The last King of France before the French Revolution, reigning as King of France and Navarre, and later King of the French, during a period of immense political and social change

Italian playwright and librettist celebrated for his witty comedies that mirrored the lives and values of 18th-century Venetian society

Physician, politician, and radical journalist during the French Revolution, known for his publication L'Ami du peuple and defense of the sans-culottes

Last Queen of France before the French Revolution, executed during the Reign of Terror in 1793

French playwright and political activist, renowned for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism