Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

female, deceased (1793)
Marie Antoinette, and later becoming Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, was the Queen consort of France, as the wife of Louis XVI. She...
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

male, deceased (1797)
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many...
Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

male, deceased (1809)
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, and intellectual....
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

male, deceased (1804)
Alexander Hamilton was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. One of...
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

female, deceased (1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels,...

Jean François

male
Jean François was a leader of the 1791 slave uprising that began the Haïtian Revolution. With Georges Biassou and Jeannot, he was among those who Du...
Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre

male, deceased (1794)
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as The '...
Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

male, deceased (1825)
Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the...
Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat

male, deceased (1793)
Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 - July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born French scientist and physician who made much of his career in Great Britain, but...