Self-portrait by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1790. Uffizi Museum, Florence • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In 1790, in Florence, the great artist of the 18th century Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842) made her self-portrait on the road to exile she faced during the French Revolution. Now kept in the Uf
September 24, 1771 (Bussy-le-Grand) - July 29, 1813 (Montbard) Junot, Andoche, Duke of Abrantès After studying law, Junot enlisted in September 1791 in the volunteers of the Côte-dOr. With a temerity bordering on unconsciousness, Junot la Tempête, as his comrades nicknamed him, was a sergeant i
Erich Ludendorff, born on April 9, 1865 in Kruszewnia near Posen in Prussia (today Poznań in Poland), died on December 22, 1937 in Tutzing in Bavaria, was general-in-chief of the German armies during the First World War, from 1916 to 1918. He actively supported the Nazi movement in its early days (1
If we ask for the names of historians of Ancient Rome, surely Titus Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dio Cassius, Polybius will come out... Most of them have in common being of Greek origin, although some were Roman and others obtained citizenship, but there is one thing on which they una