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Horoscopes with Apollon in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.) ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charles Bélanger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger (4 April 1790 – 8 May 1874) was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France. ![]()
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur. ![]()
Biography of Delphine LaLaurie (excerpt)
Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans Creole socialite and serial killer who tortured and murdered slaves in her household.
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Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects.
Biography of Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (excerpt)
Raymond-Jean-Baptiste de Verninac Saint-Maur, born on June 11, 1794 in Souillac (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on February 11, 1873 in Souillac, was a French Naval Minister . ![]()
Biography of Frederick Hockley (excerpt)
Frederick Hockley (October 13, 1809 in London (birth time source: this article – November 10, 1885) was a British occultist who was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley collected some important occult texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismond Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794. ![]()
Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (excerpt)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
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Biography of Hippolyte Bayard (excerpt)
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.
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Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc.
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Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables.
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Biography of Hippolyte de Villemessant (excerpt)
Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain) 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo) was a conservative French journalist. Life The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California.
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Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. ![]()
Biography of Alessandro Manzoni (excerpt)
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (Italian: ; 7 March 1785 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I Promessi Sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. ![]()
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). ![]()
Biography of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (excerpt)
Konstantin Pavlovich 27 April 1779 (8 May 1779 Gregorian Calendar) – 27 June 1831) was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the Tsesarevich of Russia throughout the reign of his elder brother Alexander I, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823.
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Biography of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (excerpt)
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire KG, PC (21 May 1790 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Brian Masters (Hamish Hamilton, 1981), p. 185) – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier and Whig politician. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Victor Poncelet (excerpt)
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 – December 22, 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the École polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century.
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Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Perdonnet (excerpt)
Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Leroux (excerpt)
Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux, born on August 19, 1809 in Paris (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Lescaut, original source unknown), died on February 5, 1891 in Paris, was a French famous dancer in the Paris Opera Ballet and in London. On July 12, 1848, she married the French comedian Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797-1873). ![]()
Biography of Jacques Triger (excerpt)
Jacques Triger (March 10, 1801–1867) was a French geologist who invented the 'Triger process' for digging through water logged ground. Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Biography Triger was born in Mamers, a town in the Sarthe French county, on 10 March 1801.
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Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
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Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
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Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century". ![]()
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816.
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Biography of Michel Chasles (excerpt)
Michel Floréal Chasles (15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880) was a French mathematician. He was born at Épernon in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the defence of Paris in 1814.
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Biography of Charles Combes (excerpt)
Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors.
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Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works. ![]()
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François. ![]()
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides. ![]()
Biography of Martin Dumollard (excerpt)
Martin Dumollard (April 21, 1810 in Tramoyes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) - March 8, 1862 in Montluel) was a French serial killer condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861. ![]()
Biography of George Onslow (composer) (excerpt)
André George Louis Onslow (27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853) was a French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed him to pursue a path unfamiliar to most of his French contemporaries, more similar to that of his contemporary German romantic composers; his music also had a strong following in Germany and in England.
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Biography of Louis Breguet (excerpt)
Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet. ![]()
Biography of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (excerpt)
Richard (5 January 1209 – 2 April 1272), second son of John, King of England, was the nominal Count of Poitou (1225-1243), Earl of Cornwall (from 1225) and King of the Romans (from 1257). Birth time source: Taeger Vol 4, p.
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Biography of Arthur Morin (excerpt)
Arthur Jules Morin (17 October 1795 – 7 February 1880) was a French physicist. He conducted experiments in mechanics and invented the Morin dynamometer. In 1850, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. ![]()
Biography of Fanny Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. ![]()
Biography of Henry Longfellow (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie Niboyet (excerpt)
Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 9, 1796 (birth time and date source: FDAF, birth certificate) – January 6, 1883) was a French author, journalist and early feminist. She is best known for founding La Voix des Femmes (The Women's Voice), the first feminist daily newspaper in France.
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Biography of Marie Pape-Carpantier (excerpt)
Marie Pape-Carpantier (1815 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1878) was a French educator born September 11, 1815 in Sarthe, France and died in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise) on July 31, 1878. She grew to play a major part in revolutionizing education in French schools.
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Biography of Alphonse Guépin (excerpt)
Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer. He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor. Saint-Pierre church in Plessala Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec Church in Plouézec
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Biography of George Müller (excerpt)
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren.
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Biography of Élie Berthet (excerpt)
Élie Berthet (8 June 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 3 February 1891) was a French novelist. Berthet was born in Limoges. A most prolific writer, he wrote more than 100 novels about Paris, criminal affairs, the prehistoric world, and other subjects. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Jules Hetzel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today. |
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