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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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Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur
Inventor, Doctor, Chemist / 1822 - 1895
Scientist Louis Pasteur came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization; he also developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies.
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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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Marie Curie
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Marie Curie
Physicist / 1867 - 1934
Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
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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
Painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was a highly celebrated 19th-century French Impressionist whose work helped shape the fine art landscape for years to come.
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