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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 Ilya Repin (excerpt)
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (5 August (O.S. 24 July) 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian and Ukrainian realist painter. He was the most renowned Ukrainian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. ![]()
Biography of Vernon Lee (excerpt)
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel. ![]()
Biography of Millicent Fawcett (excerpt)
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political leader, activist, writer and feminist icon. Known as a campaigner for women's suffrage via legislative change, from 1897 until 1919 she led Britain's largest women's rights organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Chauvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 20) – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French woman to be authorized to plead at the bar (after Olga Petit. ![]()
Biography of Émile Dubois (murderer) (excerpt)
Louis-Amadeo Brihier Lacroix, alias Émile Dubois (30 March 1867 (mistake on Wikipedia) – 26 March 1907) was a French-born criminal and serial killer known as a folk hero in Chile. Early life Louis-Amadeo Brihier Lacroix (Aka Émile Dubois), son of Joseph Brihier and Marie Lacroix, killed the father of his girlfriend, a retired policeman, when he was fifteen.
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Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken.
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Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris. He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
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Biography of Charles Depéret (excerpt)
Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Société géologique de France and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon. Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan.
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Biography of Marie-Georges Picquart (excerpt)
Marie-Georges Picquart (6 September 1854 – 19 January 1914) was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair. Picquart was then appointed to the General Staff in Paris. As a staff officer he acted as reporter of the debates in the first Dreyfus Court-martial for the then Minister of War and the Chief of the General Staff.
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Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader. ![]()
Biography of Howard Pyle (excerpt)
Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry (now Drexel University).
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Biography of Michel Joseph Maunoury (excerpt)
Michel-Joseph Maunoury (17 December 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 March 1923) was a commander of French forces in the early days of World War I. Initially commanding in Lorraine, as the success of the German thrust through Belgium became clear he was sent to take command of the new Sixth Army which was assembling near Amiens and then fell back on Paris.
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Biography of Louis Ganne (excerpt)
Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
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Biography of Vilfredo Pareto (excerpt)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices.
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Biography of Étienne Bazeries (excerpt)
Étienne Bazeries (21 August 1846 Port Vendres – 7 November 1931 Noyon) was a French military cryptanalyst active between 1890 and the First World War. He is best known for developing the "Bazeries Cylinder", an improved version of Thomas Jefferson's cipher cylinder.
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Biography of Marie-Anne de Bovet (excerpt)
Marie-Anne de Bovet (February 12, 1855 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1128) - .) was a French writer. From 1893 to 1930, she published 35 novels, in addition to other works. Though she traveled widely, she wrote mainly on Ireland (three books) and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.
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Biography of Sébastien Faure (excerpt)
Sébastien Faure (born 6 January 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died 14 July 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France) was a French anarchist, freethought and secularist activist, author, and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism. Before becoming a free-thinker, Faure was a seminarist. ![]()
Biography of L. Frank Baum (excerpt)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
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Biography of Henri-Edmond Cross (excerpt)
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement.
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Biography of Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (excerpt)
Duchess Sophie Charlotte Augustine in Bavaria (22 February 1847 – 4 May 1897) was a granddaughter-in-law of King Louis Philippe of France, the favourite sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and fiancée of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Issue Louise Victoire Marie Amélie Sophie d'Orléans (19 July 1869 – 4 February 1952) married Prince Alfons of Bavaria (1862–1933) and had issue; (the line ended in dynastical sense in 1990 in male line, with cognatic descendants still present).
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Biography of Joaquín Bartrina (excerpt)
Joaquim Maria Bartrina i de Aixemús (26 April 1850 in Reus – 4 August 1880) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Reus, Spain, whose work is linked to the Realist movement. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the Catalan literary avant-garde. ![]()
Biography of Constantine P. Cavafy (excerpt)
Constantine Peter Cavafy also known as Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet, journalist and civil servant from Alexandria. He was also a homosexual whose work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace.
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Biography of Lidia Poët (excerpt)
Lidia Poët (26 August 1855 – 25 February 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy. Career Born in 1855 in the hamlet of Traverse, Perrero commune, in the Valle Germanasca, she passed her law examinations at the University of Turin, Faculty of Law and received her degree on June 17, 1881.
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Biography of Tom Mann (excerpt)
Thomas Mann (1856–1941) was an English trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement. Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Grange Road, Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery. ![]()
Biography of Joaquín Sorolla (excerpt)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencian: Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida, 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.
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Biography of Jules-Auguste Lemire (excerpt)
Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – March 7, 1928), French priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord). He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one.
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Biography of Sylvio Lazzari (excerpt)
Sylvio Lazzari (born Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari) (30 December 1857 – 10 June 1944) was a French composer of Austrian origin. Born in Bolzano – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – , Lazzari came to Paris in 1882 after studying law in Austria.
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Biography of Paul Rougnon (excerpt)
Paul-Louis Rougnon (24 August 1846 (birth certificate n° 529, Astrotheme) – 11 December 1934) was a French composer, pianist and music educator. As a prolific composer and writer, he composed more than 300 musical works in addition to literary and pedagogical volumes. ![]()
Biography of Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
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Biography of Fernand de La Tombelle (excerpt)
Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle (Paris, 3 August 1854 - Dordogne, 13 August 1928) was a French organist and composer. Discography Sonate pour violon et piano, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, pièces diverses, Detroit Chamber Ensemble, collection du Festival international Albert-Roussel, Azur Classical, AZC 2012
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Biography of James Huneker (excerpt)
James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic and journalist. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time.
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Biography of Eugène Collache (excerpt)
Eugène Collache (29 January 1847 in Perpignan – 25 October 1883 in Paris) was French Navy officer who fought in Japan for the shōgun during the Boshin War. "It was the first time that a European had crossed Japan in this way, and everyone wanted to see it; but my hairless face, my tanned skin, and my Japanese clothes deceived the curious, who then thought that the European man was a kind of Japanese officer who wore a mustache and wore the uniform of a naval officer US.
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Biography of Ricardo Mella (excerpt)
Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) was one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain. He was characterized as an erudite in various subjects and versed in languages, mastering French, English and Italian. ![]()
Biography of Isidor Philipp (excerpt)
Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris. He left for the United States in 1941 and taught in New York and L'Alliance Francais in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada. ![]()
Biography of Théodule Meunier (excerpt)
Théodule Meunier (August 22, 1860 in Bournezeau, France – July 25, 1907 in Cayenne, French Guiana) was a French anarchist who, along with Emile Henry and Auguste Vaillant, was responsible for a series of bombings in Paris, France during early 1892.
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Biography of Théodore Lack (excerpt)
Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer. Born in Quimper, he studied under Antoine François Marmontel (pianoforte), Lefébure-Wély (composition) and François Bazin (harmony). He started teaching piano in Paris in 1863 and achieved acclaim as a piano pedagogue.
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Biography of Kintaro Hattori (excerpt)
Kintarō Hattori, born November 21, 1860 in Edo and died March 1, 1934 (aged 73), is a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler. In 1877, Kintarō Hattori opened a watch repair shop in Kyōbashi. With the success obtained, he founded in 1881 the watch firm Seiko, a Japanese high-end watchmaking company.
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Biography of Jane de La Vaudère (excerpt)
Jane de la Vaudère (April 15, 1857 – July 26, 1908) was the pen name of Jeanne Scrive, a French novelist, poet and playwright. Jane de la Vaudere was born April 15, 1857, in Paris. Her father was a famous doctor, Gaspard-Léonard Scrive, Surgeon-General of the French Army during the Crimean War.
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Biography of Ernest Archdeacon (excerpt)
Ernest Archdeacon (28 March 1863 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 636) – 1950), was a French lawyer who was prominent in the pioneering of aviation in France before the First World War. He made his first balloon flight at the age of 20.
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Biography of Alejandro Sawa (excerpt)
Alejandro Sawa Martínez, a Spanish bohemian novelist, poet, and journalist, was born on 15th March 1862 in Seville and died on 3rd March 1909. Of Greek descent, he initially pursued priesthood, then studied law in Granada, and later moved to Madrid in 1885, leading a life of poverty. ![]()
Biography of Camille Doncieux (excerpt)
Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 – 5 September 1879) was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet, with whom she had two sons. She was the subject of a number of paintings by Monet, as well as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet. ![]()
Biography of Cécile Bruyère (excerpt)
Mère Cécile Bruyère (12 October 1845 – 18 March 1909) was the first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes) and a follower of Dom Prosper Guéranger in the revival of Benedictine spirituality in 19th century France. Although St.
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Biography of Florence Harding (excerpt)
Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the first lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding. Florence first married Pete De Wolfe and had a son, Marshall.
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Biography of Georges Marty (excerpt)
Georges-Eugène Marty (Paris, 16 May 1860 – Paris, 11 October 1908) was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris. Showing musical talent very early on, and entering the Paris Conservatoire aged 12, he won the first prize for solfege there in 1875.
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Biography of Paul Hillemacher (excerpt)
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher (25 November 1852 – 13 August 1933) was a French composer and classical pianist. Born in Paris, Hillemacher studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in François Bazin's class. Second prize for harmony in 1870, first runaway in fugue two years later, he won, in 1873 a Second Prix de Rome then, in 1876, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Judith.
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Biography of Vsevolod Garshin (excerpt)
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (14 February 1855 (Gregorian calendar) — 5 April 1888) was a Russian author of short stories. His experiences as a soldier provide the basis for his first stories, including the very first, "Four Days" (Russian: "Четыре дня"), based on a real incident.
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Biography of Willem Kloos (excerpt)
Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos (6 May 1859 – 31 March 1938) was a nineteenth-century Dutch poet and literary critic. He was one of the prominent figures of the Movement of Eighty and became editor in chief of De Nieuwe Gids after the editorial fracture in 1893.
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Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (excerpt)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, journalist, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. ![]()
Biography of Gilbert Ballet (excerpt)
Gilbert Ballet (March 29, 1853 – March 17, 1916) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist and historian who was a native of Ambazac in the department of Haute-Vienne. He studied medicine in Limoges and Paris, and subsequently became Chef de clinique under Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) at the Salpêtrière. |
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