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A 1972 photograph of the French ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-97).

Portrait of French revolutionary leader Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), painting by Jean-Baptiste Fouquet, c. 1792. Palace of Versailles.

A photograph of the composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Taken by Nadar in the 1860s. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)

The Knights Templar were established c. 1119 and given papal recognition in 1129. It was a Catholic medieval military order whose members combined martial prowess with a monastic life to defend Christian holy sites and pilgrims...

An 1801 oil on canvas painting, Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. The scene captures the Bedlam furnaces at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England. (Science Museum, London...

Portrait of Jacques Cathelineau (1759-1793), generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army during the War in the Vendee (1793-1796). Also known as the "Saint of Anjou", Cathelineau liked to lead his men from the front, a habit...

Portrait of Jacques René Hébert, editor of the popular newspaper Le Père Duchesne. Print by Edme Bovinet, 1796. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Portrait of Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), journalist and leader of the Girondist (Brissotin) faction during the French Revolution (1789-99). Painting by François Bonneville, c 1790. Musée...

Portrait of Turgot (1727-1781), oil on canvas painting attributed to Antoine Graincourt, 1782. Palace of Versailles.

French explorer Jacques Cartier named Canada after "kanata," the Huron-Iroquois word for settlement. Learn more about his search for a passage to East Asia and how he laid the original French claim...