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Biography of Maurice Garin (excerpt)
Maurice-Francois Garin (Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy, 3 March 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate from Grazia Bordoni), died Lens (or Haute-Savoie), France, 19 February 1957) was a road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating.
Biography of François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (excerpt)
François-Henri Salomon de Virelade (4 October 1620, Bordeaux - 2 March 1670, Bordeaux) was a French lawyer. He was elected the third occupant of Académie française seat 29 in 1644. ![]()
Biography of Carl Sandburg (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat. ![]()
Biography of Jerome K. Jerome (excerpt)
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London. ![]()
Biography of Jean Brunhes (excerpt)
Jean Brunhes was a French geographer (born 25 October 1869, Toulouse, France (source not archived) - died 25 August 1930, Boulogne-Billancourt). His most famous book is La géographie humaine (Human Geography). Ruskin et la Bible : pour servir à l'histoire d'une pensée (1901) is a popular book by Jean and Henriette Brunhes.
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs (excerpt)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois (although he later lived for many years in the neighboring suburb of Oak Park), the son of a businessman.
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Biography of Claude Perrault (excerpt)
Though Claude Perrault (Paris, September 25, 1613 - Paris, 1688) is best known as the architect of the eastern range of the Louvre in Paris, he also achieved success as physician and anatomist, and as an author, who wrote treatises on physics and natural history . ![]()
Biography of Emily Post (excerpt)
Emily Post (October 27, 1873 - September 25, 1960) was a United States author who promoted what she considered "proper etiquette". She wrote books surrounding the topic of etiquette. Background Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, and was born into privilege as the only daughter of famous architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price. ![]()
Biography of François Girardon (excerpt)
François Girardon (March 10, 1628 (source: Wikipedia in French) – September 1, 1715) was a French sculptor. He was born at Troyes. As a boy he had for master a joiner and wood-carver of his native town, named Baudesson, under whom he is said to have worked at the chateau of Liebault, where he attracted the notice of Chancellor Séguier.
Biography of Frédéric Mariotti (excerpt)
Frédéric Mariotti, born on April 1, 1884 in Marseille, died on February 22, 1971 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1917 : La Bonne Hôtesse de Georges Monca 1919 : Barrabas de Louis Feuillade - Film tourné en 12 épisodes - ![]()
Biography of André Chevrillon (excerpt)
André Chevrillon (May 3, 1864 (birth time source: Lescaut)–July 9, 1957) was a French writer, a nephew of Taine, who chose England and the Orient as objects of study. Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris. ![]()
Biography of Ettore Bugatti (excerpt)
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer. He came from a notably artistic family with its roots in Milan. He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer.
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Biography of Gaston Couté (excerpt)
Gaston Couté, born September 23, 1880 in Beaugency, Loiret (birth time source: birth certificate n° 70), died June 28, 1911 in Paris, was a French poet and singer. Bibliography Works * La chanson d'un gâs qu'a mal tourné, œuvres complètes en cinq volumes, Éd. ![]()
Biography of Paul Adam (excerpt)
Paul Adam (December 7, 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – January 2, 1920) was a French novelist. Adam wrote a series of historical novels that dealt with the period of the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; the first installment in the series, La Force, appeared in 1899.
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Biography of Adolphe Retté (excerpt)
Adolphe Retté (born July, 25, 1863 in Paris, France, died December 8, 1930) was a French poet and writer. ![]()
Biography of Augustus John (excerpt)
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. ![]()
Biography of Jean Giraudoux (excerpt)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. Born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, Giraudoux's father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transportation. ![]()
Biography of Jules Lemaître (excerpt)
François Élie Jules Lemaître (27 April 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 August 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. ![]()
Biography of Antoine Béclère (excerpt)
Antoine Béclère (March 17, 1856 Paris (source not archived) - 1939), virologist, immunologist, was a pioneer in radiology. In 1897 he create the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. References (extract) Pallardy, G; Mabille, J P (1999), "Antoine Béclère (1856-1939). In memory of Antoinette Béclère, the admirable guardian of her father's works", Journal de radiologie 80 (6): 600-3, 1999 Jun, PMID:10417897, http://www. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Labey (excerpt)
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet - 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer. Life He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under Elie-Myrima Delaborde and Louis Breitner, and harmony under René Lenormand.
Biography of Constant Rémy (excerpt)
Constant Rémy, born May 20, 1882 in Paris and died August 16, 1958 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1909 : Benvenuto Cellini de Camille de Morlhon * 1909 : Le Bon Voisin ![]()
Biography of Ravachol (excerpt)
François Claudius Koeningstein, known as Ravachol, (1859-1892), was a French anarchist best known for terrorism. He was born 14 October 1859 at Saint-Chamond (Loire) and died guillotined 11 July 1892 at Montbrison. Son of a Dutch father (Jean Adam Koeningstein) and a French mother (Marie Ravachol), he adopted his mother's maiden name after the father abandoned the family when he was only 8 years old. ![]()
Biography of Célestin Bouglé (excerpt)
Célestin Bouglé (June 1, 1870 – 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique. Life Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1890 and aggregated in philosophy in 1893. ![]()
Biography of Robert de Montesquiou (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (March 19, 1855, Paris - December 11, 1921, Menton), was a French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. With many homosexual friends, he is reputed to have been the inspiration both for des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours and, most famously, for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (excerpt)
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and founder of the Futurist movement. Childhood and adolescence Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (some documents give his name as "Filippo Achille Emilio") spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father (Enrico M.
Biography of Paul Choisnard (excerpt)
Paul Choisnard, born February 13, 1867 in Tours, was a French astrologer and author. He was one of the pioneers of statistical astrology. ![]()
Biography of Gerhart Hauptmann (excerpt)
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862—June 6, 1946) was a German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. He was the son of a hotel-keeper. From the village school of his native place he passed to the Realschule in Breslau, and was then sent to learn agriculture on his uncle's farm at Jauer. ![]()
Biography of Léon Brunschvicg (excerpt)
Léon Brunschvicg (November 10, 1869 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 18, 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the Revue de métaphysique et de morale with Xavier Leon and Élie Halévy in 1893. Life From 1895-1900 he taught at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. ![]()
Biography of Abel Hermant (excerpt)
Abel Hermant (3 February 1861 - 29 September 1950) was a French novelist, playwright, essayist and writer, and member of the Académie Française. Herman was born in Paris, the son of an architect. He received a degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1880, and published his first volume of verse in 1883, The Contempt.
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Biography of Edmond Jaloux (excerpt)
Edmond Jaloux (born in Marseille on June 19, 1878; died in Lutry on August 22, 1949) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. ![]()
Biography of Emile Male (excerpt)
Émile Mâle (June 2, 1862 - October 6, 1954) was a French art historian, one of the first to study medieval, mostly sacral French art and the influence of eastern European iconography thereon. He was a member of the Académie Française, and a director of the Académie de France à Rome. ![]()
Biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (excerpt)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868–December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design. ![]()
Biography of Robert Nivelle (excerpt)
Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War. He took command of one of the main French armies engaged in the Battle of Verdun, leading it during its successful counter-strokes against the Germans, but was accused of wasting French lives during some of his attacks. ![]()
Biography of Adolphe Willette (excerpt)
Adolphe-Léon Willette (July 31, 1857– February 4, 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 19th arrondisement of Paris for the 1889 elections. Biography Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne. He studied for four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France.
Biography of Mary Reid (excerpt)
Mary Reid aka Mary MacArthur (August 13, 1880-1921) was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father draper's shop. In 1903 she became the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and in 1906 formed the National Federation of Women Workers and assisted in the creation of the National Anti-Sweating League. ![]()
Biography of Elinor Glyn (excerpt)
Elinor Glyn (October 17, 1864 - September 23, 1943), born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She coined the use of It as a euphemism for sex appeal. Elinor Glyn was born in Saint Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands. ![]()
Biography of Syngman Rhee (excerpt)
Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965; Korean pronunciation: ) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (17 December 1879, Réalmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- 19 December 1962, Dourgne) was a French Admiral and Minister of Marine of France. He fought in both World Wars, and was known mostly for his activity at Dunkirk in 1940. ![]()
Biography of Jules Laforgue (excerpt)
Jules Laforgue (Montevideo, 16 August 1860 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Jany Bessière, birth certificate) – Paris, 20 August 1887) was a French symbolist poet. Life His parents, Charles-Benoît Laforgue and Pauline Lacollay, met in Uruguay where his father worked first as a teacher and then a bank employee. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Bainville (excerpt)
Jacques Bainville (February 9, 1879 in Vincennes-February 9, 1936 in Paris) was a French historian and journalist. A staunch monarchist, he was a leading figure in Action Française. A follower of Charles Maurras, Bainville was a founder of Action Française and soon became an important figure in the Institute d'Action Française, a college of sorts ran by the organisation (it had no permanent buildings but ran lectures and study groups where possible).
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Biography of Louis Noguères (excerpt)
Louis Noguères (4 October 1881–5 May 1956) was a French politician and member of the French Resistance. Son of a magistrate, Louis Noguères was born at Laval. His family moved frequently and Louis attended schools in Laval, Angers, Chambéry, and Le Havre. ![]()
Biography of Polaire (actress) (excerpt)
Mlle Polaire was the stage name used by French singer and actress Emélie (not Emilie) Marie Bouchaud (May 14, 1874 – October 14, 1939). Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, she began her show-business career as a café singer, at age 15. At 17, she joined her older brother in Paris, France. ![]()
Biography of Karl Pearson (excerpt)
Karl Pearson FRS (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. ![]()
Biography of Madame de la Fayette (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. ![]()
Biography of Nellie Melba (excerpt)
Dame Nellie Melba, GBE (19 May 1861 – 23 February 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, legendary Australian opera soprano and probably the most famous of all sopranos, was the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. She and Dame May Whitty both became the first entertainers to become a DBE in 1918. ![]()
Biography of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (excerpt)
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923) was an English aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Valley of the Kings. ![]()
Biography of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (excerpt)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; née Princess Alice of Albany; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She has the distinction of remaining the longest lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and the longest living member of the royal family to be a Princess of the blood.
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Biography of Théophile Steinlen (excerpt)
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the University of Lausanne before taking a job as a designer trainee at a textile mill in Mulhouse in eastern France. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Frédéric Lauth (excerpt)
Charles-Frédéric Lauth,, born on January 17, 1865 in Paris, died in 1922, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of René Doumic (excerpt)
René Doumic (7 March 1860, Paris (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - 2 December 1937), French critic and man of letters, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the École Normale began to teach rhetoric at the College Stanislas. |
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