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Jacques Cartier was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of…
Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Gaius Julius Caesar is remembered as one of history's greatest generals and a key ruler of the…
Martin of Tours was Bishop of Tours, whose shrine in France became a famous stopping-point for…
Charlemagne, meaning Charles the Great, was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the…
Peter the Hermit, French religious leader. In 1095 he was a very successful preacher of the…
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle…
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century…
Asia + Oceania
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Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death,…