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Biography of Adolphe Chéruel (excerpt)
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (January 17, 1809 – May 1, 1891) was a French historian. He was born at Rouen and educated at the École Normale Supérieure, becoming a fellow (agregé) in 1830. His early studies were concerned with local history. His Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au XVe siècle (1840) and Histoire de Rouen pendant l'époque communale, 1550-1382 (Rouen, 1843-1844), are major productions for a time when the archives were neither catalogued nor classified, and contain useful documents previously unpublished.
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Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Tetã Paraguái), is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of which live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro.
Biography of François-Louis Français (excerpt)
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814 - 1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for book illustration, he studied painting under Gigoux, and subsequently under Corot, whose influence remained decisive upon Français's style of landscape painting.
Biography of Emperor Taizong of Tang (excerpt)
Emperor Taizong of Tang (Chinese: 唐太宗; pinyin: Táng Tàizōng, Wade-Giles: T'ai-Tsung) (January 23, 599 – July 10, 649), personal name Lǐ Shìmín (Chinese: 李世民), was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. As he encouraged his father, Li Yuan (later Emperor Gaozu) to rise against Sui Dynasty rule at Taiyuan in 617 and subsequently defeated several of his most important rivals, he was ceremonially regarded as a co-founder of the dynasty along with Emperor Gaozu.
Biography of Jean-Delphin Alard (excerpt)
Jean-Delphin Alard (March 8, 1815 – February 22, 1888) was a French violinist. Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an amateur violinist. From 1827 he was a pupil of F. A. Habeneck at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875.
Biography of Charles Gounod (excerpt)
Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father.
Biography of Émile Clapeyron (excerpt)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26 janvier 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Life Born in Paris, Clapeyron studied at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines, before leaving for Saint Petersburg in 1820 to teach at the École des Travaux Publics.
Biography of Erasmus Widmann (excerpt)
Erasmus Widmann, born September 15, 1572 in Schwäbisch Hall, died October 31, 1634 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, was a German musician, composer and organist. Works Die musikalische Kurzweil (1611) Die Gänse Der Floh Mäuselied O Musica O Musica, liebliche Kunst Vinum schenk ein Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel gantz neuer Gesäng (Daentz und Gaillarden), Rothenburg 1613 Gantz Neue Cantzon, Intraden, Balletten und Courranten, 1618 Neue geistliche Teutsche und Lateinische Moteten 1619, u.
Biography of Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (excerpt)
Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (October 23, 1813–May 18, 1900) was a French philosopher and archaeologist. He was born at Namur. After a successful course of study at the College Rollin, he went to Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836.
Biography of Ernest Legouvé (excerpt)
Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid Legouvé (14 February 1807 - 14 March 1903) was a French dramatist. Biography Son of the poet Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764-1812), he was born in Paris. His mother died in 1810, and almost immediately afterwards his father was removed to a lunatic asylum.
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Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa).
Biography of Ben Jonson (excerpt)
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1573 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems.
Biography of Princess Sophie of Bavaria (excerpt)
Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine, Princess of Bavaria (27 January 1805 – 28 May 1872) was born to King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Caroline of Baden. She was the identical twin sister of Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony as wife of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony.
Biography of Charles Landelle (excerpt)
Charles Zacharie Landelle, born June 2, 1821 in Laval, died December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, was a French painter.
Biography of Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (excerpt)
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 20, 1807–November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his earlier years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother.
Biography of Laure Surville (excerpt)
Laure Surville, born Balzac September 29, 1800 (source not archived) and died in 1871, was a French author. She was the sister of Honoré de Balzac.
Biography of Aristide Boucicaut (excerpt)
Aristide Boucicaut (July 14, 1810 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, FDAF) - 1877) created what is considered to be among the first department stores. Born in Bellême, the son of a banker, he began as a simple clerk in Bellême before he left to become a fabric salesman selling shawls.
Biography of Charles Valentin Alkan (excerpt)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher.
Biography of Victor Massé (excerpt)
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé, Lorient (Morbihan) (birth time source: Lescaut), 7 March 1822 – died Paris, 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Biography Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera.
Biography of Amédée Bonnet (excerpt)
Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 (source: Gauquelin) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain, died in 1858, was a French orthopedic surgeon, and a Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Biography of Frédéric Bastiat (excerpt)
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (pronounced: ) (30 June 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. Biography Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, France. When he was nine years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his paternal grandparents.
Biography of François Achille Longet (excerpt)
François Achille Longet (May 25, 1811 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 1871) was a French anatomist and physiologist who was a native of Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a student of François Magendie (1783-1855), and a pioneer in the field of experimental physiology.
Biography of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (excerpt)
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (Ville-d'Avray, July 14, 1816 – October 13, 1882 in Turin) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855).
Biography of Louis Hachette (excerpt)
Louis Christophe François Hachette (May 5, 1800 - July 31, 1864) was a French publisher. He was born in Rethel in the Ardennes département of France. After studying three years at prestigious École Normale Supérieure with the view of becoming a teacher, he was in 1822 on political grounds expelled from the seminary.
Biography of Marie Laveau (excerpt)
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801– June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827 — c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana or what is known today as New Orleans Voodoo.
Biography of Maria Malibran (excerpt)
The mezzo-soprano (although she commonly sang soprano parts) Maria Malibran (March 24, 1808 – September 23, 1836), was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28.
Biography of Michael Praetorius (excerpt)
Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns.
Biography of Joseph Liouville (excerpt)
Joseph Liouville (March 24, 1809 – September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838.
Biography of Émile de Girardin (excerpt)
Émile de Girardin (22 June 1802 – 27 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism. His magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpensive daily newspaper La Presse undersold the competition by half, thanks to its cheaper production and heavier advertising.
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé à Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes).
Biography of James Russell Lowell (excerpt)
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Biography of Ernest Hébert (excerpt)
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 - 5 December 1908) was a French painter and academic. He was born in La Tronche and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
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The Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform) adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII was one of the fundamental laws that made up the constitution of Sweden from 1809 to the end of 1974.
Biography of Mikhail Glinka (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (June 1 1804 – February 15 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of classical music.
Biography of Robert Burton (excerpt)
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy. Life Born at Lindley (Higham on the Hill), Leicestershire, Burton spent most of his life at Oxford, first as a pupil at Brasenose College, and then as a Student (the equivalent of a fellow at other Oxford and Cambridge colleges) of Christ Church.
Biography of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (excerpt)
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night.
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Nagasaki ("Long Cape") is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries and the Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region have been recognized and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Biography of Jules Michelet (excerpt)
Jules Michelet (Paris, France, 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions. Jules Michelet. Early life His father was a master printer, not very prosperous, and Jules assisted him in the actual work of the press.
Biography of John Henry Newman (excerpt)
John Henry Newman, D.D., C.O. (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s.
Biography of Evariste Luminais (excerpt)
Evariste Vital Luminais, born October 13, 1821 in Nantes, died in 1896 in Paris, was a French painter.
Biography of François Ponsard (excerpt)
François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867), was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography He was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. Literary career His first literary work was a translation of Manfred (1837).
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Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area.
Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli.
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
Biography of Joseph Plateau (excerpt)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Liège (Liège), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829. In 1835, he was appointed Professor of experimental physics in Ghent University.
Biography of Robert Devereux (excerpt)
obert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex KG (10 November 1566 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599.
Biography of Paul Gavarni (excerpt)
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (January 13, 1804 in Paris – November 24, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer's draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a cartoonist.
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period.
Biography of Oliver Winchester (excerpt)
Oliver Fisher Winchester (November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880) was an American businessman and politician. Birth and marriage He was the son of Samuel Winchester and Hannah Bates and was born in Boston on November 30, 1810. He married Jane Ellen Hope in Boston on February 20, 1834.
Biography of Nikolaus Lenau (excerpt)
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (August 13 (August 25, Gregorian calendar), 1802, Schadat, near Temesvár, Hungary - August 22, 1850, Oberdöbling, near Vienna), a Hungarian-Austrian poet. He was born at Schadat (Hungarian: Csatád) near Temesvár in Hungary, now is "Lenauheim" in Romania. |
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