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French Freemasons
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie entered the world on the 24th of July 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His father was Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a…
- MontesquieuCharles Louis de Secondat entered the world on the 18th of January 1689 at the Château de la Brède. This estate sat south of Bordeaux in southwest France.
- Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born on the 30th of August 1748 into a prosperous family in Paris. When he was about nine years old, his father died in a duel.
- Joseph BonaparteGiuseppe di Buonaparte entered the world on the 7th of January 1768 in Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic. His parents were Carlo Buonaparte and…
- Jean-Baptiste KléberJean-Baptiste Kléber was born on the 9th of March 1753 in Strasbourg, where his father worked as a master builder. This humble origin shaped the early…
- Paul BarrasPaul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras was born at Fox-Amphoux on the 30th of June 1755. He descended from a noble family of Provence and entered the…
- Charles XIV JohnJean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte was born on the 26th of January 1763 in Pau, the capital of Béarn. He entered the army as a private soldier on the 3rd of…
- Jean-Jacques-Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès entered the world on the 18th of October 1753 in Montpellier. He was born into a family of legal nobility, though his…
- Joseph FouchéJoseph Fouché arrived in the world on the 21st of May 1759 within the small village of Le Pellerin near Nantes. His father Julien Joseph Fouché worked as a…