The birthday of a famous intellect
Jean-Paul Sartre was born on June 21, 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer in the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer. When he was two years old, his father died and his mother moved to her parents’ house in Meudon, where she raised Sartre with help from her father who …
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born in Paris, France on August 21, 1789, just a few weeks after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution. Cauchy’s father, who had been a high official in the Parisian Police of the Ancien Régime fled with his family for their lives. During the next 4 years, the …
