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Biography of Henry Dupray (excerpt)
Henry Dupray, born November 3, 1831 in Sedan, died in 1909 in Paris, was one of the "Masters" of twentieth century Painter of portraits and military subjects.
Biography of Adolphe Brongniart (excerpt)
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French pronunciation: ) (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
Biography of Jules Claretie (excerpt)
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges. After studying at the lycée Bonaparte in Paris, he became a journalist, achieving great success as dramatic critic to Le Figaro and to the Opinion nationale.
Biography of Marcel Deprez (excerpt)
Marcel Deprez (December 29, 1843 - October 13, 1918) was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Chatillon-sur-Loing. He died in Vincennes. At Creil, from 1876 to 1886, Deprez conducted the first experiments to transmit electrical power over long distances. At the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris in 1881, Deprez undertook the task of presenting an electricity distribution system based on the long-distance transport of direct current.
Biography of Charles Meray (excerpt)
Hugues Charles Robert Méray (born November 12, 1835 in Chalon-sur-Saône; died February 2, 1911 in Dijon) was a French mathematician. He is noted as the first to publish an arithmetical theory of irrational numbers. His work did not have much of a role in the history of mathematics because France, at that time, was less interested in such matters than Germany.
Biography of Wilhelm Leibl (excerpt)
Wilhelm Leibl (October 23, 1844 – December 4, 1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life. Leibl was born in Cologne and in 1861 began his first training with Hermann Becker, a local painter. He entered the Munich Academy in 1864, subsequently studying with several artists including Carl Theodor von Piloty.
Biography of Jules Malou (excerpt)
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 - July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. He was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp.
Biography of Guillaume Charlier (excerpt)
Guillaume Charlier, born on August 2, 1854 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 298, André Dekoster), died in 1925 in Josse-ten-Noode, is a Belgian sculptor.
Biography of Horatio Brown (excerpt)
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 (birth time source: Ed Steinbrecher) – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian and author who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city.
Biography of William Henry Drummond (excerpt)
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in 1898 and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899.
Biography of Elizabeth Prentiss (excerpt)
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was a Presbyterian pastor's wife, mother, and author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869). Some of her verses were recently compiled in a book published by Solid Ground Christian Books (Golden Hours: Heart-hymns of the Christian Life).
Biography of Willem Maris (excerpt)
Willem Maris (February 18, 1844, The Hague - October 10, 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. He got his first lessons in drawing from his brothers Jacob and Matthijs Maris. For a while he followed evening classes at the Hague Academy and later continued his studies with the cattle painter Stortenbeker.
Biography of Joseph Rollet (excerpt)
Joseph Rollet, born November 12, 1824 in Lagnieu, died in 1894, was a French physician and researcher.
Biography of Morley Roberts (excerpt)
Morley Roberts (29 December 1857 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 8 June 1942) was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland. Early life Roberts was born in London, the son of a superintending inspector of income tax.
Biography of Paul Alexandre Protais (excerpt)
Paul Alexandre Protais, born October 17, 1826 in Paris, died in 1890, was a French painter.
Biography of Agar (actress) (excerpt)
Marie Léonide Charvin, best known as Agar, born on September 18, 1832 in Sedan (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on August 15, 1891 in Mustapha, Algeria, was a French comedian, one of the most famous comedians with Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt.
Biography of Paul-Dominique Gourlier (excerpt)
Paul-Dominique Gourlier, born on June 13, 1813 in Paris (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1869, was a French painter.
Biography of Ferdinand Sarrien (excerpt)
Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien (1840-1915) was a French politician of the Third Republic. He headed a cabinet supported by the Bloc des gauches (Left-Wings Coalition) parliamentary majority. Sarrien's Ministry, 12 March - 25 October 1906 Ferdinand Sarrien - President of the Council and Minister of Justice
Biography of Pierre-Ossian Bonnet (excerpt)
Pierre Ossian Bonnet (December 22, 1819- 22 June 1892) French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Early years Pierre Bonnet attended the Collège in Montpellier. In 1838 he entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Biography of Henri Murger (excerpt)
Louis-Henri Murger, also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger (27 March 1822, Paris – 28 January 1861, Paris) was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la vie de bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic, and member of a loose club of friends who called themselves "the water drinkers" (because they were too poor to afford wine).
Biography of Eugène Simon (excerpt)
Eugène Simon (30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.
Biography of Charles Duclerc (excerpt)
Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (9 November 1812 - 21 July 1888) was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883.
Biography of Gustave Brion (excerpt)
Gustave Brion, born November 4, 1824 in Rothau, Alsace, died November 6, 1877, was a French realist painter. Bibliography Hélène Chew, « Gustave Brion, illustrateur d'archéologie, ou le "désigneux de l'Empereur" », Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire, n° 47, 2004 , p.
Biography of Charles Monselet (excerpt)
Charles Monselet (30 April 1825, Nantes - 19 May 1888, Paris) was a French journalist, novelist, poet and playwright, nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries. He specialised in comedic and romantic novels and his total output was around 40 volumes.
Biography of Rui Barbosa (excerpt)
Rui Barbosa de Oliveira (November 5, 1849 – March 1, 1923) was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician. Born in Salvador da Bahia, he was a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the 2nd Hague Conference, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague".
Biography of Augustin Gérard (excerpt)
Augustin Grégoire Arthur Gérard, born on November 2, 1857 in Dunkerque (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on November 2, 1926 in Château-Gontier, was a French military (general). He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France in 1920 and 1921.
Biography of Léonide Babaud-Laribière (excerpt)
François-Saturnin-Léonide Babaud-Laribière, born on April 5, 1819 in Confolens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 45), died on April 25, 1873 in Perpignan, was a French politician, lawyer, journalist, author, and Freemason. Publications Histoire de l'Assemblée constituante (2 vol.)
Biography of Clotilde de Vaux (excerpt)
Clotilde de Vaux, was born Clotilde-Marie de Ficquelmont on April 3, 1815 in Paris, France and died on April 5, 1846 in Paris, France. She gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity. Biography Elder daughter of a branch of a preeminent family of ancient nobility, sister of French military officer and mathematician Maximilien-Marie de Ficquelmont, follower of Positivism, Clotilde de Vaux was educated at the prestigious Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
Biography of Charles Richet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Richet (August 26, 1850 (birth time source: birth certificate, Gauquelin) – December 4, 1935) was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913.
Biography of Marie-Adolphe Carnot (excerpt)
Marie Adolphe Carnot (27 January 1839 – 20 June 1920) was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic.
Biography of William Thomson (excerpt)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE (26 June 1824 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 17 December 1907) was a British mathematical physicist and engineer who was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
Biography of Louis Buffet (excerpt)
Louis Joseph Buffet, born in Mirecourt (Vosges) October 26, 1818 and died in Paris July 7, 1898, was a French politician. In 1890, he is member of Académie des sciences morales et politiques (Academy of Moral and Political Sciences).
Biography of Philippe Dautzenberg (excerpt)
Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, Brussels, 20 December 1849 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 466, André Dekoster) - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, in other words, he was a biologist who specialized in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks.
Biography of Eugène Schneider (excerpt)
Joseph Eugène Schneider (29 March 1805 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 27 November 1875) was a French industrialist who in 1836 co-founded the Schneider company with his brother Adolphe Schneider. Biography Schneider was born on 29 March 1805 in Bidestroff, in the départment of Moselle, France.
Biography of Frederick Hockley (excerpt)
Frederick Hockley (October 13, 1809 in London (birth time source: this article – November 10, 1885) was a British occultist who was a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley collected some important occult texts, including a Rosicrucian manuscript belonging to Sigismond Bacstrom, who was initiated into an occult society in Mauritius in 1794.
Biography of Ernest Goüin (excerpt)
Ernest Goüin (or Gouin) (July 22, 1815 in Tours – March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects.
Biography of Hippolyte Bayard (excerpt)
Hippolyte Bayard (20 January 1801 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 14 May 1887) was a French photographer a pioneer in the history of photography. He invented his own process known as direct positive printing and presented the world's first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.
Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
Biography of Hippolyte Carnot (excerpt)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot (October 6, 1801, Saint-Omer (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – March 16, 1888) was a French statesman. Early life Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon.
Biography of Frédéric Desmons (excerpt)
Frédéric Desmons (October 14, 1832 in Brignon, Gard (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 4, 1910) was a French Calvinist priest and freemason who persuaded the Grand Orient de France in a vote to remove the term of the Great Architect of the Universe from their Constitution.
Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu (excerpt)
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
Biography of Auguste Dumont (excerpt)
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (January 28, 1801 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1884 Paris) was a French sculptor. He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and brother to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc.
Biography of Gilles de la Tourette (excerpt)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French physician and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. He was born in "the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, in the district of Châtellerault near the city of Loudun, France", and died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Biography of Arthur Edward Waite (excerpt)
Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 (birth time source: the biography available on the website https://www.holisticshop.co.uk/) – 19 May 1942) was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider-Waite-Smith or Waite-Smith deck).
Biography of Félix Buhot (excerpt)
Félix Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) - April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator. Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot.
Biography of Charles Zidler (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Zidler, born on December 29, 1831 in Saint-Cloud (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 10, 1897 in Paris 9e, was a French artist manager, one of the founders of Moulin Rouge, a famous cabaret in Paris, France. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Biography of Hippolyte de Villemessant (excerpt)
Jean Hippolyte Auguste Delaunay de Villemessant (22 April 1810, Rouen (birth time source: Didier Geslain) 12 April 1879, Monte-Carlo) was a conservative French journalist. Life The son of colonel Pierre Cartier and of Augustine Louise Renée Françoise de Launay de Villemessant, Hippolyte de Villemessant began his career trading in ribbons.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (February 11, 1805 – May 16, 1866) was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper trader, military scout during the Mexican-American War, alcalde (mayor) of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, and a gold prospector and hotel operator in Northern California.
Biography of Wilkie Collins (excerpt)
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). Collins was born into the family of painter William Collins in Westminster.
Biography of Claude Gueux (excerpt)
Claude Gueux, born on May 18, 1804 in Chassagne-Montrachet (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de la Côte d’Or,) was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction (Claude Gueux is a real person), and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Misérables. |
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