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Horoscopes with Hades in SagittariusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Hades in Sagittarius. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
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Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects.
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Biography of George, King of Saxony (excerpt)
George (German: Friedrich August Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Karl Maria Nepomuk Baptist Xaver Cyriacus Romanus; 8 August 1832 – 15 October 1904) was a King of Saxony of the House of Wettin. Life George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He was the second son of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and his wife Princess Amelia of Bavaria (1801–1877), daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825). ![]()
Biography of Frederick Hockley (excerpt)
Frederick Hockley (October 13, 1809 in London (birth time source: this article – November 10, 1885) was a British occultist who was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley collected some important occult texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismond Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794. ![]()
Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (excerpt)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
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Biography of Frédéric Desmons (excerpt)
Frédéric Desmons (October 14, 1832 in Brignon, Gard (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 4, 1910) was a French Calvinist priest and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution. ![]()
Biography of Wilkie Collins (excerpt)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in Westminster.
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Biography of Charles Zidler (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Zidler, born on December 29, 1831 in Saint-Cloud (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 10, 1897 in Paris 9e, was a French artist manager, one of the founders of Moulin Rouge, a famous cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables.
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Biography of Hippolyte de Villemessant (excerpt)
Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain) 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo) was a conservative French journalist. Life The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California. ![]()
Biography of Paul Broca (excerpt)
Pierre Paul Broca (/broʊˈkɑː/ or /ˈbroʊkə/; 28 June 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. He was born in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that has been named after him. ![]()
Biography of Multatuli (excerpt)
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 (birth time source: Koppejans, birth certificate) – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tuli, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
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Biography of Henri Tresca (excerpt)
Henri Édouard Tresca (12 October 1814 – 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations, which he explored in an extensive series of experiments begun in 1864.
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Biography of Charles Lamoureux (excerpt)
Charles Lamoureux (pronounced: ; 28 September 1834 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 21 December 1899) was a French conductor and violinist. Life He was born in Bordeaux, where his father owned a café. He studied the violin with Narcisse Girard at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1854. ![]()
Biography of Louis Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Louis Le Chatelier (20 February 1815, Paris – 10 November 1873, Paris) was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. The method was later superseded by the Aniket's process. His son was the well known chemist Henri Louis Le Chatelier. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Béchamp (excerpt)
Pierre Jacques Antoine Béchamp (October 16, 1816 (birth time source: Roger Fix, birth certificate) – April 15, 1908) was a French scientist now best known for breakthroughs in applied organic chemistry and for a bitter rivalry with Louis Pasteur. Béchamp developed the Béchamp reduction, an inexpensive method to produce aniline dye, permitting Perkin to launch the synthetic-dye industry. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Arnaud (excerpt)
Charles Auguste Arnaud (22 August 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 6 September 1883), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor. Life Arnaud was born at La Rochelle. A student of the École des Beaux-Arts at Angers, he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop of François Rude. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Devéria (excerpt)
Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, Paris (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – 3 February 1865, Pau) was a French Romantic painter of history paintings. He held to the taste for historic subjects that he painted according to the academic formulae of the time. ![]()
Biography of Pauline Leroux (excerpt)
Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux, born on August 19, 1809 in Paris (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, Lescaut, original source unknown), died on February 5, 1891 in Paris, was a French famous dancer in the Paris Opera Ballet and in London. On July 12, 1848, she married the French comedian Pierre-Chéri Lafont (1797-1873).
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Biography of Henri de Dion (excerpt)
Earl Henri de Dion (born near Montfort-l'Amaury on 18 December 1828, died in Paris on 13 April 1878) was a French engineer who contributed to the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He was an alumnus of the École Centrale Paris and specialised in metallic constructions, such as those of the Exposition Universelle (1878).
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Biography of Jean-Claude Colfavru (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Colfavru, born on December 1, 1820 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on May 18, 1891 in Paris, was a French politician and lawyer. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1885-1887).
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Biography of Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (excerpt)
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen (10 July 1814 – 31 March 1852) was a French chemist. Ebelmen was the son of Claude Louis Ebelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon.
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Biography of Camille Polonceau (excerpt)
Jean-Barthélémy Camille Polonceau (29 October 1813 – 21 September 1859) was a French railway systems engineer. He was born in Chambery, France, and died in the French commune Viry-Chatillon. In 1839 he invented the Polonceau truss, a method of roof construction considered "one of the most successful roof designs of the nineteenth century". ![]()
Biography of Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (excerpt)
Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (19 February 1816 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives départementale de l’Orne) – 5 April 1889) was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869. Early life Perreaux was born in the village of Almenêches, in Normandy, France, on 19 February 1816. ![]()
Biography of Pierre François Lacenaire (excerpt)
Pierre François Lacenaire (20 December 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 January 1836) was a French murderer and would-be poet. To aid him in committing his crimes, Lacenaire recruited two henchmen, Pierre Victor Avril (whom he had met while in prison) and Hippolyte François.
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Biography of Jean-Augustin Barral (excerpt)
Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. He wrote many works of popular science, especially concerning agriculture and irrigation, and became director of publication of scientific works. ![]()
Biography of Georges Diebolt (excerpt)
Georges Diebolt, sometimes spelled Diébolt, (6 May 1816, Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 November 1861, Paris) was a French sculptor best known for his publicly commissioned monumental works, including the Zouave and Grenadier on the pont de l'Alma in Paris and the Maritime Victory on the Pont des Invalides.
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Biography of André Léo (excerpt)
Victoire Léodile Béra (18 August 1824 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 50 AD86) – 20 May 1900) was a French novelist, journalist and feminist. She took the name of André Léo, her two twin sons' names. In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Martin Dumollard (excerpt)
Martin Dumollard (April 21, 1810 in Tramoyes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)) - March 8, 1862 in Montluel) was a French serial killer condemned to the guillotine after having been arrested and charged with the deaths of maids from 1855 to 1861.
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Biography of Louis Breguet (excerpt)
Louis François Clément Breguet (22 December 1804 – 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy. Educated in Switzerland, Breguet was the grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet. ![]()
Biography of Fanny Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She composed over 460 pieces of music. Her compositions include a piano trio and several books of solo piano pieces and songs. ![]()
Biography of Henry Longfellow (excerpt)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.
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Biography of Marie Pape-Carpantier (excerpt)
Marie Pape-Carpantier (1815 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 1878) was a French educator born September 11, 1815 in Sarthe, France and died in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise) on July 31, 1878. She grew to play a major part in revolutionizing education in French schools.
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Biography of George Müller (excerpt)
George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split his group was labelled as the Open Brethren.
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Biography of Élie Berthet (excerpt)
Élie Berthet (8 June 1815 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 3 February 1891) was a French novelist. Berthet was born in Limoges. A most prolific writer, he wrote more than 100 novels about Paris, criminal affairs, the prehistoric world, and other subjects.
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Biography of Alphonse Guépin (excerpt)
Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer. He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor. Saint-Pierre church in Plessala Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec Church in Plouézec ![]()
Biography of Clémence Royer (excerpt)
Clémence Royer (21 April 1830 – 6 February 1902) was a self-taught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Jules Hetzel (excerpt)
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (January 15, 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 17, 1886) was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today.
Biography of Calmann Levy (excerpt)
Kalmus "Calmann" Lévy (March 29, 1819 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1891) was a French editor. With his brother Michel Lévy (1821–1875), he had founded Calmann-Lévy, a French publishing house. By 1875, the company was among the foremost publishing houses of Europe. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Poulet-Malassis (excerpt)
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16, 1825 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 11, 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was also a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire. ![]()
Biography of Victor Baltard (excerpt)
Victor Baltard (19 June 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church. From 1849 on, he was Architect of the City of Paris.
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Biography of Gabriel Davioud (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine-Gabriel Davioud (30 October 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 April 1881) was a French architect. Davioud was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Léon Vaudoyer. After winning a Second Grand Prix de Rome, he was named inspector general for architectural works in Paris, and chief architect for its parks and public spaces. ![]()
Biography of Charles Pfizer (excerpt)
Karl Gustav Pfizer (March 22, 1824 – October 19, 1906), known as Charles Pfizer, was a German-American chemist who founded the Pfizer pharmaceutical company with his cousin Charles F. Erhart in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co. On November 9, 2020, it was announced that the vaccine against Covid-19, developed by Pfizer and Biontech, is "90% effective".
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Biography of Joseph-Antoine Boullan (excerpt)
Abbé Joseph-Antoine Boullan (Saint-Porquier, Tarn-et-Garonne, 18 February 1824 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 January 1893, Lyon) was a French Roman Catholic priest and later a laicized priest, who is often accused of being a Satanist although he continued to defend his status as a Christian. ![]()
Biography of Élisa Lemonnier (excerpt)
Élisa Lemonnier (24 March 1805 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48) – 5 June 1865) was a French educationist who is considered the founder of vocational education for women in France. After various attempts, Élisa Lemonnier managed to create the Société de protection maternelle ("League of maternal protection"), which on 9 May 1862 became the Société pour l'enseignement professionnel des femmes ("Society for Vocational Education of Women"). ![]()
Biography of Mary Seacole (excerpt)
Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
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Biography of Luise Büchner (excerpt)
Elisabeth Emma Louise ("Luise") Büchner (12 June 1821, Darmstadt – 28 November 1877) was a German women's rights activist and writer of essays, novels, travelogues and poetry. She published her influential Die Frauen und ihr Beruf (Woman and Their Vocation) anonymously in 1855, in which she campaigned for equality of education for girls, with the opportunity for productive vocations as adult women, but also to better prepare young women for motherhood.
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Biography of Paul-Émile Sarradin (excerpt)
Paul-Émile Sarradin, born on October 15, 1825 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on November 1, 1909, was a French industrialist and politician, the mayor of Nantes between (1899-1908).
Biography of Pauline Roland (excerpt)
Pauline Roland (1805, Falaise, Calvados (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) — 15 December 1852) was a French feminist and socialist. Roland was a close associate of Pierre Leroux and George Sand and she joined Leroux's community at Boussac (Indre) in 1847, where she worked in the school and wrote for l'Eclaireur de l'Indre. |
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