In fact, the real historical figure on which Jean Valjean was based was in reality pardoned.
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Nowadays, to most Spaniards, he is regarded as a more neutral, purely historical figure.
If I could have dinner with one historical figure, it just might be the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Today, at a panel discussion on national security, the Democratic hopeful was compared to a very different historical figure: President Harry S Truman.
Though it admits the Mahatma's failings, Mr Wolpert's book verges on hagiography, which is disappointing in a life of such a historical figure.
Now that Lady Thatcher is dead, we must not turn her into a mere cozy historical figure, shorn of the ideological convictions that are for the ages.
Mantel is clearly fascinated by Cromwell: Both the historical figure, the son of a Putney blacksmith who rose to become Earl of Essex, and her fictional creation.
It is generally believed however that the there was an actual historical figure, probably a Romano-British warrior leader, who battled to keep the Saxons out of Britain.
He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate leaders in many other industries.
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And in a recent poll of 1, 000 for Doctor Who Adventures magazine, he was the historical figure people would most like to travel back in time to meet.
He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure.
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What's your favorite (true) quotation from a historical figure?
To trace the events leading to the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, travellers can follow patriot and cult historical figure Paul Revere's famous ride to Lexington, where the revolution's first battle broke out.
The oddest response, though, is if you write making an obvious point about an historical period or historical figure, you will get lots of letters and emails insisting that the obvious thing about the guy or his time is completely wrong.
Fans of the author will love and recognize all the hallmarks of Boyd's best books: a historical thriller, rife with espionage, set in the not-too-distant past, featuring an exotic and exquisitely drawn locale and a cameo from a famous historical figure, in this case Sigmund Freud.
Alessandro Speciale, Vatican correspondent for the Religion News Service, told CNN the pope was not so much aiming to debunk myths as trying to show that the Jesus depicted in the Gospels is a real historical figure, who walked on earth and talked to people like anyone else.
Figure 1 shows Coughlin Associates historical data for HDD unit shipment growth year-over-year from 2002 to 2011, estimated for 2012 and projected into the near future.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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They have figure out how to map the real-time information against historical information to offer predictive possibilities.
In contrast to Barbie's fantasy figure and perky high heels, these dolls are modeled on girls from historical eras and come with storybooks about themselves.
He had never done anything historical before, and when asked by Starz to create a drama focused on some towering figure from the past, he first demurred.
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