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Biography of Henry Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Paris, October 8, 1850 - Miribel-les-Echelles September 17, 1936) was an influential French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous for devising Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Martin Charcot (excerpt)
Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. His work greatly influenced the developing fields of neurology and psychology. He was called "the Napoleon of the neuroses." Life Born in Paris, Charcot worked and taught at the famous Salpêtrière Hospital for thirty three years. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Fouillée (excerpt)
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Academy of Moral Science for his work on Plato and Socrates.
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Biography of Léon Say (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say (June 6, 1826 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 21, 1896 in Paris), French statesman and economist, was born in Paris. The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist.
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Biography of Claude-Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (excerpt)
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (October 9, 1581 - February 26, 1638) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims. They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W.
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Biography of Louis Péricaud (excerpt)
Louis Jean Péricaud, born on June 10, 1835 in La Rochelle (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on November 12, 1909 in Paris, was a French comedian, playwright, director, and author.
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Biography of Eugène Gigout (excerpt)
Eugène Gigout (23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ. Eugène Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris for 62 years.
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Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals.
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Biography of Henry-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (excerpt)
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) was born Henry-Gustave Joly in Épernay, France. His father family was one of the traditional Huguenot families and his mother, a Catholic. First a Huguenot himself, Henri-Gustave converted to Anglicanism when he got married in 1856. ![]()
Biography of Octave Mirbeau (excerpt)
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.
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Biography of Léon Germain Pelouse (excerpt)
Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 - July 31, 1891) was a French painter.
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Biography of Eugène Thirion (excerpt)
Eugène Thirion, born on May 19, 1839 in Paris, died on January 19, 1910 in Montigny-sur-Loing, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Mary Ann Cotton (excerpt)
Mary Ann Cotton (born Mary Ann Robson on October 31, 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham – died 24 March 1873) was an English serial killer believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning. Early life Mary Ann Robson was born in what is now the City of Sunderland. ![]()
Biography of Adèle Hugo (excerpt)
Adèle Hugo (24 August 1830 – 21 April 1915) was the fifth and youngest child of French writer Victor Hugo. She is remembered for developing schizophrenia as a young woman, which led to a romantic obsession with an Irish military officer who rejected her. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Séguier (excerpt)
Pierre Séguier (28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672) was a French statesman, chancellor of France from 1635. Biography Early years Born in Paris, France of a prominent legal family originating in Quercy. His grandfather, Pierre Séguier (1504–1580), was président à mortier in the parlement of Paris from 1554 to 1576, and the chancellor's father, Jean Séguier, a seigneur d'Autry, was civil lieutenant of Paris at the time of his death in 1596. ![]()
Biography of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (excerpt)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.
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Biography of Émile Goudeau (excerpt)
Émile Goudeau, born on August 29, 1849 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died in 1906, was a French journalist, novelist, and poet. Publications (selection) 1878 : Fleurs du bitume 1884 : Poèmes ironiques 1884 : La Revanche des bêtes
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Biography of Ambrose Bierce (excerpt)
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914.) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic – earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Van Dyck (excerpt)
Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. ![]()
Biography of Jules-Élie Delaunay (excerpt)
Jules-Élie Delaunay (June 13, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe.
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Biography of Christina Rossetti (excerpt)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet, who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, which tells of two sisters tempted by goblin men to buy strange fruit. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Clément (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Clément, born May 31, 1836 in Boulogne-sur-Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died February 26, 1903 in Paris, was a French singer, author and activist, a member of The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris). ![]()
Biography of Jay Gould (excerpt)
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. Although he was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, modern historians have discounted various myths about him and evaluated his career more positively. ![]()
Biography of Nikolaus Otto (excerpt)
Nikolaus August Otto (June 10, 1832 Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau - January 26, 1891 Cologne) was the German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e. ![]()
Biography of Georges de La Tour (excerpt)
Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652) was a painter from the Duchy of Lorraine, now in France. Life Georges de La Tour was born in the town of Vic-sur-Seille in the part of the independent Duchy of Lorraine which was absorbed into France in 1641, during his lifetime.
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Biography of Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol (excerpt)
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol (8 August 1829 – 20 July 1870), was a French journalist and essayist. Prevost-Paradol was born in Paris, France, the son of an irregular liaison between the opera singer Lucinde Paradol and the writer Léon Halévy. When Halévy later married Alexandrine Le Bas, his wife agreed to adopt the child who was brought up with their own children. ![]()
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St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the large Canadian island Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 square kilometres (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland). ![]()
Biography of Octave Gréard (excerpt)
Octave Gréard (April 18, 1828 (birth time source: Choisnard, birth certificate) - April 25, 1904) was a noted French educator. Gréard was born in Vire, educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and had a long career in education. He was largely responsible for the establishment of schools for girls and played a significant role in reforming the baccalauréat. ![]()
Biography of Paul Schützenberger (excerpt)
Paul Schützenberger (23 December 1829 - 26 June 1897), French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger (1779-1859) was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger (1809-1881) professor of chemical medicine. He was intended for a medical career and graduated MD from the University of Strasbourg in 1855, but his interests lay in physical and chemical science. ![]()
Biography of Adelina Patti (excerpt)
Adelina Patti (February 10, 1843 - September 27, 1919) was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. Considered, along with fellow contemporaries; Jenny Lind and Christina Nilsson, to be one of the most famous 19th Century sopranos; Giuseppe Verdi was not alone in calling her the greatest singer he ever heard.
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Biography of Cosima Wagner (excerpt)
Cosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner (née de Flavigny, since 1844 Liszt; December 24, 1837 – April 1, 1930) was the daughter of composer Franz Liszt. She became famous as the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner and, after his death, as director of the Bayreuth Festival for 31 years.
Biography of Vettius Valens (excerpt)
Vettius Valens (February 8, 120 – c. 175) was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy. Valens' major work is the Anthology, ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatise on astrology which has survived from that period. ![]()
Biography of François Fabié (excerpt)
François Fabié, born November 3, 1846 in Durenque, died July 18, 1928, is a French poet. ![]()
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Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States, home to more than three million people as of 2018. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. ![]()
Biography of Jules Massenet (excerpt)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his style fell out of favor not long after his death; and, except Manon, his works were rarely performed.
Biography of Théodore Dubois (excerpt)
François-Clément Théodore Dubois (August 24, 1837 – June 11, 1924) was a French composer, organist and music teacher. Théodore Dubois was born in Bligny in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart (the choirmaster at Reims cathedral) and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Émile Guimet (excerpt)
Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 1836 (birth time source: Cedra, birth certificate) - 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur. He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father in the direction of his "artificial ultramarine" factory. He also founded the Musée Guimet, which was first located at Lyon in 1879 and was handed over to the state and transferred to Paris in 1885. ![]()
Biography of Théophile Delcassé (excerpt)
Théophile Pierre Delcassé, born on March 1, 1852 in Pamiers (Ariège) (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut), died on February 21, 1923 in Nice, was a French politician and journalist. ![]()
Biography of Nicolas Poussin (excerpt)
Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained the dominant inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David and Paul Cézanne. ![]()
Biography of Yue Fei (excerpt)
Yue Fei (March 24, 1103 – January 27, 1142) was a famous Chinese patriot and military general who fought for the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jurchen armies of the Jin Dynasty. Since his death, Yue Fei has evolved into the standard model of loyalty in Chinese culture. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire de Chardonnet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, best known as Hilaire de Chardonnet, born May 1, 1839 in Besançon, died March 11, in Paris, was a French engeener, businessman and inventor of artificial silk. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Marie Widor (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 (birth time source: birth certificate on-line) – March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. Life Widor was born in Lyon, France to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889.
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Biography of François Honorat de Beauvilliers (excerpt)
François Honorat de Beauvilliers, duc de Saint-Aignan, born October 30, 1607 in Paris and died June 16, 1687, was a French military, author and civil servant. Hi is the father of Paul de Beauvilliers and the grandfather of Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, member as him, of Académie Française. ![]()
Biography of Arthur James Balfour (excerpt)
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation, unlawful assembly in Ireland during the Irish Land War, and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, a time when his party and government became divided over the issue of tariff reform. ![]()
Biography of Léon Cladel (excerpt)
Léon Cladel (March 15, 1835 in Agen – July 21, 1892), was a French novelist. The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface.
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Biography of Albert de Lapparent (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (30 December 1839 (birth time source: Christophe de Cène, birth certificate) - 5 May 1908) was a French geologist. He was born at Bourges. After studying at the École polytechnique from 1858 to 1860 he became ingénieur au corps des mines, and took part in drawing up the geological map of France; and in 1875 he was appointed professor of geology and mineralogy at the Catholic Institute in Paris.
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Biography of Léon Hennique (excerpt)
Léon Hennique (November 4, 1850 – December 25, 1935) was a French naturalist novelist and playwright. Born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, he was the son of a naval infantry officer. Initially studying painting, he turned to literature after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. ![]()
Biography of Zénaïde Fleuriot (excerpt)
Zénaïde-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (born in Saint-Brieuc (source not archived), 28 October 1829; died in Paris, 18 December 1890) was a French novelist. Life She published her first novel, Les souvenirs d'une douairière, in 1859, and its success led her to adopt the literary profession. ![]()
Biography of John Smith (explorer) (excerpt)
John Smith (1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author. He played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Lassalle (excerpt)
Ferdinand Lassalle (11 April 1825 — 31 August 1864) was a German-Jewish jurist and socialist political activist. Early life Lassalle came from a prosperous Jewish family in Loslau later Breslau, Prussia; his father was a silk-merchant and intended his son for a business career, sending him to the commercial school at Leipzig. |
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