Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer, whose 1771 novel L'An 2440 is an example of proto-science fiction.
Louis-Sébastien Mercier was one of the first French writers of drame bourgeois (middle-class drama). In Du théâtre (1773; “About the Theatre”), he emphasized the didactic function of the theatre, and in his plays he presented a thesis…
Lenormand was born in Montpellier on May 25, 1757 as the son of a clockmaker. Between 1775 and 1780, he studied physics and chemistry under Lavoisier and Berthollet in Paris, where he also got involved with the administration of saltpeter.
At the age of twenty, he began his two monumental works, the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles and the Histoire des empereurs et autres princes qui ont régné pendant les six premiers siècles de l…
As a tenor, he wrote the music of several operas and scenes on booklets, among others, of Charles-Guillaume Étienne, Armand-François Chateauvieux, Armand Croizette, Sewrin and François Bernard-Valville, as well as the music of songs, masses…
Louis-Sebastien Lenormand was a French aeronaut, generally recognized as the first person to make a parachute descent. He was not the inventor of the parachute; the ancient Chinese may have devised one, and it was known to medieval Europe…
Princ Sébastien Lucemburský (Sébastien Henri Marie Guillaume; * 16. duben 1992) je pátým a nejmladším dítětem lucemburského velkovévody Henriho a jeho ženy Marie Teresy.