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Biography of Edouard Estaunie (excerpt)
Édouard Estaunié (Dijon, France, February 4, 1862 - Paris, February 1, 1942) was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Marchand (excerpt)
Major Jean-Baptiste Marchand (November 22, 1863 – January 13, 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa. Marchand was born in Thoissey, Ain and attended l’Ecole militaire de Saint-Maixent. He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French.
Biography of Louis de Rougemont (excerpt)
Louis de Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a would-be explorer who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. "De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Suchy, Switzerland. He left home at the age of sixteen.
Biography of Thomas Callender (excerpt)
Thomas Callender, born April 9, 1855 in Glasgow, was a Scottish businessman and entrepreneur.
Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
Biography of Jean Georges Vibert (excerpt)
French painter.
Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include:
Biography of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (excerpt)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 – 1929) was one of the leading French artists of the academic school. He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil. Later he added his grandfather’s name, Bouveret, to his own.
Biography of Hans Thoma (excerpt)
Hans Thoma (October 2, 1839 – November 7, 1924) was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Karlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres.
Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
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Norwich is a city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum about 100 miles (160 km) north-east of London, 40 miles (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 miles (105 km) east of Peterborough.
Biography of Ernest Meissonier (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille.
Biography of Isabel Burton (excerpt)
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (London, March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Her father was Henry Raymond Arundell, nephew of James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour .
Biography of Charles Chamberland (excerpt)
Charles Chamberland (March 12, 1851 – May 2, 1908) was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, consisting of an unglazed porcelain bar.
Biography of Marguerite Rachilde (excerpt)
Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Château-l'Évêque near Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
Biography of Isabella Augusta Gregory (excerpt)
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.
Biography of Henri Joseph Harpignies (excerpt)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (July 24, 1819 - August 28, 1916), French landscape painter, was born at Valenciennes. He was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris.
Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years.
Biography of Benjamin Godard (excerpt)
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (August 18, 1849, Paris – January 10, 1895, Cannes) was a French violinist and Romantic composer. Biography Benjamin Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps (violin) and Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany.
Biography of Ludwig Pastor (excerpt)
Ludwig Pastor, later Ludwig von Pastor, Freiherr von Campersfelden (31 January 1854 – 30 September 1928), was a German historian and a diplomat for Austria. He became one of the most important Roman Catholic historians of his time and is most notable for his History of the Popes.
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853.
Biography of William Herndon (excerpt)
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818, Kentucky - March 18, 1891, Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's biography Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln.
Biography of Henri Duveyrier (excerpt)
Henri Duveyrier (28 February 1840 – 25 April 1892) was a French explorer of the Sahara born in Paris. In 1857 and 1858, he spent some months in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan.
Biography of William Rufus Shaftner (excerpt)
William Rufus Shaftner, born in Galesburg, Michigan, on October 16, 1835, was an American military man, he commanded the land operations during the Spanish-American war. He received a Medal of Honor.
Biography of John French (excerpt)
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 - 22 May 1925) was a British officer serving as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I.
Biography of Louis Le Cardonnel (excerpt)
Louis Le Cardonnel, also called Brother Anselme, born on February 25, 1862 in Valence (source for his time of birth: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on May 28, 1936 in Avignon, was a French priest and poet. Works: Poèmes (1904) Carmina Sacra (1912) Du Rhône à l'Arno (1920)
Biography of Georges Lafenestre (excerpt)
Georges Lafenestre, born on May 5, 1837 in Orléans (birth time source: Lescaut), died on May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French poet and art critic. Works (extract) Les Espérances, 1864. Le Parnasse contemporain II (recueil collectif), 1869-1871.
Biography of Alexandre Becquerel (excerpt)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He discovered the photovoltaic effect, which is the physics behind the solar cell, in 1839.
Biography of Rudolf Eucken (excerpt)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. Early life He was born in Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover (now Lower Saxony). His father died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his mother.
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).
Biography of Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven (excerpt)
Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven (Antwerp, 10 November 1818 - Antwerp, 1 August 1857) was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education.
Biography of Henri Lavedan (excerpt)
Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (9 April 1859 - 30 September 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholicand liberal journalist. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form.
Biography of Alfred Bruneau (excerpt)
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra.
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million.
Biography of Ernest Monis (excerpt)
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis (French pronunciation: ; 23 May 1846 Châteauneuf-sur-Charente (source for his time of birth: Lescaut)– 25 May 1929 Mondouzil) was a French politician of the Third Republic, deputy of Gironde from 1885 to 1889 and then senator of the same department from 1891 to 1920.
Biography of Edwin Markham (excerpt)
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Life Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother.
Biography of Alfred Capus (excerpt)
Alfred Capus (November 25, 1858 in Aix-en-Provence - November 1, 1922) was a French journalist and playwright, born in Aix-en-Provence and deceased in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Son to a lawyer from Marseille, Alfred Capus went to university in Toulon. After failing several entrance tests for higher-education schools and working as a draughtsman for a while, he went on to become a journalist.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro.
Biography of Henri La Fontaine (excerpt)
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. La Fontaine studied law at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Biography of Octave Callandreau (excerpt)
Pierre Jean Octave Callandreau, born September 18, 1852 in Angoulême (source not archived), died February 13, 1904, was a French astronomer, a former student of Polytechnique (X1872).
Biography of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (excerpt)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.
Biography of Theobald Ziegler (excerpt)
Theobald Ziegler (February 9, 1846 – September 1, 1918) was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg. Career Ziegler studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and later was a secondary school teacher in Heilbronn, Winterthur and Baden-Baden.
Biography of Alexandre Bisson (excerpt)
Alexandre Bisson, born April 9, 1848 in Briouze and died January 27, 1912 in Paris, was a French author and screenwriter. Works (extract) Madame X (1981) (TV) (play) "Au théâtre ce soir" (1 episode, 1980) - Feu Toupinel (1980) TV episode (play)
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871).
Biography of Lucien Descaves (excerpt)
Lucien Descaves (18 March 1861, Paris - 6 September 1949) was a French novelist and journalist. A disciple of Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Goncourt brothers his novels Le Calvaire d'Héloïse Pajadou (1883) and Une vieille rate (1883) followed strongly the naturalism movement.
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Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
Biography of Maurice Rollinat (excerpt)
Maurice Rollinat (born December 29, 1846 in Châteauroux, France; died October 26, 1903 in Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French poet. Early works His father represented Indre in the National Assembly of 1848, and was a friend of George Sand, whose influence is very marked in young Rollinat's first volume, Dans les brandes (1877), and to whom it was dedicated.
Biography of Pierre Gauthiez (excerpt)
Pierre-Michel Gautiez, born March 28, 1862 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was a French poet and author.
Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française |
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