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Horoscopes with Cupido in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Cupido in Pisces. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Ambroise Thomas (excerpt)
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (Metz August 5, 1811 - Paris, February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896. Early life and studies ![]()
Biography of Edward Lear (excerpt)
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised. Edward Lear was born into a middle class family in Highgate, the 20th child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear.
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Biography of Patrice de Mac-Mahon (excerpt)
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France (13 June 1808 - 17 October 1893) was a French general and politician. He served as Chief of State of France from 1873 to 1875 and as the first president of the Third Republic, from 1875 to 1879. ![]()
Biography of Hendrik Conscience (excerpt)
Henri "Hendrik" Conscience (December 3, 1812 Antwerp (Anvers) - September 10, 1883 Elsene) was a Flemish writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country. He was the son of a Frenchman, Pierre Conscience, from Besançon, who had been chef de timonerie in the navy of Napoleon Bonaparte, and who was appointed under-harbourmaster at Antwerp in 1811, when that city formed part of France.
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Biography of Moïse Millaud (excerpt)
Moses Polydore Millaud, Moïse Polydore Millaud, (27 August 1813 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 13 October 1871) was a journalist, banker and entrepreneur who founded Le Petit Journal, at one time the leading newspaper in France. Family life Millaud was born in Bordeaux, to Felicity (née Bellon) and Jassuda Millaud 1 (born 1769, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue – died 1865, Paris), Jewish merchants originally from the Papal States who originally sold horses. ![]()
Biography of Louis Lacombe (excerpt)
Louis Lacombe (Trouillon-Lacombe) (November 26, 1818, Bourges (Cher)– September 30, 1884, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, (Marne) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Louis Lacombe showed unusual musical abilities at very young age and was soon hailed as a child prodigy. He studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1829 to 1832 with Pierre Zimmermann and won first prize in piano performance at only age 12 in 1831.
Biography of Julien Brizeaux (excerpt)
Julien Brizeaux, born September 12, 1803 in Lorient (source not archived), died in 1858, was a French author, poet and translator. ![]()
Biography of Maxime Du Camp (excerpt)
Maxime Du Camp (French: Maxime du Camp) (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Life Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets. ![]()
Biography of John Charles Fremont (excerpt)
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery.
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Biography of Charles Renouvier (excerpt)
Charles Bernard Renouvier (January 1, 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 1, 1903) was a French philosopher. He considered himself a "Swedenborg of history" who sought to update the philosophy of Kantian liberalism and individualism for the socio-economic realities of the late nineteenth century, and influenced the sociological method of Émile Durkheim. ![]()
Biography of Philip Sidney (excerpt)
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of Astrophel and Stella (1581, pub. ![]()
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Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the third-most populous in the state after New York City and Buffalo with a population of 211,328 in 2020. The city of Rochester forms the core of a larger metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties, which in turn is part of the larger Western New York region that has a population of roughly two million.
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Biography of Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux (excerpt)
Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 16 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favorizing private Catholic teaching. Life He was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux began his career as a Legitimist and clerical journalist under the influence of Madame Swetchine. ![]()
Biography of Louis Figuier (excerpt)
Louis Figuier (Montpellier, France, February 15, 1819-1894) was a French scientist and writer. He was the nephew of Pierre-Oscar Figuier and became Professor of chemistry at L'Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. He became Doctor of Medicine (1841), agrégé of pharmacology, chemistry (1844-1853) and physics and gained his PhD in (1850).
Biography of William Chaney (excerpt)
William Henry Chaney, born January 13, 1821 in Chesterville, Massachusetts, died January 8, 1903, was an American astrologer and author, and, - maybe - the father of American writer Jack London (with Flora Wellman). ![]()
Biography of Domingo Sarmiento (excerpt)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Albarracín (February 15, 1811 – September 11, 1888) was an Argentine political figure who is today considered "The Teacher" of Latin America. His fame is not only due to his political career, including a period as president, but his literary works, as well.
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Biography of Charles de Morny (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Demorny/de Morny, 1st Duc de Morny (September 15-16 1811 in Switzerland – March 10, 1865 in Paris) was a French statesman. He was the natural son of Hortense de Beauharnais (wife of Louis Bonaparte, and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut, and therefore half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III.
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Biography of Jules Antoine Lissajous (excerpt)
Jules Antoine Lissajous (March 4, 1822 - June 24, 1880) was a French mathematician, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device which creates the figures that bear his name. In it a light is shone (or laser beam) off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, which is then reflected off another mirror attached to another, perpendicular vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), then onto a wall, which resulted in a Lissajous figure. ![]()
Biography of Mathilde Bonaparte (excerpt)
Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Princesse Française (May 27, 1820 – January 2, 1904), was a French princess and Salon holder. She was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg. Biography Born in Trieste, Mathilde Bonaparte was raised in Florence and Rome. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Vacquerie (excerpt)
Auguste Vacquerie (November 19, 1819 in Villequier - February 19, 1895 in Paris), French journalist and man of letters, was born at Villequier (Seine Inferieure) on 19 November 1819. He was from his earliest days an admirer of Victor Hugo, with whom he was connected by the marriage of his brother Charles with Léopoldine Hugo. ![]()
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Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the largest city and county seat of Mahoning County. According to the 2020 United States Census, Youngstown had a city population of 60,068. The Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with a population of 541,243 is the 107th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. ![]()
Biography of Lydia Pinkham (excerpt)
Lydia Estes Pinkham (February 9, 1819 – May 17, 1883) was an iconic concocter and shrewd marketer of a commercially successful herbal-alcoholic "women's tonic" meant to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains. Lydia Pinkham was born in the manufacturing city of Lynn, Massachusetts, the tenth of the twelve children of William and Rebecca Estes. ![]()
Biography of William Worrall Mayo (excerpt)
William Worrall Mayo (May 31, 1819 – March 6, 1911) was an English born medical doctor and chemist, best known for establishing the private medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. His sons, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, joined the private practice in Rochester in the U.
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Biography of Charles Philippe Robin (excerpt)
Charles-Philippe Robin (4 June 1821–5 October 1885) was a French anatomist, biologist, and histologist who was born in Jasseron, département Ain. He studied medicine in Paris, and while still a student took a scientific journey with Hermann Lebert to Normandy and the Channel Islands, where they collected specimens for the Musée Orfila. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Toussenel (excerpt)
Alphonse Toussenel was a French writer and journalist born in Montreuil-Bellay, a small meadows commune of Angers, on March 17, 1803; he died in Paris on April 30, 1885. Utopian socialist and a disciple of Charles Fourier, he was anglophobic and anti-semitic. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Wiertz (excerpt)
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (February 22, 1806 - June 18, 1865) was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. Biography Born in Dinant from a relatively poor family, he entered the Antwerp art academy in 1820. Thanks to his protector Pierre-Joseph de Paul de Maibe, a member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, king William I of the Netherlands awarded an annual stipend to Wiertz from 1821 onwards. ![]()
Biography of Victor Coste (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor Coste, born on May 10, 1807 in Castries (birth time source: Lescaut), died on September 19, 1873 in Résenlieu, was a French naturalist. Publications Cours d'embryogénie comparée (Paris, 1837) Ovologie du kangourou (Paris, 1838)
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Biography of Joseph Guichard (excerpt)
Joseph Benoît Guichard, born in Lyon November 14, 1806 and died May 31, 1880, was a French artist and painter. He was a disciple of Ingres and Delacroix. Works Alexandre Dumas père, écrivain Le triomphe de la Terre ou de Cybèle , galerie d'Apollon, Château de Fontainebleau ![]()
Biography of Louis Janmot (excerpt)
Anne-François-Louis Janmot (May 21, 1814–June 1, 1892) was a French painter and poet. He was born in Lyon and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, beginning in 1831. In 1833 he went to Paris. There, and later in Rome, he studied under Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. ![]()
Biography of Henri Philippoteaux (excerpt)
Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, born April 3, 1815 in Paris, died in 1884, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Edmond de Goncourt (excerpt)
Edmond de Goncourt (May 26, 1822 – July 16, 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. He was born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt in Nancy. Biography He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ![]()
Biography of George Frederic Watts (excerpt)
George Frederic Watts, OM (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904; sometimes spelled "George Frederick Watts") was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (see image) and Love and Life. ![]()
Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier (excerpt)
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Biography Early life and work ![]()
Biography of Pierre Antoine Favre (excerpt)
Pierre-Antoine Favre, born February 20, 1813 in Lyon and died February 2, 1880 in Marseille, was a French chemist and physician, member of Academie des Sciences. ![]()
Biography of Jean Grandville (excerpt)
Jean GRANDVILLE (Nancy, France, September 15 1803) was a French caricaturist, artist and illustrator who portrayed human weaknesses in guise of animals. ![]()
Biography of Louis Deibler (excerpt)
Louis Antoine Stanislas Deibler, born February 12, 1823 in Dijon and died September 6, 1904 in Paris, was a French executioner. He killed famous people as Prévost, Campi, Pranzini, Eyraud, Ravachol, Vaillant, Henry and Caserio. He is the father of Anatole Deibler, also executionner after him. ![]()
Biography of Louis-Auguste Blanqui (excerpt)
Louis Auguste Blanqui (February 8, 1805 in Puget-Théniers, France – January 1, 1881) was a French political activist, notable for the revolutionary theory of Blanquism, attributed to him. Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805-1848) Blanqui was born in Puget-Théniers, Alpes-Maritimes, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, was subprefect.
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Biography of George Borrow (excerpt)
George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 - 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe, and they figure prominently in his work. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert-Rochereau, born in Saint-Maixent-l'École January 11, 1823 and died in Versailles May 11, 1878, was a French military commander during the Siege of Belfort in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 - February 13, 1888), was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and the first Archbishop of Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States. American writer Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career.
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Biography of Francis Parkman (excerpt)
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism.
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Biography of Octave Feuillet (excerpt)
Octave Feuillet (August 11, 1821–December 29, 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. Overview Octave Feuillet was born at Saint-Lô, Manche (Normandy). His father Jacques Feuillet was a prominent lawyer and Secretary-General of La Manche, but also a hypersensitive invalid. His mother died when he was an infant. ![]()
Biography of Charles Adolphe Wurtz (excerpt)
Adolphe Wurtz (November 26, 1817 - May 10, 1884) was a French chemist. He is perhaps best remembered by chemists for the Wurtz reaction, to form carbon-carbon bonds by reacting alkyl halides with sodium, and for his discoveries of ethylamine and ethylene glycol.
Biography of William Herndon (excerpt)
William Henry Herndon (December 25, 1818, Kentucky - March 18, 1891, Springfield, Illinois) was the law partner and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. Herndon's biography Herndon's family moved from Kentucky to Springfield when he was five. Herndon attended Illinois College from 1836-1837. Following college, he returned to Springfield, where he clerked until 1841, when he went into law practice with Lincoln. ![]()
Biography of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (excerpt)
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau (William Alexander Frederick Constantine Nicholas Michael, Dutch: Willem Alexander Frederik Constantijn Nicolaas Michiel, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau; 2 August 1818 – 20 February 1848) was born at Soestdijk Palace, the second son to King William II of The Netherlands and Queen Anna Paulowna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
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Biography of Frances Power Cobbe (excerpt)
Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, and suffragist. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Biography of Philippe Rousseau (excerpt)
Philippe Rousseau, born February 22, 1816 in Paris, died in 1888, was a French painter.
Biography of Alexandre Becquerel (excerpt)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (March 24, 1820 - May 11, 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. He is known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He discovered the photovoltaic effect, which is the physics behind the solar cell, in 1839. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Meissonier (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (21 February 1815 – 31 January 1891) was a leading French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille. ![]()
Biography of Henri Joseph Harpignies (excerpt)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (July 24, 1819 - August 28, 1916), French landscape painter, was born at Valenciennes. He was intended by his parents for a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Achard's atelier in Paris. |
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