Historical figures in Fontainebleau
The atlas holds 13 people and 21 moments here, from 1661 to 1934. The most recorded lives are Joséphine de Beauharnais, Katherine Mansfield and Louis XIV. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators, across the Enlightenment and the Interwar Period.
Notable people
David Hume
in 1763
1 moment here
Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist. Hume’s documented movements include formative stays in Bristol and France; residences at…
Gabriela Mistral
in 1926
1 moment here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
Jean de La Fontaine
in 1661
1 moment here
French fabulist, poet, dramatist, and author whose Fables became foundational works of French literature.…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in 1752
1 moment here
Genevan philosopher, writer, composer, and a major figure of the European Enlightenment. Rousseau’s documented movements ranged across Geneva, Savoy,…
Joséphine de Beauharnais
from 1785 to 1809
6 moments here
Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Joséphine, was Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife and Empress of the French from 1804 until the…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1922 to 1923
3 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Leon Trotsky
in 1934
1 moment here
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Leo Tolstoy
in 1857
1 moment here
Russian novelist, essayist, educator, religious thinker, and social critic. Born at Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy studied in Kazan, served in the Caucasus…
Louis Pasteur
in 1881
1 moment here
French chemist and microbiologist whose work on molecular asymmetry, fermentation, germ theory, pasteurization, and vaccines transformed modern…
Louis XIV
from 1661 to 1685
2 moments here
Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 1638–1715), king of France from 1643, was the Bourbon monarch known as the Sun King.…
Napoleon Bonaparte
in 1814
1 moment here
French military commander and statesman who rose during the French Revolution, became First Consul in 1799, and ruled as Emperor of the French in…
Pablo Picasso
in 1921
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1910
1 moment here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Moments
- 1661 Visit to Vaux-le-Vicomte Louis XIV
- 1661 Fête de Vaux and first performance of Les Fâcheux Jean de La Fontaine
- 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau Louis XIV
- 1752 Opera performed before Louis XV Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1763 Letter from Fontainebleau David Hume
- 1785 Move to Fontainebleau Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1790 Residence in Fontainebleau after return from Martinique Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1796 Visit to Fontainebleau en route to Italy Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1804 Stay at Fontainebleau before the coronation Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1807 Visit to the court at Fontainebleau Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1809 Court stay at Fontainebleau before separation Joséphine de Beauharnais
- 1814 Abdicates at Fontainebleau Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1857 Visits Fontainebleau Leo Tolstoy
- 1881 Anthrax-vaccination demonstration Louis Pasteur
- 1910 Settled temporarily in Bombon Vladimir Lenin
- 1921 Family summer at Fontainebleau Pablo Picasso
- 1922 Move to Fontainebleau Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 Residence at Gurdjieff's Institute Katherine Mansfield
- 1923 Death near Fontainebleau Katherine Mansfield
- 1926 Residence in Fontainebleau Gabriela Mistral
- 1934 Police-surveillance residence at Barbizon Leon Trotsky