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Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521 -
Walter SCOTT
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771 - 1832 -
Jacques NECKER
French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of Louis XVI
1732 - 1804 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Joachim MURAT
Marshal of France
1767 - 1815 -
D'ARTAGNAN
French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard
1612 - 1673 -
Maximilien de ROBESPIERRE
One of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
1758 - 1794 -
Elisabeth VIGEE LE BRUN
French painter
1755 - 1842 -
Michel CHASLES
French mathematician
1793 - 1880 -
LE LORRAIN
Artist of the Baroque era
1600 - 1682 -
Alphonse DE LAMARTINE
French writer, poet and politician
1790 - 1869 -
Honoré MIRABEAU
French revolutionary, writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and politician
1749 - 1791 -
Claude MOËT
French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that would later become Moët et Chandon
1683 - 1760 -
RICHELIEU
French clergyman, noble, and statesman
1585 - 1642 -
Honoré DE BALZAC
French novelist and playwright
1799 - 1850 -
Joséphine DE BEAUHARNAIS
First wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French
1763 - 1814 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Charlotte CORDAY
Figure of the French Revolution
1768 - 1793 -
Jean de LA FONTAINE
French fabulist
1621 - 1695 -
Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790