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Born February 17, 1877 • Paris • France
Died January 7, 1932 (aged 54) • Paris • France
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois
French statesman
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
Charles de Freycinet, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet
French politician
Le Tellier, detail from a marble portrait bust by A. Coysevox; in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris
Michel Le Tellier
French statesman
Claude-Antoine Prieur-Duvernois
French military engineer
André Jeanbon Saint-André
French clergyman
Edmond Leboeuf
French general
Laurent, marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Laurent, marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
French soldier and statesman
Pierre-Antoine, Count Daru
French military administrator
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay
French diplomat
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France