Životy

French aristocrat who assassinated radical Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat to halt the French Revolution's escalating violence

Elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13); French statesman, lawyer, diplomat who emigrated to the United States

French writer, politician, and diplomat who shaped 19th-century Romantic literature and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and ambassador to several European nations

French mathematician and physicist known for Fourier series, Fourier analysis, and the discovery of the greenhouse effect