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Biography of Alla Nazimova (excerpt)
Alla Nazimova (Russian & Ukrainian: Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Russian: Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон, Ukrainian: Міріам Эдес Аделаїда Левентон; June 4, 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian/American theater and film actress, screenwriter, and producer. She is often known as just Nazimova, and was also known as Alia Nasimoff.
Biography of André Antoine (excerpt)
André Antoine (31 January 1858, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)(birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) - 19 October 1943, Le Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the inventor of modern mise en scène in France.
Biography of René Pujol (excerpt)
René Pujol, born on May 15, 1878 in Bordeaux, died on January 21, 1942 in Paris, was a French screenwriter, film director, and composer. Filmography Director 1931 : Chacun sa chance 1933 : Tout pour rien 1934 : Dactylo se marie
Biography of René Seyssaud (excerpt)
René Seyssaud, born on June 15, 1867 in Marseille, died on Saint-Chamas, was a French artist and painter.
Biography of Jim Miller (outlaw) (excerpt)
James Brown Miller (October 25, 1866 - April 19, 1909), also known as "Killin' Jim", "Killer Miller" and "Deacon Jim", was an American outlaw and assassin of the American Old West credited with 12 kills during gunfights - perhaps the most of his era.
Biography of Reynaldo Hahn (excerpt)
Reynaldo Hahn (August 9, 1874 – January 28, 1947) was a Venezuelan, naturalised French, composer, conductor, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the mélodie. The fine craftsmanship, remarkable beauty, and originality of his works capture the insouciance of la belle époque.
Biography of Edouard Beaupré (excerpt)
Edouard Beaupré (January 9, 1881 – July 3, 1904) was a circus and freak show giant, wrestler, strongman, and a star in Barnum and Bailey's circus. Life Beaupré was the eldest of 20 children born to Gaspard and Florestine (born Piché) Beaupré in the newly founded parish of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was the first child to be baptized in the parish.
Biography of Jean Renaud de Segrais (excerpt)
Jean Renaud de Segrais (August 22, 1624 - March 15, 1701) was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. In 1662, he was elected a member of the Académie française. Works (selection) Poetry Ode à M. Chapelain, about the victories of Mgr le duc d'Anguien (1647)
Biography of E. M. Forster (excerpt)
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 in Marylebone, London – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society.
Biography of Jean-François Fonson (excerpt)
Frantz Fonson, best known as Jean-François Fonson, born on January 22, 1870, died in 1924, was a Belgian author, playwright, theater director, actor, and journalist.
Biography of Manuel Azana y Diaz (excerpt)
Dr. Manuel Azaña Díaz (Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid, January 10, 1880 – November 3, 1940, Montauban, France) was a Spanish politician, the second and last President of the Second Spanish Republic. He had previously served as Minister of War in the first government of the Republic (April-June 1931), and as Prime Minister between June 1931 and September 1933, prior to becoming President (May 1936 - April 1939).
Biography of Esprit Fléchier (excerpt)
Esprit Fléchier (June 10, 1632 – February 16, 1710) was a French preacher and author, Bishop of Nîmes from 1687 to 1710. Life He was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in the département of Vaucluse, in the Comtat Venaissin, and brought up at Tarascon by his uncle, Hercule Audiffret, superior of the Congrégation des Doctrinaires.
Biography of Léon Rothier (excerpt)
Léon Rothier (December 26, 1874 – December 6, 1951) was a French musician, predominantly an opera singer in the bass range, of the early 20th century. Rothier was born in 1874 in Reims, in the Champagne-Ardenne région of northern France. In this city he began his career as a violinist, but afterwards traveled to the Conservatoire de Paris to study voice.
Biography of Louis, Grand Condé (excerpt)
Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 (birth time source: “Condé, le héros fourvoyé”, éditions de Fallois, 2011, pages 55-56, author Simone Bertière) – 11 December 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon.
Biography of Marcel Vallée (excerpt)
Marcel Vallée (born Paris, January 15, 1880 - died Fontaine-le-Port, October 31, 1957) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. Filmography (extracts) * Short movies with Max Linder
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature").
Biography of André Bruno (excerpt)
André Bruno (October 3, 1879 in Premery (58) - 1973) was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1913 Deux petites âmes de poupées 1923 l'Affaire Blaireau 1934 les Précieuses ridicules 1938 Hôtel du Nord de Marcel Carné 1938 Entrée des artistes de Marc Allégret 1939 Pièges de Robert Siodmak
Biography of Yuan Shikai (excerpt)
Yuan Shikai (Chinese: 袁世凱; pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese military and government official who rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, becoming the Emperor of the Empire of China (1915–1916). He tried to save the dynasty with a number of modernization projects including bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms, despite playing a key part in the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform.
Biography of Isabella of Valois (excerpt)
Isabelle of Valois (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was a Princess of France, daughter of King Charles VI and Isabella of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. She was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England from 1396 to 1400. She was born in Paris.
Biography of Henry Rider Haggard (excerpt)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential to this day.
Biography of César d'Estrées (excerpt)
César d'Estrées (Paris, February 5, 1628 – Paris, December 18, 1714) was a French diplomat and Cardinal. He was the son of Marshal François Annibal d'Estrées, and brother of Marshal Jean II d'Estrées. He was abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Duke-Bishop of Laon and Cardinal.
Biography of Eugène Milon (excerpt)
Eugène Milon, born September 23, 1859 in Loury, died in 1917, was a French carpenter. He was one of the managers who had built the Tour Eiffel in Paris.
Biography of Eudes Picard (excerpt)
Eudes Picard, born February 13, 1867 in Meylan, is a French astrologer and author. He has written books about medical astrology and judiciary in astrology.
Biography of Édouard Dujardin (excerpt)
Édouard Dujardin (November 10, 1861–1949) was a French writer, one of the early pioneers of the literary technique stream of consciousness, exemplified in his 1888 novel Les Lauriers sont coupés. Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in France near Blois, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.
Biography of Asta Nielsen (excerpt)
Asta Sofie Amalie Nielsen (11 September 1881 - 24 May 1972), also known as Die Asta, was a Danish actress, mostly appearing in German silent films during the 1910s and 1920s. She was nicknamed The Silent Muse. Early life, education and stage
Biography of La Goulue (excerpt)
La Goulue (meaning The Glutton), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre.
Biography of Chaim Weizmann (excerpt)
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, (27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Zionist leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.
Biography of Charles F. Kettering (excerpt)
Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of over 300 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947.
Biography of André Bellessort (excerpt)
André Bellessort (1866–1942) was a French writer. Bellessort was a not only a poet and essayist but also a traveller who went to Chile, Bolivia and Japan. He is known for his influence on his pupils as a teacher in hypokhâgne in the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, notably related in Robert Brasillach's memories, Notre avant-guerre.
Biography of Feodor Chaliapin (excerpt)
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin; February 13 1873 – April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. The possessor of a large and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an international career and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.
Biography of Aga Khan III (excerpt)
Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.
Biography of Cécile Brunschvicg (excerpt)
Cécile Brunschvicg, born Cécile Kahn on 19 July, 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 48), and died 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine was a French feminist politician. She was born into a bourgeois republican family of confessing Jews.
Biography of Swami Ramdas (excerpt)
Swami Ramdas (1884-1963) was a philosopher, philanthropist, and pilgrim. Giving up worldly possessions at a young age, he became a wandering monk. The inspirational story of his travels throughout India and his message of Universal Love has been presented in several different books and he is regarded by many as a spiritual master.
Biography of Henri de Régnier (excerpt)
Henri François Joseph de Régnier (December 28, 1864 - May 23, 1936) was a French symbolist poet considered one of the foremost of France during the early 20th century. He was born at Honfleur (Calvados) on the 28th of December 1864, and was educated in Paris for the law.
Biography of Jean Sinoël (excerpt)
Jean Sinoël, born Jean Léonis Blès (Sinoël is an anagram), August 13, 1868 in Sainte-Terre (Gironde), and died August 30, 1949 in Paris, was a French actor and singer. Discography * 1909 : o Ça fume à la bastoche o Si qu'on saurait o Moi j'fait du crochet o On ne peut pas tout avoir o Y a des apaches dans la maison,
Biography of Giovanni Gentile (excerpt)
Giovanni Gentile (pronounced ; May 30, 1875 – April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher, a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as 'the philosopher of Fascism', and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini. He also devised his own system of philosophy, Actual Idealism.
Biography of Maurice Magre (excerpt)
Maurice Magre, born March 2, 1877 in Toulouse, died December 11, 1941 in Nice, was a French writer et poet. Works (extract) Poetry La Chanson des hommes, Bibliothèque Charpentier - 1898 Le Poème de la jeunesse, 1901 Les Lèvres et le secret, 1906
Biography of Franz Gürtner (excerpt)
Franz Gürtner (26 August 1881 - 29 January 1941) was a German Minister of Justice in Adolf Hitler's cabinet, responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich. Detesting the cruel ways of the Gestapo and SA in dealing with prisoners of war, he protested unsuccessfully to Hitler, nevertheless staying on in the cabinet, hoping to reform the establishment from within.
Biography of John Galsworthy (excerpt)
John Galsworthy OM (pronounced /ˈɡɔːlzwɜrði/; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
Biography of Édouard Goursat (excerpt)
Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (21 May 1858 – 25 November 1936) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis.
Biography of Paul Reynaud (excerpt)
Paul Reynaud (October 15, 1878 - September 21, 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his stances on economic liberalism and militant opposition to Germany. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Third Republic and vice-president of the Alliance Démocratique center-right party.
Biography of Joseph de Tonquédec (excerpt)
Joseph de Tonquédec, born December 27, 1868 in Morlaix, died November 21, 1962, was a French theologist, exorcist of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris, and Jesuit priest. Works (extract) * G. K. Chesterton, ses idées et son caractère, Nouvelle Librairie nationale, Paris, 1920, 118 p.
Biography of Albert Marquet (excerpt)
Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauve movement. Life and work Marquet was born in Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Decorative Arts School, where he met Henri Matisse.
Biography of Jean Picard (astronomer) (excerpt)
Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669–70, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.
Biography of Léopold Bellan (excerpt)
Léopold Bellan, born on September 20, 1857 in Méré (birth time source: Michel Martinet, on-line archives), died on January 4, 1936 in Paris, was a French industrialist, journalist, and politician. He was born with a clubfoot.
Biography of André Siegfried (excerpt)
André Siegfried (April 21, 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – March 28, 1959) was a French academic, geographer and political writer best known for his commentaries on American, Canadian, and British politics. He was born in Le Havre, France, to Jules Siegfried, the French minister of commerce.
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Biography of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (excerpt)
Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (February 15, 1612 (source not archived) – September 9, 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal. He was born into the aristocracy in Neuville-sur-Vanne in Champagne, France. He joined the military at the age of thirteen and had a successful career where he was noted for his ability and his piety.
Biography of Moina Mathers (excerpt)
Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson (February 28, 1865-July 25, 1928) was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 19th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.
Biography of Enrique Granados (excerpt)
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña (July 27, 1867 – March 24, 1916) was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism. Enrique Granados was also a talented painter in the style of Francisco Goya. |
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