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Horoscopes with Poseidon in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Poseidon in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of James McNeill Whistler (excerpt)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Pierné (excerpt)
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (Metz, 16 August 1863 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – Ploujean, Finistère, 17 July, 1937) was a French composer, conductor, and organist. Pierné was the organist at Saint Clotilde Basilica in Paris from 1890-1898, succeeding his teacher César Franck, and himself being succeeded by another distinguished Franck pupil, Charles Tournemire.
Biography of Isaac Rodrigue Péreire (excerpt)
The Péreire brothers were prominent 19th century financiers in Paris, France who were rivals of the Rothschilds. Like the Rothschilds, they were Jews, but unlike them the Péreire brothers were Sephardi Jews of Portuguese origin. Émile (1800–1875) and his brother Isaac Péreire (1806–1880) founded a business conglomerate that included creating the Crédit Mobilier bank. ![]()
Biography of Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (excerpt)
Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (November 7, 1838 – August 19, 1889) was a French symbolist writer and journalist. Life Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was born in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, to a distinguished aristocratic family. His parents, Marquis Joseph-Toussaint and Marie-Francoise (née Le Nepvou de Carfort) were not rich, however, and were financially supported by Marie's aunt, Mademoiselle de Kerinou.
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Biography of Zenobe Gramme (excerpt)
Zénobe Théophile Gramme (April 4, 1826 - January 20, 1901) was a Belgian electrical inventor and engineer. In spite of the fact that he was semi-literate and had no advanced knowledge of mathematics, in 1869, he invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother (less AC) and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point. ![]()
Biography of Joseph Gallieni (excerpt)
Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 - 27 May 1916) was a French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies and finished his career during the First World War. He was made Marshal of France posthumously in 1921. ![]()
Biography of David Lloyd George (excerpt)
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the only Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was the last Liberal to hold the office. He was Prime Minister throughout the latter half of World War I and the first four years of the subsequent peace.
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Biography of Félix Pyat (excerpt)
Félix Pyat (4 October 1810 - 3 August 1889) was a French Socialist journalist and politician. He was born at Vierzon (Cher), the son of a Legitimist lawyer. Called to the bar in Paris in 1831, he threw his whole energies into journalism.
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Biography of Théo Ysaÿe (excerpt)
Théophile Ysaÿe (2 March 1865 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) – 23 March 1918) was a Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium. His brother was the violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe. Biography Rather overshadowed throughout his life by the career of his elder brother Eugène, Théo Ysaÿe began amateur studies in music at the Liège Conservatory and, on Eugène's advice, furthered his education in Berlin.
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Biography of Oscar de Négrier (excerpt)
Oscar de Négrier was a French General, born October 2, 1839 in Belfort.
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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux (excerpt)
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090–August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. "The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Catholic Church from 1125 to 1153", his authority helped to end the schism of 1130.
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Biography of François-Marie Raoult (excerpt)
François-Marie Raoult (10 May 1830 - 1 April 1901) was a French chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Life and work Raoult was born at Fournes, in the département of Nord. He became aspirant répétiteur at the Lycée of Reims in 1853, and after holding several intermediate positions was appointed in 1862 to the professorship of chemistry in Sens lycée. ![]()
Biography of Théodore Gosselin (excerpt)
Théodore Gosselin (October 7, 1855(birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) - February 7, 1935) was a French historian who wrote under the pen name G. Lenotre. Under the pen name Lenotre, Gosselin wrote articles in publications such as Figaro, Revue des deux mondes, Monde illustré and Temps. ![]()
Biography of Paul Déroulède (excerpt)
Paul Déroulède (September 2, 1846 - January 30, 1914) was a French author and politician, and a leading figure of the French right-wing. Early life He was born in Paris, and first appeared as a poet in the Revue nationale, under the pseudonym of "Jean Rebel". ![]()
Biography of Paul Sérusier (excerpt)
Paul Sérusier (November 9, 1864 in Paris — October 7, 1927 in Morlaix) was a French painter. Education He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s. In the summer of 1888 he travelled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin. ![]()
Biography of Léon Bonnat (excerpt)
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (June 20, 1833 – September 8, 1922) was a French painter. He was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old masters, developing a passion for drawing. ![]()
Biography of André Theuriet (excerpt)
Claude Adhémar André Theuriet (October 8, 1833 - April 23, 1907), French poet and novelist, was born at Marly-le-Roi (Seine et Oise), and was educated at Bar-le-Duc in his mother's province of Lorraine. He studied law in Paris and entered the public service, attaining the rank of chef de bureau, before his retirement in 1886. ![]()
Biography of Henri Dunant (excerpt)
Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910), aka Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern day Italy. ![]()
Biography of Charles Lancelin (excerpt)
Charles Lancelin, born January 4, 1852 in Dreux, died in 1941, was a French occulist and author. ![]()
Biography of Thomas Huxley (excerpt)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career.
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Biography of Léon Bourgeois (excerpt)
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (29 May 1851 – 29 September 1925) was a Jewish French statesman. He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office (1876) in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn (1882) and the Haute-Garonne (1885), and then returned to Paris to enter the ministry of the interior. ![]()
Biography of Gustave Le Bon (excerpt)
Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841, Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir – 13 December 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology. ![]()
Biography of José Echegaray (excerpt)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904, making him the first Spaniard to win the prize. ![]()
Biography of Virginia Oldoini (excerpt)
Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian courtesan who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France]. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography. ![]()
Biography of Charles-Eugène Delaunay (excerpt)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (April 9, 1816 – August 5, 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics. Life Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay studied under Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Sorbonne. ![]()
Biography of Grandma Moses (excerpt)
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses" was a renowned American folk artist. She is most often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand von Zeppelin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin (July 8, 1838 – March 8, 1917) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin airship company. He was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany). ![]()
Biography of Hervé Faye (excerpt)
Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye (October 1, 1814 (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth certificate) – July 4, 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. ![]()
Biography of Lady Randolph Churchill (excerpt)
Lady Randolph Churchill, CI, DStJ (January 9, 1854 – June 9, 1921), born Jennie Jerome, was the American-born wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Early life Jennie Jerome was born in Brooklyn (Kings County), New York, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clara, daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman. ![]()
Biography of Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (excerpt)
Princess Isabel of Brazil, daughter of Pedro II, Emperor of Brasil and Princess Teresa of The Two Sicilies, was born 29 July 1846 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and died 14 November 1921 Château d'Eu, France. She was the wife of Gaston d'Eu, born 28 April 1842 Château de Neuilly and died 28 August 1922 (Married 15 October 1864 Rio de Janeiro).
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Biography of William M. Thackeray (excerpt)
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Biography Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. ![]()
Biography of William Jennings Bryan (excerpt)
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for his deep, commanding voice. ![]()
Biography of Charles-François Daubigny (excerpt)
Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, February 15, 1817 – February 19, 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism. Daubigny was born into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand de Lesseps (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 19, 1805–December 7, 1894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.
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Biography of Anatole Le Braz (excerpt)
Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" (April 2, 1859 – March 20, 1926) was a Breton folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was born in Duault and raised amongst woodcutters and charcoal burners, speaking the Breton language; his parents did not speak French. ![]()
Biography of Léon Lhermitte (excerpt)
Léon Augustin Lhermitte (also known as Léon Augustin L'hermitte). Born Mont-Saint-Père, 1844, died Paris, 1925. French painter and etcher of the late nineteenth century. A student of Lecocq de Boisbourdran. A realist artist whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.
Biography of André Charles Weiss (excerpt)
André Charles Weiss, born September 30, 1858 in Mulhouse, died in 1928, was a French author, law teacher in Paris, international law specialist.
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Biography of Alexander Petofi (excerpt)
Sándor Petőfi (born January 1, 1823, Kiskőrös, Hungary (his birth time comes from this online archive) – died most likely July 31, 1849, in Segesvár, Hungary) was a Hungarian national poet of Serb and Slovak descent and a key figure in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. ![]()
Biography of François Pompon (excerpt)
François Pompon (May 9, 1855 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 6, 1933) was a French sculptor and animalier. Born in Saulieu in Burgundy, he moved to Paris. Beginning in 1870 he studied under the noted animalier Pierre Louis Rouillard at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and later worked as Auguste Rodin's assistant. ![]()
Biography of Percy Fawcett (excerpt)
Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett (August 31, 1867 – in or after 1925) was a British archaeologist and explorer. Along with his son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find what he believed to be an ancient lost city in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.
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Biography of Gérard Cooreman (excerpt)
Gérard François Marie Cooreman (25 March 1852 birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – 2 December 1926) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, Cooreman was trained in law, and practised as a lawyer, but was more active as a businessman and financier, and became involved with Catholic social groups. ![]()
Biography of Georges-Joseph Toutée (excerpt)
Georges-Joseph Toutée, born February 26, 1855 in Saint-Fargeau (birth certificate n° 16), died November 16, 1927 in Paris, was a French military, general, politician, and explorer in Africa. He was also an author, and has written Dahomé, Niger, Touareg, Récit de voyage (1897), Du Dahomé au Sahara and La nature et l'homme (1899).
Biography of Edmond Eugène Valton (excerpt)
Edmond-Eugène Valton (Paris September 25, 1836 - September 1910), French painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He studied with F. Fossey, and at the École des Beaux Arts, under Célestin-François Nanteuil (1813-1873), Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), Merry-Joseph Blondel (1781-1853) David d'Angers (1788-1856) and Thomas Couture (1815-1879). ![]()
Biography of Arsène d'Arsonval (excerpt)
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 – December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and probably of the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. ![]()
Biography of André Suarès (excerpt)
André Suarès was one of the pseudonyms used by Félix-André-Yves Scantrel (12 June 1868, Marseille – 7 September 1948, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) a French poet and critic. From 1912 onwards, he was one of the four "pillars" of the Nouvelle Revue Française, along with André Gide, Paul Claudel and Paul Valéry.
Biography of Thomas Charubel (excerpt)
John Thomas (1826-1908) - a Welsh clairvoyant, occultist and healer better known as Charubel. As a young man John Thomas took the path traditionally taken by natural clairvoyants for most of the last thousand years and studied for the Christian ministry. However, he ultimately felt forced to choose between his religious life and his occult and psychic interests and abilities. ![]()
Biography of Chester A. Arthur (excerpt)
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 (birth time source: Doane, from memory) – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the twentieth vice president under James Garfield. ![]()
Biography of Émile Ollivier (excerpt)
Olivier Émile Ollivier (2 July 1825 – 20 August 1913) was a French statesman. Starting as an avid republican opposed to Emperor Napoleon III, he pushed the Emperor toward liberal reforms and in turn came increasingly into Napoleon's grip. He entered the cabinet and was the prime minister when Napoleon fell.
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Biography of Louis-Aimé Maillart (excerpt)
Louis-Aimé Maillart (March 24, 1817 – May 26, 1871) was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara. Biography Maillart was born in Montpellier (Hérault). He studied at the Paris Conservatory from 1833, learning composition from Aimé-Ambroise-Simon Leborne and Fromental Halévy, and violin from Guérin, and winning the Prix de Rome in 1841. ![]()
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. |
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