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King of France from 1364 to 1380, Charles V restored the kingdom after the defeats of the early Hundred Years' War. Thanks to his constable Du Guesclin, he reconquered nearly all the lost territory and reestablished royal authority.

Russian writer and playwright, a master of the short story and of modern theatre. Trained as a physician, he renewed dramatic art with plays built on atmosphere and the unspoken rather than on plot, such as The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters.

Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was an American painter, a major figure of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. He is famous for his vast canvases of color crossed by vertical bands known as “zips.”

Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist born in 1947. She unraveled how the olfactory system works by discovering the large family of genes that encode odor receptors. Her work earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004, shared with Richard Axel.

Polish novelist born in 1962, laureate of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her work explores collective memory, identity, and the boundaries between living beings through fragmented and mythical narratives.