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Henri D'ARAMITZ
Gascon abbé, and black musketeer of the Maison du Roi in 17th century France
1620 - 1673 -
MARQUISE DE MONTESPAN
Maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France
1640 - 1707 -
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 -
Elisabeth VIGEE LE BRUN
French painter
1755 - 1842 -
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 -
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century Enlightenment
1712 - 1778 -
Maximilien de ROBESPIERRE
One of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution
1758 - 1794 -
Rebecca NURSE
Executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials
1621 - 1692 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
Heinrich HEINE
Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets
1797 - 1856 -
LE LORRAIN
Artist of the Baroque era
1600 - 1682 -
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