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...
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

male, 80 years old
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (born 1929) is a noted French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the "ancien regime", focusing on the...

Daniel Roche

male
Daniel Roche is a French social and cultural historian, whose chosen field is the Ancien Régime in France. Roche holds an honorary chair at the C...
Claude Nicolas Ledoux

Claude Nicolas Ledoux

male, deceased (1806)
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural theory to...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

male, deceased (1806)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and h...
Jacques de Flesselles

Jacques de Flesselles

male, deceased (1789)
Jacques de Flesselles was a French provost, a post roughly equivalent to mayor. In 1785, after being provost of the merchants of Lyon, he became...
Man In The Iron Mask

Man In The Iron Mask

male, deceased (1703)
The Man in the Iron Mask was a prisoner held in a number of prisons, including the Bastille, during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The identity...
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

male, deceased (1803)
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official and army general. As a writer, he is best remembered for his e...
Henry Reeve

Henry Reeve

male, deceased (1895)
Henry Reeve was an English journalist. He was the younger son of Henry Reeve, a Whig physician and writer from Norwich, and was born at Norwich. He...
Charles Percier

Charles Percier

male, deceased (1838)
Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Pierre François L...