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Benjamin HARRISON
23rd President of the United States
1833 - 1901 -
James MONROE
5th President of the United States
1758 - 1831 -
William Henry HARRISON
9th President of the United States
1773 - 1841 -
John Quincy ADAMS
Sixth President of the United States
1767 - 1848 -
Frédéric BOUCHERON
French jeweler
1830 - 1902 -
Alphonse DAUDET
French novelist
1840 - 1897 -
Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN
German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company
1838 - 1917 -
Léon TOLSTOÏ
Russian writer
1828 - 1910 -
Alexis DE TOCQUEVILLE
French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America
1805 - 1859 -
STENDHAL
French writer
1783 - 1842 -
Victor SCHOELCHER
French abolitionist writer
1804 - 1893 -
Claude Joseph ROUGET de LISLE
French Army officer of the Revolutionary Wars known for writing the words and music of La Marseillaise that become the French national anthem
1760 - 1836 -
Pierre PUVIS de CHAVANNES
French painter
1824 - 1898 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833 -
Félix NADAR
French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist
1820 - 1910 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Stéphane MALLARMÉ
French poet and critic
1842 - 1898 -
James MADISON
4th President of the United States
1751 - 1836 -
Ferdinand de LESSEPS
French developer of the Suez Canal
1805 - 1894 -
Pierre LAROUSSE
French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
1817 - 1875