Born on June 18

French painter (1716–1809), forerunner of Neoclassicism and master of Jacques-Louis David. Director of the French Academy in Rome, then First Painter to the King and senator under Napoleon.

Igor Stravinsky is one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. With his ballets for the Ballets Russes — *The Firebird*, *Petrushka*, and above all *The Rite of Spring* — he revolutionized musical language through bold rhythms and dissonances. Naturalized as a French then American citizen, he traversed all the major aesthetic movements of his time.

Catherine Malabou, born in 1959, is a French philosopher and a student of Jacques Derrida. She developed the concept of “plasticity,” bringing together continental philosophy, neuroscience, and politics.