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Biography of Émile Ollivier (excerpt)
Olivier Émile Ollivier (2 July 1825 – 20 August 1913) was a French statesman. Starting as an avid republican opposed to Emperor Napoleon III, he pushed the Emperor toward liberal reforms and in turn came increasingly into Napoleon's grip. He entered the cabinet and was the prime minister when Napoleon fell.
Biography of Arsène Houssaye (excerpt)
Arsène Houssaye (March 28, 1814 - February 26, 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon. His real surname was Housset. In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pécheresse.
Biography of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (excerpt)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.
Biography of Eugène Fromentin (excerpt)
Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer. He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life.
Biography of Léon Say (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say (June 6, 1826 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 21, 1896 in Paris), French statesman and economist, was born in Paris. The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist.
Biography of Chester A. Arthur (excerpt)
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 (birth time source: Doane, from memory) – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the twentieth vice president under James Garfield.
Biography of Edmond Eugène Valton (excerpt)
Edmond-Eugène Valton (Paris September 25, 1836 - September 1910), French painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He studied with F. Fossey, and at the École des Beaux Arts, under Célestin-François Nanteuil (1813-1873), Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781-1853) David d'Angers (1788-1856) and Thomas Couture (1815-1879).
Biography of Albert Edelfelt (excerpt)
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 (birth time source: "Kyosti Tarvainen argues by email, that the date is 21 July Gregorian Calendar: "Finland was at that time a part of Russia. But we used the new time systems (since we were earlier a part of Sweden).
Biography of Fridtjof Nansen (excerpt)
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10, 1861 – May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest personalities in the history of Norway.
Biography of Jean-Martin Charcot (excerpt)
Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. His work greatly influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology. He was called "the Napoleon of the neuroses." Life Born in Paris, Charcot worked and taught at the famous Salpêtrière Hospital for thirty three years.
Biography of Georges Feydeau (excerpt)
Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862 - 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as La Belle Epoque. He was known for his many lively farces. Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zelewska.
Biography of Jules-Élie Delaunay (excerpt)
Jules-Élie Delaunay (June 13, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe.
Biography of Émile Bourquelot (excerpt)
Émile Bourquelot (21 June 1851 – 26 January 1921) was a French chemist, and professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris. He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons. Bourqelot became the Chief Pharmacist at the Laënnec Hospital in 1887, where he established a laboratory to conduct his research into carbohydrate chemistry.
Biography of Henry-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (excerpt)
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) was born Henry-Gustave Joly in Épernay, France. His father family was one of the traditional Huguenot families and his mother, a Catholic. First a Huguenot himself, Henri-Gustave converted to Anglicanism when he got married in 1856.
Biography of François Pompon (excerpt)
François Pompon (May 9, 1855 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 6, 1933) was a French sculptor and animalier. Born in Saulieu in Burgundy, he moved to Paris. Beginning in 1870 he studied under the noted animalier Pierre Louis Rouillard at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and later worked as Auguste Rodin's assistant.
Biography of Eugène Gigout (excerpt)
Eugène Gigout (23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ. Eugène Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris for 62 years.
Biography of Théodore Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 - December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting.
Biography of Alfred Krupp (excerpt)
The Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp in modern times, merged with Thyssen AG in 1999 to form ThyssenKrupp AG, a large industrial conglomerate.
Biography of Léon Germain Pelouse (excerpt)
Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 - July 31, 1891) was a French painter.
Biography of Louis Péricaud (excerpt)
Louis Jean Péricaud, born on June 10, 1835 in La Rochelle (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on November 12, 1909 in Paris, was a French comedian, playwright, director, and author.
Biography of Percival Lowell (excerpt)
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
Biography of Eleonora Duse (excerpt)
Eleonora Duse (October 3, 1858–April 21, 1924), was an Italian actress, often known simply as Duse. Early life, acting career Eleonora Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and entered acting (her family's profession) as a child. She came to fame in Italian versions of rôles made famous by Sarah Bernhardt.
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Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2021. The area around Dakar was settled in the 15th century.
Biography of Nikolaus Otto (excerpt)
Nikolaus August Otto (June 10, 1832 Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau - January 26, 1891 Cologne) was the German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e.
Biography of Pierre de Nolhac (excerpt)
Pierre de Nolhac, born December 15, 1859 in Ambert, died January 31, 1936 in Paris, was a French art historian, poet and author. Works (selection) Le Dernier Amour de Ronsard (1882) Lettres de Joachim Du Bellay publiées pour la première fois d'après les originaux (1883)
Biography of Émile Goudeau (excerpt)
Émile Goudeau, born on August 29, 1849 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died in 1906, was a French journalist, novelist, and poet. Publications (selection) 1878 : Fleurs du bitume 1884 : Poèmes ironiques 1884 : La Revanche des bêtes
Biography of Rodolphe Salis (excerpt)
Rodolphe Salis, born May 19, 1851 in Châtellerault (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1897, was a French artist, owner and host of French cabaret Le Chat Noir. Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th-century cabaret in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris.
Biography of Charles Nègre (excerpt)
Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880) was a French painter and photographer.
Biography of François de Curel (excerpt)
François, Vicomte de Curel (June 10, 1854 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - 1928), French dramatist, was born at Metz, Moselle. Biography He was educated at the École centrale Paris as a civil engineer, the family wealth being derived from smelting works.
Biography of André Gedalge (excerpt)
André Gedalge (27 December 1856 - 5 February 1926), was an influential French composer and teacher. André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools.
Biography of Octave Mirbeau (excerpt)
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.
Biography of Christina Rossetti (excerpt)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, which tells of two sisters tempted by goblin men to buy strange fruit.
Biography of Ida Ferrier (excerpt)
Born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand May 13, 1811, Ida Ferrier was Alexandre Dumas' wife from 1840, separated in 1845. Dumas wrote the poems Obéissance and À I… for her. She played the leading role in Bathilde.
Biography of Paul Féval (excerpt)
Paul Henri Corentin Féval, père (29 September 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 March 1887) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was the author of popular swashbuckler novels such as Le Loup Blanc (1843) and the perennial best-seller Le Bossu (1857).
Biography of Marie Lafarge (excerpt)
Marie-Fortunée Lafarge, née Capelle (January 15, 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - November 7, 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person convicted largely on direct forensic toxicological evidence.
Biography of Paul Schützenberger (excerpt)
Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 - 26 June 1897), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779-1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809-1881) professor of chemical medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated MD from the University of Strasbourg in 1855, but his interests lay in physical and chemical science.
Biography of Eugène Thirion (excerpt)
Eugène Thirion, born on May 19, 1839 in Paris, died on January 19, 1910 in Montigny-sur-Loing, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Clément (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Clément, born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died February 26, 1903 in Paris, was a French singer, author and activist, a member of The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris).
Biography of Otto Walkhoff (excerpt)
Friedrich Otto Walkhoff, born April 23, 1860 in Braunschweig, died June 8, 1934 in Berlin, was a German dental therapist.
Biography of Octave Gréard (excerpt)
Octave Gréard (April 18, 1828 (birth time source: Choisnard, birth certificate) - April 25, 1904) was a noted French educator. Gréard was born in Vire, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and had a long career in education. He was largely responsible for the establishment of schools for girls and played a significant role in reforming the baccalauréat.
Biography of Gaëtan de Rochebouët (excerpt)
Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët (French pronunciation: ; born 16 March 1813 in Angers, died 23 Ferbruary 1899 in Paris) was a French general who served as Prime Minister for less than a month in late 1877. On June 29, 1877, Patrice de MacMahon dissolved the House after being outvoted.
Biography of Gustaf V of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustav V (Oscar Gustav Adolf) (16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
Biography of Ernest Renan (excerpt)
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, biblical scholar and critic, and historian of religion. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity.
Biography of Théophile Delcassé (excerpt)
Théophile Pierre Delcassé, born on March 1, 1852 in Pamiers (Ariège) (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut), died on February 21, 1923 in Nice, was a French politician and journalist.
Biography of Adelina Patti (excerpt)
Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard.
Biography of Johann Gottfried Galle (excerpt)
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (23 September 1846).
Biography of Alphonse Allais (excerpt)
Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer, journalist and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.
Biography of Hilaire de Chardonnet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, best known as Hilaire de Chardonnet, born May 1, 1839 in Besançon, died March 11, in Paris, was a French engeener, businessman and inventor of artificial silk.
Biography of Jules Massenet (excerpt)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed. |
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