Victor Schoelcher photographed by Étienne Carjat. Plate from the Contemporary Gallery (Paris, L. Baschet, 1876-1884) • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS He rests in the Pantheon, has several statues bearing his effigy in mainland France and in the overseas departments, and a town in Martinique even bears his na
Malcolm X was one of the big names in the fight for more civil rights for African Americans in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Malcolm X was an activist who fought for the rights of the African-American community during the 1950s and 1960s, in the era of civil rights movements in the
In the midst of those technological innovations, the inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the Phoenicians, sailed along the Egyptian and North African coast until they reached the other shore, the westernmost, the furthest or Iberian as the Greeks called it. This event occurred bet
(Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de)(Lussac-les-Châteaux, 1640 - Bourbon-lArchambault, 1707.) Favorite of Louis XIV. Daughter of Gabriel de Rochechouart, Prince of Tonnay-Cnarente, Duke of Mortemart. She is called, at Court, Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente. Blonde beauty i