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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 Emile Blanche (excerpt)
(Antoine) Émile Blanche born in Paris on October 1, 1820 and died in Paris on August 15, 1893, is a French alienist (a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane). He was born in the nursing home that his father Esprit Blanche (1796-1852), himself an alienist, directed.
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Biography of George Dewey (excerpt)
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of heat stroke) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
Biography of David Younger (excerpt)
David Younger, born October 21, 1828 in Ecclefechan, died in 1905, was a Scottish botanist, physician and writer. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Mallard (excerpt)
Ernest-François Mallard (February 4, 1833 in Châteauneuf-sur-Cher - July 6, 1894 in Paris) was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Biography of Auguste Dorchain (excerpt)
Auguste Dorchain, born March 19, 1857 in Cambrai and died February 8, 1930, was a French poet and writer. Works (extract) La Jeunesse pensive, préface de Sully Prudhomme (1881) Alexandre Dumas, à propos en vers (1882) Conte d'Avril, comédie en vers en 4 actes (1885) ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, born November 9, 1821 in Guebwiller, died May 20, 1910 in Trottberg bei Gebweiler, was a French musician, composer and editor.
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Biography of Louis Binger (excerpt)
Louis Gustave Binger (October 14, 1856 – November 10, 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France. Binger was born at Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin departement. In 1887 he travelled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. ![]()
Biography of Charles Francis Adams Jr. (excerpt)
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (May 27, 1835 – May 20, 1915) was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was a railroad executive following the war.
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Biography of Henri de Bornier (excerpt)
Henri, vicomte de Bornier (24 December 1825 in Lunel (source: Gauquelin Vol. 6/122) – January 1901) was a French poet and dramatist, born in Lunel (Hérault). He came to Paris in 1845 with the object of studying law, but in that year he published a volume of verse, Les Premieres Feuilles, and the Comédie-Française accepted a play of his entitled Le Manage de Luther. ![]()
Biography of Paul-Albert Besnard (excerpt)
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography He was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He won the Prix de Rome in 1874 with the painting Death of Timophanes ![]()
Biography of Edouard Colonne (excerpt)
Édouard Juda Colonne (23 July 1838 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 March 1910) was a French conductor and violinist. Born in Bordeaux, Colonne studied at the Conservatoire in Paris, where he won first prizes in both harmony and violin. For almost a decade (1858-67) he was first violinist at the Opéra in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Felipe Pedrell (excerpt)
Felip Pedrell (Spanish: Felipe)(19 February 1841, Tortosa – 19 August 1922, Barcelona), was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain.
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Biography of Benedetto Cairoli (excerpt)
Benedetto Cairoli (28 January 1825 – 8 August 1889) was an Italian statesman. Biography Cairoli was born at Pavia, Lombardy. From 1848 until the completion of Italian unity in 1870, his whole activity was devoted to the Risorgimento, as Garibaldian officer, political refugee, anti-Austrian conspirator and deputy to parliament.
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Biography of Paolo Boselli (excerpt)
Paolo Boselli (June 8, 1838 (birth time source: Lescaut) – March 10, 1932) was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. In June 1916 he was a relatively undistinguished center-right politician and one the oldest members of the Italian parliament, when he was appointed Prime Minister, following the collapse of the Salandra government as a result of military defeats. ![]()
Biography of Victor Puiseux (excerpt)
Victor Alexandre Puiseux (April 16, 1820 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise) – September 9, 1883 in Frontenay (Jura)) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Life He was born in 1820 in Argenteuil, France.
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Biography of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (excerpt)
Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast.
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Biography of Guillaume Fouace (excerpt)
Guillaume Fouace, born May 22, 1837 in Réville (Manche), and died January 7, 1895 in Paris, was a French painter.
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Biography of Gustave Droz (excerpt)
Antoine Gustave Droz (June 9, 1832, Paris – October 22, 1895), French man of letters, son of the sculptor J. A. Droz (1807-1872), was born in Paris. He was a painter and a novelist. He was educated as an artist, and began to exhibit in the Salon of 1857.
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Biography of Georges Colomb (excerpt)
Georges Colomb, best known as Christophe, born May 25, 1856 in Lure, (Haute-Saône)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died January 3, 1945 in Nyons, was a French comics artist and author.
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Biography of Edouard Chassaignac (excerpt)
Edouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac, sometimes Pierre Chassaignac, born December 22, 1804 in Nantes and died in 1879 in Versailles, was a French surgeon and physician.
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Biography of Jules Bastien-Lepage (excerpt)
Jules Bastien-Lepage (November 1, 1848 - December 10, 1884), French painter, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there. He first studied at Verdun, and prompted by a love of art went in 1867 to Paris, where he was admitted to the École des Beaux-arts, working under Cabanel. ![]()
Biography of Adolf von Hildebrand (excerpt)
Adolf von Hildebrand (October 6, 1847 Marburg an der Lahn - January 18, 1921 Munich) was a sculptor, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He was the author of Das Problem der Form in der Bildenden Kunst ("The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture").
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Biography of Charles Delescluze (excerpt)
Louis Charles Delescluze (October 2, 1809 (birth time source: birth certificate, page 138, archives online) – May 25, 1871) was a French journalist. He was born at Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. Having studied law in Paris, he early developed a strong democratic bent, and played a part in the July revolution of 1830. ![]()
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Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census the population was 67,314, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. The city is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the more populous of the two cities. ![]()
Biography of August Belmont (excerpt)
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8, 1813 – November 24, 1890) was born in Alzey, Hesse, to a Jewish family. He emigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.
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Biography of Ludovic Trarieux (excerpt)
Ludovic Trarieux (November 30. 1840, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 13 1904) was a French Republican statesman, prominent Dreyfusard, and pioneer of international human rights. Early life Ludovic Trarieux was born on November 30 1840, in Aubeterre (Charente). He was called to the Bar of Bordeaux in 1862 and practiced there until 1881. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Raffet (excerpt)
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (March 2, 1804 – February 16, 1860) was a French illustrator and lithographer. He was a student of Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, and was a retrospective painter of the Empire. Biography Raffet was born in Paris. At an early age he was apprenticed to a wood turner, but took up the study of art at evening classes.
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Biography of Paul Hervieu (excerpt)
Paul Hervieu, full name Paul-Ernest Hervieu (2 November 1857 - 25 October 1915), French dramatist and novelist, was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine. Biography He was called to the bar in 1877, and, after serving some time in the office of the president of the council, he qualified for the diplomatic service, but resigned on his nomination in 1881 to a secretaryship in the French legation in Mexico.
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Biography of Jules Simon (excerpt)
Jules François Simon (27 December 1814 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 8 June 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction. Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. ![]()
Biography of Franciscus Donders (excerpt)
Franciscus Cornelis Donders (Tilburg, May 27, 1818 - Utrecht, March 24, 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist who did pioneering work on animal and vegetable heat, among many other things. He was a professor in Physiology in Utrecht from 1847 and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, directing the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients.
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Biography of Andrew Pringle-Pattison (excerpt)
Andrew Seth (December 20, 1856, Edinburgh (source for his time of birth: Paul Wright) – 1931, The Haining, Selkirkshire), who changed his name to Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison to fulfill the terms of a bequest, was a Scottish philosopher. Seth's twin enemies were English Empiricism and the Anglo variant of Hegelianism. ![]()
Biography of Albrecht Rodenbach (excerpt)
Albrecht Rodenbach (* 27 October 1856 in Tournai, Belgium; † 23 June 1880 in Roeselare) was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th Century. He is more noteworthy as a symbol of the Flemish movement, than for his actual activities, since he died at the age of 23.
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Biography of François Perrier (excerpt)
François Perrier (18 April 1835 – 20 February 1888) was a French soldier and geodesist. Perrier was born at Valleraugue (Gard), descended from a family of Protestants, of Cevennes. After finishing his studies at the Lyceum of Nimes and at St. Barbe College, he was admitted to the Polytechnic School in 1853, leaving in 1857 as a staff officer.
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Biography of Louis Bouilhet (excerpt)
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 (birth time source: Lescaut, Geslain) – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. He was born at Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Miloenis (1851), a narrative poem in five cantos, dealing with Roman manners under the emperor Commodus.
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Biography of Ambrose Burnside (excerpt)
Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater.
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Biography of Louis Duchesne (excerpt)
Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions. Descended from a family of Breton sailors, he was born in 1843 in Saint-Servan, Roulais place, now part of Saint-Malo on the Breton coast, and was orphaned at a young age, in 1849, after the death of his father Jacques Duchesne. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Legros (excerpt)
Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 December 1911), painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon. His father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes. Young Legros frequently visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his pictures and etchings.
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Biography of Belle Boyd (excerpt)
Isabella Marie Boyd (May 9, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd based on her middle name, or Cleopatra of the Secession, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her aunt's hotel in Virginia and provided valuable information to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in 1862. ![]()
Biography of Arnold Dolmetsch (excerpt)
(Eugène) Arnold Dolmetsch (24 February 1858 - 28 February 1940), was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th century revival of interest in Early Music.
Biography of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (excerpt)
Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (Westerlo, Belgium, January 3, 1823 - Zemst, near Mechelen, Belgium, January 30, 1881) was an organist and a organ composer. He was a student of François-Joseph Fétis, who wanted to make him into a musician capable of renewing the organ-player's art in Belgium.
Biography of Luke Broughton (excerpt)
Luke Broughton, born April 20, 1828 in Leeds, died September 22, 1899, was a British and American astrologer. He had predicted his own death.
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Biography of Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (excerpt)
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (February 12, 1842–1912) was a French publicist and historian born at Lisieux, Calvados. He specialized in writing about the history of Russia In 1866 he published Une troupe de comédiens, and afterwards Essai sur la restoration de nos monuments historiques devant l'art et devant le budget, which deals particularly with the restoration of the cathedral of Evreux.
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Biography of Madeleine Lemaire (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Lemaire, born May 24, 1845 in Les Arcs, Var, died in 1928, was a French painter and watercolor painter.
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Biography of Augustine Brohan (excerpt)
Joséphine-Félicité-Augustine Brohan (December 2, 1824–1893) was a French actress. The eldest daughter of Augustine Susanne Brohan and the sister of Ethelie Madeleine Brohan, she was admitted to the Conservatoire when very young, twice taking the second prize for comedy. The soubrette part, entrusted for more than 150 years at the Comédie-Française to a succession of artists of the first rank, was at the moment without a representative, and Mlle Augustine Brohan made her debut there on May 19, 1841, as Dorine in Tartuffe, and Lise in Rivaux deux-mêmes.
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Biography of Bernard Zweers (excerpt)
Bernard Zweers (born Bernardus Josephus Wilhelmus Zweers) (Amsterdam, May 18, 1854 - December 9, 1924) was a Dutch composer and music teacher. Life Bernard Zweers was born in 1854 as the son of an Amsterdam book- and music shopkeeper. Although his father was an amateur singer, he strongly disapproved of his son’s musical interests, expecting him to follow him in the family business. ![]()
Biography of Juliette Adam (excerpt)
Juliette Adam (4 October 1836, Verberie (Oise) (birth time source: Arno Müller, vol 3) – 23 August 1936, Callian (Var), also known by her maiden name Juliette Lambert, was a French author and feminist. Biography Juliette Adam gave an account of her childhood, rendered unhappy by the dissensions of her parents, in Le roman de mon enfance et de ma jeunesse (Eng. ![]()
Biography of Abraham Kuyper (excerpt)
Abraham Kuijper (Maassluis, 29 October 1837 – Den Haag, 8 November 1920) generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. ![]()
Biography of Jules Emmanuel Valadon (excerpt)
Jules Emmanuel Valadon, born in Paris, October 10, 1826, died in 1900, was a French painter.
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Biography of Albert Sorel (excerpt)
Albert Sorel (13 August 1842 - 29 June 1906), was a French historian. He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich manufacturer, wanted him to take over the business but his literary vocation prevailed. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Snieders (excerpt)
August Snieders (Bladel, 8 May 1825-Brussels (birth time source: Lescaut), 19 November 1904) was a Flemish journalist and writer. He started his career in 's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper Het Handelsblad, of which he was head editor from 1849 until 1899. |
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