Traces Écrites

Historian and numismatist, he spent his entire career as curator at the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which he directed between 1937 and 1961.

Wife of Gracchus Babeuf. They married in 1782.

Physicist and astronomer, from the Bureau des Longitudes and the Academy of Sciences.

Cartoonist and man of letters.

Philosopher.

First chamberlain of Napoleon III.

General of the Empire. Prince of Lucca and Piombino and husband of Elisa Bonaparte.

Lawyer and Minister of Justice under Mitterrand, architect of the abolition of the death penalty, buried in the Pantheon.

Sculptor, student of Aimé Millet; he also devoted himself to the revival of Berry culture.

British diplomat and colonial administrator.

Violinist and composer, attached to the Emperor's music, he is the author of a violin method, and of The Art of the Violin.

An Italian geographer, correspondent of the Institute, director of the geography office in Florence, he was in charge of the geographical division of the departments comprising Tuscany during the occupation by Napoleonic troops.

As a general, he led the expeditionary force to Madagascar in 1895, and commanded the expedition to China against the Boxers.

French architect. Founding president of the Society of French Artists, which organized the famous Salon of French Artists every year.

Singer, dancer and revue leader. She is often considered the first black star and supports the fight against racism, particularly the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King.

Painter, decorator and costume designer, creator of the sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909-1921).

Specialist in etiquette, public relations and "Social Secretary" to Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

French lawyer, publisher and bibliophile.

A great couturier, he founded his own fashion house in 1945, which he ran until his death in 1982. He also created numerous costumes for the theatre and cinema.

Architect.

Figurative painter

One of the great novelists of the 19th century, author of more than ninety novels and short stories published from 1829 to 1855, collected under the title La Comédie humaine.

American historian and politician, founder of the U.S. Naval Academy, he is the author of History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

A poet and friend of Baudelaire, Hugo and Gautier, he discovered the talent of Arthur Rimbaud, whom he hosted for a time.

Scholar, historian and collector. From a large family of goldsmiths and jewelers originally from Swabia, Germain Bapst published numerous works on art jewelry, including Histoire des joyaux de la couronne, in 1887.

French architect.

Scholar and Hebraist, collaborator of Father Thomassin for his Glossarium universale hebraïcum.

French Major General, died for France.