Camille Desmoulins

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution. Desmoulins was tried and executed alongside Georges Danton when the Committee of Public Safety reacted against Dantonist opposition. He was a schoolmate of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Danton, who were influential figures in the French Revolution.

Siege of Palermo

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Louise Adélaïde Desnos

Louise Adélaïde Desnos, also known as Louise Desnos, was a French portrait and history painter

Alexandre Perregaux

Alexandre Perregaux was a Swiss architect, goldsmith, and ivory carver. He is best known for his design of government buildings for the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland

Manuel do Nascimento Vargas

Manuel do Nascimento Vargas was a Brazilian military officer and politician who is best known as the father of president Getúlio Vargas. He served as mayor of São Borja from 1907 to 1911

Quum memoranda

Quum memoranda was a papal bull issued by Pope Pius VII in 1809. It was a response to a decree issued by Emperor Napoleon, on 17 May 1809, which incorporated the remnants of the Papal States into the French Empire, during the Napoleonic Wars. The bull was

Theodor Tobler

Theodor Tobler was a Swiss chocolatier and businessman, best known as the creator, along with Emil Baumann, of the Swiss chocolate brand Toblerone

Joseph Anton Blatter

Joseph Anton Blatter was a Swiss prelate and the 73rd and last Prince-bishop of the Diocese of Sion, in the Republic of the Seven Tithings, in the modern Canton of Valais, from 1790 to 1799, and after the French invasion and dissolution of the republic

François-Louis Cailler

François-Louis Cailler was a Swiss entrepreneur and early chocolatier who founded Cailler, the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate and the oldest still in existence, in 1819

Louis Secretan

Louis Secretan was a Swiss lawyer, politician and mycologist. He published Mycologie Suisse in 1833, though the names are not regarded as valid unless republished by other authors. He was a member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences

Jakub Landovský

Jakub Landovský, is a Czech politician, lawyer, and university pedagogue, who is currently an ambassador to NATO since 5 August 2019. He had served as the Deputy Minister of Defense from 2015 to 2019