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Burials at the Panthéon, Paris
VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born on the 21st of November 1694 in Paris, the youngest of five children born to a minor treasury official and a woman from the…
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was born almost dying, a fragile infant whose survival was never guaranteed, yet he would grow to become the most influential thinker…
Victor HugoVictor Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, France, but his father claimed he was conceived on one of the highest peaks in the Vosges…
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas was born the son of a general who was the first person of African descent to reach that rank in the French army, yet the boy himself would…
Marie CurieMaria Salomea Skłodowska was born on the 7th of November 1867 in Warsaw, a city then under the crushing grip of the Russian Empire, into a family stripped of…