Birth date: August 4th, 1821
Place of birth: Anchay, France Occupation: Fashion Designer Death date: February 27th, 1892 Place of death: France. Louis Life: Vuitton's' mother passed away when he was 10 years old. At 13, he left home on foot to head to Paris. During the two year travel he would take odd jobs to feed himself and would find shelter when he could. At the age of 16, he finally arrived in Paris. He started as an apprentice in the workshop of a successful box-maker and packer named Monsieur Marechal. In December of 1851, 16 years after Louis arrived in Paris, Napoleon III's wife hired Vuitton as her personal box-maker. In 1854, Louis life changed for the better. He married Clemence-Emilie Parriaux in April. Vuitton opened up his own box-making and packing workshop in Paris. And four short years later, he released his own trunk. |
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Birthdate: July 2nd 1904
Place of Birth: Paris, France Occupation: Tennis Player, inventor, designer Death Date: October 12th, 1996 Place of Death: Saint-Jean-de-Luz Rene's Life Rene was born and raised into wealth. He came from a great family. He was a smart student and was set to enroll at a prestigious French engineering school. However, he decided to paly tennis instead. His father was very supportive in this decision. Rene's breakthrough for fame was in 1925, when he won the French tennis Championships. He was also famous for his clothing line and his tennis rackets. In 1996, Lacoste suffered from Prostate Cancer. Later that year he had surgery on a broken leg. Four days later on October 12th, he passed away in his sleep from hear failure. |
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Birthdate: May 19th, 1946
Place of Birth: Grenoble, France Occupation: Film Actor, Athlete Death Date: January 27th, 1993 Place of Death: Paris, France Andre's Life Andre was born and suffered with something called Acromegaly, also known as "giantism." This is a disorder that causes the body to produce an excess amount of hormones causing continuous growth, especially in the head, hands, and feet. He became known for his baby face but rather intimidating physique. He wrestled in Montreal under the name Jean Ferre and in Japan as "Monster Roussimoff." He started to wrestle as "Andre the Giant" in 1973. At his tallest, he was 6'11'' tall. EVEN THOUGH he was advertised at 7'4''. He weighed close to 500 pounds. Andre had a movie role in The Princess Bride as a gentle giant named Fezzik. Andre never married, and he lived on a 200 acre ranch in Ellerbe, North Carolina. As Andre grew older, so did his health problems. He had multiple surgeries and became overweight and immobile. He stopped wrestling in 1992. On January 27th 1993, Andre passed away from a heart attack in his hotel room in Paris. |
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Birthdate: September 6th, 1757
Place of Birth: Chavaniac, France Occupation: Military Leader Death Date: May 20th, 1834 Place of Death: Paris, France Lafayette's Life Lafayette was born into a family of noble military lineage in September. In Lafayette's early years, his father was killed in battle during the Seven Years War. Both his mother and grandfather both died in 1770. In 1773, he married 14 year old Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, who was from another prominent French Family. Lafayette's first major combat duty came during September 1777 in the Battle of Brandywine where he was shot in the leg. That is where he met and became great friends with General George Washington. POST AMERICAN REVOLUTION After returning to his country in 1781, he rejoined the French Army and organized trade agreements with Thomas Jefferson, the American ambassador to France. Lafayette advocated for a governing body representing the three social classes, and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Named commander of the Paris National Guard in 1789. |
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Birthdate: February 25th, 1841
Place of Birth: Limoges, France Occupation: Painter Death Date: December 3rd, 1919 Place of Death: Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Renoir's Life When Renoir was born, his father was a tailor and his mother was a seamstress. The family moved to Paris sometime between 1844 and 1846 near a world-renowned art museum. He attended a local Catholic School. Once he hit his teens he became an apprentice to a porcelain painter. While he was doing that, he also took free drawing classes at a city-sponsored art school. In 1864, he won acceptance into the annual Paris Salon exhibit. Renoir struggled to make a living, usually because he would paint for his close friends and relatives. He seemed to have no fixed address, no stable home. Around 1867, Renoir met Lise Trehot, who became his model and later on reportedly had a child with him. In 1870, Pierre took a break from his work when he was drafted into the army to serve in France's war against Germany. After the was in 1871, he made his way back to Paris. Some of his friends were Pissarro, Monet, Cezanne and Edgar Degas. |
As his fame finally grew, Pierre began to settle down. He married his longtime girlfriend Aline Charigot in 1890, and he also already had a son with her named Pierre. He would have several more children.
FINAL YEARS in 1907, in Cagnes-sur-Mer he bought land and built a home for his family. He painted whenever he could. However, he suffered from rheumatic disorder which disfigured his hands. He also had a stroke in 1912 leaving him in a wheelchair. Renoir passed away in his home in December of 1919. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_nArPfEgs |
Birthdate: January 4th, 1809
Place of Birth: Coupvray, France Occupation: Educator, Inventor Death Date: January 6th, 1852 Place of Death: Paris, France Braille's Life Louis was the fourth child of Simon-Rene and Monique Braille. His father made harnesses, saddles and other horse tack. When Louis was just three, he injured one of his eyes with an awl (a sharp toll used to make holes in leather). Afterwards, both of his eyes became infected leaving him completely blind when he reached 5 years old. Braille's parents still had him attend school just like any other child. When he was 10 years old, he received a scholarship to attend the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. There, Louis met Charles Barbier, who invented a code that used different combinations of 12 raised dots to represent different sounds. This was called Sonography. He used it in the army so they could communicate at night silently. It never caught on, so he thought the system would be useful for blind individuals. INVENTOR From ages 12 to 15, he developed a much easier system. His system only had 6 dots, three dots lined up in each of the two columns. He assigned different combinations of dots to different letters and punctuation marks. Which totaled 64 symbols. |
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