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Biography of Nicolas Lebel (excerpt)
Colonel Nicolas Lebel (18 August 1838 – 6 May 1891), after whom the French military's Lebel rifle was named. Biography Nicolas Lebel was born in Saint-Mihiel (Meuse) near Verdun. Interested by the prospects of a military career he enrolled in the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1855.
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Biography of Zo d'Axa (excerpt)
Alphonse Gallaud de la Pérouse (28 May 1864 – 30 August 1930 (suicide)), better known as Zo d'Axa), was a French adventurer, anti-militarist, satirist, journalist, and founder of two of the most legendary French magazines, L'EnDehors and La Feuille. A descendant of the famous French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, he was one of the most prominent French individualist anarchists at the turn of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Marie Surcouf (excerpt)
Marie Surcouf (19 May 1863 – 11 March 1928) was a French balloonist and feminist. In 1906, she was the first French woman to earn an aeronautical balloon pilot's license and later that year she became the first French woman to pilot a balloon flight with an all-woman crew.
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Biography of Gabriel Thomas (art lover) (excerpt)
Gabriel Thomas (1854-1932) was a wealthy financier who was one of the promoters of the Grévin museum and its reconfiguration in 1900, of the Eiffel Tower and the construction of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. This man was also a great art lover who owned a very large collection of paintings: Berthe Morisot (his cousin), Manet, Vuillard, Flandrin, and no less than a hundred works by Maurice Denis, including the series of The Eternal Printemps which he had commissioned from the painter for the decoration of his dining room in Meudon.
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Biography of Mite Kremnitz (excerpt)
Mite Kremnitz (4 January 1852, Greifswald – 18 July 1916 in Berlin), born Marie von Bardeleben (pen names George Allan, Ditto and Idem), was a German writer. Kremnitz was the daughter of the famous surgeon Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben. She grew in Greifswald, London and, starting with 1868, in Berlin.
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Biography of Henri Rouart (excerpt)
Stanislas-Henri Rouart (2 October 1833, Paris - 2 January 1912, Paris) was a French engineer, industrialist, art collector and painter. Biography His father was a wealthy manufacturer of military uniforms. He was a student at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. ![]()
Biography of Marguerite Brouzet (excerpt)
Marguerite Brouzet, Vicomtesse de Bonnemains (19 December 1855 – 16 July 1891) was the mistress of Georges Boulanger. A few months after her death, Georges Boulanger committed suicide on her grave. Personal information Caroline Laurence Marguerite Brouzet was born into a wealthy bourgeois family.
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Biography of Edmond Aman-Jean (excerpt)
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter and art critic, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had his first art lessons with Henri Lehmann at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he shared a workshop with Georges Seurat.
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Biography of Charles Todd (pioneer) (excerpt)
Sir Charles Todd KCMG FRS FRAS FRMS FIEE (7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910) worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841–1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847 to 1854. He then worked on telegraphy and undersea cables until engaged by the government of South Australia as astronomical and meteorological observer, and head of the electric telegraph department. ![]()
Biography of Charles Amet (excerpt)
Charles Victor Eugène Amet, born November 11, 1824 in Besançon, son of Pierre-Théodore Alphonse Amet, merchant and Marie Anne Stéphanie Bletry (originally from Belfort)1. Died February 5, 1902 in Paris, was a French naval officer of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biography of Caroly (excerpt)
The magician Jean Augustin Charles Joseph Faugeras alias Caroly was born on June 15, 1868 in Rochechouart (France) and died on December 2, 1955 in Paris 20th. In 1902, he carried out a new revolution in the rather closed field of prestidigitation: he published the first copy of the monthly newspaper L'Illusionniste. ![]()
Biography of Candace Wheeler (excerpt)
Candace Wheeler (née Thurber; March 24, 1827 – August 5, 1923), often credited as the mother of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers. She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design.
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Biography of Louise Beaudet (excerpt)
Marie Louise Anna Beaudet (December 5, 1859 – December 31, 1947) was a Canadian actress, singer and dancer for more than 50 years, starred in stage productions ranging from comic opera to Shakespeare, as well as music-hall and vaudeville, and appeared in 66 silent films.
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Biography of Louisa Anne Meredith (excerpt)
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer, illustrator and possibly one of Australia's earliest photographers. Emigration to Australia Meredith and her husband sailed for New South Wales in June 1839, and arrived at Sydney on 27 September 1839.
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Biography of Annie Jump Cannon (excerpt)
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types. ![]()
Biography of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (excerpt)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic plates to catalog the positions and brightness of stars.
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Biography of Louise von François (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von François (June 27, 1817 – September 25, 1893) was a German writer best known for her historical novel Die letzte Reckenburgerin (1871). She corresponded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. Born in Herzberg, she lost her father young and was raised in Potsdam by her uncle, where she discovered writings about the Napoleonic Wars.
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Biography of Isaac Israëls (excerpt)
Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. The son of Jozef Israëls, one of the most respected painters of the Hague School, and Aleida Schaap, Isaac Israëls displayed precocious artistic talent from an early age. ![]()
Biography of Gertrude Atherton (excerpt)
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American author and journalist. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Biography of Marie-Justine Pesnel (excerpt)
Marie-Justine Pesnel, born March 22, 1862 in Paris 18th, known as Madame Cent-Kilos (Miss 220 Pounds), was a spy, false marquise and real French prostitute, known in the underworld of the Belle Époque. She set up a matrimonial agency scam, was married three times without divorcing, prosecuted for polyandry.
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Biography of Julien Tanguy (art dealer) (excerpt)
Julien François Tanguy, called Père Tanguy (June 28, 1825, Plédran, Brittany - February 6, 1894, Paris) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, art collector, and patron who was one of the first buyers of Impressionist paintings. He played an important role in promoting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
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Biography of Alice Cary (excerpt)
Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Works Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems, compiled and edited by Mary Clemmer Ames (1873)
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Biography of Paul Viardot (excerpt)
Paul Viardot (20 July 1857 – 1 December 1941) was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London. His time of birth comes from Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863, Second Edition, by Barbara Kendall-Davies (Cambridge Scholars, 2014). ![]()
Biography of Buatier de Kolta (excerpt)
Buatier de Kolta (né Joseph Buatier; Caluire-et-Cuire, 18 November 1845 – New Orleans, 7 October 1903) was a French magician who performed throughout the latter part of the 1800s in Europe and America. Joseph Buatier was born in Caluire-et-Cuire (Rhône, France). His parents were fabric merchants. ![]()
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844 – January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women.
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Biography of Jan Voerman (excerpt)
Jan Voerman (25 January 1857 – 25 March 1941), also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a Dutch painter. Personal life Voerman was born in Kampen and died in Hattem. Voerman studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (English: State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp under Charles Verlat. ![]()
Biography of Henri Robin (excerpt)
Henri Robin (12 July 1811 – 24 February 1874), born Henrik Joseph Donckel, was a French illusionist, born in Hazebrouck. In the early 1850s, he performed at Windsor Castle, at the request of Queen Victoria. In 1861, he became the first illusionist to offer a full programme of magic at Egyptian Hall in London.
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Biography of Henri Demare (excerpt)
Henri Demare, born May 3, 1846 in Paris and died November 11, 1888 in Vincennes, was a cartoonist and caricaturist who collaborated in many newspapers between the end of the Second Empire and the first decades of the Third Republic.
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Biography of Marie Sasse (excerpt)
Marie Constance Sasse (18 October 1838 – 8 November 1907) was a Belgian operatic soprano. "Her voice was powerful, flexible, and appealing", and she was one of the leading sopranos at the Paris Opéra from 1860 to 1870. She created the roles of Elisabeth in the Paris premiere of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Sélika in the world premiere of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, and Elisabeth de Valois in the world premiere of Verdi's Don Carlos.
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Biography of Henri Gustave Jossot (excerpt)
Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Life and career Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière.
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Biography of Alexandre Lacassagne (excerpt)
Alexandre Lacassagne (August 17, 1843 – September 24, 1924) was a French physician and criminologist who was a native of Cahors. He was the founder of the Lacassagne school of criminology, based in Lyon and influential from 1885 to 1914, and the main rival to Lombroso's Italian school.
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Biography of Louis-Félix Henneguy (excerpt)
Louis-Félix Henneguy (18 March 1850 – 16 January 1928) was a French physician, zoologist and embryologist born in Paris. In 1875, he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with a dissertation on the physiological action of poisons, Étude physiologique sur l'action des poisons.
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Biography of Ermete Zacconi (excerpt)
Ermete Zacconi (14 September 1857, Montecchio Emilia, Province of Reggio Emilia – 14 October 1948 in Viareggio) was an Italian stage and film actor and a representative of naturalism and verism in acting. His leading ladies on stage were his wife Ines Cristina and Paola Pezzaglia.
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Biography of Charles Boycott (excerpt)
Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb "to boycott". He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland. ![]()
Biography of Boni de Castellane (excerpt)
Marie Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane (February 14, 1867 – October 20, 1932), known as Boni de Castellane, was a French nobleman and politician. He was known as a leading Belle Époque tastemaker and the first husband of American railroad heiress Anna Gould.
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Biography of Mary Mapes Dodge (excerpt)
Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905) was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
Biography of Michel Eyraud (excerpt)
Gouffé Case The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France. On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing. Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
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Biography of Félix Arvers (excerpt)
élix Arvers (July 23, 1806 – November 7, 1850) was a French poet and dramatist, most famous for his poem Un secret. Born in Paris, Arvers abandoned his law career aged 30 to concentrate on theatre. His plays gained moderate success in their own time, but none were as notorious as Un Secret, dedicated to Marie, the daughter of writer Charles Nodier.
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Biography of Eliza Orme (excerpt)
Eliza Orme, also called Elizabeth Orme (25 December 1848 – 22 June 1937) was the first woman to earn a law degree in England, from University College London in 1888. Career Although Orme did not receive her degree until 1888, she began working in legal practice in 1872 when Helen Taylor paid her fee to become a pupil at Lincoln's Inn. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Astruc (excerpt)
Gabriel Astruc (14 March 1864 – 7 July 1938) was a French journalist, agent, promoter, theatre manager, theatrical impresario, and playwright whose career connects many of the best-known incidents and personalities of Belle Epoque Paris. Born in Bordeaux, to the Astruc family, he was the son of Élie Aristide Astruc (1831–1905), the Grand Rabbi of Belgium from 1866–1879, and began his career working for publisher Paul Ollendorff, and as a columnist from 1885 through 1895.
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Biography of Félix Hippolyte Larrey (excerpt)
Félix Hippolyte Larrey, born September 18, 1808 in Paris, died October 8, 1895 in the same city, 2nd Baron Larrey, was a French military doctor and politician. Chief doctor of the army, he was the doctor of Napoleon III, deputy of the Hautes-Pyrénées between 1877 and 1881 and member of the Institut de France (Academy of Sciences, free member, December 9, 1867).
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Biography of Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (excerpt)
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French medical doctor known for her work in neuroanatomy. She was the first female intern to work in a hospital in Paris. From a young age, Klumpke's family was supportive of her medical ambitions, going as far as to move to Paris so she and her sisters Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, Julia Klumpke, and Dorothea Klumpke could follow their pursuits.
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Biography of Elizabeth Robins (excerpt)
Elizabeth Robins (August 6, 1862 – May 8, 1952) was an actress, playwright, novelist, and suffragette. She also wrote as C. E. Raimond. Personal life A beautiful woman, Robins was pursued by many men. She admitted to a deep attraction to her close friend, the highly respected literary critic and fellow Ibsen scholar, William Archer. ![]()
Biography of Léonie La Fontaine (excerpt)
Léonie La Fontaine (October 2, 1857 – February 26, 1949) was a Belgian pioneering feminist and pacifist. Active in the international feminism struggle, she was a member of the Belgian League for the Rights of Women, the National Belgian Women Council and the Belgian’s Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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Biography of Auguste Préault (excerpt)
Antoine-Augustin Préault (8 October 1809 – 11 January 1879) was a French sculptor of the "Romantic" movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault. Biography A student of David d'Angers, Préault first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1833.
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Biography of Dorothea Klumpke (excerpt)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (August 9, 1861 in San Francisco – October 5, 1942 in San Francisco) was an American astronomer. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
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Biography of Valérie de Gasparin (excerpt)
Valérie Boissier, comtesse de Gasparin (13 September 1813 – 1894) was a Swiss woman of letters. She was a spokeswoman in topics such as freedom, equality and creativity. She was born at Geneva. She was the wife of Agénor de Gasparin. She lived a great part of her life in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and was a prolific writer on religion, social topics and travel.
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Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
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Biography of Rose Terry Cooke (excerpt)
Rose Terry Cooke (February 17, 1827 – July 18, 1892) was an American author and poet. Some of her earliest contributions were published in Putnam's Magazine; and the Atlantic Monthly, in which she wrote the leading story in the first number; then in the Galaxy, published in Philadelphia; and in Harper's. ![]()
Biography of Mary Putnam Jacobi (excerpt)
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education. |
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