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Coco Chanel
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Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer / 1883 - 1971
With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.
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Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Painter / 1840 - 1926
Claude Monet was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms.
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Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas
Painter / 1834 - 1917
Edgar Degas, often referred to as the painter of dancers, was a French Impressionist, influencing Picasso, and other leading artists of the 20th century. -
Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur
Chemist / 1822 - 1895
French chemist Louis Pasteur is best known for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. -
Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette
Queen / 1755 - 1793
Marie Antoinette helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.
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Napoleon
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Napoleon
Military Leader, Political Leader, Emperor / 1769 - 1821
Napoleon Bonaparte was a military general who became the first emperor of France and whose drive for military expansion changed the world.
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