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Biography of Alphonse Legros (excerpt)
Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon. His father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes. Young Legros frequently visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his pictures and etchings.
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Biography of Belle Boyd (excerpt)
Isabella Marie Boyd (May 9, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd based on her middle name, or Cleopatra of the Secession, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her aunt's hotel in Virginia and provided valuable information to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in 1862. ![]()
Biography of Arnold Dolmetsch (excerpt)
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th century revival of interest in Early Music.
Biography of Luke Broughton (excerpt)
Luke Broughton, born April 20, 1828 in Leeds, died September 22, 1899, was a British and American astrologer. He had predicted his own death.
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Biography of Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (excerpt)
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (February 12, 1842–1912) was a French publicist and historian born at Lisieux, Calvados. He specialized in writing about the history of Russia In 1866 he published Une troupe de comédiens, and afterwards Essai sur la restoration de nos monuments historiques devant l'art et devant le budget, which deals particularly with the restoration of the cathedral of Evreux.
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Biography of Paul Otlet (excerpt)
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (23 August 1868 (birth time source: act n°3914, André Dekoster) – 10 December 1944) was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation".
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Biography of Madeleine Lemaire (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire, born May 24, 1845 in Les Arcs, Var, died in 1928, was a French painter and watercolor painter.
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Biography of Augustine Brohan (excerpt)
Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (December 2, 1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
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Biography of Conrad Noel (excerpt)
Conrad le Despenser Roden Noel (12 July 1869 - 2 July 1942) was a prominent British Christian Socialist. His father was the poet Roden Noël. Born in London, Noel was ordained in the Church of England and officiated in various parishes until 1910, when he became the vicar of Thaxted in Essex until his death in 1942. ![]()
Biography of Daniel C. Roper (excerpt)
Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1, 1867 – April 11, 1943) was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina. His father, John Wesley Roper, was a leader of the Scotch Boys of the Confederate Army.
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Biography of Bernard Zweers (excerpt)
Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. ![]()
Biography of Juliette Adam (excerpt)
Juliette Adam (4 October 1836, Verberie (Oise) (birth time source: Arno Müller, vol 3) – 23 August 1936, Callian (Var), also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist. Biography Juliette Adam gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse (Eng. ![]()
Biography of Abraham Kuyper (excerpt)
Abraham Kuijper (Maassluis, 29 October 1837 – Den Haag, 8 November 1920) generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. ![]()
Biography of Jules Emmanuel Valadon (excerpt)
Jules Emmanuel Valadon, born in Paris, October 10, 1826, died in 1900, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Snieders (excerpt)
August Snieders (Bladel, 8 May 1825-Brussels (birth time source: Lescaut), 19 November 1904) was a Flemish journalist and writer. He started his career in 's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper Het Handelsblad, of which he was head editor from 1849 until 1899.
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Biography of Albert Sorel (excerpt)
Albert Sorel (13 August 1842 - 29 June 1906), was a French historian. He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich manufacturer, wanted him to take over the business but his literary vocation prevailed.
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Biography of Marie Favart (excerpt)
Pierrette Pingaud, best known as Marie Favart, born on February 16, 1833 in Beaune, died in 1908, was a French comedian. ![]()
Biography of El Espartero (excerpt)
Manuel García Cuesta, known as "El Espartero", born January 18, 1865 in Seville and died May 27, 1894, was a Spanish matador. A matador or torero is the main performer in bullfighting events in Spain, some Spanish-speaking countries and France.
Biography of Lucien Biart (excerpt)
Lucien Biart, born June 21, 1828 in Versailles and died March 18, 1897, was a French writer. ![]()
Biography of Victor Herbert (excerpt)
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
Biography of Levi R. Dowling (excerpt)
Levi R. Dowling, born May 18, 1844 in Bellville, Ohio, died August 13, 1911, was an American writer and metaphysicist, the author of "The Aquarian Gospel".
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Biography of Niels Ryberg Finsen (excerpt)
Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 – September 24, 1904) was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science.
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Biography of Marcel Sembat (excerpt)
Marcel Sembat, born October 19, 1862 in Bonnières-sur-Seine, died in 1922 in Chamonix, was a French politician, socialist and member of SFIO. Bibliography (extract) Lefebvre, Denis, Marcel Sembat : socialiste et franc-maçon, Paris, Editions Bruno Leprince, 1995, 186 p. ![]()
Biography of Francis Burnand (excerpt)
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), often credited as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and dramatist. Burnand was a contributor to Punch for 45 years and its editor from 1880 until 1906. He was also a prolific humorist and writer, creating almost 200 burlesques, farces, pantomimes and other works. ![]()
Biography of Louis Couturat (excerpt)
Louis Couturat (January 17, 1868 – August 3, 1914) was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Life Born in Paris and raised in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure. He held professorships, first at the University of Toulouse, then subsequently at the Collège de France. ![]()
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Biography of Arthur Hannequin (excerpt)
Arthur Hannequin, born October 27, 1856 in Pargny-sur-Saulx (Marne), died July 5, 1905, was a French physicist , professor of philosophy and sciences and author. ![]()
Biography of John Tweed (excerpt)
John Tweed, born January 21, 1869 in Glasgow, died November 12, 1933 in London, was a Scottish sculptor. ![]()
Biography of Camille Jullian (excerpt)
Camille Jullian (March 15, 1859 - December 12, 1933) was a French historian, philologist, archaeologist and historian of French literature, student of Fustel de Coulanges, whose posthumous work he published. Biography Jullian was born in Marseille. Specialising in Gaul and the Roman epoch, he was notably a student of the École Normale Supérieure, member of the École française de Rome and professor of national antiquities at the Collège de France.
Biography of Nicolas Pietri (excerpt)
Nicolas Pietri (February 2, 1862, Sartène, Corsica, France) was a French politician, business man and art amateur.
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Biography of Victor Cherbuliez (excerpt)
Charles Victor Cherbuliez (19 July 1829 – 1 July 1899) was a French novelist and author. He was the eleventh member elected to occupy seat 3 of the Académie française in 1881. Biography Cherbuliez was born at Geneva, Switzerland, where his father, André Cherbuliez (1795-1874), was a classical professor at the Université de Genève. ![]()
Biography of Maxime Maufra (excerpt)
Born in Nantes on May 17, 1861, died on May 23, 1918, Maxime Maufra was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. Biography Douarnenez Paysage d'Octobre (1896), Dallas Museum of Art Maufra first began painting at 18. He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes: the brothers Leduc. ![]()
Biography of Louis Brocq (excerpt)
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Biography of John Carteek (excerpt)
John Carteek, born January 22, 1861 in Rockland, Michigan, was an American wrestler. ![]()
Biography of Luc-Olivier Merson (excerpt)
Luc-Olivier Merson (21 May 1846 – 13 November 1920) was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs. Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an artistic household, the son of Charles-Olivier Merson, a painter and art critic. ![]()
Biography of Paul Baudry (excerpt)
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (November 7, 1828, La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) - January 17, 1886, Paris) was a French painter. He studied under Michel Martin Drolling, a sound but second-rate artist, and carried off the Prix de Rome in 1850 by his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.
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Biography of Guillaume Bigourdan (excerpt)
Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (April 6, 1851 – February 28, 1932) was a French astronomer. Bigourdan was born at Sistels, Tarn-et-Garonne. In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there. ![]()
Biography of Prince Francis of Teck (excerpt)
Prince Francis of Teck, GCVO, DSO (9 January 1870 – 22 October 1910), was a member of the British Royal Family, the brother of Queen Mary. Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick, known as "Frank" was born at Kensington Palace and educated at Wellington College, Cheltenham College (Stone, 1912, p.
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Biography of Yves Delage (excerpt)
Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud, arguing in favour of its authenticity. ![]()
Biography of Lucien Pissarro (excerpt)
Lucien Pissarro (20 February 1863 (birth time source: Scholfield) – 10 July 1944) was a French painter, printmaker and wood engraver. Eldest son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, he was born in Paris and studied with his father. His works employ techniques of Impressionism and its successor, Neo-impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. ![]()
Biography of Paul Brouardel (excerpt)
Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel (13 February 1837 – 23 July 1906) was a French pathologist who was born in Saint Quentin. In 1858 he became an externe at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris, and in 1865 earned his medical doctorate. In 1873 he became director of medical services at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine and la Pitié. ![]()
Biography of Emile Banning (excerpt)
Émile Theodore Joseph Hubert Banning (Liège, 12 October 1836 - Brussels, 13 July 1898) was a doctor of philosophy and literature and a Belgian senior civil servant who played an important role in the Belgian politics of the nineteenth century. He started his career as a journalist with the l'Écho du Parlement, where he became a sagacious observer of the political life, after a stay at the Royal Library as its archivist and librarian, he was appointed at the department of Foreign Affairs where he quickly became a kind of oracle in all the historical and geographical questions of his time.
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Biography of Albert Glatigny (excerpt)
Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (May 21, 1839 - April 16, 1873), was a French poet, writer, comedian and playwright, born at Lillebonne (Seine Inférieure). His father, who was a carpenter and afterwards a gendarme, removed in 1844 to Bernay, where Albert received an elementary education. ![]()
Biography of Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch (excerpt)
Hendrik Johannes Weissenbruch (born Jan Hendrik on 19 June 1824 in The Hague (birth timle source: Lescaut) – 24 March, 1903 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter of the Hague School. He came from an artistic family, his father he painted in his free time and collected art on a small scale.
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Biography of Maurice Schutz (excerpt)
Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film actor and comedian. He starred in some 91 films between 1918 and 1952. Filmography (selection) 1910 : Nick Winter l'adroit détective de Paul Garbagni 1914 : Le Train des bois - une production Pathé -
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Biography of Paul Lacombe (excerpt)
Paul Lacombe, born July 11, 1837 in Carcassonne, died June 4, 1927, was a French musician and composer. ![]()
Biography of Georges Henri Halphen (excerpt)
George Henri Halphen (30 October 1844, Rouen – 23 May 1889, Versailles) was a French mathematician. He did his studies at École Polytechnique (X 1862). He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Blondel (excerpt)
Maurice Blondel (2 November 1861, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 June 1949, Aix-en-Provence) was a French philosopher. Blondel developed a "philosophy of action” that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion.
Biography of Emile Baumann (excerpt)
Emile Baumann (born in September 24 1868 in Lyon, France) was a French novelist. Selected works (in French) Le Baptême de Pauline Ardel (1913) La Paix du septième jour (1918) Job le prédestiné (1922) Abel et Caïn (1930) La Vie terrible d’Henry de Groux (1936) ![]()
Biography of Alfred Loisy (excerpt)
Alfred Firmin Loisy (28 February 1857 – 1 June 1940) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church. He was a critic of traditional views of the biblical creation myth, and argued that biblical criticism could be applied to interpreting scripture. |
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