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French Resistance Operative Jeannette Guyot

Posted on September 25, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Jeannette Guyot joined the French resistance fighting Nazi occupation during World War II in 1940. Barely in her twenties at the time, she would take on many da...

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Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...

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Robert de La Rochefoucauld: a biography.

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“Chance is the most extraordinary thing you can have in your life and you should know how to take advantage of it.” – Robert de La Rochefoucauld — R...

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