| |  | François Christophe Kellermann or de Kellermann was the duke of Valmy and Marshal of France during the Napoleonic Wars. He came from a Saxon f... |  | Maria Callas was an American born, Greek dramatic coloratura soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. She... |  | Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 - November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber... |  | James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of... |  | Édith Piaf was one of France's most beloved singers, and became a national icon. Her singing reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being t... |  | Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven volumes from 1913 to 1927. |  | Allan Kardec was a pseudonym of the French teacher and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. Rivail was determined to understand exactly what w... |  | Sadegh (or Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت; February 17 1903, Tehran - 4 April, 1951, Paris, France) was Iran's foremost modern writer of... |  | Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of... |  | Joseph-Marie-Auguste Caillaux (March 30, 1863 - November 21/22, 1944) was a major French politician of the Third Republic. The leader of the... | |
