Liberté, égalité, fraternité - format MP3

Écrivain et philosophe, François-Marie Arouet — qui se rebaptisera lui-même plus tard "Voltaire" – est né à Paris le 22 novembre 1694. Il est mort le 30 mai 1778.

Écrivain et philosophe suisse d'expression française, Jean-Jacques Rousseau est né le 28 juin 1712 à Genève. Il est l'auteur entre autres de "Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes" (1755), "Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse" (1761), "Émile ou De l'éducation" (1762), "Du contrat social" (1762), "Les Confessions" (1765-1770) et "Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire" (1776-1778). Il est mort le 20 mai 1778 à Ermenonville (Oise).

Georges Clemenceau, homme politique français (1841-1929), nommé à la tête du gouvernement sous la présidence de Poincaré (1917), surnommé le tombeur des ministères (de Gambetta et Jules Ferry), le Tigre, briseur de grèves, le Père la Victoire (négociateur du Traité de Versailles), célèbre pour son intransigeance. Il consacra la fin de sa vie aux voyages et à l'écriture (Au soir de la pensée, Grandeurs et Misères d'une victoire).

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a store owner, postmaster, county surveyor, and lawyer, before sitting in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He was our 16th President, being elected twice, and serving until his assassination in 1865. He is best known for leading the United States through the Civil War, and his anti-slavery stance.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 32nd president of the United States. Elected to the presidency four times, Roosevelt repealed Prohibition, and stewarded the United States through both the Great Depression—during which he implemented innovative fiscal policies such as the New Deal and Social Security—and the Second World War. His advocacy of government social programs redefined liberalism and has had lasting impacts in the generations since his presidency.

In addition to his political contributions, Roosevelt, an adult sufferer of paralysis due to polio, founded the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which is now known as the March of Dimes. Roosevelt was married to his cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt (a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt), for forty years, and was father to five surviving children. Franklin Roosevelt died suddenly in April 1945, but his contributions continue to be recognized through the many institutions that carry his name, through his image on the American dime, and as part of the Prominent Americans postage stamp series issued by the United States Postal Service. Roosevelt, along with his wife Eleanor and cousin Theodore, is the subject of the 2014 Ken Burns documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.