist family Charlotte Corday, Republican and friend of the Girondins of Caen, stabs Marat, the July 13, 1793, responsible for the fall of the Girondins. Her trial quickly conducted, Charlotte Corday was executed on July 17, showing calm and great courage. Charlotte Corday
Actor then director of the Lyon theater, he became secretary of the Jacobins club. Member of the commune of Paris he is one of the actors of the day of August 10, 1792 and approves the massacres of September. Conventional, member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was responsible, with Billaud-Va
Bertrand de Got or de Goth, was Archbishop of Bordeaux before becoming Pope under the name of Clement V. He went down in history for having ordered the suppression (with Philippe le Bel) of the order of the Templars and for having, in 1309, moved the Holy See to Avignon. He was crowned in Lyon in th
Son of Childeric I, Clovis climbed the bulwark at the age of 15. He then undertook the conquest of Gaul, and defeated the Roman general Syagrius (successor of Aegidius) at Soissons and the Alamanni at Tolbiac. Under the influence of his wife Clotilde and Bishop Rémi, he converted to Catholicism and
King of Burgundy and Neustria, Clovis IV is the son of Thierry III. he reigns at the death of his father under the authority of the mayor of the palace Pepin II of Herstal. Therefore, he will not play any political role.
Son of Dagobert I and Nanthilde. Clovis inherits Neustria and Burgundy, his half-brother Sigebert III inherits Austrasia. In 650, he married Bathilde, a slave who gave him three children:Clotaire III, Childéric II and Thierry III. Under his reign, Neustria experienced a period of calm and prosperity
Son of Clotaire III. After the assassination of Childéric II, the mayor of the palace of Neustria and Burgundy, Léger, puts Thierry III on the throne, while Ébroïn, installs Clovis III on the throne. Ébroïn invades Neustria, seizes Thierry III, no longer needing Clovis III, he installs Thierry III i
Daughter of King Burgundy, she married Clovis in 493 and played an important role in his conversion to Catholicism. On her death, she became regent of her three sons Clodomir, Childebert I and Clotaire I. She takes in Clodomirs sons when he dies. But her two other sons, Childebert and Clotaire, blac
Third son of Clovis and Clotilde, Clotaire is the bloodiest and most cunning of his brothers. He inherited the kingdom of Soissons (future Neustria). When his brother Clodomir dies, he brutally murders his sons despite Childeberts reluctance. The two brothers then set off on a campaign against the B
Supposed son of Thierry III, Clotaire IV is king of Neustria. He is chosen by Charles Martel, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, to replace Chilpéric II. But, once on the throne, he plays no role. Clotaire IV died in 719, Charles Martel replaced him with Chilpéric II.
Son of Chilpéric and Frédégonde, he inherited Neustria from 584. His cousins Thierry and Théodebert (Austrasia, Burgundy) attacks in 600. Intelligent Clotaire II will take advantage of a quarrel between his cousins. He signs peace with Théodebert, encouraged by Brunehaut, Thierry takes up arms aga
(Warning:torture, sexual violence) Lawyer and Franco-Tunisian feminist activist, Gisèle Halimi (1927 – 2020) is an important figure in the fight for womens rights, particularly through the Bobigny trial and the Aix-en-Provence trial. A specific character Daughter of Fortunée Metoudi, Sephardic,
Eleanor of Aquitaine (circa 1122 – 1204) is alternately queen of France, then of England. It plays an important political role in the West, especially with regard to relations between the two countries. Queen of France Eleanor of Aquitaine is the daughter of Guillaume X, Duke of Aquitaine and Aé
Lalla Fatma NSoumer (1830 – 1863) is a Kabyle woman who resisted the conquest of Algeria by France in the 1850s. The Koranic school Lalla Fatma NSoumer was born in 1830 in Haute Kabylie, in the village of Werja (now Abi Youcef or At Bu Yusek in Kabyle, located in northern Algeria). She has four o
Annelies Marie Frank (1929-1945) , better known as Anne Frank, is world famous for her “Diary of Anne Frank” which chronicles the months her family spent in hiding from Nazism. Deported to Germany, Anne Frank died a few months before the German surrender. Moving to Amsterdam Born June 12, 1929 in