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Biography of Alfred Richet (excerpt)
Alfred Richet, born March 16, 1816 in Dijon, died in 1891, was a French surgeon and a member of the Académie des Sciences.
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Biography of Johannes Bosboom (excerpt)
Johannes Bosboom (born The Hague, February 18, 1817 – died there September 14, 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague. His wife was the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint.
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Biography of Horace Vernet (excerpt)
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (1 July 1789 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 17 January 1863) was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. Biography Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Brongniart (excerpt)
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French pronunciation: ) (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
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Biography of Joseph Rollet (excerpt)
Joseph Rollet, born November 12, 1824 in Lagnieu, died in 1894, was a French physician and researcher.
Biography of Paul-Dominique Gourlier (excerpt)
Paul-Dominique Gourlier, born on June 13, 1813 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1869, was a French painter.
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Biography of Paul Alexandre Protais (excerpt)
Paul Alexandre Protais, born October 17, 1826 in Paris, died in 1890, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Pierre-Ossian Bonnet (excerpt)
Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June 1892) French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Early years Pierre Bonnet attended the Collège in Montpellier. In 1838 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Brion (excerpt)
Gustave Brion, born November 4, 1824 in Rothau, Alsace, died November 6, 1877, was a French realist painter. Bibliography Hélène Chew, « Gustave Brion, illustrateur d'archéologie, ou le "désigneux de l'Empereur" », Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, n° 47, 2004 , p. ![]()
Biography of Henri Murger (excerpt)
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822, Paris – 28 January 1861, Paris) was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine). ![]()
Biography of William Thomson (excerpt)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE (26 June 1824 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
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Biography of Eugène Schneider (excerpt)
Joseph Eugène Schneider (29 March 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 November 1875) was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe Schneider. Biography Schneider was born on 29 March 1805 in Bidestroff, in the départment of Moselle, France.
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Biography of Charles Duclerc (excerpt)
Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (9 November 1812 - 21 July 1888) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883. ![]()
Biography of Johanna Spyri (excerpt)
Johanna Spyri (German pronunciation: ) (12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. ![]()
Biography of Louis Buffet (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Buffet, born in Mirecourt (Vosges) October 26, 1818 and died in Paris July 7, 1898, was a French politician. In 1890, he is member of Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).
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Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.)
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Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charles Bélanger (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger (4 April 1790 – 8 May 1874) was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France. ![]()
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.
Biography of Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur (excerpt)
Raymond-Jean-Baptiste de Verninac Saint-Maur, born on June 11, 1794 in Souillac (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on February 11, 1873 in Souillac, was a French Naval Minister . ![]()
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 Hippolyte Bayard (excerpt)
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.
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Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Hélène Jégado (excerpt)
Hélène Jégado (17 June 1803 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Morbihan archives) – 26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people (it could be 80, with many children (source: French Wikipedia)) with arsenic over a period of 18 years.
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.
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Biography of Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (excerpt)
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Louise Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste; 21 December 1800 (birth time source: the Wikipedia bio of her mother: Duchess_Louise_Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin) – 30 August 1831) was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. ![]()
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 William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (excerpt)
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire KG, PC (21 May 1790 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire" by Brian Masters (Hamish Hamilton, 1981), p. 185) – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier and Whig politician. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Victor Poncelet (excerpt)
Jean-Victor Poncelet (July 1, 1788 – December 22, 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the École polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work Traité des propriétés projectives des figures is considered the first definitive text on the subject since Gérard Desargues' work on it in the 17th century.
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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. ![]()
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 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 Auguste Perdonnet (excerpt)
Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents. ![]()
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). ![]()
Biography of Jacques Triger (excerpt)
Jacques Triger (March 10, 1801–1867) was a French geologist who invented the 'Triger process' for digging through water logged ground. Triger was also Deputy Director of coal mining operations in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Biography Triger was born in Mamers, a town in the Sarthe French county, on 10 March 1801.
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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. |
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