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The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940 after France's defeat by Nazi Germany in World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government in France.
Biography of René Jeanne (excerpt)
René Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born on January 5, 1887 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died on November 1, 1969 in Paris. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti. Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938.
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Biography of Georg Trakl (excerpt)
Georg Trakl (February 3, 1887 – November 3, 1914) was a pre-eminent Austrian poet. Life and work Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg. His father, Tobias, was a dealer in hardware, while his mother, Maria, was a housewife with strong interests in art and music.
Biography of Bartolomeo Vanzetti (excerpt)
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born American laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks in Braintree, Massachusetts. ![]()
Biography of Julius Streicher (excerpt)
Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau; August 31, 1880 – November 28, 1962) was queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 and Queen Mother (with the title of Princess) from 1948 to 1962. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty years, longer than any other Dutch monarch.
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Biography of André Siegfried (excerpt)
André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics. He was born in Le Havre, France, to Jules Siegfried, the French minister of commerce.
Biography of Léon Treich (excerpt)
Léon Treich, born Léon Marie Joseph Eugène Treich on March 17, 1889 in Tulle, died June 13, 1973 in Noisy-le-sec, was a French screnwriter and author. ![]()
Biography of André Lhote (excerpt)
André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 25 January 1962) was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art. Lhote was born in Bordeaux and learnt wood carving and sculpture from the age of 12, when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. ![]()
Biography of Paul Reynaud (excerpt)
Paul Reynaud (October 15, 1878 (6:00 pm) - September 21, 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Alliance Démocratique center-right party. ![]()
Biography of Félix Gouin (excerpt)
Félix Gouin (October 4, 1884 - October 25, 1977) was a French Socialist politician. In 1940 he was among the minority of parliamentarians refusing to grant full powers to Marshall Philippe Pétain. He was part of the central committee which reconstituted the Human Rights League (LDH) during the war.
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Biography of Heinrich Brüning (excerpt)
Dr. Heinrich Brüning (November 26, 1885 – March 30, 1970) was a German politician during the Weimar Republic. He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932. Early life Born in Münster in Westphalia, Brüning lost his father when he was one year old and thus his elder brother Hermann Joseph played a major part in his upbringing.
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Biography of Léon Larive (excerpt)
Léon Larive (28 June 1886 in Paris (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) – 20 July 1961) was a French film actor. He appeared in 95 films between 1923 and 1961. Selected filmography Return to Life (1949)
Biography of Joseph de Tonquédec (excerpt)
Joseph de Tonquédec, born December 27, 1868 in Morlaix, died November 21, 1962, was a French theologist, exorcist of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris, and Jesuit priest. Works (extract) * G. K. Chesterton, ses idées et son caractère, Nouvelle Librairie nationale, Paris, 1920, 118 p. ![]()
Biography of Charles F. Kettering (excerpt)
Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of over 300 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. ![]()
Biography of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustaf VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Vilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf) (11 November 1882 - 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden. He was born in Stockholm and at birth created Duke of Skåne. ![]()
Biography of Hjalmar Schacht (excerpt)
Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939. Schacht was one of the primary drivers of Germany's policy of redevelopment, reindustrialization and rearmament, and was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations. ![]()
Biography of John Galsworthy (excerpt)
John Galsworthy OM (pronounced /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. ![]()
Biography of Jules Berry (excerpt)
Jules Paufi, best known as Jules Berry, born Febrary 9, 1883 in Poitiers, died April 23, 1951 in Paris, was a French actor and director. He has been married three times, with actresses Jane Marken, Suzy Prim and Josseline Gaël. Filmography (extract) ![]()
Biography of Guy Ballard (excerpt)
Guy Warren Ballard (July 28, 1878 - December 29, 1939) was an American mining engineer who became, with his wife, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, the founder of the "I AM" Activity. Ballard was born in Burlington, Iowa and married his wife in Chicago in 1916.
Biography of Jean Murat (excerpt)
Jean Murat, born July 13, 1888 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died January 4, 1968 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), was a French actor. He married comedian Annabella. Filmography (extract) Silent films 1918 : Mothers of men d'Édouard José 1920 : Expiation de Fred Niblo
Biography of Marcel Brulé (excerpt)
Marcel Brulé, born January 31, 1883 in Amiens and died in 1946, was a French physician, member of Académie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Albert Marquet (excerpt)
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement. Life and work Marquet was born in Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Decorative Arts School, where he met Henri Matisse. ![]()
Biography of Enrique Granados (excerpt)
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña (July 27, 1867 – March 24, 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados was also a talented painter in the style of Francisco Goya. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Magre (excerpt)
Maurice Magre, born March 2, 1877 in Toulouse, died December 11, 1941 in Nice, was a French writer et poet. Works (extract) Poetry La Chanson des hommes, Bibliothèque Charpentier - 1898 Le Poème de la jeunesse, 1901 Les Lèvres et le secret, 1906 ![]()
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Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about three million people in 2019. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Abel (excerpt)
Alfred Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937), was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. Abel is also known as the “Lewis Stone of German films. ![]()
Biography of Paul Landowski (excerpt)
Paul Maximilien Landowski (1 June 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 March 1961) was a French monument sculptor. His best-known work is the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was born in Paris to Polish refugees of the January Uprising.
Biography of Paul Tillich (excerpt)
Paul Johannes Tillich (Starzeddel Dist, August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was, along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann (Germany), Karl Barth (Switzerland), and Reinhold Niebuhr (United States), one of the four most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century.
Biography of Vivienne (photographer) (excerpt)
Florence Vivienne Mellish or Florence Entwistle also known as Vivienne, born July 25 1887 in London and died in 1982, was a British photographer and singer. She married Ernest Entwistle, an artist.
Biography of Charles Guérin (excerpt)
Charles Guérin, born December 29, 1873 in Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle), died March 17, 1907 in the same city, was a French poete and writer. Publications (extract) * L'Agonie du Soleil (Joies grises), 1894 * Le Sang des Crépuscules, 1895 ![]()
Biography of Will Durant (excerpt)
William James Durant (November 5, 1885–November 7, 1981) was a prolific American popularizer in the fields of history, religion and philosophy. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written with his wife Ariel and published between 1935 and 1975. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Armstrong Robinson (excerpt)
Hugh Armstrong Robinson, born May 13, 1881 - 1963, Neosho, Missouri. Robinson was pioneer in the earliest days of aviation, combining his skills of inventor, pilot, and daredevil. Among other things, he is said to have been the third person to successfully fly an aircraft after the Wright Brothers in a plane of his own design and construction and the first person to make an air-sea rescue. ![]()
Biography of John I of Portugal (excerpt)
Joao I (Portugues: João, Lisbon, 11 April 1357 – Lisbon, 14 August 1433), called the Good (sometimes the Great) or of Happy Memory, was the tenth King of Portugal and the Algarve and the first to use the title Lord of Ceuta.
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Biography of Umberto Nobile (excerpt)
Umberto Nobile (January 21, 1885 – July 30, 1978) was an Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile is primarily remembered for having piloted the airship Norge that was the first aircraft both to reach the North Pole, and to cross the polar ice cap between Europe and America. ![]()
Biography of Georges Enescu (excerpt)
George Enescu (known in France as Georges Enesco) (August 19, 1881, Liveni – May 4, 1955, Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, preeminent Romanian musician of the 20th century, and one of the greatest performers of his time. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Chardonne (excerpt)
Jacques Boutelleau, best known as Jacques Chardonne, born in Barbezieux January 2, 1884 and died in La Frette-sur-Seine May 29, 1968, was a French writer. He was a member of Barbezieux group, with Geneviève Fauconnier, Henri Fauconnier, Maurice Delamain, Jacques Delamain and Germaine Boutelleau. ![]()
Biography of Hilda Doolittle (excerpt)
H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle; September 10, 1886 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Susan Stanford Friedman) – September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. ![]()
Biography of Adolph Zukor (excerpt)
Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913. In 1897, he married Lottie Kaufman; they had two children, Eugene J. ![]()
Biography of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (excerpt)
Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (February 15, 1612 (source not archived) – September 9, 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal. He was born into the aristocracy in Neuville-sur-Vanne in Champagne, France. He joined the military at the age of thirteen and had a successful career where he was noted for his ability and his piety. ![]()
Biography of Pietro Ubaldi (excerpt)
Pietro Ubaldi (August 18, 1886 - 1972) was an Italian Christian philosopher and writer. ![]()
Biography of Hans Wilsdorf (excerpt)
Hans Wilsdorf (March 22, 1881 - July 6, 1960) was a German watchmaker, and the founder of Rolex and Tudor. Born in Kulmbach, Bavaria and orphaned as a child, Wilsdorf worked for a Swiss watch manufacturer in La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1905, he moved to London and set up his own business, wanting to provide quality timepieces at affordable prices. ![]()
Biography of H. L. Mencken (excerpt)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (Baltimore, September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Baruch (excerpt)
Bernard Mannes Baruch (pronounced /bəˈɹuk/) (August 19, 1870–June 20, 1965) was a Jewish-American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential advisor. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. ![]()
Biography of Max von Laue (excerpt)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. He was strongly opposed to National Socialism. ![]()
Biography of Francis Carco (excerpt)
Francis Carco (1886-1958) was a French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the Fantaisiste school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for L'Homme libre and Gil Blas. During the War he became aviation pilot at Etampes, after studying at the aviation school there.
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Biography of Maurice Garin (excerpt)
Maurice-Francois Garin (Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy, 3 March 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate from Grazia Bordoni), died Lens (or Haute-Savoie), France, 19 February 1957) was a road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating. ![]()
Biography of Carl Sandburg (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat. ![]()
Biography of Jean Brunhes (excerpt)
Jean Brunhes was a French geographer (born 25 October 1869, Toulouse, France (source not archived) - died 25 August 1930, Boulogne-Billancourt). His most famous book is La géographie humaine (Human Geography). Ruskin et la Bible : pour servir à l'histoire d'une pensée (1901) is a popular book by Jean and Henriette Brunhes.
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs (excerpt)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois (although he later lived for many years in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park), the son of a businessman. |
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