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The City of Hamilton, in Pembroke Parish, is the territorial capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It is the territory's financial centre and a major port and tourist destination. Its population of 854 (2016) is one of the smallest of any capital city. ![]()
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 Adolphe Monticelli (excerpt)
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886) was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists. Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances. He attended the École Municipale de Dessin in Marseille from 1842 to 1846, followed by study in Paris under Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts. ![]()
Biography of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Charles IV (born May 14, 1316, in Prague – died November 29, 1378, in Prague) was Count of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, and Holy Roman Emperor. Grandson of Emperor Henry VII, he was raised at the French court and succeeded to the empire in 1347 amid civil unrest. ![]()
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 Adolphe Niel (excerpt)
Adolphe Niel (4 October 1802-13 August 1869) was a French General and Statesman, also Marshal of France. He was born at Muret and entered the École Polytechnique in 1821. Niel entered the engineer school at Metz, became lieutenant in the Engineers Corps in 1827, and captain in 1833. ![]()
Biography of Antoine-Augustin Cournot (excerpt)
Antoine Augustin Cournot (28 August 1801‑ 31 March 1877) was a French economist, philosopher and mathematician. Augustin Cournot was born in the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône). He was educated in the schools of Gray until he was fifteen. Subsequently, for the next four years, he worked haphazardly as a clerk in a lawyer's office.
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 Ernest Candeze (excerpt)
Ernest Charles Auguste Candèze was a Belgian doctor and entomologist born 22 February 1827 at Liège and dying in Glain , 30 June , 1898. He studied in Liege under Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801-1870), then studied medicine in Paris and Liège.
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Biography of Charlemagne Oscar Guet (excerpt)
Charlemagne-Oscar Guet, born in Meaux February 24, 1801 (source not archived) and died November 29, 1871 in Paris, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
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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Harrisburg is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County. With a population of 49,395, it is the 10th most populous city in the Commonwealth (or 13th most populous area if including townships and boroughs).
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Biography of Jules Breton (excerpt)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (May 1, 1827 – July 5, 1906) was a 19th century French Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Jules Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
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Biography of Philippe Rousseau (excerpt)
Philippe Rousseau, born February 22, 1816 in Paris, died in 1888, was a French painter.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Paul Kruger (excerpt)
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899-1902).
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 James Stirling (Royal Navy officer) (excerpt)
Admiral Sir James Stirling RN (28 January 1791–23 April 1865) was a British marine officer and colonial administrator. He was the first Governor of Western Australia (1828–38) and on his own initiative signed Britain's first limited treaty with Japan in 1854. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Hello (excerpt)
Ernest Hello (5 November 1828 in Lorient - 14 July 1885 in Kéroman) was a French critic and author. Life He was born at Lorient, in Brittany. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of great importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-house in Brittany.
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Biography of Charles Brown-Sequard (excerpt)
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (variant Charles Edward), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, was born at Port Louis, Mauritius, on the April 17, 1817. His father was an American and his mother a Frenchwoman, but he himself always desired to be looked upon as a British subject. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Julien Eymard (excerpt)
Peter Julian Eymard (1811-1868) was a French Catholic priest, founder of two religious orders, and a canonized saint. Eymard was born 4 February 1811 at La Mure, Isère, France. His first attempt as a seminarian ended when he departed because of poor health.
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Biography of Jules Barbier (poet) (excerpt)
Paul Jules Barbier (9 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters . His libretti for extant operas include: ![]()
Biography of Jules Sandeau (excerpt)
Leonard Sylvain Julien (Jules) Sandeau (February 19, 1811 – April 24, 1883) was a French novelist. He was born at Aubusson (Creuse), and was sent to Paris to study law, but spent much of his time in unruly behaviour with other students.
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Biography of Edouard Pailleron (excerpt)
Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (September 17, 1829 (French Wikipedia) - April 19, 1899) was a French poet and dramatist. Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years. ![]()
Biography of Franz Grillparzer (excerpt)
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. Early life Franz Grillparzer was born in Vienna, Austria. His father, E.J. Grillparzer, was a severe pedant and a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, and was an advocate of some standing.
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Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française
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Biography of Peter Frans Van Kerckhoven (excerpt)
Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven (Antwerp, 10 November 1818 - Antwerp, 1 August 1857) was a Flemish writer and one of the leaders of the early Flemish movement. He was the son of a broker, and his well-off birth allowed him a decent education. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Assollant (excerpt)
Alfred Assollant (sometimes Assolant), born on March 20, 1827 in Aubusson (Creuse), died on March 3, 1896 in Paris, was a French novelist. Publications (extract) Scènes de la vie des États-Unis. Acacia. Les Butterfly. Une fantaisie américaine (1858) Deux amis en 1792 (1859)
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Biography of Victor de Laprade (excerpt)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (January 13, 1812 - December 13, 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the département of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine.
Biography of Hippolyte Blot (excerpt)
Hippolyte Blot, born June 14, 1822 in Paris and died March 13, 1888, was a French physician and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853. ![]()
Biography of Achille Etna Michallon (excerpt)
Achille-Etna Michallon (October 22, 1796-1822) was a French painter, the son of French sculptor Claude Michallon (1751-1799). He won Prix de Rome in 1817. ![]()
Biography of George Baxter (excerpt)
George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before, it was not commercially viable. However, in early years of the 19th century the process of colour printing had been revived by George Savage, a Yorkshireman in London. ![]()
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871).
Biography of Louis Martin (blessed) (excerpt)
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (23 December 1823 - 28 August 1877) was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin, born on August 22, 1823 in Bordeaux, and died on July 29, 1894.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (excerpt)
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 (time birth source: Lescaut) - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. ![]()
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Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of the Great Lakes Bay Region, along with neighboring Bay City, Midland and Mount Pleasant.
Biography of Hans-Christian Oeser (excerpt)
Hans-Christian Oeser, born on June 14, 1791 in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), died in 1850, was a German writer and teacher.
Biography of Lorenzo N. Fowler (excerpt)
Lorenzo Niles Fowler, born June 23, 1811 in Coshocton, New York, died in 1896, was an Amercian famous author and phrenologist. He is the brother of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a defunct field of study, once considered a science, by which the personality traits of a person were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull. ![]()
Biography of Armand Carrel (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Armand Carrel (May 10, 1800 – July 25, 1836) was a French writer. He was born at Rouen. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the college of Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. ![]()
Biography of William H. Seward (excerpt)
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 (birth time source: Penfield) – October 10, 1872) was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was widely regarded as the leading contender for the party's presidential nomination in 1860 – yet his very outspokenness may have cost him the nomination.
Biography of Jules-Adolphe Chauvet (excerpt)
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