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Biography of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, born October 5, 1849, is a French murderer. He killed a whole family (the father, a pregnant mother and six children, from 17 to 2 years old) in 1869. Nobody knows why. He was executed on the 19th of January 1870 in Paris.
Biography of William Booth (excerpt)
William Booth (April 10, 1829 – August 20, 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became the first General (1878-1912). The Christian movement, with a quasi-military structure and government - but with no physical weaponry, founded in 1865 has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.
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 Casimir Davaine (excerpt)
Casimir Davaine (1812-1882) was a French physician known for his work in the field of microbiology. In 1850, Davaine along with French dermalogist Pierre François Olive Rayer (1793-1867) discovered a certain microorganism in the blood of diseased and dying sheep. In the diseased blood, Rayer and Davaine isolated the bacillus which is known as anthrax.
Biography of Anna Kingsford (excerpt)
Anna Bonus Kingsford (b. September 16, 1846 in Essex - d. February 22, 1888 in London) was one of the first female English physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford participated in the Theosophical movement England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, anti-vivisection and vegetarianism.
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 Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (excerpt)
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 7, 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – June 13, 1871) was a French magician. He is widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring. Early life and entrance into conjuring Master of magic Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France, on 7 December 1805—a day after his autobiography said he was.
Biography of Marie Henri Andoyer (excerpt)
Marie Henri Andoyer, born October 1, 1862 in Paris and died June 12, 1929, member of Académie des sciences June 30, 1919, was a French astronomer.
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 Ernest Doudart de Lagrée (excerpt)
Ernest Marc Louis de Gonzague Doudart de Lagrée (March 31, 1823 - March 12, 1868) was the leader of the French Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868. He was born in Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze near Grenoble, France, and graduated from the École Polytechnique. He joined the navy and served in the Crimean War, then took up a post in Indochina in the hope that the climate would help his chronically ulcerated throat.
Biography of Aimé-Henry Resal (excerpt)
Aimé Henry Resal, born January 27, 1828 in Plombières-les-Bains in les Vosges, died August 22, 1896 in Annemasse, was a French engineer, professor and mathematician. He is the father of French engineer Jean Résal. He was a member of French Academy of Sciences.
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 Germain Nouveau (excerpt)
Germain Nouveau born and died in Pourrières, Var, in France (31 July 1851 - 4 April 1920), was a French poet, associated with the symbolist movement. He was a friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine. In 1874 he traveled to London with Rimbaud.
Biography of Eugène Carrière (excerpt)
Eugène Anatole Carrière (January 16, 1849 (source: Lescaut) – March 27, 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso.
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 William Livingstone Alden (excerpt)
William Livingstone Alden, born October 9, 1937 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, mort le 14 janvier 1908 à Buffalo, New York, was an American journalist and writer.
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 Camille Jordan (excerpt)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (January 5, 1838 – January 22, 1922) was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse. He was born in Lyon and educated at the École polytechnique.
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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 Adolphe Chéruel (excerpt)
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel (January 17, 1809 – May 1, 1891) was a French historian. He was born at Rouen and educated at the École Normale Supérieure, becoming a fellow (agregé) in 1830. His early studies were concerned with local history. His Histoire de Rouen sous la domination anglaise au XVe siècle (1840) and Histoire de Rouen pendant l'époque communale, 1550-1382 (Rouen, 1843-1844), are major productions for a time when the archives were neither catalogued nor classified, and contain useful documents previously unpublished.
Biography of Stephen Foster (excerpt)
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. His songs, such as "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("S(u)wanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer" remain popular over 150 years after their composition.
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.
Biography of Frances Willard (excerpt)
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York, near Rochester, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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 Liliuokalani (excerpt)
Liliʻuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917), born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and she was later named Kaolupoloni K.
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 George I of Greece (excerpt)
George I, King of the Hellenes (Greek: Γεώργιος A', Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων, Geōrgios A', Vasileús tōn Ellēnōn; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913. Originally a Danish prince, George was only 17 years old when he was elected King by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the former King Otto.
Biography of François-Louis Français (excerpt)
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814 - 1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for book illustration, he studied painting under Gigoux, and subsequently under Corot, whose influence remained decisive upon Français's style of landscape painting.
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 Alfred Grévin (excerpt)
Alfred Grévin (28 January 1827 – 1892) was a 19th century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women. He was also a sculptor, cartoonist, and designed costumes and sets for popular theater. He founded with journalist Arthur Meyer the Musée Grévin, a waxwork museum.
Biography of Étienne Clémentel (excerpt)
Étienne Clémentel, born March 29, 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)(source not archived), and died December 25, 1936 in Prompsat (Puy-de-Dôme), was a French politician of the third Republic of France.
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 Felix Adler (excerpt)
Felix Adler (August 13, 1851–April 24, 1933) was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Chronology He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The family immigrated to the United States from Germany when Felix was six years of age on the occasion of his father's receiving an appointment as head rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
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 Philibert Léon Couturier (excerpt)
Philibert Léon Couturier, born on May 26, 1823 in Chalon-sur-Saône (source for his tim of birth: Jacques de Lescaut), was a French animal painter and portrait painter.
Biography of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (excerpt)
The Princess Louise (born Louise Caroline Alberta, also known as Marchioness of Lorne and Duchess of Argyll by marriage; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Biography of Charles Gounod (excerpt)
Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Gounod was born in Paris, the son of a pianist mother and a draftsman father.
Biography of Georges Boulanger (excerpt)
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (April 29, 1837 – September 30, 1891) was a French general and reactionary politician. Early life and career Born in Rennes, Boulanger graduated from Saint-Cyr and entered regular service in the French Army in 1856. He fought in the Austro-Sardinian War (he was wounded at Robecchetto, where he received the Légion d'honneur), and in the occupation of Cochin China, after which he became a captain and instructor at Saint-Cyr.
Biography of Stanley Baldwin (excerpt)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Early life He was born at Lower Park House, Lower Park, Bewdley in Worcestershire, England to Alfred Baldwin and Louisa Baldwin (née MacDonald) and through his mother was a first cousin of the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.
Biography of Jean-Delphin Alard (excerpt)
Jean-Delphin Alard (March 8, 1815 – February 22, 1888) was a French violinist. Alard was born in Bayonne, the son of an amateur violinist. From 1827 he was a pupil of F. A. Habeneck at the Paris Conservatoire, where he succeeded Pierre Baillot as professor in 1843, retaining the post till 1875.
Biography of James Whitcomb Riley (excerpt)
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet", "National Poet" and the "Children's Poet," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal.
Biography of Herculine Barbin (excerpt)
Herculine Barbin (1838-1868) was a French hermaphrodite who was treated as a female at birth but was later redesignated a male after an affair and physical examination. Most of what we know about Barbin comes from her later memoirs. Herculine Adélaîde Barbin was born in Saint-Jean-d'Angély in France in 1838.
Biography of Gerard Hopkins (excerpt)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.
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 Léopold Stapleaux (excerpt)
Léopold Guillaume Stapleaux, born October 16, 1831 in Brussels and died November 1891 in Paris, was a Belgian author and novelist. Selected works Romans La Chasse aux blancs (1861) Cent francs du dompteur (1863) Fabio (1864) Les Drames du grand monde.
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 Alfred von Tirpitz (excerpt)
Alfred von Tirpitz (March 19, 1849–March 6, 1930) was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder).
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 Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (excerpt)
Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (October 23, 1813–May 18, 1900) was a French philosopher and archaeologist. He was born at Namur. After a successful course of study at the College Rollin, he went to Munich, where he attended the lectures of Schelling, and took his degree in philosophy in 1836. |
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