Memorials & famous biographies

French naval officer and novelist known for his exotic novels and travel writing, who created richly detailed literary portraits of distant lands and cultures

The first President of Czechoslovakia and its revered founding father, also known as a sociologist, philosopher, and statesman

Argentine lawyer, politician, and author who served as President of the Republic and championed the Sáenz Peña Law, leading to Argentina's first democratically elected presidency

Bulgarian writer and poet, known as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature," whose works chronicled the Bulgarian Renaissance and Post-Liberation epochs, and who also served as Education Minister

French physiologist, immunologist, and parapsychologist who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for his discovery of anaphylaxis and coined the term 'ectoplasm'

Pioneering 19th-century Russian mathematician, writer, and physicist who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics and a full professorship in Europe

French author and master of the short story, known for his naturalist depictions of human lives and society

Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist known for classic adventure stories and psychological thrillers, including *Treasure Island* and *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*