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Biography of Robert Proust (excerpt)
Robert Emile Sigismond Léon Proust (24 May 1873 – 29 May 1935) was a French urologist and gynaecologist and the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Both brothers had an early education at the Lycée Condorcet, with Robert Proust going on to study medicine.
Biography of Charmion (excerpt)
Laverie Vallee née Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman whose well-publicized suggestive performance was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. Career According to the Journal of Sport History article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City.
Biography of Natalya Meklin (excerpt)
Natalya Fyodorovna Kravtsova née Meklin (Russian: Наталья Фёдоровна Меклин; 8 September 1922 – 5 June 2005) was a flight commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, one of the three women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Biography of Georges Béjot (excerpt)
Georges Stanislas Jean Béjot, born August 23, 1896 in Besançon and died July 25, 1987 in Reims, is auxiliary bishop of Besançon then of Reims and personality of social Catholicism.
Biography of Emily Hahn (excerpt)
Emily "Mickey" Hahn (January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories.
Biography of Edgar Hilsenrath (excerpt)
Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018) was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp.
Biography of Marie-Louise Sondaz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Sondaz, born December 31, 1889 in Saint-Marcellin (birth certificate n° 60, Marc Brun), died in 1981, was a French astrologer and author. She indicates in one of her books "I was born a quarter of an hour before noon". There is therefore a doubt about her time of birth, with 45 minutes of difference between her birth certificate and what she writes.
Biography of Paul Wegener (acteur) (excerpt)
Paul Wegener (11 December 1874 (there is probably an error from Taeger)) – 13 September 1948) was a German actor, writer, and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema. Stage and early film career At the age of 20, Wegener decided to end his law studies and concentrate on acting, touring the provinces before joining Max Reinhardt's acting troupe in 1906.
Biography of Ferdinand Béghin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Béghin, born January 21, 1902 in Thumeries and died April 18, 1994 in Friborg (Switzerland), is a French industrialist and businessman, in the sugar, cardboard, paper, press and publishing.
Biography of Jacques Beauvallet (excerpt)
Jacques Beauvallet, born September 13, 1909 in Dieppe and died January 16, 2000 in Nancy, is a French general. Polytechnique graduate of 1929, he opted for the artillery weapon. Captain in Indochina during World War II, he was captured and tortured by the Japanese in 1945.
Biography of Pearl Primus (excerpt)
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance.
Biography of Fazil Küçük (excerpt)
Fazil Küçük (14 March 1906 – 15 January 1984) was a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Biography of Ivo Caprino (excerpt)
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix In 1970, Caprino and his small team of collaborators, started work on a 25-minute TV special, which eventually became The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.
Biography of Marie Médard (excerpt)
Marie Suzanne Médard (4 April 1921 – 27 April 2013) was a French librarian and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early life Médard was born in Paris's 4th arrondissement, into a Protestant family. Her father, Jean, was a minister of the Reformed Church of France, who ministered first at Le Fleix and later at Rouen, where the family was living when war broke out.
Biography of Grace Bradley (excerpt)
Grace Bradley (September 21, 1913 – September 21, 2010) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s. Hollywood Although she made one film in 1932, her film career did not gather steam until she starred in the film Too Much Harmony (1933), which provided her "first film credit".
Biography of Guy Herbulot (excerpt)
Guy Alexis Herbulot (7 March 1925 – 1 August 2021) was a French Roman Catholic prelate. He was ordained a priest in 1950. Herbulot served as the bishop of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes from 1978 until 2000. Career Herbulot was ordained priest on 29 June 1950 for the Diocese of Reims.
Biography of Maurice Lafforgue (excerpt)
Maurice Lafforgue (26 March 1915 – 31 October 1999) was a French alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was born in Mende and was the father of Britt Lafforgue and Ingrid Lafforgue. In 1936, he finished eleventh in the alpine skiing combined event.
Biography of Pericle Patocchi (excerpt)
Pericle Patocchi, born March 11, 1911 in Lugano and died April 13, 1968 in Leukerbad, is a Swiss writer and teacher. Pericle Patocchi was born in Lugano, to a Swiss father and an Italian mother of Spanish origin. He was educated in Varese and Milan, but from 1926 he attended the College of Sion where he graduated.
Biography of Ida Dehmel (excerpt)
Ida Dehmel (born Ida Coblenz: 14 January 1870 – 29 September 1942) was a German lyric poet and muse, a feminist, and a supporter of the arts. After 1933 she was persecuted on account of her Jewishness: in 1942, large scale deportations of Jews began from the city where she had made her home.
Biography of Henri Adeline (excerpt)
Henri Adeline (born May 8, 1898 in Verdun - died May 1, 1971 in Châlons-sur-Marne) is a French general and resistance fighter. He fought in the ranks of the French army during the two world wars, and enlisted from 1943 in the maquis of Dordogne then, during the Liberation, fought in the southwest and against the German pockets of Royan and La Rochelle.
Biography of Serena Foglia (excerpt)
Serena Fonda Foglia (Trieste, September 9, 1925 - Milan, July 25, 2010) was an Italian writer, sociologist and psychologist. After two degrees (in political science in Trieste and in sociology at Bryn Mawer College in the United States), she specialized in psychology in Milan and Florence.
Biography of Daniel Carasso (excerpt)
Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews.
Biography of Allyn Ann McLerie (excerpt)
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. Life and career McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897–1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888–1926).
Biography of Pierre Amalric (excerpt)
Pierre Amalric is an ophthalmologist, born June 24, 1923 in Vielmur-sur-Agout and died in 1999 in Albi. His main medical contributions were on the circulation of the choroid, the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, and a description of the Triangle Syndrome, which bears his name.
Biography of Margaret Hance (excerpt)
Margaret Taylor Hance (July 2, 1923 – April 29, 1990) was the first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, taking office in 1976. She proved popular, winning four consecutive two-year terms, from 1976 to 1983. Mrs. Hance was the president of the Junior League of Phoenix, a volunteer organization for women who want to improve the community, from 1959–1960.
Biography of Pierre Fournier (cellist) (excerpt)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier (24 June 1906 – 8 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general.
Biography of Yvonne Vallée (excerpt)
Yvonne Vallée (February 21, 1899 – June 15, 1996) was a French actress and singer. Career Before their marriage, Yvonne Vallée was Chevalier's music hall dancing partner. She performed operetta often alongside Chevalier and was in the ensemble for the Paris debut of Belle of New York.
Biography of Pierre Le Flaouter (excerpt)
Pierre Le Flaouter, born March 17, 1884 in Lorient (Morbihan), died June 1, 1981 in Vertou (Loire-Atlantique), was a postman, worker, bookseller, showman, trade unionist, and French anarchist. He was one of the protagonists of the Philippe Daudet affair which, in 1923-1925, hit the headlines.
Biography of Pierre Cartier (jeweller) (excerpt)
Pierre Camille Cartier was born March 10, 1878 and died October 27, 1964. Grandson of Louis-François Cartier, he is the founder of the London and New York branches of the Cartier house. Family Pierre is the son of Alfred Cartier (1841-1925) and the grandson of Louis-François Cartier (1819-1904).
Biography of Simone Barillier (excerpt)
Simone Germaine Barillier, born April 1, 1917 in Clichy and died September 14, 2013 (aged 96) in Eaubonne, is a French actress. She was elected Miss France in Paris on June 30, 1934, among 32 candidates. The jury, gathered in the salons of the Bridge-Club, avenue des Champs-Élysées, is chaired by the painter Paul Chabas.
Biography of Roland Caillaux (excerpt)
Roland Raymond Ferdinand Caillaud (January 5, 1905 – December 3, 1977) – known professionally as Roland Caillaux, and sometimes using the pseudonym Roland Caipland – was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century.
Biography of Rebeca Matte Bello (excerpt)
Rebeca Matte Bello (October 29, 1875 – May 15, 1929) was a Chilean sculptor. Her sculptures are in the collection of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, including her sculpture Icarus and Daedalus, which resides outside the museum. Career In 1899, she displayed a statue entitled "Horace" at the Salon in Paris, a work showing the physical and psychological rigidity associated with an epileptic seizure.
Biography of Werner R. Heymann (excerpt)
Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R. Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood. When the theater impresario Max Reinhardt opened the satirical cabaret Sound And Smoke he became, with Friedrich Hollaender, one of its two main pianists.
Biography of François de Cossé-Brissac (excerpt)
François de Cossé-Brissac, 13th Duke of Brissac (19 February 1929 – 6 April 2021) was a French aristocrat. He held the noble title Duke of Brissac from 1993 until his death in 2021. François was the son of Pierre de Cossé Brissac, 12th Duke of Brissac, and his wife, Marie Zélie Antoinette Eugénie Schneider, who was the daughter of industrialist Eugène Schneider II.
Biography of Bertrand de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist. He has taught at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Yale University, Chicago and at the University of California, Berkeley. Life Bertrand was the heir of an old family from the French nobility, coming from the Champagne region.
Biography of La Argentina (dancer) (excerpt)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She was one of the major influences on Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Biography of Chico Xavier (excerpt)
Chico Xavier or Francisco Cândido Xavier, born Francisco de Paula Cândido, April 2, 1910 – June 30, 2002), was a popular Brazilian philanthropist and spiritist medium. During a period of 60 years he wrote over 490 books and several thousand letters claiming to use a process known as "psychography".
Biography of Richard Conte (excerpt)
Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow, Ocean's 11, and The Godfather. Family Conte was married to actress Ruth Storey, with whom he adopted a son, film editor Mark Conte.
Biography of Simon Maris (excerpt)
Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873, The Hague - January 22, 1935, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist. He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School. Maris was a well-known figure in Amsterdam artist circles around 1900.
Biography of Trude Hesterberg (excerpt)
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress and singer. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964. Selected filmography The Rosentopf Case (1918) The Story of a Maid (1921) Fridericus Rex (1922) The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
Biography of Henriëtte Pimentel (excerpt)
Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel (17 April 1876 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied. Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families.
Biography of André Pommiès (excerpt)
André Pommiès, born June 9, 1904 in Bordeaux, died September 16, 1972 in Arbus near Pau, is a French military hero of the Resistance. After the invasion of the southern zone in November 1942, he secretly set up a Pyrenean Free Corps (CFP) which would later be called the Pommiès Franc Corps.
Biography of Walter Mehring (excerpt)
Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country. From the 1920s, he published lyric poetry and satirical prose in various magazines and newspapers such as the famous Weltbühne or Das Tage-Buch .
Biography of Antoine Béthouart (excerpt)
Marie Émile Antoine Béthouart (17 December 1889 – 17 October 1982) was a French Army general who served during World War I and World War II. Born in Dole, Jura, in the Jura Mountains, Béthouart graduated from Saint-Cyr military academy and served as a platoon leader in the 159th Alpine Infantry Regiment during World War I.
Biography of Luisella Beghi (excerpt)
Luisella Beghi (1922–2006) was an Italian actress and voice actress. Born in Parma, at very young age Beghi moved to Rome where she was one of the first female students of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Graduated in 1938, Beghi almost immediately debuted on the big screen but her first roles were small and even insignificant.
Biography of Paul Gilson (excerpt)
Paul Gilson, born January 31, 1904 in Paris and died May 26, 1963 in the same city, was a French writer and radio broadcaster. His work includes poems, stories, essays, plays, films, but he is best known for his many activities on the radio.
Biography of Anthelme Mangin (excerpt)
Anthelme Mangin (19 March 1891 – 10 September 1942), real name Octave Félicien Monjoin, was an amnesiac French veteran of the First World War who was the subject of a long judicial process involving dozens of families who claimed him as their missing relative.
Biography of Georges Lacombe (director) (excerpt)
Georges Lacombe (1902 – 1990) was a French film director. Filmography 1928: La Zone (short) 1931: Boule de gomme 1932: Ce cochon de Morin 1933: La Femme invisible 1933: Un jour d'été 1934: Youth 1935: Épousez ma femme 1935: La Route heureuse 1936: Le cœur dispose 1938: Café de Paris 1939: Behind the Facade
Biography of Robert Cami (excerpt)
Robert Cami, born January 1, 1900 in Bordeaux and died January 12, 1975 in Paris (or in Sermaise (Essonne) according to certain sources including INSEE), is a draftsman, engraver (burinist, etcher and wood engraver), engraver medals and French stamps. Although rarely said to be a painter, he was also so, notably through the important work on zinc which won him a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
Biography of Victor Iturria (excerpt)
Victor Iturria (Bassussarry, October 22, 1914 - Died for France1 in Gâvre on August 25, 1944) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation posthumously by decree of December 29, 1944. During the Second World War, he distinguished himself from the Battle of France during which he was wounded. |
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