Curated category
Naturalized citizens of France
- Eugène IonescoEugène Ionesco was born in the Romanian city of Slatina on the 26th of November 1909. His father belonged to the Orthodox Christian church while his mother…
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Joseph-Louis LagrangeGiuseppe Luigi Lagrangia was born in Turin on the 25th of January 1736. He grew up as the firstborn of eleven children in a family that had lost most of its…
- Le CorbusierCharles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on the 6th of October 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city nestled in the Jura Mountains near the French border.
- 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.
- Marie CurieMarie Curie carried test tubes of radioactive isotopes loose in her pocket and stored them in her desk drawer, charmed by the faint light they gave off in…
- Jacques OffenbachOn the 20th of June 1819, a boy named Jacob Offenbach was born in the German city of Cologne. He entered the world as the second son and seventh child of…
- Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
- Christopher TolkienChristopher Tolkien was born on the 21st of November 1924 in Leeds, England. He entered Trinity College at Oxford University when he was only seventeen years…
- Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Sergeevna Goncharova entered the world on the 3rd of July 1881 in the village of Nagaevo. This rural location now sits within the Chernsky District…