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Ecrivain, poète et auteur dramatique prolifique, Michel de Cubières publie de nombreux vers galants et devient secrétaire de la Commune de Paris sous la Révolution ; il fut l’amant de Fanny de Beauharnais.
Emeutier de la Commune, il fut arrêté le 22 mai à la barricade de la rue de Rome. Il a été considéré comme l’un des hommes les plus dangereux de la Commune.
Chirurgien, membre de l’Ac. de médecine (1933), fondateur du Journal de Chirurgie (1908). Pendant la guerre de 1914, il fut médecin chef de l’hôpital temporaire n°1 de Verdun et opéra notamment Maginot. Il se consacra à la chirurgie orthopédique et réparatrice.
Haut-magistrat, érudit, archéologue et homme politique, il épouse la fille de Sadi Carnot en 1883. Il est également auteur de livres de chasse.
Médecin et philosophe français, conseiller et médecin de Louis XIV.
Ecrivain, fille de Pierre et Marie Curie, ambassadrice de l’Unicef (son mari, Henry Labuisse fut secrétaire général de l’Unicef durant 15 ans).
Gastronome et critique culinaire, il publie de nombreuses chroniques dans la presse parisienne et des romans. Il fonde l’Académie des vins de France et participe à la création du guide Michelin.
Voyageur et écrivain, auteur de La Russie en 1839.
Général de division de la Révolution française. Il participa à la guerre de Sept Ans, puis à la guerre d’indépendance américaine et épousa les idées révolutionnaires. Il fut guillotiné pour haute trahison le à Paris. Il est le grand-père d’Astolphe de Custine.
Anthropologue et zoologiste. Nommé directeur de la Ménagerie du Jardin du Roi, en 1803.
Pianiste virtuose hongrois, naturalisé français, surtout connu pour son interprétation des oeuvres virtuoses de Franz Liszt.
A French Jesuit priest and confessor to King Louis XIV, he was better known as Father de La Chaize and Père Lachaise. The Parisian cemetery created on the site of his residence bears his name.
French military officer. He was elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France in 1741.
French military officer, known as the "Marshal of Rochefort". Marshal of France, general of the King's armies, captain of His Majesty's Bodyguard, governor and lieutenant general of the provinces of Lorraine and Barrois, of Metz, Toul, Verdun and the Metz region, and of the city of Ath in Flanders.
A man of letters and a civil servant, a great friend of Diderot and d'Alembert and especially of Voltaire with whom he acted in concert on the Sirven and Calas affairs.
Count of Angoulême and Périgord, brother of Charles Iof Orléans. Also known as Jean d'Orléans.
French clergyman, bishop of Fréjus then bishop of Séez, in the Orne.
French geologist and paleontologist. He was the founder of prehistoric geology in France with Boucher de Perthes.
Monarchist deputy, president of the Suez Canal Company. Member of the Institute (he succeeded the Duke of Aumale at the Academy of Fine Arts)
Politician, Minister of Commerce and Public Works and Governor of the Bank of France.
French physician, physicist and inventor. He notably invented the galvanometer and the first telephone approved by the PTT (French Post Office).
Count of Eu. He was the son of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, and Marie of Berry. Captured during the Battle of Agincourt, he regained his freedom in 1438 at the age of 44, and was then appointed lieutenant general for Île-de-France, Brie, the bailiwick of Senlis, and the Duchy of Normandy, as well as governor of Paris.
Queen of France and Navarre, wife of Louis XIV, daughter of Philip IV, King of Spain.
Marie-Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine or Marie-Louise of Austria, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, was Empress of the French from 1810 to 1814, then Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla until 1847.
The eldest daughter of Emperor Francis Iof Austria, she was given Iin marriage in 1810 to the Emperor of the French and King of Italy Napoleon to seal the Treaty of Schönbrunn between France and Austria, after the latter's defeat at the Battle of Wagram in 1809.
Marie-Antoinette d’Autriche ou Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine, archiduchesse d’Autriche, princesse impériale, princesse royale de Hongrie et de Bohême, fut la dernière reine de France et de Navarre de 1774 à 1792.
Fille de l’empereur François Ier et de Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche, reine de Hongrie et de Bohême, elle épousa, le Louis XVI, alors dauphin de France, puis roi de France et de Navarre. Elle sera guillotinée en 1793, sur la place de la Révolution à Paris.
Duke of Modena and Reggio. Powerful Italian military leader. Velasquez painted his portrait and Bernini immortalized him in a bust.
French military officer, fourth Marshal of France from the Harcourt family.
French general of the Revolution and the Empire, he died from wounds received at the Battle of Eylau.
French mathematician. Member of the Academy of Sciences (1922). He is credited with nomography, which aims to replace numerical calculations in a completely general way, through graphical representations (abacus and nomograms).
French explorer, adventurer and prince. He died at the age of 33 in Saigon, Cochinchina.
The daughter of Regent Philippe d'Orléans, she became Duchess of Modena through her marriage to Francesco III d'Este. She was nicknamed "Mademoiselle de Valois".
Orleanist pretender to the throne of France, from 1999 to 2019.
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