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Biography of Victor Massé (excerpt)
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Massé was born in Lorient (Morbihan) and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera. ![]()
Biography of Amédée Bonnet (excerpt)
Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 (source: Gauquelin) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain, died in 1858, was a French orthopedic surgeon, and a Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. ![]()
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Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol and fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass 30 km (18.6 mi) to the south, it had a population of 132,493 in 2018.
Biography of Charles Gounod (excerpt)
Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father. ![]()
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Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. ![]()
Biography of Ivan Turgenev (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев) (November 9 1818 – September 3 1883) was a Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. His birth time comes from the biography of Avram Yarmolinsky, "Turgenev," 1959. ![]()
Biography of John James Audubon (excerpt)
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. In his outsize personality and achievements, he seemed to represent the new American nation of the United States. ![]()
Biography of Charles Valentin Alkan (excerpt)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher. ![]()
Biography of François Achille Longet (excerpt)
François Achille Longet (May 25, 1811 (birth time source: Lescaut) - 1871) was a French anatomist and physiologist who was a native of Saint Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He was a student of François Magendie (1783-1855), and a pioneer in the field of experimental physiology. ![]()
Biography of Charles Landelle (excerpt)
Charles Zacharie Landelle, born June 2, 1821 in Laval, died December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Laure Surville (excerpt)
Laure Surville, born Balzac September 29, 1800 (source not archived) and died in 1871, was a French author. She was the sister of Honoré de Balzac.
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Biography of Ernest Hébert (excerpt)
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert (3 November 1817 - 5 December 1908) was a French painter and academic. He was born in La Tronche and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Biography of Jean-Delphin Alard (excerpt)
Jean-Delphin Alard (March 8, 1815 – February 22, 1888) was a French violinist. Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an amateur violinist. From 1827 he was a pupil of F. A. Habeneck at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Boucicaut (excerpt)
Aristide Boucicaut (July 14, 1810 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, FDAF) - 1877) created what is considered to be among the first department stores. Born in Bellême, the son of a banker, he began as a simple clerk in Bellême before he left to become a fabric salesman selling shawls. ![]()
Biography of Frédéric Bastiat (excerpt)
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (pronounced: ) (30 June 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. Biography Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, France. When he was nine years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his paternal grandparents. ![]()
Biography of James Russell Lowell (excerpt)
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Carlyle (excerpt)
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. ![]()
Biography of Julie-Victoire Daubié (excerpt)
Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 in Bains-les-Bains (birth time source: Marc Brun, FDAF, birth certificate n° 32) – 26 August 1874 in Fontenoy-le-Château) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she optained a bachelor degree in Lyon in 1861. ![]()
Biography of Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (excerpt)
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 20, 1807–November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his earlier years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother. ![]()
Biography of Bernardo O'Higgins (excerpt)
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778 or 1776, August 20 – 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders – together with José de San Martín – of the military forces that freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. ![]()
Biography of John Henry Newman (excerpt)
John Henry Newman, D.D., C.O. (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890), also referred to as Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman, was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s. ![]()
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Brno (German: Brünn) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the EU. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (excerpt)
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (Ville-d'Avray, July 14, 1816 – October 13, 1882 in Turin) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855). ![]()
Biography of Joseph Mery (excerpt)
Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 - 17 June 1866) was a French writer and journalist. Méry was born at Marseille. An ardent romanticist, he collaborated with Auguste Barthélemy in many of his satires and wrote a great number of stories, now forgotten. ![]()
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Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, following Berlin and Leipzig.
Biography of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (excerpt)
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803–January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night.
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Biography of Joseph Liouville (excerpt)
Joseph Liouville (March 24, 1809 – September 8, 1882) was a French mathematician. Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838. ![]()
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The Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform) adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII was one of the fundamental laws that made up the constitution of Sweden from 1809 to the end of 1974. ![]()
Biography of François Ponsard (excerpt)
François Ponsard (1 June 1814 – 7 July 1867), was a French dramatist, poet and author and was a member of the Académie française. Biography He was born at Vienne, Isère in 1814 and trained as a lawyer. Literary career His first literary work was a translation of Manfred (1837). ![]()
Biography of Mikhail Glinka (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка) (June 1 1804 – February 15 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctively Russian kind of classical music. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Palizzi (excerpt)
Filippo Palizzi, born June 16, 1818 in Vasto and died September 11, 1899 in Rome, is an Italian painter. Works Saint Jean (cathédrale de Vasto). Amedée de Savoie blessé à Custoza en 1866. Al Pascolo con le caprette. (au paturage avec les chevrettes). ![]()
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna.
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Biography of Jules Perrot (excerpt)
Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 in Lyon, France – 29 August 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. He created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century including Pas de Quatre, La Esmeralda, Ondine, and Giselle with Jean Coralli. ![]()
Biography of Junius Brutus Booth (excerpt)
Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796–November 30, 1852) was an English actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln), Edwin Booth (an exceptional actor in his own right), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. ![]()
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Pine Bluff is the tenth-largest city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County. It is the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Lalo (excerpt)
Édouard Victor Antoine Lalo (January 27, 1823 – April 22, 1892) was a French composer of Spanish descent. Born in Lille, he studied first at that city's conservatoire, and then at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck. For years, he worked as a viola player (specializing in chamber music) and teacher in Paris before gaining fame as a composer, which eventually arrived when he was in his late forties.
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Biography of Paul Gavarni (excerpt)
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (January 13, 1804 in Paris – November 24, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer's draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a cartoonist. ![]()
Biography of Evariste Luminais (excerpt)
Evariste Vital Luminais, born October 13, 1821 in Nantes, died in 1896 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Laffitte (excerpt)
Pierre Laffitte (February 21, 1823 - January 4, 1903) was a French positivist. Laffitte was born at Béguey (Gironde). Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Auguste Comte, who appointed him his literary executor. On the schism of the Positivist body which followed Comte's death, he was recognized as head of the section which accepted the full Comtian doctrine; the other section adhered to Émile Littré, who rejected the religion of humanity as inconsistent with the materialism of Comte's earlier period. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Plateau (excerpt)
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Liège (Liège), where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829. In 1835, he was appointed Professor of experimental physics in Ghent University. ![]()
Biography of Rama IV of Siam (excerpt)
Phrabat Somdet Phra Pormen Maha Mongkut, Phra Chom Klao Chaoyouhua, or Rama IV (October 19, 1804 - October 1, 1868) was the fourth king of Siam (1851 - 1868) of the Chakri dynasty and one of the most revered monarchs of Siam. ![]()
Biography of Robert Cross Smith (excerpt)
Robert Cross Smith, born March 19, 1795 in Bristol, died 26, February 1832 at 4:15 PM in London, was a British astrologer, better known as Raphael. He is often confused with Robert Thomas Cross, the second "Raphael". ![]()
Biography of Robert Southey (excerpt)
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse enjoys enduring popularity. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Love Peacock (excerpt)
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 - 23 January 1866) was an English satirist and author. Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. He wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticizing the philosophical opinions of the day. ![]()
Biography of Russell Sage (excerpt)
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York, United States. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. ![]()
Biography of François-Auguste Ravier (excerpt)
François-Auguste Ravier, born on May 4, 1814 in Lyon (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate, es Archives Municipales de Lyon, email), died on June 26, 1895 in Morestel, was a French landscape painter. Bibliography (French) Maurice Wantellet, Deux siècles et plus de peinture dauphinoise, Grenoble, édité par l'auteur, 1987, 269 p. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Yvon (excerpt)
Adolphe Yvon (January 30, 1817 in Drulingen - September 11, 1893 in Paris) was a French painter known for his paintings from the Napoleonic Wars. Paintings (extract) The Charge of the French Cuirassiers at Reichshof Marshall Ney at Retreat in Russia ![]()
Biography of Charles Martins (excerpt)
Charles Martins, born February 6, 1806 in Paris and died March 7, 1889, was a French scientist, physician, philosopher and writer, a member of Académie des Sciences.
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Biography of Victor Jacquemont (excerpt)
Victor Jacquemont (August 8, 1801 in Paris - November 7, 1832 in Mumbai) was a French botanist and geologist. Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, Victor Jacquemont was the youngest of four sons of Venceslas Jacquemont and Rose Laisné. Jacquemont traveled to India in 1828, and remained there for the rest of his life. ![]()
Biography of Johan Jongkind (excerpt)
Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 (birth time source: Lescaut, Gauquelin) – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism who influenced Eugene Boudin, whom later was mentor to Claude Monet. Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. |
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