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Horoscopes with Proserpina in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Proserpina 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 Antoine-Jérôme Balard (excerpt)
Antoine Jérôme Balard (September 30, 1802 - April 30, 1876) was a French chemist and the discoverer of bromine. Born at Montpellier, he started as an apothecary, but taking up teaching he acted as chemical assistant at the faculty of sciences of his native town, and then became professor of chemistry at the royal college and school of pharmacy and at the faculty of sciences. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (excerpt)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (French pronunciation: ; 15 October 1802 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 October 1857), French general, second son of Jean-Baptiste Cavaignac and brother of Éléonore Louis Godefroi Cavaignac, was born at Paris. Military career After going through the usual course of study for the military profession, he entered the army as an engineer officer in 1824, and served in the Morea (Peloponnesus) in 1828, becoming captain in the following year.
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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.
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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 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 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. ![]()
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.
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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 Henry Le Chatelier (excerpt)
Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Paris, October 8, 1850 - Miribel-les-Echelles September 17, 1936) was an influential French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is most famous for devising Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists to predict the effect of a change in conditions on a chemical equilibrium. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of John Davidson (poet) (excerpt)
John Davidson (11 April 1857 – 23 March 1909) was a Scottish poet and playwright, best known for his ballads. He was born at Barrhead, East Renfrewshire as the son of a Dissenting minister and entered the chemical department of a sugar refinery in Greenock in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Fouillée (excerpt)
Alfred Jules Émile Fouillée (October 18, 1838 - 1912), French philosopher, was born at La Pouëze. He held several minor philosophical lectureships, and from 1864 was professor of philosophy at the lycées of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux successively. In 1867 and 1868 he was crowned by the Academy of Moral Science for his work on Plato and Socrates.
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Biography of Léon Say (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Léon Say (June 6, 1826 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 21, 1896 in Paris), French statesman and economist, was born in Paris. The family was a most remarkable one. His grandfather Jean-Baptiste Say was a well-known economist. ![]()
Biography of Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) (excerpt)
Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces. He produced his first composition after receiving piano lessons when he was only seven.
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Biography of André Chantemesse (excerpt)
André Chantemesse (October 13, 1851 - February 25, 1919) was a French bacteriologist. After graduation from the University of Paris in 1884, he traveled to Berlin to study bacteriology at the laboratory of Robert Koch (1843-1910). Chantemesse is primarily known for his collaborative work done with Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Ampère (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12, 1800 – March 27, 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. Born in Lyon, he was the only son of the physicist André-Marie Ampère. Jean-Jacques' mother died while he was an infant. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Frémy (excerpt)
Edmond Frémy (February 22, 1814 - February 3, 1894) was a French chemist. Frémy was born at Versailles, entered Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac's laboratory in 1831, and was employed at the École Polytechnique in 1834 and at the Collège de France in 1837.
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Biography of Louis Péricaud (excerpt)
Louis Jean Péricaud, born on June 10, 1835 in La Rochelle (birth time source: Gauquelin, Lescaut), died on November 12, 1909 in Paris, was a French comedian, playwright, director, and author.
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Biography of Eugène Gigout (excerpt)
Eugène Gigout (23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ. Eugène Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris for 62 years. ![]()
Biography of Charles de Bériot (excerpt)
Charles Auguste de Bériot (20 February 1802 - 8 April 1870) was a Belgian violinist. Born in Leuven (Louvain), where there is now a street named in his honour, he studied violin with Jean-Francois Tiby, a pupil of Giovanni Battista Viotti. He was later encouraged by Viotti himself and briefly worked with Baillot but did not embrace all their teachings and was also influenced by Paganini.
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Biography of René de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Charles René de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (September 23, 1845 - April 23, 1915) was a French sculptor. He was born in Reims and at age eighteen went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. A student of François Jouffroy, he became primarily a sculptor of portrait busts and animals. ![]()
Biography of Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (excerpt)
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Gravière (November 19, 1812 – March 4, 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Jurien, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe. He entered the navy in 1828, was made a commander in 1841, and captain in 1850. ![]()
Biography of Émile Bourquelot (excerpt)
Émile Bourquelot (21 June 1851 – 26 January 1921) was a French chemist, and professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris. He was born in Jandun (Ardennes, France), to a farmer, and was the eldest of three sons. Bourqelot became the Chief Pharmacist at the Laënnec Hospital in 1887, where he established a laboratory to conduct his research into carbohydrate chemistry.
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Biography of Henry-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (excerpt)
Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, PC (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) was born Henry-Gustave Joly in Épernay, France. His father family was one of the traditional Huguenot families and his mother, a Catholic. First a Huguenot himself, Henri-Gustave converted to Anglicanism when he got married in 1856.
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Biography of François de Curel (excerpt)
François, Vicomte de Curel (June 10, 1854 (source for his time of birth: Lescaut) - 1928), French dramatist, was born at Metz, Moselle. Biography He was educated at the École centrale Paris as a civil engineer, the family wealth being derived from smelting works. ![]()
Biography of Arsène Houssaye (excerpt)
Arsène Houssaye (March 28, 1814 - February 26, 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon. His real surname was Housset. In 1832 he found his way to Paris, and in 1836 he published two novels, La Couronne de bluets and La Pécheresse. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Fromentin (excerpt)
Eugène Fromentin (October 24, 1820 – August 27, 1876) was a French painter and writer. He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life. ![]()
Biography of Albert Edelfelt (excerpt)
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 (birth time source: "Kyosti Tarvainen argues by email, that the date is 21 July Gregorian Calendar: "Finland was at that time a part of Russia. But we used the new time systems (since we were earlier a part of Sweden). ![]()
Biography of Octave Mirbeau (excerpt)
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.
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Biography of Léon Germain Pelouse (excerpt)
Léon Germain Pelouse (October 1, 1838 - July 31, 1891) was a French painter.
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Biography of Eugène Thirion (excerpt)
Eugène Thirion, born on May 19, 1839 in Paris, died on January 19, 1910 in Montigny-sur-Loing, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Charles Nègre (excerpt)
Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880) was a French painter and photographer.
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Biography of Frédéric Soulié (author) (excerpt)
Frédéric Soulié, born in Foix December 23, 1800 and died in Bièvres in Essonne Septembre 23, 1847, was a French author, journalist and novelist. Selected bibliography Clothilde, théâtre, 1832 Les deux cadavres, roman, 1832 Le comte de Toulouse, roman, 1835 Le vicomte de Béziers, roman, 1835 ![]()
Biography of Giuseppe Mazzini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872), nicknamed "Soul of Italy," was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century.
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Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves. ![]()
Biography of Théodore Rousseau (excerpt)
Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 - December 22, 1867), French painter of the Barbizon school, was born in Paris, of a bourgeois family which included one or two artists. At first he received a business training, but soon displayed aptitude for painting. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Renan (excerpt)
Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, biblical scholar and critic, and historian of religion. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of Early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. ![]()
Biography of Percival Lowell (excerpt)
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. ![]()
Biography of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (excerpt)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (June 18, 1845 – May 18, 1922) was a French physician. In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.
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Biography of Émile Goudeau (excerpt)
Émile Goudeau, born on August 29, 1849 in Périgueux (Dordogne), died in 1906, was a French journalist, novelist, and poet. Publications (selection) 1878 : Fleurs du bitume 1884 : Poèmes ironiques 1884 : La Revanche des bêtes ![]()
Biography of Eduard Mörike (excerpt)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (Ludwigsburg, 8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875 in Stuttgart) was a German romantic poet. He studied Theology at the Seminary of Tübingen, and followed the ecclesiastical career, becoming a Lutheran pastor. In 1834 he was appointed pastor of Cleversulzbach near Weinsberg, and, after his early retirement for reasons of health, in 1851 became professor of German literature at the Katharinenstift in Stuttgart. ![]()
Biography of Jules-Élie Delaunay (excerpt)
Jules-Élie Delaunay (June 13, 1828 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe. ![]()
Biography of Gaëtan de Rochebouët (excerpt)
Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët (French pronunciation: ; born 16 March 1813 in Angers, died 23 Ferbruary 1899 in Paris) was a French general who served as Prime Minister for less than a month in late 1877. On June 29, 1877, Patrice de MacMahon dissolved the House after being outvoted. ![]()
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