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Biography of Henri Vever (excerpt)
Henri Vever (1854–1942) was one of the most preeminent European jewelers of the early 20th century, operating the family business, Maison Vever, started by his grandfather. Henri was also a collector of a broad range of fine art, including prints, paintings, and books of both European and Asian origin.
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Biography of Jules Tannery (excerpt)
Jules Tannery (24 March 1848 – 11 December 1910) was a French mathematician, who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard. Tannery's theorem on interchange of limits and series is named after him. He was a brother of the mathematician and historian of science Paul Tannery.
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Biography of Alfred Binet (excerpt)
Alfred Binet (8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work.
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Biography of Anatole Deibler (excerpt)
Anatole Deibler (29 November 1863 (Rennes) - 2 February 1939 (Paris)) was a French executioner. Succeeding his father, Louis-Antoine-Stanislas Deibler, and grandfather as the lead French executioner, he participated in the execution of 395 criminals during his 54-year career. During his 40 years as lead executioner he was responsible for 299 beheadings.
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Biography of Auguste Daum (excerpt)
Jean Louis Auguste Daum (1853 in Bitche – 1909 in Nancy) was a French ceramist, in glass. He was one of the founder members of École de Nancy and the director of Daum studio. He was the son of Jean Daum, brother of Antonin Daum and father of Léon Daum.
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Biography of Alfred Michaux (excerpt)
Alfred Michaux, born July 5, 1859 in Clenleu in Pas-de-Calais and died March 26, 1937 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, is a French lawyer and Esperantist. Passionate about linguistics, he studies the artificial language at the base of the development of constructed languages. He first turned to the neo-Latin language of E.
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Biography of Mathilde de Morny (excerpt)
Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. Morny was also known by the nickname "Missy" or by the artistic pseudonym "Yssim" (an anagram of Missy), or as "Max", "Uncle Max" (French: Oncle Max), or "Monsieur le Marquis".
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Biography of Chung Ling Soo (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo. He is mostly remembered today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick. Soo's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called "Condemned to Death by the Boxers". ![]()
Biography of Clara Viebig (excerpt)
Clara Emma Amalia Viebig (17 July 1860 (for her time of birth, two sources exist, 10:00 pm and 9:00 pm) – 31 July 1952) was a German author. Life Viebig was born in the German city of Trier, the daughter of a Prussian civil servant. ![]()
Biography of Michiel de Ruyter (excerpt)
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (24 March 1607 (his time of birth comes from the biography "Rechter hand van Nederland" from Ronald Prud'homme van Reine) – 29 April 1676) was a Dutch admiral. Widely celebrated and regarded as one of the most skilled admirals in history, De Ruyter is arguably most famous for his achievements with the Dutch Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
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Biography of Philippe Barbier (excerpt)
Philippe Antoine Francoise Barbier (2 March 1848 – 18 September 1922) was a French organic chemist. He is best known for his two named reactions in organic synthesis, the Barbier reaction and the Barbier-Wieland degradation, as well as for his role in the creation of organomagnesium reagents with his student, Victor Grignard.
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Biography of Samuel Pozzi (excerpt)
Samuel-Jean Pozzi (3 October 1846 – 13 June 1918) was a French surgeon, professor, author, and gynecologist. He was also interested in anthropology and neurology. Medical career Members of the Paris Medical Faculty (1904) In 1864, Pozzi began to study medicine in Paris. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870, he volunteered and became a medic.
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Biography of Antonin Daum (excerpt)
Born Jean Antonin Daum in Bitche on October 30, 1864 and died in Nancy on March 28, 1930, son of Jean Daum, Antonin Daum is a French master glassmaker, engineer and entrepreneur, founder with his brother Auguste of the Daum crystal factory. ![]()
Biography of Paul Natorp (excerpt)
Paul Gerhard Natorp (24 January 1854 – 17 August 1924) was a German philosopher and educationalist, considered one of the co-founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. He was known as an authority on Plato. Paul Natorp was born in Düsseldorf, the son of the Protestant minister Adelbert Natorp and his wife Emilie Keller.
Biography of Charles Legras (excerpt)
Charles Legras (1859-1922), was a chemist and then director of the Legras et Cie glassworks company, nephew of François-Théodore Legras. He was a discoverer of ruby crystals or crystallizations.
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Biography of Henry Gauthier-Villars (excerpt)
Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931), known by the pen name Willy , was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Villars are: Henry Maugis, Robert Parville, l’Ex-ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, L’Ouvreuse, L’Ouvreuse du Cirque d’été, Jim Smiley, Henry Willy, Boris Zichine.
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Biography of Félix Fournery (excerpt)
Felix Fournery (13 May 1865 – 2 February 1938) was a French painter, fashion illustrator, printmaker, watercolourist and socialite. A recognized artist in his days, he notably marked the collections of the Belle Epoque and the Interwar period, as he embodied the latest pictorial evolutions of the postimpressionist and symbolist styles.
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Biography of Gabriel Lippmann (excerpt)
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann (16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference. His parents were French Jews. Academic affiliations ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Weil Proust (excerpt)
Jeanne Clémence Weil Proust born in Paris on April 21, 1849 and died on September 26, 1905 in Paris (8th arrondissement) is the wife of the French doctor Adrien Proust and the mother of Marcel Proust and Robert Proust.
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Biography of Georges Bouton (excerpt)
Georges Bouton (1847–1938) was a French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company in 1883. The pair first worked together in 1882 to produce a self-propelled steam vehicle. The result gave birth to the company which, at the time, went under the name de Dion. ![]()
Biography of Ricarda Huch (excerpt)
Ricarda Huch (18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.
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Biography of Karl Vollmöller (philologist) (excerpt)
Karl Vollmöller (16 October 1848, in Ilsfeld, Württemberg – 8 July 1922, in Dresden) was a German philologist. He was educated in Tübingen, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, and Paris. He traveled in Spain in 1874-75 and became a lecturer in Strassburg in 1875.
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Biography of Philéas Gilbert (excerpt)
Philéas Gilbert, born September 11, 1857 in La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse and died in 1842, was a famous French cook. He wrote with Auguste Escoffier the preface to the first edition of the famous Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagné from 1938.
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Biography of Henriette Poincaré (excerpt)
Henriette Poincaré (born Henriette Adeline Benucci, lived 1858–1943) was the wife of French statesman Raymond Poincaré. She was born in Passy, France. Her parents were a coachman of Italian origin, Raphael Benucci, and Louise Mossbauer, a young servant. She served for a time as a companion to old ladies of the bourgeoisie.
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Biography of Charles Angrand (excerpt)
Charles Théophile Angrand, born April 19, 1854 in Criquetot-sur-Ouville and died April 1, 1926 in Rouen, was a French neo-impressionist painter from the School of Rouen, of libertarian convictions.
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Biography of Juliette Dodu (excerpt)
Juliette Dodu (Saint-Denis de la Réunion, June 15, 1848 – October 28, 1909) was a legendary heroine of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the first woman to be awarded the Legion of Honor. However, many doubts have been raised about her actions during the war, and her story remains controversial.
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Biography of Cyriel Buysse (excerpt)
Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer. Buysse married the Dutch widow Nelly Dyserinck in 1896 and spent winters in The Hague in the Netherlands, where his son René Cyriel was born in 1897, while staying at his rural estate in Afsnee in Belgium during summer. ![]()
Biography of Méry Laurent (excerpt)
Méry Laurent, born Anne Rose Suzanne Louviot (born 29 April 1849, Nancy- d. 26 November 1900), was a demi-mondaine (courtesan) and the muse of several Parisian artists. She used to run her own “salon” where she hosted many French (and even American) writers and painters of her time: Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, François Coppée, Henri Gervex, James Whistler and Édouard Manet.
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Biography of Albert Londe (excerpt)
Albert Londe (26 November 1858 – 11 September 1917) was an influential French photographer, medical researcher and chronophotographer. He is remembered for his work as a medical photographer at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, funded by the Parisian authorities, as well as being a pioneer in X-ray photography.
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Biography of Jean-François-Charles Amet (excerpt)
Jean-François-Charles Amet, born January 29, 1861 in Rivière du Rempart on Mauritius and died May 2, 1940 in La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz in Ille-et-Vilaine, is a French naval officer of the 19th and twentieth centuries. Vice-admiral, he ended the First World War as Senior Commander of the Allied naval forces in the Dardanelles.
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Biography of Mary Church Terrell (excerpt)
Mary Terrell (born Mary Church; September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, teacher and one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She taught in the Latin Department at the M Street School (now known as Paul Laurence Dunbar High School)—the first African American public high school in the nation—in Washington, DC.
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Biography of Zo d'Axa (excerpt)
Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse (28 May 1864 – 30 August 1930 (suicide)), better known as Zo d'Axa), was a French adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors and La Feuille. A descendant of the famous French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, he was one of the most prominent French individualist anarchists at the turn of the 20th century.
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Biography of Gabriel Thomas (art lover) (excerpt)
Gabriel Thomas (1854-1932) was a wealthy financier who was one of the promoters of the Grévin museum and its reconfiguration in 1900, of the Eiffel Tower and the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This man was also a great art lover who owned a very large collection of paintings: Berthe Morisot (his cousin), Manet, Vuillard, Flandrin, and no less than a hundred works by Maurice Denis, including the series of The Eternal Printemps which he had commissioned from the painter for the decoration of his dining room in Meudon. ![]()
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
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Biography of Mite Kremnitz (excerpt)
Mite Kremnitz (4 January 1852, Greifswald – 18 July 1916 in Berlin), born Marie von Bardeleben (pen names George Allan, Ditto and Idem), was a German writer. Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. She grew in Greifswald, London and, starting with 1868, in Berlin.
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Biography of Edmond Aman-Jean (excerpt)
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter and art critic, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had his first art lessons with Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he shared a workshop with Georges Seurat. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Brouzet (excerpt)
Marguerite Brouzet, Vicomtesse de Bonnemains (19 December 1855 – 16 July 1891) was the mistress of Georges Boulanger. A few months after her death, Georges Boulanger committed suicide on her grave. Personal information Caroline Laurence Marguerite Brouzet was born into a wealthy bourgeois family.
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Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
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Biography of Annie Jump Cannon (excerpt)
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. ![]()
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
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Biography of Isaac Israëls (excerpt)
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry. ![]()
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women. ![]()
Biography of Buatier de Kolta (excerpt)
Buatier de Kolta (né Joseph Buatier; Caluire-et-Cuire, 18 November 1845 – New Orleans, 7 October 1903) was a French magician who performed throughout the latter part of the 1800s in Europe and America. Joseph Buatier was born in Caluire-et-Cuire (Rhône, France). His parents were fabric merchants.
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Biography of Paul Viardot (excerpt)
Paul Viardot (20 July 1857 – 1 December 1941) was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London. His time of birth comes from Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863, Second Edition, by Barbara Kendall-Davies (Cambridge Scholars, 2014).
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Biography of Jan Voerman (excerpt)
Jan Voerman (25 January 1857 – 25 March 1941), also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a Dutch painter. Personal life Voerman was born in Kampen and died in Hattem. Voerman studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (English: State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp under Charles Verlat.
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Biography of Henri Demare (excerpt)
Henri Demare, born May 3, 1846 in Paris and died November 11, 1888 in Vincennes, was a cartoonist and caricaturist who collaborated in many newspapers between the end of the Second Empire and the first decades of the Third Republic.
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Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
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Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
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Biography of Ermete Zacconi (excerpt)
Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia. |
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