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Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon after her marriage to the Duke of Chartres (later Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans). Her eldest son would become Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Oil on canvas portrait by Joseph Duplessis, c. 1777...

Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, oil on canvas portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1798. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A French noble and brother-in-law to the Marquis de Lafayette, Noailles fought in the American Revolutionary War. His...

Marie Durand (1711-1776).

The Battle of Chippawa (5 July 1814) was a major battle in the War of 1812, in which a US army proved its newfound discipline by defeating British regulars during the Americans' third attempted invasion of the Niagara Peninsula. Though the...

Courtly Love (Amour Courtois) refers to an innovative literary genre of poetry of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 CE) which elevated the position of women in society and established the motifs of the romance genre recognizable in the present...

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-genius-of-marie-curie-shohini-ghose Marie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology...

Marie Antoinette became a symbol for the evils of excess— but was she a wasteful queen or a convenient scapegoat? You decide. She was the Queen of France, notorious for living in opulence while peasants starved and became a symbol of everything...

Myths and Legends of the Sioux. By Marie L. Mclaughlin. Full Audiobook "Myths and Legends of the Sioux" is a collection of stories that are deeply rooted in the indigenous culture of the Sioux tribe. The book is authored by Marie L. McLaughlin...

Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave (1761-1793) was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the most influential orators of the early stage of the French Revolution (1789-1799). He is notable for being a champion of constitutional monarchy...

From the sagas, the most famous type of female Viking warrior was the shield maiden who took up arms and fought side by side in battle with the men. Mirroring them in the spiritual world is the Valkyries (whose name literally means choosers...