Category: Les Caractères

Jacques Prévert (4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, […]

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal […]

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, born January 27, 1814 in Paris and died September 17, 1879 in Lausanne, is one of the most famous French architects of the […]

I realized that a large part of the series “Les Caractères” should be devoted to women in the Resistance. These women with such diverse backgrounds, […]

Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman. Along with Robert Schuman, Alcide De […]

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known to all by his Romani nickname Django (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a […]

Jeanne Moreau was a French actress, singer and director, born January 23, 1928 in Paris where she died July 31, 2017.

Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac (22 January 1917 – 8 April 2015) was a French journalist, a member of the French resistance and a historian. During World War […]

Francis Picabia (born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with […]

Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, born January 19, 1889 in Davos, Switzerland, and died January 13, 1943 in Zurich, is a Swiss […]