Kingdom of France

Michel de Montaigne

Philosophy

1533–1592

"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

Joan of Arc

Military

1412–1431

"Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth."

François-Philippe Mésenguy

Religion

1677–1763

"should distinguish himself from the crowd by a singular conduct; that he should walk almost alone along a by-lane, where he will have to suffer the scorn and sneers of false Christians."

"Nothing is so dear and precious as time."

Marquis de Sade

Politics

Western philosophy

1740–1814

"Never will a free man bow to the gods of Christianity; never will its dogmas, never will its rites, never its mysteries, never its morals be suitable for a republican."

Pasquier Quesnel

Religion

1634–1719

"People want to be Christians too cheaply, and consequently they are not Christians at all. Salvation has to cost, it has to cost everything, at least as far as the disposition of the heart is concerned."

Vincent de Paul

Religion

Counter-Reformation

1581–1660

"However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of."

François Bernier

Medicine

1620–1688

"The unfortunate peasants who were incapable of discharging the demand of their rapacious lords, were bereft of their children who were carried away as slaves."

Peter Abelard

Religion

Classical period

1079–1142

"Q3 Is there any knowledge of things unseen, or not?"

Anselm of Canterbury

Religion

1033–1109

"God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own."

Nicole Oresme

Philosophy

1320–1382

"Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property."

Molière

Literature

Classicism

1622–1673

"Moliere's Verses Plays - Publication, Statistics, Words Research"

Bernard of Clairvaux

Religion

1090–1153

"What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity"

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Philosophy

Classicism

1657–1757

"It is more reasonable to remove error from truth, than to venerate error because it is mix'd with truth."

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Music

Baroque music

1683–1784

"In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* ."

Denis Diderot

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1713–1784

"Il y a un peu de testicule au fond de nos sentiments les plus sublimes et de notre tendresse la plus épurée."