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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 Henri Regnault (excerpt)
Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault (October 31, 1843 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut)) – January 19, 1871) was a French painter. Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault. On leaving school he successively entered the studios of Montfort, Lamothe and Cabanel, was beaten for the Prix de Rome (1863) by Layraud and Montchablon, and in 1864 exhibited two portraits in no wise remarkable at the Paris Salon.
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Biography of Ferdinand Fabre (excerpt)
Ferdinand Fabre, born June 9, 1827 in Bédarieux and died February 11, in Paris, was a French novelist. Works (extract) * Feuilles de lierre (1853) * Les Courbezon, scènes de la vie cléricale (1861), ouvrage distingué par l'Académie Française ![]()
Biography of Alfred Assollant (excerpt)
Alfred Assollant (sometimes Assolant), born on March 20, 1827 in Aubusson (Creuse), died on March 3, 1896 in Paris, was a French novelist. Publications (extract) Scènes de la vie des États-Unis. Acacia. Les Butterfly. Une fantaisie américaine (1858) Deux amis en 1792 (1859)
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Biography of Remy de Gourmont (excerpt)
Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne (birth time source: birth certificate, remydegourmont.org/) - September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars.
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Biography of Victor de Laprade (excerpt)
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (January 13, 1812 - December 13, 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. He was born at Montbrison, in the département of the Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (excerpt)
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 -October 6, 1892) was a French physician who demonstrated in 1865 that tuberculosis was an infectious disease. Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853. ![]()
Biography of Henri Duparc (excerpt)
Henri Duparc (Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc) (January 21, 1848 – February 12, 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period. Biography Duparc was born in Paris. He studied piano with César Franck at the Jesuit College in the Vaugirard district and became one of his first composition pupils.
Biography of Hippolyte Blot (excerpt)
Hippolyte Blot, born June 14, 1822 in Paris and died March 13, 1888, was a French physician and obstetrician. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Barrymore (excerpt)
Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe (September 21, 1849 – March 26, 1905) —stage name Maurice Barrymore — was the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family and great-grandfather of actress Drew Barrymore. Early life Born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blythe in the Sikh holy city, Amritsar, Punjab or more precisely Fort Agra, India, he was the son of William Edward Blythe, a surveyor for the British East India Company and his wife Matilda Chamberlayne. ![]()
Biography of Maurice Raynaud (excerpt)
Auguste Gabriel Maurice Raynaud (July 5, 1834 (birth time source: Gauquelin collection)–June 29, 1881), is the French doctor who discovered Raynaud's Disease, a rare vasospastic disorder which contracts blood vessels in extremities and is the "R" in the CREST syndrome acronym, in the late 19th century. ![]()
Biography of Coquelin cadet (excerpt)
Ernest Alexandre Honoré Coquelin (16 May 1848 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 February 1909) was a French actor and author. Also called Coquelin cadet, to distinguish him from his brother, he was born at Boulogne, and entered the Conservatoire in 1864. ![]()
Biography of Paul de Vivie (excerpt)
Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio (April 29, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)– February 27, 1930), was publisher of Le Cycliste, an early champion of derailleur gears, and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring. Background De Vivie was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, France. ![]()
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Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,791 in the 2020 census, which makes it the fourth-largest city in Iowa. The bulk of the city is in Woodbury County, of which it is the county seat, though a small portion is in Plymouth County. ![]()
Biography of Paul de Smet de Naeyer (excerpt)
Paul Joseph, Count de Smet de Naeyer (13 May 1843 – 9 September 1913) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ghent, son of a cotton industrialist, he was himself also an industrialist and a banker. He was head of the Société Générale de Belgique and the owner of several coal mines. ![]()
Biography of George Baxter (excerpt)
George Baxter (1804–1867) was an English artist and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. Though colour printing had been developed in China centuries before, it was not commercially viable. However, in early years of the 19th century the process of colour printing had been revived by George Savage, a Yorkshireman in London. ![]()
Biography of Louis Jules Trochu (excerpt)
Louis Jules Trochu (12 March 1815 - 7 October 1896) was a French military leader and politician. He served as President of the Government of National Defense - being France's de facto head of state - from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871). ![]()
Biography of Charles Friedel (excerpt)
Charles Friedel (March 12, 1832 – April 20, 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. A native of Strasbourg, France, he was professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne. Friedel developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with James Crafts in 1877, and attempted to make synthetic diamonds.
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Biography of Daniel Frohman (excerpt)
Daniel Frohman (August 22, 1851 - December 26, 1940) was a Jewish American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer. Frohman was born in Sandusky, Ohio. In his younger days he worked as a clerk at the New York Tribune, and while there witnessed the fatal shooting of the reporter Albert Deane Richardson by Daniel McFarland on November 25, 1869, and was a witness at McFarland's murder trial.
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Biography of David Belasco (excerpt)
David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer. Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs such as call boy and script copier.
Biography of Louis Martin (blessed) (excerpt)
Blessed Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Martin née Guérin (23 December 1823 - 28 August 1877) was a French laywoman and the mother of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. Her husband was Blessed Louis Martin, born on August 22, 1823 in Bordeaux, and died on July 29, 1894.
Biography of Gustave Charles Nadaud (excerpt)
Gustave Nadaud (20 February 1820 in Roubaix - 1893 in Passy) was a French songwriter and chansonnier. Nadaud's first career was as an accountant; he took up songwriting as a hobby at age 28. His friends encouraged him, and he submitted his work for publication in L'Illustration and Le Figaro. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Moquin-Tandon (excerpt)
Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 (time birth source: Lescaut) - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. ![]()
Biography of Theobald Ziegler (excerpt)
Theobald Ziegler (February 9, 1846 – September 1, 1918) was a German philosopher and educator who was a native of Göppingen, Württemberg. Career Ziegler studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and later was a secondary school teacher in Heilbronn, Winterthur and Baden-Baden. ![]()
Biography of John Addington Symonds (excerpt)
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as l'amour de l'impossible. ![]()
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Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of the Great Lakes Bay Region, along with neighboring Bay City, Midland and Mount Pleasant.
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Biography of Edmond Audran (excerpt)
Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette (1879), La mascotte (1880), Gillette de Narbonne (1882), La cigale et la fourmi (1886), Miss Helyett (1890), and La poupée (1896).
Biography of David Cope (excerpt)
David Cope (also known as Zariel), born September 3, 1848 in Birmingham, died July 14, 1934 in Melbourne, was a British and Australian astrologer, author, and musician.
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Biography of Camille Lemonnier (excerpt)
Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (23 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was Salon de Bruxelles (1863), a collection of art criticism. ![]()
Biography of Aristide Bruant (excerpt)
Aristide Bruant (6 May 1851 – 10 February 1925) was a French cabaret singer, comedian, and nightclub owner. He is best known as the man in the red scarf and black cape featured on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Biography of Lorenzo N. Fowler (excerpt)
Lorenzo Niles Fowler, born June 23, 1811 in Coshocton, New York, died in 1896, was an Amercian famous author and phrenologist. He is the brother of phrenologist Orson Squire Fowler. Phrenology (from Greek: φρήν, phrēn, "mind"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is a defunct field of study, once considered a science, by which the personality traits of a person were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull. ![]()
Biography of Armand Gautier (excerpt)
Armand Gautier, born September 23, 1837 in Narbonne, died in 1920 in Cannes, was a French chemist.
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Biography of Henri Chapu (excerpt)
Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (born Le Mée, 29 September 1833 - died, Paris, 21 April 1891) was a French sculptor in a modified Neoclassical tradition who was known for his use of allegory in his works. Life and career Born into modest circumstances, Chapu moved to Paris with his family and in 1847 entered the Petit École with the intention of studying drawing and becoming an interior decorator.
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Biography of Alexandre Ribot (excerpt)
Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (7 February 1842 – 13 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister. Biography He was born in Saint-Omer, France. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where he was lauréat of the faculty of law, he rapidly made his mark at the bar.
Biography of Jules-Adolphe Chauvet (excerpt)
French draughtsman and painter.
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Biography of Ludwig Ganghofer (excerpt)
Ludwig Ganghofer (July 7, 1855 - July 24, 1920) was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels. Biography Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works. In 1875, he entered Munich Polytechnic as a student of mechanical engineering, but eventually changed his major to history of literature and philosophy, which subjects he studied in Munich, Berlin and Leipzig.
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Biography of Alfred Rethel (excerpt)
Alfred Rethel (1816 - December 1, 1859) was a German history painter. Rethel was born in Aachen in 1816. He showed an interest in art in his early life, and at the age of thirteen he executed a drawing which procured his admission to the academy of Düsseldorf. ![]()
Biography of Katherine Tingley (excerpt)
Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (July 6, 1847 - July 11, 1929) was a social worker and prominent Theosophist. She led the American Section of the Theosophical Society after W. Q. Judge. She founded and led the Theosophical community Lomaland in Point Loma, California. ![]()
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Bradford is the second-largest city in West Yorkshire, England. It forms the core of the City of Bradford metropolitan borough, which also includes the towns of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley and Ilkley, and borders the City of Leeds and Calderdale to the east and south respectively as well as the counties of Lancashire and North Yorkshire. ![]()
Biography of Bramwell Booth (excerpt)
Bramwell Booth, CH (8 March 1856 (birth time source: Lois Rodden) – 16 June 1929) was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth. Biography Born as William Bramwell Booth in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the oldest child born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, he had two brothers and five sisters, including Evangeline Booth, Catherine Booth-Clibborn, Emma Booth and Ballington Booth. ![]()
Biography of Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (excerpt)
Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, born April 2, 1804 in Nantes, died March 24, 1865 in Paris, was a French painter and sculptor.
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Biography of Joseph Reinach (excerpt)
Joseph Reinach (September 30, 1856 – April 18, 1921) was a French author and politician. He was born in Paris. His two brothers Salomon and Theodore would become well-known in the field of archaeology. After studying at the Lycée Condorcet he was called to the bar in 1887. ![]()
Biography of Bettino Ricasoli (excerpt)
Bettino Ricàsoli, Barone Ricàsoli, Conte di Brolio (March 9, 1809 – October 23, 1880; Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian statesman. Ricasoli was born in Broglio, in the province of Siena. Left an orphan at eighteen, with an estate heavily encumbered, he was by special decree of the grand duke of Tuscany declared of age and entrusted with the guardianship of his younger brothers. ![]()
Biography of Georges Leygues (excerpt)
Georges Leygues (French pronunciation: ; 26 October 1857 – 2 September 1933) was a French politician of the Third Republic. During his time as Minister of Marine he worked with the navy's chief of staff Henri Salaun in unsuccessful attempts to gain naval re-armament priority for government funding over army rearmament such as the Maginot Line.
Biography of Albert Rochas d'Aiglun (excerpt)
Eugène Auguste Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun, born in Saint Firmin-en-Valgaudemar (Hautes-Alpes) May 20, 1837, died in Grenoble, September 2, 1914, was a French military, civil servant and author. He was interested in paranormal phenomena. Works (in French) Les Vallées vaudoises, étude de topographie et d'histoire militaires, Tanera, Paris, 1880 ![]()
Biography of Louis Renault (jurist) (excerpt)
Louis Renault (May 21, 1843 – February 8, 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Renault was born at Autun. From 1868 to 1873 Renault was professor of Roman and commercial law at the University of Dijon.
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Biography of Gustave Boulanger (excerpt)
Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (April 25, 1824 - 88) was a French figure painter. He was born at Paris, studied with Delaroche and Jollivet, and in 1849 took the Prix de Rome. All his paintings show a refined taste and imagination, but are cold and academic in execution. ![]()
Biography of James Gibbons (excerpt)
James Gibbons (July 23, 1834—March 24, 1921) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Gibbons was elevated to the cardinalate in 1886, the second American to receive that distinction. ![]()
Biography of Gaston Boissier (excerpt)
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (15 August 1823 – 10 June 1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the French Academy, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history. He made epigraphy his particular theme, and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Busch (excerpt)
Wilhelm Busch (April 14, 1832 (Wiedensahl near Hannover) - January 9, 1908 (Mechtshausen)) was a German painter and poet who is known for his satirical picture stories. After studying first mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerpen and Munich, he turned to drawing caricatures. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Daudet (excerpt)
Ernest Daudet, born on May 31, 1837 in Nîmes (time birth source: Lescaut, Gauquelin), died on August 21, 1921 in Les Petites-Dalles, was a French writer and journalist, the brother of Alphonse Daudet. Works (extract) Novels Thérèse (1859) Les Duperies de l’amour (1865) |
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