A few figures from French history that everyone should know.
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Great figures in French history (Part 1)
A few figures from French history that everyone should know.
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He was a king of the Arverni tribe, tried to repel Julius Caesar and was defeated at Alesia in 52 BC.
Vercingétorix
Asterix
Majestix
Charlemagne
Born around 466, king of the Salian Franks, then king of all the Franks, was baptized around 496.
Charlemagne
Hugues Capet
Clovis
Philippe Auguste
He was a Frankish military leader who defeated the Arabs of the Umayyad caliphate at Poitiers in 732.
Charlemagne
Charles Martel
Saint Louis
Hugues Capet
King of the Franks of the Carolingian dynasty, great reformer, crowned emperor in 800 in Rome.
Louis IX
Charles VII
Philippe Auguste
Charlemagne
He was Duke of Normandy invaded England and became King of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
William the Conqueror
Henry II Plantagenet
Robert the Magnificent
Robert the Strong
She fought against the English, had Charles VII crowned and was burned at the stake in 1431.
Joan of Arc
Catherine of Valois
Isabeau of Bavaria
Catherine of Alexandria
He converted to Catholicism, became King of France and put an end to the Wars of Religion by promulgating the Edict of Nantes in 1598.
Louis XIII
Henri II of France
Charles IX
Henry IV of France
He is one of the founders of modern philosophy, born in 1596, famous for his works "Discourse on the Method" and "Principles of Philosophy"
René Descartes
Nicolas Malebranche
Blaise Pascal
Antoine Arnauld
He was one of the main ministers of Louis XIV, promoting an interventionist economic policy (a variant of mercantilism).
Nicolas Fouquet
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Cardinal Mazarin
Michel Le Tellier
He was born in 1694 in Paris, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.
Author of "Candide" and "Zadig".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
René Descartes
Denis Diderot
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He is famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
French writer and philosopher, born 1712 in Geneva, . Author of "The Confessions" and "The Social Contract" (1762)