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Biography of Charles de Bourbon-Charolais (excerpt)
Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais (19 June, 1700 – 23 July, 1760) was a French noble. As a member of the reigni prince of the Blood. A son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, he was made governor of Touraine in 1720. ![]()
Biography of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (excerpt)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (15 November 1708 (26 November, Gregorian calendar) – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary of State during the Seven Years' War, as known in Great Britain and Canada (known as the French and Indian War in the U. ![]()
Biography of Louis, Count of Clermont (excerpt)
Louis de Bourbon, Count of Clermont (15 June 1709 – 16 June 1771) was a member of the cadet Bourbon-Condé branch of the French royal house. He is known for leading French forces in Germany during the Seven Years War where he took command in 1758 following the failed French Invasion of Hanover. ![]()
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Dover is the capital and second-largest city of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover, DE, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, Combined Statistical Area.
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Biography of Juniper Serra (excerpt)
Fray Junípero Serra (known as Fra Juníper Serra, in Catalan, his mother tongue) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. Fr. Serra was beatified by John Paul II on September 25, 1988. ![]()
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Ponce is both a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government. Ponce, Puerto Rico's most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, was founded on 12 August 1692 and is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León.
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Biography of Friedrich Klopstock (excerpt)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (IPA: ) (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. Biography Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer. Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given to his physical than to his mental development he grew up a strong healthy boy and was an excellent horseman.
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Biography of Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (excerpt)
Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier (b. 31 December 1715 at Darney in Lorraine; d. at Versailles, 9 April 1790) was a French Catholic theologian. He was a critic of the philosophes, accusing them in particular of distorting the facts on social life in China and Confucianism. ![]()
Biography of Maurice de Saxe (excerpt)
Maurice, Count of Saxony (German: Hermann Moritz von Sachsen, French: Maurice de Saxe; 28 October 1696 (7 November, Gregorian calendar) – 20 November 1750) was a notable soldier, officer and a famed military commander of the 18th century. The illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony, he initially served in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, then the Imperial Army, before finally entering French service. ![]()
Biography of Francesco Maria Veracini (excerpt)
Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 (birth time source: Wikipedia: "Francesco Maria Veracini was born at about 8:00am on 1 February 1690 in the family house on the via Palazzuolo, parish of San Salvatore, Ognissanti, Florence (Hill 1979, 7).") – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.
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Biography of Robert Clive (excerpt)
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a writer for the East India Company (EIC) who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by securing a decisive victory in Bengal.
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Biography of Henry Fielding (excerpt)
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the comic novel Tom Jones. Additionally, he holds a significant place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners.
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Biography of Claudine Guérin de Tencin (excerpt)
Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Baroness of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749), was a French salonist and author. She was the mother of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, who later became a prominent mathematician, philosophe and contributor to the Encyclopédie, though she left him on the steps of the Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris church a few days after his birth.
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Biography of Louise d'Épinay (excerpt)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
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Biography of Luise Gottsched (excerpt)
Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (born Kulmus, 11 April 1713 – 26 June 1762) was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy. She was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (Crown of Poland).
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Biography of Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle (excerpt)
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744.
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Biography of Anne-Marie du Boccage (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, née Le Page, (22 October 1710 – 8 August 1802) was an 18th-century French writer, poet, and playwright. In February 1748, she published a translation in six cantos of Milton's Paradise Lost, which she dedicated to the Rouen Academy. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite de Launay (excerpt)
Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, baronne de Staal (30 August 1684 – 15 June 1750) was a French author. She was implicated in the Cellamare Conspiracy of Giulio Alberoni against Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, regent for Louis XV of France, and was sent in 1718 to the Bastille, where she remained for two years. ![]()
Biography of Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius (excerpt)
Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (23 July 1722 – 12 August 1800), also Anne-Catherine de Ligniville d'Autricourt, nicknamed "Minette", maintained a renowned salon in France in the eighteenth century. One of the twenty-one children of Jean-Jacques de Ligniville and his wife Charlotte de Saureau, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, the niece of Madame de Graffigny, married the philosopher Helvétius in 1751.
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Biography of Françoise de Graffigny (excerpt)
Françoise de Graffigny, née Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt (11 February 1695 - 12 December 1758), better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess. Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in 1747, she became the world's best-known living woman writer after the success of her sentimental comedy Cénie in 1750.
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Biography of Marie-Louise Mignot (excerpt)
Marie Louise Mignot (1712–1790) was a French literary figure. She was the daughter of Voltaire's sister, Catherine Arouet (1686–1726) and her husband Pierre-François Mignot (d. 1737). After the death of her widowed father in 1737, Voltaire provided her with a dowry Madame Denis.
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Biography of François Hemsterhuis (excerpt)
François Hemsterhuis (27 December 1721 – 7 July 1790) was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy. The son of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he was born at Franeker in the Netherlands. He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he studied Plato.
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Biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (excerpt)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art.
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Biography of William Cullen (excerpt)
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE (15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790), a Scottish physician, chemist, and agriculturalist, was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and at the Edinburgh Medical School. Friends with David Hume, Joseph Black, and Adam Smith, he was also President of the Royal College of Physicians in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and First Physician to the King in Scotland.
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Biography of Louise of Denmark (1726) (excerpt)
Louise of Denmark and Norway (October 19, 1726 – August 8, 1756) was a Danish and Norwegian princess, and later the Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen following her marriage to Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Known for her lively personality, Louise often clashed with the rigid environment of her parental home.
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Biography of Johann Christian Günther (excerpt)
Johann Christian Günther (8 April (18 April, gregorian calendar) 1695 – 15 March 1723) was a German poet from Striegau in Lower Silesia. His time of birth comes from the biography "Das Leben des schlesischen Dichters Johann Christian Günther, 1695-1723" by Wilhelm Krämer (Klett-Cotta, 1980).
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Biography of Franz Neumayr (excerpt)
Franz Neumayr (January 17, 1697 (January 27 of the Gregorian calendar) – May 1, 1765) was a German Jesuit preacher, theologian, and author of many Latin dramas on sacred themes. Born in Munich, he entered the Society of Jesus on October 3, 1712.
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Biography of Peter Faneuil (excerpt)
Peter Faneuil (June 20, 1700 (July 1, Gregorian calendar) – March 3, 1743) was a wealthy American colonial merchant, slave trader and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston. Peter Faneuil was the eldest child of a wealthy Huguenot family that fled France.
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Biography of Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (excerpt)
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico), also called Giandomenico d'Imola (15 June 1692 – 18 August 1768), was an Italian Rococo style painter from Florence. According to the contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Ferretti was a pupil of the Bolognese painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
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Biography of Mariana Victoria of Spain (excerpt)
Mariana Victoria of Spain (Portuguese: Mariana Vitória; 30 March 1718 – 15 January 1781) was an Infanta of Spain by birth and was later the Queen of Portugal as wife of King Joseph I. Her date and time of birth come from the biography "Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France" by Anselme de Sainte-Marie (par la compagnie des libraires associés, 1726).
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Biography of Mary Palmer (author) (excerpt)
Mary Palmer (née Reynolds; 9 February 1716 – 27 May 1794) was a British author from Devon, known for writing "Devonshire Dialogue," praised as the best literature in Devon's vernacular. She was the mother of painter Theophila Gwatkin and sister to artists Sir Joshua Reynolds and Frances Reynolds.
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Biography of Mary of Great Britain (1723) (excerpt)
Mary of Great Britain (5 March 1723 – 14 January 1772) was the second-youngest daughter of George II of Great Britain and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, and Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel as the wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. Mary, daughter of the Prince of Wales (later King George II) and Caroline of Ansbach, became "HRH The Princess Mary" in 1727 when her father ascended the throne.
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Biography of Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (excerpt)
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (Paris, April 4, 1688 – Paris, September 11, 1768) was a French astronomer and geographer. His time of birth comes from him, in "Etudes religieuses, historiques et littéraires" (J. Lanier et Cie, 1901). Coming from a scientific family, he studied astronomy under Jacques Cassini and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Biography of Johann Justin Preissler (excerpt)
Johann Justin Preissler (4 October 1698 (14 October, Gregorian calendar) – 18 February 1771) was a German painter and draughtsman. Preissler was born and died in Nuremberg. According to the RKD he was the son and pupil of Johann Daniel Preissler and the brother of Georg Martin and Johan Martin.
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Biography of Mademoiselle Clairon (excerpt)
Clair Josèphe Hippolyte Leris (January 25, 1723 – January 29, 1803), known as Mademoiselle Clairon or La Clairon, was a French actress born in Condé-sur-l'Escaut. She is renowned for developing a new acting style focused on emotional connection between actors and their characters.
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Biography of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.
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Biography of Leopold Auenbrugger (excerpt)
Josef Leopold Auenbrugger (19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809), also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique, making him one of the founders of modern medicine. His time of birth comes from Franz Clar's book, "Leopold Auenbrugger, der Erfinder der Percussion des Brustkorbes" (Leuschner & Lubensky, 1867).
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Biography of Soame Jenyns (excerpt)
Soame Jenyns was an English writer, sometimes referred to in France as Jennings. He was born on December 31, 1703 (Julian calendar) or January 11, 1704 (Gregorian calendar) in London, and died on December 18, 1787. He was a member of the House of Commons from 1742 to 1780 and later became one of the Lords of the Board of Trade.
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Biography of Giuliano Dami (excerpt)
Giuliano Dami (14 September 1683 – 5 April 1750) was the favourite and valet (Aiutante di Camera) of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1723 – 1737). He is known for the "magnetic influence" he exercised on the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, and for his relationship with him.
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Biography of Maria Amalia, Holy Roman Empress (excerpt)
Maria Amalia of Austria (‹See Tfd›German: Maria Amalia Josefa Anna; 22 October 1701 – 11 December 1756) was Holy Roman empress, queen of Bohemia, and electress of Bavaria among many other titles as the spouse of Emperor Charles VII. By birth, she was an archduchess of Austria as the daughter of Emperor Joseph I.
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Biography of Roger Newdigate (excerpt)
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (31 May 1719 – 23 November 1806), was an English politician who served in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was also a noted collector of antiquities. Born in Nuneaton, he inherited the title of 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and Harefield in 1734 after his brother's early death.
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Biography of Hakuin Ekaku (excerpt)
Hakuin Ekaku (January 19, 1686 – January 18, 1769) was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He saw bodhicitta—working for the benefit of others—as the highest aim of Zen training. His time of birth comes from the book "Hakuin's Song of Zazen: Yamada Mumon Roshi on Zen Practice", by Yamada Mumon Roshi, D. |
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