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Horoscopes with Pluto in TaurusYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto in Taurus. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Achille Liénart (excerpt)
Achille Liénart (February 7, 1884—February 15, 1973) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930. Born in Lille, Liénart studied at College Saint-Joseph, the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Collège de Sorbonne, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
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Biography of Antoine Furetière (excerpt)
Antoine Furetière (28 December 1619 - 14 May 1688) French scholar and writer, was born in Paris. Biography He studied law and practised for a time as an advocate, but eventually took orders and after various promotions became abbé of Chalivoy in the diocese of Bourges in 1662. ![]()
Biography of René Bazin (excerpt)
René François Nicolas Marie Bazin (December 26, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 20, 1932) was a French novelist. Born at Angers, he studied law in Paris, and on his return to Angers became professor of law in the Catholic university there. ![]()
Biography of Paul Dukas (excerpt)
Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy. ![]()
Biography of Francisque Poulbot (excerpt)
Francisque Poulbot was a French drawer and illustrator born February 6, 1879 in Saint-Denis. He has created the famous "Poulbot de Paris".
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Biography of Marcel Prévost (excerpt)
Eugene Marcel Prévost (1 May 1862 (birth time and city source: Gauquelin, vol 6) – 1941) was a French author and dramatist. He was born in Toulouse, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bordeaux and Paris, entering the École polytechnique in 1882.
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Biography of Léon Boëllmann (excerpt)
Léon Boëllmann (September 9, 1862, Ensisheim in the Alsace – October 11, 1897, Paris) was a French composer. His compositions include works for organ, piano, chamber music, songs, and church chorales. Boëllmann was an early musical talent and was accepted in 1871—9 years old—at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris. ![]()
Biography of René Quinton (excerpt)
René Joseph Quinton (1866–1925) was a French biologist, aviation pioneer and decorated World War I soldier. In his biology career, he developed a treatment based on seawater injections that he called sérum de Quinton, which has been abandoned by medicine. An aviation pioneer, he was vice-president of the Ligue Aéronautique de France and a proponent of the development of aviation in France.
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Biography of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (excerpt)
The Princess Beatrice (also Princess Henry of Battenberg; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944) was a member of the British Royal Family, the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria, famous for editing the journals and diaries of Queen Victoria after her death.
Biography of Anthony Gildès (excerpt)
Anthony Gildès, born Anatole Gleizes, August, 13, 1856 in Metz, Moselle (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate), and died October 6, 1941 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1916 : Le Droit à la vie d'Abel Gance
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Biography of Theodor Herzl (excerpt)
Theodor Herzl (Hebrew: בנימין זאב הרצל (Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl)) (May 2, 1860–July 3, 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl was born in Pest, the Kingdom of Hungary (today the eastern half of Budapest, then a separate city) to a Jewish family originally from Zemun, the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia). ![]()
Biography of René Ghil (excerpt)
René Ghilbert, best known as René Ghil, born September 27, 1862 in Tourcoing and died September 15, 1925 in Niort, was a French poet, author and symbolist. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
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Biography of Aaron Kosminski (excerpt)
Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozmiński; 11 September 1865 (birth time source: http://poznan.ap.gov.pl/images/stories/AMK/1.jpg Wojtek Suchomski) – 24 March 1919) was an insane Polish Jew whom some believe to be the serial killer Jack the Ripper. In September 2014, author Russell Edwards claimed to have proved Kosminski's guilt using mitochondrial DNA evidence, though this claim has not been published or verified by the peer-review process. ![]()
Biography of André Maginot (excerpt)
André Maginot (French pronunciation: ; 17 February 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 7 January 1932) was a French civil servant, soldier, and Member of Parliament. He is undoubtedly best known for his advocacy for the string of forts that would be known as the Maginot Line. ![]()
Biography of Kyösti Kallio (excerpt)
Kyösti Kallio (April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth President of Finland (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and had previously been Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times . ![]()
Biography of René Boylesve (excerpt)
René Boylesve (born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau) (April 14, 1867 - January 14, 1926) was a French author. He was born in La Haye-Descartes and died in Paris.
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Biography of Paul Painlevé (excerpt)
Paul Painlevé (5 December 1863 – 29 October 1933) was a French mathematician and politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. Biography Early life Painlevé was born in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Robert Peary (excerpt)
Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole -- a claim that has subsequently attracted much criticism.
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Biography of Madam C. J. Walker (excerpt)
Sarah Breedlove (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919), known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the first female self-made millionaire in America. She made her fortune by developing and marketing a line of beauty and hair products for black women under the company she founded, Madame C.
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Biography of Jules Guérin (excerpt)
Jules Guérin (1860-1910) was the founder and leader of the French Ligue Antisemitique, an organisation similar to the Ligue des Patriotes. The Ligue was involved in many anti-semitic and anti-Dreyfus protests during the Dreyfus Affair. The Ligue was outlawed in November 1899 and Guérin was imprisoned for ten years.
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Biography of Léon Jouhaux (excerpt)
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike. ![]()
Biography of Emile Verhaeren (excerpt)
Emile Verhaeren (Sint-Amands May 21, 1855 – Rouen November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. He was born in a Flemish, but French-speaking, middle-class family. ![]()
Biography of Nicholas Roerich (excerpt)
Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (misspelled surname) (Russian: Николай Константинович Рерих), was a Russian painter, theosophist and philosopher. He was the father of Tibetologist George de Roerich (a.k.a. Yuri Roerich) and artist Svetoslav Roerich. ![]()
Biography of Gaston, Duke of Orléans (excerpt)
Gaston Jean-Baptiste, Duke of Orléans (April 25, 1608, Fontainebleau – February 2, 1660, Blois), was the third son of the French king Henry IV and of his wife Marie de' Medici. Known at first as the Duke of Anjou, he became duc d'Orléans, Count of Blois and Count of Chartres in 1626, and had nominal command of the army which besieged La Rochelle in 1628, having already entered upon that course of political intrigue which would occupy the remainder of his life. ![]()
Biography of Willa Cather (excerpt)
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. ![]()
Biography of John Jacob Astor IV (excerpt)
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.
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Biography of Nicholas Culpeper (excerpt)
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 i.e. 28 October, Gregorian calendar (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, H.C.G. Matthew & Brian Howard Harrison's book, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy" (Oxford UP, 2004), p. 602: "Culpeper, Nicholas .
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Biography of Christiaan Huygens (excerpt)
Christiaan Huygens (pronounced /ˈhaɪgənz/ in English, IPA: in Dutch) (April 14, 1629 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – July 8, 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens, a friend of René Descartes. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Marquette (excerpt)
Father Jacques Marquette SJ (June 1, 1637 – May 18, 1675), sometimes known as Pere Marquette, was a French missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan. Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first non-Native Americans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.
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Biography of Alberto Santos-Dumont (excerpt)
Alberto Santos-Dumont (July 20, 1873 – July 23, 1932) was an early pioneer of aviation. He was born and died in Brazil. He spent most of his adult life in France. His contributions to aviation took place while he was living in Paris, France. ![]()
Biography of Isaac Albeniz (excerpt)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz i Pascual (pronounced ) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music. Born in Camprodon, Catalonia (Europe), Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four.
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Biography of Henri Ghéon (excerpt)
Henri Ghéon (March 15, 1875 - June 13, 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic. Brought up by a devout Roman Catholic mother, he lost his faith in his early teens, while still at the Lycée in Sens.
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Biography of Firmin Gémier (excerpt)
Firmin Gémier, born Firmin Tonnerre February 21, 1869 in Aubervilliers and died November 26, 1933 in Paris, was a French actor, comedian, film director and theater director. Selected filmography # La fusée (1933) .... Etienne Girbal ... aka Grandeur and Decadence (USA) ... aka Grandeur et décadence (France: alternative title) ![]()
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Eugene is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It is at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about 50 miles (80 km) east of the Oregon Coast.
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Biography of Cécile Chaminade (excerpt)
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (Paris, August 8, 1857 – April 13, 1944) was a French composer and pianist. Biography Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical education. ![]()
Biography of Murad IV (excerpt)
Murad IV Ghazi (Ottoman Turkish: مراد رابع Murād-i rābi‘) (July 27, 1612 – February 9, 1640) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. ![]()
Biography of Henry de Monfreid (excerpt)
Henry de Monfreid (14 November 1879, Leucate - 13 December 1974) was a French adventurer and author. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child. "I have lived a rich, restless, magnificent life," Monfreid declared a few days before dying in 1974 at the age of 95.
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Biography of Molly Brown (excerpt)
Margaret Brown (née Tobin) (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), more widely known as Maggie Brown, Molly Brown, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, was an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist who became famous in the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, after getting lifeboat 6 to return to look for survivors and as leader of the women survivors.
Biography of Madame Fraya (excerpt)
Valentine Dencausse, best known as Madame Fray, born May 20, 1871 in Villeneuve-de-Marsan (40), was a French chiromancer. She was reputed to have had psychic abilities. ![]()
Biography of Ruben Dario (excerpt)
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 10, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan journalist, diplomat, and influential poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío and is also known as The Father of Modernism. His poetry brought vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. ![]()
Biography of Charles Pathé (excerpt)
Charles Pathé (December 26, 1863 – December 26, 1957) was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries. The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. In 1894, together with his brother Émile, he formed Pathé Records.
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Biography of Charles VI of France (excerpt)
Charles VI (3 December 1368 – 21 October 1422), called the Beloved (le Bienaimé) and the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was the King of France from 1380 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. Early life ![]()
Biography of René Maizeroy (excerpt)
René Maizeroy, born May 2, 1856 in Metz, died in 1918, was a French author. Works (extracts) La Fête (1893) Mauvais mirage (Le) Frisson nouveau (Le) A l'ombre Parvenu La Vraie et l’autre Celle qu’on n’achète pas
Biography of Guillaume Seznec (excerpt)
Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec, born May 1, 1878 in Plomodiern, has been conviced of murder where the victim is Pierre Quéméneur, a French politician, May 26, 1923. References « Affaire Seznec. Pas de recours devant la cour européenne », Le Télégramme, 14 juin 2007 ![]()
Biography of Paul Fort (excerpt)
Paul Fort (February 1, 1872 - April 20, 1960) was a French poet. Born on in Reims, Marne département, France, he became an important part of the artistic community of Montparnasse. By 1912 his accomplishments and influence were such that Paul Verlaine gave him the title "Prince of the Poets.
Biography of Friedrich Schwickert (excerpt)
Friedrich Schwickert, born September 16, 1857 in Cesky Krumlov and died in 1930, was an Austrian author, naval officer and astrologer. He wrote under the name of Sinbad.
Biography of Amélie of Orléans (excerpt)
Amélie of Orleans (28 September 1865 - 25 October 1951) was the eldest daughter of Philippe, comte de Paris and his wife and cousin Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans. She was Queen consort of Portugal, and was known by her subjects by the name of Maria Amélia. ![]()
Biography of André Rivoire (excerpt)
André Rivoire, born in Vienne May 5, 1872 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) and died in Paris August 19, 1930, was a French poet and author. Bibliography Collectif, André Rivoire, le poète, sa vie, son œuvre, Blanchard Frères, Vienne, 1932.
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Biography of Gemma Galgani (excerpt)
Saint Gemma Galgani (born March 12, 1878 in Camigliano, Campania, Italy, died April 11, 1903) is a Catholic saint who was canonized by Pope Pius XII on May 2, 1940. She was the daughter of a poor pharmacist and suffered throughout her life with ill health.
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Biography of Karl Abraham (excerpt)
Karl Abraham (3 May 1877 - 25 December 1925) was an early German psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil' . He founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925. |
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