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Biography of Emilio Salgari (excerpt)
Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation: , but often erroneously pronounced ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. For over a century, his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures.
Biography of Pietro Mascagni (excerpt)
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (Italian: ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.
Biography of Georges Corneau (excerpt)
Georges Corneau, born on March 3, 1855 in Charleville-Mézières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 41), died in 1934, was a French journalist and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1910-1912, 1913, 1918 and 1919.
Biography of Arthur Groussier (excerpt)
Arthur Groussier (16 August 1863, Orléans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 741) - 6 February 1957) was a French politician. At first he joined the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France (FTSF). In 1890 he joined the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR).
Biography of Louis Lafferre (excerpt)
Louis Lafferre (10 May 1861 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 28 February 1929) was a French politician. He belonged to the Radical Party. Lafferre was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, and began his political career as a local councillor in Narbonne.
Biography of Auguste Arnaud (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor. Life Arnaud was born at La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at Angers, he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of François Rude.
Biography of Henri de Dion (excerpt)
Earl Henri de Dion (born near Montfort-l'Amaury on 18 December 1828, died in Paris on 13 April 1878) was a French engineer who contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He was an alumnus of the École Centrale Paris and specialised in metallic constructions, such as those of the Exposition Universelle (1878).
Biography of Jean Veber (excerpt)
Jean Veber (13 February 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–28 November 1928) was a French caricaturist and painter. Career overview Jean Veber was born in Paris in 1864. Trained as a painter, he became an illustrator when his brother Pierre urged him to join the staff of the newspaper Gil Blas.
Biography of Auguste Delpech (excerpt)
Noël Antoine Gabriel Auguste Delpech, born on December 22, 1846 in Bonnac, Ariège (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 11, 1935 in Toulouse, was a French professor, politician, and author. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1902 and 1903.
Biography of Albert Roussel (excerpt)
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French: ; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period.
Biography of Louis Lucipia (excerpt)
Louis Adrien Lucipia, born on November 18, 1843 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 459), died on May 21, 1904, was a French journalist, writer, and politician. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1895-1896) and (1898-1900).
Biography of Henri Boutet (excerpt)
Henri Boutet (March 24, 1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain) - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne". He candidly depicted women ranging from ordinary shop assistants to elegant ladies, managing to portray their common qualities of coquettishness and femininity.
Biography of Marie-François Goron (excerpt)
Marie-François Goron, born on March 2, 1847 in Rennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 4, 1933 in Sannois, is a French policeman and writer. Selected bibliography Les Mémoires de Goron, ancien chef de la Sûreté, Paris, Flammarion, 1897, 4 tomes, disponible sur Gallica.
Biography of Arthur Mille (excerpt)
Arthur Mille, born on July 30, 1854 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°47), died on November 15, 1942 in Lyon, was a French politician and businessman. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1922-1925).
Biography of Charles Delagrave (publisher) (excerpt)
Charles Marie Eugène Delagrave, born May 12, 1842 in Paris where he died March 17, 1934, is a French bookseller-publisher, founder of Éditions Delagrave.
Biography of Marcel Deslignières (excerpt)
Marcel Deslignières, born on May 15, 1847 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 29, 1914 in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumôn, is a French architect, painter, and watercolourist.
Biography of Frans Van Leemputten (excerpt)
Frans Van Leemputten or Frans van Leemputten (Leuven, 29 December 1850 (birth time source: Gauquelin, Vol. 4, acte de naissance) – Antwerp, 26 November 1914) was a Belgian Realist painter who specialized in landscape paintings of the Campine and Brabantine regions in Belgium as well as scenes with villagers and animals.
Biography of Édouard Redont (excerpt)
Édouard Redont, born on February 13, 1862 in Champigny, Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 13, 1862 in Reims, was a French landscape architect.
Biography of Clara Zetkin (excerpt)
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner, 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Blatin (August 1, 1841 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departemental archives)-1911) was a French politician. He served as the mayor of Clermont-Ferrand from 1884 to 1889, and as a member of the National Assembly for Puy-de-Dôme from 1885 to 1889.
Biography of Paquin (fashion designer) (excerpt)
Isidore-René Jacob-Paquin, best known as Paquin, born on April 9, 1862 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on December 20, 1907 in Paris, was a French grand couturier and stylist, the husband of French stylist Jeanne Paquin.
Biography of André Léo (excerpt)
Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 50 AD86) – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names. In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo in Paris.
Biography of Eugène Cornuché (excerpt)
Eugène Cornuché, born on April 18, 1867 in Paris 9e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 25, 1926 in Paris, was a French entrepreneur, the owner of restaurant Maxim's, the CEO of Trouville-sur-Merc Casino, and the founder of the Deauville Casino.
Biography of Ernest Flammarion (excerpt)
Ernest Flammarion, born on May 30, 1846 in Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne)(now Val-de-Meuse)(birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1936, was a French editor, the founder of Groupe Flammarion, the fourth-largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center).
Biography of Camille du Gast (excerpt)
Camille du Gast (Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast, Camille Crespin du Gast, 30 May 1868 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 24 April 1942) was one of a trio of pioneering French female motoring celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild (Baroness Hélène van Zuylen) and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart the (Duchess of Uzès).
Biography of Pierre Janet (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.
Biography of Marguerite Durand (excerpt)
Marguerite Durand (January 24, 1864 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 110) – March 16, 1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, stood for election, had a pet lion and now has the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand named for her.
Biography of Victor Prévost (excerpt)
Victor Joseph Prévost (born December 11, 1836 in Mormant, Seine-et-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 19, 1880 in Paris), also known as The La Chapelle Butcher and The Handsome Man, was a French former butcher, cuirassier, cent-gardes, policeman, murderer and possible serial killer.
Biography of Benito Pérez Galdós (excerpt)
Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist. Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.
Biography of Auguste Poulet-Malassis (excerpt)
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 11, 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was also a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
Biography of Jean Mouliérat (excerpt)
Jean Mouliérat (13 November 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 April 1932) was a French tenor. He spent most of his career at the Opéra comique in Paris. At the Opéra-Comique in Paris who hired him, Mouliérat was entrusted with the main roles of the repertoire: Wilhelm Meister in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon, Tybalt in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata.
Biography of Herminie Cadolle (excerpt)
Herminie Cadolle August 17, 1842 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1924) was the French inventor of the modern bra and founder of the Cadolle lingerie house. Cadolle was a close friend of the French insurrectionist Louise Michel, and it was this connection that led her to leave for the safety of Buenos Aires.
Biography of Carolus-Duran (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (Lille 4 July 1837 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – 17 February 1917 Paris), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
Biography of Edgar Demange (excerpt)
Edgar Demange (April 22, 1841 in Versailles (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 1925 in Paris) was a French jurist. He was, with Fernand Labori, the lawyer of Alfred Dreyfus during his trials in 1894 and 1899. Biography Demange was a winner of the national eloquence competition.
Biography of Armand Colin (excerpt)
Armand Colin, born on August 31, 1842 in Tonnerre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1900, was a French editor, the founder or Armand Colin, a historically important French publishing house. It quickly became the principal publisher in the world of education, including higher education, with works for students and faculty in the human sciences, economics and education.
Biography of Charles Girault (excerpt)
Charles-Louis Girault (27 December 1851 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 26 December 1932) was a French architect. Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honoré Daumet at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He received the first Prix de Rome, awarded him in 1880 on the basis of a design for a hospital for sick children along the Mediterranean Sea.
Biography of Clémence Royer (excerpt)
Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Biography of Victoria Welby (excerpt)
Victoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated English philosopher of language, musician and watercolour artist. By the late 19th century, she was publishing articles in the leading English language academic journals of the day, such as Mind and The Monist.
Biography of Jean-Georges Hachette (excerpt)
Jean-Georges Hachette, born on February 28, 1838 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1892, was a French editor, the director of Librairie L. Hachette et Cie, a publishing house founded by Louis Hachette.
Biography of Gabriel Davioud (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine-Gabriel Davioud (30 October 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 April 1881) was a French architect. Davioud was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Vaudoyer. After winning a Second Grand Prix de Rome, he was named inspector general for architectural works in Paris, and chief architect for its parks and public spaces.
Biography of Hubertine Auclert (excerpt)
Hubertine Auclert (April 10, 1848 in Saint-Priest-en-Murat – August 4, 1914 in Paris) was a journalist, author, leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage.
Biography of Marie-Antoinette Rivière (excerpt)
Antoinette de Beaucaire or Marie-Antoinette Rivière (21 January 1840, in Nîmes, France – 27 January 1865 (age 25)) was an Occitan language writer. Her works include Li Velugo or "The Sparklets."
Biography of Leopoldo Alas (excerpt)
Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice.
Biography of François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (excerpt)
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (June 4, 1864 – 1945) was a French architect. Chaussemiche was born in Tours, and in 1883 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a student and later colleague of Victor Laloux. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1893, and served as chief architect of the Palace of Versailles from 1917-1924, during which time he created the Parc botanique de Jussieu (now the Arboretum de Chèvreloup).
Biography of Louis Diémer (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was extensive, including a piano concerto and a quantity of salon pieces, all more or less forgotten these days.
Biography of Albert Pel (excerpt)
Félix-Albert Pel (born June 12, 1849 in Aigueblanche, Savoie Department (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - June 9, 1924 in the prison of New Caledonia) was a French criminal and serial killer. He was nicknamed the "Watchmaker of Montreuil".
Biography of Jean Camille Formigé (excerpt)
Jean-Camille Formigé (July 24, 1845 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) - 1926) was a French architect during the French Third Republic. He served as the chief architect of historic monuments of France, and also as the chief architect of buildings, promenades and gardens of the city of Paris.
Biography of Paul-Émile Sarradin (excerpt)
Paul-Émile Sarradin, born on October 15, 1825 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on November 1, 1909, was a French industrialist and politician, the mayor of Nantes between (1899-1908).
Biography of Eugene V. Debs (excerpt)
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Biography of Gabrielle Duchêne (excerpt)
Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 200) – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936. |
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