
Pour l’amour du pays, par les yeux du monde

Légat pontifical et théologien dont les idées ont contribué à faire avancer la réforme ecclésiastique du XIe siècle menée par les papes Léon IX et Grégoire VII

De la France, le style rococo s’est répandu dans les années 1730 vers les terres catholiques germanophones

Ingénieur français qui a inventé le procédé Siemens-Martin, qui a produit la majeure partie de l’acier du monde jusqu’à l’arrivée des procédés à l’oxygène

Fourneyron’s turbine achieved immediate international success, powering industry in continental Europe and in the United States

The design and plan were strongly influenced by contemporary French cathedral architecture.

French master-mason who built the first structure in the Early Gothic style in England

It is widely regarded as one of the great works of medieval experimental research and a precursor of modern scientific methodology.

French physiologist, politician, and diplomat, founder of modern aerospace medicine

Regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery.

Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world

French magician who is considered to be the father of modern conjuring.

Swiss-born French bacteriologist and one of the discoverers of the bubonic plague bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, now called Yersinia pestis.

Excavations at the site (the first archaeological excavations in Mesopotamia) were begun by the French consul Paul-Émile Botta in 1843

Discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, in 1843

Generally credited with supplying the first translation of the Avesta (Zoroastrian scripture) into a modern European language and with awakening interest in the study of Eastern languages and thought.

As a political unit, Benin was created by the French colonial conquest at the end of the 19th century

French aeronaut, generally recognized as the first person to make a parachute descent

The Farman company remained an important manufacturer of aircraft following World War I

The first person to use a parachute regularly and successfully


French poster illustrator and graphic designer who has been called “the father of the modern poster.

After the revolution of February 24 in France, the movement extended throughout the whole of Europe with the exception of Russia, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries.

Liberals throughout Europe were encouraged to hope for a general social revolution

The Calvinist form of Protestantism is widely thought to have had a major impact on the formation of the modern world.