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Biography of Félix Dupanloup (excerpt)
Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (January 3, 1802 – October 11, 1878) was a French ecclesiastic. He was born at Saint-Félix, in Haute-Savoie. In his earliest years he was confided to the care of his brother, a priest in the diocese of Chambéry.
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 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 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 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 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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Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Tetã Paraguái), is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of 7 million, nearly 3 million of which live in the capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Biography of Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (excerpt)
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 (source for his time of birth: Geslain, Lescaut) – 30 June 1913), French politician and journalist, was born in Paris. Life His father was a Legitimist noble who, as Edmond Rochefort, was well known as a writer of vaudevilles; his mother's views were republican.
Biography of Jean-Henri Fabre (excerpt)
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 21, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. Life Fabre was born in Saint-Léons, Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras.
Biography of Eugène Silvain (excerpt)
Eugène Charles Joseph Silvain, born on June 17, 1851 in Bourg-en-Bresse (birth time source: Lescaut), died on August 21, 1930 in Marseille, was a French comedian, a member of la Comédie-Française (1878-1928). Filmography (extract) 1928 : La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc : l'évêque Cauchon
Biography of Edmond Billaudot (excerpt)
Jules Charles Ernest Billaudot, known as Mage Edmont Billaudot , born August 17, 1829 in Poilly-sur-Serein, Yonne (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain), died in 1881 in La Chapelle-Vieille-Forêt, was a French man who claimed psychic abilities and made predictions, for example for Victor Hugo, Napoléon III and Louis Bonaparte.
Biography of Charles Landelle (excerpt)
Charles Zacharie Landelle, born June 2, 1821 in Laval, died December 13, 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne, was a French painter.
Biography of Édouard de Castelnau (excerpt)
Noël Marie Joseph Édouard, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I, one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of attaque à outrance that dominated French military thinking in the early part of the war.
Biography of Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (excerpt)
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 20, 1807–November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his earlier years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother.
Biography of Maximilian I of Mexico (excerpt)
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (Emperador Maximiliano I de México) (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) (born Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg-Lorraine family. With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican monarchists, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864.
Biography of François Grison (excerpt)
François Adolphe Grison, born on June 17, 1845 in Bordeaux, died in 1914, was a French painter.
Biography of Rama V (excerpt)
King Chulalongkorn the Great or Rama V (royal name: Phra Chula Chomklao Chaoyuhua; Thai: พระบาทสมเด็จพระจุลจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว) (September 20, 1853 – October 23, 1910) was the fifth king of the Chakri dynasty of Thailand. He is regarded as one of the greatest kings of Siam.
Biography of Victor Massé (excerpt)
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé, Lorient (Morbihan) (birth time source: Lescaut), 7 March 1822 – died Paris, 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Biography Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera.
Biography of Charles Valentin Alkan (excerpt)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher.
Biography of Laure Surville (excerpt)
Laure Surville, born Balzac September 29, 1800 (source not archived) and died in 1871, was a French author. She was the sister of Honoré de Balzac.
Biography of Stanford White (excerpt)
Stanford White (November 9, 1853, New York – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich and the very rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings, some of which can be found to this day in places like Sea Gate, Brooklyn.
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
Biography of Aristide Boucicaut (excerpt)
Aristide Boucicaut (July 14, 1810 (birth time source: Janine Tissot, FDAF) - 1877) created what is considered to be among the first department stores. Born in Bellême, the son of a banker, he began as a simple clerk in Bellême before he left to become a fabric salesman selling shawls.
Biography of Julevno (astrologer) (excerpt)
Julevno, born March 16, 1845 in Vannes, died in 1915, was a French professional astrologer, author and translator. He had translated the works of Ptolémée and Thomas Burgoyne.
Biography of Amédée Bonnet (excerpt)
Amédée Bonnet, born March 20, 1809 (source: Gauquelin) in Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain, died in 1858, was a French orthopedic surgeon, and a Member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Biography of Louis-Philippe de Brabant (excerpt)
Louis-Philippe, born July 24, 1833 in Bruxelles and died May 4, 1834, was the first son of Leopold I. Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick (in German Leopold Georg Christian Friedrich) Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony) (16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians.
Biography of MacGregor Mathers (excerpt)
MacGregor Mathers, born in Hackney, United-Kingdom, on January 8, 1854, was a British astrologer, occultist and author. He founded the mystical organization The Golden Dawn. |
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