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King of France (1610–43). Son of son of Henry IV.

The last king of France (1774–92) before the French Revolution.

Belgian politician.

Belgian congressman.

Belgian colonel and politician.

Belgium astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Founded and directed the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels.

Belgium writer and keeper of the Royal Library of Belgium.

Trained as a lawyer, was a member of the French legislature and accompanied his brother, Napoleon I, on military campaigns. He held diplomatic posts before and after his brother’s coup in 1799, including negotiating the Treaty of Amiens with Britain in 1802. He was made king of Naples by Napoleon in 1806, where he reformed justice, landowning, finance, and education, but in 1808 was ordered by Napoleon to become king of Spain. There his reforms were resisted and he was heavily dependent on French troops and advisers.

Son of Louis XVI, proclaimed King of France by royalists in 1793. Placed in the care of a shoemaker by the Republican government after the execution of his father, he probably died of neglect.

Belgian physician and surgeon. Took part in the Battle of Waterloo as a doctor. Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Belgian major general.